The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-26
PLANNING FOR
BIG OPERATIONS
Matters Shaping for Hadling OF
Ontario Daily DAILY
Ores Under Merger.
EARNINGS WILL BE LARGE
MAMMOTH PLANT LIKELY FOR
MOUTH OF DRAIN TUNNEL.

proposition that has long been looked
dron as the ultimate outcome of deep
mining at Park City, particularly as it
affects the Ontario. DAILY and Daly-West
mines, ramely the milling of all ores at
the mouth Of the Ontario drain tunnel
is assuming form. That such scheme
Was one Of the main reasons why j. +.
Bamherger sought and finally landed con-
troll of the Ontario and DAILY mines there
is no question. and there is little if any
doubt that, Wnen plans for the merging
Of the Properties mentioned are carried
through, great concentrating works will
be bull. at the point named. The on
tariD and Daily mines will be drained
during the next few months and the drain
tunnel level viii be extended from its
pres. MT terminal. near the western houn-
dairy line of DAILY ground to a point di
rectly under the DAILY West shaft, 2,l00
feet beneath the surface.
When connections have been made all
ore from the Daly-Wcst. DAILY and on
rariO could be sent direct from the mines
10 the mill by an electric haulage system.
the power for Whicn would he developed
with the s000 &c 6.0c6 gallons of water
per minute that viii be flowing through
the tunnel The same power would sup
ply the mill with its energy and the
costs of mining and milling would be
from 81 10 8 per ton less than the camp
has ever known. II would then cost less
10 mine and mill loo tons of ore per day
than IL now costs to mine and treat 400
tons. The high-grade ores could be sent
out in the same manner or they might
be handled as at present, through the
tunnel that connects the Ontario at the
600-fOOt level
The DaIy-West mine at the present
time lifts its milling ores all the way
from loo to so feet through a per-
pcndicular shaft. puts it through the
mill and then drOps the product down
the mine again and sends it out through
tie Ontario 6I-fOcJ tunnel to the load
Ing station at the old Ontario mill.
The Rio Grande railroad has a grade
from Park City around to the mouth of
the Ontario drain tunnel and II would not
cost ILuCh to lay the ties and rails and
pOsal of the conTanr. No authoritative
Information on this bject has vet been
released but there is no question that
1t is being figured Out by the Bamberger
syndicate thas 5 believed to be round
ing out the consolidation of the big mines
named. There is nc question but what
there is millions and millions of tons Of
ore in the mines of these three compan-
les than can be cOnserVatiVelv estimated
as being worth SO to So per ton in gold
silver, lead and copper. With the mines
opened az stated it would be no trick at
all to mine ZOO tons a day of this ore
and heavy tonnage of high grade at the
same time. BY converting four tons Of
the milling ore into one a concentrate
would be obtained that would have a
market value of approximately $50 a ton
THAT would mean product valued at
Sob09 ptr month, il would mean net
Profit of at least $4,000 per month, with
out counting cent of earning from the
shipment of first-class ore, more or less
of which will be mined and shipped as
long as these mines are operated. To
see these properties earning more in a
month than they are now earning in a
year nuld look good. wouldn't it? Well
that IS what is coming during the next
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