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Show THE SMELIG INDUSTRY IN UTAH COMMERCIAL ORE SMELTING CENTER OF UNITED STATES LOCATED IN SALT LAKE COUNTY. ' Present Investment in Wants, Power Houses and Machinery Aggregate J12,250,C0O, Thousands of Men Bslng Employed in Their Operation. SMELTING: Salt Lake county is' today the commercial ore smelting I center of the United States. The mammoth plants at Tooele, Midvale, Murray and Garfield now employ an average of 2,470 men and pay them wages of $2,178,000. Their other running run-ning expenses, taxes and fixed charges char-ges annually double that amount, besides be-sides the distribution of dividends and the thousands spent for improve-' ments and up-to-date facilities for. reducing' re-ducing' ores. Their present investment invest-ment in plantB. power houses and machinery aggregates TWELVE MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, besides their large holdings in land:;, mining claims and mines. The four jplants have a combined treatment capacity of 11,700 tons daily. The latest feature Is the facility for treating low grade lead and zinc ores heretofore unavailable. una-vailable. This means a great deal to the state, as Utah now stands THIRD in the Union in the production cf lead ores. Utah also stands second in production of silver, fourth as to copper and six:h in gold. The total value of all ores smelted In this state in 1911 has been placed, at $15,000,000. The output for 1912 is expected to exceed this amount. CONCENTRATING MILLS: The many concentrating mills in this state play a large part in handling the ores from the time they leave the mines. Most every large mine has 1 its concentrator near by. Much of Utah's mineral output is of such a grade that it can be treated economically economi-cally at the smelters as it comes from the mines. Principal among i these concentrators in the state are the great Magna and Arthur mills of the Utah Copper company at Garfield, Gar-field, employing fourteen hundred sixty men; the plant of the Ohio Copper company at Lark, the United States Smelting company at Mid-vale, Mid-vale, those of the Silver King, Daly West, Daly Judge, Ontario and Gar-Belll Gar-Belll at Park City; the cyanide mill of the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines company at Mercur; the Bingham-New Bingham-New Haven, the Redwing and Utah Apex at Bingham, and that of the South Utah Mines company at New-house. New-house. Thera are many other similar simi-lar plants in the various mining districts dis-tricts of the ttate. It is estimated that these mills represent, a total investment in-vestment of $9,745,000, that t,hey employ em-ploy 2.510 men and carry a monthly payroll of $222,025. Salt Lake county coun-ty takes an enormous toll from this industry. Most of the nv.ut from the mines in the state Oi',:e to this county1 for treatment at tue binelters, thence the bullion is shipped eastward east-ward for refining. THE INTERNATIONAL: The International In-ternational Smelting & Refining company com-pany has completed its splendid new plant near Tooele. Not the largest in the state nor the greatest in capacity, capa-city, but modern in every appointment; appoint-ment; compact, thoroughly equipped, I built on economical lines and des- J tined to play a large part in the fu- I ture development of the commercial I smelting industry of the intermoun- ; tain west. Its daily capacity for smelting copper ores is fifteen hundred hund-red tons, while the lead furnaces handle five hundred additional tons per day. The mammoth chimney .rising to a height of five hundred fifty feet and twenty-five feet wide at the top and all buildings, are of brick and .'"!-. construe! ion. These with rir '-g cr-' -t cost THREE |