Show BINGHAM MINES WORKING yampa and other west mountain proper aies ties in active operation bulletin bingham U utah tah wednesday morn morning ing the tintic gintic mining development company placed an order with the rio grande for twenty cars a jay clay to be delivered at the yampa bet ginning beginning next week which indicates the intention ot of this company to resu resume ine operations within a very short time this intelligence was received in bing ham bam with t great delight as I 1 it undoubtedly means that the general movement for a resumption of work throughout the camp has set in with the yampa properties starting up again about men will find employment and this with those already putting in their regular shifts will leave bingham with about one half the regular pay rolls the united states the utah copper and the utah con the new england and the ohio copper are still working the usual number of men inen the boston con added a few men on the outside workings during the week and several of the smaller companies have put a few men back at work the work on the mascott tunnel is being kept up as usual and while there are a good many idle men in camp the situation is by no means as serious as a week ag ago 0 the improvements to the ly ampa smelter are being rushed and while in all probability the furnaces will not be blown in right away everything is being put into shape for the handling of a much larger tonnage when the plant does start up in the meantime it is said the mine will get out the ore and fill the bins in readiness for the opening of the smelter the telegraph mine of ahe U S company will probably start up again the f irk first of the coming month and plans are now being made for the extraction of a large tonnage from the kempton property the ownership of which has just been decided hy by the U S supreme court this property is said to be worth three or four millions of dollars and is in such shape as to allow ot of a large tonnage being taken out with comparatively ively a small amount of work the utah copper is building a private electric transmission line from its monster generating plant at garfield to the bingham property and the substantial steel towers are now low completed to a point on the high line on the rio grande which the electric line will follow from the mouth of the canyon A new motor system is being installed at the hopperton copperton Cop Derton mill and both the mine and d the mill will be supplied with power and d lights from the garfield generating teni m as soon ws as the transmission line is completed pa ted V the markham gulch mill has shut down for r a short time to permit of some necessary structural changes there has been no cessation of work at the utah apex although for a time attention will be given to developments the apex is now open to feet below the andy tunnel and the incline has reached the Co romandel tunnel and a new level will be cut here within sixty days the Par venue tunnel will be pushed west 1000 feet and to the north 1300 feet the new phoenix ton mill will be L ready in december when the concentration of ores from this promising property will begin another steam shovel has been installed on the surface workings of the utah copper the eagle blue bell of the bingham con at tintic gintic has been temporarily shut down the new ohio mill at lark is being rushed to completion as quickly as men and material can do the work |