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Show -u BOSTON CONSOLIDATED. Tho Boston Consolidated Mining company's properties, comprising somo 400 acres, are located in tho very heart of Bingham's productive area, being bounded on tho west by tho Utah Consolidated mines and tho east by tho United States and Utah Cop-per Cop-per mines. This property presents nn Ideal combination within Itself, having two largo and entirely distinct mines upon which to draw for Its output. out-put. On tho west Is tho sulphide mine from which 300 tons of copper, gold and silver bearing smelting ore Is being be-ing daily drawn. This ore occurs In tho limestone In huge deposits, somo being be-ing 200 feet long. 1C0 feet wide and 120 feet' thick. Tho majority of tho oro is entirely In tho limestone but somo on tho limestone and quartzito contact. This samo limestone runs westerly Into tho Utah Consolidated property, and there also Is productive of similar deposits as occur In tho Boston Con. Those oro bodies are so large that tho square set system of mining is used entirely, for it would be impossible impos-sible to open up tho ground safely without replacing tho cavities caused by removing 9,000 tons of ore per month, with timber. Tho oro is soft and easily mined, each machlneman being able to break twenty tons per shift. There aro no shafts or winzes, tho property being opened by four tunnelstho Work, Pea-body Pea-body nnd Armstrong No. 1 and the Armstrong No. 2. The tlireo first aro all in tho ore, and tho last is being driven to get under tho deposits. Mining Min-ing now Is only carled on in the upper two, whero It falls by gravity to tho Armstrong No. 1, being taken out by electric motors to tho oro bins, which aro on tho tracks of tho Copper Belt railroad, a branch road of the Rio Grande Western. The company has no smelter of Its own, as competition Is so keen among tho valley smelters that tho establishment of another smelter would be poor business policy. As an Instance of cheap mining, this property affords a striking example, as Its total cost is about ?1.35 per ton. Besides tho sulphide mine with its 1,450,000 tons, which was the last expert ex-pert examination report this company has what Is conceded by all tho largest larg-est copper mine In Utah, If not In the country, In Its low-grado copper-bearing porphyry. For years this has been considered a most valuable asset', as-set', but not until tho Utah Copper company had demonstrated the success suc-cess of treating this oro did the company com-pany take active stops in developing tho porphyry. This company has tho largest area of this ore, nnd also the greatest tonnage duo to tho elevation obtained. There aro now nine tunnels piercing this high dyke of mineralized porphyry at various points. An Ideal mill location has been obtained ob-tained on tho borders of Utah Lake, whero nh nbundnnco of water Is available, avail-able, tho preliminary lino of tho railroad Is completed and bids for contracts will bo received within a month. The plans for a 5,000 ton daily capacity mill aro now being rushed and will bo complete In sixty days. The ofilcors are: S. Nowhouse, president; presi-dent; L. Hanchett, general manager; L. T. Cates, mine manager; A. J. Botts, mill manager. Tills company Is no producing between be-tween 5.000,000 and 0,000,000 pounds copper from its sulphide mine, nnd with tho completion of its concentration concentra-tion mills its production will exceed 25,000,000 pounds of copper learly. |