Show mi mine ne mill M I 1 11 ll and general construction news R L and guy B D hinckley and alva W beach are preparing to construct a canning factory at burbank california the plant will cost about the cushioned egg cell paper company of san francisco is selling stock for the purpose of purchasing machinery and equipment to manufacture straw board the pond robinson metal saw company ltd of san francisco has been authorized to sell stock for the purpose of financing the equipment of a manufacturing plant the united states fuel company R M magraw of hiathawa utah z general superintendent perin will probably equip its panther mine with a larger hoisting plant in the near future A large ore bin and an aerial tram are among improvements planned by the camp bird mining leasing power company operating near pitkin colorado T R L doughtrey 6 is president nathan lester of santa clara california and associates will building the largest cannery in the state at san jose surveys have been made and the contract t for construction will be let soon i H H mansfield M J robinson and J J terry have leased the hidden treasure mine at the head of little smoky out from fairfield idaho and plan early development advices advises from there state that they will build a mill fire on the dinst destroyed the lighting and heating plant engine room and laundry and did other damage at st marks hospital salt lake with a loss estimated at the equipment is to be replaced at once construction of a moving picture theater in salt lake to cost and to seat people is being planned by E E jenkins president of the ashton jenkins real estate company and other business men of the city announcement has been made by andrew H northrop president of the utah shale company that a commercial plant for the treatment of oil shale by the scott process will be erected in salt lake this summer general manager william S wilhelm of the arizona california mining company operating the ruth mine five miles from prescott arizona states that the company plans to add an oil flotation unit to its milling plant in the near future owners of the lone star placer mine located fourteen miles from rogue river oregon have incorporated with G H mcelroy as president and general manager additional machinery is to be installed and the deposit worked on a big scale A bill has been introduced before congress calling for the appropriation of 50 for the establishment of a mining experiment station under the bureau of mines at sheridan wyoming the main object is to experiment with the lignite coals of the state william manager for the friend mining company with holdings out from wallace idaho states that he expects to place a small mill on the property this summer the companas comp anys main office is at jamieson building spokane washington A longstanding long standing controversy between the california oregon power company and the keno power company has been settled and the latter will now enter the field at klamath falls oregon as a competitor citizens voted a franchise some time ago to the company C B stewart of salt lake secretary of the utah Wool growers association a against t ainest makes the statement that eastern capital is seriously considering the construction of a big wool scouring and topping plant in this city to be completed in time for the summers clipping advices advises from casper wyoming announce that victor dark clark president of the gravity oil refining company has purchased a site comprising eighty acres for the companas comp anys proposed barrel refinery it is stated that the gravity company plans to lay a total of about miles of pipeline A K mcdaniel mining engineer of denver who has been appointed general manager for the greenback mining company with holdings near leadville colorado states that new and modern equipment will be installed there as rapidly as conditions allow hugh C watson is local manager at the property victor brandt of tonopah To nevada president of the railroad valley company which is superseded by the nevada chemical company in a letter to stockholders regarding plans of the latter corporation says that about will be required for a pumping plant etc at the companas comp anys holdings at searles lake california the midwest refining company has announced the acquisition of additional property adjoining its plant at casper wyoming on which a large wax plant will be erected erect eLl covering two acres of floor space the com banys main office is in the first national dank bank building denver henry M blackman is president and general manager the southern pacific railroad compas compaq and the railroad administration of the goy got are desirous of building a new terminal south of the present pier of the coz com pany at oakland california at an all estimated cost of about but the plans elal have been blocked by a disagreement with that city the difficulty undoubtedly will be straightened out owners of about acres of shale lands in utah met at provo same state recently to consider the development of their holdings efforts probably will be made to Is erect a plant for the distillation of the high oil contents of the shale the meeting turned over the question of development to J C graham of provo with full authority to represent the owners the wolf mountain mining company of ogden utah C A harker manager will probably equi equip p its property with a 50 ton concentrating Z mill in the fall using b steam as its motive power the mine which is located in cache county is within half a mile from an electric transmission line and eventually a connecting wire and transformers s may be installed at the mill the rocky mountain refining CoIn company PaDy announces that work on its shale lands 1 located twelve miles from sunnyside Sunny side utah will commence early in june this will ie be followed immediately it is stated by arrangements range ments for the erection of the first 10 ton unit of a 1000 ton oil shale treat treatment mel plant S A mock is general manager the company and C A glazier of salt late lab is secretary A shipbuilding plant which vis employ about 2000 men on the constan ton of concrete ships of from to deadweight tonnage is to be built at i e port beach california by the Fren french chAmer am ican shipbuilding company ac according cordin to fibers of the company Construct construction iO is 0 ho ar commence in june architect allen alien of san francisco is in charge of engina engi ing details of the new plant j interests back of P chester thorny of cheyenne wyoming plan the construe CODS cOn strut of tion of a big plant for the production f f Su sup Perlo potash to be located northeast of at same state mr thompson says the plan to construct a 1000 to ton nit D once and to prepare for a 2000 ton unit ua ii i i ey v e be started as soon as possible the plant will have bave I 1 potash extracting ugna lacity of tons and will employ men A dispatch from worland j vv t says plans are under way here fol plot i construction of a carbon and gasoline the 9 AS costing close to to treat the hidden dome field for some time oil operators of california have been cecur ing land in this field and preparing for the building of a plant none of those con 1 necked with the deal have been willing to discuss any of the plans no further de tails are given A dispatch from new york states that machinery manufacturers expect that contracts for between and will be placed on government account within the next few months as a result of the enormous contracts for guns and shells to be placed by the ordnance department equipment for the machine shop at the new government arsenal near pittsburgh will call for the expenditure of many millions of dollars as a starter the peoples gas light coke company of chicago has made application to the government for aid in financing construction of new coal gas plants which are expected to require an initial outlay of about 20 no action has been taken at this writing the company is understood to have discovered a process for making from low grade bituminous coal as a product byproduct by of coal gas plants and proposes to turn out this ingredient of high explosives in large quantities for the government E P fleming chief chemist for the utah branch of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company in commenting 6 on nitrate samples recently sent him by H J kaul of salt lake says if the deposit is sufficiently large it might warrant the installation of a leaching plant whereby the product could be brought up to about 90 per cent sodium nitrate and stand high transportation por tation charges mr kaul declines to state where the samples came from beyond saying that the deposit is big and is in the intermountain country the san francisco journal of commerce says the railroad commission has granted t I 1 the sierra san francisco power company permission to issue of its first mortgage bonds the money is to be used in making improvements and in installing equipment to increase the capacity of its hydroelectric hydro electric plants the journal also says two hundred and forty thousand barrels of oil will be saved each year when the interconnection of the northern california power company california ore gon power company and pacific gas electric company just ordered by the rail road commission is effected it is estimated that it will take from four to six months to construct the transmission line from kennett to colusa calusa junction |