The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-03
new WORKS FOR
BOSTON CON.
Preparations Now Making for
Permanent Equipment of
Mines at Bingham.
YANKEE HAS a BIG STRIKE
GARFIELD SHELTERS TO START
UP MONDAY.

Plans are now well along toward COM
pletion for the several large buildings that
will constitute the permanent works at
the Boston Consolidated cOmpany's Bing-
ham mines and construction will begin
during the present month. They include
a three-story boarding and lodging house
capable of accommodating several hun
dred men, machine, blacksmith and car
penter shops and a large building in which
will De housed the great power generating
and compressor machinery.
Mine Manager 5. Gates, who was in
from camp yesterday on one of his pc
riodical business trips, stated that the
grading for the new buildings was SO
we'll advanced that construction could be-
gin at any time. The point selected for
the new works is on the northwesterly
side of the mountain which carries the
cOpepr-bearing porphyrieS and distant
from the present works about one-quarteT
of mile, or midway between where pres
ent mining operations are being carried
on and the pOrphyry side of the company S
great stretch of mineral-bearing territory.
Mine Manager Louis S. Gates, who was
in from camp yesterday on one of mis- pc
shortly begin 10 reach the mine. When
completed the new works VIII compare
with the best in the state and will per-
init of the mining of any tonnage of
ore that circumstances require. Every
device TO enter into the equipment will
be of the latest and most approved type
hold first place in western mine equip
ment-
, Manager Gates exhibited photographs
yesterday showing the progress being
made in the stripping Of the cOpper-bear-
ing pOrphyries by the monster steam
shovel They show that during the past
fifteen days the great dirt and rock dig
ger has plOWed its way several hundred
feet through thirty to fifty feet or more
of Overburden, while Mr.. Gates states that
more rapid progress than ever is being
made.
Two or three hundred feet ahead of
the machine is the point of the mountain
where it was originally intended to put
down a large number of drill holes and,
with one mighty blast tear away and
send tumbling down the mountain side
hundreds of thousands of tons of mate
rial. This scheme, MT. Gates says, has
been abandoned as too hazardous. In
stead the present plan OF dropping down
holes at frequent intervals and charging
them with sufficient powder simply TO
shake up and loosen the material for easy
handling with the steam shovel VIII DC
carried through. a greater number OF
holes at frequent intervals and charging
fired on the point of the mountain, how
ever. and while there Will be nothing
spectacular about the blast, it will jar
loose a tremendous amount of EARTH rock
and debris, which covers the porphyry al
that point to depth of 100 feet or more.
Second Shovel Soon.
While all this is going on, Manager
Gates reports that preparations are being
made 10 begin operations with second
shovel on a grade farther down the
mountain side TO strip the deposit up &c
the grade on which operations are now
being conducted. In the meantime ship
ments of crude ore from. the mine to the
smelter are limited only by the capacity
of the Copper Belt road to handle the
business and, as its motive power is and
has been considerably on the bum fol
a long time the tonnage sent out is not
anything like what the management OF
the property would like to make it. New
engines are promised shortly, however,
and then the trouble should be at an
end.