Milling began at the rotary tipples. The tipple on the left was dumping simultaneously 4 ten-ton ore cars from the mine. Each train from the mine had forty similar cars. The tipple on the right was being repaired. The ore from the mine usually had an average value of about $1.50 or less per ton at $35.00 per ounce of gold. The mine operated 24 hours per day, 363 days per year and averaged over 12,000 tons per day. The tipples dumped over 1200 car loads per day, into a 1500 ton hopper. Six devices, called apron feeders, moved the ore from the hopper to the primary crushers.