Show 1 THREE HUNDRED TON SMELTER FOR UTAH Plans of Samuel Newhouse to Operate Forty Bingham V Properties V Special to The Herald V Denver Colo Sept 1This is the largest mining proposition I have ever been connected with said Samuel Newhouse yesterday in discussing Utah in which himself the details of a goldcopper combination at Bingham and Thomas Weir formerly of Leadville are the leading figures The large amount of capital required in the operation of this plant has been tendered in advance bj syndicates in London New York and Boston so that the Utah company organized and managed by Colorado men is a chooser rather than a solicitor in the matter of its backers At Bingham Utah the Highland Boy company of which Mr Newhouse is president V started up this week a large cyanide plant equal to 200 tons of ore per day This plant illustrates a new application of cyanide fdr which patents are asked V In the lower workings of the Highland Boy group during the past week a large body of goldcopper ore was cut It measures from 70 to 130 < feet in width and contains S per cent copper This strike forms the basis of the new combination which takes in 40 different properties in the Bingham district in all Of Which the preliminary explorations have developed goldcopper ores This class of mineral cannot be treated wIth cyanideV Herman Keller of San Francisco and formerly of lieadville and Butte is preparing plans for a copperbasis smelter with a capacity for 300 tons per day to be erected at Bingham or in Salt Lake City the location depending upon transportation rates etc V |