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Show ! eastern friends to Insure the success I of the mill Mr. Hunt is a graduate ' cY tho Missouri School of Mines and I (jiuihig too time that the old Sacra-! Sacra-! men to was shipping out ore he was i assaver. j It 'is the Inteution.of the'-company not to Ireatlhe product of the dump. I as closely as that treated at the Bos-: I toa, Sunshine and Consolidated Met cur properties. WRINGINGMETAL FROM SACRAMENTO DUMPS. Mercur, June 17. The mill of the Utah-Nevada Mining and Milling company com-pany started on the treating of ore from the dumps of the old Sacramento mine yesterday, and today the machinery ma-chinery is limbering up in a manner that promises some good results. The mill has been tried out several times to limber up, but It was not until yesterday yes-terday that the treatment of ore started. start-ed. Within the next week something more than fifty men will be employed at the plant, which Is designed to treat in the neighborhood of 200 tons a day. It Is estimated that the amount of tailings in the dumps is in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of 700,000 tons and from this It Is believed a large amount of metal can be extracted. The mill Is working out smoothly, but enough work has not been done to decide the feasibility of the opcratiou and the. degree of success suc-cess it will attain. L. A. Hunt Is the president and general gen-eral manager. The mlH was designed by hiin for the special treatment of the Mercur ores. To a great extent It Is copied after the old Mercur mill. He has secured sufficient capital from |