The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-08-29

| $200000.00 is being expended b,
the Livingston Mires Corporation or
tramway. dam, pipe line and powel
plant, and mill for the mines on the
head of East Fork, thirty-fve miles
from Challis, with office headquar
tiers in Mackay, according to the Mac
kay Miner, in an article published il
that paper which follows:
The Livingston Mines Corporation
is a close corporation, with Mr.. a. "
Walker, president, with offices Il
New York City and Mr.. J. E. Wall
or, Managing Director Of the proper
ty, with offices in this city. Tho
company has offered no stock for sale
The property owned By the conn
ny is known as the Livingston grou
Of mines, with practically three DIS
tinct mines in the Boulder Mining dis
trict
After ACQUIRING the property it was
necessary to build a highway first O
all and this his been done at cos
of approximately so 10000 Tho
road is built through light snow fal'
section that will make it possil'0 r.
reach the property the year around.
The road is ten miles in length pass
ing through a very rough canyon, bu+
It IS no doubt one of the best mine
roads in the west.
The company pushed the work of
building $4,000 worth of roads to
connect with the county highway
-oad, which was in bad repair, and for
Months urged the necessary work BY
he district commissioners to put this
.oad in shape for the heavy freighting
hat was to be transported over it to
he property. but the work dragged and
ne equipm ent has now commenced r.
'rrive. the entire tramway plant hav
'ng been unloaded at Mackay, where i
$ being stored pending the repair of
the district highway road and bridges,
before it can be transported to the prop
erty. This delay is disappointing 10
the management and does not reflect
credit to the district
The tramway plant is a Leschen
gravity automatic dump type, weighing
100000 pounds. It will be three miles
in length As soon as the highway
officers complete the work on the dis
trict road the plant win be placed on
the property. A large force of men
are now busy building the towers and
terminals, there being forty-eight towers
with two terminals The tramway viii
have a capacity of one hundred tons
each eight hours, drawing seventy-two
buckets. The longest span is twelve
hundred feet between towers, crossing
a guleh a distance of eighty feet above
the ground. The tramway heads at the
Little Falls group of mines, with the
terminal station located at the mill site
on Horse Collar Flat. This equipment
cost approximately $5O,OOO.OO.
Mr.. Ed. Suffer, of the mechanical
staff of the Anaconda Copper COMPANY
arrived the first of the week to consult
with Mr.. J. H. Wilson, the engineer in
charge of the construction of the tram
way.
Mr.. Homer Dundas arrived this week
to take charge of the. erection of the |
lines from the power plant
to the mines. Mr.. Dundas has had much |
experience in electrical construction
work and his employment means that
his feature of the work win be well
and constructed without
lelay.
Work has also started on the dam and |
excavation for the pipe line to be placed |
n connection with the hvdro-electrie |
liant The pipe line consists of $500
eet of twenty-four inch continuous
wood pipe, requiring seven cars to trans
'ort the pipe to this city, which is -
rrive in this city in the next two
weeks.
The power plant is to be erected near
he mouth of Boulder creek. 1t will
ave five foot impulse wheel and gen
rate three hundred and fifty horse
,ower This plant win cost approx
nately $50,000.0O, and viii furnish AIDE
uate power for the mill and mines.
With the completion of the tramway,
am, pipe line and electric plant, win
ONE the erection of a sixty ton daily
apacity mill which win run the totally
ost of the equipment up to approxi-
lately $200,000.00 Work on tho whole
lore attractions than ever before are
ned up, thus assuring visitors q bigger