The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-30

that the entire over burden. with me
exception of occasional patches of sur
face loan and gravel. il properly mined,
crushed and treated. viii yield as much
yield thus far obtained by the lacking
system from our best ores.
This fact understood and recognized,
the entire problem Of cheap mining be-
comes at once simple The mill hole
or glory-hole" system Of open pit work
employed in many less favored locali-
adapted TO delivery IN mine or railroad
cars at less than 10 cents per ton, as
against a cost Of 500 to $40 per ton
Again. by this method. and assuming
one ton OF absolute waste for each two
tons Of workable ore mines "a proper
ton far in excess Of the widest sugges-
Con) the combined mass could be nAned
mixed together, bear the entire burden
/ or transportation and concentration, and
yet afford a saving Of more than 90 cents
| as against the cost by the present meth
Cd Of digging.
Big Surplus Possible.
Now on the basis Of costs indicated.
4 and with proper methods of milling, we
should now be earning more than $3.50
/ per ton net profit upon each and every
/ ton Of ore treated, as against 70 cents
] per ton by the present system, and
should therefore now have in our treas
ury a net surplus Of more than 8. COOS 600
a sum more than sufficient to meet all
/ necessary costs Of construction and equip
necessity of the S., OK, 0oO bond and Stock
! issue. with which cur property is bur-
1 dened
But this IS not all For several weeks
/ past the Rio Grande Western Railroad
company's engineers have been and are
/ stiI struggling with the difficult prob
l lem OF locating a line of road from our
mine to the proposed new mill site. The
I Ho0e
/ mate thirty-seven miles, the grade is to
/ be y per cent, and the tariff rate per
/ ton OF ore IA cents, none too much, per-
maps, considering the length Of line and
/ than would have been necessary had the
| mill been properly located.
For six years l had maintained con-
/ troll OF the lands and water which are
plant Adjoining and unoccupied is an
/ ideal mill site upon a hillside which
would afford natural facilities for hand
ing our ores by gravity throughout. leav-
/ ing ample dump for tailings. This would
/ require raising the necessary water about
/ 100 feet higher than the site now be-
! Ing improved, involving cost of about
three-tenths Of a cent per ton Of ore
/ treated, but the railroad could then
reach the mil upon a natural grade for
( several miles provided by one Of the old
shore lines Of Lake Bonneville and about
$50 feet vertically higher than the bin
/ Iloor or the mill as now projected.
Automobile Guiding Force.
BY reason of the peculiar contour OF
the intervening country, road construct
/ ed upon this higher line would be at least
ten or eleven miles shorter than the line
/ now projected, and nowhere more diff
! ucult OF construction. The advantage OF
/ being able TO handle our ores by gray
/ ity, as against innumerable mechanical
/ elevators, would result in a saving OF
/ at least 3 cents upon each ton of ore
/ besides the avoidance of inCessant annoy
/ ance and delays incident to the opera
ton Of that class of machinery. and then
! the cost OF construction would be reduced
/ to an extent that would more than com
/ pensate for any costs heretofore incurred
/ in constructing foundations at a place
/ which has nothing to commend il ex-
4 cept that It is easy Of approach by an
automobile. And this fact, I believe had
more influence in determining the Sc
/ lection than any thought Of fitness for
/ the purpose designed It is true, how
/ ever, that Mr.. Hawkins and myself op-
/ posed the location and urged the selec-
ton Of the hillside, which fact alone
would have been sufficient to cause its
! rejection, as our manager yields to no
/ one.
In our various discussions of milIing
! losses, 1 have never failed TO urge a
] trial Of machinery and methods in sue
/ cesSrul operation in other localities on
| even more difficult ores, or that a trial
/ be made with the little five-stamp mill
/ on the ground which we own and which
/ under most unfavorable conditions had
/ previously given results which would add
! % per cent to our present net profit
per ton.