| Show conditions at big four mill announcement was mane made yesterday that the new mill 0 of the big four exploration company with a capacity of from to 1000 tons per day had been completed and would be placed in commission as soon as the blowers arrived which it was expected would be not later than this afternoon or tomorrow morning the construction equipment and operation of this mill will he be a feature in the development of the mining industry in the wonderful camp of park city the mill will treat by the most modern processes about tons of 0 the tailings that have for more than forty years accumulated in the silver creek flats in the old days when park city rose to tame fame as a producer of I 1 rich silver ore only the high grade product was noticed and the tailings that flowed down the various streams were regarded as negligible they bic swept down by the spring floods and spread out over a large I 1 area of ground many thousands ot of i tons finding their way into the weber river thence into the great salt lake never to be recovered yet over the flats of silver creek was deposited a vast amount of silt that is known to contain values in zinc lead silver and gold in the days that much ot of this was deposited zinc was not marketable but the change in metal market conditions and the advance in methods of treatment of low grade ores have completely transformed tho the situation figures as to the value of the tailings per ton and the percentage of the saving to be made have not been officially announced but the tact fact that tile the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company has taken over the control of the big pour ais Is evidence that the operations will not be carried on at a financial loss salt lake tribune |
