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Show SHIPPING LIME ROCK One Thousand Tons a Day Sent Out Prom Lehi Quarries. Special to Tho Trlbuno. LEHI, Aug. 23. Tho American Smelting Smelt-ing and Refining ' company has purchased pur-chased C10 acres of lime rock In Rush valley from Lel'il parties. Tho company has already commenced shipping rock to thefr smelter In Salt Lake valley, though the amount Is necessarily restricted because be-cause of the mllo and a. half wagon haul from the quarry to Gardner's spur on tho Salt Lake & "Western branch of tho 'Salt Lako Route. Surveyors are at work locating nn extension of tho Topllft spur Into tho properties, when It is declared de-clared that tho shipments will bo Increased In-creased to COO tons per day. A site for tho crushing plant has been surveyed, and a lino connecting It with tho Tellurldc power line, three miles away, has been run. Tho property nowly ncqulrcd Is probably prob-ably ono of the biggest deposits of commercial com-mercial limestone In tho Stnlo. It Is over 300 foot In thickness, about 1000 feet up tho side of a mountain nid over a mllo In length, with no seams of "bad rock" In It and practically frco from any waste or debris on top of It, A spur will run right Into It, and tho cost of quarrying and loading of It onto tho cars will come under 25 cent3 per ton. Tho numerous tests that have been made reveal less than an averago of 2 per cent Insoluble matter, and tho 3mall per cent of Iron It contains makes It an Ideal fluxing material. Tho company com-pany has men at work opening up tho quarry, and It will bo In shape ready for business as soon as tho railroad company com-pany has tho extension of the Topllff spur completed. The United States Mining company, who aro oporatlng a quarry adjoining the American ground, nro keeping up a steady shipment of 100 tons per dny to their smelter at Bingham Junction, yet .this big extraction makes hardly anv perceptible dlfferonce In tho nppearanco of their quarry from month to month. Tho Utah Sugar company, who have a lenso on tho Lime King quarry, that Joins both the American and the United States quarries, havo Jus,t completed tho extension of the railroad into their property, prop-erty, and will In a few days, commence com-mence making shipments to the Lehi nnd the Garland sugar factories. Tho ledge from which the Sugar company Is drawing draw-ing Its supply Is not a very largo one, yet It 13 amplo to furnish tho 10,000 tops per year necessary to supply theso two plants for an lndeilnlte time, nnd assays of It roveal less than one-fourth of 1 per cent Insoluble matter, In fact, It Is so pure that General Superintendent James II. Gardner says It pays to pay tho tariff on thl3 rock from Rush Valley to Garland Gar-land rather than uso rock that goes less than 3 per cent silica, which Is adjacent to tho Bear River factory. Theso three concerns, tho American, the United States and tho Utah Sugar company, will necessitate tho hauling of 1000 tons of Ilmo rock per day, and Is causing tho old Salt Lake &. Western, railway to assume tho activity that It possessed In days of old, when tho Tintlc district wa3 booming nnd this ono railroad rail-road had all the freight. |
