Show UTAH COPPER COPPER CO Continued From Page 15 lEi the entire mining district of or Park City Its subscription to Liberty bonds was larger than any other corporation or r person in the state It paid tho the largest Red Cross dividend divi divi- in the state Its Its- pa pay rolls roUs for tor 1017 will bo be twice the amount of tax tax's s collected in Salt Lake count county for tor all purposes during the year ear 1 1914 14 Its assessment for taxes for the tho year car 5 1917 for Cor national state an and county purposes pur- pur purposes purposes poses will equal the total taxes collected col col- In the entire State tate of ot Utah In fc the year car 1011 1014 S Production pounds copper with considerable gold goM and silver 1 Improvements during the year amounted to S i ii i Six thousand men mon have been regularly regular regular- ly employed Dividends paid per pcr share 1450 S Dividends distributed to hundreds of stockholders S Total dividends paid paid to date data per share Grand total dividends distributed to date 7 S I It has produced ore jr than pounds of or copper 5 Its gol silver gold production Is la valued value at more mora than 00 Everybody knows that the foregoing S unprecedented achievements In wrestIng wresting wresting wrest wrest- ing profits from low grade ores arcs were weri due largely to Col Daniel C. C Jackling the present managing director of the company compau But without the aid of Penrose McNeill and other eastern ca torn captains of at finance tho the big In InItial Initial In- In undertakings ln s would have been Im Ins- possible The Tho present general manager manager mana mana- ger gel R. R C. C Gemmell and Secretary John M. M Hayes I have havo been from almost the start invaluable right-hand right men to Colonel Jackling Copper Company Dividends 1 y S Records in Production and Profits fo o Ian A y Valuable I Improvements Are Made Alade cr r made n a Deduction earnings and In tn the thc year ear ID 1917 17 tho ho December production tows ws tvs a a. total for tho tiro twelve tided Ended d d pf t pounds 1000 ounces of t silver and antl of at gold sold This copper pro pro- with 16 6 6 The exact ct figure forli for pen elf li months of ot 1917 Is nd of copper produced Sends finds distributed to o dateo date re o e vast sum of dei de d was paid on Sep- Sep S 8 or a n. little more than o. o The total dividends dividend was bared ar ared d with In milled In 1916 amounted Ions ons ens For the thc first eleven cloven 1017 It totaled in it h December estimated It ItHa ittaI t Ha taI tal up to tons tons' reports of ot the company compan rough ouch 1916 the Utah Cop- Cop raged 1435 per cent cop- cop the gold and silver con- con that me me average was maln- maln h ti 1917 The excess profits r t tt- tt th v. v e bt hi Bingham tax mj o J UL L ni e p o estimated b by east east- i fiat int t to as high i Such matters as the thc ther i 10 r depletion etc will final calculations which radically alter the yh mined upon year actual constructed construct t ted upon the addition of oC 1 the mills at Garfield for 1 Improving ng reI re- re if f f not on only I 2 also increasing the ton- ton the plants The first e at the Arthur plant ire half alf of ot it was comIn com com- tin iiI operation b by the thc end 1917 Work ork on the re- re faU has lias been been und under way J I as rapidly as ma ma- can cnn be bo secured I will be he made at nt nt t In the course of time progress ress very en lunt of or un unavoidable deH deil del de- de H il l of ot equipment due to account of this It Is isake nake ako ake an any definite state- state time as to when this ork will be finished I c improvements which in adding to U nA A on i r n 11 n IT ng b H u completed Pl It Is osti- osti ao o c two plants will have e approximately nc accompanied 1 b by a n az nl z metallurgical efficiency bf f C the Arthur plant will t 00 tons a day and andt t plant about 2 1000 tons sacrifice of re- re J. J increased tonnage at mch Mich ch action ma may appears appear as s tho the ca case e. e during the 1917 the improved e ire e a n. read ready capacity of ot diem BO so far as as all aU pities ar aro concern concerned d. d l d Tai Tais AU ing O on s. s s he the ground owned med by the Company which will be ber t r r Impounding tailings acres acres It It is bisected In- In ply y easterly and wester- wester the thc main lino Uno tracks Pacific and Los os Angee Ange- Ange ce e e Railroad companies make use of It to the tha theand and 1 d In tho e most ecot eco- eco It t has bas been bee necessary tracks to the north a ag ag iff g g between about one I I Iu id d on one half hal miles mUes These jill Ill u extend from a point ot of Garfield station to quarter onG-quarter Qu jonC-Qu lter miles west ing tho the total length about nine miles The field railroad at a n point of oC a mile east of ot r also have to confal conal conal con- con fal al ago to make a athe athe aalto the alto new location of or the thecae Kese ese cae track changes will willy ty y the end of ot the year constructed around Lea a so 80 that the tailings plants can he be 11 The Tho levee lc hUng Kling pond will at first comparatively low height to tit laIt It will be raised from 1 tas as operations ma may r re- re capacity of the theIs theIs Is 8 estimated at pugh ugh gh it can easily be bo ineater Ineater In- In eater quantity than that I found necessary to do Wilding the tho levee higher a length cast east and west land and rid one half miles and Drainage of ot the thc countr country diverted and taken care ditch which will 4 along long the entire northe north- north ei e pond This ditch will Kh rh h to carry not only the jin times of heavy y rain rain- feny rany surplus water from rom md nd id and it will have a n nf Hof f approximately six 1917 I fu 1 4 P h 1 i. i lit If r U 18 9 6 i 0 1 p ve e e will wm be completed ty 1918 Leaching Plant plant Is located on the thc V 1200 feet teet In tn a n. south south- fi Uon talon r n from tho the Ma Magna na 10 to o floor of ot the leaching I of ot about seventy g. g on the tho Magna t Ins It consists of ot a aa aa a a a. series of or leaching Sing hog plant Ilant for handling a water service ser ehing the tho amount of ot wa wn- hanks anks anks for the storage of or ofa n. n precipitation plant Ilant Ion on for distributing the I l plant with grIzzlies I. I the receiving bin is tho same lines as the replants plants lants In operation at Arthur mills and the hing and handling tho the e 1 crushers and rolls Is same isamo as tho the one used After the tho ore ore which k In Jn in the form Corm of oC caren caren carten car- car en ten crushed tl to o about one half inch mesh it is transports to the filling bridge at the tanks h by a belt conveyor eor This conveyor con conveyor is feet long 42 12 inches wide wid and has a capacity of tons an houAt houi hou At the thc filling bridge the tho conveyor con bel be passes over a detachable tripper anIs anis an am amis is carried cn out on tho filling bridgi conveyor The filling tilling bridge runs o 0 01 top of ot th the leaching vat nt wall and th q th belt com coU conveyor or on tho the bridge Is Is' pro provided vided with a 3 self-propelling self tripper r thereby making It possible in combi combination combination nation with the movement mo of ot th thi bridge 8 to distribute the ore at an point In the thc leaching tanks The ar arrangements arrangements arrangements arc such that the bridge can be used to servo serve any rutur additions to the thc leaching tanks The Thc discharging bridge runs o 0 tracks that are constructed along ld tho the leaching tanks for Cor that purpose It is furnished with a grab bucket suspended under a a. light trolle trolley an ani when the bucket is filled it travels ove owe to a n hopper into which It discharge the tailings The hopper is provide with mechanism so that either one ono o 0 two lines of ot cars under s same samo mo can b loaded This bridge can also be use if It the plant is ever cr extended to capacity The ThA ing brides It h i R a capacity p ity ot of fr- fr from S OOt to oO o t tonof tons ton I of tailings in two shifts shUts per diem o 0 ol eight hours each lIu Huge Inge d. d The first Installation of ot tanks comprises twelve tanks which h are built in two sections each con six compartments compartment having r width of 50 feet teet a length of ot feet fee and a n depth of ot 18 feet teet The foundations dons the floors and tho the walls walla of or th the e leaching tanks are built of ot ro ro-cn- forced concrete and antl the floors an ant walls are lined on the Inside with asphalt asphalt as as- mastic to protect tho the concrete against the action of ot sulphuric acid In the leaching solution Filter bottoms bottoms bot bot- toms consisting ot of lumber and cocoa coco matting malting are aro Installed on the floors o 0 ol these tanks Tho The capacity of or each tank Is approximately tons an and about gallons of ot solution art arc required to fill the voids and cover cove the ore to a depth of ot six sit Inches After Atter the crushed carbonate ore 1 Is h Placed in the thc tanks it Is leached with witha i a dilute solution of or sulphuric acid which extracts nearly all of the copper copper cop cop- per pcr that occurs In the form torm of or carbonates car car- The rhe solution conduit system consists of ot four rows of launders run run- ning at the top of ot leaching vats ats an and d three pipe lines at the bottom of ot same The rhe launders aro are made of ot redwood lead lined and the pipes are aro made o ot 01 t redwood boiled in paraffin and dipped dippe d in asphalt and machine banded wit with h copper wire wire and all fittings are aro lea load lead d lined The launders carr carry the precipitation precipitation precipitation and wash solutions and the pipe pipelines pipelines lines are utilized for tor applying the upward upward upward up up- I ward percolation of ot the first leaching solution the fresh wash water as well as for tor draining the various compartments compartments compart compart- ments of ot the leaching vat The pumping pumpIng pumpIng pump- pump I Ing plant t and tho the water service plant have hae sufficient capacity to handle the solutions and the amount of ot fresh wa Wa- ter required for the leaching plant U when treating treating- tone tons of ot carbonate ore oio dall dally daily The Tho precipitation plant is loca located north of ot and bolo below v tho the leaching vats at The Thc solutions aro are drawn off oft from the vats and run into a storage tank haIng havIng having hav hav- Ing a capacity for tor 24 hours From the storage tank tho the solution dissolved cop copper r runs runs' through a s ts s-s s stern tern tem of launders containing scrap Irot where the copper is removed The precipitates are aro loaded into cars an an 31 shipped d to the smelter for foz treatment The capacity of the tho 12 compartments compartments compartments compart compart- ments of tho leaching tanks will 1 H a somewhere from 2000 to 1000 dry tons dall daily depending upon the length of or time lime required for one complete cycle of operation However Howe it Is hoped that the charging leaching washing and discharging can be done within a space apace of ot time that will give the 1 12 leaching tanks a a. total capacity of ot tons of carbonate ore dall dallOn daily On the basis of ot tons it is estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated that the amount of ot copper precipitated dally daily will be bo about 40 pounds The site chosen for tor the plant will permit of ot at least doubling Its capacity at some future time If it seems desirable to do so 80 If It the leaching capacity is doubled and if It it should then thon prove provo more satisfactory to an electrolytic precipitation plant instead of or doubling the iron- iron pr plant such a plant willbe will willbe be constructed This leaching plant plant was waR ready for tor operation December 1 1917 Production on Last Ernst I 4 Y nn Below Is a comparative table showing show show- In Ing the production of or the thc treat gleat Binham Binham Bin Bin- ham mine L by months for the past four tour years An increase in tho the output Is 15 shown oven every year ear With the thc aid of the new leaching plant to tal take o care of the oxidized ores ores and the Improve c mentis meets at the two big Garfield concen concentrating concentrating mills It IlIR IB thought that tho the lOli 1915 production will be bo greatly augmented over the past record breaking year car The production b by months from 1914 up to the present Is as follows 1916 1116 1915 1914 8 0 S 1 I 1 I 1787 12 1461 1 1009 13 56 I 2723 19 14 1 Utah Copper Is toda today mining ore oro at atthe atthe atthe the rate of or about tons a month or 0 tons a year ear Tho The twelfth annual report for tor the year ended December December De De- cember 31 31 1916 showed total ore reserves re reserves re- re serves remaining in the property of or tons averaging per percent cent cOlmer copper In Tn the vi year nr 1916 there ware developed de tons in excess g of ot the thc quantity mined during that period It la is expected that the tho ore reserves will m bo be Increased from flom time to time tune whenever development dc work can be bc done without Interfering with other I op- op orations Dividend Paid The Utah Copper company compan paid its first dividend In 1908 when Jl 1 I a share was distributed The dividends b by years ears are as follows Pe Per r. r r. r Dividends DIlden 8 paid 1917 1250 1450 Dividends paid 1916 1 12 00 1200 00 Dividends Dl paid 1915 Dividends r ds paid 1914 soo Dividends paid 1913 Dividends paid 1912 00 Dividends paid 1911 Dividends DI paid 1910 Ino Dividends paid 1909 Dividends paid 1908 1008 00 Total dividends i This amounts to paid on each eachl J share of stock It brings the total contributions con- con of the BIngham company up to the this magnificent sum Bum of oC II The Tho true truo value or stupendousness orthis of or this sum is inconceivable to the ordinary ordinary nar nary mind It IB is more than ten limes what the thc United States Slates paid for tor the now Invaluable territory of ot Alaska All of this monc money has been bec distributed in ten years ears to hundreds of ot stockholders of ot the company compan who are arc scattered throughout tho the world The coming i regularlY of ot clean cash dividends every three months to Investors In man many of or whom purchased tho the stock when It was very low lot 10 giving 1 them splendid investment Investment investment invest Invest- ment returns is considered ono of ot the tho best advertisements al for tor Utah and its great resourcefulness that could possibly possibly pos pos- sibly be bc put forth These dividends have havo never failed since tho the company compan established them on a permanent basis the second year True Truo they have varIed varied varied va va- ried but since 1910 wh when n the company compan established 1 a n. cent 75 quarterly i di the they have never been reduced In fact tact the l dl dividends en s have been increased In Increased In- In cren creased cd steadily until tho the year ear 1916 when they thor leaped up to 3 a n quarter and In the past year a quarter was attained of ot Production Below Delow Is a comparative e table of the Utah Coppers Copper's total production and dividends for tor the years cars 1910 to 1917 in inclusive In In- e Production l DI Dividends en 8 1917 HIli- 1916 1915 1915 1082 1914 1913 1913 1912 O 47 1911 1910 46 lire Tho production production in 1917 for November and antl December r is estimated d. d The company's two hU hugo huge e mills at l Garfield Arthur and Magna Mn are arc the wonders Bonders of or all who go 0 to sec see the h workings Their past combined c capacity ladt has haa practically averaged around OOOO tons of at ore a da day Howe However I with the new 1917 additions to tho the Arthur plant the erection also of a largo large leaching Plant |