Show REVIEW OF BINGHAM CAMP bulletin bingham utah the month just passed has been a record breaker in respect to tonnage and the local railroad was forced to step lively and think quickly in order to handle the thousands of tons of ore which the local properties shipped during the month the utah copper following out its pro gramme just tore things up at their open cut and underground workings this company alone I 1 shipped on the average of cars a day trainload after trainload of this porphyry which by the way contained higher values in copper than was usual were sent over the high line to the garfield plant and the record will be equaled it is said by the officials fici als this month the boston con has been digging away and sent regular shipments of about thirty cars a day to their mill at garfield the ore ran very high in copper from the porphyry and the sulphide ore shipped was also of excellent gua quality lity in spite of tle the fact that the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company was unable to handle the tonnage of the utah con this property has been sending over the tram the regular tonnage of from to 1000 tons a day the mine is in excellent shape and the management declares that it if the smelter could handle it the tonnage could be increased materially at any time the final option on all the land needed at pine canyon where the new smelter site is located was made last week and it is quite probable that the old bingham company will begin at once to make arrangements for the large smelter in this canyon everything is running smoothly sm boothly at the yampa the co construction i work is being done as rapidly as possible and over three hundred men are registered on the pay rolls As soon soon as the work is all completed and the new converter sandblast and blast furnace are installed the management will begin to do the things which have been mapped out for some time general manager charles W saxman and general superintendent perin J C dick spent wednesday and thursday at the plant and expressed themselves as being very well pleased at the way in which the work of construction was being done at the present time tons a day are being received at the smelter from the mine and this will undoubtedly be increased to 1000 by the of august the TJ S mine is in shape to yield a big tonnage for the smelter in the valley as soon oon as the word is passed to begin ship ping development work has been going on all spring and large bodies of ore have been blocked out it is not known definitely just when the smelter will be ready to receive ores from this property but it is safe to say that before the month is over the tram which has h as been idle for so long will show some signs of life with a large tonnage of mill ore on the bubp and a large body of first class ore in the mine the utah apex mining company is in fine shape it is said and will be able to yield a good tonnage when the company decides to make shipments the Par venue tunnel tunnel contract which was let for several hundred feet is going along finely and great progress is being made here the company has found it necessary to get more dump room and one of the houses near the dump has been removed to give adequate room it has been reported that an important find of ore has been made in the property of the bingham central standard company at bingham in the mountain maid tunnel but the actual facts could not be ascertained it is known that several days ago this tunnel tapped into the ore bearing zone and that a small fissure was encountered that looked like it might make into something big at any shot but many local stockholders when asked stated that they had learned nothing regarding this tunnel for two or three days the fissure was found at a vertical depth of of about feet |