The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-01

and it is estimated
will hoist 1900 gallons of water per
from a depth of 800 feet.
There is no larger pump engine ia
any mine on the Pacific Coast. The
other masonry and maehinery at
No. 3 shaft correspond in size. cap
acity and ability to the above. and
the whole will make not only the
most complete but the largest work
of the kind in the United States.
When this shaft is in operation and
the drainage tunnel heretofore men,
toned shall have been completed,
of course the expense of running
the mine will be greatly reduced,
and the profits correspondingly
increased. At present and for some
time to come, the construction ac-
COMMUNICATING No. 8 works and
the tunnel-fgures largely ins the
monthly outlay, and explain away
the difference betweent the bullion
output and the ordinary expenses
and dividends. - -, -
1t would be impossible to enum-
crate and describe the buildings in.
the village belonging to the com
pany at the mine. There are COM
modious boarding and lodging
houses, offices. blacksmith, carLen
ter and machine shops provided
with the latest improved machinery
and appliances; coal houses, store
houses for material of which there
is kept in stock an ample supply, a
complete SaWmiIl for getting out
mine timbers, long ricks of cord
wood, etc. However, the convent
emily arranged ore houses Should
not be forgotten, which, when the
writer was there, contained ore of
the value of S240.0O0. One who
visits the place and chances at what
has been done, its character and
cost, will readily understand why,
with the large output of bullion,
the dividends are not larger. The
daily expenditure runs into the
thousands, the aggregate sum paid
out for November being about
$100,0.O. Now let us look at ~
THE. MILL.
A detailed description of this I'M
mense structure would be too much
for even an extended account of the
Ontario, into which this paper has
already grown. AS noted above, the
McHenry and MarSac wet-crushers
proving unsatisfactory to the On
tario people, in July. 1876, it was de-
tarmined to erect a dry crushing
mill, of forty stamps. The contract
was awarded for machinery to cost
and early in August grading
for the mill was begun. AS a result
of these preliminarieS an immense
pile of buildings now stand just
above Parh City, clouds of smoke
and volumes Of steam bursting from
chimneys, pipes, flues and escapes
in various places. At night the
mill. with its myriad lights twinkling
in its .inndmerable windows, re-
a midnight prospect of
some painted and Illuminated met
rop0liS of the stage. Without en-
tering into detail we will convey
an idea Of the immensely of the
establishment by saying the mill
proper, exclusive of blacksmith
shops, assay office, coal houses and
other detached buildings, cDvers an
area of about 10000 square feet, and
from found Ition to peak of roof is
probably 100 feet. No time was lost
in its erection. The face of the
had to be removed to OBJ
tain grades large enough for the
buildings, and at this work an army
OF men Was employed night and
day, while builders, Carpenters, en-
glneerS, maSOnS and all artisans
necessary were crowded to hurry
forward the work. so that on the
10th of January. 1877. the fires were
Lighted in the boilers and furnaces,
the forty stamps began their mon
otonous dropping, the machinery
was all put in operation and the
mill was complete. No, not COM
plete, for although it was then one
OF. the most perfect quartz mills on
the continent. additions, improve
ments and experiments have been
going on from that day to the pres
ent. If one were to enter the place
today the probability is he would
find some change from last week.
some new labor-Saving device, or
the chief engineer experimenting or
contriving to better what was be-
fore considered good. Statistics are
rarely interesting. but in this in
stance we can best convey an idea
of the immensely of the Ontario
Mill by stating. the dimensions Of
some Of the. principal rooms, call
ing. attention to the quantities of
used in the orig nal struc-
ture, and remarking that much has
been ADDED in the four years since
the building was pronounced fin
ished. The chief rooms are: En-
CINE, 20x40 feet; battery, 37x76;
boiler, 40x60; dry floors, 60x76; pan
room, S4x9O; .Stedefeldt furnace.
ore floor, 76x6O rock breaker
and grizzly, 14x76. Of lumber used
there was 10000 feet, all, with the
exception of the heavier timbers,
coming from the saw mills in the
vicinity. Certain of the timbers
contained 1000 feet to the piece, and
these were brought from California
and Chicago. There were 100000
shingles, 200 kegs of nails, 10000
Of holt, on n ,xyoeI,o,-- o. n ann