The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-16
Utah MINING MEN In NEVADA

J Ing 10 the abruptneSS OF the elevation
! OF the surface of the ground beyond
this point
These facts relate only to the devel-
opment OF the mines and the saving
in the cost of production The COM
pany has decided to further increase
the saving by putting in an electric
power plant of its own that can be
made to supply ii not less than 500
horse power. The water has already
/ been located, is volume tested and
estimates have gone so far that the
company is prepared to spend over
100000 on the item of generating its
own electric power and light alone by
water. AS will at once be observed,
/ the saving after this investment shall
! have been made, will be enormous
with coal at SO per ton-and the posi-
j bic margin for cutting very light at
| that figure. The mere statement of this
/ fact alone indicates the vastness of the
contemplated operations of the Austin
Mining company
Not alone is it the intention to put
! in concentra ting works at the mouth
of the tunnel, but other mills for the
treatment of different kinds of ore
such as are to be found within a mar
ketable distance of Austin. will be
erected. 1t is more than likely that
these will include the cyanide process
/ or some other that will admit of the
profitable treatment of the gold ores
! that are known to exist in Kennedy
district and others, that so far have
not been brought to a point where their
handling would pay, though carrying
values in gold ranging from $25 to $75
to the ton. The amount to be put into
these plants l cannot say-for all &C
quainted with Mr.. Farnsworth know
how little he is given to speech and
( how unwilling to discuss in public pro-
! JectS with which be is connected.
There is not, however, any lack of
money. The Austin is a close corpora
ton. 1t has no stock for sale, 1t is
/ controlled by men who individually
own millions, who have put their
money in and are still putting it into
mining as a business and who have
! both the means and the disposition to
push to fruition every venture that
has associated with it their names 1t
is certainty that what has been plan
ned will be executed, and a very con-
servative statement is being made by
me of what is to be done
One striking feature of all being done
! by this company is that while all in
VestmentS-and they are today. long
have been and for great while will
| be-VaStly greater than the income
/ from theesale of the product-are made
for the purpose of minimizing the cost
OF production, they also hold in view
very great increase in the demand for
labor
The formation of the country is of
granite, cut through with quartz
Lodges that bear silver and gold Some
of the ore is very rich and singularly
beautiful. and a striking characteristic
| is the presence of large quantities of
what is known as ruby silver. 1t is
true that much of the ore will not JUS
THY shipping until after it has been
concentrated. Nor does it come in
such large bodies as ores carrying a
lower grade of values. but it involves
expensive development work which is
! beng given to it, and the ore bodies
are being exposed in all directions.
In June last Mr.. Farnsworth placed
IN charge of the company's works here
Mr.. ]. F. Mitchell, since which time
I the work has been systematized and
/ advanced as it could not have been
done with the limited time it was pos
/ sible for Mr.. Farnsworth to give it, be-
cause of other great interests demand
ing so much of his time. There is now
I about all the work being prosecuted
by the company an air of organiza-
ton and pushing energy, which, to
a candid observer, is pregnant with
big events.
employment from the company is be-
ing increased as the various properties
are more widely opened. New lodges
are being tapped or known ones ex-
posed in new places, while the COM
pany's plans are being pushed to the
desired contamination with great
celebrity and a marked saving Mr.
Farnsworth seems to exercise as good
judgment in the choice of those trust
] cd with
pany's designs as he does in planning
for big results.
When the new mills are erected and
the appliances introduced as now con-
templated to reduce the cost of pro-
duction there will be an added and an
immediate value TO properties now
idle within radius of sixty miles; for
it will be made possible for the own
ers of other properties to have their
ores treated at the mills of the Austin
Mining company. when its contem-
plated improvements are consum-
mated. And these Improvements are
neither contingency nor a remote
certainty. They have already been de-
termined upon and will be executed
just as fast as possible. Twelve
months will make a vast difference in
Austin as a. result of the courage and
means of the few energetic stockhold-
erS OF THIS company, ana all the sur
rounding country will be benefited.
So far as the Austin companys
plant is concerned, it will be one of the
biggest and safest in the west. With
all possible speed connection will be
made with the different properties now
being worked and later to be opened
through the tunnel. Any person at all
acquainted with mining will see the
enduring safety to the lives of the men
employed in the mines that will thus
be established. All the works will be
dry, with perfect air connections and
different means of escape that are thus
to be provided.
What all this means to Austin il may
be doubted if any of its inhabitants
can foresee. Apart from the added life
to be brought to it by reason of the
handling of the ores of properties dis
tant from Austin, there will be an in
crease in the number of men to be en-
ployed by the Austin company itself.
The ore bearing lodges already tapped
by the tunnel and the cross-cuts to be
run in various directions upon them,
as we'll as the lodges that are yet to
be tapped, will all be drifted upon. The
company does not propose to wait a
lifetime for results 1t will go after
them vigorously, and with. the condi-
tons known to exist and the almost
boundiess area of virgin ground pos
sessed by it. despite the 100000 al
ready taken out. no wild guess is haz-
arded when it is stated that. unless
all signs fail, year or a year and
half at most, viii not pass until there
are in the direct employment of the