The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-03
ELECTRIC POWER
FOR ALTA MINES
Columbus Con. Plant Goes Into
Commission on tuesday.
OTHER COMPANIES SUPPLIED
MAMMOTH TAPS BIG ORE BODY
ON 1900.

The big electric power plant OF tnc
Columbus Consolidated Mining com
pany. i'm Little Cottonwood canyon,
will 90 into full commission Tuesday
morning and the famous old camp of
Alta for the first time win experience
the ADVANTAGES of being able TO mine
in 2 strictly up-to-date fashion Sim
uTfaneOusIv with the turning on of the
current. the cOmpany's mammoth COM
pressor plant viii be started and the
compressed air lines leading from il
viii supply the energy to operate ma
chine drills at the Columbus COnSO1-
dated. South Columbus and Alta
Quincy mines. other companies are
also figuring with Manager Tony ia
cobson on using power supplied by his
company. and before the season IS over
it IS expected, several more mines viii
be connected I'D.
Mr.. Jacobson says his company is not
trying to hold anybody up. The con-
tracts already made guarantee the puT-
chasing companies power and light for
a bout one-haIf what il would cost them
10 maintain individual plants. TO say
nothing of the first cost of putting
them in. This statement is not made
for the purpose of advertising the Co
lumbus cOmpany's business, but to
point out to the wOuld-be investor in
greatest drawbacks to the district. that
of dear fuel and the resultant high cost
of operating, has been removed by the
energy and progressiveness Of the Co
lumbus management
Advantages to Columbus.
To the Columbus Consolidated com
pany itself the installation of the pow
ct plant means everything Sixty days
hence its new concentrating mill with
a capacity of 100 tons of ore daily, viii
go into commission. and the new plant
viii supply the power to run it. The
mines viii be electrically lighted, ma
chine drills will be employed in break
ing ore and prosecuting development
work, while the same energy viii be
utilized to run trains through the Op-
Grating tunnel. hoists for the wines
below the tunnel level and the pumps
to keep the workings free Of water
Speaking of the latter. Ii may be well
10 explain that an incline shaft has al
ready been sunk seventy feet below the
lower tunnel level all the way i'm fine
body of ore. which. at the one point
where Il has been cross-cut, shows
width Of fifteen feet This mass of ore
carries from S 10 q per cent copper and
fifteen TO twenty ounces silver per ton.
The gangUe in quartz and the calCu-
lation is that il will mill in a manner
that VIII make the concentrates worth
$50 10 $50 Der ton
VIII be Ready Next Fall.
on the lower tunnel level one shoot
of ore has been opened up straight
away for a distance Of REQ feet. At
twelve different points in the mine
Slopes have been opened up that VIII
permit the mining of any tonnage that
il may be decided TO put through tn
zion Of 11H
viii allow of the mining of a great deal
of first-ciasS ore. which makes with
the milling grades Before the upper
and lower tunnels are connected iu
such shape that ore may be sent out
Of the upper through the lower work
iugs about 400 feet of v-DTk VIII have
to be done. but Manager Jacobson says
that viii be completed soon after the
mill goes into commission on the 1st
of September
The mill viii probably be run at
about half capacity on the start" said
AR jacobson. but when we get the
plant into full swing I expect it TO
earn at the rate of $L0ao a day. All
of the machinery and building material
is now on the ground, the grading is
completed and the foundations for the
buildings and heavy machinery are
nearing Co>npleuon, while a crew or
men is busy framing up the building
material Rock breakers. rolls and
Huntington mills viii be moved on to
their foundations Just as quick as they
are ready 10 receive them. in order
that there viii be no delay following
the erection of the buildings"
The starting of the power plant
means the employment of a number of
additional men in the Columbus, South
Columbus and Alta-Quincy mines. and
" hen other properties rig up for power
the camp VIII be running wide open.