The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-07
YELLOW PINE MINE
ROAD SOON READY
Salt Lake Route Extension to
Nevada Property Is Being
Completed.

Within the next two weeks the four
teen-mile narrow gauge railroad from
Jean on the Salt Lake Route through
Good Springs TO the Yellow Pine mine
VIII be finished, the necessary shells for
the crusher at the mill will be here and
both Will be in operation. The electro
gasoline engine for the railroad with con-
SIDERABLE other equipment will arrive
within a Few DAYS and be installed. AS
soon as the Items mentioned arrive the
mine, mill and road will be operating.
About three cars week are now be-
ing hauled by wagon TO the railroad and
shipped This is being done as a mat
ter Of necessity and It is some OF the
being chiefly lead with a small amount
OF zinc. Several weeks ago II was de-
cided to place small hoist on the 300
foot level. To make chamber for this
and also make room for some ore bins
IL was decided TO stope out some Of the
ore It was believed that between 10000
be found In making tho chamber. In
stead IT now looks as though II would
be well over S00.000 tons. The ore shoot
has been followed down to the 400 level
the 400 level and the ore will be left
until after the electric hoist Is in
stalled.
The Yellow Pine will shortly start work
on its own power plant at the mine. This
Improvement will not go in until the ma
terial can, be hauled by the. railroad,
In three miles Of the ore bins. While
the railroad building is going on new ore
bins are being added at the mine. The
railroad is one of the most easily con-
structed OF any IN Nevada. 1t Is a three
foot track on red wood ties. Very little
grading was necessary; After the line
Jean a grading machine did the. greater
part Of the work. A pick and shovel OF
a scraper team were used in but few
places.
An eopine will orrive IN a few dnvs
which is expected to be well able TO
negotiate the heavy grade with the empty
cars. Th engine is fitted with gears
be thrown in where 1t is found neces-
sary. A train OF eight ten-ton ore cars
has arrived. They are fitted the same
AS soon the the shell foT, the coarse
In operation. The mill was recently
that belonged to the copper teaching plant
from which the present mill is remodeled,
The long period of inactivity and the
part Of the plant that Superintendent
Frederick Hale and General Manager j.
F. Kent arc now waiting
worked out the problem Of handling the
complex silver lead zinc ore, will be at
The plant in few days and suRerIInItendI S,II I'd
the mill means much to the district The
mill has been equipped mostly with Over
strom patents. The Hartz jigs are re-
modelled by Professor Overstrom and he
also has installed new style table. The
mill is arranged 10 handle sixty tons OF
ore q day.
Even the classifiers at the plant have
been arranged TO suit the Gloss OF ore,
which is probably as varied as any In
the district According to Superintend- :
ent Hale the mill showed an eXeellent
saving Of lead during the short time ii
was in operation. Lead concentrates
running as high as SIS per cent were OBJ
tained. II is also declared that high
| grade zinc concentrate can also pe
| taken from the Overstrom tabless-Clark
| County Review