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Show (TOUIMI 500H in Volume Eighty-Fiv- e Tooele, Utah, Friday, June H, Gist: Twenty Cents 1979 Main Water Line Broken Army Delays Weteye Airlift Near Cemetery While working on the new water lytfem, worker hit a large water pipe that if part of the old water system, earning a major leak and leaving several houses near the city cemetery out of water. Leaking Bombs Postpone Planned Monday Transfer At almut I p.m. Wednesday, a I rack-ho- e the water pipe, which is one of the largest in the city. The city engineer and water department personnel had the leak under control by 6.30 p.m. "The line Isn't anywhere in our said City Engineer Von records," Uric. "Our records show that the main water line runs on the other side of Skyline Drive. I'rie said that there are a lot of places where records of water lines and valves have not been kept current, and as a result he expects that they will hit more, but smaller, waterlines while the system is under construction. caught The Army postponed the transfer of Kt) Wet eye Ixxnln from Colorado to Tooele Army l)emt to allow for an inspection of six leaking IkxiiIiv. A decision on if and when the airlift of the GB nerve agent filled Immlts will take plate has lieen postjmncd its iiisjiection until the Army findings to a U.S. District Court judge Independent truck drivers block off diesel gas islands (during protest at Lake Point Union 76 Truck Stop. Independent Drivers Strike At Lake Point Truck Stop lieve the pressure. Urie said they had in an to repair the arc-weld- damage. Urie said the pipe was about the same color as the ground being dug out, Independent truck drivers have shut down the diesel fuel islands at the Union 76 Tmck Stop off of Interstate 80 in Lake Point. and the ground being hard, the backhoe operators were banging the shovel hard. County Fair In Jeopardy? cause items may be entered which are not ripe as long as they are at proper state of maturity and all items are grouped for an entry. There are a lot of very hard working dedicated people who have worked hard for over two years in the renovation of the County Fair, Mrs. King added. Last year it was estimated that over 5,000 people visited the exhibit areas and activities after the Landmark Days The future of the annual Tooele County Fair may lie in jeopardy after this year, according to one fair official. The major problem is facilisaid fair Connie We have once again secured King. the Tooele Jr. High School for fair activities, but very frankly we have outgrown the school. ties, THERE IS also a problem because of the inconvenience to school preparations for the reopening of the school in August, she said. The fair will be held on July 26, during the last three days of said. This will not be a problem be At 6 p.m. Wednesday, no fuel was being sold to truck drivers as part of a state-wid- e protest against high fuel prices, government regulation on carrier rates, and rationing of diesel fuel at most truck stops. "WE'RE COING to shut down for as long as it takes to get something done, said AI Bowman, a North American Van Lines driver from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Were going broke on our own while were hauling, so we might just as well go broke sitting here. Ill stay here until the bank comes and gets my truck, said Bowman. "And the banker cant drive the thing, so I dont know what he'll do with it. The drivers surrounded the gas island with 6 eighteen-whee- l trucks, not allowing any other drivers to buy fuel in an attempt to get all independent and the major truck lines to join in the protest. THE INDEPENDENT truck drivers have vowed to picket all Utah oil refineries and truck companies, and shutdown the truck stops in the state. Surrounding states of Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada have also called for picketing and shutdowns, making it almost impossible for a driver to get through Utah to get gas elsewhere. Bobby Lee Rogers, based in Dallas, Texas, led the protest at the Lake Point Station. He says that high gas prices, low carrier rates and rationing, have caused him to average about 76 cents for his time on the road. per-hoA man has to make a living. Ive been doing this for 26 years, and I just cant make any money, said Rogers. Were having to go into our savings accounts to help pay for our trips and owner-operato- parade. The chamber of commerce has worked hard since last year to make Landmark Days a county wide cele- 27, 28 the second annual Landmark Day celebration. Local residents are encouraged to prepare now for competition in the areas of sewing, canning, baking, arts, crafts, photography, fine arts, gardening, poetry and short story competition. A fair book giving full details of categories and deadlines for entries should be available by the end of next week, Mrs. King noted. BECAUSE of the early fair dates this year some have expressed concern that garden items would not be ready to show, the fair bration centered around the county fair and livestock show, Mrs. King said. WE SEEM to have good community support and participation, but the time has come to either decide what to do about some permanent place to have the activities or to reduce it back to a smaller celebration, she said. said they The fair are interested in what the citizens of the county feel about the situation, and would like input on the solution for limited facilities. Suggestions should be mailed to: Tooele County Fair, Courthouse, Tooele, ur our rigs. ROGERS SAID that although the protest is not an officially sanctioned move by the Teamsters Union, that in due time it will likely result in just Utah 84074. Anaconda Mill Process To Produce 600 Tons Per Day When course copper ore comes up from a depth of about 1100 meters below ground in Anacondas Carr Fork Mine, it will make its way through a series of crushing and refining stages that result in a product for shipping that is approximately 30 percent copper concentrate. The mill at Anaconda is expected to be running full force sometime around the first of September, producing of the about 600 metric concentrate. THE COURSE ORE that comes from what is known as the Yampa and Highland Boy orebodies, will come out of the ground at 1.86 percent copper. The pieces of ore, which are 8 inches or less in diameter in at least one dimension, are piled in a stockpile, which will feed crushers to reduce the size of the ore to first less than 2 inches. A secondary crusher will reduce inch. them to less than one-haThe coarse ore is fed into the crushing plant by gravity - a hole in the center of the stockpile which receives the ore into a conveyor belt. After the ore is crushed, it goes via another long conveyor to a fine ore stockpile, which has a gravity feed into the mill. INSIDE THE MILL the ore enters a 14 by 20 foot cylinder called a rod mill. The cylinder contains 19 foot long 800 pound rods. As the cylinder tons-per-d- lf leakers last August will meet again at Rocky Mountain Arsenal to view the recently found defective ImmW It has not lieen decided whether the insMs1iixi will lie as extensive as the one last year, where the Immlis were disassembled, inspected, samples collected, and an evaluation of the made. THE ARMY presently only has sam-jile- on Sept. 10. Because of the inadequate records, it took more than 54 hours to fix the leak, because they could not find some of the shut off valves necessary to re- to call Nunilwr One trying to get the truck companies to go along with us. I think it's almut time we stuck together and got our heads almve water. It will lie worth it when we get some results, said Rogers. THE RESULTS they are looking for will have to come from the federal government. Last week, independent tmck drivers collected at Capital Hill to demand an audience with Governor (Continued on Page Five) pile. HOWEVER Department of De- fense officials sav that the national security policy is unchanged. The Wet-ey- e bomlis are integral to the national and that they letter stored at the Tooele Army Depot South Area. Military scientists who conducted a special inspection of a group of three deterrent svould lie inventory 1 ImxiiIis. needed. The Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency told Army officials Tuesday that there remains a significant risk to the environment and to public safely. . . The EPA official requested that the planned shipment lie cancelled and that Iximlis either tie detoxified at the arsenal or another supplement to environment impact statement lie prepared liefore another transfer is pro-p-i wed. THE ARMY should also answer in this supplemental environmental impact statement whether this weapon system will remain useful due to such delivery handling problems of loading a possibly leaking weapon. . . The Army conducted a rehearsal of the planned airlift of the Wet eyes aircraft flew from Tuesday. One Stapleton International Aiqiort near Denver to Michael Army Airfield at Dugwav carrying three pallets of Imnilis, without nerve agent. C-1- Commission Mulls Limitation Of Beer Container Size In Canyons informed County commissioners Sheriff Walt Shubert that the commission would consult the county attorney before considering an ordinance limit- ing the possession of beer containers to 32 ounces. Shubert told the commission that limiting the size of containers would facilitate keeping order in areas throughout the county where keg parties which often include minors take place. THE SHERIFF cited Weber Countys new ordinance which prohibits the use of kegs and said law officials there have told him it works beautifully. Commissioners also instructed Building and Zoning Administrator Joe Urbanik to draw up a list of deficiencies which are hampering the completion of the road at Golden Gardens subdivision in Erda. The sheriff will deliver the list to developer Tage Nyman giving him a sufficient number of days in which to correct the deficiencies before the county will release monies allocated for the project. URBANIK TOLD the commissioners that several registered letters had been sent to Nyman, all of which were returned. Grantsville Mayor Keith Brown appeared before the commission asking for more specific language in the interlocal agreement between Grantsville and Tooele County concerning the part of each in developing the county livestock show grounds. Commissioners inst meted Brown to come up with a plan including cost estimates for sprinkling systems, grass planting, parking areas and new trees. The commission took no action on a request from the Grantsville Mayor for the county to hire a policeman who would be stationed in Grantsville with the county and the city each paying part of his salary. BROWN CITED cases of vandalism in Grantsville city including the frequent knocking down of stop signs. He said the city has an investment of approximately $6,000 in signs and posts. It can cost upwards of $50 of taxpay ers' money everytime one of the posts pushed over, broken, or the signs destroyed, he said. An offer of a $100 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the vandals has had no response, he is said. Ralph Blum of the airport advisory board asked the commission to take steps to designate a zone for aerobatics, designated area for flight training. Blum said the flyers need what he termed a box of a certain distance and width in which to practice. He added that planes are not allowed to fly lower than 1500 feet or over residential areas. Blum asked the commissioners to designate an area. The plan would be filed with the Federal Aviation Administration who would then put the area on the map so that all pilots would lie aware of its location. The commission asked Blum to come back with a plan as to where he would like to put the training area, along with alternative sites in the county which would meet legal requirements. about 12 percent. THE PRODUCT is stockpiled, loader and then loaded by front-en- d into trucks to be loaded onto the Union Pacific Railroad for shipment to Anaconda, Montana for smelting. is sent to another large cylinder, this ore containing 300 tons of steel balls, which roll around and finely crush the material. All the crushing and is to prepare the ore to be further separated from the waste material. At this point, the ore is a finely crushed sand which moves into a floatation phase, in which the ore is suspended in 500 cubic foot cells along with chemical reagents to separate the copper sulfides from the tailings. The reagents cause the copper to stick to air bubbles which are floating to the surface of the cells. CHEMICAL FROTHERS lower the surface tension on the liquid, affording the opportunity to skim the bubbles with the copper sulfides attached from the surface. At this point, the ore is approximately 14 percent copper. The ore then moves to a regrinding circuit into two smaller ball mills for further refining, after which it moves to a four-ce- ll cleaning mechanism, then to a two-ce- ll recleaning phase. Next the concentrate is thickened in a large outdoor pond, and agitated. The ore is about 60 percent solids in this concentration phase. It then moves to two 12 foot by 18 foot drum - be"This is going to hurt me bad ing down for a while, but something has to be done, said Rogers. Right now we've got aliout 25,000 independent drivers shut down. We're inspect the exterior which will tell the scientists if a more extensive insection is plans to visually id the filters, where it is vacuum dried. The final moisture content of the material rolls, the rods crush the ore even finer. The ore is screened out of the rod mill when it is 16 inch in diameter or smaller. The ore that is larger, than 16 inch is that. THE BOMBS, now stored at Rocky Miauitain Arsenal near Denver, were to lie airlifted to Dugwav Proving Ground Iieginning Monday. The transfer of the Imnilis was ex petted to take three weeks to complete. Gov. Mathesnn was to argue in U.S. District Court Wednesday against the transfer and seek a temporary restraining order against the move. The Army asked Chief Judge Anderson to postpone the hearing, and the governor did not object. Mathesnn said Thursday that the postponement illustrates that there are critical health and safety considerations to lie met in the final decision of what to do with the Weteye stock- The tailings from the process will be a fine sandy material when it is thickened and dried. The tailings are diameter concentrated in two 225-foponds, and agitated. When thickened the tailings will flow down an 18 inch diameter concrete pipe to a settling pond where 800 gallons of used water will be reclaimed and in the process. The tailings include limestone, silica, and some magnetite. per-minu- ' te Weve tried to make this a tried and true plant, said Harold Brunn, assistant superintendent of mill operations. Every piece of equipment here has been tested and found to be dependable and efficient. The entire process for a single piece of ore can take anywhere from 2V6 hours to seven or eight days to move through the various mechanisms depending on whether or not it gets crushed to viable size quickly. Six hundred metric tons per day will leave the Carr Fork area for Montana when the mill and mine are at full production. The rod mill at Anaconda contains 800 pound rods to crush copper ore during milling process. TOOELE LODGE s Jum 9, 1979 Dinner served Dante Band Get Together Donation $3.00 per couple 6-- 8; 9-- 1 |