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Show Work Commences I On Dutchman- M Pacific Mill I WILL BE LOCATED AT DUTCHMAN MINE AND ALSO "M TREAT PACIFIC ORE ROAD CONNECTING TWO ,JI PROPERTIES ALSO TO BE BUILT. g im Plans have been definately laid and the preparatory work idS ili'linatelv cnimnencid fnj' a mill to treat the ore from 'he big 'iyH Pacific l'i.sj;u-e. Saturday, Charles Doolitlle, Judge Gillette m and l)v. Lamoerger of tbe Fissures Leasing Co., which has a m ton year lease on the Pacific Aline, were at tho property and do- ?'ffl fiuately decided on tho location of the mill which will bo built H just east of tho dump at the mouth of the old Dutchman 3 linmnl 'IN A contract was ulso let to John MoTaguo to build a now road ono nnd a quartor mllos long on tho west sldo of tho canyon from tho Pacific tunnol lo tho sito of tho now mill. This road will bo built on mi ovon grado nnd tho surveyors have boon busy tho early part of tho week laying It out. Flvo loams hnvo already commenced woik on It and will probably hnvo tho load ready for uso In tlirco weeks from date. The mill will probably hnvo a capacity ca-pacity of CO tons per day. A part of tho mnehlnory from tho old Pacific mill will bo used. Tho cnglno wns brought down tho Canyon Wednesday and sont to Salt I.ako to bo repaired for this purpose . Tho balnnco of tho plant will como from Bingham, whore an old mill has bcon purchased, I Teams will commonco nojet wcok hnul-I hnul-I ing it up tho canyon. Work on tho construction of tho buildings will also commenco at onco. Practically all of tho Pacific oro will bo sont through tho mill. For ovory ton of high grndo in tho mlno thoro Is about twenty Ions of low grado oro and sovoral tons of wnsto. Tho two classes aro so closoly Intermingled that It Is difficult to scpnrato them. Even tho high grado copper oro is ribbed every fow inchos with rpmrtz which may oven make It doslrablc 9 run this class thrugh a. mill. Hoeldcs tj4H this nil oro going through tho mill " ;m only pays tho original owners of tho '"Jffl mlno lGo on each dollar mined. ''Jrfl Tho mill Is also Intondod to work "fm tho oro fron; tho Dutchman lonso and -M may bo usod chiefly for this purpose i!M If tho Pacific oro should not hold out. jP Tho Dutchmnn tunnel Is being rctlmb- V-fM ored nnd will bo in condition for use 'M In a fow weeks. Tlio Dutchman Is 'Jm well known to lmvo Immonso bodies of hml low grndo oro In Us lower workings '$9 nnd somo authorities say It may bo Jxt tho moro dcslrnhlo lonso of tho two. S At any rato tho building of tho mill i3jsL on tho Dutchman Pint might lndlcnlo Jfim Tho Pacific shipped n car of Its high Jfa grado copper oro this wcok and tho jj teams have been taken off to work on .'ffa tho road. This makos tho fourth carload : ,19 shipped slnco the roads wcro oponcd 'WSi this spring, Returns from tho first Wi two oars have bcon received and show . 'cmi nn nvorago of about 41 per cont lond, ,j5j 14 ouncos silver, 1 1-2 por cent zinc, J 2(! por cont sulphur nnd Ifi per cont tH iron. It Is deslrablo fluxing oro, so ffll thnt a very fnvorablo smelting rnto 'Kjj wns obtained. First car brought W. $2,447.62 nnd tho second $2,080.67 and combined added $G78.02 to tho treats I f) ury of tho original compnny. P |