Show new reduction works benefit zinc producers local mining men ff are 0 of the tw opinion that aff the new plant iw of the utah alic afaf pany which ay ww has just been erected aa in salt lake county 7 will a greatly aff stimulate the r mining of zinc ores ff wf during the past dozen of fifteen years properties have produced considerable zinc ore all of which had to be shipped out side the state iff for treatment ff and under existing freight rates it Is next to impossible to make any sky money on this sw ore but since the utah zinc people entered the market a there has been quite a revival of interest 0 in this wf class of ore iw r J f W wade ay iy well faw known mining pv engineer who vw was instrumental in aay organizing ff the yi fW utah zinc company ff which has built the reduction plant in this y state was in afe eureka during y the early win part of the i sf week and is syr talk ed in an interesting manner regard ing the new business wy enterprise h affy in which every 7 mining man to interest ed to some extent he says that the plant has been buying and stocking up on zinc ore for several weeks and that it will be but a short time until it Is put into operation many thousands of dollars worth of zinc has been purchased and Is now plied up at the new plant some of this ore has been secured from the chief 4 cons company quite a lot of it has been mined at the scranton property of north gintic tintic and mr wade is quite confident that other local mines will commence shipping zinc now that there Is a local market for w this product under the old system of selling zinc 7 to refineries which were located many a hundreds a bif of miles vy away the ore had to carry close to 40 per cent ff to be of real value and conse uffa only the richer streaks of ore were mined brer now however wv rew 2 per cent zinc viv Is good ww for a nice pro fit being worth aw 12 10 at the sw mur wy ray a plant of the now company sw a to 7 this price per unit Is added w up to sy 30 per aw cent ore 40 tasiv per cent ff zinc Is worth ag 75 WT not per ton after treatment and for each unit above 40 1 10 Is added 7 for each i unit vw below av 40 and V aft down to w 30 esy 1 25 Is deducted from the ufay 6 75 if there Is no 70 longer any guess wasy work about the marketing of zinc and the operator know exact ily what his ore will bring him on the higher grade ore the only additional charges will be the freight on the finished product the zinc oxide which it trig when compared to the freight charged for the shipment of a car load of zinc ore tp one of the re in the middle west mr wade says that at the old scranton mine of north he Is now mining about 15 tons of high grade zinc ore per day this ore be ing free from lead which is pieces sary it it Is to be handled at the murray plant one thing about the zinc 2 which af w has a been found 1 in other gintic tintic mines a a he fe chief bul lion fief beck M M y y r day ija wy lower mam moth and f rs t hat it carries no great u ot 0 st e d and this means fi that it is th desirable y w class 0 f zinc az the utah zinc com ay banys office Is 3 at efy dooly block salt lake 1 among the amr officers are melvn A L hoppaugh 74 wa Q rj richmond li D foreman and J W wade |