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Show ' ' . ; v A A 'Vr' .". ' -- " ' c - " :. ' AvA " N VA:V ! VOL. I. v ' , , lNGHAM CANYON, UTAH? SATURDAY, DECBER 23 f922 -- - --- -- - . t. ': , 11 - 1 : Whe Bingham. News Wishes You'A ' i v 1 :-- Christmas and A Very Hoq)pyN$&.Mt & Historical Data of the 1 Bingham Copper Camp Bingham was formerly a heav forested wilderness known on-- . ly to the hunter and the hardy A.- "frontiersmen. Red ping abound-- 1 ed.' Single trees of this wood : have been, found that measured 1' three feet in diameter." Brighara ., , Young and his followers believed ''.' I thechief values of the locality y ': to be in its timber, and history L . saya persuaded pioneers bearing a sawmill from the Eastern .'. . route to Idaho by wagon, to set up their saw mill in Bingham Canyon. , 'I v It was set up in 1864 and was 1 ' the first mill on record in Utah. '; Early in the fall of 1863 G, B. 'i f .Ogilivean apostate Morman en- - , gaged in farming, found spcci- -' mens of ore in the Canyon. He hastened to Fort Douglas and 'I -- . reported his discovery to General y ' P. E. Connor, then commanding V.; ; officer. On September 17. 1863 IA the site of this discovery was ; known and located as the West V Jordan claim by the discoverer and twenty four others. This j was the first claim located in Y the territory of Utah, the follow-- i ? ing day the Vindette claim was i ; located about three hundred feet ,A. above the West Jordan claim. I f. ' . In December . lj$63Jth$, first, min-HT- ''' ' tyt 'district inthe'erritory ws x"A,. ' organized and named the ''West ; . ; ; : Mountain Mining District." This district embraced the extent of ... the Oquirrh range from the i ; Great Salt Lake to the extreme ' South en4 of the range and to this day retains the name. In 1864 , the West Jordan Min-- ; ing Company organized under ,, the laws of , California and the L v " ! Jordan tunnel whose estimate . cost was $60.00 a foot was start-ed. ; Without any railroad or ' other means of : transportation the prices were extravagent; a keg of powder costing $100.00. Although prospecting and explor I 'r ation tiroirreased ranidlv and the the more important being the Brooklyn, Highland Boy, Tele-graph, York, Petro and Yose-mit- e. ' The closing of the Indian mints to the free conage of silver and the repeal of the Silver purchas-n- g Act by the United , States Congress dealt a serious blow to the silver mining industry and thus to Bingham. The first consignment of cop-per sulphide ore was made from the Highland Boy" property in December 1896. A 5000 ton shipment from this mine at a time when copper was in demand demonstrated its commercial val-ue. Pay shoots of sulphide cop-per had long been encountered in all parts of the district but had hitherto been regarded as an unfavorable indication and de-monstrated,- exploration and de-velopment of copper ores were actively begun and have since been a livelihood for hundreds of men besides paying handsome dividends to the stockholders of the different mining companies of the camp. Bingham will be producing cop-per when every other camp has passed into oblivion. ; Copper roinuig.here is no longer a pros-pect,, it 4s --a cold-blood- ed busi-ness proposition, a matter of dol-lars and cents. The industry has been mastered to a scientific de-tail. Millions of tons of ore are in sight at the World's greatest deposit of copper ore, The Utah Copper. The human mind can-not conceive what vast quantities of the red metal be beyond and underneath the ore already block-ed out. The main problems, that of transportation of waste and ore Jiave been mastered to a nicety that it has been claim-ed that copper can be produced at a lower figure here than any other mining camp in existence. showing of mineral satisfactory, the absence of transportation , " facilities, the absence of neces- - (' sary machinery and capital, the ' ; development of lode mines pract- -' ' ' " , ically ceased until 1870. . The first shipment of ore from Bingham was a carload of cop- -' per ore which was hauled to Uintah on the Union Pacific and ' "forwarded by Walker Bros. Bankers of Salt Lake City. . The i -- . " orewas shipped to Baltimore, Maryland in June 1868. A . , In 1863 a party of Californians J. returning from Montana to pass , U1C Vil.,i ill UlUli ilUAtt. Vibi prospected the gravels in the ) Canyon in the early part of 1863 and found free gold. In the ' Spring of 1865 gravel washing was actively taken up. A tun- - . nel was driven up the canyon to ! ' Carr Fork to facilitate the work-- i. . t ing of the gravels at bed rock, j It is estimated that during the ! ' opening of placer mining in the v district and up to 1870 over $2,000,000 in gold values was j recovered from the gravels. J . Late in the 70's and "in the . early part of the 80's, following t : thetemporary exhaustion of the ' lead carbonate bodies, special at--1 J:' f tention was given to the saving I of oxidized gold ore which form-- r ed in the massive limestone. I By the year 1882 four stamp mills had been erected in the I ' camp and were being operated. Iiater a cyanide plant was erect-- ' I ' ' ed at the Highland Boy, now known as the Utah Consolidated I j Company, fort the treatment of its oxidized gold ores. 1 In 1891 there were 21 pro : ducing mines in the canyon,, - ' " if - ' i 1 .... ,.,,,, - ., V , ....... The Utah Copper - : ;y-r A:v 'y 1 .AA.. ' ' "tit rtHV ,Atr;A, w t- . .fS A-- i --r !:... 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The Hill as it looks today Showing the Pit ' .4'- " ' '." " " "' " V , UTAn APEX MINING Cb.' . Thq Utah , ' Apex" Mining Co., was organized under the laws . of Maine in 1902. .The claims' of this company adjoins the Utah Consolidated property, ana . is one of. the largest producers of lead ore in the state. Since resumption of work which stat- - . ed in' April . of this year, v after a fifteen months shut down, the , . weekly tshiproent$ average about thirty carloads, f" Although the ... prices, of lead are now imprdr ing at the "' time ' , the : company resumed operations the - lead market : was k far from l- - .satis-factory;'' but the advisability of starting work in advance of the . other raining companies was to be able more; advantageously to obtain the necessary, labor, for v , the operation of the mine. This mine is being economically worked under the able super-- , , vision of V. S. Rood. Mr. Rood ' ' is one of the superintendents of this great mining camp who knows one of its greatest pro-blems, and that is the labor ' market ' ; . ' THE HYLAND BOY MINING COMPANY The Utah Consolidated Min-ing Co,, or as it is known locally as the Highland Bov Mine is. a , ,' , " corporation' OVtfamzelT undei' the1" laws of New Jersey. The pro-Pl'ty- ,., is ao.mplek'ly-..,-equippu(- l . : i ., with machine shops, framing . mill, compressor, club house and other residence.",. During the year their big mill 'at Tooele has been commissioned and a large toriage of the low grade ore from its deepest work-ings is being commercialized The work of extracting the enor-mous ore bodies is under the able supervision of A, Winthers who combines the ' various sy- stems of mining' in a unique, safe and economincal method. The mine comprises upwards of thirty miles of working and has distributed to its shareholders over $9,000,000 in dividends. The first practical working of sul- - . phide copper ore in Bingham was made here when Samuel New-hous- e and Thomas Weir exploit-ed "The old Highland Boy." ' ' THE BINGHAM MINES COMPANY The Birighams,Mines Company was organized in 1908 under the laws of Maine with a capitaliza-tion of 150,000 shares at a par value of $10.00. It. has out-standing only' about 90,000 shares. The officials of the company are J. P. Graves, pres-ident; Imer Pett general manag-er;- T. P. Billings, general sup-erintendent; Joseph Jlyland, superintendent The different mines. which are included hi the Bingham Mines properties were first worked in the early seventies and had been shipping under various ownerships up to the time the present manage ment took charge. For the past fourteen years operations have been carried on interruptedly and it has been a steady - pro-ducer of copper, silver and lead. The ores produced are direct smelting, During the past year much development work has been done by this company. CENTRAL BANK A A'. 1 OP BINGHAM t The Central Bank of Bingham is, one, of the strongest- - local banks in the state Among its directors are men of great fi-nancial ability and most of them are big stockholders. The Bank has a capital and surplus of $70.-00- 0. . . . . 4 . R. T. Dahlquist is cashier prior to coming to Bingham, was connected with the Utah State National Bank at Salt Lake City for seven years. , He takes an active interest in every move-ment for the betterment of the camp is prominent in fraternal circles and enjoys the esteem of his ' business associates. Mr. Dahlquist Was recently honored 7v uA?ns Men's Republican Uub of Salt Lake who appointed him as Treasurer of its Club, v NOTICE The fire departments wishes to advise the people of Bingham that in the lighting of Christmas trees no lighted candles should be used in or around tinsel or similiar decorations. : BINGHAM SOCIETY. 4 Eugene Moon of Great Falls. ' is visiting . here with hh aunt and uncle. Mrs. Boyd Barn-ard and Mr. W. J. Thorns. Mrs. Anna McGuire will spend her Christmas vacation at Salt Lake City with relatives. C. D. McNeely, Justice " of Peace of Delta, has been visit-ing, here with Mr. and Mrs. R. tan-el- l this week. Mss Jennie Richards, one of Bingham's popular school teaoi. ers, will spend Christmas at Ixan with relatives. i It'a Contagious! A .South side citizen says he hit a n (n thut is such an earnest mid Koruteher that it litis Rnt even his fountain wn to 'somtchlnj,'. |