AN EIGHTY STAMP SELVER MILL.

Inangahua Times, Issue 22, 22 November 1878, Page 2

AN EIGHTY STAMP SELVER MILL.

A f<^v months ngo Mosts Rnnkin, Brnyton, nnd Co., of tho Piteilio Ir. n Works, Bnn Francisco, ontored into iv contract with Mr W. If. Cilley, manager of tho Orro do Pasco Mininjr, Company, of Peru, for tho construction of nn eighty stump uilror mill for thnt company. This grcnt work wns completed last Jnno nnd. sent lo Cnllno. This immense mill (writes tho American Mni') is to bo orcctod nt tho celebrated Cerro do Pwsco mines, which ure fiiluatod in tho heart of tho Andos, nf, nn clcrotion of somfl 11000 fret an 1 about 150 miles cast of tho city of Lima. Thoy wero discovered, according to tho rocord* of tho Jesuit missionaries, in tho yenv 16:)0, nnd though only worked by tho slow And eru-lo nrustra processes, and to i he depth of only about 300 foot, hnvo produced, necording to tho Government records, tho enormous sum of 500,030,000 dollars, or £101 1GG.06G 13* -11. The lateMr Henry Miggs entered into n eontrnct with the Peiuvinn Government for the oonstvuotion of whnt is called iho AroyA Knilroad, running from fhe city of Limi to tho Andep, connectinct with tho nbor«« nnmed mines and the forlile rnlleys of the onstcrn slope. Tins road erosies th« mountnins nt au clovntion of 15,000 fc«t — more than twice thut of the Control Pucilic nt iti higliesl point—nnd h«s. rer> hnps, more heavy tunnelling nud difficult on^inoerintj than nny other road in tho world. This contract wa^ «nt«rod into principally for th« de^lojtu^ot cftli*

\ .„.__ , . mint* rwteif»ul to. and invo'vol'nn expenditure of Homo 26,000,000 dollars — , £'»,a08,333 C» 4,1. Mr Cilley. who wna lliotMooUtoof the late Mr floury Mei^s und the other executor* of his Will, hnv» imHMoA aII his contrncts. flirl are push* in^ vigorouwly both tho uiinin^ and the railroad cnterprldOfl.. Tlio mill, deiigned itiA oonitruotcd by Messrs ltu kin, Brnjr* lon, and Co., has all tho ii»pro««mtnti known in this cUrw or work. Tho roachi' very ia of unusual weight nnd Htrongth, «nd in design and workmnnrhip probnbly excel* anylhinß herotoforo conslruotod in ihiaway. In order to admit of mule tramportfttion over the inoompleto portion of thtf road— -iom* aaventy miles-— all tba mftchinery bsa had to bo roade'in »eo'iptx« ■o that no pioae should oxc«od 300po«nd» in woiKht. This rr^uirod K reit inwnuitf of d«*ign, »■ wall tt» aeourncy of workmanship. Some idea of the mnguitudo of tho work may bo inforrod from the fact that the mill, a* thui oonstruwtcd, contained more than 17,CK)0 picofi*. Thii work wa» «omplet«d by the Pacific I -on Works and jmt on board the vomcl in fifty days from t!»a lignins of the contrnu.-