The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03
BY /. E. CAMOMILE.

Silver City. Titan, May "A great
many mining operators, stock operat-
~Ors and brokers of this region look
upon the building of a smelter in the
Tintic mining district as joke. Many
of them believe that the Tintic Smelt-
ing company is erecting a sort of 10Y
plant something that can be used in
making a bluff with and finally be IN
loaded. on some of the big smelling con-
Germs al a huge profit. The opinion
has often been expressed that Uncle
Jesse Knight, who controls the Tintlc
Smelling company, had no thought on
intention of making business of
smelling; that once he could force the
existing custom smelters to take the
ores from his mines on terms that
would be satisfactory to him the Tin
tic Smelling company would go out of
business. For these and similar lea
sons the mammoth enterprise that Is
being launched at a point midway be-
tween Robinson and Silver City, in the
TintiC district. has never received the
serious consideration that 1t is entitled
to.
Works Are Up-to-date.
The works Of the Tintic Smelling
company are being built on lines that
are in harmony with the best and most
up-to-date practices in the business,
;tnd every attention is being paid q
estail of construction, economy OF
operation. mechanical and metallUr-
Gical perfection, and an hour at th5
site will force the conclusion on The
mind of any observer that the works
are being built for business, and that
the men who have the matter in hand
know precisely what they are about:
that nothing is being left undone, AMI
that splendid judgment is being eXer-
Cised. not only in the installation Cf
the initial units of the plant, but i'm
the provision that is being made for
enlargement as the business of the
company demands. An inspection of
the works forces on a visitor as moth
ing else could possibly do the import
ance Of the Tintic mining district as
wealth producer. As soon as the fact
is absorbed and digested that The
smelling works are a real adult, up-tO-
the-minute affair constructed FOR bus
hess rather than show, another fact
begins to soak in. and that is that il
takes mines TO keep the fires burning
in furnaces.
Location Is Ideal.
In this fact the necessity for and dis
play of business judgment exercised in
the conception and building of the Tin
tic Smelling cOmpany's works at the
bottom of the western slope of the
range i'm which the mines exist, and
from which the plant win surely de-
rive the bulk of its business. The joint
tracks of the San Pedro, Los Angeles
q Salt Lake railroad and the Rio
Grande Western pass through the
yards of the smelling company, while
the tracks of the former, in reaching
Eureka a couple of miles to the north,
and Silver City a half mile to the
south. pass on both north and south
sides of the works 10 reach Tintic
Junction. a mile down the valley to the
west.
From the srnelter around by way of
SIEer City. on the south. the Eureka
fAn railroad. a line built by Jesse
Knight to circle the south end of the
district and reach his properties on the
east slope of the range, has been com
pleted 20 the Colorado and Beck TUn-
mel mines. the distance covered being
about ten miles Thus practically all
of the productive mines of the main
mineral zone in the district, which
covers an approximate area Of eight
by four miles. are placed in a position
TO deliver ores at the new smelters
with ease and at very slight cost, rs
compared with sending them hundreds
of miles at times to a market. and
from seventy-five to 100 miles all the
time.
Plenty of Ore Available.
Tintic produces a wider range or
class Of ores than any other mining
district in the state. and every smelt-