| Show PUSHING THINGS AT BINGHAM Yampa Smelter Assuming i Huge Proportions Boston I ICon Con Shipments Bingham May Ma 16 Within ten days a new blast furnace making three in II all will be installed at the Yampa smelter Manager C W V Saxman placed the order in the middle of the week and it will vIll be installed at once The smelter smelter smelter ter is now treating more ore than ever before in n the history of the plant Eight hundred tons are being handled and by the first of July it is expected that 1000 tons dally daily will be the record All of the smelting will be done here then as the converter which is now being installed will be ready to go Into and the smelter will vIll turn turnout turnout turnout out the blister opper 99 per cent pure With the acquisition of the blast the will have running eight Mc Me McDougal McDougal Dougal furnaces three three blast furnaces and the converter making the local one of the most complete and best equipped in the According to the statement of Mr 11 Saxman it is not unlikely a sam sani sampler sampler pier will wilt be installed within a short time This news will be greatly wel w l lomed omed by the small leasers and ship shippers pers who have to send their ore ole to the valley alley for tor sampling The Boston Consolidated Mining lUning com corn company company pany is now shipping 1000 tons a day fK horn m their porphyry workings and tons from the sulphide end of the prop erty according to the statement of Mines lInes Manager Louis S Cates Gates This will be increased materially he states so that within thirty days the tonnage from the porphyry will Ill be 2000 tons daily dally A rich strike was made early this week at the tile mine in the Minnie and Andy workings a three threefoot threefoot threefoot foot vein of ore being opened up which runs 60 per cent lead and 8 to 10 per cent copper The vein veinis is of considerable width and the possibilities that it will wUl develop into one of the biggest ore bodies ever disclosed ae are quite possible A large quantity of mill ore was also encountered The tunnel is being driven rapidly and the work wor on this is quite satisfactory tory to the management The Phoenix Mining company is now milling tons of ore daily dally The tables and jigs are working very satisfactorily and it is the intention of the company to increase the output daily dally The old workings of the com corn company comI puny pany are now being developed and it itis itIs Itis I is expected that a large tonnage will willbe willbe willbe be taken from here Three shifts are now being worked at both the Jacobs tunnel and the But Butler Butler Butier ler ier shaft of the Mining property Development work is being vigorously pursued and it is the Intention of the management to push this work with the idea of open opening opening openIng ing up p new territory |
