The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-07
RAY CON, CLOSE
To PRODUCTION
Erection of Structural Steel
Progresses Fast Enough to
Hasten Predictions.
BIG TONNAGE NOW
BEING EXTRACTED
Manager Jackling Says Chino
Company Is Placing Its
Equipment Orders.

When shown reports from the east to
the effect that the Ray Consolidated
company would begin milling ores by
January 1. 1911, General Manager ID. {.
Jackling, who arrived from the property
in Arizona on Sunday, said that the com
papy expected TO be In shape for hand
ling orc by that time. although ii was
not possible now TO give the exact date
Mr. Jacklinc added that he found every
thing at the Ray In fine shape. the man
agcmcnt adding approximately 5000
tons of ore TO dumps each month, In
preparation for mill operations.
Mr.. Jackling states that at the Chino
Copper property the excavation work Tor
the mill is under way and the steel for
tho mill building has been ordered, The
company also is purchasing the steam
shovel equipment 10 be used on this we'll
known copper property.
The Boston News Bureau has the fol-
lowing TO say in regard TO the Ray Con-
solidated.
iThc RAY Consolidated Copper com
pany expects by January I, 1911 to be
treating 5000 tons OF ore day in its new
mill. On April ! the concrete founda-
tions were completed, and since that time
the erection of the steel structure mas
plans for the Ray mill called for ca
pacity OF 5000 tons daily from the eight
units of which it will be comprised.
Without much additional expenditure,
however, n tonnage beyond this capacity
Will be possible OF treatment through the
system recently Installed in the Utah
Copper mill This provides for the grad
ing OF various kinds OF orc, and elimin-
necessary This new method Will make
possible the treatment OF at least 5000
tons, and eventually 10000 tons day,
which tonnage Is expected TO be reached
by the end OF next year,
''The preliminary work of merging the
ella Copper company into the Ray COM
pany Will have been accomplished by
July l. up 10 which time ella stockhold
stock for one of Ray, There are today
on both the Ray and ella properties al
most $4,000, 600 tons OF developed and
partly developed ore. OF this 5000. 600
tons is credited to Ray and IL, 600 900 tons
TO ella. The latest report on Ray Con-
solidated orc tonnage. dated May II. is
now at hand. 1t shows 55,S5S.2SI tons OF
developed and partly-deveoPed ore, av-
eraSiGg 2-21 per cent copper. That OF
the ella company as OF the same date
shows 15.9i1. i02 tons OF ore, averaging
2.0d per cent copper
"Rays developed ore, as indicated by
1Ss holes 200 feet apart on its own prop
erty and the adjacent Gia and Arizona
Hercules property was IS, 59l. 532 tons
averaging 2.20 per cent copper. partially
developed ore indicated by holes 400 feet
apart was 7.261.752 tons, averaging 2.21
per cent copper. elias developed ore
from thirty-siX holes 200 feet apart on
its own and adjacent Ray ground was
l5.S79,3S5 tons of ore. averaging EOS pei
cent copper. while its partially developed
ore totaled 56S.01! tons OF II per cent
copper. Rays developed tonnage increase
since April IL was i5i.l5l tons, and its
partly-developed ore increased LIS. 22t
tons: elias ore tonnage increased i04;-
$50 tons for the developed and I16. .i5C
tons for the partly developed
In the case of Ray the increase since
April II is over 100000 tons. while tho
gain credited to ella is a trihe over
100000 tons, The mine developments al
Ray TO date may be best CLEANED from
the following detailed report as of May
IA: