Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-05
utah APEX PLANS
IMPORTANT CHANGES
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Raise from Parvenue Adit Con-
Meeting With Upper Work
ings Will Reduce Costs.
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EASTERN OFFICIALS PLEASED
EASTERN OFFICIALS PLEASED
Declare Bingham Mine Was Never In
Better Shape Than own
Lead Ore Body.

When President +. r. Hastings and
Treasurer j. w. Horne of the Utah
Apex Mining company departed for
Boston#on the 4th inst, they went away
feeling satisfied that the Bingham mine
had at last got out of its sWaddlng
hcinthes. Never before have physical
Hconditions ut THE Utah Apex been quite
us satisfactory as tbcS are at the pres
en time and the officials made no pre-
tense of Withholding words expressive
of&appreciation for the results accom-
rliSsd during the administration Of
Robert S. Oliver. the present manager.
During thclrsvisit here Manager Oil
Ner outlined and recommended q, plan
of operation for the future which met
with the hearty appreciation of Messrs.
Hastings and Horne, and which Mama
ger Oliver declares will mean (; saving
III the cost of extraction of from so to
70 cents per ton. The scheme involves
making connections between the Par
venue adit and the 700 level,of the nine
by means of a triple compartment YER
teal raise, giving room for the opera
tion of two cages, besides lnanway.
The uplift Will be $50 feet from the adit
level To the objective point on the 700;
while the significance of the procedure
can best he appreciated when; 1t is
known that thu ore Will require no han
ding after being loaded into the mine
cars, which will be dropped to the Par
venue adit. thence conveyed to the new
ore bins shortly to be constructed at
convenient point on the Boston CONSOLE
dated branch of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. The point selected for
the beginning of the raise is approxi7
$mabaly 1900 feet in from the porta OF
the Palvenue adit, while the distance
from the latter to the Boston Console
dated switch is nealry l,aoD feet. From
the ore bins thestirst class ore is load
cd automatically into railroad cars I
and thence sent on to the srnelter. The,
first class ore has a gross valuation OF
$50 ton on the basis of present metal
prices, netting the company S2o a ton.
The second class ore will have to un-
adergo concentration. but what the COM
pany proposes to do in the way OF pro-
,viding mill facilities, is yet undecided;
however. it is not the intention to again
utilize the Markham gulch mill in
which the Utah Apex owns a one-half
Interest," beeausd Of Alie Inconvenience
and expense of getting to 1t. The cons
spany has an opportunity TO dispose of,
its equity in the plant and will prob+S
ably do so. u
On the fourth level of the mine has
becn developed What Is probably one
, OF the largest bodies of tEalena ore ever.
found in the Bingham camp. It has
been explored for a length of 53o rect
and width of los feet. and lies In a
blanket formation between lime. The
width of the high grade streak averages
s four feet, and the mill ore from 10 to 10
feet There are three we'll defined bed
ding planes, all between lime. in the
property which are designated as the
Andy, Petro and Parvenue bedding
planes.
The connecting or the Paryenue adit
/ with the upper workings of the mine
Will remove the necessity Of the aerial
/ tramway now being used and on the
whole will render a more economic stu
ntion at the Utah Apex mine.