Tonopah Daily Bonanza

DAILY BONANZA, TONOPAH, NEVADA, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1910.

Seventy Stamps Dropping and Shipments of High Grade Tonnage Keep Up Regular Dividends
Seventy stamps will be pounding on ore at the Consolidated mill this afternoon, unless something unforeseen occurs, according to a statement made last evening by General Manager J. H. Finlay.

This is an achievement that will come as a most gratifying surprise to the people of Goldfield and to mining men generally, and is the fruition of an executive ability that has long stamped the management of the Consolidated company as veritable wonder-workers.

Aside from an ability to quickly grasp a critical situation and overcome obstacles the management has been fortunate in having stored in the bins above the stamps at the mill a sufficient supply of ore to keep them running for more than twenty-four hours.

With this supply the stamps can be started this afternoon, it is believed, and before this has been exhausted the temporary tramway from the crusher plant to the mill will be completed, so that no further delay will be necessary.

This tramway will be operated with an electric hoist which will pull a string of nine cars up the incline by means of a wire cable, and will for the time being replace the belt conveyor that was destroyed with other equipment of the mill just one week ago.

It is expected that these seventy stamps will keep the mill going at about two-thirds capacity, or approximately 550 tons a day, as all other portions of the mill are in working order.

While this rate is being kept up another battery of ten stamps that is only slightly damaged will be repaired and added to the stamping force and then as rapidly as possible others will be replaced by new ones while reconstruction of the mill is going on.

The mining force will soon be almost normal in the underground workings, and what revenue is lost by the curtailment of stamp duty will be made up by shipments of high grade from the Clermont Goldfield and the Consolidated management and stockholders are to be congratulated in the magic-like solution of what seemed for a few days to present greater difficulties to overcome.--Goldfield Tribune.