MINEBK00495

• County: Clear Creek
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: A

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T1D L1AXftLII,L CONdIIJTRA'tING BILL.
Cilver Plumer Color Decembcir 19thr1699.
' Located about one halfmile.weut of the Tpwn of Silver Plume in Clear Creek
Canmyr at an altitude of nine tlrouaand two kurndred (~,r 200) feet. P. A. ;rtavc}lr
Tho mill is :built orl the lfendota ground. Lir. C7axuroll }w.a a leaoe on tha
d;uap ruyd tlio old atope©, of t}ye Mendota M1re~ and i.he mill is built for the purpo^,a
of treatiiy; tlyio alrxna of oren.. Duncon Drununond io Supcrintarulontt ]hunontr Colo.
ihin r:rill in a concentratirq; proceau nutkirrg three diotirct soparationn of leadr
iron m;d zinc. Tlye :rotor pourer in oloctrictty{the first of t}:e,acind'in Clear
Creek Countyr aacl tho separating prncean iu porhapo tlyo first oP tho kind in.thr.
State. 9'he powar is tronamittod iTOm Cnorgetovrnr tyro mileo distant{ urith trrn
thouoaryd (2000) vo1'bnr trar:aformod at tho mill to Fifty-1'i.va (66) voltu. 1h•om t}yo
Uuitad Li.g,jlyt and Tower Co. T}yc nr17.7. ~is in throo sootionar Carr ruu oro on three
.~ucotiona at a timor or I nhouid nay all tugothor.
Thu mill'houno 1u <)xf,0 foctr furs atar•ioa high.
T}ro am io fl.rat fed in'ho a dodge munhar of 76 Iona capacity iu Sh hours.
Y`rorn tlra eruoher doom tlyo m111 iu automatic. The ore tuna From oruaher to one
cot of high apead ro11a{ thonue by clovator to ono nizing aoreon oP wits oloth of
8r.1'1 moolri from acrnan to thrao hydr•nulio siuoror and Prom tha uiaer•o to tha diY-
fnront 1[ar~ts ,jigar of whioly thnro nrn fivo~ four of which aro four' aompurtmont{
and ono tliran oompartmorrtr A17. nult orialG'tY+ew LOlr7+sne t;a~pP®t''t~itougJ+o~ilPaAlota>)'psa•
t1m noroan rrtuine by gravity to a not of rogrirrdiry; yw11o urnl i;hnn goon through
the proaaoo abovo rnnuti.onod arul daaeribad. 'i7yoro iu onu MoOoy tablo but. Trot in uuu.
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