The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

CAPTAIN J. r. De Lamar the million
ARE mine owner. arrived in the city
from New York yesterday afternoon.
The captain was seen by a repre-
sentative of The Herald last evening
just as he was entering his. rooms at
the Knutsford, after having finished his
dinner.
he was in his usual affable mood
and after lighting cigar talked of his
plans relative to the building of the
mill on his Golden Gate property at
MercGr.
i have nothing to say said the
captain for publication that would in
terest anyone only the fact that we
are going TO build a mill for the Col
den Gate 1 do not know that I can
tell you anything new, as my repre-
sentative here, MIR. Cohn, tells me the
newspapers have published about all
there is 10 say regarding it.
the first thing we will have to do
will be lot Of grading for the mill
site; and the contract for that Will be
let next week. The bids for the cree
ton of the mill and for the machinery
that is 10 go in ii have been received,
but none have been opened. All those
matters VIII be settled on in a few
days and then work viii be pushed as
LdSl d. JIcSlDlt- II VIII take Us aDOui
four months TO complete the mill and
by the 10th OF November we expect to
have ii ready for operation.
1 cannot say just what the cost will
be. We are going to build a very ex-
pensive plant. Everything about it will
be strictly modern. 1t will have a ca
pacity of 500 tons a day, and with the
roasting process we viii use, we will
be able to treat all oxide and base ores
with success.
1t has not been decided whether the
building viii be wooden or steel. |
think in all proba bility ii will be made
of steel. To do that the cost would be
much more than a wooden building,
but we would gain by it. as the risk
from fire would be nominal and the
rate of insurance much less
In speaking of the report circulated
some time ago, and published in the
papers widely that he would pay $50 600
to any person who would perfect pro-
cess whereby the arsenical ores of the
Golden Gate mine could be treated sue
css -U.ly, the captain stated that it
was erroneous.
Because of that report being pub
lished. the captain has received several
hundred letters from parties who
claimed to have accomplished the de-
sired perfection; but out of all of them
he failed to learn anything he did not
already know.
I did say. about the time that ar
ticle was published" the captain went /
on, that I would give that amount of |
money for a process that would save +
just as high a per cent of the values 1
without roasting, as the process we in !
tend TO use with the roasting
Captain De Lamar said il was his 4
intention TO erect houses on his prop
erty for employees at the mine. The
De Lamar addition to Mercur had been
graded and plated, but none of the lots
had been placed on the market. He
could not see why the building of the
mill should cause any special boom in
the prices of real estate in the town of
Aiercur, as he intended to build these
houses, and if any employees desired
te own their own homes they would be
sold TO them at nominal prices.
The captain will be in the Sity several
days after which he Will visit his big
bonanza at Mercur and then go on TO
De Lamar. New, 10 look over his in
-erests there.