The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-16
HEINzE To START
OHIO COPPER MILL
Plant at Bingham Will Be
Working Within Four or
Five Days.
DECLARES MERGER WOULD
BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL
Combination Would Insure Sta.
bility in Market; Not in
Politics at Present.

Z. Augustus Heinzc looks five wears
younger. He saws he feels fino. He
is IN Salt Lake City for the first time
IN three years or SO, and he came
here to start the mill on the Ohio Cop.
! per properties at Bingham. Mr..
| llclnzc said he could say nothing for
publication about the proposed copper
merger, for the reason that he knew
little more about it than anybody elso
does, except that, perhaps. those who
bad talked with him about il at all
had talked, maybe, Il little more freely
than they would with some one who
was not interested in copper Mr..
ucinze believes that the merger would
| he good thing Tor both the producer
and the consumer. The Davis DAILY
| property in Butte said Mr.. Hcinze. is
looking well, exceedingly we'll. He
has great expectations from that. He
! properties, in which he is interested,
| Then. too, he thinks the zinc ores in
| the Lexington at Butte which have
been found within the last few years,
VIII be susceptible of treatment by the
new processes. Some lead mines at
Callan, Ida, arc to be worked Mr..
| lleinzc is not iu politics at present,
be saws.
This, in epitome. is what Mr.. Heinzc
had 80 say, He viii bc In Salt Lake
week or so. making side trips. Then
he viii 20 back to Butte. and then 70
the east. lie will divide most of his
timo between Butte and Salt Lake.
! MIR. GeinZc came Into Salt Lake
quietly on the Butte train that arrived
At J;2J o'clock Monday afternoon.
| He was met at the train by Colin Nc
! Intosb the general manager for the
| Ohio Copper. From the station Mr..
! Hcin2e went 10 the Wilson, where he
is auartcred. In the evening he PLAYED
pool with Il number of friends at the
Alta club
While Mr.. Heinze 5 reception in salt
| Lake was not so demoustrative a ono
aS thai which was glNrn him in Butte.
4 whore 900 men met him at tbe rail
! road station and drow his carriage up
| the hill 10 The Butte hotel. Mr.. Heinze
expresses himself as being pleaSed 10
be here. and see things looking 50
| prosperous.
Merger Good Thing.
With reference 10 tho copper NOR
ger which is the talk Of the metals
world just now, Mr.. Heiuze said:
Il think such combination would
bc good thing for both the producer
aud the consumer. An increase of two
cents would make little difference 10
the consumer, especially If the fifteen
cent rate wcrc the standardized price.
There would he confidence, which docs
not exist with y demoralzcd consumers
market. Men would be in u position tp
make contracts knowing that they could
get their copper at stated price of IF
teen cents, and they would not labor
under the uncertainty of possible
al mr. Nh
notice at all. =
Ny Hcinze said ho would not care
TO be quoted further, saying that he
knew little more about the matter
than what is known TO everyone who
reads the papers.
Mr.. Heinze said: "We expect TO start
the Ohio mill within the next four or
five days. The rest OF the mill VIII be
completed within four or five months.
We Will begin with handling abou,
800 tons. and ultimately we viii
handle 5000. The plant viii cost about
SI,SOO,o00 \ million of this has al
ready been put in. One half the mill is
finished, aud half of the other half is
completed, practically. The plant would
have been started long before but for
delay in the delivery Of material and
such.
There is an abundance Of ore
mountains of it,, You may say, Our
tunnel is practically $4,000 feet long
and thc portal is only 1920 feet from
the mill, that the whims OF weather
will not interfere with US. We believe
in fact, we know--that we have bet
ter transportation facilities than any
of them.
''Our mill too, is combination of
all the latest improved methods III
smelling. We feel highly complimcntcd
at au incident in this connection. A.
s4..l AI...h ~. .,.1
has a new process which he is using in
Nevada, came 10 look at our plant
day or two ago with view to adapting
some of his methods TO our mill, but
when he had looked II over he told
lis that our system could not be inn
proved upon,
Situation in Butte.
GLOW does the situation in Butte
look to you, Mr., Heinzc?D
Fine, very fine. The Davis-Daly
property is looking very well, indeed
We have several hundred thousand tons
blocked ont ON development. and we are
ready 10 run a cross'cut from tho 1900
foot level. The situation ON tho HOO
looks very we'll too While VIC are
shipping only 100 10 80 ions a dav
now-;hc ore that is taken out in dc.
tho first of the year wo
viii be shipping 500 TO coo tons At
present we arc sending the ore TO the
Washoc smeItcr at Anaconda, but when
we begin to work the mine in earnest
ye viii ship the ore TO Basin, where [
nave IA reduction works.
''Thc Lexington in Butte promises
we'll in zine. Large zinc bodies have
peen uncovered, and ! think that by
applying some of the processes we huvo
rere We will do well with the old Lex.
ngton.'
''Arc you still interested in Deep
'reck ?"
''Ob, yes. Reports from there are
cry encouraging. Our people say that
he property is looking extremely well
iou ask about Il new railroad to Deep
,reek' Well, tho transportation ques.
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