MALTMAN'S CHLORINATION WORKS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 8

MALTMAN'S CHLORINATION WORKS.

We found OscarMaltman busily engaged with a crew of workmen, yesterday, putting up extensive additions to his already extensive chlorination works. When the present improvements are completed, the establishment will be the largest and most complete in its departments of any in the State. Mr Maltman was one of the first who practically worked sulphuret3 by the chlorination process, and is, we believe, now considered the mo3t successful manipulator of sulphurets. He started with a 12-foot furnace in 3866, and has made gradual additions until it is now 76 feet. The main building now used is 44 x 90 feet. The chlorination room is 30 x6O feet. There is an assay room and severai other store rooms connected with the establishment. Five thousand pounds of sulphurets i 3 considered a fair day's work, but, if necessary, the amount can be increased. The ore is mostly obtained from

the mines in this destrict. ' There is also a miniature quartz-mill connected with the works, with which small lots of ore can be tested by mill process. It is run by steam, and is as complete as any mill in the country. To those engaged in prospecting it is very convenient, as it can readily be determined by it what rock will pay by mill process before great expense has been incurred. As soon as the improvements now being made are completed, his works will be capable of reducing all the ore brought to it with despatch, and of giving the most satisfactory results. — Nevada Transcript.