The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27
TWO BIO MINES DEVELOPED BY SAMUEL NEWHOUSE

required. The pipe line has a length
Of 1900 feet or about eight miles 1t
consists of piping IL inches in diameter
and its laying has Just been completed
TO the tunnel mouth. The tunnel will
have a length of $500 feet. or consider
ably more than mile, and on this work
is being prosecuted from both ends with
a progress that indicates its completion
by the time the concentration, which
viii be situated at the meeting place
of the pipe line and the lower end of the
tunnel, is ready for operation.
Railroad Built to Mine.
The next question to be taken UP and
considered was that of transportation.
While ehe distance to Frisco by noun
tain trail is less than five miles. around
Dy the valley. IN order to obtain q salts
factory grade. for either wagon or rail-
the necessary travel is fully nine miles
with the basis for the water supply and
the concentration being laid the enter
prise was presented 20 the management
OF the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Like railroad and arrangements were
made for an extension of that line from
Frisco to the concentration site. This
extension is expected TO be finished by
the time the mill is ready for operation
and every part Of this extensive plan
VIII be ready for harmonious work some
time within the coming summer.
Corollary to the work that has been
described, and that is exclusively d
mining nature, is the NewhOuse town
site, also owned by the same corpora
ton. This includes some 5000 acres Of
ground. lying on a gentle slope about
the concentration site, which viii be
divided into miniature farms. upon each
OF which dwellings and the necessary
business places VIII be built. The wa
ter supply viii be ample for house and
mill use and for irrigating these lots so
that in addition 10 a manufacturing
center a vertiable oasis VIII have been
established in a remote and one Of the
most desert places in Utah, and from
q hitherto barren waste viii issue q
constant stream Of wealth.
VIII Treat 800 Tons Daily.
The site OF the old smelter and the
center of the mine development work
IN this property is at the upper andI
inner end of the tunnel, which passes
under mountain of considerable mag
nitude and through which the ore VIII
be taken by rail with electricity as the
motive power. The minerafzed area
Of this mine includes about 500 acres OF
ground The ore is copper sulphide,
with silicious gangue and which re-
sponds readily TO simple concentration
atter being ground. The contents Of
the ore range I'm value from 20 90 per
cent copper and from 81 to S. In silver
ard sold to the ton. I'm many places
silver is found I'm phenomenally high
values.
The capacity Of the concentration viii
be 1.500 tons Of crude ore a day. The
mine has been worked to a depth OF
500 feet from the collar OF the shaft at
the eide of the canyon, and the bottom
Of the shaft corresponds to the level
Of the shaft al its upper end At thie
depth sufficient water has been found
90 on a three-inch pipe which win also
be conducted through and cut of the
tunnel TO the mill and townsite. and
there utilized with the greater flow
from the Wah-Wah springs. Much has
been said Of the Cactus property. the
value and extent of its ores. The for
mer have been determined and are
known 20 be above 4 per cent copper
with enough silver and gold to more
than pay the expenses of extraction and
reduction. III not indeed the expenses
Of transportation also. The veins cut
ting thie property run easterly and