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Show uu GREAT VORK OF RAY CON. PLANT D. C. Jackllng, general manager of the Ray Consolidated comoany, returned re-turned from one of his regular monthly month-ly visits of Inspection. The first section sec-tion of tho mill, he states, has been in successful operation for two weeks, doing Its work without a hitch and with a smoothness and proficiency seldom met with in an entirely new plant of itu size nnd character. This section is handling 800 tons of normal grade ore of about 2.2 per cent copper, making concentrates averne-ing averne-ing 30 per cent copper. The average savin?' is highly pleasing, stated Mr. .Tackling, and fully up to expectation In every resnect The second section -lll be placed In operation on or about May 1, and the third will be put Into commission about May 15. First Section Perfect. The capacity of each section Is 1,-000 1,-000 tons of ore daily, and the first section has been sufficiently ahakon down to tho point where it "can treat that tonnnge without trouble. It Is a question, however, whether the management man-agement will seek to gain tho maxl- mum capacity with tho various sec- A tlons for the time being, as the policy Atim of breaking In new sections may beside adopted Instead, which will bring the; !r whole plant Into atiosltlon to treat the j p J51 maximum tonnage when desired and v i at the least loss of time Operations are boing conducted at jpr.. present with much temporary mine i ifffi. equipment, hut the permanent ruino ( ir and iovver houso equipment will be ; $)kti In shape for operation by the time the 'J pu second section of the mill Is ready " ft for its share of the work Tho com- t'lki pany Is going ahead with smelter con- '; .fkL-, structlon. but until the plant Is ready ' p r for business the concentrates will be - fj"Ai shipped to El Paso. , ,. Extends Chlno Tonnage. 1 At the Chino pioperty, In New Mexl- i Ji'I co, Mr. Jackllng says good progress " k is being made with fill installation, ; fc, and the machinery Is now under pro- ' li cess of oroctlon. Recent scout drill ? t work has extended tho mineralized ? vJP ' area of the property far beyond the , ftki originally known limits, for 1000 feet fi g to tho south and for 1500 feet to the ' 5? west of the developed resources this , iWc recent drill work has demonstrated ' j the existence of tho ore. The" officials, m therefore, are able to state without ?Ui heBltatlon that tho mine shows a great ji extension of ore tonnage v "" Conditions at both plants and mines ; jitfe are very satisfactory Mr. Jackllng KL was accompanied on tho trip by R. C. ; JH( Gemmcl. general superintendent, and ? ,4 Frank Janney. mill manager of tho 'i ,' Utah Copper company. : "" |