Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-03-10 | Page 6 | Electric Outlet for Dixie Mines

ELECTRIC OUTLET FOR DIXIE MINES New Road to Bo Equipped "With Modern Machines The Now Ore Bodies. To inqulro Into various developments that havo boon achieved during an Interval of several months, S. M. Stoddard of tho Utah & Eastern Mining company, operating opera-ting tho Dixie mines and smelter out of St. Gcorgo, and tho ' Bingham & Now Haven company, with Its valuable assets In tho big camp of copper, gold and sllvor, camo In from Connecticut yesterday to remain re-main somo days. Developments at tho Dlxlo mines, nald Mr. Stoddard, havo been most gratifying, according to reports forwarded the Eastern offices of tho company com-pany by Manager Doollttlc. That tho ledgo recently opened up via a crosscut fron tho original ledge In Independent of that which has been productlvo for many years Is now clearly defined, Its dip. Indeed, an antithesis of that of tho original. Meanwhile Mean-while a holo has been punched In tho new ledgo at n dopth of 776 feet, and certainly thero Is no reason to bollovo other than that Its wealth continues from that horizon hori-zon to tho grass roots. A crosscut Into tho now ledgo for twenty feet, with tho whereabouts of tho other wall yet to bo dotcrmlned, Is tho best evidence of Its strength. To simplify tho means of transportation the now road now being constructed between be-tween the company's oamp nnd Modona on the San Pedro will bo equipped with an englno and cars to bo operated by electricity, elec-tricity, the energy to bo dcrlvd from a gasollno machine with which each piece of rolling stock Is equipped The new road, across lots, as It wcro, al30 reduces tho haul from llfty-sevcn miles to thlrty-oight, thlrty-oight, and with these changes tho undertaking under-taking will have been materially promoted. Whllo Mr. Stoddard was unable to report any material change In conditions at tho Bingham properties, ho will devote several days to then before leaving for the East.