The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-14
HUNDREDS BUSY
AT BLACK ROCK
Tearing Away Mountain Side to
Build Smelter.
RAILROAD WORK GOING ON
e. c. w. is GRADING AND WEST
ERIN PACIFIC WILL START.
RAILROAD WORK GOING ON

Men, horses and machinery are tear
ing their wa into the bosom of the
mountain side AT Black Rock. Work on
The great new smelter is we'll under
way, and where two weeks ago was soil
tude is now a great anthilI of ceaseiess,
e~ver-mOving industry.
When DAME Guggsnheim. head Of the
American smelling q Refining company
SAID a Few weeks ago that the cOmpanys
new copper smelter would be up and at
MorK at the beginning OF next summer
MS statement in The Herald was read
with much interest But the public hard
y realizes what he meant Anyone who
takes a trip 20 the Point of the Noun
Jalns now can get an idea.
Overnight a big construction town has
sprung up. II has grown into full be-
ing 80 quickly that even the saloons
were beaten. None have Yet been eS-
t+ohshe0. Fer a mile and a hall along
the sid or the mountain and down on
the flat In a strip half a mile wide the
earth is covered with men, horses and
material. Already these have been so
Well applied that the outline or the
big smelter has been scratched in the
hillside. The excavation has been sur
r1ciently accomplished To enable the OBJ
server TO see its entire shape. AT the
same time the grading is going ON Duild-
iugs are being erected, and sidlngs run
from the Salt Lake Route tracks up
among the cliffs 10 convey material as
II is needed for the work. Just now
more than 400 men are at work for the
Utah Construction company IN tins
snelter site work. BY next week II IS
expected "a large force Will be starting the
Western Pacific grading from the same
point.
Rio Grande Rushes Work.
Meantime other grading crews are busy
along the sides of the foothills reaching
from Black Rock back TO Bingham can
IONS mouth. These aEe grading Tor the
F.. DO ODD u.a1H2 Hraala 70 he laid In
the new smelter from the mines of Bling
The heaviest part OF TINS work
Will be in the gorge by which the ROAD
rounds the point of the mountains. Iheru
will be some rock work in two or three
deep cuts. Already station s~ubcontrac-
tors are at work on this portion ana
are blasting out bits of the mountain
side. Further south other subcontrdc-
tors are moving dirt with grading out
fits and. though the beginning or the
railroad work came only ten days ago
one can get a pretty good idea OF us
route for several miles by a superficial
view of the hillside.
Daily trains of construction material
are being taken out from the city Dy
the Salt Lave Route ana uni9aueu lIIs
side of Garfield. Along a siding lhefe
are long trains of boarding cars. Ihese'
the camps and the painting engines whose
occasional sharp shrieks from among tht
rocks startle a stranger passing througn
the place. are all supplied with water 10y
a long pipe line carried around the
mountain side from a ranch a mile and
a half 20 the southeast.
The thing hat first and most I'm
presses the visitor to this place Is the
marvellous change that has come during
the past ten days-the change from soil
tude TO noise N constant motion. Bul
even this change is not so marvellous
as the one which Will have come by th'
beginning Of next summer, when INT
smelteT's stacks will be belching smok'
from the midst of a permanent town a
the foot of the mountain side.
Dunn Gets Promotion.
Il. 4. Dunn, formerly travelling auditor
of the Southern Pacific. has Just beef
appointed auditor and general freight anC
passenger agent of the California North
eastern. Railway company. a position
which those who knOW him say he vii
fiji with credit to himself and profit L
his company, Mr. Dunn enjoys the al
ditiOnal distinction of being "A brother o
Hyrum Ellsworth Dunn, the DOpulal
travelling passenger agent OF the Oregon
Short Line.