The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

| til such time as suitable connection is
made between il and the large ore
bodies it was built to treat
] The Highland Boy sn1elter, though
! down IN the valley, should be counted
among the camps reduction equip
ments. 1t is treating between 5000 and
1 5000 tons of ore monthly, and with
great success as all reports show.
A private mill just started in new
form is that of the Red Wing. It is
CAPABLE of reducing 100 tons of ore per
day and is now run by two shifts and
handling seventy. Its work is very
satisfactory.
For milling facilities the Dalton &
Lark is confined to a ten-stamp affair,
A mating plant is needed and will
probably naterialize next summer. The
stamp mill is occasionally run on spec
ial products.
Brooks mill at the Niagara is con-
centrating dump ores with large ton
mage ahead. forty tons day.
An excellent custom mill is the
Dewey, of over 100 tons capacity and
treating seventy. by two shifts. 1t is
not only a good nlfn but run to the best
advantage by BerniS Brothers, old and
successful mill men. During the year
it has treated upwards of $4,000 tons
of ore, giving general satisfaction to
customers.
The Rogers, small concentration,
also doing good work, has been busy
much of the time the past year. During
the summer months it was under lease
making tests on De Lamar-Wali group
ore.
Besides the Fortune concentration now
building, others are talked of to ma
terialiZe next summer, for properties
including the Boston Consolidated, De
Val I-hnaniv TOo Dalton
& Lark and Montezurna, besides large
individual shelters for the United
States, Boston Consolidated and Bing-
ham Gold & Copper companies.
ORE OUTPUT.
The output of Bingham in tonnage of
ore in the absence of actual figures, can
be pretty closely estimated. though rad
icaI changes compared with previous
years will have to be considered. With
an output in 1898 approximating 49,
600 TONS it would seem that by adding
the Highland Boy product since the
1st of June-say 1850 tons per month,
or IN round numbers $4,000 tons-the to-
tai for 1899 should reach nearly
$4,000 tons. This is a long way from
the actual figures, however. Since the
United States company acquired its
Bingham holdings the Old Jordan anS
Galena, with a product of 1000 to ], 800
tons per month in 1898; the Niagara,
500 to 600; Old Telegraph, with 800 to
500. have Suspended shipments, as also
several other properties that have
changed hands-opel aticns for develop
ment only having since been the rule.
The product of the producers of 1898
has declined more than one-half, or say
q, 600 tons, so that it is not probable
that the entire output for 1899 has been
to exceed $4,000 tons. 1t should be add
ed in this connection, however, that
there is today exposed in the mines of
Bingham probably 100 tons of ore to
five tons one year ago; that the ore
areas il sight are this winter being in
creased at a Surprising rate, and that
with the proposed facilities for reduc-
ton inaugurated before the close of
1900, Bingham's mines will be output
ting over $500 tons daily, as compared
with the present total of about 600 tons.
This is not in the least a fanciful state.
ment, but based on actual conditions.
Bingham is surely entering upon an era
OF prosperity that will shortly attract
such widespread attention to it as is
given to the greatest mining camps of |
the world.