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Show 1 THE GREAT CACTUS , MINE The Newhouso Mines and Smelters are owners of the Cactus mine in Beavor county, Utah. Tho. property consists of thirteen mining claims located on an extension ex-tension towards the northwest of tho great Horn Silvor Fault. The company owns besides the abovo mining claims nearly 8000 acres of land to protect their townsitc. millsitc, water line, etc. A complete little town, consisting con-sisting of about 100 houses, was built in the desert on the eastern slope of tho Wall Wan vallev and is supplied with water from the Wall Wah springs, which gave an ample and steady stream of water. This supply comes to the surface on the western side of the valley, some nine milc6 from the mill and town of Newhouso. About 1300 gallons of water wa-ter per minuto arc delivered to a largo concrete reservoir near the mill through a steel pipe of gravity. Tho mill was originally designed to treat GOO tons per day, but subsequently subse-quently alterations and improvements havo been made which have raised its capacity to S00 Ions per day. When tho property was first started up all power was generated for both the mine and mill at the central power station, sta-tion, where a battery of three Babcock and Wilcox boilers were installed. Th'e mill was driven by electricity generated by Wcstinghouso steam boilers. These turbines were the first to be used in the state and gave excellent satisfaction, being exceedingly economical in the consumption ot coal. A 2000-cubic foot per minute Ingersoll Sargent steam driven air compressor was installed. All of this steam driven machinery has now been superceded by electrically .driven machinery, which is operated by power generated by the Beaver Eiver Power company on Beavor creek, somo forty-five miles from tho mine, and transmitted under a voltage of -10,000 to the mining company's transformers. Tho mill is connected with the mine by four and ono-half miles of standard gun go track, on which is operated a 05-ton 05-ton SJiay engine and a tram of fivo 50-ton 50-ton self dumping cars. The miners are all boarded at thotown of Newhouso and arc carried to and from tho mine in the company's passenger car. f The porla'l of the tunnel is 615 feet I above tho mill and is driven for over a I mile into the mountain before striking the Cactus oro bodies on the 600 level of the shaft. The propertv was originally origi-nally owned and operated by a French cum pa H3r, which did some developing work near the surface- and erected a concentrating mill and a small smelter, by reason of the lack of any water supply. sup-ply. The French company, however, had dono sufficient work to show that tho property had merit and that, if worked on a large, scale and with proper prop-er .appliances, a big copper mine could be developed. Tn 190P tho property was taken up by ilr. Xowhonso and active development j and construction work was begun. A new shaft was started and sunk to tho 600 level. Drifting, to make connection with the tunnel which w;is then advancing advanc-ing towards the shaft, was started in order to hasten the connection. In Mui'Mi. 1005. the mill was started and has been in continuous operation to tho present time. In the early part of 1907 while development devel-opment work on the -JOO-fool level way being carried on, a largo bod' of high grade copper oro was found. "Upon development de-velopment it proved to bo cxceptionallv large for such rich oro. It. was followed up io the .100-foot lovel and was snibsc-fluently snibsc-fluently traced down to the 600-foot level. Several equaro sets of 20 por erut oro were left under the sills of the 620-foot level and thero is no doubt that the shoot of high grado will be found i on the lowor levels. The high gindo ore came as an unexpected addition to the ; cciii'pnnv's assets, and as its discovery wns made during the exceptionally high copper market, it added very largelv to the company's output- During the year Ifi'i? Ihe company produced over nine million pounds of copper, one-third of which cams from ore averaging about 16 per cent copper. The high grade shoots, however, whilo addibg greatly to the output of copper, must not bo considered the company's chief asset. This consists of the Im-monsc Im-monsc bodies of concentrating ore which were found outcropping on tho surface and were subsequently followed down to the 900-foot level. About two million tons of oro aro known to lie between the surface and tliG lowest developed level, and there aro still great possibilities for finding new oro bodies, as the lower levels, especially, are not yet properly developed. The ore bod' on the surface is, roughly, rough-ly, about 1000 feet long by an average of 100 feot wide. Tn some places the width is as much as ISO feet. Large "Glor3' Holes" were started near the surface and a steam shovel, which did exceedingly -good work, was installed. Tho "Glory Hole" work was very sue-i sue-i cessful and many thousands of tons of cheap ore were run into the chutes b3' this method. Latterly, however, these open pits having attained a depth of 150 feet, were found to be too dangerous, danger-ous, q,n account of the- nature of the granite walls which upon exposure rapidb' disintegrated, and kopt continually contin-ually sliding rocks and debris towards the pits. They were, therefore, abandoned aban-doned in favor of under ground mining. Development on tho 400 and 500 levels lev-els proved the presence of another hitherto hith-erto unsuspected ore body, which is separated from the original one bv a horse of waste on the 600 level; this waste is sufficiently mineralized to be considered as ore while on the 700 level it appears as waste again, and the two ore bodies were distinct from one another. an-other. Up to the spring of the year tho square set method hns been entirely used for underground mining, but this is now being chnnqed to a caving method, which is yielding very satis" factory results. The future outlook for tho mine is very hopeful; the known oro bodies are large and of fair grade, development work is being continuously carried on. new bodies of oro. hitherto not included in the ore reserves are be-iug be-iug developed and proved to be of a profitable grade, while the equipment of the mine is good and capable of handling hand-ling a thousand tons a day. Owing to tho gradual change in the character of tho ore as greater depth is attained, it has become neccssar3' to crush tho oro to a finer mesh in order to liberate tho mineral. This has neces- I ...v- n.iaiiiii.iuii in UlUI C tlUIICV tables, Johnson vanncrs and Callow tanks, which have been purchased and will shortly be installed. It is confidently confi-dently expected that when this now ma-I ma-I chinery is in working order tho recovery recov-ery of the mill will be increased at least 10 per cent. In order to cheapen the operating costs in tho mill three new concrete settling ranks have been built, into which all the concentrates will be run and the fine van nor produce allowed to settle. From these tanks Ihe concentrates will be loaded into the railroad cars by a claw shell bucket. The null is now handling 750 tons per dav. and after the installation of tho new machinery it will bo capable of treatiii"' I S50 tqns pcr day with a better recovery than it is now making. Tho town of Newhouso is a model mi-i mi-i ning camp and reflects credit on. its designer. de-signer. Ono of tho distinctive features ot tho camp is the Cactus club, which was organized for the benefit and comfort com-fort of the employee?. The company I built a commodious clubhouse coiii-isi-j ing of a reading room, cardrooin. billiard bil-liard room and barroom, for which the 1 ''-bib pays a monthly rental. The club t began its career beveral thousand dol- lars. in debt, but is non owner of n .56000 hotel and a $10,000 theater, in i which the dances, theatricals and meetings meet-ings aro held. H exorls a strong iuilu-ence iuilu-ence on the boeinl life of the camp, an 1 aids tho company bv keeping contented men who could not otherwise be induced to spend their lives on the desert. |
