Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-28
Gives Figures on Results Being
Accomplished at Gar
field Mill.
RESULTS VERY SATISFACTORY
A. Chester Bcatty's Late Examination
VIII Become Company's Con-
sulting Engineer.

Samuel Newhouse, president of the
Boston Consolidated Mining COM
pany, was IN Boston last week after
the conference was had at the offices
OF the Guggenheims relative to a mo-
diiication of the Garfield smelter con-
tract and the News Bureau quotes him
as saying:
Despite some unforeseen hut not
lnsurnountable difficulties in connec-
tlon with bringing the Boston Con-
solidated property up TO the point of
being a large producer | am today
more strongly Impressed than ever be-
FORE with the ultimate investment
value of our property.
when we first began the milling of
our ores we discovered what no hui
man agency could have foreseen. that
IN our upper workings on the por-
phyry there was large excess of iron
which prevented our making the con-
centration which we had anticipated.
but this excess of iron should ultl-
mately prove TO be a blessing i'm dis
guise, and i think the time is not far
distant when the iron ores Of the Bos-
ton Consolidated will command a hand
some premium In addition TO their
copper contents In truth it may
be said that this excess of iron is an
asset which we had not reckoned with.
Iron ores are not overabundant In
the Bingham camp.
From little lower down on the
mountain, where iron excess does not
greatly exceed 1 per cent, We are ship
ping l,0o0 tons of ore daily and are
making an average recovery at the
smelter equal to 20 pounds of copper
per ton or ore. Our extraction runs
all the way from 20 per cent TO "A per
40 md
into one. By Sept. ], we should be
treating 1000 tons per day and by
Jan. there will have developed sew
eral Fportant operating economies,
the details of which / am not per-
mitted at present to divulge. Suf-
flee II to say that we have recently
obtained an important modification in
our smelling contract with the Amer
lean Smelling & Refining Co., where
by we are not penalized. as under the
former contract, for an excess OF silica
which our ores do not contain
Our mill is all that we have ever
claimed for it. Our process l believe
70 be the most economical that can
be devised for the treatment of por-
phyry ores
"a. Chester Beatty, formerly OF the
American Smelling e. Refining Co,
has recently made another expert ex-
animation OF our property and of our
mill. and Is more than gratifed. In
fact. he Is willing to serve as our
consulting engineer and to become a
director and n member of our ex-
ecutiVe committee. He says our mill
Ing process cannot he improved. and
with respect to our iron ores he con-
firms my belief that in reality they
will prove to be an important asset
Of the Boston Consolidated property.
When we shall have reached a
larger productive capacity--and this
Is in contempIation-the Boston Con-
solidated will be able to show a cost
per pound of copper OF not exceeding
eight cents.
Our relations with the Utah Copper
people are very cordial, in fact they
are utilizing one OF our tunnels in tile
shipment of their ore. Every facility
and courtesy which it Is possible for
us to extend to each other are readily
granted"