The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-16
Ore Bins and CruSher House
About Ready to Receive
POrphyry Ores.
FIRST UNIT READY
BY SEPTEMBER 1
Over Hundred Mechanics Arc
Putting the Machinery
Into the Building.

The management Of the Boston Con
solidated company is getting affairs so
assembled and arranged al the mammoth
concentrating plant at Garfield, that
considerable daylight now shines
through, i'll an orderly way, what has
been all mass Of iumbled detail iu-
cident to construction Mill Manager
4. J. BEETLES. when asked by The
Tribune on Saturday regarding the pro
gress being made in placing things to
rights nj the mill, stated that the crude
ore bins and the crusher house at the
plant would he in readiness within the
next ten days TO receive the milling
grades of ore from Bingham. The
crude ore bin capacity will be $4,000
tons. Mr.. BEETLES stated that the switch
ing facilities were being placed in order
so that the company will be in shape
very soon to begin accumulating ore.
II is the plan Of the company to
begin work with the first unit of 800
tons not later than September !. In
their order other portions Of the plant
will then be placed into commi ssion,
until the full capacity of 5000 tons
of ore day will be utilized by the
management Upon the completion of
this first section. the company will
then begin work upon the second of
like capacity of 5000 tons Every
thing is activity at the Boston Consoli
dated plant. Fully l25 mechanics are
now employed in putting up the machin.
cry, and rapid work is the order of the
times. BY the first of the month the
buildings now erected Will be complete.
ly sheeted,
At Bingham the Boston Consolidated
company is accomplishing wonders IN
development and shipping way. Crude
ores are being marketed at record
speed, while three steam shovels are
stripping away the overhurden upon tho
mountains of concentrating ores con
tanned in the porphyry. Numerous eX-
ploratory or prospect tunnels have been
sent into the mountain to tap the mon
zonite zone for the purpose of empha-
sizing the possibilities of the future,
and at the mouths Of these tunnels a
considerable tonnage of ore has been ac-
cumuatcd through necessity. The man
agemeut will first rid these dumps of
their resources. and the bins at the new
plant should be generously provided
with food for the mill by the time the
plant is ready to begin its work,
Throughout the mining and milling
circles of the country, there is great in.
tcrest in the two great concentrating
propositions IndI sOOD VIII ne DuSN sue
by side at Garfield, and utilizing entire
~ different methods of treatment for
the same character Of ore. The Utah
Consolidated company has its plant par
TALLY in operation. and with the Boston
Consolidated mill in full blast there will
be an excellent opportunity for milling
circles to study the details of operation
The Boston plant is an exclusive gravi-
" plant, there being no rolls. no Chile
an mills, simply Nissen stamps, of which
there viii be 3l2 altogether
Such operations mean the beginning
of the real era Of usefulness for Bing-
ham, and its effect should be most saln.
tarv upon mining conditions of Utah
generally