The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06
Mines and Mining Stocks
BOSTON CON. IS
MAKING GOOD
Figures That Show What New
Mill Was Doing During
Month of August.

During the month of August approxi-
mateiy 25.000 dry tons of ore was nut
through the Boston Consolidated COM
pany's milling plant at Garfield, four
units OF the mill. with ninety-six STAMPS
dropping. hand.ing the product of por-
phyry end of the company's mines With
out considering fractions a total of 575
TONS or concentrates were made and these
contained 10000 pounds of copper. The
extraction was approximately Y per cent
ana, while little less than one-third
OF the capacity of the plant was utilized.
the cost OF operating did not exceed n
cents a ton. The Herald is not at lib
erty 10 quote anybody for these figures
but with allowing for unimportant details
III tne matter of fractions il can be posi-
livery guaranteed that they are correct
i sIoi on the actual cost per pound of
Iidhhg the copper have not been COM
piled Tor the simple reason that TO charge
up an mine operating costs against the
metal under prevailing conditions would
oe uIlialr, ooth TO the mine and MILL and
would not mean anything then
Since last March there has been tre-
nlehuous change In the methods of min
ing AT the property and huge sums of
money have been spent in new develon-
ment work. equipment. etc. in order that
tne better grades of the mountain of nor
Phyry might be made available in uniim-
,.eu Guan.lty. so Well has this work been
performed under the management OF
LOUIS ). Gates and his hustling assist
ants at the mine that the positive sssnr-
ance can be made that, by if not before
the enu OF the present year the mill can
De run and easily supplied with ore to
period mn "
AS a matter of fact. Mills Manager A.
d. BEETLES has been assured by the mine
management that he can count on putting
TOUR more sections of the mill in Commits
SION between the 18th and 10Th of the
present month, with the assurance that
the ore will be forthcoming to supply the
increased demand of the works This
means that the mill will be running at
ooupie It's present capacity before the end
or the month. with the output of copper
exceeding the 1OOO,Ooo-npund a month
By Christmas the entire twelve units
or sections OF the mill should be limbered
up and the $40 Independent Nissen stamps
should be dropping on ore. while the rate
OF copper production should and undoubt-
edly VIII be raised to close to the 20 600
WV-pound year mark. BY the time men,
TONED the mine will have been placed in
the pink of condition to supply any ton
mage that may be demanded and the min
ing costs Will have reached something Xix o
a normal basis. Then It will be time to
tigure TO fraction of a cent a pound
what IL costs the Boston Consolidated 70
make copper and both the mine and mill
arrangements VIII be ready to LET their
regulations stand or fall on the showing
that can be made. Gates is not afraid
or the mine and BEETLES, at the mill will
De ready TO back his plant against similar
works in the world for both economy of
operation and recovery of values. charac-
tiers of ore considered.
Boston Consolidated has now passed over
all the rough places in the road TO sue
cess and from now il will climb rap
Idly TO the front ranks of the big and
cheap copper producers of this country
It's big stamp mill has been proven a sig
nal success; its mines are demonstrated
to be practically exhaustless. and the COM
pany's career as bread winner is now
beginning.