The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-09
NEWHOUSE ON
CACTUS MINE
Makes Plain That Property Is
a Big One and Tells of
Future Plans.

Samuel NewhOuse, who reached home
from the east Sunday night. stated yes
teTday that, notwithstanding the hammer
ing that Ne yhouse Mines & Shelters
stock is receiving just now, the company S
Cactus mines are bigger and better than
they ever were. In this statement he was
emphatically corroborated by Engineer NJ.
NJ Johnson, who declared that there was
over 100000 tons of ore that would aver
age better than 2ls per cent copper now in
sight, while there was approximately as
much probable ore available to the present
developed depth in the mine. In other
words, there is at the present time in ac-
tual ore in sight more than enough to run
the mill for three years at the rate of 25,-
800 tons q month, and, counting the prob
able ore, six years supply down TO the
10O-foot level Last year the ore treated in
the mill averaged "a per cent copper,
wsile there was shipped 10000 tons of
crude ore running Is to % per cent cop
per. Had all this ore been broken aid
sent to the mill with the rest of the mine S
product, the average would have been
much higher than the estimate of the
mines average given above. But Mr..
Newhouse declined to stand Tor an esti-
mate based on such figures, declaring THAI
70 per cent copper was godO enough TO
figure on when conditions we're riSht-min-
ing. milling and selling copper.
The chief trouble has BEEN" explained
Mr.. Newhouse, that we have tried to
make the mill do more work than it was
capable of doing and 90 it well In conse-
quence Manager Drummond decided to
close down and make the necessary
changes, and at the same time prepare the
mill for the handling of larger tonnage.
am sorry that such n necessary and
timely move should be construed as an in
trinity of the mine, when there is abso-
lutely nothing to Justify such a conclu-
sion. On the 70o-foot level ore bodies rang
ing In value from to 1 per cent copper
are being opened up, while I am informed
that rich ores are in evidence On several
levels. The Cactus mine is all right and
1t Will come out all right The stock is
badly battered now, but it will come up
again, never fear"
It is planned to extend the scope of the
Newhouse Mines & Shelters corporation
materially. but the details have not been
house is yet ready to give the details,
However, he states that the Fink smelling
process will be taken hold of by the COM
Ddly and handled by it. That means, or
course, that the NewhOuse Mines &
Smelters corporation, as its name implies,
will he made great holding company, not
only for the Cactus mines and the Fink
smelling business. but for other gilt-edged
mining propositions as well. When the
whole thing mas been worked out. Mr..
Newhouse declares that the present share
holders will have nothing to complain of
as regards tie value of their holdings.
I'VE expect to begin making a run with
the Fink smeltsr, using oil for fuel. to-
morrow" said Mr. Newhouse. "and I'M
plant have been perfected to point where
II will be possible to make a sustained
run-the one thing that there seems to be
so much question about.
Before / left the east. John Hays Ham
mOnd. who has taken the keenest kind Of
interest in the development of the process,
said that if it was possible TO make matte
in the furnace. as he understood we were
able TO do that we never need care wheth-
CT blister copper could be made or not;
that with the furnace a success in the
making of matte. we might consider that
the smelling word was ours. Mechanical
difficulties. he declared. amounted to moth
ing If the metailurgical principles worked
ont. If it took year to perfect the me
chanical features of the process, he felt
that we ought to be satisfied Coming
from such a source. the sentiments eX-
pressed were most approximately received
by me. AS we have made copper matte
al will and of any desired hneness. to-
eether with blister copper. as well. have
no fear that we shall be able to make all
our claims good and revolutionize the busi-
ness of smelling