The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-28
GIGANTIC WORK
FOR BINGHAM
Utah Copper Company to Eclipse
Everything IN the West.
MILL 1000 TONS A DAY
GREAT POWER PLANT, MILL AND
RAILROAD TO BE BUILT.

IAIITHIN fifteen months from today
Wv the Utah Copper company viii be
prepared to mill and its mines a.
Bingham viii be opened up and
equipped to produce 1000 tons Of ore
per day. every day in the year. BiuE-
ham already outshiues every other
camp in the state i'm the tonnage of ore
which il produces, but the output of the
Utah Copper company mines alone
viii. by the time mentioned. be more
than double what the camps entire
production is today This Is "a greater
tonnage OF ore than is being handled
by all of the five mammoth smelturE
works in this valley al the present
time. and the undertaking IL ono which
entirely eclpSCS I'm scope anything here
tofOre attempted i'm this state
The enterprise compartments also the
building Of fifteen miles of hrOaC-E8uEr
railroad from the mines of the company
10 the new works. the erection of a.
mammoth power plant chat viii supply
elect ricJl energy TO the mines and mills
and the Transportation of a system OF
mining more elaborate and more extern
siVc than il found aUy0NherN iu. tho iar
west 10 means the expenditure of a.
vast amount of money aud the employ
m'Ut nf am army Of skilled mechanics.
miners and laborcrs and must result lu
giving mining i'm this state the greatest
SiuEl, Iitt il ever received
Definite Action Is Taken.
Al of this was definitely determined
upon at n meeting of the directors of
the company yesterday afternoon iu
which Charles NJ MaCNojiI president
tsuoS ~ Wall, Vice PRESIDENT Spencer
PcuroSe. secretary and treasurer and
u g. lacking, general manage, Iatr-
ticipated The action taken was tNe
result of mature deiboratiou and au
investigation by the officials manned
which has taken every moment OF their
time for nearly two weeks past II is
based upon a. knowledge Of the immense
resources of the comuauys mines.
which have been under development for
several years. and the milling of the
product for many months past iu "a
plant which is now putting through du
average OF 200 tons of orc per day and
earning at the rate of between S55,0Dl
and $4,000 per month
1T has been definitely and finally de-
teTmmed- - said General Manager Jack
ling at the close of the meeting, Ito
build the new works on the property
owned by the company this side Of
Black Rock. about one mile south OF
the san Pedro tracks. and just twelve
miles due west of State street. TINS city.
along Fourth South. Besides the Ad-
ANS ranch OF $40 acres. the company
mas secured other property that rounds
| out its possessions To AN acreage or
substantial proportions. The now mill
1 viii have a capacity of 5000 tons peg
day. and included i'm the works viii he
a power plant of sufficient capacity to-
meet all the requirements of the COM
pany. both there and at Bingham. With
the new plant i'm operation all the works
Of the company viii be run 10y electric
energy I'm addition To- building the
Now min. the present plant viii be i'm
proved and its capacity raised from
what it is now to 1000 tons per day
Will Build New Railroad.
For the last several DAYS We have
had corps OF surveyors in the held
running the lines for a. railroad from
the cOmpauys mines TO the point So
I lectcd Tor the new milling plant. The
| line viii be fifteen miles long and built
to standard gauge We are not pre-
pared TO say at tho present moment
whether The railroad viii bc constructed
by the Utah Copper company or one
Of the big railroad companies NeEo-
ti5tIOuS are pending with a view to-
having one of them do the work and
handle the ira ffic but i'm case SstiSrac-
! tory arrangements cannot he made, we
/ shall build the line ourselves. Plans
! and specifications for the now works
/ viii be prepared as rapidly as possible
and i'm from sixty To ninety days from
now we shall have The work under way
il is the intention To complete IL within
! one year from the day upon which
ground is broken
/ At the same time "a system. or rather
I
/ inaugurated at the mines i'm order tina
I the workings there may be ian shape 10
supply the tonnage that the combined
works viii require TO keep them run
ming. In portions Of the property IL
4 VIII be possible to- strip the surface and
! carry out q system Of Quarryiug. I'm
( this work steam shOVciS viii be en-
/ plOyed wherever possible and the cars
I will be loaded i'm precisely the same
/ fashion as are the trains in many Of
] g limo tf fr--r
! Where the ground requires a different
/ method of handling it VIII be different
/ y mined, 50 il is possible that several
/ systems viii be employed
[ A Mountain of Copper Ore.
The Utah Copper company's proper
/ ty consists Of several hundreds OF acres
/ of copper-bearinE pOrphyry- There is
: a Verita BILE mountain of IL. and the cStI-
/ mates of the known tonnage to a depth
/ apprOXimatinE 600 feet, runs into so
. many millions of tons that the man
! aSement never thinks OF repeating them
! above a whisper. In addition To the
I monster porphyry belt contained with
| i'm the companys domain. several large
! assures carrying hIEh-grade ores are
I known to exist. As these are deVel-
/ oped they will be handled as the re
/ QuirementS of the situation dictate but
! it is the great pOrphyry lode, through
| which the values are very evenly dis
! tTibuted. that the company relies upon
I for the material that viii bring to il
/ untold millions during the years 20
| come
/ There is not a single element Of spec
| UlatiOn. in what the company can do.
! other than that ~ hich relates 10 tho
! just 50 much money to round out the
! undertaking and then II Will commence
( to return at rate that viii set the
/ copper world by the ears.