Show consolidated AND THE THE BOSTON UTAH COPPER boston financial news boston the failure of the utah copper company to get its big concentrator in to operation on april 1 the date data set for its operation emphasizes the difficulty that is met with in letting getting large sized plants or glan glanced zed all parts of the big mill are in place with the exception of the big e engine which js to furnish the motive power for the mill this has not yet been shipped from milwaukee and after it arrives at the property some time will be taken to get it into place the company has been operating its tables and some of the parts of the mill with such motive power as has been already installed and hopes to have the big plant in perfect adjustment by the time that the big engine is ready for action taking everything into consideration it is very doubtful as to whether the bi big concentrator cen can be got into operation before augusti august 1 although parts of the plant may be ready before that time the mining end of the property is more than ready to furnish the concentrator with needed material four big steam shovels have been installed underground and the company will be ready to send ore to the surface in any quantity ity just as soon as the mill is capable of handling it the shovels are being used at the present time for enlarging the openings that have already been made and in placing in view large ore reserves for the future good of the big proposition the small plant in bingham canyon which can handle about 1000 tons per day is being fed from the development work that is being done in the big porphyry ledge alone the boston consolidated which is operating aerating upon the upper part of the same ledge that the utah copper has developed further down in the canyon has again begun its stripping operations using the same type of big steam shovels that have been found so effective in the superior iron properties the company expects to have its first unit which will have a stated capacity of 2500 tons a day ready by june ahne 1 but it will probably be nearer august 1 before the company gets into operation the boston consolidated however con finues the shipment of sulphides sulp hides steadily to the garfield smelter which when the company gets to using more of the product will provide it with a big 1 income acome in addition to the money made through the handling of the porphyry both mills will probably be delayed in getting started beyond any estimated date now set and even after they actually start operations it will take some time to bring them up to their full capacity it is therefore very conservative 0 to o dimate that it will be at least the latta latt part of august to the first of SePter september abert fr fore either plant is in effective oVe operation ration the railroad facilities by which both companies will handle their big daily arn mu must t also receive some attention att entin before the copper belt railroad which already overtaxed is put to the extra st strain of moving this big tonnage of ore nev locomotives have been ordered but it 11 questionable whether this will solve th problem |