The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-24
STEAM SHOVEL
At BOSTON CON.
Monster Ore Digging Device Is
Placed in Regular Com
mission at Mine.
LOCOMOTIVES AND CARS
CAMPAIGN ON PoRPHYRY NOUN
TAIN FORMALLY OPENED.

With the steaming up of two locomo-
tiyes and the placing IN regular commits
sion Of the ninety-five-ton Jeffrey steam
shovel. the Boston Consolidated Mining
company yesterday morning inaugurated
a new and novel method of mining at
Bingham. The steam shovel picks up
load of four cubic yards Of material at
time and has guaranteed capacity for
handling 1900 tons Of the Bingham copper
bearing porphyry every twenty-four
hours. That is, It viii scoop up and load
onto the cars that much material and
including engineers, fiFemen, pit men,
etc, total crew OF sixty men IS all that
will be required TO keep IT busy. That
means the handling of fifty tons of ore
to the man. Another Of these machines
viii be delivered at the cempany's mines
in September.
Nine eighteen-ton locomotives Of q
sturdy type shown are to be employed by
the company in operating the trains that
will first move the everything debris from
the mountain OF ore and then carry the
ores to the mammoth loading bins, where
Il will be transferred to the cars Of the
Rio Grande railroad for transportation to
the milling plant at Garfield Five OF
these locomotives are now available for
the work and four more have been or
dered- The first consignment of the fifty
specially constructed self-dUmping cars
TO be used by the company have arrived
and others are en- route. Fifty more of
these cars will be ordered shortly, so
that by the time the second steam shovel
Is at work there viii be plenty OF cars
to keep things moving
Preparatory Work First.
Telling Of what IS being done at camp,
Lafayette Hanchett, manager of all the
Newhouse interests, stated yesterday
Ell will be directed in removing material
to allow the building Of side tracks,
switches. etc. on the main line that
worms its way around the mountain of
q accom-
plish just so much in the stripping Of the
deposits Of ore, but the removal OF the
overlap between tracks will not be taken
up until ample track room IS thus pro-
vided. The initial try-Out of the steam
shovel. as stated yesterday morning, was
made Friday and both Mr.. Hanchett and
Mines Manager /. s. Gates were per
fectly satisfied with it's operation Word
from camp Yesterday was to the effect
that It was doing it's work like a veteran
and that there was nothing to show but
what il would more than meet require
ments of the contract under which it
was purchased
Other Steam ShoVeIs in Utah.
This is the second steam shovel to be
employed in metal mining in Utah. the
first one having gone into commission at
the Cactus mines Of the Newhouse COM
pany several months ago. A similar ma
chine has been purchased by the Utah
Copper company and has been at the
mines for some time, but the management
IS not vet READY 20 use IT, present Sliot =
being directed to the development OF the
mines Of the big corporation on other
lines
That some difficulties viii be encoun-
tered in the character of mining that
the plans of the company contemplates
carrying through the management Is
ready to admit and the greatest of these,
IL is felt, will be handling such ire
mendOus tonnage as the mill will require
during the severe weather Of winter.
To guard against closing the mill under
such conditions it IS the purpose, after
regulation mining IS under way next
spring to provide for the storage of hun
dreds of thousands of tons of ore at the
mill and mine loading station bins and
platforms In this manner, when the
weather is too severe to permit of open
pit work. and a few days of it IS likely
to come at any time during the months
Of January. February and March, there
will be no occasion to stop a wheel in the
big milling plant.