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Show THE PRESS BULLETIN " VOLUME 48 BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1918 NUMBER 32 nil fi hi a FEDERAL ill S! Three Applications Have Been Sent To Washington And One Of, These Have Been Authorized To Use The Name Of "The First National Bank Of Bingham" Prominent Men From Bingham Will Be Interested In This New Financial Institu tion Which Promises A Bank With A Large Capitalization. Three applications have gone to Washington for permission to open a Federal Bank in this camp. Those who have made these applications pre-fer that their names be not mention-ed in this connection. At least one. of - . these applications have been heard from. This one has a number of fl-- : nanciers who are connected with tho Continental National (Bank of Salt . Lake City, and it is stated upon good authority that the prime mover in this new proposition has backing enough to start the bank himself if he saw fit. Three of these capitalists visited the camp this week in company with Mr. A. B. Gibson and looked over t the . situation and rilao investigated " the likelihood of local men joining in this move for a new financial institu-tion. The Federal government author-ized them to use the name The First National Bank of Bingham. . ; Another application has gone In from prominent capitalists of Bing-ham among them being George K. Chandler and others. But it is un-derstood that Mr. Chandler's applica-tion was sent in later than the ether two and may not be given the sam consideration as the prior applicants. It is understood that Mr. Chandler has some of the strongest financial men of the camp with him in this move . The other application which went to Washington shortly after th Citi-zens State Bank closed its doors has some sound financial backing, but Just who the parties are w are not able to learn at this time. There is no doubt that there will be a Federal iBank established .here with a much larger capital than any of the previous, banks have had.. . . i Oil CfiPPEH18 OlltlE ' fill 11111118111 This Great Surface Mine Has Furnished The Sinews Of War In A Remarkable Fashion By Producing Metals Necessary To Carry On The Machinery Of War And By . Contributing Of Their Means And Men To Prosecute This Fight For Free-- dom The Company Maintains An Immense Payroll And Mines A Vast Tonnage. - 1918 will go down In history as a 1 banner year for the mining properties of Bingham. Not' because these com- - panics made greater profits or took lout a larger volume of the precious metal, but rather because this year J " the mining companies did the big M( thing by the country which protects ; and gives them the possibilities - of ! life and liberty. Through the aid of , these big mines the town of iBing- - ham has the reoord of putting over every Uberty (Loan and Red Cross drive which has come this way in less time than any other similar commun-ity in the great United States. This Is the contribution which the mines of Bingham has read into the records of this the greatest nation of the world for 1S18. Much has been written and more perhaps spoken of the king of kings in the mining world (The Utah Cop-- t . per) but permit us as the closing . days of 1918 are casting their Bhad-- ; ows about us to pay our humble trib- - , ute to this greates producer of red metal in the world today. 'Long tables of figures are always more or less monotonous to the av-erage reader and yet when we come ' to a producer which rivals the con-- f. ttraction and operation ol the Pana-ma Canal we are at a loss to present our picture without using at least a few numerals. But let ns repeat that the greatest contribution that th!s company or any other company in iBingham has made to the weld (his year is not the millions of dtil-ir&- worth of metal which has been taken ; Kjlrom the earth by her,, employees, T'TjUt rather the lives of her splendid Jf young men which have been offered as freely as her dollars to hasten the end of the most gigantic war in all - history. In 1904 Colonel D. C. Jackling be-gan to shape this company which bids fair to rival all other mining or man-ufacturing concerns in the world. At , that time iMr. Jackling was a plain, unassuming civil engineer. But he y had deep set convictions and the ten-- " iicity of purpose In carrying through "H.hese Ideas is the secret of the suc-cess of this remarkable company to-day. On . every hand you could hear bickerings that surface mining was a failure and that it would only be a few months until this project would ' be abandoned and the company would resume underground operations. But 'Mr. Jackling had a very different idea of the future of this company. As a result today this company has mined copper at 8,14 cents per pound. The story of how. much the west-ern states have contributed to the successful prosecution of the world war is indissolubly linked with the production of copper, The wonderful development of th ) . low grade porphyries has been large-- . ly due to the genius of one man. He first exper'mnted with the low grade ores of Bingham and, in the face of the strongest opposition and adverse criticism, he brought it to a success-ful issue. He demonstrated his plan and put Utah in the fourth place as ' a copper producing state. Not con-- : tent with this, he took the low grade porphyries of Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico and from the copper - properties in these states that he is now producing over half a billion pounds of copper annually. J Others followed his lead and adopted his metallurgical and mining methods and mef with success In developing still other low grade copper mines, with the result that the 'Western ' States are producing over. SO per cent of the copper metal of the country. Through sheer ability and integrity he financed the great property known as the I'tah Copper and has produced , and distributed in this state over $:JOO,000,0H) and employs an army of nearly 6000 men. ' jj ' In less than fifteen years the Utah f 'Copper mines have shipped 74,000.000 tons of ore out of which there has been extracted almont 1,500,000,0('0 i pounds of copper, 430,000 ounces of geld and 4 finO.OOO ounces of silver. From the other properties that he has developed proportionate amounts have been distributed in our sister states. The Utah Copper Company disburs-es for labor, supplies, smelting charg-es, tn:es, etc., nearly $l!,000,000 each month. ' During 1918 this company has tak-- T en frcm the earth over 1 2,000,000 tons . A. of ore and this has brought forth - from the m;ll and the smaller more than 2'W),(M)0,000 pounds of copper, i ax I'.eo'il"" taHnir this amount of ore r " from the earth they have developed by removing the capping more than the tiTVunt named above which they have tn-e- n from the earth. The pol-icy of tills company is to continue to develop more ore reserves. The last annual report shows that more than 371.7vJ2.0O0 tons of ore developed or partly developed during the year of 1&18. It may be assumed now that the ore reserves are well above the 400,000,000 ton mark. During the year the company has completed a fine new office building which is not only a big addition to the company's many office buildings and store rooms here, but also a red-i- t to the town. Another of the big structures which this company hae con pleted during this year is the big leaching plant at Magna. The cap-acity of this plant which began oper-ations eaily this summer 1 about 2,000 tons a day. High grade precip-itates are being shipped dally from" his plant to the smelter. The 'Bingham and Garfield Railway Company has played an important part in this production. This company handles more than 1,000,000 tons of freight dally, a large percentage of thin being ore from the mine to the mills. During the year this company has added another of their mallet en-gines to the rolling stock of the B. & O. Company. The cost of much of the material used by this company has soared to unheard of prices since the war started. For example, steam shovels which cost a few years ago in the neighborhood of $20,000, now copt approximately $100,000. It would seem that Mother Nature seeks to provide means for carrying on the world's work, both in war and in pence. Our country would have (Continued on page four) Montana-Bingha- m Mining Company This company is the owner of the Eddie Group of Mines and holds a bond and lease, the consideration being about two-thir- ds paid, on the Fortuna Group of Mines. It is now developing and shipping ores from the Fortuna property and is extensively de-veloping the low grade ores on the lower or Montana Bingham level, with the expectation in the near future of making ship-ments of high grade ores also from this point. - While this property contains high grade silver-lea- d and copper ores, it-i- s essentially an immense low grade proposition, the full dimension of which will not be determined until the de-velopment work as now laid out has been completed. The officers and directors of the company are: C. G, Ballantyne, President and Managing Director. E; A. Vail, Vice President. , C. W. White, Secretary and Treasurer. Joseph B. Mossman, Director. W. E. Hubbard, Director. . J. B. Leggat, Director and Mine Engineer. ' The head office is at 1010 Boston Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.; ,';..: ; r Vf ; POSTMASTER C. L CHI OF ; BUM r'L',--, n s 1 . . . V L ' r Prominent among the leading citi-zens of the big copper camp Is Post-mate- r C. !L. Countryman who. has handled the mails for the patrons of me local post ornce ror nearly rouri years in a highly satisfactory manner. Owing to the heterogenous population where hundreds of names are almost unpronounceable and where many of the patrons cannot pronounce the'.r own names in English, the Job of being postmaster at Bingham is by no means an easy one. Yet with the multiplicity of names representing some 27 nationalities, there is re-markable smoothness in the manner in which the letters and other mail reach their destination. 'Even those who can hardly sppak a word of Lnglish, call at the office and get service as though the office force knew how to speak and under-stand all languages. iMr. Countryman was reared in the State of Ohio where he was educated for the profession of teaching. After teaching for some time In his native state he turned his attention towards tho Great West ''He first came to Denver, then to Salt Iake and then to Bingham. It was 23 years ago when he came to IBingham to take charge of the schools. He taught here for twelve years, and from 1902 to il917, was a member of the board of trustees of the Jordan school district and during the last three years of his service was president of t.he board. During his term In office he did much for the upbuilding of the schools and for the Imnrovement of the buildings and property. .m countryman Is a stauuchDem-ocra- t and has figured prominently In county and state politics. He has .kept in close touch with party and administration affuirs and Is recog-nized as one of he most astute and best informed politicians in the state lie was a tireless worker in the In-terest of l 'niocracy when his party was in a hopeless minority and by his efforts managed to keep up the or-ganization at all times. For many years he was precinct chairman and a member of the county committee, and at the time he received his ap-pointment as postmaster was a mem-ber of the state democratic commit-tee.- iHe is a strong advocate and an ac-tive worker in the interest of a clean town and has been a leading factor in improving the moral conditions of the camp, iie is publicity member of the council of defense, and is active-ly engaged In all patriotic and public DAMEIJSTEiri IIS A nun ; JEWELER ! tt ,, V:.. . ; ( ., , :: 1 One of the best and most jewelry Btoree in Bingham and one which has the most complete line of ciassy geweiry, diamonds, watches and everything to be found in a top-notc- h establishment of the kind, is Cley's Jewelry Company, under the capable, efficient and courteous man-agement of Julius iDamenstein. Mr. (Damenstein came to 'Bingham about five years ago and during that time he has built up a flourishing trade . Prior to coming here he was located in Los Angeles, where he was manager of several jewelry stores. He knows every phase of the jew-elry business; he knows the real from the imitation; he knows how to se-lect and how to buy and how to keop his store stocked with just the Umd of goods his patrons desire. Also the success of his busines has been dut in a large measure to the fact that Mr. Damenstein believes in giving bis customers a square deal, and never unloads on any one an article that will not give satisfaction. His store carries a large stock of the most select jewelry to be found outside of the large commercial cen- -' ters, and the price is absolutely the lowest to be found anywhere, "ilia cufctomers have learned this and with them his word is as good as his bond. He does not believe in dumping on the public inferior and shoddy goods, but adheres to the rule tha the pub-lic is a good judge of merit and ma-terial, and that by treating the peo pie right you profit in the long run. Cley's Jewelry Company is a cred-it to JJingham and the entire com-munity. It is one of the prettiest Jewelry stores to be found anywhere and it Is steadily increasing its ' al-ready large number of satisfied cus-tomers. 'Mr. Damenstein appreciates the lib-eral patronage he has received and wishes for all his customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. JUDGE . f. CUDLEY Few men in Bingham are so well and favorably known as Is Judge D. E. Dudley who came here as a school teacher a dozen or more years ago. He made a remarkable success with th schools of Bingham and was eminently successful as Justice of the il'eace fof many years. Ho was a candidate for State Senator on the Republican ticket at the recent elec-tion and had it not been that his party was overwhelmingly - defeated he would have been elected. Judge Dudley has been fortunate in mining investments have secured a large block of stock, in the Tintic Standard Mining Company and enjoys a remunerative law practice in the Old Reliable. . M. L. JAMES OPERATES POPULAR BOOK STORE - v I Cne of the prettiest stores in the camp is the book and stationery store of M. IL. James which is locaed in the new Clum-ile- r building on Main Btreet. iMr. James is a native of the State of New York, but has been in the West for a long t me and has been in busineHS here for fourteen years. His store hr.ndles boo!;s of almost every variety and all of the leading magazines. It also has the famous Edison records and dispenses an un-limited volume of stored music, and all kinds of Christmas goods. 'Mr. James has a ranch down in the valley and he spent the spring and summer there farming. When the call came to produce more foodstuff he thought it wise to leave his store in other hands and make his farm do its patriotic duty. He had splendid success on the farm and helped to a great extent to swell thef food pro-ducts of the state. Mr. James was Democratic candi-date last year for the town board of trustees. . We know a person what ain't glad we're not wearing masks Have you ever thought of giving a friend an orange shirt, or a green cap or well,' say a red tie. Somrone must have some time judging by the noise about town. We wonder why one of our "young ideas" wants a white shirt and atlff collar so badly for Christmas. Bingham's Representative If ' l '.'...-.- v '; ;TM : ,",.'. i i '! ' - . ; ; ' - ,jT j v ; ; : f - ' 4 '!".",""--- ' ' ' - ' f ' ' Hon F. W. Qulnn Few iMen in Bingham are so well and favorably known as is our town , clerk, F. W. Quinn who was elected ! to the state legislature by the largest plurality of any legislative candidate J on the Democratic ticket. This shows In a measure Mr. Quinn'a popular-- 1 ity not alone in Bingham, but also throughout the county. People like Mr. Quinn because he always stands! four square and never double crosses i his friends. He has a son in France with Uncle Sam's military forces who is Bervlng' his country with honor. Shortly after i the war broke out this young fellow1 volunteered his services because he comes from the true American stock which does not wait for a second call. Mr. Quinn for many years was the manager of the Iieil Telephone Com-pany In this camp, and in this capac-ity served the people here as few men can. Later he became town clerk anil In this capacity has pre-sented the befit set of accounts that the camp has had In its history. Mr. Quinn Is a member of the Bingham Commercial Club and served this or-ganization as Its secretary for many years. He Is one of the camp's able citizens, lie is a director in the Citi-zens State Hunk and owns a great deal of property here. That he will represent the mining camp well in the coming session of the state legis-lature, goes without saying. HOLY ROSARY CHURCH ' There will be the usual masses next Sunday, December 22. First mass at 9 o'clock; second mass at 10 o'clock. ' Sunday School classes will meet at 2 p. m. to prepare for Christmas. Next Sunday all children of the Holy An-gels will receive in a body at 9 o'clock. Christmas Day ' 'A special feature about the celebra-tion of Christmas this year will be the "MichuVght Mass." It will be a high mass with a beautiful musical program. This mass will begin at 12 o'clock Bharp. The other two masses will be said at 9 o'clock and 10:30 o'clock. The children will sing 'the always beloved Christmas hymns at the 10:30 o'clock mass. 3. DISS, Pastor. WOMAN'S BENEFIT ASSOCIATION HOLD ANNUAL ELECTION On Monday night, December H, the Alice review number 16, of the W. IB. IA. lady Macabees, held their annual election at which the follow-ing officers were elected : Past co -- mander, Ellen dlyland; commander, Mildred Miller; lieutenant command-er, Anna Undelof; record keeper, Clara iB. Stapleton; finance auditor, Myrtle Williamson', chsplln. Reta Scott; lady at arms, Lyda Nichols; sargeant, Sarah Pearce; sentin, 1. Mary Davis;, picket, Vera Johnson; captain of the guards, Zina Marriott, and musician, Irene Lamb. BINGHAM PHOTO STUDIO Another enterprise in lilnghaia which must not be overlooked is the Bingham jPhoto Studio, which is own-ed and conducted by J. E. Carlson a photographer cf a high degree of skill, and who takes a pride in the fact that he is abl? to make Just as pood pictures as can be had in the big cities and that at a very moderate price. 'Mr. Carlson has been so successful in makirg just the kind of pictures Bingham people want that he now gets practically all the local photo work for the camp. Jle has been in the photo business here for five years and during that time the people have learned that he is an expert In his line and that he is fair, Just and . , , courteous in dealing with his custo-mers. Hie makes photos of all kinds and his work compares well with that of the best photographers. In addition to the great number of photos lie has made for the schools, commercial work for the mines, and for many in-dividuals, he has mado a vast num-ber" of poC card pictures and nher views of the wonderful scenery In. and about the camp. ilie is now a very busy man and is right on the job all the time taking and making pictures for a great num-ber of his customers. IBut notwitli-stand'n- g the fact that he Is crowded with work practically all the time. j never fails to use all the time that is necessary for turning out a perfect picture. When you have any work in this line call at the Bingham Photo Studio and you will be assured of the best work and the most courteous treat-ment. NOTICE TO PROPERTY - OWNERS Property owners must re- - move snow from sidewalks in front of their property within four hours after the snow falls. By Order of Town Board. A fellow ought to phoi:e his girl before he calls on her and when he docs he ought not whistle so loud so as to arouse the entire nelgl:borh od. Just a little friendly advice: Stan-dis- h says a Ford runs better foreward than side wise. |