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Show I FREE GOLD EN COPPER SULPHIDES Sensational Disclosure Through tho Tables at the Utah Company's Bingham Concentrator. iifl & F TI1E many lessons in recent 1 1 ycars upon the mctaiiu'?y of fl j Bingham ores none are more Instructive, perhaps, than those fl taught at tho Utah Copper com-pany's com-pany's concentrator in Bingham, and which, though unfinished, Is hourly piling up profits. The student, indeed, to whom the latch string has hecn ex-tended, ex-tended, is admonished by Superlntcnd-cnt Superlntcnd-cnt Janney that the plant Is yet Incom-plctc, Incom-plctc, notwithstanding the steady In-take In-take of ore, the separation of the metals from the gangue in which they occur, und the unbroken stream of copper, gold and silver-bearing concentrates that gush through troughs to the bins without, thence to the furnaces of the valley smeller. AH this achieved, com-mcrclal com-mcrclal results Issuing from a class of material that has defied the miner for nearly forty ycars and yet every device employed within is "on trial," Its pcr-mnnence pcr-mnnence as a part of the whole de-pendent de-pendent entirely upon the efficiency -with which It shall discharge Its work. Indeed, neither talent nor expense has been spared in determining the ques-tlon ques-tlon of adaptability of the device to the requirements of the undertaking that must so largely Influence the future of Bingham as a camp of copper. Tables of every type and machines of every variety are sitting In the game and while It Is nearing its cud the final ac-ccptance ac-ccptance of each will not have been made until the return of General Man-ager Man-ager Jackling and the various officinla next week. About as near the auto-matlc auto-matlc as the genius of modern mechan-ism mechan-ism has found It possible to attain, It Is only at long Intervals that a face is found in the plant and while 740 tons were put through the crushers on Sat-urday Sat-urday last, according to the foreman. It was accomplished with less than forty Hj persons, these including the chemist, the bookkeeper and other attaches. Of all the lessons in a day's observa-tlon observa-tlon within the concentrator none are more exhilarating than that which dls-closes dls-closes the presence of free gold that has collected on the riflles of the table, to which it adheres ahd increases, said Superintendent Janney, until removed by his hand. For this demonstration of auriferous wealth within the sulphides of the porphyry belt the management was probably not prepared and yet the auriferous contents of Bingham gravel and the carbonates that overlie the sul-phldes sul-phldes has been known since mining at Bingham was inaugurated, while the auriferous contents of the Utah Copper company's concentrate has been a reve-latlon reve-latlon since their production was be-gun. be-gun. As an Incident it Is a fascinating At the mines Superintendent Mac-donnld Mac-donnld has his work well In hand. The main tunnel, from which the present supply of ore Is coming, In the blocking out of the measureless mass of copper, gold and silver-bearing rock, has now been advanced into the zone a distance of 850 feet, with levels being extended east and west all In ore. Already, said Mr Macdonald, he has enough ore Hl blocked out to meet the requirements of the concentrator for twenty years at Hj least, and yet, along that horizon, the blocking out of the cxhaustlcss ore bodies has but begun. The undertaking from mines to mill, indeed, has responded in manner which leaves no doubt whatever of the ulti-mate ulti-mate remuneration of those who found-ed found-ed it and there appears to be no more profitable one in all the West. The man-agement man-agement is to be congratulated; likewise the camp of copper. |