Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-23 | Page 10 | Install New Machinery

Ben Hur tunnel, stripping the surface waste from the mineral zone, of copper, cop-per, silver - and gold-bearing rock. There will only be one shift placed on this first battery of shovels for a time until the machinery is In good running order, while it is estimated that it will require as many as 400 cars to haul the waste that Is removed from the surface by each shift. No little local interest has been manifested in the trying out of the steam shovel method for tearing down the mountains of ore, with which the plants of the Boston Consolidated and Utah Copper properties as well as the smelter are to be supplied, and during dur-ing the coming week: there will be scores of mining men making a pilgrimage pil-grimage to the Bingham camp to witness wit-ness the stupendous undertaking of these machines. Both the Boston and Utah properties are to be equipped with these shovels, and as the machines ma-chines have been a success in other sections of, the country, there is not a doubt but that It is the best method that has been Introduced to date for such mining propositions as those of the Bingham camp. INSTALL NEW MACHINERY. With the placing of an order for all of the transmission machinery for the Boston Consolidated company's big reduction re-duction plant at Garfield during the rlav which will incur an expense of between be-tween $15,000 and $20,000, Mill Manager Man-ager Bettles has announced that al-niost al-niost all of the equipment has been ordered for this mammoth plant This lat order Is to be filled as soon as it is Dossible for the manufacturers to ect the equipment there, and with the balance of the machinery coming as ner time arranged in contracts, there can be no d6ubt but that In January of next year the machinists will be busily engaged in placing the equip- ' ment that is to reduce 6000 tons of rock to ore-bearjng concentrates, from the copper belt of one of Bingham's greatest properties. At the mine the report has been received re-ceived from Manager Cates to the effect ef-fect that the ponderous steam shovel went into commission this morning, starting at the etatlon Just above the 1