Show Of SlEAT AT Col E A Wall Writes a Letter Di Directed Directed at the e Management t of D C Jackling S DECLARES LOSS IS GREAT SAYS PROFIT SHOULD BE INSTEAD OF 75 CENTS A TON TONS 1 S All is not peace Deace arid and a harmony In Inthe inthe inthe the official household of o the tha Utah ut h Cop Copper Copper Copper per company as shown in the charges which Colonel E A Wall vice president president dent of the corporation makes makas against the management of ot D C Jackling a copy of the letter containing the alle vile allegations allegations was given out for publication yesterday following its transmission to President C M MacNeill at New NewYork NewYork NewYork York What effect Colonel Walls charges will have on the status of the merger of the Utah UtaI Copper and Boston Consolidated properties or what effect effe t it will VIm have on the future handling of the tho Utah Copper coppe mines and milling plants remains to be seen The letter is couched so strong and unequivocal that no room is left to doubt that the colonel is su supremely supremely supremely disgusted with the manner in which the tile property has been handled His charges are directed chiefly at Gen General General General eral Manager D C Jackling who Is la presumably still in the east e st where he went to attend the annual meeting of ot the company held on Friday last las Text of the Letter Colonel Walls letter to Presidents President MacNeill reads as follows Salt Lake City Jan 24 1906 Mr Charles M MacNeill MacNeil MaCa em President Utah Copper Co dare care are Guggenheim Exploration tion Co New York Y rk My Dear D r Sir S S In view of your early departure and probable absence abroad I 1 have thought It most expedient to urge upon you before you go the importance of ot ordering a radical change in the methods in use both 00 In the mining and concentration concentratIon tion of our ores That results have not been what we had every reason to hope hop for all aIl freely admit and doubtless no noone noone n none one regrets more than yourself but that no intelligent effort should thus far ha have hava o been made to remedy or cure the evils from which we suffer seems inexcusable Having encouraged our friends and the public to purchase of our shares at t ever e r increasing prices I insist that the dog dogmatic dogmatic matic matte determination of our general man manager manager ager agor to persist in ruinous methods rath rather er et than confess a lack of knowledge knowledg ot of otan It Itan an art in h he has never any training ought not longer be pet per permitted d to deprive our stockholders and ourselves of the benefits ben fits of Intelligent Dt modern skill shill and modern methods in hi tn th the operation on of or our mine and aDd the treatment nt of its iti inexhaustible ore bodies Mine of Great Value We Have 1 av all wed the statement to g abroad that there IB is exposed expo oo m tn our prop pro property erty twenty Forty I Even Evena a hundred million of tons of ore of ot a grade in value far above the average of the ores oree of the Lake Superior mines which alone alons have supplied a large portion of th the worlds demand dem nd for copper during th the thelast last forty years ears and we have truthfully said that because of our exceptional fa facilities a dUties for cheap mining the extremely e emely soft and friable nature of our ores or 5 and the freedom with which its values yie d to simple methods of concentration w we can produce copper at lower rates of cost than any of the great mines of that fa favored favored favored region And all this thin is true but out what of results And why have our reasonable expectations failed of ot realization realization tion It Is useless to say that our mill mm is only experimental or that It is too small smail to insure economic C results res its because a mill null of or tons daily capacity should be r operated d rot aft practically as low rate of cost per ton of ot ore treated as if jf it were of five times that capacity The Tha difficulty lies deeper it is fundamental S But the cure is most simple and has bee beEl besa a urged upon yourself and your manag p r from the first but his Insensate e arro arrogance arx gance Inflated to the point of ponta spontaneous i S explosion by sudden unexpected and unearned wealth would not permit him to change his l s system lest his total ignorance of f even ven the rudiments ts of the work in hand should thereby be b be betrayed S Ground to Slimes Up to this date nearly four hundred thousand tons of valuable ores have been ground into impalpable flour by the Jack JacH hag 11 chill chili mills and the resulting pup pu treated and retreated by every e ery concel able device until every grain grahl of the tb slimy mass should have become becom as familiar t the attendant attend nt operator as ks sh household words and until in absolute despair the th rebellious substance was turned nto the creek carrying with it a quantity of or mineral equal in value to more than tw and times the net profit reco recovered recovered ered Mr Jackling admits a loss of fourteen pounds of free copper per ton in the tai but It is more pounds Eighty per percent cent of this or ore eleven even pounds if properly crushed could be easily re which with Included gold and silver t and 2 3 per per ton or per mer percent percent cent to our net profits We have in use in our mill an ade adequate adequate adequate quate number numb r of the best type of stand standard standard ard and machines adapted to t the concentration concentration concentration tion of our ores and I believe hey they have ha va been operated more than average care and ability and yet results resUlt have haa continued from the first firt most disappoint disappointing continue ing in n fat fact faC we are are today no nearer Deer ai an an Intelligent f solution of a most simple problem lem lern than t an the te day we first began beg nealy nearly two wo years yeas ago ag But notwithstanding this fact fact our manager several sever months ag ar declared his Ills system complete in every ever detail detal and ad thereupon beg the construction construction tion of our new plant plant fash fashioned fah ton upon the theSe same seme lines and aC embracing embracing ing all the I and destructive d features feature of the te old mill mm Crushers Crush rs Declared De la d Castoffs Having so often ofen impressed upon tipon lon you yOLI Y l the fact that tat failure to obtain higher r re recoveries is due solely to to the tho Jackling method of crushing or 1 rather ter grinding metod I lave have hesitated In matter upon upen you u further but the th magnitude of f personal persona interest involved not more than thUI the th Interests Inter t off of our stockholder in gen gan general eral impels me not onty to insist that the era kling inding mills mis on but the Jack Tack Jackling Jackling ling be forthwith 1 and for forever forever forever ever dispensed d with wt h These Thee mills as vs 8 you are re aware we were o purchased Crom the scrap scrap heaps heaps of tho the Washoe concentrator at Anaconda Mont where they tey had ha been be discarded and and after b In subjected to thrown out ot att an au exhaustive test tes upon the work of that great plant and aid ad found absolutely unfitted for the duty required r which in every even ever respect r was similar to our own ow All of which pct facts facts together r with a full ful explanation explanationS nation nationS of 0 the cause cuse of failure t fe re the ex excessive excessiVe of refractory ref tor slimes l furnished by the mull mill was mI et wa and published in the New York ing lug and Mining Journal Joural at atte the time some I four years yeas ago a as J a nete n te df of f warning 1 to toI I others having having similar problems pro l to Continued on Page 4 5 r TELLS OF WASTE WAS E EAT V AT UTAH COPPER Continued from Page 1 but our manager m nager is not a man that takes takesI I notice of ot the opinions or experience bf r others but it does seem to o me that twenty months of fruitless effort eUort should at least be sufficient to Justify one little trial tria of the old and tried methods In use useIn usein In every successful concentrating plant on the globe glabe rather than longer cling to a hobby condemned by every Intelli Intelligent intelligent gent authority on the subject and long since discarded by every successful op Milling Costs High But there are other serious objections to the use of these mills Because of ot the th extreme fineness o of the resulting pulp the number numb r of concentrating machines necessary to effect any degree of ot saving Is multiplied at least three fold told and then because of at the more delicate nature of t f the machines required the number and cost of attendants is increased in like I proportion and thus together with other incidental evils the multiplication of ot I V elevators and slime sUme pumps our milling costs coats are swelled swell d to four times any sum sumI I required to operate a plant pl nt of like ca en capacity constructed upon lines of ordinary i practice i I For Instance the Bunker Hill and Sul Su Sullivan ivan livan mill at Wardner Ida crushing with rolls roIls and Huntington mills are treating ores much more difficult than our and an subjecting them to a process of concen concentration concentration I much more elaborate and expensive expensive expensive sive than ours should be shows a total average cost cot for 1905 of nineteen and four tenths cents per ton as compared e to an approximate cost of ot one dollar per ton by bythe bythe I the Jackling method methOdI The mills mUla of the lake region covering a total dally daily capacity of probably I tens show an average cost of about 25 cents per ton The same machinery op opI era ting on our ores would show treble the thc I crushing and double the concentrating capacity for reasons Indicated at the opening of this letter I Milling Could Be Cheapened But this Is 1 not the only evil en from which we are suffering The Jackling method of mining if it indeed it can be called a method Is quite as objectionable as an his milling and the plans outlined for tor the tho future give no promise of ot improvement A system of at digging or gouging which Involves the extraction of 33 per cent of or the ore from drifts and aDd short tunnels the loss of the balance and the shoveling Into wheelbarrows and an ing to chutes of all that Is secured can cannot cannot cannot not be commended by the average av rage min mining minIng mm ing lug engineer of ot today But we are promised that the mining Is soon to be done on a scale and in ina ina ina a manner that will startle the natives with the wonders of Its conception A steam shovel Is now on the ground and only awaits the construction of sonic some i r miles of railroad when Jt It will be planed placed oln in commission as the first unit of this stupendous undertaking The necessity for this machine Is based d dupon upon the unwarranted assumption that some fifty feet in thickness of the sur stir face tace overburden be stripped off hauled away aw y and dumped as waste But Bit B t teven even if this stripping were necessary r the expediency of employIng a a steam shovel for the purpose may well be questioned qt itIs Iti pot not l t necessary On the con contrary contrary JL 1 nave proven by DY exhaustive exha tests teats I that the entire overburden with die uie c e exception of occasional patches of sur surface surface surface face loam and gravel grav l if It properly mined crushed and anti treated will yield ag a much of profit p per ton as the average net et yield thus far obtained by the system from our best ores This fact understood un and recognized the entire enire problem of cheap mining be becomes becom comes comei com at once simple The hol or system of open pit work employed emp oy r in many less favored beau localities beauties ties would place our ores In chutes adapted to delivery d in 1 mine mino or railroad cars at less than 10 cents per tier ton a af against a cost of to per ton at nt present Again Agan by this method and assuming one ton or of absolute waste for tor each two tons of ot workable ore mines a proper proportion proportion tion far in excess of the wildest tion the combined mass could be mined mixed together bear the entire burden of transportation and concentration and yet afford a saving of more than 60 50 cents per V ton on each ton of workable ore oreas oreas oreas as against the cost by the present meth method method method od of t digging Big Surplus Possible Now on the tho basis of costs Indicated and with proper methods of pi mining mIling we WO should now b be earning more re than 1 per ton net not profit upon each and V every ton of ore treated as against 75 73 7 cents per perV V ton by the present pret system and I should therefore now have ht ve In our tress treas treasury ury a a net surplus of more than 1 a 3 sum slim more than sufficient to meet all necessary costs of construction and equip equipment equipment ment mont of our new now plant thus avoiding the necessity of the CO bond and stock I issue with which our property Is bur But this Is not all aJL For several weeks I past the Rio Grande Western Railroad engineers have been and d are still sUll struggling with the tho difficult j lem of ot locating a line Une of road from our mine to the proposed new mill site The total length of ot the line must approximate approxImate approximate I mate miles mUes the grade grada gr de Is to I be per cent and the tariff rate per I ton top of ore 7 cents none too much per haps considering the length of line Une and difficult construction but much higher than would have been necessary had lisA the null mill been properly located For six si sf years I had maintained con control control control of ot the tho lands and water which are arenow arenow arenow now to be made the basis of ot our new plant Adjoining and unoccupied is an ideal mill site Bite upon a hillside which would afford natural facilities for hand ling our ores by gravity throughout leav ing lag ample dump for tor tailings This would require raising the necessary water about feet higher than the site now be beng ing ng Improved Involving a cost of about of a cent per ton of ore treated but the railroad V could then reach the mill mUl upon a natural grade for several miles mUes provided idad by one of ot the old oldshore oldshore oldshore shore lines of Lake e Bonneville and about I feet vertically higher than the bin floor of ot the mill as now projected Automobile Guiding Force By reason of the peculiar pecullar contour of the Intervening country a road construct constructed ed upon this higher line Une would be at least ten or eleven miles shorter than the th line now projected and nowhere more dif of construction The advantage of being able to handle handte our ores by grav gray ity as gs against innumerable mechanical elevators would result in a saving of ot at least 5 cents upon each ton of ore besides the avoidance of incessant annoy annoyance annoyance ance anco and delays Incident to the opera tion of that class of machinery and then the cost of construction would be reduced to an extent that would more than com corn compensate for any costs heretofore Incurred in constructing foundations at a place pla o which has nothing to commend it ex eat except except that It Is easy of approach by an automobile And this fact I believe had more Influence in hi determining the se so lection than any thought of ot fitness for tor forthe forthe the purpose designed It is true how however however however ever that Mr Hawkins Hawking and myself op posed the location and urged the tion of the hillside which tact fact alone would have havo been sufficient to cause Its rejection as our manager yields to no noone noone noone one In our various discussions of milling losses I have never failed to urge a n trial of |