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Show STATUS Of OHIO CONTRACT GIVEN Salt Lake, Aug. 29. Judging from all that hns been authoritatively stated, stat-ed, the Qhlo Copper shareholders aro certain that tho long complicated and adverse conditions surrounding their company are being untangled and that the organization for the first time In three 6r four years faces a highly gratifying grat-ifying era. The connection of Col. E. A. Wall with the mill side of the company is especially welcome to all concerned. , There seems to bo some mistake', however, as to what connection Col, Wall has with (the company. Col. Wall stated yesterday that he never has been nor is he now a stockholder in the compan), that he does not now own stock or any of the bonds of the company, and that ho never contemplated contem-plated Jior proposed anything else but to Install a now crushing department at the mill at a slated price. Torm6" of Contract. Tho contract entered into between tho Ohio Coppor company and Col. Wall Involves merely the crushing department of the Lark concentrator, and of the iirst half of tho mill now in operation. By the addition of the corrugated and 'vertical rolls designed by Col. Wall this first half of tho plant, now treating approximately 150Q tons of ore. dally, will be increased increas-ed to 3000 tons'. tl is pretty well understood un-derstood that when this result has bee naccompllshed that tho company will not long delay the. complotlon of the entire plane so that the Ohio' Copper Cop-per company, with a dail capacity of 6000 tons of ore, will take Its logical place among the large low-grade copper cop-per properties of the west. For over ninety dajs past one of the rolls has been in constant use at the Ohio Copper plant, and tho successful success-ful application of this equipment for the task in hand is well exemplified by the fact that the contract calls for the Installation of twenty pairs of rolls, ton of the corrugated and ten of the vortical, fine crushing rolls. Several of the rolls are now at the mill and the capacity of tho plant will be increased gradually as each run is uiHiautu, uui mo enure piant of now rolls should bo In full operation op-eration within ninety days. When asked Monday as to the expenditure necessary to bring about this radical Improvement In tho mill. Col. Wall stated that the cost of the equipment and Its complete Installation should not exceed $80,000. Col. Wall was asked for a statement state-ment sotting forth the advantages of this new equipment and tbe results so far achieved, all of which will be of muoh interest to stockholders, and he said: Col. Wal's Statement. "Tho old style of machines in use at tho Ohio Copper mill are the standard stand-ard type of Gates rolIs, 16 by 36 Inches, being used in the coarsor crushing, and they have a capacity of about 400 tons dalh. They take tho product of a Blake crusher which follows fol-lows a preliminary crusher of larger sixe and which handles the goncral run of tho mine. Everything from tho Blake crushers, oxceptlng ore of a ono-inch size, which is screenod out, v. as handled at the rate of 400 tons (daily as stated. "Tho first set of corrugated rolls installed in-stalled took the ontiro product of tho Blake crushers and It has troatod an averago of 1000 tons of ore dally for nlety days or more. Tho product after paBaing from the6o rolls Is very much finer than that of the old rolls in use. Tho coarser sizes of the crushod oro average not abovo three-fourths of an inch "Tho applied energy required as measured and stated by tho superintendent superin-tendent Is 18-horscpower for tho corrugated cor-rugated rolls, while that required for tho old rolls was US-hor&opowcr. Tho averago life of the crushing tires of the old equipment was six weeks, or forty-two forty-two days, showing a total capacity of about 17,000 tons of ore. The cor-rugatcd cor-rugatcd rolls crushed something ovcr 90,000 tons of ore In ninety days and they still are giving a product equally as satibfacton as at first. Resume of Plans "Anothor set of theso rolls has replaced re-placed the small Blake crusher and this Is now doing 1000 tons dally in-'eluding in-'eluding the work of the BlaUc and the wbrk done by tho uther rolls combined, com-bined, and the results havo been entirely en-tirely satisfactory to the mill manager. man-ager. "The-'plan contempates the replacement replace-ment of tho large jaw crushers with corrugated rolls, taking the entire mine run." Col. Wall confirmed tho curront statement thut it would bo possible bv I ho Installation of the corrugated rlU to eventually bring tho dally ca pacltv of tho Ohio Coppor mill to 6000 tons "without adding to the roof spaco of tho plant. |