Show MAMMOTH IRON ORE CRUSHING PLANT AT CEDAR CITY GOES INTO ACTION advices advises from cedar city iron county early in the past week are to the effect that the iron ores company s mammoth twin crushing plant after months of work in installation lias has gone one into commission and crushed iron ore is now being shipped to columbia steel and other smelting smelling sm elting works at the rate of more than 1000 tons per day the mammoth oscillating crusher weighing pounds and driven by an electric motor crushes pieces of ore weighing in the neighborhood of pounds with ease from this crusher the ore is conducted by endless belt to the rotary crusher that reduces it to the size of small pebbles after which another endless belt carries the ore to the sorting tipple where it is sorted automatically into three grades ready for dumping into railroad cars the rotary crusher is driven by a horsepower electric motor four 25 horsepower motors operate the remainder of the machinery making horsepower in all electric power necessary is furnished by the dixie power company which has created an elaborate supply station on the grounds the utah iron ores company at present is loading the ore at the mine by steam shovel onto small cars that are electrically driven to the crusher dump a short distance awa away y this shovel is to be replaced by an electra electrically ca lly d riven driven one within two weeks and will be capable of lifting twice the load of the present shovel A second rotary crusher is to be installed within about three weeks and this will enable the company to crush over tons of ore every eight hours the steel framework of the crushing plant the largest ever erected in the west and second to none in the united states according to engineers is made from utah ore smelter smelted ted and made into steel in utah and forged by a utah concern located in provo and erected by utah men the entire plant is a utah production and is considered to be the best of its kind in the united states |