Show METAL production it is a very difficult matter indeed to r give the full metal production of any of the mining states some companies are arc more inore than will inar ing to give the desired information while others often styled close corporations absolutely sol refuse to furnish facts and figures relative to their production and earnings while there are thousands of cases of small properties and individual holdings which aggregate thousands upon thousands of tons in their yearly output but of which no public account accounting ino has ever been made the result being that it is often necessary to estimate the value and output when a compilation is being 11 made as to the mineral output of a state for any given year and as a consequence the figures given are invariably below the actual production during t the year 1900 according to figures given and estimates made by the mining r review utah produced gold silver lead and copper to the amount of divided among the metals as follows gold 27 8 silver 0 lead copper gold being computed at 2067 per ounce silver at 62 cents an ounce lead at 4 per hundred and copper at 16 15 1 5 cents per pound it is variously estimated that since mining operations were first inaugurated in utah that the mines of the state have paid something like in dividends these figures are certainly within the safety limit and undoubtedly apply to mines in successful operation during the last ten or twelve years as in this estimate no account could have be taken of the profits derived in the operation of some of the oldest and most ancient mines of the state such as the old emma at the head of little cottonwood canyon for which was paid in the early days the miller at the head of american fork canyon a marvelous producer in its day the early producers of bingham canyon the numerous monte cristo mines of beaver county numerous paying properties in big and little cottonwood canyons the almost unrivaled producers of stockton ophir and lion hill while it is doubtful if the estimate includes the production and disbursements of the many producers of gintic tintic district when the camp was in its infancy but when such mines as the sunbeam the showers the old swansea the silver park the bonanza and a score or more of properties which turned out their millions in the precious metals or of the old silver mines of camp floyd so that it is safe to assume were the exact figures obtainable that the profits and dividends accompanying mining operations in utah would more near nearly ly touch or than they would and over wealth in gold and silver copper and lead is not derived solely from our big producers over which a great deal of noise is often made as some credit must be given to tb the smaller producers many hundreds in number concerning which but little has ever ever been said but which in the aggregate are of as much importance possibly Y more so 80 as are the isolated heavy shippers and dividend payers this being I 1 the case we feel that we can point with pride to the record made by our mines whose output are known and a matter of record and at the same time can make the statement that tills this record does not include the production and disbursement of smaller properties so numerous in our various mining camps in the way of dividend disbursements from utah mines for the year 1900 accordino according to figures given the record stands as follows the C centennial eureka S the carisa the daly west tae dixie mining company the gemini keystone the grand central the golden gate the grand gulch the horn silver the mammoth the mercur the ontario the rocco homestake the silver ring king 4 1000 OW the swansea the silver shield 1500 the utah 2000 total |