The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-19
YAMPA SHELTER
FIRES Up TODAY
Management Expects to Be
Running Full Tilt by End
of Month.
MUCH IMPROVEMENT MADE
BOTH AT THE SHELTER AND
THE MINE.
MUCH IMPROVEMENT MADE

The first ray of sunshine to break
through the smelter and mine-closing
gloom of the past several weeks came
yesterday, when General Manager C.
w. SaXrfan of the Yampa announced
that the smelter would be placed in
commission again this morning and, by
the end Of the month, all going well, it
would be going at capacity. While the
Yampa is not custom plant, the re-
sumption of operations there means the
employment of several hundreds of idle
men between the smelter and the
mines. and adds mony thousands of dol
lars to the payroll account of Bingham.
As the Tampa smelter disposes of its
product to the United States company,
the continuance of operations depends
altogether on whether the United
States company will be able to handle
the matte in case its smelter at Bing
ham Junction is closed down for good.
AS stated by Managing Director Hol-
den during the past week, his COM
pany's big smelling works at Kennett,
Cal, will be ready for full operation by
the middle of next month, so the prob
abilities are that, if the smelter here
IS closed, the Yampa matte will be
taken care of at the Kennett works. At
any rate, Manager SaXman is appar-
emily not worrying over the matter at
the present time.
Shelter improvements.
During the time the smeIter has been
closed down, practically all repairs, adj
ditions and improvements have been
completed. The ore bins have been
filled to overlooking and so have the
coke and coal bins and everything. so
far IS these matters are concerned, is
ready for a long and most successful
a haU he
work. were previously able to handle.
Three new rOasters and one reverbera-
tory furnace have been added to the
plants Ore-treating capacity. New
dust chambers, new stacks, new water
lines and appliances for fire protection
have also been put in, while the entire
plant has been re-wired and every cleo
trical feature of the plant perfected
The Yampa smelter is therefore now
up-to-date in everything that goes to
make fine mating plant of it, while
its capacity can most likely be screwed
up to close to the 1,000-ton mark if the
management so desires.
New Tram and Mine Equipment.
But this not all that has been ac-
cOmplished. The new aerial tramway
between the mine and smelter has been
so nearly finished that Manager Sax
man expects to have it ready TO go into
commission within week or ten days.
and by the end of the month at the
latest. This means that when the
snOwstorms interfere with operations
on the Copper Belt railroad, over
which the cOmpany's ores now have to
20. there will be no delays
At the mine the main operating tun-
mel has been Strengthened out, heavier
rails have been laid, new chutes have
been constructed and $500 feet of new
61z-inch air pipe has been laid into the
workings of the property. The building
and the foundations for the reception
of the mammoth new air compressor
Q have been finished, and when the ma
chinery itself arrives there will be moth
ing to delay its installation. \The com
pressOr is now in transit, and it will be
but matter Of a short time till it
will be here and placed in commission.
Under Manager Saxman, the Yampa
properties of the Tintic Mining & De-
velopment company have been so
shaped up for a career of long, steady
and profitable production, and the
hmelter has been brought to such a
state of completeness and efficiency.
that the world of fine ore blocked out
in the mines can now be made to yield
handsome dividends. Nothing can head
st off but the utter decentralization of
the copper making business and, if the
worst is not over in that all signs will
have to fail