Show I ohe k YEAR EAR With UT UTAH Ail l i I Ever Evry reparation la II being made mad to bring briar Salt Sall Lake Valley to the front rank of 1 smelter With the tho ot of the tb work worl now outlined the adjacent to the city will willbe be furnished with three ot of lh mOlt mat modern plenty planta to be e found anywhere In the tb United Statue In addition to mallY ot o men these i smelter It are valuable AS tending to Salt kit Lake Into lino greater AI the natural of oC the rich mineral dl on the Western Slope of 01 the Already Ida Idaho Idaho ho Nevada and amI Arisona fur tur sty 0 for lor In this valley anI and th this condition will be It much more In the near future The h ot of these plants means th the eX ot of A PLANT TIle The past year h has witnessed the start starton on what I la to be the mOlt mat complete plant In the tho world The site lite was near nur the old Germania smelter at about mile 01 JAke City and the American t and ling company is II no now with Inn erection on When completed tb the plant will 1111 be able t to take lire care of tons ton ot of or ore per month Lt In to this vast at quantity or of ore It capacious maw will demand and tuna ot of lime rock for tor fluxing purposes 2600 tons to ot of oaks ook and several vera I hundred tuna o of coal each month To operate the complex machinery or of such luch an Int menne will require engines hay hav lag a capacity of oC 1700 1100 horse lower I Ower The power to run thew thelt engines will be fur furnished by y seven Scotch cotch Marine boilers having a diameter of oC 10 feet teet These Thee bailers are Iro now being made malle hy by the E 1 Allis Alii company Tile The Gale Oates Iron Iran IronWork Works Work compan will 10 Bruck Bruckner ner cylinders while the structural steel for tor thet buildings will be furnished by bythe the ot of apolla The smoke stack will be built buill of If brick and when will bf be feet high The diameter Inside will willbe he be 20 feet Up to 10 I December SIll about aboul feet leet ot of the bIg slark atack had been completed com The have not nol nearly nil been ten let yet 11 and it II Is III that owing to delays lu In the Ihl delivery II 11 hl f or of the T engines and boilers as 1 well ell QI as structure structural al steel Ih the will III not nol have the plant In operation bero before next June The manIpulation or of the plant will reo re quIre about abou I 1000 met It Is Ie to be so 10 that either steam or electricity may maT be used THE BOY BOT tn In addition to the smelter to be completed by the Ihl A S R It com pang Salt lAke Ik will be equip equipped ped next year yar with lne of oC the largest copper plants planta In the West The pres present ent plant of the Highland Ho lioy near Bingham Junction I Is already one of oC the mat is In operation anywhere I but Lut Irl next year rear it 11 will mike a new record for tor because or of Its It capacity being doubled This Thill wUl rive give th the company IL a capacity of from to toO tons ton per da day The new work Is b nearly nearl completed and It La II estimated d that the new hw addition will started up neon oon alter after January tat at which I time the company will be able to IV to 10 the Eastern about I pounds or of copper gold bullion per month Jn In passing It might be salt aalt that the thees es given on the Ihl fIrst mining pare page or paper ot the Highland oy t ot for lor the year taU hort of 01 the actual figures by by more than I pounds The estimate was WAi based b on the report for the fifteen months month ending June 1800 This Thill It la II termed la a not a correct estimate because for tor the Ant three months or of that time the smelter dill did not do u well all as It has haB done donI durin during the present year ear At the present price ot of copper this would mean an increase of at lent In the News estimate or of the copper production ot of the State which le Is otherwIse approximately correct The plant when completed will con consist lilt of oC 3 Wetly routing furnaces S 8 McDougal routing furnaces anI and 3 atanas The sampling mill milland and power plant were Ore built with the idea of ultimately enlarging the plant and no hans changes art are therefore needed there The engines have hae a capacity of oC horse power A nl new horse horle pow flOW power flOWer er holler holier Ilas just been added a till ell making three no now Installed In at ad to 10 this work feet teet has haa been ad added addad dad ded 10 the coal blue bIns and an d the warehouse capacity has hili been doubled J No delays to 10 speak ot of h havo 0 been experienced In Inh h the ot of material and progress has hili beat made with the run ron str probable work ork which makes It proba probable ble that the company will tart start up the tb plant about January 1st A great many man changes hI have alto also been made mad at the mine to enable the corn com company Paul pany to economically handle andle the In Increased creased tonnage In future the ore will be dropped to 10 the lower tunnel at atthe atthe the mouth of which the tho new tram ter ha has ben been placed to convey It to the railway In Bingham A very corn com compact pact building ha has been built the there I which coven COlfI a new 15 drill compressor and n also alIa the engine operates tb the tramway In the Ibe building are also allO 0 ore bins and coal bin bins the latter to receive the coal which will In future be con eyed from Bingham am by b the tramway instead of being hauled b by team all as heretofore It ma may be saId la In condu lion that In It Its method of handling theore the theore ore and In the equipment of 01 the smelt mell smelter meller er the com company pan hat has not omitted nn any thin thing that money can buy to make the thoroughly I up to date In every be particular At the close ot of 1901 It will be found that the highland Boy will rank with the bl big copper era Itt th lor on ball of what Ing the has done this yar tilE d u s of oC Its will no doubt enable to turn out 00 pounds pound of 01 copper bullion next year me CITY SAMPLER the past PAit twelve month from December tat III 1891 1888 to November 1900 th the sampler at Park City h hu handled tons Ion of 01 ore which represent the year ear Output from Crom seven leven mine The tonnage tonnac han by the sampler during the year does d pl not differ dUrer materially from Irom that of 18 1888 h speak well for tor the stability of the ramp camp It Is III likely that the year ear 1801 1301 will show all an Increase In the out output output put U a several prospects are opening UP good goad bodies of ore The above out output output put represents an average ot of tons per day sampled 11 by the Park City mill Some improvements hive have been en made at the mill during the year al Automatic sampler and track seals Call have JULe been put In at al a oil cost ot of h has lessened the cost ot of sam aam IllIng The fhe shipments are head headed Id It will be seen by the Sliver King Ing which halt hae shipped nearly halt half ot of the grO gross l ton lon Image The Daly WRt t ik s R Lisa with more than Ihan one of lIf the nUL output put while Ute the other shipments are arlt divided between the Ontario Anchor Ancher Alln and Ad Crescent Following arc aN the th amounts shipped by each corn COm pur Pu rt Silver Ontario I Daly al West Ht Anchor Apex 1110 Valto Crescent t lU TUB PIONEER Shipments to the Pioneer Mill from the Little Cottonwood dl tract have increased this spawn and still continue notwithstanding It has haa taken about ten tell days day steady work to clear Ilear the roads from tile the effects effect or of the thelast last storm torm The principal hipper this season from that district have been the AlbIon I Darlington City Rock Hock Regulator Ohio and From the e has allO steles com ne a stream Imam namely from Cram the Fortune Fortun Yosemite Dalton h Lark Eagle arte Jo Run Revere June Rios lion eon Lucky Juck Sampson Congor Neptune Saratoga and others Front From DI ling Cottonwood the Eclipse Oregon and the hidden Treasure at Stockton while the usual shipments from the Diamond lamond I Excelsior Silver Rest It and others In Nevada The Checkmate In Idaho has hal also allo chipped a rood good deal eal ot of ore Ont Also Alao Ih the Wild Dutch Dutchman Dutchman man Orphan and alii Miller In American I Fork ork While the Pioneer h has unexcelled fa facilitIes facilities for tor handling ores orel over oer either line ot of railroad having tracks track from both bath roads In Its yar yards It has also the best beet an any other lAm sampler pier for lor hand the large output ot of t team Am ore that hu has come down into Inlo the valley alley this sea Sfa season son lion The ot of the Alta Alia tramway hu has lIel necessitated the employ employment employment ment ot of a large number of 01 teams In that Ihal canyon CAnon the Ihl last 1811 two lumm summers and the entire output has hal been handled at the Pioneer where there are unexcelled facilities for tor unloading and storage The total at this mill m sIJ for or I the h year yar with J part lt of 01 es have been Ula tuns TilE THE It plant built by the Copper and Gold Mining company to smelt the enormous amount of Iron sulphides containing COpper which th they have In theIr mimics at canyon together with ores oree the product being nn an Iron and copper matte the process coven tb the smelting or of raw ores ore In 1 blast furnaces the carrier being a copper and Iron matte and the amount or of carrier be belag lag controlled In a general way war by the partial elimination of the excess sul lul sulphur In the furnaces and the addition of ore orel to the charge chare The dant is II not strictly a as coke will willbe be be used and no provision I made Md for tor hot blast In tact to tersely auto the proposition the plant le II built to con concentrate aGO 00 to 00 tons per day ot of generally low grad ra raw IV ores orel just as they come from the mines both Iron and lIl dry sliver and old ore orel Into to 10 to eo tons ton I of matte which will all the copper and and part 01 Iron anti and lut bur all the ot the charle obi Into the slag and over oer the dump TILE THE PLANT ILANT rhe fhe plant 1 Is located at Hingham Junction and is I connected by switch track with the Rio Grande Orande Western yards at that point and has A complete completo system of 01 tracks consisting of 01 one elo ele track from which the steel dump cars carl are unloaded two 1110 tracks track on ground level for Cor unloading ore amt flux fluxes not In dump carl car and one track down on the furnace floor over which the matte mattl Is II shipped out Between the JUo 1110 Grande yards and the tho smelter I is the tho 90 0 ton registering beam Fairbanks ank track scaler set Ht In cement and granite set up and adjusted by Jones Jonel R Jacobs Ja cobs and are second to no In time the United Slates The smelter build In Ice 1 built on a ter terrace terrace race dump elevation as 35 feet Iel furnace floor 14 feet PI I charging lion 16 feet The furnaces were IC signed and constructed under t direct or of W H Nutting super superintendent by the I Denver Engineering I I Works company and are JUI three In num n ber ao 0 inches by inches at the I luere and have A m minimum of tons net ore each eeb per twenty four hours houri lit building Is steel teel true strut ture coveted with Iron hr Fur Furnace MI nace room floor Is steel plates plate and the dust dUlt lIu flue and stark stack ot of steel were weN all furnished by the Lo eo Till The building comprises the 0 ore reedy lug Including bin room tor tons ot of ore orf futI and flux the sampling and bricking department the furnace room and blower and motor room The plant is II In round figures 40 feet long anti and feet leet wide and cover three elevation all material being handled down from cars to slag dump The dust dUll saving devices Include from the furna furnaces Into a aI I steel balloon shaped dust dUlt flue feet teet Ion long ant and then Ihen feet teet of expanded metal and cement plaster dust flue fUl leading to man main stack which is I feet high b by 2 feet diameter The log In floor Is I mostly of 01 concrete and is III the first nral smelter floor door to be built of this material on en an extensive scale The motive mothe power will be furnished Ly by the Light Power company anI and will operate tour four 75 power motor notor and also allO light th the plant with 1 I arc arr light lIht and 2110 Incandescent lamp lampl The blast for the furnace is I provided for tor by 3 No 71 Try Root Blowers Blower which be run by I a motor The smelter site comprises about liS 55 acres and extends from the Rio Grande Western yards ard to the Jordan river and Iland unrivaled al to and railroad and wat r The II complete III every d detail tAI and Is III In charge Chare ot of a 8 chemist of 01 ability and experience and the com compan company pan pany proposes to sample lample and analyse all their ore orl In a systematic manner Mr lr W H ha been with the company from the Ihl first as superintend superintendent ent and the Ih excellence of oC the work le II largely dUll due to his hili attention to In the details of the construction during Its III progress The Th plant complete will cost Olt about and will be Com completed within nine months from the breaking of ground rund In the operation ot of the plant there will hI be required about 1311 those on the furnaces being divided Into three shifts |