The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-08-06
issued: 1905-10-27
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note: <zn ,mimii.l Llliraw DAILY NEWS °CT 3 0 1905 VOL. 4 NELSON, Ii. ft, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1905 ASSURED Hendryx Agitator Stands Satisfactorily Three Months' Test Recovers More Than Ninety Percent of Gold Values-Reliance Company Officials Delighted With Result The operation of the Hendryx agitator at the Reliance Mining Company's mill is now finally pronounced a complete success by the Inventor, the mill superintendent, and the president and manager of the company. Tho new process, it is said, without entailing great expense of operation, results in the saving of more than 90 per cent of the values In tho ore. The percentage saved will vary slightly with the grade of the ore, as It Is possible to save a greater proportion of the values from high, than from low grade ores. The Reliance Gold Mining and Milling Company, of which A. H. Kelly is president, is the first company to Install the Hendryx agitator as a part of its milling plant. The Installation was made ln July. Since then Dr. Hendryx has been at the mill almost continuously watching the operation, making improvements and perfecting every detail. Having satisfied himself and the management of the company that everything ls complete, and having watched results for nearly three months, Dr. Hendryx returned to Nelson yesterday afternoon, and will shortly return to New York. He has received an elaborate statement of the merits of the plant and process from Douglas Lay, superintendent of the mill, endorsed by A. H. Kelly, president and manager. Mr. lay explains each part of the •process, states tho results obtained, aud concludes with an expression of his belief that the process, Intelligently followed, must result always in perfect success. ' The agitator Is sunk in a well in the floor of a special building near the mill. The ore ln a liquid solution is conveyed from the mill where it has been crushed Into the well. There it is "agitated" for hours wliile the gold slowly settles on the plates disposed round tlie side…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0382020
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : F.J. Deane
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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