The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-08
NEW METHOD OF MINING
BIG COMPANIES REPLACING IN
DIVIDUALS IN OWNERSHIP.
Nearly Everything In the Camp Now
Being Conducted On Truly Mag
nifcent Scale-Possibilities of the
Next Few Years Are Unlimited
Gossip of the Camps.
Especial Correspondence

/ PSAiCiiNC a iCN Oll III.
A new page in the history of mining
in Bingham has just been turned, and
| here, as elsewhere throughout the great
mining districts of the west, the ma
terial for the chronicler of new chapters
is rapidly being supplied through the
energy and skill of the representatives
of the mammoth monied concerns which
are now on the verge of wrestling the
hidden treasures of our hills from their
resting places on a scale so magnifi-
Gently large as to seem almost incOm-
prehensible.
In this district, where for thirty years
or more men and companies have been
content to operate a few claims at
time (and in innumerable instances
only one), miles and miles of surface
ground have been and are yet being
purchased and made to represent the
millions of money which these big
companies are spending and will spend
in the transformation of mining meth
DDS. Where men in the past have
worked single-handed on a leased
claim, and where the product of sea-
sons work has been hauled down the
mountain trails on rawhides or stone
boats; where, in the past. the hills have
been dotted with men working in this
primitive way, mighty change is now
being wrought.
Hereafter the great contact and true
assure Lodges of the district will cease
to be pecked at and scratched as they
have been in the past, but instead work
upon them will be concentrated at a
few points and, in contrast to the work
of the past, where one man would dig
a few feet in season, hundreds of men,
with modern implements of mining,
will trace out and develop Nfor miles in
length and thousands of feet in depth
have hitherto defied the feeble attacks
of men to unlock the gates to their
mysterious retreats.
Change of Methods.
The new conditions are creeping over
the district with such a stealthy tread
that ere we know it we shall be in the
midst of the hustle and bang, and never
know how it happened.
The great Highland Boy is now work
ing under these new conditions and no
one appears to realize it. The new
aerial tramway, two and a half miles
in length, is delivering some $50 tons
of ore every day, and is capable of
handling twice that amount whenever
1t is called upon to do so. 1t is doing
the work for 10 cents which formerly
cost so cents, and in consequence of
this and other modern improvements in
the methods of mining, handling and
treatment of its ores, the Highland Boy
today is making big money out of ore
which, only Il few years ago, would
have gone to fill in old drifts and
Workedout Slopes of the mine When
it is known that the mine has ore
enough in sight now to keep the tram
way going at its present rate of ton
mage for twenty years, it is not hard to
believe that in the near future the
company will enlarge its reduction
works to two or three times their pres
ent capacity.
No noise is made about it, but Colonel
Wall is Systematically developing his
No. ! group of claims, and just as sure
as Captain De Lamar decides in favor
of working the Wall No. group, Just
so sure Will an effort be made to take
in or add the Wall No. l, Yampa. and
all other claims which will tend to
round out the possessions embraced in
the area bounded by the Yampa ON the
west and the Wall No = on the east.
This is not a visionary proposition at
all. The scheme is in absolute keep
ing with modern, up-to-date methods
of mining, and as no company or com
bination of capital has yet shown that
it possessed broader ideas with respect
to mining than has Captain De Lamar
1t is no dream to predict that his pos
sessions in Bingham will not stop short
VI lhC al Cd Oullllltu dDONe-
Lying alongside of the ground men
toned is the great area possessed by
the Boston Consolidated Mining COM
pany-the property over which Messrs
Samuel NewhouSe and Thomas Weir
got such a roasting at the hands of
the editor of the Engineering & Mining
Journal month or so ago. Work at
this property is steadily progressing,
but ito a man up a tree" it looks as if
the management was awaiting the re-
suit Of development work on the Wall
group, which Will. to a great extent |
prove the worth of the Boston ConsoI-
idated property. When the experiments |
on Wall group rock are completed and |
the best methods of reduction determin- |
ed upon. the road to successful opera
ton on the Boston Consolidated will be |
easy, as like conditions undoubtedly ex-
list in both.
Boston Con. Development
Lying to the south and east of the |
big propositions enumerated above is |
probably what will turn out to be the |
greatest of them all-the possessions of |
the United States Mining company. |
Aside from an empire of other ground |
it takes in the properties of the old |
Jordan and Galena groups
mines which have already produced |
millions and capable of producing mil |
lions upon millions more.
The company is now working, all /
told. something like 100 men. but this |
will likely be gradually increas- |
ed as new development work is mapped |
out by the management. Superintend- |
ent A. =. Mayberry of the Old Jordan,
when seen at the mine yesterday, said /
that preparations Were under way to
put down double compartment shaft |
and an incline on the vein to a depth |
of 1000 feet at least. In the near fu-
ture, he said, the United States COM
pany would have three diamond drills
at work prospecting its immense area
of virgin ground. and it would not be
many months before a general knowl-
edge of the character of the ores in I'M
explored parts of the company's pos
sessions would be gained. Nothing but
work is now being done.
and production at the company's mines
will likely not be undertaken until a big
reduction plant has been erected on the
ground owned by the company at Bling
ham Junction, a short distance below
Murray.
Means Immense Payrolls.
The properties named above and the
outline of their future operations only
feebly convey an idea of the immensely
Of the undertakings and the great
changes they will -. ng to Bingham |
With the thousands of men who will be
added to the payrolls of the camp dur
ing the next two or three years will
fare of the people who will be called
upon TO carry on the great work of
transformation. AS the main canyon is
too narrow in which to build big
town and as it will more than likely be
needed for railroad purposes, anyway.