The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-23
RATE ON ORES is
AT LAST AGREED
Rio Grande Is to Handle Business
From Bingham to Garfield.
TONNAGE TO BE IMMENSE
TOWN is TO BE BUILT INSIDE
SALT LAKE COUNTY.

AT \ conference between the parties
II at interest which consumed a por-
ton OF Tuesday. Tuesday night
and yesterday. late into the afternoon.
| an agreement satisfactory to all con-
| cerned was reached relating TO the
| transportation Of ores from the Utah
Copper and Boston Consolidated COM
| panies' mines to the new mills and
| smelters west of this city. As a result
! the Rio Grande Railroad company will
| handle the traffic and the mining COM
| panies viii not be required to build a
| line of road on their own account.
| The Utah Copper company was rep
resented at the conference by its exc Gu
| tive committee C. N. MacNeil, ID. c.
Jackling and SPENCER PenrOse. La
! fayette Hanchett appeared for the s.
| ton Consolidated company; 5. W. Ec-
| cIes, traffic director of the American
| Smelling & Refining company, for that
corporation and the American Smelters
| Securities company, and g. II. Sch acks
vice president, \. 5. HUI es, general
traffic manager, and r. J. Yard, chief
! engineer for the Rio Grande Railway
company.
Representatives Of the various inter-
ests got together in this city several
days ago, previous to the departure or
President Samuel Newhouse Of the
Boston Consolidated, for the east, and
took up the subject. At that time only
preliminary details were arranged and
the determination of the subject was
passed over with the understanding
that it should be finally disposed of on
the Dist. The bus ness just concluded
was in harmony with the arrangements
previously made.
Rate Close TO IS Cents.
While it was agreed that details OF
the agreement reached should not be
made public. it is perfectly safe to say
that the railroad company has made a
fair rate on the tremendous tonnage OF
ore that will go over its tracks to the
mills of the Boston Consolidated and
! Utah Copper companies and to the
smelters of the American company "a
we'll. This rate is being carefully
guarded, but when il is understood that
the management of the Boston Copsol-
idated had figured 20 cents d ton as a
liberal estimate for tranSr porting ores
from its mines to the site il had at first
decided supOn on the AeSt shores Of
Utah lake, it is reasonable to suppose
that the rate from Bingham to Gar
field secured from the Rio Grande COM
pany, will prove To be not much i'm
excess of that amount, probably p
cents a ton, 1t is not considered pos
sible that the operating com anies
would stand for much if anything more
than that, as they were ampl able TO
build a line of their own should il be
found necessary
In addition 10 reaching an agreement
on this important subject, arrange
ments were made with the railroad Off
Gals for the building of the miles OF
p will "a fl
handle the business at the terminal
points. and from now on there will be
all kinds of activity in this branch Of
WOrl-.
Engineering Problems Ahead.
At the Bingham end it is understood
that there are some engineering fea-
lures that have not yet been fully
worked out. but now that il has been
definitely decided that the Rio Grande
is to do the hauling for the big COM
panies the grades thai viii be neces-
sary TO get the trains TO the mines viii
be worked out as soon as possible in
order that construction may begin.
The railroad company has promised
that every requirement of the big mines
and smelters will be met and. as this
means that the company viii have To
provide transportation facilities for
not less than t,UiU tons OF ore Ger day
within a year and probably twice as
much within two years, there viii have
TO be some hustling for equipment
with which to handle it,
With this bushes out Of the way and
with the Mining companies relieved OF
the world of detail that the building
and equipment Of an independent line
would entail, the decks are left clear
for them 10 round out their plans Of
campaign at the mines and mills.
Site of Town Selected.
So we'll have these already advanced
that it has been decided that the new
townsite viii be located between the
smelters and the milling plants Of the
Boston Consolidated and Utah compa-
MES. The works of the latter will be
nearest this city. About one-half mile
west OF the Utah Copper the Boston
Consolidated mill viii be located and
between that and the American smelt-
eTs, two miles or so farther west, will
be the big smelteT and mill town. and
the site for the latter Is described a.
being an ideal one.
Both of the big milling plants. the
capacities of which viii eventually
reach 1900 tons or more of crude ore
per day. and the toWnsite, which is ex-
pected to boast d population of 10 coo
persons within four or five years viii
be in Salt Lake county, while the yari-
Gus plants of the smelling company
are expected to cover each side of the
dividing line between Salt Lake and
Tooele counties, with the bulk of it OF
this side.