The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-17
D. c. JACKL|NG IS
BACK FROM MINES
Visits Ray Consolidated, (iila,
Chino and Other Coming
Copper Producers.
ALL GREAT L0W-C0ST,
L0W-GRADE PROPERTIES
Work Is Placing Millions of
Tons Copper Ore in Posi-
tive Form.

d. c. Jackling. general manager of
the Utah Copper and other well known
red metal organizations, returned Fri
day afternoon from long trip through
Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Wis
iting the Ray Consolidated. Gila, Chino
and other properties with which he is
officially connected. When seen by the
newspaper men, Mr.. Jackling was
buried beneath great stacks of CORE
spondcnce that had accumulated during
his absence, but he laughingly resigned
himself to the inquisitivc newsgatber-
ers. To The Tribune he said;
Perhaps you have heard that Philip
Wisemann has resigned as general man
ager of the Ray Consolidated Copper
company. This Office has been sus-
pended or practically abolished, for
the time being, at least. I will take
charge Of operations, while Mr.. Stem
ger will now assume his duties as gen
eral superintendent Of the company.
The reports for June from the Ray
show a total of 2s,000,000 tons de-
veloped. and Of partially developed ore
there are 15,000,000 additional tons.
By August i our mill plans will be so
far advanced that we will be able to
specify for portion of our structural
Steel
son the railroad grading work the
company Is employing sixty teams and
two hundred men, continually adding to
its forces so that tins task will be hur
ried TO completion. While at the prop
erty j located the main working shaft
which will be driven to the 250;foot
level Immediately. This shaft will serve
the company for a period of ten years
on the particular block of developed
copper ore into which it is driven, and
the daily capacity of the shaft will
be 5000 tons of ore. At first we thought
that 3000-ton milling plant would be
large enough, but VIC now know that
our calculations were wrong. The prop
erty has opened UP so fast and so big
that 5000 tons capacity daily is neces
sary in view Of the merits of the propo-
sition.
'fTbe Ray mine is in the best posi-.
bic condition, and IN every regard our
early expectations were we'll founded
Inside of eighteen months we expect
to be producing "copper" for the plant
will be ready to a very large extent
in that time. As for our smelling plans,
all | can say now is that we will in.
stal our own snclter. which Will be
sufficiently large TO treat all our own
ores, and perhaps all that the imme-
diate vicinity can offer.
"Thc Gila property adloins the Ray,
and holds practically all the particu-
lar big low grade copper deposit not
lines. Work at the Gila has been start
ed actively, three drills are now at
work, with additional drills on the road.
There are several million tons of cop
per orc developed in the Gila, and our
experimental milling plant at the Ray
has shown that the ores of both prop
critics are spiendidly adapted to con,
centration.
"While in New Mexico ] visited the
Chino Copper company. and found de
velopment work progressing in good or
der. The Chino is not A new producer.
1t is a profit maker today, as there is
q small mill operating on the ground
that makes a steady earning. But the
mine was worked for its high grade
copper ores as far back as 1904 The
Sponiards mined the rich strcaks, TAX.
ing the copper hy pack mule to Mexico
City. where if was coined into money.
1.-The Chino comprises a large acre.
age, and there is much ground that is
undeveloped, but which promises good
returns. We arc doing the major por-
tioD of our development work outside
of the zone within which the early
miners operated. although there is a big
tonnage or ore IN the old workings and
in the old zone which the early miner
conld not handle al all. There are sew
cral million tons Of ore now developed
and the Chino will make a good prop.
erty although we do not claim for il
that II is as great a proposition as tho
Utah Copper or the Ray Consolidated
That was not our claim when we pur.
chased the ground. But the Chino is
not a speculation by any means.
deem it very valuable territory. but
how big proposition il will be re-
mains for our work to determine.
There is a sufficient tonnage now de.
veloped to warrant us in believing that
much more will be opened as work pro
crosses.
When asked about the Utah Copper
property, Mr.. lacking said that during
the present month the company is hand.
ling greater tonnage and as a consc.
quence is doing a greater amount Of
good, than In any like period of the
company & history. President MacNei!i
and others are expected here next wcel,
TO get in personal touch with the IF
fairs Of the company. They will al
rive IN the newly completed Jackline.
acNeilI private car, the first al-steel
private car ever turned ont bv the Pull
man company, and the Pullman peorls
claim that it is the finest aud mos
complete private car ever turned ont by
them.