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Show LIONS HEAR REPORT ON MILL OPERATION Milford's Lions discussed several sev-eral "in progress" activiites at their regular meeting Wednesday Wednes-day evening ,in the Hong Kong Cafe, first of which will be a work day on the Library H:ll ; beautification project, starting at 6:30 p. m. Thursday oi ' next week, Sept. 28. President Presi-dent Nick Swain asked all Lions to turn out with shovels, pitchforks, overalls and gloves, and make an effort to complete the work Thursday evening of next week. ' Saturday, . Sept. 23, the Lions will serve a ehuck-wagon ehuck-wagon breakfast in City Park starting at 6 a. m. Breakfast of hot cakes and the usual trimmings, ham, bacon ov sausage, etc., will be served until 10 a. m. The Lions will meet in Min- i ersville on Wednesday, Oct. 4, and it is expected to reorganize reorgan-ize the Minersville Liens Club fit that time. Guests at the meeting were Jim Huskey, and new officials at the American Mining Co., Roy Hickman and Ken Marrs. Mr. Hickman explained the planned operations at the mine and mill, said they had reserves re-serves of two million tons of about 1 oxide ore for the leaching plant under construction, construc-tion, and with a planned processing proc-essing of 1,000 to 1500 tons of ore daily, they now have ' blocked out sufficient ore for five years operation; other ores, to be mined at greater depths, are available but their recovery would depend upon the price of metals. Present investment at the mine is between $1 million and $lVz million, Mr. Hickman said. |