Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-10
80. CAMPBELL,
Btoch Broker, ets ID. n, Walker Block
GREATEST COPPER CAMP.
winshAm Has Some Advantages knows
To No other District,

cheap mining, cheap transportation,
cheap reduction and oXhnusteBs ore
bodies are the factors ~ Bingham
greatness ssys Charles T, unrte IN
the current issue Ut the Bingham Bulc-
TN Here ore can be mined and mlllod,
the concentrates smeltod and the metal
prodnc, marketed ~ q total cost Of slis
per ton, and o IO,O00-ton mill can
handle ores carrying but 81 IN values
at a lgoht of $4,000 daily orc carrying
but ] per cent copper can DO made 10
pay expenses, With copper nj only 10
cents per pound, Moreover the orc
bodies are OF such tremendous cytont
that mammoth mills can be kept IN 0p.
GRAFTON for centuries Tho same condi-
Tons exist with reference 10 the smolt.
INK ores which produce copper NJ n
total cost of but 3 cents per pound
Nowhere else IN The ~ord do such con.
dilloha prevail except possibly In the
lake district, whore IN some Instances
ore containing but three, fourthe OF ono
per cent copper ~ mined At small
proft
II folowB that Bingham has little 10
fear from a slump IN the copper mar.
Rot Tor these mines could be worked
at u profi afttr throe.foufths OF the
mines OF the world had been forced TO
ilufN NOWnt
Fifteen years. ago the copper ores ~
Bingham wero Of no moro value than
10 much barren rock Then pyrltlo
smoltlng had no, been successfully ap'
Piled and tho entire value of ton
OF bingham copper ore, such as is now
being marketed would not pay the
tmeltlng charges hlelalmrNsts doolnro
that they have no, yet finished their
labors, They are silll working out now
methods, saving more Of the values az
diminished cost Who can forctoll what
the next 10 years may bring forth2 Ten
years hence, perhaps ores carrying but
! rer cent copper win be- mined 1T a
good proni,
From lta ore shipments tho Fortuna
company N now n great deal moro than
paying Nil the expenses OF development
work and even with thu important lln'
ptoyements now planned handsome
surplus win be left Tor tho treasury,
Rupt start IA keeping up the ore ship.
lnontn 10 n steady average NJ 30 tons
per day lie IN now loading u 200sion
lol of copper ore takon from the recent
strike In the Keystone tunnel over 1000
feet from It's mouth, and every pound
of 'ho ore has been taken oul IN the
course Of development work, The last
Two shipments averaged por cent cop.
per, Sgb0 In gold and ounces silver,
with 30 per cent iron eSeosp This cop.
per ore body has been opened UP for
1870 feet along lts strike ana on this
level II IA 81 feet between walls, A
winso was sunk 10 feet ana there are
nlno feet of ore ~ the bottom, while
at the top of q raise " 40 feet the vein
Ia nlne feet Wide II II were desired
10 increase shipments 100 tons could hc
sent out daily
ON Tuesday Supt start finished load.
inr a lnO'lon shipment Of sllyer,lond ore
from the Freedom tunnel THIS orc
nlfo comes from the Keystone vein, but
from u point 1000 feet away from the
copper ore shoot Thir orc also comes
nom the Keystone vein but from a
rolnt 1000 fcoi away from the copper
ore shoot This orc averages ~ per
cent lead, q ounces silver and 81 gold,
ana q rolId body four feet wide N ess
posed
within n Few days a cross.out WIN
Ne started "a tap the WnncbnRo vein,
Goa feet away This vein makes a good
Fhowno ~ copper ore IN upper work.
inRs and iht croas,cut win open II ~
a depth of 100 feet force ~ men
hrs been PVT to work cleaning oul the
MayHoNer tunnel and placing II IN
share Tor exploration,