The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-06
THE GREAT HIGHLAND BOY.
Remarkable Record Being Made By
This Bingham Mine.

/ The Bingham Bulletin, in its weekly
roundup of mining news, says:
The great Highland Boy mines are
! now outputting at the rate of fully
! $500 tons of ore per month. The mill
treats an average OF so tons daily, and
shipments of crude vary from so to 35
tons. We are assured that the COM
pany's operations are on a paying basis,
and there is not only no reason to
doubt the statement, but the impress
I sion grows among close observers that
a gratifying surplus over expenses is
resulting. It is a most remarkable con-
summation, considering that is months
ago the company took hold of COM
paratively new and undeveioped prop
erty. Within the intervening time an
immense amount of work has been
done, magnificent mill erected and
put in operation, and the mines opened
to the extent that between IS and 100
men can now be profitably employed
Without fiattery to the management, it
can be asserted that the success of the
Highland Boy mines and mill is largely
due to strict business methods which
have characterized every move in de-
veloping the enterprise a detail
having apparently been neglected. for
gotten or misdirected. From the incep-
ton, every feature has been under tire
less surveillance. No serious mistakes
have been made, and the net results
combine to form an object lesson
which mining and mill men grown gray
in the profession can review with pro-
fit.
That the achievements of the High
land Boy company are of an especially |
satisfactory nature is best witnessed |
by the fact that second large mining |
and milling enterprise in the immediate |
neighborhood, promoted by the COM |
ind xrfI L. ..~.li
with it, is taking form, and the further |
1act that a large area of mlne rai grour q |
adjoining and adjacent to the parent |
mines has already been acquired By |
the cOmpany's agents. To an onlooker
appearances indicate that the opera
lions of the Highland Boy company
have hardly begun.
DIPS AND SPURS.
Good progress is being made on the
site for the Swan-Bemis concentration
The Julia Dean will make a 5O-ton
shipment about the 10th inst, and it
will be a dandy.
The Old Jordan mill shut down yes
terday. We have not learned the
cause, but it is probably for general
repairing.
G. G. Hall, manager of the Congor
n1ne, reports that property as looking
better than ever Some high assays
were obtained of ore lately encoun-
tered.
Joseph Brown, of Charlton, Ia,
owner in the Mammoth group
If mines, is on visit to the property
-oday- 1t is understood the company is
moving in the matter of erecting a |
;yaniding mill this spring.
Burdett & Hines will, in about ten !
lays finish their contract to sink the ! !
ncline of the Golden Era to 100 feet I
lepth, when drifting on good streak t
# ore at the footwall will begin. This
s the claim at the head of Dry fork re- g
emily referred to as the first to show !
n ore body in that locality.
Work IS steadily progressing at the
Vest Mountain placers. The con-
FACTORS have the big shaft down 40 :
eet, and its extreme depth, 40 feet,
an be reached by the latter part of Iii
Aprn- The power plant is nearly ready a
or business and will steam up in day c
r two, when a hoist will make the d
irt move faster.
Ore is leaving the upper depot this Il
eek at the rate of II carloads daily. :,
he roads are bad, but this seems e
have little effect on the tonnage de-
Vered, and the indications are for an r
lcrease rather than shrinkage The Z
resent movement would make a, rec Ii
rd-breaker for March as it would 81
Zach total OF over 5000 tons. (Since
lie above was written the Old Jordan u
Ill has closed down. It's stopping for Z
ven few days will make a marked u
Inference in the figures) ~
1t is estimated that there are over
1900 tons of ore in sight in the Ex- n,
,isior, the Old Jordan property for a.
hich the big cyaniding plant has lust W
zen ordered. Colonel Heffron. who | 81
Gated ore from the same vein during NJ
70 summers at the Spanish mill and
an experienced and thoroughly prac On
cal man, Will have the management W.
the new mill, which will be ready 81
run by the middle of Nav. TO
Manager Thomas, of the Niagara
slted the property Wednesday. II IS hs
aking a wonderful showing lust now OF
id the output during this summer to
III be very gratifying to stock no no
'lders, but Mr.. Thomas is one of the -
Vel-headed kind who does not allow u.
msef to get excited. The Niagara ny
S an excellent prospect of duplicating m
February output of over 500 tons lii
many months to come w
Inc outfit developing the Golconda