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Show CONTRACTS LET FOR NEWHQUSE PLANT Material Ordered for First 800-Ton Unit in the Company's Stupendous Stupend-ous Concentrator. Contracts for material with which to construct the first SOO-ton unit in a concentrator that shall ultimately be equipped for the reduction of no less than 6000 tons dally were awarded by tho management of the Newhouse Mines and Smelter company yesterday, contracts for a second unit of corresponding corre-sponding magnitude to follow as soon ns means with which to more economically econom-ically and expeditiously deliver the materials ma-terials upon the site at Newhouse, out of Frisco, shall have been provided by the railway company, whose extension to the new camp of copper has already al-ready been surveyed. The contract for the machinery was awarded the Power and Mining Machinery company of Milwaukee, which was represented In the most spirited contest by H. C. Holthoff, its president; while that for a million pounds of structural steel was let to the Wisconsin Bridge company, com-pany, with that for the nowcr nlant. which will provide for the concentration concentra-tion of 2000 tons of oro dally, yet unannounced. un-announced. In the agreements which were signed up by Mr. Newhouse during the night, that the successful competitors might catch the outgoing trains, It is stipulated stipu-lated that the material shall be at the disposal of the construction company within ninety days, and that it will oe compiled with tho management has no reason to doubt. Discussing his plans last night. Mr. Newhouse, to whom the copper world Is Indebted for the prodigious undertaking, said that It was the Intention of the company to Install one unit after another until the plant shall have attained a capacity of COOO tons dally, this method enabling en-abling the management to simplify the means of extraction and to establish such outlets as shall be required to accommodate che enormous tonnage. In this there are to be no delays, the Interval between the Installation of units to be confined to the smallest time that conditions shall permit. In ths he Is adhering to a policy, indeed, that was introduced by him In the valley val-ley when the first unit was ordered for the Utah Con. or Highland Boy smelter, and since which time It has settled down Into popular practice. The awarding of contracts for the llrst unit in the Newhouse concentrator concen-trator cannot but stimulate Interest In tho new region, and while the propagation propa-gation of former Bingham as a camp of copper, and the Introduction of py-rltlc py-rltlc smelling In Salt Lake valley aro achievements upon which his name are Imperlshably stamped, the present undertaking: un-dertaking: affords him opportunity for a supreme conquest. |