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Show 3efore And After At Bingham Canyon ....-- .vSW ' ' ' .. ;':W: ? .;H;ii;'::.:;:''';:,?': - A' r:' "';jA!I '' - . . . . .x - 1 . x1 j . : .. . x - r j - 2: . w " v " ' " v; - - j rs ; ' " ' e , jl . - ! 1 Sf;l :-r:- rw- , t - '"CtT" "JZ.".. ' .V- r ' " -" v ' v " n - " s s8--' '"5?." , . 0. x - ttv - r v s " . f . , i il 1 i " jV - x ! v. l Before and after comparisons are always interesting, but the one of the Utah Copper is of particular interest to Utahns as its success-N success-N ful operation has meant so much to the state during the past 40 odd years. The historic picture at the top was taken shortly after 1900 showing show-ing Bingham Canyon as i; was then primarily a logging camp with some gold mining and some prospecting pro-specting for lead and zinc. Industry Indus-try in the canyon supported only a handful of people. The picture below shows a part of the same canyon as it is today; a mountain lot low grade ore Is being whittled away. Bingham canyon has been converted into one of America's great industries and Utah has been enriched to the extent of millions from the Bingham Bing-ham mountain. Since mining was started there ' in 1904 more than $872,441,955 has been, turned into business and' industrial, in-dustrial, channels of the state in the form of $169,581,933 for wages; $269,735,898 for power and supplies; $177,191,317 for federal state and city taxes, and $232,932,807 for smelting, freight and refining. |