Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-13
HIGHLAND BOY.

Hon. Urban H. Broughton, president Of
the Utah Consolidated gold mines, Mm-
tied, or Highland Boy, as 1t is more COM
monty known in this country, came down
for some days will devote himself to an
inspection of the company's bonanza at
bingham, and Its peerless smelter In the
valley. lays the Salt LAX Tribune.
While in Montana, in a string of whose
more prominent properties he Is inter-
|ested. President Broughton devoted not
a. little time to the methods Of reduction
employed in that state, and has satisfied
himself a no more economic adyan-
tages are to be had than those with
which the enlarged Highland Boy plant
will be equipped. Discussing the latter
yesterday the visitor said that as CON
structed and operated for eighteen
months it had given perfect satisfaction,
that the behavior of the reverberatOry
furnaces has been fautless nOtwithstAnd-
ing a certain criticism that was recently
lodged by the Salt Lake visitor to Bos-
ton, n that in the enlargement seven
additional ones will be installed. Indeed
the department Of the plant throughout
has been SO satisfactory that, in its en-
ilargement, alterations will be confined to
q single mechanical change in the roast
lers. He has promised the company that
these engagements shall nave been COM
pleted and the capacity doubled by jan
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Mr.. Fischer, the superintendent of CON
istruction, this will be accomplished he
has no doubt whatever. With, the
manner in which the great mine
has responded to the touch of giant
President Broughton is equally pleased.
Already blocked out are ores of sufficient
volume with which to supply the smelter
with double the present tonnage for
many, many years, n results thus far
have been a fulfllment of every expec-
tation among those who launched the
proposition. In the extraction of ores
Mr.. Broughton says there has been no
distinction as to class. On the contrary
they have been mined as they have oc-
Cured, and as they have come, nor
could they be handled otherwise under
the caving system which has been enn-
ployed at the property. While the OPEN
ing up of the bonanza at greater depths
has been discussed, there is no neces-
sity for prosecuting explorations below
present levels. On the contrary there
is yet a magnificent area of undeveloped
ores above the lowest tunnel that has
been driven into the enormous copper
and gold-bearing zone, and 1t looks now
as If explorations below could be con-
~sistently left to another generation in
the diggings. Indeed President Brough-
ton is NOSE enthusiastic over the show
ing of ore In the property, and is most
anxious to see the engagements at the
smelter completed that the output may
be doubled. Questioned concerning the
advent of Utah Con. in the dividend
column, he pleaded that the matter was
one for the.d directors to decide, and that
they will begin the distribution when
it is consistent, he has no doubt. Presi-
dent Broughton is a most agreeable gen.
|tlemen, is thoroughly conversant with
the responsibilities that have been re
posed in him, and expects to see the In
I~terests Of the company greatly enhanced
with the enlargement of the smelter.is