Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-25
Directors of Company Have De.
cided on the Location for Pro.
posed a,5OO'ton Plant,
SITE NEAR GARFIELD BEACH
Has Been Chosen VIII Mean Build.
ing Of RallrOad--0pportualty
For Salt Lake Route.

Tho location for the proposed $500
ton mill to be built by the Utah Cop
per company during the present year
has been selected. A decision was
reached yesterday and Manager d. c.
Jacklng will commence Immediately TO
arrange the necessary details and or
ganlze his forces to carry out the plans
Tor this big undertaking.
Tho Bingham canyon site, which was
looked upon as favorable location by
members OF the official stan, has been
abandoned and the directors have con-
cluded that the site east OF the old
Garfield Beach resort has decided adj
vantages In it's favor Consequently, Il
has been selected,
In many mays the Bingham canyon
site would have been preferable, but
the gentlemen comprising the board OF
directors, all OF whom have had wide
experience In mine and mill operation,
were careful 10 guard the future inter
ests OF the company before passing
judgment The haudling OF such an
Immense tonnage OF ore would make
It incumbent upon the company
to build a system OF retaining ponds
IN order that the shines would not
cover the farms and country below,
While this plan might work out hand
somely yet there were certain and
very grave dangers attached TO It..
When one stops to consider that the
basis Of concentration is from 20 10 %
tons OF ore into one ton OF concentrate,
the magnitude OF the dangers can be
easily understood,
One big water spout IN the noun
tains with It's attending floods, might
create great havoc, by sweeping out
the retaining banks of the ponds and
do just what the Utah Copper folks,
and the citizens of the valley below do
rot want 10 happen, One heavy storm
might do inestimable damage to the
country by covering II over with tall
ings and conditions might become 80
bad that the Jordan river would be-
come Allied with the refuse from the
mill,
But with the plant located on the
point OF near Garfield, no such disaster
can be anticipated. Here the company
VIII have available all the water 1t
needs. The ore will be brought down
over standard guaged railroad, the
length OF which would be from ~ to IL
miles,
II was intlmated during the day that
the Salt Lake Route might figure IN the
construction OF this line, as II would
, give the road an opportunity to enter
the biggest camp IN the state, the traf-
fic OF which now goes entirely TO the
Rio Grande. 1t was pointed out that
the Salt Lake Route could find an easy
grade into the copper camp by leaving
the main line four or lve miles east Of
Garfield, The traffic which would come
TO the road from the Utah Copper cons
pany alone would be no small item. But
with the vast developments being made
IN Bingham, there Is no telling what
proportions II would grow into
Bingham IL yet In its infancy, and a
year hence IL will be producing twice
the tonnage II Is now-if present plans
are carried out. II Is pretty well con-
coded by mining engineers who have
made Investigations there that the ore
bodies already opened up in the dis
trict cannot be worked out in "A genera.
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