The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-09
NEW SHELTER IS
QUESTION OF TIME
Bingham-New Haven Company
Opening Up Two Splendid
Copper Mines.
FINE RESOURCE HAD
IN LOWER TUNNEL
Utah and Eastern Property
Shows Very Fine Body on
Ninth Level.

With 8 splendid season just closed,
and with still greater one III every
possible respect ahead, the Bingham.
New Haven Mining company has forged
to the very front ranks of Bingham
organizations, and great many inter
esting developments may be expected
during the present year. General Man"
aeer c. II. Doolittle, having Just re-
turned from New Haven, Conn, where
he met with the officials to discuss the
affairs of the company, stated Tuesday
that he gave the good news of the
recent strike Of copper sulphides IN the
lower tunnel to them during the visit.
At point so feet from the mouth
of the new tunnel, states Mr. Doollttle,
the management ran into an ore body
that is characteristic in every respect
of the ores now being extracted by the
Utah Consolidated company, not over
500 feet away. The company has driven
through this ore for total distance of
l20 feet, the face of the tunnel at
present being fully 325 feet beneath
the surface Mr.. Ooolittle states that
this ore will carry on an average of ,
per cent copper. $3.50 gold and 2l2
ounces silver TO the ton.
This splendid ore body occurs in the
first assure OF a series bearing re-
sources which arc known TO exist in
the range of this tunnel. and during
the work of the present year the man
agement expects to encounter several
more such fssures as that above men
toned. Up to the present time the
management has done little else than
proceed along the strike of the VEN,
doing no exploring in any other dircc
ton, Mr. Doolittle states that within
the next two weeks il is the intention
TO explore this body in the most thor
ough manner, and there is every reason
for the company TO anticipate the same
character of extensive and splendid
bodies OF ores so generally being
brought to light in the camp Of Bing
nam these days.
In the upper workings Of the Bing-
ham New Haven property, states Mr.
Doolitle, the usual character of lead, sill
yer and copper ores are being found
and that the company is producing in
the neighborhood of 10 tons each day
of such ore. From the Utah and East
ern property in southern Utah, in which
the same prominent Eastern capitalists
are interested, Mr.. Doolittle reports
everything in splendid condition. On
the 900-foot level of the mine fine ore
body has been encountered, and the
management is sending the main shaft
200 feet below the point for the pur-
pose of placing this new resource in
shape for future disposition In fact,
the present showing in both of these
mines has caused the officials of the
company to begin thinking along High
land Boy lines, and IN order to earn a
greater percentage from their resources.
the question of building a smelter TO
handle the ores from both these mines
will i'll all probability be the question
Of q very short time.
Mr. Doolittle admitted Tuesday that
the company would in all probability
erect this smelter, but the matter would
not be determined until the next few
months of development work have DEM
onstrated the extent of resources ncces-
sary before taking so important a step
forward. The present condition of the
mines, however, leaves little doubt of
the smelter erection, Both mines serve
to emphasize how generously Utah
properties are responding to the efforts
of Eastern stockholders. and the Bing-
hnmNew Haven company during the
year just closed sent back TO the share
holders a total of $45,s00 in the shape
OF dividends.