Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-11
UTAH COPPER IS SHOWING
 UP VERY WELL
Low Cost of Production Is SurpniSe-6000 Tons of Ore Being Handled Daily at the Concentrat0r.
tBoston News Bureau.l


 Boston-Simon J. Beahan, associat- ed with Hayden, Stone & Co. in their New York office, has recently spent three weeks in the copper camps of Bingham, Utah, and Ely, Nevada, and his observations regarding the DOT phyry ore deposits of these districts are of peculiar interest at the pres ent time now that unusual attention is being given to the subject of cop per costs.
 The production of low cost copper from the porphyry deposits is des- tined to exert considerable influence On the future price of copper.
 Mir. Beahan says: T was greatly iIn- pressed with the Utah Copper Co, with it's practically inexhaustible ore supply and with the low cost demon strations which were being made Tn the mining of the ore and at the con ceptrating mill, where a concentra- ton of 20 into l is being made RIthl out the slightest difficulty.
 When I left, the Utah copper con centrator was treating 5000 tons or ore per day with eight units in oper- atiop and understand the ninth soc tion has just been placed in commis- sion which will enable the treatment of close to 5000 tons per day. There is no question in my mind that, m season and out of season, the otah Copper Co. can show Q cost of not exceeding s cents per pound of copper sold in New York.
 @The company is today making 4 recovery of between 65 aad TO per cent or 9 pounds of copper per ton of ore. l was also impressed WlLn what may be termed the elasticity of the proposition which will enable the company with it's present plant equip ment should it so desire, to treat 5000 tons of ore per day, although this latter expansion in ore tonnage will be at the expense of the copper recovery. Nevertheless, on an IS cent copper market there is slight loss in the number of pounds recoY- cred. ~
 Within & year the, company will increase by 40 per cent it's concen- trating capacity enabling the treat ment of between 10000 and 12,000 tons of porphyry per day. The cost of the new construction should not exceed S75e e.000.
 T was astounded at the wonderful showing of costs in the mining de- partment. While I was there five 30 foot drill holes brought down 5000 tons of rock It can readily be ap- preciated that the mining costs are infinitesimaI on a proposition of this character. The time will come when the company, which is now employing 750 men in the concentrating, mining and construction departments will be able to treat 5000 tons a day with less than 600 men on the payroll This is a record which cannot be equalled by any mine of which l have knowl- edge.
 At Ely, Nevada, the big concen- trator of the Nevada Consolidated and Cumberland-Ely properties will prob ably go into commission within 3e days. with an initial tonnage of 1900 tons of ore per day equally divided between the two properties. Rapid progress should be made in the com pfetion Of additional units after the first ot July
 ''The recovery of copper at the Ne vada Consolidated property is e1- pected to be about 2S pounds of cop Der per ton of ore, but it is impos- sibIe to make as high a concentration with Nevada porphyr1es as caH be made in Utah.
 "At the present time the mining operations at Nevada Consolidated have suspended as there is already an enormous supply of ore awaiting the completion of the mill
 There was absolutely nothing do ing at the Giroux property. At the Cumberland Ely the Veteran shaft should be equipped in two months to supply ore.