The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-17
GETTING READY
TO HANDLE ORE
What Is Being Done at Bing,
ham to Insure Delivery of
Ore at Garfield.
GOLD ORE AT MAMMOTH
REPORTS FROM CAMP INDICATE
IMPORTANT STRIKE.

While the task of hurrying to COM
pIetion the mammoth smelling and
milling works at Garfield, west Of this
city, is being crowded to the limit and
while the tremendous Importance of 1t
IS generally understood by the read
ing public, not much is known Of the
preparations that are being made at
Bingham to keep these great mills and
shelters in constant operation after
START is made. 1t viii not be many
months till the railroad which handles
the camps business will be called upon
to pull out of the camp at Bingham
somewhere between 1900 and $4,000
tons of ore every day That viii re-
ouire not less than $50 cars of a Capa-
city Of fifty tons each, as it will take
half that many going in each direction,
loaded out and empty back, to keep the
stream of ore moving When 1t IS eX-
planned that the present equipment of
the railroad company in the camp is
hardly equal to the task of handling
possibly 1000 tons a day, at the out
side, some idea Of the improvements
that will have to be inaIgurated, Of
the new equipment that Will have to be
provided and the tTaCkage facilities
supplied can be better appreciated.
With such volume of business star
ing IT IN the face. il is only fair to
presume that the Rio Grande company
is now having constructed a great
many new locomotives and steel, self
dumping ore cars 70 meet the demand.
Terminal facilities on the mill and
snelter end of its lines are already be
ing provided and the work of building
a new line from point below Bing-
ham CANYON, where connections with
the new line to Garfield will be made,
is now we'll under way.
The railroad company has one line
between lower Bingham and the prln-
cipal mines in operation, but the sky
line" sO-called, now being constructed,
has been designed by the engineers in
charge with a view to eliminating
sharp curves and heavy grades in or
der that long and heavy trains, with
powerful engines, may be easily and
safely handled. AS surveyed, this sew
eraI miles of line has at no point a
greater than 212 per cent grade, while
the average is less than ? per cent
ITp to the present time the contractors
have been content to carry on the work
Of grading. tunneliug, etc. with force
of about 225 men, but the intention now
is to increase the force to something
like SEQ or 500 men and complete the
line, If possible, during the next four
months Two tunnels are being driven,
the longest one being 400 feet. Crossing
the gulches at various points, the road
will require ], 200 feet Of tTestling, the
longest span being 400 feet in length
Esighty-f1ve-pOund rails viii be laid and
when the line is finally completed TO
the Utah Copper and Boston COnsOh-
dated properties; when the sidings and
switches have been put in and every
thing trimmed up. it is believed that
10000 tons Of ore per day can be taken
out Of the camp
There is no 1ittIe anxiety on the part
of the big operating companies and the
mill and smelter arrangements con-
corning the ability Of the contractors
and the railroad company to get all
OF this work done by the time the ton
mage viii be required, as it is easier to
talk OF getting large forces Of men
than II is to find them.