| Show REPORT FROM COLUMBUS CON AND SO COLUMBUS After a couple of days das at camp Mana Manager Manager ger gee Tony Jacobson of the Columbus Clumbus Con Consolidated Consolidated and South Columbus Colum us properties at Alta was at his pis mis desk again agan yesterday He states that both mines mine are ae giving splendid accounts of at themselves these days and that the year er is going to prove pro proa a most profitable one all al around The mining of high grade gade ore or still goes on as development progresses 1 at the South Co Columbus Columbus Columbus lumbus and after awhile when the roads roas from Sandy to Tanner are ar in better beter con condition condition made diton shipments shipment from the mine will wi be he I I madeWe We are now getting splendid service serice over the aerial tramway for the product 1 of oC tho the Columbus Consolidated said Mr Jacobson We have Installed a loading loding station at the mine which works auto automatically work and ad without a hitch As the buckets on the carrying ropes of the tram pass pas through the loading station staton they are filled fied with concentrates or crude ore or as the case may be b by b the automatic loader without a stop stop This loader is filled tied by a man in the station from the theore theore theore ore bin chutes cutes and ad when an empty tram bucket comes along alone aOn the loader slides along a track tk of its It own and ad discharges Its contents content into Ito the moving bucket It I then returns and is filled again for the next bucket and so on Owing to the bad condition of ot the roads below blow Tanner the lower terminal of the tramway and Sady Sandy twelve miles mie the teams re unable to go heavily loaded and ad as a result resul we weare weare weare are only sending out fifty tons a day da at atthe atthe the tho present time This will wl be increased when the rainy season seon lets up Another thing that works work against han ban handling dung a big bir tonnage Just now no is the time fact that the tE Columbus company compy has not con constructed constructed constructed permanent receiving and loading bins at the lower lowe low terminal teina of the tram train tramway way a This makes it necessary for the te teamsters teamster to shovel their loads at both ends ed of the haul hl Matters Matter are so shap lag ing In that it I is expected before long that the railroad will wil be running to t the mouth of the canyon and that the tramway terina terminal will be b established at the same sae point 1 For Fr that reason rason the company does not want wat to erect eret big bins at the time present preset lower terminal |
