THE NEWHOUSE MINESMINES ANDSAND MELTERSSMELTERS A MODERN COPPER MINING PROPERTY application of steam turbines and electric motors to mine and mill work

prop- description of mine and equipment and rich but fickle deposit of the precious electric motors fortor serving the entire it was a master mind and daring heart metals erty with power and light the newhouse foresight have that planned and carried out the reclamation the new mining property at newhouse officials with characteristic adoption of turbinesnery in of the cactus mine and the man behind may well be regarded as a model of pro- taken the lead in the successful this enterprise without question is a man gressigressivenessveness in engineering as well as com western mining work and the

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kief a qz the east the newhouse mill and trestle approach view from brought a of de- operation of the system has who has carrying out gi- mercial fields and close study its power system is been successful in practical deserved reward the gantic undertakings had a tails will reveal many points of following sub- a man who has operators ac- treated in detail under the world of experience mining affairs and interest and value to the mine equipment J in of things ject power and mill one who V out of customedcustomed only to the old order years has would rather make millions many vital during the past few utah a low grade mining proposition than to pin not theth least important of the as a producer of turbines and made a marvelous record lshis faith and risk his reputation on a small features is the use of steam the head copper bearing ores and at the present time ten years ago the reduction company and newhouse is and under whose d- irection has been so extensively our state is attracting widespread attention the cactus company arrived at an under- it developed so splendidly equipped because of its rapidly growing output of the standing and the former then built one ofot and red metal and because of the wonderful pos- the finest concentration plants to be found mine operation and development sibilitiesties it offers in this direction in this intermountain region at that time the mines were acquired by mr hardly made when butte montana as a magnificent pro but a brief run had been newhouse in the year 1901 and active work ducer of copper ore is in close competition trouble broke out again between the inter- was at once inaugurated in their disagreement to extensive with the mines of michigan in the matter ofot ested parties and this and systematic operation and development under the supervision of M M johnson up to this time nearly all work in the cactus had been in the nature of tunnel exploration the mine shaft having reached but a shallow depthdepths under the new re- gime however a new three compartment shaft two compartments for hoistinghoisteng and one for manway was started and this was sunk to a depth of feet or to the pres- eentnt tunnel level with drifts and cross cuts at intervals of every hundred feet on the foot level from the bottom of the shaft the long working tunnel was started and work was also begun at its western terminus as well this tunnel is feet in length and has a grade of five inches to every hun- 7 k dred feet and the car track is of 30 pound steel the haulage is by means of 50 horse power electric locomotives and the cars are capable of holding three andnd half tons each there are two electric locomotives at the mine main tunnel entrance to the cactus alinemine on each level in the mine imimmensecinense bod- immense outputs of the red metal in draw- gether with the great scarcity of water for ies of ore are blocked out and these have ing a comparison between these two great milling operation occasioned another close been crosscutcross cut for distances of from to coppecopperr producing sections it is well to state down notwithstanding the fact that in the feet without in several instances dis in this connection that bingham utah mine workings immense bodies of fine mill- closing both walls of the deposit or lode promises to become a formidable rival to ing ore were blocked out ready for extrac- and these ore bodies have been drifted butte and that there is every reason to be- tion and the mill this disagreement led to upon for a distance of feet on the strike lieve that another section of our common- a lawsuit which ended in the sale of the of the vein thus showing their perman- wealth will in a short time become a sec- properties of the two companies under the ency landnd continuity on each level and ondond bingham as a producer of immense quantities of copper ore with which is asso- 7 ciated appreciable quantities of gold and v as silver as a byproductby product X the locality under consideration is cop- 4per gulch in san francisco district beaven county home copper aima utah the of the cactus 5 mine and which is but a few miles from frisco for years past made famous in min- ing circles by the possession of the horn sil- ver mine which has already paid nearly five X75 and a half millions in dividends to its for dunate owners the discovery of the cactus mine was nearly contemporary with that oiof the horn silver and for several years desul- tory work in its development was carried on by the late allenalien G campbell and his asso- ciates the then owners of the horhornn silversilver mine later on two french companies be- n gan operations in the gulch one of these the cactus company owned and developed crushing and loading station at the cactus alinemine the mines while put the other in a smelter harnhammermer the bondholderds abelnbeing the pur- from one level to the other in the for the treatment of cactus ores A short chasers the period of redemption ended ore chutes have been sunk to the tunnelel level but successful run was made at the smelter with the bondholdersbond holders in peaceful and legal and in the handling of the ore from the when a disagreement arose between the rospossessionsession thus leaving them free to con- time that the shovels it into the two associations the being result that summate a deal then pending which resulted car everything is done mechanically the plant was mine closed and it has in the acquisition of this magnificent piece or automatically from the time that it is since remained idle while work at the of mining property by the nechonewhouseuse mines dumped into the chutes until it is delivered mine was indefinitely suspended about shelterssmeltersSmelters company of which mr samuel into the railroad car below the mill atieat ore loading station ini the mine the economical in its operation as it was the A manufactured bbyY silver brothers iron the cars 0off the electric line is interesting1 this is a car turnerlurner passes to the works company of salt lake city is a steel aid gate regulates the discharge idea of which was brought here by general compressed and cast iron cylinder fifty feet in length and about six feetfeet in diameter r it rests upon wheels barcar tracks extend its entire length and it isf operated by a sinahsmall com- pressed air eienginegilie irin its utilization seven cars of ore are backed into it the outer and upper edges of the caisa-s ntfit into and rest against the triangular aitches fitted into the upper portion of the cylinder the top olot the cylinder is practically open and aheiwhen all is ready the cylinder is revolved for halthalf its circumference thus the carsbarsal al most LAKE most instantaneously and by this unique method the entire train of twenty one cars mi soon unloaded the newhouse copper gulch sevier railroad connecting mine with mill is ttwowo am L VIF and four tenths miles in length A shay 41 engine is used as motive power and this is a aa the only steam operated unit of the new- house system the road has a four per cent pushing loaded cars to top of mill grade and the ore train is composed of and the cars twenty one in number are loaded within an incredibly short time the mine is electrically lighted and compressed air is used in drilling operations the pipe- line carryingca ng the compressed air is feet in length from the powerhouse at the mill to the inner mine workings it is con- structedted of six and a quarter inch wrought W iron pipe and is substantially laid at the tunnel entrance there are sevseveraleral ot V buildings used for various purposes includ- ing a complete sawmill outfit blacksmith 4 shop and machine shop electric substationsub station etc to say nothing of the imposing building where the ore is unloaded from the electric train into ore bins from which the cars ofot the newhouse copper gulch sevier lake railroad are loaded coming from the tun- nel this train of twenty one cars reaches view of turbine units and switchboard ate top of the unloading and loading station a four Gonagondolasolas or standard cars with carrying capacity of pounds each at the mill the cars are bachbackeded up a long trestle to the top of the plant where they are mechanically unloaded into the big steel bins mentioned elsewhere in this articlearticle power and mill Equipequipmenttent the power house and contentconcentratingrating builabuild one roof and occupy an area iningZ are under of by feet the west POportionartion of this immense building is built 0of heavy structural covered steel with corrugated iron fireproofof with Ruberoidberold olingroroofing and is the and powerhousepower house is built of structural steel with heavy concrete foundations for brick ma- building smokestackstack trestle jorjwork clilchinerynery etc thetha in the power plant eqequipment and in and application of the power a distribution manage- requiredred in the mill and mine the reul same ment of the company hashas shown the practicece that char- mine progressive policy and electric motor engine and 21 cars on into cactus enterprise as a acterizesacte the success of the is ar endmostand most suc- building over a high trestle inill this top manager lafayette hanchettHancheltcliett s car turner which whole thereere is an unloading device that is as efet cOsscesscessfullyfully utilized thisthi grees superheat showed the following As is true with so many mining propo- water heater by a motor driven knowles fahr type steam consumption sitionssitions they were confronted with the prob- pump of the triplex the by load lbsibs per lems of expensive fuel and limited water condenser cooling water is circulated full electrical horse per supply after going into the subject andano an engine driven worthington pump of the power hour considering it from all standpoints as to turbine type which elevates this water to three fourths load lbsibs per electrical relative advantages the generation of a cooling tower in this tower the water horse power per hour one half load lbsibs per electrical horse r power per hour during these tests the turbines developed 90 per cent overload 4 A brief description of the working of the turbine may be of inteinteresttest referring to the accompanying sectional view page 24 two essential parts may be seen a rotating and a stationary element the rotating ele- mentment supported by flexible bearings iiJJ and a stationary hollow casing surrounding this rotor high pressure steam enters the turbine through the angular port A ex- panding to the right through the various rows ofot moving and stationary blades to compensate for the axial thrust the steam presses with equal and opposite force against a frictionless rotating balancing pis- ton C mounted upon the same shaft after passing the first series of bbladesades the dia- meter of the turbine is increased to reduce the length of blades necessary and the steam again expands to the right through the sevse ond series As before the axial thrust is ore in loading station the mine balanced by a second balancing piston clC l1 electric power in a central station and its in descending flows over wooden slats to a through the equalizing port PF expanding distribution to motors in the mill and for settling basin at the bottom during which in a similar manner through the last series haulage in the mine was adopted As best process it is cooled sufficiently to be ready of blades the steam finally emerges into the suited to meet the requirements of economy for circulation again the cooling tower oper- exhaust space B with its temperature and simplicity and reliability of operation west ates with natural draft and the condensing pressure completely reduced to that of anghouse parsons steam turbines were apparatus ordinarily maintains a vacuum of vacuum maintained in the condenser fur- adopted for generating the power in the 25 to 26 inches corresponding to a true therthermoremore the velocity due to expansion of central power plant the satisfactory results obtained from this installation amply justify the wisdom of the selection and it is evident that the steam turbine will soon be generally adopted by the mining interests of the west for power transmission work the steam turbine has already supplanted the recipro- cating engine throughout the country in A many other lines of industry such as electric traction lighting and general industrial powerpower plant work the electric power generating plant con- sists of two westinwestinghouseghouse larsonsparsons steam turbines direct connected to kw westi- ai Y

nghousein turbo generators which are wound 1 nt for three phase 60 cycle volt alter- nating current one of these units is shown in the accompanying photograph page 23 for supplying current to the fields of the turbo generators duplicate exciter gener- ator units are used each of 20 kw capacity and sufficient for supplying both turbo generators simultaneously one is driven by car turner at the mine loading station a westinghouse standard high speed engine macum of 27 inches referred to the standard the steam has been abstracted step by step and the other by a 30 H P westinghouse sea level barometric pressure of 30 inches in the various rows of blades and is kept induction motor these turbines were tested by the pur- so low that there is no opportunity for the both turbines exhaust into a single chasers engineer and when operating under turbine vanes to wear under the erosion of worthington surface condenser from which pounds steam pressure 27 inch vacuum steam which takes place when high veloci- the condensed steam is delivereddelevered to a feed referred to 30 inch barometer and de ties are employed the two ends of the green are sealed by frictionless water economizer is employed for utilizing casingsing samsamee time the boiler surfaces being clean which absolutely prevent air leaking the waste heat of the flue gases glandslands this are capable of transmitting the heat from condenser or steam leaking ouiout economizer raises the temperature ntointo the of the combustion of the fuel to the water con- non condensing an adjust- boiler feed water as comes when running it from the feeafeeo tained in the boiler at the highest possible serves to keep the rotating water heater from degrees to ment bearing H de- efficiency As an illustration of the practical in precise alignment grees for boilers oartpart of the turbine fahr the the economizer results obtained by using the condensed constantly flushed with oil connects with a bearings are self supporting steel stack steam from the turbines in the boilers an

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from a circulating system supplied by a westinghouse parsons K W steam turbine unit inspection of same after months of operation can be small plunger pump al which delivers oil shows that not a particle of scale boiler to the bearings at a low pressure returni- eight feet diameter and feet high by- scraped from the lower tubes in the ng through the cooling coil T to the reser- pass flues and dampers conduct the gases by means of a knife edge of air drills there voir A sensitive centrifugal governor either through the economizer or direct to for the operation the power one ingersoll driven directly from the turbine shaft as the stack as occasion may demand is installed in the house compound tandem two stage shown controls the amount of steam deliv- As no internal lubrication is used the compressor of a capacity of 2500 cubic ered to the turbine according to the load condenser steam from the turbines is oil air

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front and rear of switchboard teedfeed feet of free air at sea level this 3 free and is pumped directly into the the boiler plant consists of three transmitted to the mine at a distance of H waferwater heater where the exhaust steam from HPP high pressure babcock wilcox pump feetfeet through a six inch brouwrought0ht iron boilers two the feed pumps and the circulating with internal superheaters tube where it is distributed in the minemilie boilers carry heats it to degrees fahr this water being of sufficient capacity to the operation of air drills and gates at the being distilled eliminates the scale from theme for load under ordinary operating condi ore chutes the air is also used for the eionsns economizers and boilers thus saving the A pressure of lbsibs gauge is ordin- cylinder used in dumping the ore cars as arily expense of cleaning and reducing the cost carried the previouspreviouslyay aesdescribedcribed ITin a of maintenance of the boilers and at t connection with the boiler plant q volt direct cur- dumped automatically at the loading z haulage of the ore from the mine also one 30 H P sin the mine hoist tion in ore bins fitted with grizzliesgrizzliergrizzlies such and its crushing preparatory to being trans- rent motor for operating addition to the ore as will not pass through the grizzliergrizzliesgrizzlies run ferred to the mill as well as the operation the mill equipment in the loading through the chutes into the three blake in all its departments is done three blake crushers at of the mill the crushers where it is made into a product electrically station at the mine entrance embraces ofot not exceeding an inch and half inin diameter power is distributed throughout the following the crushing rolls from the grizzliergrizzliesgrizzlies and crushers the ore mill at the pressure of the generating units twoTwo holthoff enters storage bins of a holding capacity of tons automatically the crushed ore is loaded into the big carcarss of the newhouse copper gulch sevier lake R R com- pany and is conveyed to the mill at the mill the ore is brought up a four per cent incline trestle to the top of the plant and is dumped into the bins which have a capacity B of 1000 tons the bins are constructed oloi steel and are made exceptionally strong the mill plan providing for the erection of more bins when occasion requires the mill is P N constructed in two sections or units which are similar in every respect and more units may be added at will the ore is drawn from the bins onto belt conveyors by means T imal of plunger feeders and from the conveyors delivered to the elevators there are two elevators in each section of the mill the sectional view of K W westinghouse turbine belt conveyors deliver the ore product to iei e volts the volts of the main two style A gates rolls the dry elevator which takes it to the top of generating station is raised by transform- twenty eight 2 compartment hartz jibb the mill the elevator is seventy feet high ers to 2200 volts and carried over trans- thirty two wilfley tables and the cups are inches from this mission line feet in length to the sub- eight wilfley slimers elevator the ore goes to a fourteen mill- station and crushing plant at tunnel en- twelve screening imeter mesh and the oversize to trance tot0 mine four elevators inch rolls where it is crushed to about the crushing plant at the tunnel en- the shafting is all equipped with quills fourteen millimeter size and returned to the trance consists of three blake crush- ers driven by a 75 H P 2000 volt westing- 97 house induction motor i the substationsub station equipment at the tunnel entrance consists of a 75 H P 2000 voltvoli Z westinghouse induction motor direct con- 10 nected to a kw volt DCD C gen- erator from this motor generator set the locomotives fortor mine haulage are operated the locomotive equipment fortor the mine con- sists of two 2 westinghouse baldwin standard mine locomotives each equipped A1UV with two 2 25 H P volt westing- house special mining type motors diameter of driving wheels thirty inches gauge ofot track 30 inch r aa the following is a list of the westing- house induction motors installed MOTOR DRIVES A C INDUCTION TYPE MOTORS

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75 1 3 ox 0 O blake crushers 20 crushing dept and jigs mill 0 14 gillley Concenconcentratorstr a t 0 r s mill 30 2 duplicatedubu c a t e centrifugal slime pumps mill ir15 1 sump mill I1 agers 01 I1 sergeant air compressor 15 i1 concentrates elevator mill 5 3 concentrates conveyors mill and hill clutch pulleys so any part millimeter 20 1 vacuum pump for con that of elevator from the fourteen powerhouse the machinery can be stopped or discon- the undersize goes to a doubdoublee 15 1 ammonia pump for leeice nected machine ice plant independentlyly without shutting down imel consisting of a seven and a three 3 1 scrascraperer of green econo- other mizern 7 er powerhouse sections oversize I1 and half millimeter screen the 5 1 machine shop mine entrance 5 1 crusher in assay office mill mill practice or ore flow from the seven millimeter screen goes to the the ore as it comesco mes from the mine is no 1 jigs and that from the threeahree and a half screen to the no 2 jigs the in series the first compartment millinleimeterleterter of the these tanks to give product the two jigs is taken out sizer delivers the slimes a chance to product from the coarse material throughghaa settle discharge all tailings ana 16 mesh screen and thicken when they are drawn off through a side to a set of jigs running through are returned to the wet ele- strokes per the bottom of the tanks and de- hutch products minute the next compartment livered to a consisting of a sixteen inch belt and delivers to a set of slime tables all the vator set of four wilfley tables and water in cups which delivers the material the next compartment the slimes settling tanks is col- inch to another set of four lected in half millimeter wilfley one tank and used to supply the to the three and tables and the next compartment jigs with water on the nos 3 4 and 5

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two HP motors driving jigs and two 25 HP motors driving tables the oversize from this being re- to four tables the overflow from these jigs the tailings are discharged aaidandid sent out turned to another set of inch rolls for goes to a system of settling tanks of the mill the product through the first re crushing and from jigjigs to wet ele- the settling from these tanks are treated by and second jigs is returned through the vator and again to a three and halthalf four tables and the overflow from these elevation for treatingretreatingre the from millimeter screen until all material will pass settling tanks passes to sump tanks in the the tables are continually returned to the through a three and half millimeter screen bottom of the mill where the slimes system head of the same table for treatmentre the undersize from this three and half milli proper begins the water that flows across the product from all the jigs and tables is delivered through a system of shaking launders into push cars which are elevated and dumped into the concentrates bins from these bins the railroad cars are load- concentrates are ready for the T ed and the market the overflow from the shaking launders is also dumped back into the limesslimes system at the time of the visit ot a representative of the mining review the 4 mill was handling about GOO tons of ore daily ar the newhouse water system low realizing the urgent necessity of an ample water supply for his cactus enter- prise mr newhouse was soon able to secure this much needed ccommodity by the pur- chasee of the wah wah springs eight miles west of the present town of newhouse be- ing the only available water supply in that section of the country to bring this water from the springs to the mill site a pipelinepipe line feet in length from reservoir to reser- steel cactus club building voir was laid twelve and fourteen inch pipe being used in addition at wah wah meter screen al- the headsbeads of all the tables is also returned and the other manner feet of wood pipe is used in collect- ready mentioned to a ten gesn to the slimes system in the same is delivered are ing the water from the several springs and no 20 wire oversize from from these sump tanks the slimes the settling tanks in conveying it to the reservoir on the west thisis goes to no 3 jigs the under- pumped to a set of fifteen tanks side of the valley through the main pipe- size to a 16 mesh no 24 wire the upper portion of the mill these are in the line the water is delivered by gravity to the and the oversize from this to the are feet and the bottoms being a special reservoir above the mill at the rate of 1075 no 4 jigs undersize goes to a system form of an inverted cone the purpose 01 gallons per minute this reservoir which off calumet water which are arrangedarrangect design by mr bettles it is the is located several hundred feet east of the indian or the scurry of a jack rabbit was by a circuitous route a distance of ten or mill and at an elevation equal to the top void of life A few years ago in order to twelve miles but now owing to the en- terterpriseprise of mr newhouse backed by his ample capital the san pedro los angeles 971 salt lake railroad company has extended its frisco branch to the mouth of coppel gulch the new line being seven miles in length and at its terminus almost as by magic a thrifty and attractive little town has sprung into existence and which from the incoming train looks to the traveledtravelei like an oasis on the desert the town proper is laid out in regular M m order and with the mammoth mill building A flanking it on the east and with the commo- dious club house and boarding houses makes an imposing appearance mr newhouse has taken most com- mendable pride and interest in the building of the town which bears his name within its environments there are over fifty neat aandnd cosy cottages containing from four to six rooms each these are all modern and are constructed of cement with shinshingledglea dining house of the cactus inn roofroofsS which are painted and each residence of the mill has a capacity of gal- lons and from it pipes deliver the water to ii r v s the mill and also to the town of newhouse under pressure for boiler mill fire and domestic purposes r in speaking of the newhouse water sys- A i tta i tem it might be well to state in this con- nectiontion that the equipment of the new- house works includes an ice manufacturing plant and that the various departments of r mine and mill are supplied with this needed article for the use of employedemployes while the inhabitants of the town are able to secure oil ice at a price not above that at which it is it retailed in salt lake city aai B 1 i i log I1 tt TI the town of newhouse I1 J V Bain n n n n rr J BH ft U jj U 1 r f afi while the days of miracles have been i id 0 relegated to the dim and misty past there has been an almost miraculous changchange within a brief period in the desert plateau just below where copper gulch debouches into the wah wah valley here but two or view of newhouse abill from the northwest is piped for water supplied from the pipe- line and is electrically lighted these arere occupied by the employedemployes of the company having families the cactus club building is one of the most attractive structures in the new town it is of the bungbungalowalow type aandnd its beauty is enhanced by the fine little park with its green lawns which lies in front of it in the cactus club there is a reading room a billiard room a reception room and a bar the membership includes the business men of the town mine and mill superin- tendentstendents and all employedemployes of the company who are eligible and who are elected by ballot the object of the club being to pro- mote good fellowship and to provide a place mem- partial view of the town of newhouse of repose and entertainment for its bers and their friends three years ago the reigned supreme desert reach the mines of copper gulch by convey- cactus inn is imposing struc- and but for the another the of some wandering ance itie was necessary to drive from frisco ture in fact the inn embraces two build employed as a boardi- one of whichch is itself which has more the appearance of ina other for lodging and ng house and the suburban residences near a large cityC ity of than inn provides for the comfort about anything that can be found in many of the employedemployes the men daily most of the of the old time mining districts of the west company making this their home the inn in the preparation of this article management and superv- the being under the mining review acknowledges courtesies ision of mine host charles matthews from the following gentlemen of the new

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indian formerly on site of newhouse mill before and after whose every effort and aim is to give com- house mines and shelterssmeltersSmelters staff fort and satisfaction to his patrons mr samuel newhouse president north of the townsite there are several mr lafayette hanchette general man- temporary structures and a number of tents ager some of which are occupied by transients mr A J bettles metallurgist and mill and this portion of the town looks more like manager a typical mining camp than desdoes the town mr R F moser mechanical engineer