Show t AFTER TWENTY YEARS i Changes That Confronted a I Visitor at Bingham I SOME HIGHLAND BOY GOSSIP thi j t i Big Machine Ordered for the Murray Smelter 1i1 1 j J Iong Tunnel at Binghnm Forges Into J I In-to Silver Shield Ground Another Large Den on the Tapis ii lt After an interval of twenty years during which period lie has looked In I upon the diggings of almost every country I t coun-try on earth Peter Porter of the Western I West-ern Exploration companys star of expert ti ex-pert miners has been making an inventory in-ventory of chansres that have been wrought at Bingham Twenty years t t ago Mr I Porter was manager of the Stewart companys mines and mill from which latter he pounded out not 1 s few bars oC gold bullion the ores coming from the oxidized zone overt over-t lying the copperbearing sulphides I upon which the transformation of recent I re-cent years was founded and upon I which his been reared a copper camp that must ultimately head the pioees t slon No one said Jlr Porter yesterday yester-day had In those days the faintest i f conception of what the future was got f go-t Ing to do for Bingham At that period t it was esteemed mostly for the gold t bearing rock which spread over the zone and fed the placers from which not a little gold was washed There I was some lend of course and for the I Lead Mines croup a concentrator was erected which subsequently went down under a sheet of flame Since his day In camp the Stewart companys bold Ings have become a part of the HIghland High-land Boy and while it was in those times of antiquity esteemed for the t gold Us ledges contained today it is the most prominent copperbearing r proposition between Arizona and Montana Mon-tana Whereas twenty years ago about r fifty tons of lead ore dally with desultory desul-tory shipments of gold bullion and the proceeds oC the placers was being shipped out of the camp Mr Porter found during his recent visit 1700 tons of ore passing dally over tramways and rail to the loading station at the Kio Grande terminus while those conversant con-versant with the ore bodies and the needs of valley furnaces have no doubt that tho output a year hence will exceed ex-ceed 100000 tons per month And in this there appears to be no speculation suggested Mr Porter for there Is the Tampa the Dalton Lark group and many others waiting to step Into line while the large amount of exploratory work now in progress cannot result otherwise than in the development of additional producers s Indeed Mr Porter Por-ter sees for Bingham a future exceeding exceed-ing all that the most liberal has predicted pre-dicted for the old camp |