The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-22
JOHN D. WOOD A
CACTUS VISITOR
WeII-Known Mining Operator
Gives Impressions of Big
NewhOuSe Mine.
IS PLEASED WITH
RESULT OF VISIT
SpIendid Reserves Are Being
Added TO Faster Than
Extraction Proceeds.

There are few more interesting prop
critics in ali Utah than the Newhouse
or Cactus mine in Beaver county, and
no other mine IN the State is drawing
more visitors 10 SEQ its wonders. Among
the last TO 60 through the property.
and to become all the more cnthuslas-
tic regarding it and its positive future.
is John D. Wood, president Of the Ne
vaGa Douglas Copper Company, aud one
Of tine best known mining men and cap
italists of the State. Mr.. Wood spent
several days in the numerous districts
OF Beaver county. and he improved the
opportunity 10 look through the New
house iust as he urges all who have the
time and opportunity 10 do. Mr. Wood
returned Friday morning from Beaver
county, and regarding the Newhouse
mine he stated to The Tribune:
''I was treated royalty by Superin-
tendent Moffat, who placed every pos
sible advantage in my way of seeing
He first displayed the maps of the
whole mine. level to level, snd showed
ne the amount Of ores being shipped
each day and being concentrated each
day, as we'll as the details regarding
the character Of the work being done in
the splendid mill now in operation. |
will say that the mine is conducted
along big principles. and in the correct
war The management now is sending
through the plant about 500 tons of ore
per day, and il is sending out only
twelve TO fifteen cars of high grade per
month for the reason that no attempt
is being made TO stope the ores. The
Shipments represent the result of dc
vol nom eut work only
Gas is well known. perhaps, the COM
pany has a. tunnel in for $500 feet,
which represents the G00.foot level OF
the mine. A shaft has been sent from
tne surface TO the GOO, and at each
hundred level drifts were ruD which
showed steady Improvement step hy
step as each new level WAS explored.
The 60o-foot level especially shows 6ne
ore bodies, aud in places the ore has
boon demonstrated for a width Of SOC
feet. The mill is concentrating i've
tons OF ore into one ton of concep
trates. | believe that the shipping
grade of ore being sent direct 10 the
market will average about 20 per cent
copper. The company is starting TO
drive 2 new shaft from the 600.foot
level. This is now down forty feet,
ard all in good grade of ore. The COM
Psny contemplates going 600 feet deep
ore bodies are found TO be continuous
to that depth, they will drive second
and deeper innnel.
This new tunnel will tap the re.
sources some 600 feet deeper than the
present main working tunnel. il will be
very long one, bat the ground is soft
and easily worked. This new tunnel
will have the advantage in addition to
the greater depth Of opening out near
the mIll OF The company. thus doing
away with the present railroad haul
from the mine TO mill The company
has contracted for electrical power
which should be installed BY October.
This will be ~rcat convenience, and
1t will save a great deal of money The
company is placing more concentrating
machinery in the mill, and the manage
mont hopes shortly 70 be handling 400
tons OF ore more per day than at pres
ept
81 know of no way to estimate the
present tonnage of ore in sight in the
Newhouse. To do this would necessi
tate competent mining engineers and it
would keep them figuring for number
of days But ! can say that enough
ore is in sight right now to keep the
mill busy for mapv years TO come, and
the management is developing 4 great
deal more ore each day than it is TAX
ing out. The mine is large and inter.
estlng euough for every one who has
the chance 10 visit it and see the con.
d1tlons for himself
=" AS ] said before, the management
gives everyone all opportunity needed
to enable one TO draw his conclusions
and all the information that could be
desired is instantly forthcoming. The
books are kept in such shape that one
can look back month after month and
see ust what was done, and the i'm.
proveinent that now exists over previ-
"ns periods This information is eeHom
gwen. by other mines, and anv one ey.
perlencing the same kind OF treatment
VIII appreciate the Newhousc mode of
procedure. -