The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-02
THE HIGHLAND BOY.
Not Likely That the Company Will
Build a Smelter Soon.

Not Likely That the Company Will
Build a Shelter Soon.
The Bingham Bulletin, in its weekly
summary, says:
The Highland Boy company is cred
tied with having lately obtained an
option on or acquired title to land
living between Bingham and Murray
known as the Trip farm, and some
speculation is current regarding It's IN
tentions. the presumption being that
large copper smelter or mating plant
is about to materialize.
We do not believe the Highland Boy
company will enter into the smelling
business at this time, unless under
compulsion. The management does
not like the treatment it is receiving
from buyers, and being unwilling 10
go on the market under present conol-
lions. ore is accommodating n the olns,
but anyone who concludes that the
time has come for building a smelter
hardly appreciates the extent OF the
operations which the great company
has lust entered upon. 1t has acquired
UPWARDS of so claims in the neighbof-
hood of the Highland Boy property,
all of which are comparatively unde-
veloped, but for the most part located
upon large and strong VEINS Inefe IS
reasonable probability that the mines
will ultimately require a smelter IN
connection, of capacity perhaps equal to
that of either of the Salt Lake pubic
smelters, though following the careful
and business like lines that have been
thus far pursued, the time has by no
means arrived to begin it's erection.
There are now in the Highland Boy
bins probably 900 tons of sulphlde ore
extracted in running drifts and cross
a few weeks ago. We believe con-
tract could be safely entered into at
this time to furnish daily 100 tons OF
the same kind of ore for the next
six or y months. But this does not
warrant the building of reduction
works on a par with the mining opera
tions beginning. In fact, to do so
would seem TO be adding at TINS late
day another monument to those IN
memory of the crazy days of Lead
Vile. a mating plant for present use,
erected at the mine, is more likely to
be decided upon if any move is made
within the year.
Meantime, new ore bin at the
mouth of tunnel No. 6 will soon be
necessity, as that tunnel is close to the
main vein, and then there is plenty of
lumber down the valley to construct as
many bins as may be required for the
storage of a few thousand tons output
until such time as the management Is
assured of fair treatment.
The Tripp farm. we understand, is
an excellent piece of property for
agricultural purposes and douptless
good real estate investment we are
prepared not to be surprised, now.
ever. if within three years it should
be the site of a 500-ton smelter, and
directly connected with the Carr fork
mines by an electric railroad,
THE LAST CHANCE.
The Last Chance mill has nearly
cleaned up a pile of ore Cano wall rocD
which contained $500 tons and was put
on the dump last winter under contract.
1t was very low grade-hardly worth
Duttering Without seriously in the
wav. A run will soon begin on a very
much better grade from the lower level
of the Hooper mine, and there is con-
siderable stopping ground ahead IN that
property. Systematic work is being
done catching up bad places in the old
British tunnel, its latera1s and drifts,
and before long the old Last Chance
group will be in first-class condition
for business. NJ. Merrill, well known
in many Utah camps as thorough
miner and recently employed on the
Cuba. is now foreman in charge, having
taken the position last Monday. lndl-
cations are that the management has
made a valuable acquisition in securing
his services. The mill is treating from
so to 100 tons of ore daily, and Superin-
tendent Jennings reports it doing excel
lent work. Some changes will ultimate
Nv be made in arrangement of the
iigs. owing to the tenacious and slime
making quality of much of the Last
Chance ore.
DIPS AND SPURS.
Indications are good that next month
the Winnamuck will be shipping at a
Mike Foley & Co.. leasing on the
Greeley. have a Acton lot ready for
shipment, and anticipate a good re-
turn.
rate of eight cars day, which will
probably be about the average for the
month.
Two ponderous new dumps have
materialized since work was begun by
the Highland Boy people in the Stewart
lower tunnels.
The Giant Chief mill, having run
through 75-ton lot of Neptune ore,
started yesterday on lot from the
Julia Dean, which may reach $50 tons
The Neptune concentrates looked
promising.
The Silver Dollar, promising claim
near the head of Pine gulch and
owned by a stock company, is to be
worked this season. 1t is flooded with
surface water, and the outfit are
figuring on siphon drainage.
G. L. Wilt has received returns from
his late shipment of AZ tons Of Greeley
ore. showing a higher per cent of lead
than carried by any previous shipment
from that property. The mine is look
ing unusually well.
The bins of the Highland Boy are
nearly full to bursting, and either ship
ments of crude ore will have to be re-
sumed, new bins constructed, or there
will be practical cessation of develop
ments in the sulphide areas.
The Weasel, near the old Lead mine,
and operated by Elmer Hill, is giving
up magnificent specimens of copper and
makes a good showing of material that
would yield handsomely by the teaching
process. The main tunnel of the Wea-
sci has now been driven over 400 feet,
and shows it to be one of the coming
properties of Copper gulch.
The deep tunnel of the Fortune has
now been run 1,40O feet, and on the dip
of the vein has nearly 1,500 feet depth.
The vein is still dry as dust, but latter
~ gives indications of radical changes.
A small rich ore streak, which has been
followed for some time, shows symp-
toms of widening, as small punches are