The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15

There is something worth studying
and thinking about in the big pictures
OF Bingham hills which are shown here
his morning. They indicate what has
been and what is being done at the
mines of the Boston Consolidated Min
ing company during the past twelve
vrolths IN the matter Of making sur
face improvements and the removal Of
the OVerourden from the great noun
tain OF "copper" bearing pOrphyry that is
10 supply the new 3.000-ton milling
ni7nt Al Garfield with ore.
IN the long panoramic view the build
inzs and works of the Boston Consoli-
fa.e1 company are shown in the can
,-op At the extreme right OF the picture
Midway between there and the point Of
he porphyry mountain on the tremen-
CoUs dumps that have partially filled
he gulches with Overburden, are the
rev power plants, machine shops.
boarding and lodging house. etc. of the
company. The extreme left of the pic
-ure shows where the steam shoVels
commenced tearing off the surface OF
he mountain. while in the lower an5
sara Ter panoramic view, that portion
~ the mountain hid from view in the
larger picture is shown, with the works
nj he Commercial mine of the Bing-
ham Consolidated company in the dis
'snle. Dropping down the hill in the
laft of the long picture below the ter
rlccd tracks of the Boston Consolidated
vomo3uy's own railroad and where the
mound begins 10 Hatten out a little. is
rhere he five big steam shOvels OF the
I-t9h Copper company are now at WORK
stripping ground and mining ore for the
curlpany's mills at Bingham and a
Garfield.
L is hard TO quite understand wha-
al this work means without going L.
=
wee taken recently for the Boston
Consolidated company. to show prog
~ess at the mine. In similar picture
- the long one taken a year age.
nothing shows but the grade of the
railroad that was then finished from
upper right hand end. or sulphide mine
portion of the company's domain. TO the
open CUT which is located at the APP
preach to the point of the mountain IN
the left OF the view.
Since then. as can be seen. the steep
mountain side has been stripped of
millions and millions OF tons Of soil.
brush, trees, etc, together with any
where from ten to 100 feet or more OF
porphyry. through which the values
had leached and redepOsited below All
around this mountain. as will be noted
in consulting both pictures are white
dumps. Nearly all of these represent
tunnels that were previously run to de
termine the extent and quality of the
copper bearing porphyry hill. 1t was
in these tunnels that Samuel Newhouse
came to learn the real value of this
mammoth deposit OF ore, and it was
through them that the thickness of the
ieached and barren portion of the zone
was determined. This mountain OF ore
is now sufficiently cleared TO permit
the mining OF any tonnage desired by
the steam shovels
Another thing of interest in these re-
markable pictures is the illustration of
neighborly feeling that characterizes
the relations of the big operating COM
panies Of the camp. To clear the cop
per porphyry deposits Of the overbur-
den, the management of the Boston
company found fl necessary to dump
much Of the material on other peoples
ground. Some of the gulches now show
ing such mammoth dumps are on prop
erty owned by Colonel F. A Wall. some
are on Boston Consolidated ground and
some others encToach on the possess
sions Of the Utah Copper company
Was there any difficulty in securing
the privilege to bury a neighbor's
ground hundreds Of feet with this
worthless material? Not at all Out in
Bingham the companies and individ-
uals, with rare exceptions ali Join
hands when il comes to the doing of
things that benefit the camp and the
mining industry. And thus we find
that several lines of tramWay are car
ried over miles OF other peoples prop
erty: two OF three lines of railroad are
constructed from mine to mine and
gulch TO gulch. without any one think