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Show DESERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY Magus. Mill,?' The Utah Ccpp&f Company If - 17 1910 DECEMBER ftrthur Plant ghovingf1agnaM!inDackyound ( continue oha of or the wonder Khlpment and dividend the ramp leads even thin in I tuh for the ear 119, and U lease Jkmd a promise that 1911 will be a ear Although cloe to Uil greater ouO.ftOo tons of ore were taken out of th cmy during the ear. there H tndiration that this will le great h increased A dividend record almost $5,000,090 was made and ouriiig the year the greatest copper mine in the world was born In the nip It la the Utah Topper compan), which since its consolidation with the Jioton Consolidated makes the great-- t porphyry mine la the world. - In the past alx year the wet tonnage out ot the camp of But g ham Has been close to li.000.00e tons of a $ 60 000. gross value of not eo1: as leas thyp-- j 19;trOO,cr00 of this nmount was paid in dividends the remainder went for labor, equipment. tranportatlon and the like The year 1905 saw less than 1.OO0.000 tons of ore leave the district Each year there ha been a gradual increase until this 'tar it Is nearly &u per cent greater than It was in 1909 Actordlng to its size Bingham ts the greatest camp In the world In tonnage 11 i believed that It exceeds all others and for the amount of ore blocked out mu other camp in the world can compare with H It Is estimated that the tah Copper has 150,000.000 tons of re Idoeketl out- - and that working at full rapacttv it would require 70 ean Ohio oiper has 1 $.000,000 blocked out READILY FOUND EMPLOYMENT In spile of two Incidents that hurt it fairly iic tamp during the jumped ahead On August 1 the Cop perton mill was cIimmmI throwing out about 2u0 men and on ,d etnplumcnt closed 1, the Yarn pa smelter i.nn leaving about 400 men unem-dThM men readll) found work 'ith the Utah Copper at the mills at 'artield or on the new rallrvuul. Among the log events of tlie camp dbring 191 will be the added The Utah f upper facititie it road will Ik finished into camp by June 1. which will give the most direct hue from the mine to the Garfleld onrentrators. The big tunnel tiring t oust meted from Middle canyon above looele Into Bingham will also be finished late in the ear. This tabetng built the Utah Metal company With these two outlets transportation un the Itio Orande railroad whith has lung held monopoly, will be greatly Mrtailed Besides the Klu Grande taere will then be four other outlets. Tnr Utah Consolidated has finished Its tram to the International smelter, the Ohio topptr Is using the M ascot te tun. ti'd The third and fourth outlets are the Utah Metal tanner amt the Uing-hiA Carfleld railaay. BEAT ALL RKUORDH Durtng tfe year Utah Copper and Ohio Co r beat cl record In conlow grade porphyry5 rock tcentrating tah toper wa$ able to make a saving tf close to, 70 per cent on 1 4 per cent copper ore, while Ohio Copper muled the same grade ore for 31 cents 0 ten and made g saving of over 0 per cent, in Ohio Copper made a record for mining one month of 2 7 cents a ton With a larger tonnage there Is tu doubt but this company could ntuke a far greater saving In mining and milling. Remarkable were developments made durtng the year In the Bingham Mines company The company ojened up the old Brooklyn mine and aDothr Yneemite Cooper tenter gulen was ataindoned to make dumping ground for the Utah Copper and th Bingham Mines has started development by Vvay of the Xkignra tunucl which will rut the old Commercial mine at a demh feet vertically greater than before. Among the pmmtom of Ihe d' strict r the year If 1 are a greater e from the Bingham Mines, the Tampa, the United Plate properties, the Ohio Copper and the Utah Cop. Yha compressor at the old Jordan mine of the tilled Biaiea y was thoroughly overhauled and repaired during the year. " ' CIlAHOElf APPRARANCfUL greet has been the work wrought in Blnkham canyon during the year Iflf that ena ran srarcely recognise vhe place. Great terracea have leen T the Bllver shield has started Copper a milt, the Bing. "JXenrandHave mill tohas tesft accommodate the orea. thechanged Apes mill has eloaed emporarily and a score or more things take place at the old camp The companjr te enter the camp was BINGHAM -- V ur el Iran-nati- 1 1 pc-- !t 1 ton-bas- rnm-Paw- k ,hh 8 374 SM pund f mppr a mouth iir the third quarter the average was 7,731 MM pounds PriMive to til. ei nptput for !h third enra M.innun c JtttkHngquarbr ih us Ins qurti!l the Bingham Copper, whb hs bfen doing a large amount of d reiupment work During the vear the Utah Consolidated finished its live mile tram over the mountains to the International emH to; ThD h now working like lot k work Thu alone mean a aing f almost 37 cent a ton in the inn importation of the ores A The building of the Bingham Garfield railroad bv the Utah Cop- per company at a cot of $2,500 00 one of the great achievements started It furnish.! employment t many hun- dreds of men and 90 per cent of the open gracing ha been fmohd Dur-in- g the bad weather the men will t engaged on the four tunn4 that ro being put through The road w rll le finished about June I. 3910 re'd IAXT among all copper ndn s l u. The d rrae in nTitful i do to tin do it.uscn tomiag tesui-in- g from the ihmi.of l tun of th ridil during n tm wmn ll of iton tNr fosnls Kin m slrueti n, end b for Uoy were pt of t aired t a ommtKiatL. all the ton- mid J pie buiT-Tb" I and Hayes, F Jennings asotarit put-toahter h.ising ag'nt, and II C tpsalrlih, t hlef ngineer of the Kmgham and flar- field tailwa). all of wlimji, hv their and abiiitv have contributed j'liergv I of operations Itrgely to the sum 4 ,, V,,o ,,..i, ta tor l.r the I nmt ujijrtart dcn-- e in pinda eas of the lnwr griul-thst hover, ll d Ihe average coppr ou ,!i. tent of ali the ore milled for the thirl ns quarter 3 ja the amp of vs ??J Tt ee earnings were computea on a basis of 124 cf nts pi r Miund for tj-pe- r At the bre of the quarter no topper due for delivery from refineries remained Unsold The average p r pound of tt t topner pr. dm id. alt. r sin Iting dedu tlo'i prc made, was $25 cents p r pound, as compared with 7 5.1 cents per pound during the previous quartei A cording to the last report $t i r ent o( the rre mined la coming from the Ktair shfveis, while 17 per cnt c.t three years of active work t6T03,509 Among the- - things that have been accomplished this year by this giant among coppers were the consolidation with the Boston Consolidated, the enlarging of the capacity of the two mills at Garfield the Magna and Arthur, until they will shortly be handling 1ft fcm tons of ore a day. the starting a railroad from Garfield to the company mine In Bingiiam to be construe ted and equipped at a cost of $2,509 900. setur Ing control of the Nevada Consolidated Copper romstany at Ely. the excellent development of the mine at Bingham by putting t2 terraces up the mountain several new steam side, the addition shovels, and the ordering of several more, the closing of the topperton mill permanently the issuame of railroad bonds the establishing of a new recorl of extracting nearly 70 per cent of the metallic contents of 1 4 per cent copper ore, and the establishing of a new record in copper production In the state of Utah 8TOCK I88tE The company now has approximately JjAXjH9 shares of stock lssuefl, 731 375 shares of which amount was in th hands of origins! stockholder. 210 000 shares paid to stot khotdera of the Bos- ton Consolidated. 3 4.17 srtd for caau and the rrmnlnder given iq t hanac for'Nevada fonpolil.i!rd st k The to the Utah tVvppcr from the Nevada onsoiUatcrl practically amounts to $371,730 a nusrter The consolidation with the Boston Consolidated now gives the Utah Cop- j.er Continuous claims cont lining MO err of mineral land all patented. Thinugh this conaolidathm the eompsnv acquired 310 acre of land at Grfierl and W acres near Utah Inke. whhh brings the tntnl acreage, outside of min-trland, up lo 6 315 acres The production of copper byrtie company for I90f was 54 472.M5 pounds F" it will approximately be 82 T!1 00 pounds, or 60 per cent better thsn the previous year The reason assigned for this low figure Is that the year has been one of development end enlargement of the capacity of the mills The Arthur plant Jiaa hnd two of Its units rinsed down for some time to remodel them. This work will he finished shortly after the first of the year flnrfield tables will be Installed at the Arthur mill and the stamps In use will be removed. ULDHE UOPPEHTON I Hiring July the company had three concentrator! In operation, but at the end of July the Uoppertnn plant was cWsied down permanently by the order n l ha dlrectfg. Jt was decided that the ore could be more economically Most handled at the Garfield plants ie Uopperio machinery haw been removed to the Arthur plan! Through the remodeling of this plant. It Is ex peeled that It can be raised to a capacity of from 600 to I 000 tons per day. Tire Improvement of the Magna plant Is practically complete and the plant now has a capacity of from 10.99 to tons a day. During the months of August and fieptemher the Magna plant handled about 76 per cent of the entire fra. That wss after the tnpperton been closed down on Aug. I. plant had and The first lat qoaricra of this year For tba eer-pwere by Car the emalftest. tba production averaged quarter 1 ul ll 4-il- U.-U- nd jr v hi lead-silv- advanced rapidly during tae utrv frfn owdifrrAqn.t til ufiitient stripling has been done at the Heston ((incolifintnl. underground No steam hovd mining Will continui ore has vt been tokn fiom the Boston. I ut four steam shovels are now enTime gaged in stripping the b rritory additional steam hovls will slmitly be operating oi thD rTt of tiie i rtv The shoD lave ulieady prj Isrn ordered and should arrive most anv Till will increase the iiumlar of day show) working t) JO, 17 N dig alnady t it Jn development AUhougn the company is but two v ears old it will within the next In tba -- bsteM The ommny owns two groups of rietms. known as the Dutton A Lark and the Comnieitial mines It also con-- t r 4k the Eagle A Blue Bell property it Eureka Tntic mining district and with W Mont Ferry and Ernest Barn-l- a the Yosemite Min'- rgr controls whiili is a consolidation of (ompun. the Cluster group Yosemite No. 1 mine, and the Mississippi rUtim. all In the st Mountain mining district. 'Hie Comments! mine, from whUh been made, is situated shipments at the head of Copper Center gulch, from Main Bingham uivon It ron-o- f $2 lovering the lode for 1 2fw feet Imrirg the year a great io?7ge was wrought in this part of the The re from the mine a a mm Sulfld. carrying gtdd and siiv r and is a ieplaement of the lime this ce'iipatrr ThtriPT ur qu irter from mining and mithitg opera were lions $94 0& 55. rents and other sourm $12,210 ' and from Nuidi toniwdul.it d $171720 39. making a total $1 work the HinghAm 1,600-fo- is one ii: ipgcnm Mines. company t The r eut and lit gtad' -- if , THE BINGHAM MINES. for tli month of Heptmtr was only 1 4 pi r ent ' E MINING APVlTY Ths repot t of the third qua ter giv sums Idea of the earning capacity of Uopp'r It has futnished the lai- - ilh. iha...gmatap.t oppes mine--h- In amount of production the world It Is a leader In the cost of copper pr du lion it tanks among the owt nnd In amount of ore bleu kod out it lai) every other mine In the wutld In practically three years time this youngster has jumped to the ftom and established an enviable record Five years ago the company started breakNow it ing ground for Its first plant Is the second in size of production in the United btatea and second in cost of production During the year this company has established a new dividend record In Utah. paing out to Its shareholders d retnr M lrw THE UTAH COPPER. H'Uh Jann. J pit I t Thh Yoiuinile (ompanv stM! has undeveloped pra ti ally 1 4J0 fet on ths sinke, and J 300 feet on the dip. of vein. whn has the been productive of high grad- - silver-leaalmost from the surface down 'I hs in has not been developerj to a greater depth thao $00 feet where copsuifids per begin to eome In This property ii faet developing into a mine and engineers are of the opinion that It will eventually be one of the big producers An achievement of considerable importance during the year waa the draining of the Brooklyn by the Brooklyn 4'roascut from the Mascotte tunnel This crosscut was run for a distance of 1.500 feet and a raise wagsentup. 400-- fee$ to catch the old workings of the Brooklyn This piece of work almost paid for Itself In the ore that was taken out In the upraise The workings axe now producing both and suifids From the ore alcopper-lio- n In ready sight the company will be able to draw a large tonnage for a long time to come AT THE EAGLE MINE. The property of the Eagle A Blue Bell Mining company in the Tlntlc mining district is controlled by the Blngnam Mines company, and consists of 74 ares of mineralized lands- - and approximately 10 acres of land The company also has a good mitl site Like other formations in the district, that at the Eagle A Blue Bell is limestone During the year this company was the capital increase) and It was placed on a firm foundation a debt Resides this, arrive wthout lenrion- were started and the old No ) irple- ompartment Rhaft was sunk from th 229 level to the 000- and completely timbered A large hoist was Installed and the company Is now making steady sh'pments from the property 490 feet long, Formerly a tunnel running anyth from the No 1 shaft va ued At the end of the tunnel an 1M0 foot shaft was sunk with the various levels run out As the best ore bodies were found few hunded feet of the No within 13O0 and shat on the I levels, it was dialed to sink the shaft to depth and save the haul of $ 900 ing to th front liie porphjr) industry f the United States Mr JatkUng has leen ahiy aided In hi work by It C Gemmeli. assistant eenrftl manager. F G uer mtendent of nulls nnd J ) shilling The othr superintend nt of mine lo. il ofthers of the (ontpuny are John m 1 proit iopr 1 stone Two crosscut tunnels developed this pr'pertv as well as an Incline abaft, drifts and orfirr workings This wrk h im develtjH large tonnage The of the property la c x plivlal Mcnt i. HI I Pi TO GARFIELD In Jtim li9 ssrifattnrr contract was secured with the Yampa smelter, and bwfre thi plant closed this year, th Hinghtn Mines romtsiny contra its output of uppt iron suifids from tli Umnrivn lal and Dalton A loirk nunc to the Garfield Him Iting com- 1 41 n GAHFIhLD UAIMUIAD. The Bingham St Garth Id railroad is 90 jtr out finish'd on the open gt.id Ing The tunnels nrvl bridge will Im finished by April I 1911 There are fou tunneHf. 0SO feet, Tvn feet, 1.20 feet and 2 120 fcd In length There are three high st 'el bridges necessary rrosalng arr Fik. Mnrkham Gulch and Dry Fork,e the length of the bridges being rspect-ivfeS leef $40 feet and 0iO Pet This roid will be rushed through ami should la riady to open by June I. 1911 This will he one of the great achievements tit the company The Kio Grande railroad has had n irmnupoiv nn the hauling until the Utah Copper secured a right of way and started through the pany In last Hptmbr the 1 1.209-fo- ot feet Bingham Mins company agreed to abandon Unfits r U nter guhh to toe Utah Uupper company as a lumtng ground ftr Both the Uonimenlal and tunnci were abandoned Tlie building. Im hiding power plant shops, office. 01 e bins and boarding nouse. wire rernovid to a new site near the lort. I of the N Ip gam tunnel. Through nit agreement made with the Itih Fopier. Niagara Mining A Smelting mien and the Sliver Shield Mming A Milling company, the Bingham Mines company h atlowed ths u6 t the Niigara tunnel, which will open up the mine at $no fee t vertical depth, and nearly Vfi feet on the dip of the vein lehw tlie Commercial lower tun-m- i The Xl.ignra tunnel has been and rapid progress ts betng made in getting under the old workThere is about 490 feet more ings work to do before reaching the objective point. Three shifts nr working on the Iaic of this tunnel HAS HPl'K IN Th- - Copper licit railroad haa a apur to th- - portal of the Niagara tunnel to facilitate ahipm.ntx -On th. lop. of th. Oqulrrh rang- - are th- - Dalton A Lark mln-- a, of Mv.ral con.l.tlng group, now und r th- - on. managem-- nt They ar- known oa th- - Itrooklyn. Dallower distr'ft Another great woik that hns ben during tiw year was the larg amount of stripping that was It D done that the company has 150000,000 tfns of available ore in sight To afford proper facilities for duipmg. Copper Center guh h hits been so transformed thst It Is no lonxr recognizable. Where a ear ngo there were numerous houses, they have all been removed and the gulch Is being filled with waste and rapping. The little camp of the Bingham Mines company at the mouth of Ixmrr Commercial tunnel In t'opper Onter guh h has been abandoned, tlie house removed and the Work discontinued at thAt point to make room for the advance of the Utah Copper company One would scarcely recognise Bingham today aa comparea with two years Great terraces have been cut ago In Uie side of the mountain until there are now 22 levels bearing tha names of the letter of the alphabet. I LAItOKST OF MINFH. Th- - wtrk of th. I'tah fopii- -r I. a In mlninit What ran b lone with th. low (rati, porphyry or la a wtrnr. th. la movln rapidly ah.ad- - In th. fw of I t.h Top-I-- r a rxlntrnr. It ha. outalrlpprd .11 It othrra. It ha Jumpnl to plar own. th. lara- -t min. In th. world and -- Im control, th K.vada Connoll-dal-whlrh I. th- - -- hr prat known pm.lur-- r of It. .In In th. orld y-- at. wh-r-- d. r.-t-- rn ton A and I Mln- -r mliv-- Th- - Dr-at- HauiMwn n, of ground an area of 4S acre, of mineral land and M acre, of land Th group- - of Claltna have three vein, or parallel b--ll of lime, varyfrom Id to ing In horlaonlal (hlrkn 40 fret The flihgham Mine rom-puproperty rovr 7,no fra t of th Itrooklyn or Mln-r- a' Dream vain. 7,100 fret of Ih- vln 7o and approximately of th. lawd min. grain. Th. vein ha. been on. of th. rich t in th. d con-la- ta i'. r- -.t t. Itltighnm dl.lrlrt FINIHII TOOKMITE DRIFT- fopp-- r rom.ny wa. in 1nj by m .yndirat. brou.ht Ihiring th. yrar th, Yomll. Min,, r toyrlh-by I. r. Jarkllny. now (rnrral company flnlalied running a drift unnt of Ih- - corn mana(-- r and vlra der th. old working, of th- - Tnmlt. No I min. from the Mwcott. tunnel. pny. and to whoa, unumiatat ability concentrator expert port of Thl drift I. I COO fra t long and wo. I of nurna th. th. due. Th. company July I Thl. ha. thoroughly .yndirat. w. compo-r- d of Mr Jack drained thl. property, whlrh In V. M. MacN.III Unit. Ih- - early day. an. of Ihd rich on and R. A F. of t'olorado of th-- ramp. For yrara It but b n Impoa-lb- lPprlnxa. Thy took ov.r to work It on account of th. pf (map rlaim. In Jilnahant canyon and water, Thl-- drain. Ih. property to a Ih of th of f.100 f t on th. milt In of th. Prior to thl. Mr. vein. Th. copper ora th plan, lawrc Itlnxli.m. tha .haft t. Jack ling, art. r much careful work, had now bolognpetwd up, and Ih. abaft boo npon th. plan of mink from th. to .ral nnd to klm lo da. the credit of bring- - th. tovdV WlUt drifu dtuct aod Th- - I'l.h prr-id-- r-- w. Kp-n- b--on opp-rtotv th conc-ntratl- on bo Md-fo- i lke uvr waste M0-fn- ot The Bingham Mine start out for the year 1911 with the best prospert the cu nyajiy has every known The timing year should see it a bevvy shipper from the Udmmercltt. Hnsiklyn Yosemite and Eagle A Blue Bell mines The prim tpat office of (he Bingham comftany is at 0 Congrewi street. Bosbm. Mass and the Halt office Is at 492-- 2 Dooly building The offkers of th ompan are James P Grave, president. Boston Mass , Imrr general muring r. Halt laike, Utah. J E Brgh. superintendent of mines. Lark. Utah D Mac I hie con- suiting engineer ' I !tt. THE UTAH CONSOLIDATED. ON'B i t f I'w of th. .it Hingham waa th- - flnluhlngof tho con, (ruction of th tramnay by the I'tah rnnaolldatrd Mining comthe Anal link In flni.h-In- g pany Thl. for cheaper -- melting up the rate aft the company waa ed to rloe down Ha Highland Boy am-lt- er on nrrnunt of a court Injune-tlolt the u of the tramway the .hipping com I. cut from t; rents lo Id cent, a ton. alut - era ha. bee n (darted by th A C'ohaolldat-d company which ha. I'tah the record of producing th. cheap t In I'tah For th paat three copp yrar. the company ha. h n followed by ml.fortun obliged to clo It. .melt the company waa compelled to a hard !th make contract the local -melter. for Ihe treattngi of It. ore. Thl. contract waa a hraty atraln on th r ourc of the mine .Then after a km watt the new International con.tructcd and .melting plant -- xtend-d th- - mountain ov n from Pa Fork off main Bingham to llne rxnldn In Tooele count), dtat.nra of four and a half mflea Although Ih- - mine nhipmenta are email at preen I th e I. a world of undeveloped ground In th- - property work I being puaheri at th. property and a fair tonnage la beov the tramnay rach day ing rent to the amelt . Th. ore from the Plan onaolldated mine rarrl rockier hi. Iron and I an tdral fluxing product for a .melt tal It, crimp-li- i n n- w. eah-yo- Itav-lopm- idt'iivr nuiiwAT The a la tramway I. 21. Ira fret in length and ha. a fall between the two t mln.l station, of I Hi and was designed to carry 00 ton of ore an hour. Thl. It ha. fully demonstrated It ran do a. M4 tons have b n hauled over the tin. la a Uttl. lea. thaa eight ft hour. . II tinning at full ap d thl. varying according to condition.. tram I. ahht to yowatfi with wo bock freight haul, Vtootflft km been inMlfed to serve as controller, demand The line divided into three seoiiona He t ion which is 4 $00 feet in length, extends from the lading station terminal to the summit of the mountain, which has an elevation of 455 feet above the loading station Sectiou 2. whUh Is 3 769 feet long, extends from the mountain summit to an intermediate station 1.500 feet b low Section 3 covering the balance of the distance is 12 74o feet long and has a fall of 219 feet Along the line there are six tension stations where the cables are parted and either weighted or anchored as the case may be. one of these being a double tension, r cables of both section are weighted); another is a double anchor station. cables of both stations are anchored), and there are four com bined tension and anchor stations There are 222 earners in all, 4210 qn the line and 12 In the stations), with foot steel huckeC and patent earautomatic overhung grips, these ners are moved at the speed of Ofwy feet or motors as tondition 1 1 1 aninute HIGH TOW ERR Tliere are 82 towers In the line, vary, ing in height from 10 to 90 fret The loaded but kets have a weight of approximately 1.160 pounds months work It required about to put the line In On'aocount of the heavy snows last winter the cost of the line was materially added to, and there was somewhat of a delay In getthe line through In many places ting It was necessary to haul the material on burros A wagon road was put in to the summit of the mountain but on the Tooele side the country was more rugged At one time it wss necessary through a Urge snow drift at the head of Hap guk h to earn the construction material to the summit, which has an elevation of 9 200 feet Rome lda of the ixc t the underfAct taking15 may be gleaned from the carloads of lumber and 17 carthat loads of marhimry were used In the construction work IKHIT3S REDOUT In a refMjrt recently lued by Pr I'rltan II Broughton to the h- - sat rolatDe to th. report, of former General Manager J B. W F1n h of Ienver, K H ItiiHlue J Phannlng. Jr. con. tilting engine, and P ( ' Burger Phannlng. "Keport. of M era HImiuc. Burg end Finch have been on file From th and from plao-oddittonal Inv tlgathin. w. la an accurate th. following ,1a lenient regarding the pr ont pool t Ion of your property ore In i.lght, av aging 2 32 tier cent copper M nunc, gold 4 ta ounce silver. 300 004 tons From the large tonnage of ore shown by mfn. maps and records to exist, but which la tnacc .Ible for Inapectlon on amount of rates and fills of na.te, there may be rem ere d from 10 0W to lefi.OOd tons, other ore In the min. I of too low grade for profitable extraction at the present prtra of roppor. 'The output of profitable or Is limit d at pr ent to about Vat ton. per day Th it (III. la tb. proper limit I. proxed by the fat that to maintain a larger output from - Jan I to ,tept 1. 1)14 a considerable- percentage of tin-- ) rentable ore wa. -- hipped to the -- melter Mi l'll DK ElXFMENT Development work - being pu.lu-at all point, aa your director, twllnve ihl feature of more Importance at present than the eatrac tlon of ore. find nlao the output ran be In rrenaed from time to time, aa more working far .re exposed "To regain th- - position your company held during th yrara Ikd to l0T, It will be n arary to develop ore of higher grade than that mined during the la.t two year. Both Mr Otanirlng and Mr Burg be lex. that higher grad ore will be found In th- - un-- x plored territory. At th- - present date th- - develop in ent, up in th- - low t of your min- - are premising, there being 19 of drifts and raise. In or. aver In the opln aging 1 1 pr nt enpp Ion of your director, a -- trlct elalflca.' tlon of ore In sight ha. but little bearing upon Ih probable future tonnage RIAQIle KttHONRD On Hfl I, J R Kinqv rMtffnri general n swag-- r of ib company and It II ( Ii. lining. Jr , former g- -n al manager of the company und w'iom dire, tlon a big advance wa. made, waa appointed rnnmiltlng engln r with Frederick rowans, general auperln-tan.n- t. atmk-hotde- ra d -- au I 11 ft ANDTHER company athat ha making magntltr.nl reTd in th. Blrgham.'or W Mountain mining dutrlct during th. jttr Ohio Coppor eompwny, mod ooo of th trart mlnlsg gnd tn started the weathei was extremely cold and Hupt William A Khluey encountered extreme difficulties in starting up the tn.il winter time As the warm weather began u) come the nia- htnery became more nimble until the kinks were taken out and it moved like clockwork As originally designed the milt waa to bof four operated units of a capacity separately of 600 tons each A provision was also made for the doubling of capacity by adding four more units It was expected that this would milt of 4 000 tons a day a give The half secton now running has outdone ail expectations. The units have been found capable of almost twice what they were originally designed for The two units were first Increased to 1,200 tons a day At present the average Is about L700 tons a day. while the last week in December put through an average of 1.000 tons a day. Genera Manager Alfred Frank la certain that with some chanipes that are , contemplated, ths capacity of each unit will be brought up to 1.000 tons a day. making the plant carry Just twice what It was originally designed for When the Ohio Copper issued Its first statement declaring that the coat of mining by the caring system would be To cents a ton and the cost of milling the ore would ! 50 rent a Ion. there were many that eer.nu-l- y doubted tha statement Since then the has demonstrated that thl. I.company' far In excea. of the ai tual coats haxe turned out to he MAKE FINE SHOWING, A glame at th cort aheeta of tlie company would t ii ii kly aonxltue one tliat the ayytem of mining uae d by me company 1. about as cheap as ixoible In extraiting ore from a xem By tho rating .y.tein the cost to the Ohio "opper has averaged around 31 cents a ton for the entire year For September th axernge cost was 31 I cents, during Mob 31 3 cents, while In August It was 27 7 cent, a ton Thl. cheapening of mining cut. the timated cost In half with some to spore. Th- milling problem under Mr. Kidney ba. also received a big cut. During th- - year it ha, av aged around 31 and 32 cents, which Included office rent, .up Intendancy and everything Th- - mil reoutside of transportation. covery on ore running from I 3 p rent copper to 1 5 per rent, ba b n from n to 7 tier cent Till I being gradually Improved During the ynr dexelopmenta at the none haxe continued, the levels Iren exit inM out and everything brought un to a good standard for economic mining Th. min. la aow In that almoat double the tonshape nage could lie handled with a day', notice Mine Manager Felix McDonald ha pushed work during th yrar. until the entire lode l fairly well develop!. HANDLES BIO TONNAGE. The Ohio I now mining wnd mil!-"- " ing on an average about ll.ouo ton. of ore a month During the year about 40(x tons of ore were put threuya the mill At th mill about 61 m n ar employed, while on mill con,'.! . tlotx there are 35 In the mine tit. v of employe ,howa lati men With t men on of the exception ron.truttloo about th- - same fon haa b n Since the first half of th- - mill wit. completed Fid E A Wall of Salt Lake la now equipping a third unit at tb plant with roll, of hla own design and also Inbl, , of lil. own pattern Although this la an experiment. Col Wall is lonfldent that th equipment wr III to itlsf ictorv If It should, the fourth unit would probably be equipped with the Wall machinery, W Hh Ihe prew nt tonnage that I. being handled the t ihlo Copp la pro-dto I " OCO pounds of copIng i lo per a month With the oilier half of the mill .u operation there Is no doubt hut what cost, would be cut down eon- - ' x.drrwblv and the amount of cop pep produceil more thnn dioibh d. t'MK ItK.HERVEH which tnlU- - t i ; - J,' 'r I i in-t- he 5 h - h. I; l, estimated that the ora re ixr In the dex eloped I art of tb Ohio Copper mine ar n.onootsi ton. With the pre.ept milling capacity at 2.40. tana a day there la enough ore In sight at least for 20 yeara with th- - concentrator running at full rapacity th- - -- ntlt. time With only 12 acre to of 1 too a and a total area of 120 acre there I, no telling just how hlg the prep tv Is During th. year Colin McIntosh, who ha. been general manager of th. com- ft, THE OHIO CbPPER. th. Ing reronj? of any ompany In the To do this the company had to overcome a great many obstacles The first unit of th first half of the mill was in a a year ago last N v ember The acond unit- - templet ing the half section, followed in March, 1d At th time the section waif state pany from th. tlm. tt starts to build mill up Nov L resigned. Alfred Frank, who ha, th. chief of F. Augustus Hein staff for a number at jeers,engineering .oracled tb. It. hn I 4 ,j , r k j ! I J t t V. t JI j D.i t 1 t ' 7 ? f. ' I t r; ; h 1 i 1 I ) f j- I 4 -- v 4 I J 1 . r j , i 1 4 : ( i ; 1 i s f |
