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Show UTAH-APEX INSTALLS NEW DRILL SHARPENING PLANT ' This office acknowledges a pleasant pleas-ant call this week from E. H. Martin, Mar-tin, master mechanic of the Utah-Apex Utah-Apex Mining Co. One of the news' wranglers of the News is under ob-j ligations for life ' to v MtV Martin, "Eddie," as he is familiarly and re-spectedly re-spectedly known by most everybody in the big Apex working force from top to bottom, for a practical schooling school-ing in the mining game, having just recently completed a two-year term, during which time he learned how to heat steel without burning it up, learned to know the difference between be-tween ore and common fertilizer, to distinguish the difference between a piece of muck nd a pile of stulls how to talk and write in the vernacular vernac-ular of a mining man, and in fact, a hundred and one little things which he hopes to use to advantage in amusing himself and his readers in scribling mining "dope" for his paper in the years to come, when, eventually, eventual-ly, he hopes to accumulate enough money to enable him to retire with his family on a goat ranch somewhere in the near suburbs of Bingham Canyon. Can-yon. O shucks! Pardon the digression from the original subject and let us get back to the master mechanic and his visit to the print shop. The News reporter gleaned many things from the interview with Mr. Martin that should prove of interest to all Bing-hif.nites Bing-hif.nites who have the interests of the camp at heart and of which this paper hopes to publish with due authority in the near future. While he is reserved re-served in giving out mining information, informa-tion, as most mining men are, and is one of the best fellows in the world to mind strictly his own business, it is easy to read between the lines that he is very much enthused over the big $150,000 expansion program that is being put over by his company this year, and one feature, in which he is more directely interested, because it has to do with his particular department, de-partment, and upon which we have his. permission to quote is that of a new steel sharpening plant which is nearing completion. This plant is being removed from the shops on the 10-hundred level to a point near the big shaft house on the top of the mountain, where an entirely entire-ly new system is being installed at a cost of something like $$30,000. A near fire proof shop is nearly ready for occupancy. It is to be equipped with two drill sharpening machines, an Ingersoll-Rand and a Waugh, and two Gilrrjan . heat-treating machines heate: by mean- -f oil-burning furnaces. furn-aces. Also quenching tan':- where the drills are scientifically tenpsrsd portable drill tables and every 'convenience 'con-venience known to a modern drill sharpening plant. Thejmaximum output out-put is about 112 drills per hour; the minimum, about 56. It is expected that the results obtained from the use of these new furnaces will considerably consider-ably reduce the cost of sharpening and that a further saving in transportation trans-portation costs will follow as a result of the new location. , - t . ' l f |