The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-03
ROSS HAS CONTROL
OF THE W1LBERT
Pittsburg Capitalist Buys the
Knight WarnOck Interests i'm
the Company.
PITTSBURG-IDAH0
WILL SOON SHIP
New Railroad in Idaho County
Rapidly Nearing Com
pletion.

A. S. Ross, president and general
manager of the PittsburF Idaho Min
in@ company, and q moving spirit in the
construction of the Pittsburg. Gilmore
railroad in Idaho, the building of which
is causing so much conjecture in rail
road circles, is visitor in this city
and when seen Thursday evening at
the knutsford, talked Interestingly Of
the big work he now has under way.
Within the next week or ten days
the splendid new hosting plant and
equipment will have been installed at
the Pittsburg Idaho property. which is
located in the Texas district, Lemhi
county, Idaho, and in the near future
the mine Will be producing an enor.
nous tonnage of the high grade lead
ore for which it is famous
Big Tonnage in Sight.
An idea of the proven resources Of
that Mr.. Ross has promised the Pitts
burg and Gilmore railroad people that
he will furnish them 10000 tons of ore
during the year 1910, provided that the
road reaches Gilmore by the first of the
year, 1T is largely for the purpose of
handling the mIne's output that the
new road is being built, as Mr. Ross
has been convinced by past experiences
with various modes of haulage that 4
railroad is the only logical answer to
the problem OF economic transportation.
Mr.. Ross stated also that within the
past eight or nine months, two or three
properties of the district have devel.
oped in a manner which indicates that
they may become fully as big as the
Pittsburg-Idaho.
The Wilbert Company.
Mr.. Ross also speaks encouraglngly
of the condition of the Wilbert Mining
company's property, situated in the
Dome district of the Little Lost River
country, in the same range of mountains
as the PIttsburg Idaho, but on the OPP
posite slope. Two years ago Mr.. Ross,
a. ). Brazncll Of Pittsburg, and the
Knight and Warwick interests in this
city, took up the property and at a
heayy financial outlay they have devel
oped big mining proposition, from
which has been shipped recently 1000
tons OF ore running from 30 to 80 per
cent lead, the last consignment having
been received at the United States
smelter three weeks ago.
Ross in Control
MIR. Ross, who is president Of this
company, upon the death Of Mr., Braz-
nell, which occurred in the east about
TWO months ago, purchased the inter
ests which the latter had held in the
company, and Thursday in this city he
bought also the knight Warnock hold
lngs. MIR. Ross is now on his way to
Plttsburg, where he Will remain until
after the first of the year, when he will
return to take the active management
Of the Wilbert as well as the Pittsburp. |
Idaho affairs. He contemplates the |
erection of a $50 or 300-ton mill for the |
Wilbert In the near future, and expects
also to solve the ore transportation |
problem as it is being solved for the |
by the building of a
railroad
The Pittshurg- g-Idaho company is |
,lose corporation, although Mr.. Ross
minated that the stock of the Wilbert |
company might be listed on the local
exchange at some time In the near
future.