Show A BIG THNG FOR UAH Immense Reduction Works to Be I Erected at Lehi BACKED BY FAMOUS I MEN General Micliener and Colonel IV IV Dudley Among the Projectors The Ilussell Process Will Be Used and the Plant Will Have a Capacity ot Over 200 TonsTo COt 8350000 f Probably the most important works forth for-th treatment of the products of the Utah I mining camps ever built in this valley I will be the Lehi lisiviation works which areto be established in the early spri ig I This will be a stupendous undertaking and involves the expenditure of nearly I half a million dollars of capital in its construction I con-struction I is difficult t > realize that i in the face of the presant depression in the mining industry that any such a boon as an SOstamp plant with a capacity to treat from 200 to 225 tons of ore a day is assured and that the articles of agreement i have been signed THE HERALD has mentioned at different differ-ent times that General L T Mieaener was making frequent visas to tile city and that he had some important legal business in his ch irga of considerable im portaucs t the people of thS territory I I Several efforts were made to induce Gan eral Michener to speak but he rbUised to divulge the nature of bis busin33 I now transpires that General Aljehfiisr is the egal advisor of Chales H Lawrence W W Dudley and P Chapn the gentlemen gentle-men who arc back of the Loui lixiviation works This is one qf the most important I I I ant companies ever organized to operate in ths territory as the gentlemen interested iu the proect I have national reputations both as men of large capital and much political influence WHO THE MEN ARE I Charles H Lawraacs is Chicago gentleman who is now making his headquarters head-quarters at the Knutsforil hotel and he has had large experience in swinging large commercial enterprises He is the active financial head of this proposition which means so much to Utah territory Colonel W W Dudley much as he ir I decried on account of his political practices is a man who has the respect of a great many of the large money concerns I of the country and is a man who has been very snccesslul in hIS various financial ventures P Chapin is known to all the I iron men of this country and Europe I He married the daughter of Mr Worrell principal owner o i Cambria iron wor s I of Pennsylvania and after managing this large concern for eight years he accuin I mutated so mucn money that he d es not know what to do with it He therefore sold out and retired from active business I He however is a man accustomed t large ventures and has lent his financial aid to the Lohi enterprise I General Michener the legal adviser of the company is known for the important I part he played in the politics of the Hoosier State up to 1830 when he moved to Washington D C so that he could I i better attend to his large law practice This quartette of influential gentlemen tare t-are the men who are going to erect at I I I the town of Lehi the largest plant for j I the treatment oLprcs by the Russell process I I pro-cess in the Unit < States SIR LAWRENCE TALKS M L I Charles H Lawrence was seen by a HERALD reporter last evening and when j questioned as to the correctness of the j above conceded that they were going ahead with the project and that they expected ex-pected to put up the works in the early spring The plant he said will be an SOstamp mill haviflg a capacity to treat from 200 Ito 225 tons of orea day There will be expended in its construction about 350 i fo 030 The reason he assigned for locating the plant at Loin was the fine water facilities facili-ties offered there by the fresh water lake I would have been too hazardous an undertaking un-dertaking to erecS the works at Eureka for the reason that while they might have been sure of sufficient water for three months there was no assurance for the rest of the year 4 The question which confronts the mining min-ing industry at the present time is cheaper treatment of the ores and the Russell process has proved so successful wherever it has been introduced that these gentlemen have every confidence that it will solve the question of reducing the cost of treating low grade ores The company has contracts with the Bullion Beck and other Eureka mines as well as for the output of mines in other camps in the territory The expenditure of nearly half a million mil-lion dollars in the early spring on the construction of these works will have a good effect on the money market of the entire territory and there wjll be a permanent per-manent benefit derived from the wages which will be paid out The works will give employment to from 116 t < 1 men and many of the men will be paid as high asfO per day for skilled labor I |