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Show 1 ISfae Great Houston Consolidated. One of the most noteworthy features of the mining industry in Utah during the past two years lias been the wonderful revival of the old camp of Bingham which, in the halcyon days of silver seeking, had been counted as one of the bonanza camps of the West, but, with the slump of the white metal in the dark days of 1892 and 1893, lost its prestige, its yealth and its population. The old-time miner was no less remarkable for the tenacity which which he sought some favored metal than for the scorn and contempt in which ho held other metals not in his class. The gold miner might, under certain circumstances, consent con-sent to receive silver as a sort of foster child, and the silver miner mlgh admit that gold had somo desirable features, but neither could be convinced that the baser metals used In the industries were worthy of the devotion of the knights of pan and pick. There were one or two, good reasons for this prejudice. One was that oapital stood ready to advnnce money for the development of promising gold and silver properties, but looked askance at iion, copper and lead propositions' which called for greater expenditures before there could be any hope of a return. The individual with a copper or lead mine on his hands without capital was about as lucky as the "historic character who drew a white elephant in a lottery. When the mining of silver at Bingham ceased to pay, no one stopped to inquire whether there was anything else worth mining, all were too busy packing their gripsacks and buying tickets to other places. The increased demand for copper cop-per and the prosperity brought to Butte and Montana Mon-tana by the production of the red metal turned the attention of the masters of money ,to this new-form new-form of mineral wealth. As soon as capital was forthcoming to develop copper propositions, the miners and prospectors ovefcame their prejudice and began to hunt for copper values as energetically energetic-ally as they once plodded the hills for gold or B silver. B This revolution in sentiment inspired the resur- B rection of Bingham. It was found that certain B veins were richer in copper than they had ever B been in silver and carried some gold besides Sll- B ver, as a by-product was much more satisfactory B than as a staple because its manipulation ceased B to cause the working or the closing of the mines. B Then the great bedded vein underlying almost the B whole of the camp was demonstrated and the B West Mountain mining district grew in public B esteem to heights such as it never before occu- B pied. The past year has been a period of gigan- B tic preparations for a vast outpouring of wealth. B The judgment of the most capable experts has B been strongly in favor of the district and their re- B ports have resulted in the investments of sums B which it will take millions of profits to repay. The B field is almost ripe for the harvest. Great under- B takings have been carried out underground and the B final step toward realization the building of B smelting plants has been made during the past B year. B A typical example of what has been accom B Pjished at Bingham since the revival is the Bos-H Bos-H ton Consolidated property. It is but one of a serin ser-in ies of natural treasure vaults of which its nelgh-B nelgh-B bors, the Highland Boy or Utah Consolidated, to B the west, and the United States and Bingham Con-B Con-B solidated, adjoining it to the east, are or soon will B be, enjoying the fruits. B The Boston and the Bingham Consolidated are B united by business relations Which promise to be B of great mutual benefit. The latter has a thor- B 0UShly modern smelter of largo capacity and has entered Into a contract by which it agrees to treat 200 tons of ore daily for the Boston. The terms are favorable to the latter company and the contract con-tract obvi&tes the necessity for a separate plant which would be no more convenient dn location and would involve certain expenses which are now shared by the two companies. In western phraseology, It is a "cinch" that the "Boston Consolidated" will be able to supply its quota of ore for treatment. Instead of falling below this output, the probability is that the tonnage ton-nage will be more than doubled, and it Is expected ex-pected that other contracts will be made shortly after the first of the year looking to the disposition dis-position of 500 tons dally. Enormous as is the mass of rock suggested by these figures, it can be extracted for years without with-out perceptibly diminishing the visible supply of SAMUEL NEWHOU8E. ore in the mine. Development work has been carried car-ried so far ahead of production that surveys show no less than 1,600,000 tons of sulphide ore blocked out ready to be extracted without loss of time and at a minimum cost. Careful and exhaustive tests of the values contained con-tained in the huge mass prove that the mineral contents of the ore bodies now developed will average between 3 and 5 per cent copper, $2 in gold and 2 ounces in silver. The ore bodies are very large, one in particular having an average width of 125 feet and a length of 350 feet. The mechanical equipment of the mine is fully in keeping with the magnitude of its resources. In fact, it would have been utterly impossible to bring the property to its present physical condition in the short time the work has been accomplished without a heavy expenditure ex-penditure of money for up-to-date machinery and the highest class of technical skill. The buildings are of the first and it would seem impossible for human ingenuity to devise structures better adapted for the purposes to which they are dedicated. dedi-cated. The compressor used is a compound Rana 14x22 and 22x22 In dimensions and is capable of furnishing power for all the drills necessary to maintain a 500-ton daily output. The company 'has erected ore bins with a capicity of 500 tons and is now installing a 50-horsepower plant which will generate electricity to light its hotel, engine room, office and tunnels and to furnish sufficient power for a 10-horsepower electric locomotive which will haul the ore cars through the lower ,' H tunnel and out to the bins. jH B The mine is now in the best possible condition ' B for the economical handling of its immense ton- r B nage. One very advantageous featuro is the situ- . B ation of the developed ore bodies with relation to B the passage through which they are discharged. B The ore Is all above the tunnel and can be dumped B into the cars through dilutes from all parts of B the mine. This leaves a great deal of expensive B handling as well as a large amount of time. Even B after the ore leaves the mine there is little waste H of time or energy. The tracks of the Copper Belt Railroad Co. extend to the loading station at i k the mouth of the lower tunnel and keeps an ample H supply of standaru guage ore cars in waiting to H receive the ore, whisk it away to the Bingham H Consolidated smelter and dump it into the white M hot stomachs waiting to digest it. H An important fact in connection with the Bos M ton Consolidated, which is not true of all the big H Bingham properties, is the extent of its unex M ployed territory and the depth of Its veins. It M owns 350 acres of ground, all of it patented. Fit- 5 M teen hundred feet, or more than a quarter of a ' M mile, along the lime zone, is still virgin ground, M being not only unexplored, but also unprospected. B This terra incognita is between the face of the present workings and the east end line of the B group. It may safely be counted as a cash re- B serve, for the values it contains can neither bo B stolen nor destroyed. It Is to this reserve that ' B the company or its successors can turn and replace ' B the,ore bodies as they are removed from the oldor , B portions of the property. B The other unprospected territo y is down in the H earth below the 850-foot mark. The company, has H proved that its ore bodies descend to that depth H without loss of size or values. How much further , H they go toward the center of gravity can only bo imagined probably deep enough so that there will H be plenty of ore in sight in the bottom of the H drifts when the cost of raising it to the surface H becomes so great as to stop further progress to- ward the infernal regions. M The Boston Consolidated, in common with the M other Bingham mines, enjoys the many advantages H to be derived from proximity to a large and enter- H prising city. Only an hour's ride by rail from Salt M Lake City, the management of the mine can se- M cure any piece of machinery, any sort of mechanic M any any kind of supplies on very short notice and B at small cost for transportation. The men who M woi'k at the mine can enjoy many of the pleasures M of urban life and, at the same time enjoy the re- M laxatlon and freedom from worry which is to he B found in smaller communities. B Bingham, mark the prediction, will soon stand B in the f rant rank of the mining camps of the West. fl Nowhere can a camp be found in which the quan- B tity of ore blocked out and ready for extraction B is so large in proportion to the amount being ex- H tracted. The reason for this is, as has been ex- B plained before, that the smelting and transporta- H tion facilities have not been able to keep pace with the tremendous underground development As mining companies have become familiar with the remarkable extent of their own mineral wealth, they have continually enlarged their plans for treatment plants, and, even now, many hesitate to build because of the possibility that the smelter ', which seems ample today will be unequal to the demands of tomorrow. . No company in Utah can look Into the future f ' with more confidence than the Boston Consoll-dated. Consoll-dated. The hard, thankless and sometimes discouraging dis-couraging work of development is now practlc-tically practlc-tically finished and the time is at hand when the stockholders will receive back the bread cast on the waters many and many times over. The year i 1904 will certainly be a year ot jubilee on their calendar. |