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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

large low-grade ore body. Within the
past year, 1920 feet of drifts and cross
cuts, entirely in ore, have been driven
on the Cunningham level tunnel This,
together with $50 feet of raises and l.
900 feet of sublevels above. has blocked
out and made ready for immediate ex-
traction, in an economical manner, an
immense tonnage of concentrating ore
above this level The development has
been planned with a view OF cutting up
the ground into blocks approximately
100 feet square, and by driving sub
levels twenty-five feet apart, from
raises at the corners of these blocks,
rendering the same amenable 20 rcining
by the caving system
On the 400-foot level about 700 feet
of drifts and cross-cuts. entirely in ore,
have been driven with the same ulti-
mate object in view. The 50o-fooI level
being the deepest and the most inter-
esting because of what it might prove
in showing the continuity Of ore with
depth, has also been the scene of ex-
tensive and bold development work
Altogether on this level there is a total
of 1920 feet of drifting and cross-cut-
ting entirely in ore, and $50 feet of
raises connecting with the 400-foot
level above In these workings the
plan pursued has been that of laying
the ore out in as nearly regular blocks
as possible and rendering it available
for economical mining.
1t is a fact worthy of note that the
ore-bearing territory developed on the
500-foot level is greater in extent, and
of better values and concentrating
qualities, than that of the levels above.
Recent development work has also
included the sinking of a new shaft
from the surface to a connection with
the 5O0-foot level This shaft is now
being continued to a connection with
the main transportation tunnel. $50
feet vertically below.
One of the important acquisitions
made by Ohio Copper soon after f.
Augustus Heinze obtained control of
the company and took up the task of
making il one of the great low-cost
producers. was the Mascot tunnel,
which has been made the company-s
main transportation tunnel 1t is
equipped with double track for electric
haulage, and affords the cheapest pos
sible means of conveying the ores from
mine to mill II opens the main ore
body $40 feet below the present lowest
workings of the mine, or LOSS feet YER
tically below the collar OF the shaft
The shaft is an incline, however, with
slope of 80 degrees, so that the depth
on the dip of the vein will be more
than 1,400 feet.
And this will form one Of tine aids to
cheap mining. The ore from the time
IL leaves any level in the mine above
the Mascot tunnel will be handled by
gravity until it reaches the ore bins in
the MascOtte tunnel level
At that point the coarse ore is sep
arated from the fine. each going to sep
arate bins. The bins viii have a ca
pacity of about 1000 tons Each con-
sists of thirty pockets. each pocket
holding enough to I'LL several ore cars.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

From the bins in the mine the ore is
transported to the mill by the electric
tramway on a descend-n -1ne-halI of /
per cent grade, d distance OF about
three and one-fourth miles. The track
on top of the bins at the mill is the
same level as the portal of the tunnel.
The cost of ore transportation from
the mine 10 the mill will not exceed
cents a ton. This is an important.
point, as before pointed out, for it will
mean a saving of "a cents a ton in ia
vor of Ohio Copper, as compared to
some of the other big companies.
The first four of the eight units of the
Ohio company's modern 4,5O0-ton con-
centrating mill, built near the mouth of
the Mascot tunnel. is now complete
with the exception of installing the
machinery, most of which is on the
ground.
The main building, covering the first
four units-317x391 feet-is Of structural
steel throughout. covered with CORFU
gated iron over a sheeting Of thick as
bestOs paper and wire netting, making
it practically fireproof. All table floors
are of concrete, resting On the bedrock
foundation. All retaining walls are of
concrete, also all foundations ;or tables
and Chilean mills.
The slime plant-115x342 feet-is also
of steel construction similar to the
main building.
The first four units of the mill will be
equipped with strictly up-to-date ma
chinery, consisting of two 24x16 jaw
crushers, four 20x6 jaw-crushers, eight
2Gx15 rolls, la jigs, sixteen seven-foot
Chilean mills, and $40 Whitley tables.
The slime plant VII be equipped
with seventy-two Wiley slime tables,
$50 Callow tanks and twelve buddles.
Operations at the Ohio Copper prop
critics, under the management of Colin
Mcintosh, are at this time being carried
on more actively than ever before The
work IS directed entirely to making
connection between the Mascot tunnel
and the shaft. and in otherwise prepar-
ing for the large production to be
made. Mr.. Mcintosh estimates that the
connection between the two workings
will be made by Jan Is, 1909. and that
the mine and mill should be ready for
productive operations about March l.
1t is interesting to know that the tun-
mel. at approximately $50 feet from the
point of intersection with the shaft,
though $50 feet in the footwau of the
great ore body, shows a large body of
concentrating ore not indicated in the
levels above. The water coming from
the face of the tunnel is so strongly i'm
pregnated with copper as to leave no
doubt Of the heavy naturalization be-
You'd
The board of directors of the Ohio
Copper company is composed of the fol-
lowing well known gentlemen: James
McFariane, Denver, Colo; David Keith,
Salt Lake City; Thomas Weir, Salt
Lake City; n. J. Catrow, Miamisburg.
O.; Russell Hopkins, Atlanta, Ga !;
J. P Hutchinson. Chicago: F. Aug
Heinze, Butte. Mont; Phillip A Car
rol. New York; Carlos Wakefield, Hell
ena, Mont
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27

struck some time ago and which was
one Of the biggest strikes of the Park
City camp. This was made on the
1,600-foot level of the mine, where a
cross-cut from the older workings OF
the mine toward the Bonanza fats sec
ton Of the camp ran right into this
largest of the ore bodies yet encoun-
tered in Park City.
From the 1,200-foot level to the 1,500-
foot level the strikes were made in the
mine which caused increased activity
in the stock of the company. The past
year has seen some of the greatest i'm
provements and most extensive devel-
opments of the mine. The campaign
has been a systematic one during the
year, and the mine is now regarded as
one Of the greatest producers in ths
state.
The electrical haulage system which
was introduced in the mine a year ago
has been one Of the potent forces in
the rapid development of the re-
resources Of the mine. It has been the
means Of doubling the output Of the
mines.
The zinc output Of the mine has al
ways been one Of the big sources Of
revenue of the mine. The concentrat-
ing ores Of the property contain from
eighteen to twenty ounces of silver, &c
.095 ounces in gold. The concentrates
have an average value Of about $40 a
ton.
The high-grade shipping ores have q
valuation of from S2s TO s35 ton. The
composition runs from twenty-five
ounces Of silver. 20 to 30 per cent lead,
.095 ounces in gold and from 10 TO Is
per cent zinc Ali Of the ores Of the
Daly-Judge carry an excess Of iron.
which makes them a desirable product
at the smelter.
The discovery of the rich body Of ore
on the Bonanza fats region has fur
nished the company for the past two
years with a considerable working re-
serve. and the opportunity mas not beer
neglected to improve the conditions 70
the utmost The past year has been
one Of fruitful development along these
same lines. and the promises of still
larger returns from what seemed an
unusual condition have met the efforts
OF the management on all sides.
The ore has been particularly salts
factory because Of the high-grade ga
lena and its freedom from zinc. Ore
extraction has been going on on all Of
the levels between the 1000 TO the l, 400
In the older portions OF the mine, which
is known as the Anchor mine.
George W. Lambourne has been made
the manager Of the company, and IL
has been under his able direction that
the important developments Of the past
year have been made The board Of
directors remains the same They are
John J. DAILY, Moylan c. Fox. William
NJ Bradley, H. Otto Hanks OF Gin
cinnau and George w. Lambourns.
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begun, is on the 5,7eO-foot contour. but
tanned, |. e., 5,460-foot contour. The
course of this tunnel is practically
south, As degrees east, the established
grade is inches in 100 feet, and same
is to be a double track tunnel with a
capacity of 10000 tons per day Of TWEEN
ty-fOur hours. The distance from por-
tai to point vertically under the Bos-
ton Consolidated company's ore bins
equals 12,575 feet.
The promoters have had in view the
connecting Of this tunnel with the Mas
cote tunnel and the bringing out of all
the concentrates from the Lark mill.
as well as all the intermediate ores on
the Price canyon side, as the Cole
Ryan syndicdte's smelling plant will
be within 5000 feet of the tunnels por-
tai and their railroad will connect di-
rect with the tunnel As the tunnel
will be a strictly traffic and CONNER
cial works, its value and great posi-
bilities is readily recognized. Fully 50
per cent of all the ore will find their
outlet and market through this tunnel
in Pine canyon, saying nothing of the
great depth obtainable. 1t will also
drain and make possible the working of
the ores in the properties through
which it may pass. Conservative en-
gineers who have looked the PROPOSE
ton over estimate this tunnel will de-
velop some So, 000, 900 worth of ores,
which it is not possible to extract from
present workings.
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has some twelve patented and three
unpatented claims of the most valuable
ground in the Bingham district, joining
the Utah Con-, Great Divide. Utah
Apex, Mountain Chief, w. M & NJ. Co.
and Bingham Copper company.
The Bingham Copper company owns
the Old Venice and other properties,
and have a property of great prospec-
tive value. Some of the ablest talent
are interested in this. and a quiet, ac-
tive campaign of development is being
carried on. while a great deal OF ore
is being uncovered.
Adjoining the Mountain Chief group
on the north, E. G. O'Donnell has a
group of six patented claims that indi-
cate good values and a promising sur
face showing, while the Nancy Hanks
company has three patented claims Iy-
ing between the Mountain Chief,
O'DonneH and Western NJ. Il NJ COM
pany's properties. This property, while
small in area, has quite a showing OF
ore in stringers through large veins
heavily mineraliZed. However. there
has been no practical mining done on
this property. hence its real value can
not be determined.
There has for some time been under
consideration a proposal for the con-
structiOn Of a deep tunnel from Pine
canyon into the very heart of the Bing-
ham district. This proposed tunnel if
constructed as contemplated would pass
through the H 7. c. company's mining
claims, Western Mining & Milling COM
pany, Bingham Copper Boy, Bingham
Copper company. Utah Apex. Yampa
company and Utah Consolidated, ter
minating in the Boston Consolidated
company's property. The tunnel as now
surveyed, and upon which grading was
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to make paying proposition of this
property.
Company of Large Holdings.
Great Divide Mines company owns
107 claims, the greater part of which
are patented, and the balance all sur
veyed and in process of patenting
The Great Divide property joins the
north side of the Bingham Metals,
southwest side of the Bingham Central
Standard. west end of the Bingham
New Haven, Utah Consolidated and
Bingham Copper Boy Mining compa-
MES properties. 1t is equipped with a
strictly modern compressor plant, using
Temple-IngersOll drills. power is sup
piled by the Telluride Power company
electric lights are used in mine and
buildings, Bell telephone connects with
mine office, and everything is up-to-
date. From twelve TO fifteen men are
employed
This company operates both by day
pay and contracts. Two contracts are
now being run, besides the main work
ing or Spring tunnel. Only last month
the main contact was intersected and a
large volume Of water was encountered,
which drove the miners from the works
The company suspended work for a few
days, expecting the flow would dimin-
ish. but after waiting ten days and
finding that the water maintained its
flow, force of miners was put to work
fiuming out the water. As this tunnel
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phides have not been required, as the
copper smelter of the company in this
valley has not been in operation.
Since the business of the Utah Copper
company has grown TO such mammoth
proportions, the camp of Bingham has
been divided into what may be termed
three prosperous towns. the main town
of Bingham, Upper Bingham or High
land, and Copperton. Notwithstanding
the fact that the district Is only TWEEN
ty-odd miles from Salt Lake, all lines
of business is carried on at these differ
ent places with signal success The
rugged conformation of the country is
against the building of imposing towns
and, on that account. Salt Lake and
the surrounding valley boasts a great
many homes belonging to Bingham res
idents.
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lode claims surveyed for patent anc
some twenty-five unsurveyed besides,
perhaps, the most valuable limestone
deposit in Utah, while its agricultural
lands lie contiguous to the new snaelter
This company does all its WORK by
contract Three contracts are now
being worked aggre eating over 400 rec,
of tunnel work Eight to ten men arr
employed. This being a small hole
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great deal of new ore, the management
has added immensely to the value of the
company's possessions by purchasing
control OF the Phoenix company's ter
ritory adjoining.
At the Bingham Copper company's
properties development has been stead
fly progressing during the year. and the
amount OF ore opened up has been most
gratifying 10 the management. The
same is true of the Bingham Central
Standard, the Bingham-Butte, Colonel
r. A. Wallis Starless. the Utah-Bing-
ham and numerous other properties in
the famous old camp. The United
States company has mined a great deal
OF lead ore from its Bingham properties
during the year. but the iron-copper sui
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so 1T HAPPENED.

He-YOur dog tore up all my best plants
last night. 1t must not happen again
His Fair Neighbor-Why? Aren't you
going to plant any more2
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18
AFTER HIGH TIDE

The tide of prosperity which flooded all the country, and particularly the Pacific coast, for the past few years has begun to ehb ard free soup houses are now being proposed Tor Van couver, Seattle and other points where only few short months ago every thing was riding the crest of the cash capped wave of good times. Towns and cities were boomed beyond their resources. Prices far beyond actual valuations prevailed fora season and the inevitable resulted. The balloon was inflated beyond it's texture and it gave way under the pressure.
 The result is that every city of any consequence in the country is now fac ilg the questions; What shall we dc with the unemployed?
 At Vancouver 5,000 unemployed men, many of them late arrivals who came to the coast after the wheat har- vest in the Northwest, are penniless and hungry. At Seattle 5000 unem. ployed men are crying for bread These conditions, taken in connection with the fact that tho former place has lately and is still being flooded with cheap foreign labor, makes tht outlook anything but encouraging.
 While it is not believed there i any material basis for the genera Financial depression which lately lait it's clammy hand on the business in dustries of this continent, yet there i apt to be much suffering among th' poorer classes and many hot air pro moters are liable to be reegated t the shades of obscurity before tha same clanlmy hand is lifted. White | horse Star,
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18
LET US HAVE THE TRUTH

Referring to what it denominates a remarkable interview with Rear Ad- miral. Goodrich, commandant at the Brooklyn Navy Yard wired from Chi cago and printed in the New York papers, indulges in the following:
 .Admral Goodrich stopped in Chi cago recently while on his way to San Diego, where he was to ol1iciate at the unveiling of monument to the victims of the boiler explosion which occurred on the cruiser Ben nington in 1905. That appalling dis a>ter provoked storm of criticism which resulted in the pillorying of official incompetepts and the correc- tion of mechanical defects for which they were responsible. What Admir- al Goodrich had to say in his Chicago interview referred to the defects now alleged to exist in the Navy, and to which attention has been called by a magazine contributor. Admiral Good rich believes that the magazinist is right and does not hesitate to say so in spite of the rules which restrict criticism of the Navy by naval officers.
 "Very serious charges, involving the fighting value of our heaviest war ships, have been frankly made, widely circulated and not satisfactorily ans wered. Naval Bureaus and Boards oi Construction are not the sources from which to derive the truth about this matter. They have an object in main taining at any cost the soundness oi the ps they have designed and equipped. There should be an official test of every accusation made, wheth- CT 1t relates to insufficient arnorng or to any other structural def ct. Anc in this investigation naval officers he have no interest in the department bureaus should have a chance to be heard. We gag our naval officers al together too much, It is well enough and in fact necessary that they bt prohibited from assailing the official conduct and impugning the motives of their superiors, but no good pur. pose is served hy interdicting criti cism affecting construction and equip ment. Upon these too much ligh cannot be shed. The whole truth ant nothing but the truth should be tolt about the Navy, which is a most ex repsive institution, and should, there fore. be made worth the money spen upon it's maintenance.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18
WILL BE ACTIVE

While in some industries there may
 be more behind financial depression shan the shortage of currency, the development of new mines will go on
 as ever, when it is apparent that the banks are fully able to make payments
 in specie. The absence of circulat- ing medium alone has been the only thing to hinder the everlasting round of prospecting and development. It is noteworthy that the Cripple Creek district was born in the midst of one of the four worst panics the country
 has known. Miners, somehow, feel
 themselves so close to real wealth l that they never cease the search for it
 in time of famine and pestlence.
 To begin with, the market for gold
 is stable, and in times of lowering commodity prices, it really apprec'- ates in value. Secondly. mines are,
 in certain broad sense, commodities themselves, being always in the mak- l ing. The miner grows accustomed to blocking out reserves, with no idea of mining the same immediately. Known ore reserves are the safteSt investment that q person can consider, for they do not deteriorate in quantity and they are in q position to influence the markets for the metallic content. It is not necessary to mine them until the demand is right.
 Recently we have noted the com ments of small manufacturers with re- spect to the present financial depres- sion, scores of such comments having been published in the last issue Or American Indus.rie One of the ire quent remarks concerns the fee ing oi relief which the manufacturers possess and their eagerness to take advantage of Hull in business to readju>t their plants and overhaul their systems. IL there is any realm in which the owner of productive property can sincerely welcome a Hull Tn production it is that of mining, because there is always an opening for additional exploratory work and the proving up of new ore bodies.
 Mining propreties that are placed in a likely condition for early production are the best purchase to be found in the world, and it is a notable fact that the country is full of well-to-do men who are anxiousy looking for these opportunities. In the best of times the demand for good mining properties is really excessive, and in periods of depression it is more apt to be normal Hints of mine transactions are already heard, as an incident to a sounder sentiment among prospectors and mine owners, and it will be sur- prising if the next few months do not behold unusual activity in this respect.
 The sole inconvenience is very rap idly passing away. Specie payments have been fully resumed in many places, and the number of points where really serious trouble has been is remarkably small. - Mining Record
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18
1893 AND 1907


 The attempt to identify 1907 as an other 1893 continues to be sadly bat. tered by the non-arriyal of event, which should certainly come if there is paralelism. There is fair, if no an active. demand for bonds. Stock prices are resilient rather than stead- fly sagging. Most significant of all, insolvences are not developing in any considerable number although We have entered on that January that was to brleg such a strain. Agricultural prices have not had any material fall such as they showed in 1893. The foreign commerce figures for the cal epdar year 1907 show an excess of ex- ports apprpximaring half billion, whereas in 1893 imports exceeded ex- ports, Manifestly there are vital and fundamental differences between 1893 and 1907.
 The figures of Comptroller Ridgely indicate how different is the condition of the hacks. From Oet. 20 to Dec. 30, 1907, tltere were sixteen national bank suspensions, and of these two have resumed and several others are soon to resume. In 1893 there were l60 national bank failures, and fifty four never reopened. There's palp- able difference.
 
 It is impossible to get out of the bank figures any comfort for the theory that credit has been unwisely and dangerously extended. Although no considerable liquidation occurred during the troubled period-national bank loans decreasing but per cent from Aug. P to Dec. 3-there is no state which does not show a reserve above the legal requirement..
 A corollary of the demonstrated fact that the leading banks are sound is that borrowing business concerns are likewise sound. One situation cannot exist without the other. Headwag- gers may continue dismally to say that the panic was because credit was over-extended, but the salient thing thus far developed is that there was comparatively little recklessness. An unnecessary loss of confidence occur red. All that the business world needs to go on better than before is to get over the baseless fright. No great volume of bad debts exists If there have been losses the losers have not been bankrupted-have not seriously involved others. At least such is the testimony of the national bank figures and the reports to the commercial agencies.
The Ketchikan miner., 1908-01-18
POSSIBILITIES

When the Sprintgime comes, gentle Annie, when the Congress shall have omitted all the good and done all the harm it can, when the great scare of the dangerous Bryan is "on," then stranger things may happen than the nomination of Republican "to save the Grand Old Party of Moral Ideas, {" whom the party needs. That would be better than the nomination of a Republican whom only office holder, want. And, if Republicans first name a man who can surely beat Bryan, the Democracy may, in miracle of sense, or in panic of inspiration, nominate man who may be able to beat the man who could beat Bryan.