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Show THE NEW TVISWELL MILL. I lEeported to be a Success on the j Wood River Gold Belt Tlie First Cleau-Up. The Hailey Times says the Wiswell mill was cleaned up on Sunday, by Frank Wiswell, general agent of the Wiswell Electric Machinery Company. The amalgamator amal-gamator in charge of the mill stated that it had run close on to 22 hours, and that twelve to fourteen tons of ore had been put through. The result was a ball of hard amalgam weighing- about eight .ounces, which would yield about 2)4 ounces of fine gold. It was locked up to await the next clean-up, which will be made in about one week. J. C. Conklin, who came up from Salt Lake on purpose to see the clean-up, was present. . He examined every working work-ing part most critically, and with exception excep-tion of the gearing, which, he thinks, is rather weak for such effective work, he considers the mill a perfect success. Captain Lusk was also present, as were a number of miners and old millmen, and all pronounced the machine built on correct principles, and evidently capable of doing excellent work. Ex-District Attorney At-torney Bruner, who has had several years' experience in quartz mills, was enthusiastic in his encomiums of the Wiswell, and intends to order one before spring, for use on Lost River. Superintendent Ole Rorem, of the Donovan Don-ovan Company, expressed it as his conviction con-viction that the mill would work closer than any gold mill he ever saw, and that it would do the work of fifteen stamps. He said that in a short time, the company com-pany would doubtless require one or two more. As before stated, the mill makes its pulp of uniform size, makes 'no ; slimes, and its tailings are absolutely worthless. A sample assayed by Eph Daft showed a small "trace" of gold only. It is therefore there-fore evident that all that is needed to make the operations at. this new enterprise enter-prise a success, is good ore. That the company has in sight and plenty of it. Besides some 300 or 400 tons on the dumps, a force ot miners is at work near the top of the hill opening what seems to be a massive ore deposit. It is a quarry, rather than a vein, as, although comparatively compar-atively little work has been done upon it, it is already opened a length of about eighty feet, the ore being twelve feet wide from the grass roots to the working level, and the thickness of ore below is unascertained. From a point immediately immedi-ately above the workings the lode can be traced for a mile or more, across three ravines and three hills.- The only question ques-tion undetermined now is as to the value of the ore. That time alone can demonstrate. demon-strate. This much, however, is certain, to-wit,: That even $10 ore is very desirable, desir-able, since less than ,$5 per ton will pay all expenses. There is no discount on gold neither is there $25 freight per ton to pay, nor $30 to $40 for reduction expenses. |