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Show RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH. UTAH The Story of Copper in Utah t LAKETOWN The History of Mining in Utah NEWS (Continued From Page One) Jb and Mrs. Clyde Curtis accompanied them to attend the Curtis reunion at Driggs, Idaho. ""tu Hi.'--' J. Warren Taylor Utah spent a few among Relatives and Randolph with his Elaine Taylor Hatch ;AH ,,w of Harrisville, days in town friends and at daughter Mrs. and family. - Jos A.' Cheney of Logan was over last week demonstrating a new hay derrick fork and helping his son, Ross in reparing for haying. ! Mr. and Mrs. Myron Cook of Idaho were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Satterthwait and Mrs. Ross Cheney. They were enrouce form a tour to Detroit Michigan to, "j drive new cars home. Fa1 Is Sit Cf . X-- " V,' Here tracke are iteratively being moved bodily at Bingham. Tracks must be moved frequently to keep' them close enough to level bankc so that the shovels can load ere and waste directly into railroad cars. ' Notes (This the sixth f (Editor lower the grade of ore that can cries of eight articles titled 'The Story mined, and the longer will be of Copper ln,Utah.) life f the mine. burgh, Pa. be, .fa the As an example, production was The Job of moving the mountain started originally bn the basis of at Bingham, in order to obtain the mining 2 per cent copper ore. Toinfinitesimal amount of metal that day ore averaging less than 1 per It contains constitutes one of the cent is being successfully handled, ' spectacles in needless to greatest say, there is more ore history. For every toff of ore moved of 12 of 1 per cent copper tt Is necessary to move about 115 through the hiLs of n tons of or waste. Bingham than there is 1 per cent Since the. mine, was started in copper, so consequently the life of 1J04, more cubic the enterprise is dependent upon yards of material, iucluding ore and production costs, and of course, the waste (equivalent to1 965,000,000 rate of output. tons) .have been moved. ExcavaIn 1928 Mr. Jackling reported tions for the Panama Canal, one of that the company had an effectual the modern wonders of the world all around equipped capacity of are estimated at, 232,300,000 cubic tons.of ote per day, correspondV: yards. ing to an anuual production of What of the enterprise today and pounds of copper, more or what of its future? Despite its great less.vecord of the past, the mines fuDuring the war, the mine and its ture operation depends upon pro- men rose to the demand for duction costs, including' taxes and. production with a record undreamed metal prices. The cost- - of produc- of in ?peace-timyears. At times tloa was what Jackling gambled production exceeded 160,000 tons-o- f upon when he won and the stumbore 'per day and in one year ling block over which many thought produced more than 600,000,00(1 he would fall. .Now It is of Impor- pounds of copper, vital for the war tance, not only to the company, but effort. (The seventh article in thiB to the State of Utah, because the 'series will appear in these columns ' lower that costs can be brought, the soon.) man-mad- e . over-burde- ' 60,-.00- all-o- - . once its (EDITORS NOTE: This is the second of aseriee of eight articles on the history ef the metal mining industry in Utah.) , , With the end of the water period, the record tells of the beginnings of the Rocky Mountain uplift, of the formation of the Great Basin and how its rock formations were being, squeezed and faulted and contortei betweer the Wasatch on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, of how the fissures and 'cracks were formed to allow the penetration of me.tal bearing solutions and of how in places the surface of the earth failed and the molten material underneath surged up causing rhyolite flows and porphyry and monzonite intusions, some of which, as in Bingham, car- ried enough mineral to become val- uable as ore. Much of Utah liter? ,ally rose out of the water to share here resources with mankind. And ,;then came the ice ages.. ' As the ice of the last one melted away there was formed in Utah a great fresh water lake, known as Lake Bonneville and in Nevada another one that has been called Lake Lahontan.1 The markings of Lake ' Bonneville can easily be seen on the flanks : of various mountain ranges. From these benches its Vernon G. Robinson took his family to Logan on a little trip late Sat- urday afternoon. , , Recent guests of Mrs. G. N. Westons were her sisters, Mrs. Joseph Snow of Delta, Utah, Mrs. Urilla Kasmeyer of Portland, Oregon, and a niece, Mrs. aul Snow, of Salt Lake City. The ladies were here for two days and ' had a pleasant 0 . ut time. " .! ; The girls - ; 4-- H club met' Saturday, for their weekly work and at the home of club member Nancy Siddoway, the occasion being her birthday. The afternoon was spent In games and refresh- Janice Orvin. ments. Reporter, June 28th, Perspiration Odors ' , Perspiration odors sometimes can be. removed from garments that art not yet ready for the laundry ordry cleaner. Sponge . the spot with warm water to which a few drop of vinegar have been added. Sprinkle with powdered pepsin, working the pepsin into the cloth. Then let 'stand one to two hours, keeping the 'spot moist. Brush off the. powder and rinse wall, - Opening of, Utah Copper Mino at Bingham aided In rapid expansion of electrical and mechanical era during first quarter of century copper. by providing Editors Notet This fa ths third of Bingham Junction (now Mtldvale) series of eight articles titled .The story near the Jordan, river 12 miles below Bingham, and, a substantial ef Copper la Utah.) The .Twentieth -- Century mightpart of the intake of these two well be called the Century of Cop- - plants came from 15 ,to 20 per because of the widespread de- tively small underground mines la of the Bingham Canyon, the in production velopments Colonel Enos A. Wall, who had red metal that followed the openingqf Utah Copper in 1904, .This plo- - mining experience in' Colorado, in the rapid expans- Idaho and Montana, first visited the neering-aide-d Ion of the electrical era by provid- - camp In July, 1887.., Colonel Wall Ini vital copper at a lower cost. ., was attracted by the usual sign ' After Jackling had shown the way 'of copper mineralization. Then, ac-- t Bingham for large stale copper cording to the story, he entered an old adit, started probably about production from low grade deposits the development of Nevada Con- - 1865 when prospecting was first aolidated; Ray Consolidated and done by Federal soldiers under in Arizona; and the Chino eral P. E. Connor, first command- mine in New Mexico and other low ant at Ft. Douglas. Wall became interested and ae grade mines, followed swiftly. A new .era was established in produc- - qulred property in the district by tion of copper early In location and during the succeeding the Twentieth Century to jMl the 10 years added to his holding wift expansion' of industry faring through purchase and other loca- tions. During this period he spent the flnst quarter of the century The limits qf this short series of approximately $20,000 driving 3000' and crosscuts article permit racing briefly .the feet of tunnel, drifts ' , f eveats that led up to the establish in the hills. ment and progress of the Utah CppThis exploratory work began to ' per. Bingham Canyon, oldest of unfold the possibilities at Bingham Utah's mining districts, has been Canyon as each foot of work' added the ecene of more or less, profitable to the evidence that the copper mining since 1864. Siliceous gold bearing mass was large,, although g lead ores that low In grade. Wall financed his ore and o frequently occur in Important' Work' by the sale of the Brickyard y copper districts,, were sought In the mine atMercur, Utah, and the pa property near the Highland Boy day. Until 1900, Bingham remained es- - at Bingham. (The fourth article in mining camp, this series will appear In these col entially a Smelter wen bnllt at Murray and umns soon.) ... Garnishing Foods through of garlic for submersion in foods and salads. Then it fished out easily before time can be serving low-price- d J J h . Hug" Success! Our local Wild Life League went n a picnic Saturday, and I Went long to cover it for the Clarion, Monday, folks kept stopping me, and saying: Must have gotion out of hand, that picnic! V cause folk are so temperate and In offrtowff, that they could afford to take the whole thing as a joke. ! Nonsense, I says. It was mighty pleasant and congenial. j .Just beer and hot dogs, cheese and And then they show ine the headline reading: WILD WIFE .PICNIC HUG SUCCESS. ' Of course It was Elmer, my typesetter, who had made the misprints : But is my face red! It's only be- :cider. , well-behav- ed From where'.I sit, even a newspaper editor' Entitled to a few mistakes. And since I reported .that, they. served a moderate beverage like beer, Im sure nobody thinks the picnic was,the least bit wild, or anything hut: huge sue cess and I mean huge I f a clove cooked . I '! The Picnic Was refrigerator cannot keep each item, as cold .as it would if the air could circulate more freely. Its the same principle as crowding together to stay warm. Keeping the sides of the refrigerator, clear is also essential for good refrigeration. Stick - Rom where I sit ... 6y Joe Marsh, ' Overcrowding Refrigerator ; ! AdvtrtMmmm! An overcrowded , V . . ..social meeting r The Story of Copper in . ; e . configuration iff, 'easily determined. But it. has passed into geological history. The great Sierra Nevada mountains formed a barrier for the winds of warm; moisture-ladde- n the Pacific, causing them to drop their moisture before tlejr could pass. So this area, hemmed in by the Rockies and the Wasatch on. the east and the Sierras on the west, was deprived of its normal amount of rainfall and the region became more or less arid. On the floor of old Lakq Bonneville reside 90 per cent of the people of Utah and 75 per cent of its ir. rigable land. is there..', Then came man, first the savage and then the civilized- - man. The Pioneers who arrived funder the leadership of Brigham Young, July; 24, 1847, as a result of religious persecution, moved from Nauvoo in the State of Illinois, and began; the colonization of the territory. They turned the water from the mountains to the soil and thus de--J The' veloped modern irrigation. early comers adopted a policy of making themselves self supporting as to. foodstuffs, raiment and housing. (The third article in this iff these colseries, will appear v umns soon.) . ' Guests of Mrs. Gerald Alley are the Misses Thelma Joy Seamons and Rebecca Lamb of Hyde Park, and Gail - Lucherini of Logan. On Monday afternoon Mr. and Mm. Alley the girls and Lavon Seamons, motored to Logan canyon to a party in honor of Mrs. Alleys sisters family, the Wayne Mechams, of Hyde Park, who are leaving soon to settle on ' a G.I. Homestead at Minidoka, Idaho. - - Are with Metals Extracted finds its resting place on slag dump syrged up, from far beneath the surface to provide Utah re sources. Week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Alley at South Eden were: Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Alley and Paul Snow pf Midvale, Utah, and Mrs. Alleys brother. Bill McElray, of Pitts- (7 1947, United State j Brewers Foundation Copyright, ' r iJi-'- Soeiiif as Well as Scientific Wonder J Gen-Moern- ci -- low-price- d . : K-- ' All of ns would like to put dad oh a pedestal on Fathers Day to show him how we feel about him the year round. I like to think of all American father in the role' of Minnie Men, standing guard ever the fieenr-tt- y of their families. Certainly they eonld dono better than to assure the happiness of themselves and their homes than by baying United States Savings Bonds regularly. Two automatic bond buying plana are available now. If dad u payroll, the Payroll Savings Plan win assure him days of ease when Burlap Bara he gets ready to retire. If dad Is a Burlap bags that are opened prop-- , essionaj man er rly and stored in a clean, dry place it can use his checking account to can be put back into use easily and hoy a bond month. ' U. S. Trttury Dtfrtmnt I quickly,. . silver-bearin- Yam-earl- , lead-silv- er FMtlM Pillows wer Pillow not usually, stuffed feathers until the 15th century. Peapods or straw were used for both, mattresses and pillows, with Utah copper pit attracts Not .only is Utah Copper one of the great irtdustriea of Utah, it is also one of the many scenic attrac- tions,: helping to make the state the Center of Scenic America. many tourists each year. which has been hewn out of rock during the past fortyyears it is almost breath taking to look to its bottom. It is not Unlike an oversized stadium. Workers ! o o k almost Thousands of visitors flock to gnome like against' the vast walla e the Bingham pit; each year to see and the rajlroad system at the of ; the modern Wonders of engi- - tom of the piti'and; around the walls, i line junioris trains. ;" ; t netting science and witness the ac- , bot-on- lk , d, s. VJ nadt,BeiiOTy. W ", fiery, From ths top of. ; the-grea- ..... t . fai .11 , bowl n.ve, of thp. ge, it tttricti, tK.: scientist as well as thaAvetage.Ujr tourist. v -- . 5 i ; .(; .. "f" . j |