The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-06-08
MACHINERY
FOR CONTACT
Compressor For Nevada Copper
Mining { Milling Co.
COMPANY PUTS ON TRACTION EN-
CINE FOR HAUL FROM ROGERSON
Activity OF Pioneer Company at Con.
tact is Stimulating the Whole
Camp.

Inc big compressor, concernin,
which The Miner has had so much II
say IN recent issues at last is installet
upon the property of the Nevada Con
per Mining, Milling and Power com
pany. The task or bringing the ma
chlne from Rogerson, Idaho, to Con
tact was accomplished without mis-.
nap, and 1t was landed below the
lower tunnel of the Mammoth in ner.
feet condition.
Ordered several weeks ago, the COM
pressor should have arrived in Con
tact before May 1. Unfortunately. how
ever, the machine became lost in tran
slt and couple of weeks passed with
Out Woru OF It's whereabouts Tracers
were sent out in an endeavor to To-
cate IL and, once successful, no time
was wasted by the railway companies
IN getting the machine to Rogerson.
where the work of unloading and
transporting to Contact was at once
undertaken.
Arriving in Contact, the machine
stood on Main street three or four
days while necessary road work be-
tween Contact and L and ID mountain
was done in order that it might safely
be transported to it's present posi-
ton, where it is now housed. ready for
operation as soon as the laying of
pipe lines has been completed to-
gether with other necessary installa-
tlon work incidental to its starting
One pipe line already has been laid
10 the lower tunnel on the Mammoth
and another is being laid to the nm
per tunnel.
According to General Manager Hen
ny oHltn, the compressor will be op-
erated three shifts developing and
plocklng out the immense ore bodies
ol the Mammoth and New York prop
erues, on which it is the intention
OF the company to center most of it's
work Tor the present. The operation
Oh the machine means much to the en-
TIRE camp and to every property on the
contact, as, through the employment
OF this method mining, good progress
can be made in the way of develop
ment and actual mining.
1t is near the Mammoth and New
lork properties that the flotation
plant Will be built, the timbers for
which are arriving in Contact as fast
As freighters can lay them on the
ground. With the 155-ton tractor and
rallers, which the company recently
on the run between Rog-
'rson and Contact, the work of freight |
ng IN the machinery, lumber and mill |
materials will be greatly lessened |
md what under existing conditions
low Is four-day trip will be made in
wO
General Manager Henry Smith is
Justly engaged putting things in shape
or the commencement of work on the |
MIL, also the power plant, which will
e located below town. An Office
ulldlng for Consulting Engineer
sherwood is under construction and
'ill be ready for occupancy by the
lme ne returns from his purchasing
rip to Denver, Salt Lake and other
tiles.
In general the work of the Nevada
'opper Mining, Milling and Power
is progressing as fast as can
e expected, and today there remains
mall doubt in the minds of the most
keptical that the betterments which
lis company promises to Contact soon
III become realities. Every day sees
efinite arrangements being concluded
nd carried out looking to the time
hen Contact will enjoy city water .
nd lighting systems, with power for Ii
le operation of plants in the district s
lat eventually will become one of {
le great copper-producing camps |
the West.-Contact Miner.
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