| Show WILL IVILL BE GREAT I SMELTER CITY Ryan Cole-Ryan Company Plans Big Things for New v Tooele CAPITALISTS BUY MINES MIMES May Build Railroad Direct From Tooele to EI Ely Y I Nevada I. I Since the International Smelting and antI Refining company compan promoted b by John D. D Ryan and Thomas F. F Colo Cole and closely closely closely close close- ly associated with Amalgamated Copper Copper Cop Cop- per and and Standard Oil started constructIon construction construction tion of its first large larSo smelting plant near Tooele City It has purchased one great groat copper mine tho the at Ely and has been accredited with InstitutIng Instituting ing ne negotiations for both copper and silver lead-silver mines In Utah Ut That chat negotiations negotiations ne nc- ne- ne for tho Colorado and Iron Blossom mines of have ve been under under under un un- un- un der way Is well known mid and report hasIt hasit has hasIt It that the now new powerful smelting combination com com- would not bo be averso averse to taking v U Bunion nl 1 Consolidated and Ohio Copper mines of or Bingham i at tho company's company s inciter would bo in lu the to market for ores of oC nil kinds and In Jn any quantity that might be offered from tho ruining mining field tributary tribu tribu- tar tary tay to that plant which is nil all of Utah and Nevada and portions of Idaho Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado Arizona and ond California has been stated in fn unqualified terms b by Mr Ir Ryan himself Which means that to the tho copper copper copper cop cop- I per furnaces originally planned for the plant will be added lead furnaces furnaces furnaces furn furn- aces and that as well vell the capacity for treating copper ores will be greater than the original plans called for Gr Great Qt Smelting Center In other othor words Tooele City I is to be bo one of tho l great preat smelting centers of the tho world r For or Cole and Ryan will wm not ot be satisfied until tho the International Smelting company compan is at nt least a virile competitor of the so-called so smelting trust truB even coven If It does not succeed to the title To accomplish this the tho new smelting company must and will havo have more his big mines of or its own There Thero Is virtually no question that it will acquire ac ac- quire Quiro both coper and silver silver- lead mines Supposing the Ryan Cole-Ryan crowd should decide to exploit the Deep Creek region there region there Is opportunity for or It to j have ha entire mining districts virtually to itself Tho only argument a against it ft is that tho mines of or the tho Deep Creek coun country r aro oro not sufficiently developed to at attract ht- ht tract operators operator u who ho In buying mines Ch figure uro only onh on the ore In sight And yet the Deep Creek Cleek country at attracted attracted nt- nt so conservative a 3 mining en engineer engineer en- en Ineer as Captain Duncan over who with his s associates took ov over r tho the Gold Hill HIlI property tho tl only prospect prospect prospect pros pros- which Captain over ever advised advised ad ad- his associates to purchase And ho is making of oC It one of oC the very vely big mines of or Utah And besides a n number of or other de developed developed do- do mines In that region aro are man many prospects which look Just lust as big toda today as d did d tho the Gold Hill mine when Captain Macvichie advised Its purchase One property prop which is lu Ju the tho mine class Is the Lucy L. L of at tho the Wilson brothers in which a solid BoUd body of or commercial ore has been crosscut for tor more marc than feet teet while in tho the same and adjoining ground round arc are several good showings show of ot high grade ore Dig Copper Deposits Deposit Then there Is tho the remarkable cop cop- porphyry per showing in the property of or Gardner and a recent discovery Ho had been prospecting prospecting prospecting pros pros- In that country twelve years he tumbled to the possibilities of ot a porphyry belt a 3 mile and a n half halt a 30 quarter of ot a mile wide He lie had iad confined his hili development work to fissures in the lime Ihne alongside the porphyry porphyry por por- when something led him to sink sinka a i prospect shaft shott In the tho l porphyry He found almost nothing that fell foil below 3 per cent copper while running through the country countr rock reck were streaks sometimes several feet in to width of ot high grade stuff More shafts were sunk at widely separated places In n the belt helt and like conditions were found in all The most extensive work done in ono one place In the tho porphyry belt Is 18 where where- was sunk n n. shaft sixty feet teet deep from the tho bottom of which a n. crosscut way was o driven seventy feet fee The Tho result Is al almost almost almost al- al most too 00 astounding for belle heller but hut it itla la is said upon apparently a good O authority tI IK that time tho average r of all t the stuff t f taken out was 7 per cent cont copper Another r apparently well founded ru rumor rumor rumor ru- ru mor Is that Colo and ond Ryan ny-an have taken an option upon that Gardner Roden house property which presents possibilities possibilities of being one of the greatest steam shoveling propositions that has yet jet et come to light the proving of or which would be a short shrift with churn drills Ryan Colo-Ryan en engineers It Is said have o been scouting through all the mining districts of or tho the Deep Creek country countr as well as those between Deep Creek Greek and Ely Eh That the tho first object of ot that work worle is to ascertain the feasibility from Crom tho time standpoint of ot available oro tonnage of ot building a railroad direct from Tooele City to Bl sly Ely by way of Deep Creek la is not doubted Having found it impracticable to tl build Il another other largo smelter at Ely Ely Ely- aside fro ono one already being operated operated oper oper- b by tho the Cole Cole and andRyan andRyan Ryan need such a a. railroad to transport transport transport trans trans- port the tho ores and concentrates from their Giroux mine to tho smelter ter Railroad and ond mining experts who have looked into the situation in the Interest of the French WhO are arc behind tho the Schofield railroad project project pro pro- ha have ha e already reported that the mine showings of ot Deep Cre Creek k warrant the building of the proposed line from Garfield to Deep Creek Should the Ryan Cole crowd crowel find that tha t the they can acquire several big mines In that region their own tonnages from Ely and intermediate camps would as assure assure assure as- as sure pa paying fn business for the proposed railroad tho the building of which with their operation co-operation w would uld afford them thema a strate strategic lc situation with their smelter as os a n. base which would bo be impregnable im Im- pregnable and unequaled I |
