Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-04-29 | Page 5 | Electrics to be Tested

S St t 1 Ut Utah h Copper Orders Latest Lat Lat- est Type of Locomotive for Use at Bingham 1st The oil electric locomotive the thea a est et st dev development de In American Is to make Its appearance appear appear- 1 ance e within the nc next t six weeks Ing Inh in jiS g h mining field Announcement ras IS as made Thursday by the Inger- Inger Rand n-Rand company joint producer th f the American Locomotive arid and General Electric companies of f the that one of the ton sixty die type ype has been ordered b by the tho Utah Copper company for use at Its mines at Bingham Utah lithe debut of the oil-electric oil lo- lo O at the Utah copper mines mark its first invasion in mining min mm- j ing jg g operation anywhere In the irId 11 In n announcing the placing of the order by the Utah Copper company officials of the Rand Ingersoll comp company com corn p pany ny stated that the locomotive is t be e Installed purely in the Interest f economy of operation Engineers of the producing companies estimate est est- mate that the oil-electric oil will wil save 4 cents on every ton of material It hauls from the mines This In Includes Includes In- In dudes ore and waste rock as it Is taken out The Utah Copper company owns Own an entire mountain at Bingham and Its nf seven fifty seven y-seven steam locomotives haul from It over 00 tons of material each year ear Based upon an average of tons hauled by each locomotive during the year the saving effected by the oil electric at 4 cents a ton the locomotive company says would run to 21 60 on Its years year's work If oil electric w were ere substituted for forthe forthe forthe the entire seven fifty steam locomotives locomotives locomotives loco loco- motives the saving on the tons of haulage would be over a YE-dr YE year ve-ar the locomotive company engineers report The oil-electric oil will take Its Its pla place e with the steam locomotives or saddle backs in the working along the winding switchback r roads ads that girdle the mountain hauling cars up and down and switching the loaded ones t to side tracks ready for the process of extracting the theore theore theore ore from the rough stone Exactly the s same me work will be done by byth th the oil electric and steam loco locomotives