Show AT BIG INDIAN STARTS OF MEN AT GETTING MILL IN READINESS FOR installation OF equip MENT the biff indian copper company hopes to have its concentrating at biff indian in operation within the next month or two and the installation of new equipment to handle the ores under the flotation process will commence very soon according to preston G peterson of provo secretary and manager of the company who has spent the past week at moab and big indian mr peterson arrived friday accompanied compa nied by thomas varley prominent metallurgist and engineer and smoot son of senator smoot who is a heavy stockholder in the big indian company peterson and varley have a crew of men at work at the getting the plant in readiness for the installation of new equipment mr smoot after spending several days at the camp returned to provo monday only minor changes in the mill will be necessary to adopt the flotation process for handling the immense deposit of medium and low grade ores lying on the surface at the big indian mine it is the intention of the company to mill about tons of ore a day A steam shovel will be employed in digging the ore using the open pit method of mining similar to that employed at bingham several months ago the big indian company made a shipment of two carloads of ore to the smelter at garfield the higher grade of surface rock and float was included and previous to shipment it was estimated that the two carloads would probably run about 10 per cent in copper when the cars were sampled at the smelter it was found that one ran 22 per cent and the other 17 hundreds of tons of similar ore remains on the surface ready to be moved to the crushers while an immense ledge of ore in places over a hundred feet thick lies within a few rods of the mill and can be broken up and transported to the ore bins at very moderate cost considerable prospecting by means of shafts tunnels and diamond drilling has proved that the big indian copper deposit extends to depth and there will undoubtedly be sufficient ore to keep the mill running for many years while the officials of the big indian company have very little to say regarding their plans those who are familiar with the mine and the milling process to be used are confident that the big property forty miles southeast ot moab will at last become the scene ot a profitable new industry tor southeastern utah tuesday night as the result ot a heart attack he had retired for the night and bad apparently died shortly after he went to bed when he failed to answer a phone call the next morning members of the hotel staff went to his room finding his dead body |