The Anaconda Mining company have signed an agreement with G. De La Bouglise to erect a mill on Squaw gulch to cost $300,000. The company has placed $25,000 in each of the Cripple Creek banks as a guarantee to the workmen that they will get their pay.
The mill is to have a capacity of 100 tons per day. The articles of agreement were signed by D. Y. Moffat, president of the company.

Anaconda Mining Company—The mine resumed work on the 1st inst., after being shut down for nearly five months. Only a small force was put to work, the intention being to develop the property and get it into shape for an extensive output when the French mill is started in April, as the company is under contract to furnish the mill 40 tons of ore daily.
The mine will be in charge of Mr. Hoskins.

Cripple Creek news from our exchanges—About 70 men are at work on the big mill of the French syndicate in Squaw Gulch. It is expected to have the mill ready to begin work on Anaconda ore about April 1st.

Engineering and Mining Journal Report—The Rosebud 50-stamp mill has been working satisfactorily on Anaconda ore and the contract has been let for hauling 4,000 tons of Deer Horn ore to the mill for 97½c. per ton.

The Rosebud mill in Squaw gulch, Cripple Creek, contains 50 stamps, 3 Blake crushers and Cornish rolls. The concentrating apparatus consists of "Perfection" tables and Frue Vanners.
There is also in process of erection calcining furnaces for telluride ores of higher grade than the free milling surface ores of the camp. Pans and settlers have also been ordered and will constitute means for amalgamating calcined ores.
The mill is now crushing Anaconda, Zenobia and Deerhorn ores. On a trial run of 209 tons of Anaconda ore the mill saved 80 per cent of the gold value, of which 60 per cent was saved on the batteries and on the plates, and 20 per cent on the tables and vanners.

There are four different kinds of ores in this camp, forming the bulk of the product:
First, oxidized ores, quite free milling;
second, ores carrying about three per cent sulphide of iron, easily concentrated;
third, telluride ore, requiring calcination before any fair result can be obtained by amalgamation;
fourth, antimonial arsenical pyrites (un spickel).
Sometimes the tellurium is mechanically associated with sulphide of iron.

The Rosebud mill, with its different equipments, is planned to treat all these varieties and exhaustive experimental tests prove that it will save from 75 to 80 per cent of the gold by the processes used.—X., in Mining Industry.

The roasters of the French mill are now in operation. The manager reports an increase of from 10 to 25 per cent in the savings.

THE ROSEBUD MILL BURNED.
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A Great Loss to the Cripple Creek District.

The Rosebud mill at Cripple Creek, one of the most complete gold ore reduction works in the country, was entirely destroyed by fire a little after 6 o'clock Monday morning.
The loss will reach fully $130,000. The plant was owned almost entirely in France.

It had only just been put in fine running order and it was predicted that it would at once prove a highly profitable investment. It was equipped with 50 stamps, Gilpin county bumpers, five vanners, amalgamating pairs and settler's roasters.
A complete plant for treating ores by cyanide and also included a sampling mill. The Rosebud was insured in California companies for $50,000.

The owners of the Rosebud also owned the Deerhorn property on Globe hill. The mill was located at Mound City near the junction of Squaw and Cripple creeks, and cost in round figures $100,000.

A MILL BURNED.
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The Rosebud at Cripple Creek Is Entirely Consumed.

CRIPPLE CREEK, July 24.—The Rosebud mill, one of the most complete gold ore reduction works in the country, was entirely destroyed by fire at a little after 6 o'clock this morning.
The loss will reach $130,000. The plant was owned almost completely in France by a company known as La Societe Annouyne Des Mines De Lexington.

It had only just been put in fine running order and it was predicted that it would at once prove a highly profitable investment. It was equipped with fifty stamps, Gilpin county bumpers, five vanners, amalgamating pairs and settler's roasters.
A complete plant for treating ore by cyanide and also included a sampling mill. The Rosebud was insured in California companies, but only for a small part of its loss.

The owners of the Rosebud also owned the Deerhorn property on Globe hill. The mill was located at Mound City near the junction of Squaw and Cripple creeks, and cost in round figures $100,000.
Besides its valuation, it had the distinction of being one of the most perfectly equipped plants of its class in the West. Lately it has been reported that this mill would be forced to suspend work for the reason that enough ore could not be obtained to furnish its full capacity.
The statement was denied.

At the time of the fire the mill was employing but eight men, having but recently started up again. Its full capacity was work for fifty men. The insurance amounts to $50,000.
The local owners, who represent about one-fifth of the stock, favor rebuilding.

The fire was discovered by the night watchman on the second story. It spread rapidly and although the men called to his aid succeeded in stopping it twice with water carried in buckets, the flames broke out again and became wholly beyond control.
The origin is unknown. It is not believed here that it was incendiary as neither the mine or mill figured in the recent troubles.

It is very probable that a chlorination mill will be erected on the site of the old Rosebud mill at Anaconda.

A few yards from the large cyanide mill at Mound City are the remains of a large mill built by a French company for over $100,000 for treating the ore by a variety of processes. This mill was burnt to the ground and now nothing remains but the deep excavated foundations on the side of the hill with the ruins of machinery on the different terraced banks or platforms of the former rooms.

DENVER, COLORADO.—One of the most important dump leases secured of late has been the one on the tailing dump of the old Rosebud mill, in Anaconda gulch. Craig, Norris, and Wright, the lessees, are shipping the tailing from this old chlorination mill to Colorado City.