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Show flp i ' i,H illl Hi i 4 B jTe Story of the Cactus. B i fy" if H "Inexhaustible" is a word which sounds out of K f' fc,t -'III plaqe as applied to a mine. One can-readily con- -U' : If Hm ceive how the soil can go on yielding its wealth if ' ' f ' il R tne nusuandman decade after decade and cen- HN'p ij R fury after century, but a mine! The soil con- B I B Btantly renews from the air and moisture the ele- B , ir jB ments which maintain vegetable life, while in- B j I 'i B conceivable periods are required for the forma- H I'M ' im tion o mlneral deposits and ore, once wrested Bi! m ' .fS rom ne ueart ' ne earth, Is never replaced. ! i'( if M Yet utall'can demonstrate to the most skep- ! il - m fa tIcal tnat tho word "inexhaustible" may be applied B'fM ' ''' with propriety to a mine as well as to a farm. B; h B One need go no farther than the Frisco H JB mining district In Beaver county to make the ex- B; ' periment. There ho will find a group of mining Bj ' i claims which, judging from the present and pros- i pective consumption of copper silver and gold, k ,i will still be yielding copiously when the administration adminis-tration of President Roosevelt is as remote as the ' j' reign of Elizabeth is today. If such a mine is not J inexhaustible, it is so nearly so-that we need not iiL ' ' concern ourselves over its exhaustion. hi It requires no vivid imagination o'r technical K (j; '' knowledge to demonstrate this assertion. Obser- B j ' vation and a slight understanding of mathematics B' ; i f, are all that is needed to convince the doubter. Hi i ' f It is to Mr. Samuel Newhouse, of Salt Lake, H ' , f that the State is indebted for this tangible evi- Bjj' j; " , j, 4t dence of its own mineral wealth. Not only has Bj " f , :1 Mr. Newhouse opened this storehouse of treasure Hr ,,rf; to the world, but he has carried on a systematic r c i1.. ' i course of development which has proved Its vast B 1 '-J ' I extent and boundless possibilities. What is more, Hfr I ('If he lia8' and ls "ovi,iing tne means by which the Bf j I "I j f ; rough and unattractive rock may be transformed Hi ; j iH; f ! into bars of shining metal and the desert into a de- Hj ; liJ I lightful place of abode. Bj 3 ' The Newhouse holdings in Beaver county, near Bj j , ' ' the town of Frisco, consist of 2856 acres of land, Bi T J 35G acres of which are on patented mining claims Bi flj, 1 1 and the rest covering water rights, town and mlll- B I ', ' site. As it is the mineral-bearing ground upon Bjj r j j ' I which the future prosperity of the vicinity must B MM f chiefly depend, it will be well to investigate those flj! , ' j ' ' P secrets which have been wrung from the stony K j I I lips of Mother Earth by the brains of skilled engi- Bi IjiljJ neers, the brawny arm of labor and the sustaln- H,' j, '' lng Influence of capital as marshaled by the indo- Bjji il I mitable master mind which directs the whole en- Bjj i ' ' terprlse. H ji I L One peculiar thing about a mine is that the H jl JjljiL foundation is begun at the top and built down- B l jl I !' ward instead of upward. That foundation is com- H ! If monly called the shaft. In the Newhouse mines BH ', jjt K the foundation is broad and deep, well calculated H, ; I to sustain the superstructure of levels, drifts, H i m cross-cuts, stations and stopes which is to rest, H j-, 'jil 8j topsy-turvy like, below it. A three-compartment B, i i!i shaft has been driven to a depth of GIG feet B 'i , J , i ' fij This entrance and exit, with its three cages and Bl,t ir i , 8 powerfu hoisting machinery, furnishes great fa- 'ji S clllties for the raising of ore to the surface and Vfi; i B the 'lowering of timbers and material to the B ' j ' m I1' B lopths, besides making for the safety of the ' l III miners with good ventilation and prompt escape Hi 1' i 'U should anything go wrong below, but a plan for iiB better ventilation and more economical transporta- Wm tion has been devised and partially executed by "BH Mr. Newhouse. jB A tunnel has been driven from the eastvrim HiSS S of the Wah"Wah valley for a distance of 3,000 W" ! tSB feet wllGn in '800 feet t wil1 conncct wIth thG K - 1 imm shaft at its present 'depth. It will afford a passage i f nm way Gx7 feet in the ciear fr tn tram cftrs and I IB electric locomotive to be -used In hauling in ma-j? ma-j? H torial and hauling out the ore. The force of grav- jj fBH ity will come to the aid of artificial power, the HI m 11 lilS ore will be dropped down instead of lifted up and the arrangement will give the most desirable 'transportation service at a minimum of expense. The destination of the ore but that will come under un-der another head. It is time to return to the shaft and its branches, or levels. Here we will find the valuables so jealously guarded by Nature in her strong box and so ruthlessly appropriated by burglarious bur-glarious man. At Intervals of 100 feet in the big shaft are bigger stations from which have been cut rock-walled rock-walled horizontal passages to, and through, the immense ore deposits. In many instances side halls have been driven from these levels cutting cross-ways through the veins of mineral. By means of these side passages it is possible to determine de-termine the average width of the vein, for it is assumed, as-sumed, of course, that, if the vein is substantially the same thickness at several adjacent points, it is equally thick in the intervening spaces. It is by means of this development that a mere novice can determine for himself the quantity of ore available, or "In sight," as the miners say. . The value is ascertained in different, but no less certain, cer-tain, manner. In the Newhouse mines the essential development develop-ment has been done on the first four levels. At the 500 and 600-foot levels, respectively, the work has been done with a view to future necessities, rather than to satisfy any immediate demand, and, as hoisting grows more expensive with added depth, It has been deemed advisable to postpone the development of the deeper parts of the mine until the tunnel elsewhere alluded to, Is completed. com-pleted. The first four levels" Have demonstrated the . existence, not of one, but of two great fissure veins, the first called the north fissure and the other the south fissure. The former Has been opened on the first, second and third levels, with these gratifying results: On the first level the vein has been followed for 350 feet, and maintains an average width of 70 feet. At the second level Its demonstrated length is 150 feet, and its width 50 feet. At the third level it attains an average thickness thick-ness of 80 feet, and has been followed for a distance dis-tance of 100 feet. The south fissure, which is 100 feet back of and below the north fissure, has been opened up for 200 feet, and is of the stupendous thickness of 125 feet. By a simple calculation it can be ascertained that the ore bodies on the first, second and third levels contain, between the surface and the 600-foot, 600-foot, level, over 2,000,000 tons of ore. The south fissure will increase this tonnage at least 50 per cent., making it possible to mine between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 tons within the liens of present development. de-velopment. This is only a part of the story, however. Like woman's work in the old rhyme, development work is never done until the limits of the territory terri-tory or the limit of the values are reached. In the present instance the great expanse of territory gives assurance that the miners will not soon be stopped by the end lines, and while the values may grow less as the levels are extended, there is an equal probability that they will increase. When there are unlimited opoprtunities for expansion downward where, It is practically certain, the values will be maintained and the only limitation imposed will be the limit of profitable hoisting. Altogether it may bo said that the ore now in sight represents but a small fraction of the wealth of the mine. Now a word as to the value of all this ore -will not be out of place, While the properties do not yield the phenomenal assays and mill runs that are, the pride of the gold miner, neither do they depend de-pend for profit upon such a precarious source of income. Gold deposits are proverbially erratic and uncertain. Mineralized copper zone3 are, on the cdntray, usually pf great extent. What1 they lack in concentrated richness they more than make up in prominence and reliability; The ore in the Newhouse mines is of sulphide character, and contains copper, gold and silver. The great mass of the ore will average between 4 and 5 per cent copper, and a great number of smaller deposits scattered through the mass, carrying car-rying from 15 to 30 per cent, will raise the general average considerably higher. Taking 5 per cent, as the average, each ton of ore would have, at the present price of copper, a value of $12, not to mention the gold and silver contents which will materially help to defray the cost of treatment. Estimate'd on this very low average, the ore now exposed in the mine workings would be worth In the neighborhood of $50,000,000, and every one-cent one-cent increase in the present low price of the red metal would add $5,000,000 to the value of the mine. Hardly less important than the presence of the ore, In a modern mine, are the facilities for treating it. The mine owner who is dependent on others for such treatment is at the mercy of the transportation companies and the treatment plants and may suffer from every tax which the caprice or desires of the latter may suggest. Mr. Newhouse has not overlooked this all-important feature and, in rearing his industrial community, has provided that it shall be, as near as possible, complete in itself and Independent of outside influences. The ore in his mines Is of an ideal quality for treatment by water concentration. The gangue, which is crushed granite, carried none of the values and need not be .reckoned with in the process pro-cess of reduction. A milLwlth a capacity of 1,500 tons per day will be erected 8,000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel with which it will be connected con-nected by an aerial tramway. The crushing machinery ma-chinery is to be placed at the mouth of the tunnel, tun-nel, from whence the pulverized ore will be carried car-ried direct to the tanks in the mill. All the machinery, such as the air compressors compres-sors in the mine for operating machine drills, the electric locomotive, mill and hoists will be driven from one central plant with a capacity of 800-hoise power. Still another enterprise of vital importance is connected with the Newhouse mines. It is a complete com-plete water system. As it Is manifestly impossible impos-sible to take the mines to water, the water has been brough to the mines from the Wah-Wah springs nearly a mile away. There is an ample supply of the best water imaginable, delivered by gravity pressure through 4,400 feet of spiral steel riveted pipe 12 and 14 inches in diameter, to the mill and townsite at the rate of 1,500 gallons per minute. A reservoir 138 feet long, 50 feet wide and 10 feet deep is now in course of construction at the delivery end of the pipe line and close to the site selected for the central power plaTit. The construction of the mill will be commenced as soon as the reservoir is completed. With the increased power now being installed at the tunnel, the management expects to hfive the bore completed com-pleted and the subterranean railway in operation, by he last of July, 1904, when the mill will be ready to receive the product of the mine. With all this equipment, some communication with the outside world will still be necessary and the mines and town will be fortunately situated in this respect, as the San Pedro, Los Angeli-i & M Salt Lake railroad is extending its track a dis- B tance of 6 miles, having for its objective point B and terminus the town of Nqwhouse, the busy B city of the future. B |