Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-23 | Page 2 | Mine Installs $100,000 Hoist

MINE INSTALLS 1 HOIST Niagara Property Interests Show Confidence in Utah Industry Capital expenditure of in I ins installation of a new underground hoist in its NIa Niagara ara property at Bing ham was announced Saturday by the United States Smelting Refining and I Mining company The hoist the largest underground I plant of its kind in the west was hailed by mining leaders as a further expression of oC the company's dence in the Bingham district and md ant the mining industry of Utah The underground hoist plant was recently recent recent- ly completed and placed in opera opera- tion L. L A. A Walker superintendent o of or f the United States Smelting Re Refining and Mining company was in jn direct direel charge of the installation which was supe supervised by E. E A. A Hamilton general general gen eral manager and Thomas P. P Bill ings manager of mines Solid Construction The hoist chamber of steel and ant concrete construction 35 by 66 feet fee for the hoist itself with additional I auxiliary space for lor transformers i is 6 feet teet from the portal of the NIgara Niagara Niagara Ni Ni- a at agara gara tunnel and 1600 feet below the thc ao t top op of the hill In the construction o of f the chamber bags of cement were used and 25 cars of steel and e equipment were brought in piece by ep p piece in n the assembly of the hoist p plant lant The hoist itself is Js of horsepower horsepower horse horse- power p ower capacity and is capable of or h handling andling capacity loads to a depth o of oC f feet in serving the triple- triple c compartment t Niagara shaft The The n consists 01 or two iwo drums eight leer fed i it in n diameter with nine foot faces and t two wo layers of 1 1 2 cable on each drum Miners Safeguarded The hoist is equipped with ever every known safety device including a lily llly automatic safety control for automatic automatic automatic auto auto- matic regulation of speed and arid tion ion t audible and visual signal t tern tem ern track limit switch system and graphic hoist indicator for logging t the he days day's operations The United States Smelting Refining Re Re- Reining f fining ining and Mining company has operated op op- c rated continuously in mining and s smelting melting throughout the depression years Although production from its Bingham Bing Bing- ham properties is about equal to 1933 production the company compan is employ i ing ng from 1200 to 1500 workers a ato 40 to per cent increase from a year ago Increased employment of men has been occasioned by the staggering o of t the he work and in meeting labor provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the lead code