The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27

dump, and lead -carbonates, lead sui
phides and copper sulphides each into
their respective bins. A telephone line
TO Park City puts the camp in direct
connection with salt Lake and the in
termOuntain circuit. There is an air OF
thrift and neatress about the Columbus
and the work of each department is
conducted on a system that is notice
able at a passing glance. The milling
( ores viii be taken out Of the Rowland
tunnel.
The plans for the immediate future
Of this company embody the erection
of a cOnCentratOr the coming season
with daily capacity Of from 100 20 15Qb
tons a day. In justification of this
move is the vast tonnage Of milling
material which yields readily to the
simple and well known processes of
concentration. Much of this ore car
] rles ten ounces Of silver and 81 I'm gold
to the ton and per cent copper. For
operating this plant and the mine ma
/ chirery an appropriation of water has
/ been made five miles down the creek.
/ An electrical power house 32x44 feet.
built of granite similar to that used in
/ the erection Of the Salt Lake taber-
nacle has been completed The intake
| is 4.500 feet above the power house and
I In that distance a fall Of 500 feet is Sc
cured. The pipe is twenty inches i'm
( diameter and is laid il eight segments
I of uniform grade. The equipment. most
I of which is on the ground. includes two
I thirty siX-inch PeltOn water wheels
; and two dynaUOs with n maximum ca
pacity Of goo horsepower, and the
/ meas urements show that the power
viii not be reduced below 500 horse
power at the driest season of the year.
This location was selected because the
stream has much larger volume here
than rear the mine; the desired fan
was Afforded and the site is protected
from snowslides by a natural bulkhead
of granite 100 feet high.
Outlay Is Wise.
The economic reasons for the install
iatiOn of this electrical equipment are
apparent when the expense is corsid-
eIed Of hauling fuel sixteen miles. half
OF which is up q steep mountain grade
an almost impossible feat in the winter
season which, at that altitude. is un-
usually long. The electricity here gem
Grated viii be sufficient to furnish pow
er AID light TO a number of the score
or more properties that are now doing
active development work. The concen-
traitor can be enlarged 20 do custom
work when conditions Justify the ex-
penditure
For substantial results. including the
development of q DrOht-earning mine.
furnishing them with means of the de-
velopment and an opportunity for the
reduction of their ores. the performance
OF the Columbus Consolidated has not
been eXceHed In the history Of Utah
mining.
Other properties nearby that are do
inE vigorous work are the Copper
Prince and Alta-Superior in which Mr.
Jacobson is largely Interested The
CCntineEtal-AIta, which recently began
regular productions; the Alta-Quincy,
joining the Columbus ON the south and
provided with substantial buildings and
"A complete machinery equipment the
, City Rocks and the Albion further 20
4 the south and east. with it's own power
from a Deheamer wheel and compress
{ s0r, which is running q tunnel through
the mountain 200 feet to reach an ore
p body at great depth, from which at the
surface good values were formerly OBJ
tanned. This tunnel is now in over 1900
5 feet and is being driven by continuous
work The conditions throughout the
entire camp indicate that its return to
E prominence is sure to occur.