The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-03-16
MONTANA BINGHAM
REPORT is GIVEN
Iorgensen Describes Progress Of
Development Work At
Company's Mine :.

j. Jorgensen, a director of the Mon
tana Bingham Consolidated Mining
Company of Bingham, Utah, has just
returned to the Islands after three
months stay at the mine, superinten-
ding the new improvements being start
ed there. He reports the following con
corning this property: ,t@
The company's mine is located at
Bingham Gulch, Utah, north of the
Utah Copper Company's great mine
and consists of one hundred and seven:
ty acres of patented land, including the
old Tiewaukee Mine and the Valentine
patent. On the Tiewaukee, which in
earlier days has produced about three
million dollars of rich shipping ore
above water level, shaft is being sunk
and is now down two hundred and ten
feet, from which level a drift is being
run to get under the rich ore body To-
Gated above. Shipments from this ore
are expected to begin soon. s..... ,
Assays from this ore body average.
about forty dollars per ton with the
probability of becoming richer in
depth, the values being gold, silver,
copper and lead A hoist run by com
pressed air is being operated here. ",
Valentine Patent Worked ~
On the Valentine patent, comprising
forty acres and situated under the town
of Bingham, shaft is being sunk to
get under located ore bodies of about
the same richness as the Tiewaukee ore
and is at present down about one hun.
dred and sixty feet from the surface.
Several shipments of ore were made
from here few months ago giving
good results, and shipments will be re-
sumed when the shaft reaches depth
of about two hundred feet. ts'.. (,
A new electric hoist has been Install
ed and compressed air for the drills is
supplied from large compressor situ-
ated at the mouth of the Montana
Bingham drainage and transportation
tunnel. This compressor also supplies
| all necessary air for the Tiewaukee
shaft and the transportation tunnel it.
self.
The Original Location
On the original Montana Bingham
ground drainage and transportation
tunnel, commenced several years ago,
is now in ATS feet. Contracts for
hauling ore from several of the mines
reached by this tunnel have been made
and in a comparatively short time,
when the necessary development work
now in progress is completed, the rev
enue from this source will pay hand.
some profit. A large flow of water is
developed in this tunnel and portion
of said water is being sold to the Den.
yer & Rio Grande Railroad whose track
passes the mouth of the tunnel.
The tunnel itself cuts through an
immense body of low grade copper ore
on Montana Bingham proper. This
ore, of about the same richness and
character as the adjoining Utah Cop,
per Company's will require mill treat.
ment and the company by recent in.
crease in capitalization Of its treasury
stock will soon be in a position to erect
such a plant. The company, situated
as it is with two railroads namely the
Denver & Rio Grande and the Bingham
Garfield crossing its holdings and only
distant few miles from several great
shelters, and also obtaining its electric
power very cheaply from the Utah
Power & Light Company, should in q
short time prove to be one of the great
metal producers of the State of Utah