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Show MINE8 OPERATING; PLANT IS READY "No doubt tho biggest advancement that metallurc. ha1 experienced ync-the ync-the discovery and successful use of fyanldation in Colorado several years aeo will bo shown In the Park City mill which the Mln Operating company com-pany has Just erected In that famoun old camp fur the treatment of tho refractory ore found in the fillings stones of the old Ontario." declared G W. Wood, engineer, of this city. Ho has Just turned over the completed mill to T. p Holt, superintendent. and as soon as the trouble cxperi-enced cxperi-enced through the severe freezing weather of the past few days Is over the mill will be In position to handle between 100 and 150 tons of ore a day This mill Is the old Ontario plant' remodeled, with absolutely new processes, proc-esses, As Mr. Woods put it, "the processes employed are radical departures de-partures from thono of the past for the treatment of refractory ores." Tho ores to be treated average approximately ap-proximately l 1 ounces silver, with a little copper and a small amount of gold. The apparatus and solvent used necessitate the employment of wood entirely In the tanka. etc , as tho acids attaek and eat up every kind of metal met-al used. This trouble has given considerable con-siderable delay, and put the builders at their wits' ends on a number of occasions. But all these obstacles hnc finally hecu surmounted, and as soon as a few days of pleasant weather are ushered In to Increase the water supply it Is expected to see the Mines Operating lease mak-j ing money rapidly for the backers, George H. Dern and assoc -. i . v t ? |