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Show ! TOE BIG PLANS OF UTAH COPPER iilioes of Dollars for Farther Equipment. Now IVIil! of Enormous Proportions Pro-portions to Se Constructed Con-structed Near Lake. . Enlargement of Present Concentrator I and Construction of a Line of Hallway. ' With the construction of :t concentrator capable o reducing as much as C000 tons of copper, gold and sllvor-bonring ore daily, the enlargement of Its Initial plant in Bingham canyon, that It shall ho made . to recover the mclals from a thousand tons a day, and the creation of a line of rallwnv over which the enormous I tonnages may bo moved from Its mines at Bingham to the hugo mill to bo reared upon a site between thrco and four miles south of Great Salt Lake, tho Utah Copper Cop-per company will proceed at once, the consummation of theso stupendous tasks to be along the most energetic lines. This was decided on at a meeting of the board of directors during the afternoon, and In attendance at which were President Charles M. MacNclll. Vice-President E. A. Wall, Treasurer Spencer Penrose and Mr. D. C Jackling, tho company's general . manager, and with these equipments achieved tho undertaking will have matured ma-tured Into one of the most formidable of tho number that have been attempted In the country. That the construction of the line of railway which shall skirt the great copper-bearing zone and span a distance ot about llftcen miles between be-tween the properties and the monster I plant upon tho margins of the lake may , be dispatched, tho company has already a corps of surveyors In the Mold, with the breaking of ground on all parts of the equipment to begin within the next sixty or ninety days. With this means for tho transportation of the enormous tonnages of ore and thoso with which to reduce the output Of that empire of mineral-bearing territory about which the prophetic embrace of the Utah Copper company was wound so few yesterdays agone, will have been Increased In-creased to a total of 7000 tons, daily, tho earnings to heights that almost daze. To provide this tremendous volume of ore dally, said the management last night, the company will be required to resort to devices, only, that are well known and that are in use throughout the countrv. To this end the plans provide for tho mining mi-ning of the ores by open cut or quarrying, quarry-ing, although extraction from the ex-.haustless ex-.haustless slopes which have been opened up beneath the surface of an exhaust-less exhaust-less zone of copper, gold and silver-bearing rock will continue as at present. A battery of steam shovels operated at a cost so small that It Is difficult to find a fraction to denominate It, will be tho feature of this equipment, while the extraction ex-traction of the ores will be upon lines more economical than has ever been attained at-tained In tho West. That the company itself has prepared to consummate the various undertakings decided on at yesterday's yes-terday's session of directors, It does not prohibit any of the lines of railway from constructing the system which has been projected, and by them this will no doubt be taken under serious consideration at once. That the construction of I plant near the lake and tho railway will have been completed and In operation a year after the breaking of ground, tho management has no doubt the enlargement enlarge-ment of the plant in Bingham canyon to bo accomplished long before tho expiration expira-tion of that period. Equipment, Indeed , which shnil enable it to add about 300 tons of ore dally to the present maximum, will have consummated this. That tho company which has proceeded .so deliberately with the fructification of lis plans has decided upon this stupendous campaign of equipment, affords, perhaps, per-haps, the best evidence of the enormltv of Its resources and the endurance of ns"-flcts ns"-flcts the extent of which no one has yet been bold enough to undertake to compute. They appear, Indeed, ns enduring endur-ing as Gibraltar Itself, and with tho means for reducing the tonnage provided for In the Improvements tho dreams of those by whom tho splendid undertaking TnM fund.c, will thou have been but partially par-tially hcalizcd. 1 What the cost of tho equipment on which they have decided, the directors have not divulged, but it ha tremendous one. and to thoso who shall have made It possible, a camp and a commonwealth nro indebted for a measure of grntitude not easily discharged. Having disposed of responsibilities for which thoy camo to Utah last weclc. President MacK-lj? md Treasurer Penrose will leavo for their homo In Colorado tomorrow, leavlii" th plans that aro now well In hand to tho resident officials of the company" 10 |