Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-30
BETTER SERVICE
IS PROMISED.
Rio Grande Official Given Illus
tration Of How Road Is
Losing Prestige.
THE BINGHAM GARFIELD LINE.
Utah Copper Completes Survey Of In
dependent Rond--Yampa
I'ramwaS.

Tho visit of Vice President and Cen
&eral Manager Schlacks of the Denver
& Rio Grando 10 this city may result
in giving, better service to the smclter
and mills at Garfield. AT least he has
given his promise that an Improvement
will be inaugurated right away; that
tho producers Of the copper camp Will
have no serious ground to find fault
In the future. But this promise, so
the mining men say, has been given he
fore. and has been invariably broken.
However, the managers of the great
mines at Bingham, which are closely
allied with the Garfield plants and sup
ply the tonnage necessary to keep them
in operation, believe confidently that
Mr. Schlacks has at last become
awakened to the fact that In the con-
duct of large enterprises, such as the
foregoing, absolute dependence must
be placed upon the railroads bringing
the ore; which, they declare, has been
partially, If not wholly, lacking. Be
cause Of this condition. it has been diff
ficult to keep a perfect working or.
ganization at the mines and reduction
plants.
SITUATION AT GARFIELD.
As an iiAe-5tration Of this, there has
not been enough ore delivered accord
ing TO information coming to the
News" from a trustworthy source. TO
Garfield during the present month TO.
keep the Utah Copper company's con-
centrator running up TO It's capacity.
The Boston Consolidated company
started up four more units of its mill
u few days ago. but WAS obliged to
Il
that the railroad was not delivering
the tonnage. With eight units in com.
| mission the Boston MIL uses up 1,600
tons a day. The Utah Copper company
| has all but one section of It's plant in
| operation and should take care of $500
tons a day; but General Manager Jack
| ling, In reply to 81 query today, de-
clared it had been Impossible to keep
| all the sections going because of the
| shortage of ore.
The Utah Copper company is gradu-
ally shaping up to handle it's own traf-
| fic between Bingham and Garfield. The
| surveys of the proposed extension Of
the Bingham & Garfield line have been
practically completed and it was as
much as admitted by MI. lacking to-
day that vigorous campaign of con-
struction might be inaugurated almost
any day: which means that sooner or
later the Rio Grande will lose the Utah
| Copper company'SB business. ana II IS no
! small item when 1t is taken into consid-
| Grafton that for every ton Of ore hauled
| over to the Garfield plants, the rail-
road gets from % to 80 cents q ton.
The Yampa Smelling company built
| an aerial tranwaY, about $4,000 feet
4 long, between the Yampa mine in Carr
| Fork canyon to the smelter in lower
| Bingham, because the railroad could
not, or at least did not, deliver the
goods. For this service the Yampa
company paid the railroad 15 cents a
ton.
These are Just a few things for Mr.,
Schlacks to think about. Bingham
mining men do not understand why the
Rio Grande has not given more at
tention to the interests of its Bingham
| patrons when continuance of unsatis-
| factory service invited competition in
the largest tonnage camp In the state;
something tsllas not had heretofore.