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Show BELMONT IS GOING FULL TILT. Tho Tonopah .Belmont company is now operating its new concentrating plant at full capacity, and the officials offi-cials and visitors generally to tho proporty assert that thero never was a plant started off upon a career of production with less friction and with greater promise for splendid results. The Belmont company will have several sev-eral advantages with this plant, among which aro increased capacity and lvger earnings, a more economical economi-cal operation as well as a moro perfect per-fect metallic extraction Ono of tho officials witnessing the atartoff at th0 new mill was President Clyde Heller, who expressed himself In regard to the mill In tho following terms. "I am delighted with the manner in which the mill is running, it is difficult dif-ficult to believe that this Is the first run of all this new machinery This is the finest sliver-gold mill in the world, fitted wit.h the latest labor-saving labor-saving dovices and built for loss money mon-ey than any mill of equal capacity Jn the west It is absurd to suggest that it will not be a success, we are not trying any new experiments in ore treatment but arc following the Tonopah Ton-opah process for the treatment of the silver-fold ores of this camp, practlc-nllv practlc-nllv tho same process a3 in the old mill at Moller3, but wo. have adopted H later proven mechanical improve- B0 meats by whioh we shall lessen the ' m cost of the treatment of our ores and fl also recover a higher percentage of !flF their assay values. The mill fulfills tKj my utmost expectations and I am KI more than pleased with it." j Tho plant as completed comprises h JBJ sixty stamps, eight tube mills and HpI Dorr classifiers, twelve Diester con- ' K3 centrators and cyanide plant, Includ- ; Ing Pachuca tanks and Trent agita- j fM' tors and has an estlmted minimum ' jHJ3 capacity of 500 tons a day and can Hll probably, when In good running or- tMJ der, be worked up to COO tons dally. flE; Mine Conditions lEtf T.he underground workings of the i mkr mlno were inspected last week by BJ, President Heller who said: "The mine . Is looking splendid, better than ever, W I believe, bv which I mean that thero W, Is more ore in sight than ever and mfl the drift on tho Belmont vtiin on the thirteenth level is openins up some very fino ore. demonstrating that the flj values hold out at gTeat depth. The ( flj shaft vein Is alBO showing up some , m splendid ore in the raise, but the ex- , tent of this ore shoot is not yet f flH known The LI1H Bolle vein show b fM some Improvement in values and the iH development of the Del Mont and , m Thanksgiving veins is increasing oui Jj IH available resources of mill ore. hM |