The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-24
THE HORN SILVER.
The improvements Made on the
Big Mine.

The improvements IN and around
this mine, which were necessary TO
increase the output of ore, are rap
idly nearing completion. Everything
is being done by the management of
the mine snd the railroad 10 make
connection so that neither party shall
wait for the other. The railroad com.
pany have their forces at present
concentrated upon the Y, or switch,
which must be built before tire mas
sive engines on the mine can move a
wheel. This Y is being built to de-
liver water to the boilers and timbers
to the yard. The manager of the
mine has in the meantime a strong
force OF first. class mechanics at work
upon the tanks and ore bins. The
latter, for strength and durability,
surpass anything we have seen in
this territory. They are built TO stay,
and will remain monuments OF credit
to their builders They are or in
number, covering an area Of eixty-
eight feet by seventeen feet deep.
Their height is twenty-five feet. We
understand that four more of the
came dimensions are to be erected
Immediately. Every other part OF
the Improvements around these
works is being put in place upon the
same substantial principle. which
speaks volumes for the confidence Of
toe present management in the per-
manency of the property.
The railroad passes about fifty feet
east of the engine house, Immediately
in front of the ore bins. 1t runs
south about ], 900 Ieet, and back on
the switch, the west side OF the build
iLg, within forty feet of the boiler
room, where the water will be dis
charged into two large tanks that are
placed to receive il; thence into the
boilers ss required
South of the main building is the
carpenters shop. This building is
probably sixty feet long by about
thirty wide. In this building is
placed an engine and saw mill, or
more properly framing machine OF
the latest improvement. This will
greatly facilitate the framing Of tim
bers for the mine, which has hitherto
been done by hand. Between the
main building and ore bins a ssmpling
floor about seventy feet Ing, and
probably thirty Ieet wide, is being
laid. All of these structures are
within an area OF less than 200
feet by $50 feet. Il will there
fore be seen that everything is
compact and complete. In the
different levels in the mine new
seli-filIing ore ehutes are constituted,
which renders the removal of ore
rapid aud easy. The ore lesEes the
| miner and chuies into The mine cars
by It's own gravity. Il is then sent up
on the cage and dumped into the bins,
and again chutes into the railroad
cars by graviialion, thus doing away
With expensive, tsrdy shoveling
From our own observations OF the
mass of ere disclosed in this mine,
AID the Extensive and permsDeBtim
proyements that are being made
around it, We look Toward with much
satisfaction, and believe the stock
holders will in due time reap the
dividends they have so long expected
Il has been rumcred on the streetI
. that this company propose erecting
furnace OF eighty tons capacity on tht
old site. in connection with tho.e tina
are st present operated. This seeml
to us to be stroke of good manage
ment and step in the right dIEer
ton. We trust, therefore, that, th'
runof hes solid foundation, and hopi
70 see it carried into execution :
i Soat4eTn Utah Times.