The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-26
NEW MILL FOR
THE ONTARIO co.
Mill Be Erected Close to No. 8
Hosting Works.
A. D. M0FFAT TO BE IN CHARGE
PLANS ARE COMPLETED AND
WORK WILL SOON BEGIN.

Plans are now practically completed
Ind within the next few days, or early
n the coming month, the Ontario Min
ng company viii begin the erection of
4 mill to handle Che great masses of
Iecond-grade ores which have been de-
7eloped in the lower levels OF that
famous old dividend-payer. Informa-
ion 70 that effect was released by Cen
hal Manager G. L. Rood upon his re-
turn to the city from a trip south es-
!erday. The maximum capacity of the
plant has not yet been decided upon.
but Manager Rood said that no matter
what its initial capacity might be it
would be constructed on the unit prin-
eiple so that it could be changed at
Lny time with little additional cost and
1t no loss of time.
The mill VIII be erected at a point
slose to No shaft, through which the
lres to keep ID running will be raised.
Electric power will be used to run il
and the equipment will be as nearly
tutomatio as it will be possible to make
T. The devices that will be employed
IN the separation of the metals from
.he gangue in. the ore viii hardly in
slude anything revolutionary in char
Lcter, though the problem of recover
nE the largest. percentage of value at
a minimum cost is one upon which the
management has been working since
The first Of the year, so nothing about
he methods TO be employed has been
ct to guess work.
AleXand er D. Moffat. who operated
The old Ontario mill during the days
when the character of the ores from
he mine were changing from what was
termed the free milling" to the baser
bulphides, and who saw the old mill
hailed up on account of it's inadapta-
bility. will Rupervise the construction
and equipment of the new plant and
run II when # is ready to go into COM
mission a few months later. He has
lust resigned his position as general
superintendent of the great Bimetallic
hill at Granite Mountain, Mont, to
tome back to his first love, and the
company Is to be congratulated upon
having secured his services. He will
Take hold ON the first day Of next
month. one week from today.
When Mr.. Moffat left Park City to
lake charge of the Bimetallic plant the
bres there had become so base and re-
Iractory that It was found impossible
10 handle them at a profit. He sug-
sested the changes that he knew must
be made before the plant could be sue
tessfully operated and, while metal
hlrgists all over the country were pre-
he went about his business, made the
changes and today has one Of the finest
milling plants in the entire western
country, making big money on ores
which it was declared could never be
concentrated. To treat successfully the
base ores Of the Ontario will be child's
play to Mr.. NIOffat in comparison to
the problem which he was called upon
to solve at the Granite Mountain.
In the erection Of the new mill as
much Of the equipment Of the old plant
as can will be used in the new. so that
first costs will be materially reduced.
With the completion Of the plant the
mine will be thrown wide open" again
and. as the large volume. of milling ore
begins to move to the surface, no small
amount of frst-class will necessarily
have to be broken down, also. BY the
first Of the coming year the Ontario
should be in full swing and earning
good money again.