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Show MILLING WORK AT IIAMIHJRG REPORTED AS SATISFACTORY With clearing weather, roads have again been put into shape land work is going forward at the Hamburg property at Gold-strike. Gold-strike. 40 miles northweHt f St. George reports G. W. Hail, who is Interested in a milling plant located on this property. A new concentrating plant installed in-stalled by the Progressive Gold Milling company has been mak-' ing test runs from the Hamburg dump and those backing the organization report that they are satisfied with the results that have been obtained. With a capacity of twenty-five twenty-five tons a day the group antici-(Continued antici-(Continued on page four) HAMBERG MINE (Continued from first page) pates handling of a considerable amount of the ore in the near future. The ore is .trammed from the foot of the dump and dropped on a grizzly. The over-seize passes through a jaw crusher and is fed to the mill. When reduced re-duced to 30-mesh and the gold is partly amalgamated, the pulp passes over a four by six plate, which makes a further recovery. The residue goes to a concentrate ing table to be separated into concentrates and waste. Heads :from the dump are reported re-ported to assay from $8.50 a ton and up and about 5,000 tons are awaiting treatment. Ore blocked in the mine from intermediate tunnel level, through the Hamburg Ham-burg tunnel to the surface, has been estimated by engineers at about 2:6,0000 tons. The cost of mining and idelivering the blocked ore to the mill is placed at $1 a ton, the milling at $1.65 a ton. The production at the mine was made possible by the forming form-ing of the Prqgresssive Gold Miling company which is comprised com-prised of G. W. Hail, J. T. Gaton, W. J. Forbes ajid Mrs. Concetta Skaperdas. The Hamburg jjiine has been leased and optioned by the local organization. The Hamburg company com-pany contracted to furnish dump and mine ore to the milling company com-pany in consideraton of the building of the mill and a share in the recoveries. |