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Show TUN ILL FIE DESCRIBED Former Bingham Mining Man in Charge of Operations Opera-tions Blames Incendiary. Full particulars of the fire which de- stroyed the mill of the Ho'.den Mlnins i ami Jlilliug company at Tuscarora were received by H. II. Adkinson, Salt Lake mining engineer, from David J. Cook. Mr. Cook, who was mill superintendent at Tuscarora, formerly was manager at the New Kngland property at Bingham. In a letter to Jlr. Adkinson, Sir. Cook states that the mill, recently completed, was ready for a period of steady operation opera-tion after experiments had proven beyond be-yond a doubt that the tailings, of which thero was sufficient tonnage on the different dif-ferent properties of the Tuscarora mine to run the mill for five sears, could bo treated at a handsome profit. "At 4:30 the men went off shift," according ac-cording to the letter. Mr. Cook, as had been his" invariable custom, went to the change room and to the shops where fires had been burning to make sure that ai! fires wero extinguished for the night. Close to six- o'clock, while the men were eating supper at a boarding house in town a short distance from the mil, a man rushed in to Mr. Cook saying the mill was in flames. "When Mr. Cook and his men reached the mill, it was all in flames. The powder pow-der was moved lo a place of safety. The distillate tanks did not. explode. From appearances, it was almost certain that some person staffed the fire' Preliminary operations had proven that concentrates of high silver and gold content con-tent could be obtained by treatment of the tailings. Nothing was said in the letter whether the company would build another mill. |