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Show -WE QLUUS QDM, The past year" has -witnessed many Important changes in development work and It Is estimated that the new ore channels cut have added several hundred thousand dollars to the high-grade high-grade orebodiea The amount of this high-grade" stuff is sufficient to warrant the extraction of 1100,000 every thirty days or soon as the management deems it wise to forward the re on an expensive ex-pensive basis. There Is no reason why the Columbud Consolidated should not remain among the dividend-paying properties. J f ,, ,TSE COLUMBUS COST. j : The operations of the Columbus Con-'Bolidated Con-'Bolidated . Mining company during the year that Is now nearly past have been most extensive and successful, and the mill with which the company has Equipped itself and which has a daily capacity of 200 tons is now running at its maximum, the output consisting of about fifty tons of good concentrates a day. The history of the Columbus Consoll-; Consoll-; 4ated Mining company dates from 1892. k.'ln which year Tony Jacobson pitched r. ' his tent within the gulch of the long-neglected long-neglected Alta,ledges and began the acquisition ac-quisition of territory with which the company was subsequently launched. A short time after, Clarence K. McCor-. nick lent his aid and with this assistance assist-ance the development of the properties' became general and systematic. The output at first was extremely modest, but In the month of July of 1882 the Columbus Co-lumbus Consolidated made its initial appearance on the local, market with ores. Those first consignments were small, but repeated t frequent Inter-. Inter-. vahv and the proceeds went toward the improvement of the properties and the , purchase of such equipment as was then ' necessary for the continuance of work. At .this stage of the work began an era of expansion. Mr. Jacobson pur- chased the , adjolhing properties piece by piece until his property embraced no less than seventeen claims, covering cover-ing in all almost 300 acres of ground. Beginning with the organisation of the company, its progress has been rapid, assisted by : the. output of high-grade ores. The milling ores were for the time being allowed to accumulate, but are now being rapidly reduced at a plant that hat been provided for their concentration. concen-tration. , Manager Tony Jacobson, as a boy, was employed in the Alta mining camp, - i soma nineteen years ago, and his thor- ough knowledge of that district and his , I long, apprenticeship in the mines have f enabled him to re-upbuild the once-be-' Afore celebrated camp. By reason of the yypography of this camp, the ore-bear-' inj section can be worked to great depth by tunneling. Beginning on the north bank of Little- Cottonwood creek, near the stream's headwaters. Manager Ja- cpbeon started directly under, where ' frtom shallow workings good values had MWSbtalned, but having failed to hold Slit; tfiia enterprise, together' with oth-erVormer oth-erVormer producers, was abandoned. He maintained that the tunnel would tap the bodies formerly worked where they would be more voluminous and yield richer values, in addition to draining i a large part of the camp, i He anticipated antici-pated that the finds would occur in east Vand west Assures which showed at the surface when they cut the north and south contact between lime beds and between lime and quartzite below. Less than 109 feet of work was necessary to prove the correctness of this theory, an ' ore bed fifteen feet thick making its I appearance, and to futher develop its I extent a crosscut was run. A winze f was also sunk to quite a depth and the li same conditions were found to prevail, I and a shipment of ore followed. Con trary to the expectations of the management, man-agement, the ore. instead of carrying 50 per cent If ad, carried only 25 per cent, and with it was 20 per cent r.inc, the penalty upon which, at the smelter. made it unprofitable. ' Following these I operations,, further work. of. 1000 feet i was undertaken and this required all the available cash and credit to be had. When the next contact was reached the results were more gratifying and financial finan-cial assistance was obtained. At about this time surrounding properties, both developed and undeveloped, were added to the original property. That the work has gone on steadily is shown by the fact that at the present time the distance measured by crosscuts, winzes, raises and tunnels aggregates upwards of a mile and a half and a large number of rich ore bodies have been developed. For the past two years and a half shipments ship-ments have been regular and the proceeds pro-ceeds of sales of these shipments and treasury stock, in all amounting to about a quarter of a million dollars, have been used toward developing the mine and equipping it with facilities for the treatment of low-grade ores of which sufficient to run the mill several years has accumulated. The Improvements Improve-ments made Include buildings for the housing of machinery and supplies, an office, repair shop, bunkhouse and boiler-house. The concentrator is supplied with the most recent and successful devices de-vices known to the milling fraternity-crushers, fraternity-crushers, rolls. Jigs, screens, hydraulic classifiers. Huntington mills, an Allls sllmer and Wilfley tables. To facilitate the reduction of large bodies of second class ore, the properties have been built an up-to-date power plant, providing the energy for Its own use. however, allowing neighboring companies to draw upon It for power with which to meet their requirements. This plant was erected in 1903 at a cost of $45,000 and has proven a saving of 250 a day. It is located about five miles down the creek and occupies a 32x44 granite building. The Intake is nearly a mile above the power-house along which distance dis-tance the waters of Little Cottonwood have a fall of about 500 feet. The pipe measures twenty inches In diameter. From the plant, the capacity of which is 900-horse-power. the electricity is conveyed by copper wire to the mill. Measurements have demonstrated that at no time will the power be reduced to less than 600-iiorse-power. and this arrangement ar-rangement means a great saving of fuel when compared with the use of steam and enables the operation of the mill to concentrate metallic ores of three or four tons Into one. The ore carries liberal lib-eral quantities of gold and silver. While, . as is the case with silver and gold mines, the greater part of the ores is low-grade, a sufficient amount of high-grade high-grade ore is obtained to make regular shipments. VA still further encouraging encourag-ing feature Is that while no copper has been found at the surface workings, at and below the level of the main tunnel, the red metal occurs In such quantities as to make It an Important product and one of the chief sources of revenue In the mine. Some of the ore has been wondrously rich and all of it is particularly partic-ularly rich In silver. The entire equipment equip-ment of the jntne. Including trackage, buildings and machinery. Is kept In excellent ex-cellent order and presents a most prosperous pros-perous appearancec. The directors of the compan-r are: Tony Jacobson. president and manager; A. O. Jacobson, mine superintendent; C. K. McCornlck of Salt Lake, W. B. Jeffs and B. F. Chynoweth of Houghton. Hough-ton. Mich., and Arthur E. Snow, secre-tary secre-tary and treasurer. |
