The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-22
MINES AND MINING
RAY CON. PUSHES
ITS GREAT WORKS
At Least One Unit of Mill to Be
Ready by First of
Year.

Boston. Aug. 21-All but per cent
of the ella Copper company capital
stock has been exchanged for shares
of the Ray Consolidated Copper COM
pany on basis of three Tor one. end
the time for further deposits has again
been extended TO September l.
Work on the Ray Consolidated plant
has been progressing very SatisfactOr~
lily, and IL is confidently expected that
by January /. at least one unit of the
mill viii commence operations. The
steel structure is now going up for the
crushing department, while work on
the steel ore bins is about ready 10
start. The foundation for the four
engines or the power plant has been
completed and concrete walls are now
being erected. Grading for the smelter
is completed and foundation eXcaVa-
tons are well along. There is in the
treasury of the Ray Consolidated Cop
per company about S2.250.000. an
amount sufficient to carry out present
plans.
II was the original intention OF the
management to handle about 5000
tons OF ore a day. Had this plan been
adhered to mining could have been &C
COmpltshed through a single working
shaft. All these plans, however. were
amended and the capacity of the mill
Will be from 5000 10 10000 tons day,
as a result OF which il was necessary TO
sink a second shaft about one half a
mile distant from the main shaft this
has about been completed.
The cOncentrator viii comprise eight
sections; one or two of these will be
used at the start, and others VIII be
commissioned as rapidly as possible
Not before July I, 1911, il at that time,
Will the full mill be running.
The smelter 10 be erected viii have
a capacity of between 600 and 200 tons
a day, sufficient for treating the
product OF the 1O,OOO-tOn mill. The
ratio OF concentration viii be II TO l.
The smelter at first viii be constructed
with four reVerberatOries, while later a
single blast furnace will be added.
Drilling Is Scattered.
Drilling operations on both the Ray
and ella property continue, but the
holes now being sunk are more scat
tered than formerly, for the manage
ment is now engaged in opening up the
mine preparatory TO shipments rather
than in increasing ore reserves. The
proven tonnage of the Ray property
stands at better than $4,000 tons.
When production has actually started
there will be a stock pile of at least
100000 tons OF ore, which viii be Valu-
able in case OF underground trouble, II
would take twenty days under full TO-
0O0-LOn operations 10 consume this sur
plus ore supply.
The main line, about nine miles, Of
the Ray a ella Valley Railroad COM
pany, the entire capital stock Of which
is owned by the Ray Consolidated Cop
per company. has been completed. A few
switches now remain to be installed.
orders have been given Tor about 100
dump cars, but when the full equip
ment is on the track there Will be at
least 100 more, or total Of Z5O pieces
OF rolling stock, exclusive OF motive
power At the present time daily COM
munieatiOn by motor car is being made
between the mining town of Ray and
the smelling town OF Hayden over the
tracks of the Phoenix & Eastern rail-
road.