. Mining and Scientific Press . old Inspirationcompany for the treatmenl ncentrate, which posi tiwiy assured the building of ;i new smelter a1 MiamiTins was done in 1910 or 1911. In this year my principals purchased the Live Oah property and later on i1was consolidated with the Inspiration as the Inspirationlidatt d tapper • tampany. By your principals >i<m mean, I presume, what isilly called th Anacondaii fst Also I would rh return in .1. for thi that, it expai iiragemi at \<n to the < icpenditure of mom i i on the opin ion of compel pinion cannot be oon firmed until after the mon
. Mining and Scientific Press . old Inspirationcompany for the treatmenl ncentrate, which posi tiwiy assured the building of ;i new smelter a1 MiamiTins was done in 1910 or 1911. In this year my principals purchased the Live Oah property and later on i1was consolidated with the Inspiration as the Inspirationlidatt d tapper • tampany. By your principals >i<m mean, I presume, what isilly called th Anacondaii fst Also I would rh return in .1. for thi that, it expai iiragemi at \<n to the < icpenditure of mom i i on the opin ion of compel pinion cannot be oon firmed until after the mon ? t U hai mi taUurgi <il piai Our oi al intention as to build a wet concenl ration Mr Mills employed II Kenyon Burch as engineer for the design new concentrator; a mill of 1 tons capacity was designed, and ti. steel structure actually erected. During ii n of this building the Minerals Separation i pie brought t a attention tain tests thai they had made on Inspiration ore These tests wen mad* ii /. //. Nutter at 8an Fram. THE NEW CORNELIA COMPANY 3 PLANT IT V- asl; whether ^Y. B. Thompson was not in control oftht old Inspiration company? Fes : W. B. Thompson was in control of the old Inspira-tion company and remained nominally as president of th>- Inspiration Consolidated for a time. The managementwas pat under my direction by Thornton. The impoi iion then arose of selecting a general manager; ICharles E. Mills for this position, because I con-sidered him the best man in America to undertake thedevelopment of ajow-grade copper mine and the con-struction of great works in conjunction therewith,development of the Inspiration Consolidated was an ex-ceedingly interesting problem and required great faithon the part of the directors and the shareholders. Theengineers had faith and believed that they could make theproperty a very valuable one, but the board of directorshad to provide about $13,000,000 of gold coin to justifythis opinion and wait until after this vast sum was s
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