Show 0 IE o 1 J I Tiff The OLIN OLD lf CAIl j I 00 0 e cIo t t w y 3 q w ab y ti 1 L i its ts h t r I 4 w Y Yi i W t ts 1 1 t 7 s BINGHAM CANYON it The illustration shows dhows the cany mill n from a point a short hort distance above the railway station The first gulch to tr t the right v is the Markham The mil in the foreground forge round is h the Dewey custom c concentrating mill mil L Lower Lowert t it A Bingham Birgham is distributed along this canyon can on About the center of the picture is the fork of the be two principal can canyon canyon canyon yon Carr Fork oft to the right and the h he e main canyon to the left The towers along the mountain side and the hed on the point above shows the line of the wire tramway from the Highland Boy mine Just above the bed of the creek on the left Is 18 the grade of the Copper Belt railway which rises at the rate of feet I to the mile mie corresponding correspond ng with the natural slope IPpe of the tho thoe e waterway In the canyon This Thi road belongs to the Bing ham CO ph Gold company but is used for tor transportation of other ores and materials as well as their I own Up U Markham gulch to the right riCht are the mines of the Red Bed Wing company the Mystic Shrine the Erie the Ben Bett Be Batter Botler the tile Liberal the Montezuma on and others of leas less prominence I t dt 4 i t TOWN Is Bing Bingham A ham It Is not a wide street ti anywhere but is very narrow most of the way waT It is a two n long street distinctively a long and narrow way The town lots Jots are arec c shallow and the back backyards backyards yards ards where there ere are any are either nt tit I tan an angle of 45 degrees or are ter terraced terraced terraced raced into the side of the mountain To Toha have ha ve a cellar under the house it is 18 only I necessary nt to set the front of the house hoWie houseen r fIn en n posts and roll in a few rocks rock from bom the t he hillside for the rear wall TheE The TIN treet l E t r et of Bingham Bi ham is no straighter than thann ere n fI re the streets l of Boston although their t crookedness is due to a different cause In the one case ca e It follows the writer v ter course in th tM the other they follow the calf paths of the earlier centuries It is s not Angular that so many maD Boston people f ople are attracted to Bingham camp amp to make investments investment in mining They can always feel at home there Jut there are many besides Boston rumple tole who are interested Int rested in the Bing Bingham ham mines For more than thirty years there has been a steady output of the thep p precious ec ious metals from th the Old Reli ReU Reliable I able atle camp accompanied l by some that are 8 re not noU so to but M hs a way quite as H valuable The first locations location were wert made in the neighborhood of the Old I Jordan and by United States Slates soldiers from the command of General Connor Stationed at Camp Floyd Floydt t Er Sixteen locations each ZOO feet In InI I I were made along the vein and Ad the Hole nole sixteen were afterward con consolidated con ed into a single mine It has baa been imen en a wonderfully productive one ope although al although although 1 though it has bas never been worked to any 9 ny considerable depth below the ear sur surface face lace It Is 18 now being prepared for a anew anew new pew period of production to be on a aScale Scale poale of magnitude far beyond any previous Trelous Tire bus experience in the camp It is however but bat one of a group that be bel l s to the United States Mining Alining I any which will be treated of ot separ sepal separately c The mountains of the Bingham die dis district dietrict are a at the northeastern extremity of It the Oquirrh range They are not net particularly high mountains but they ere e re scored by deep washes through v the creeks c ks run when there is Ja JaRny any Rny water hl and together con can a group of very great Mile hills nU over Oer overt v WhICh there then th is ia plenty of hard climbing for the prospector and Bd for those thole who whop p serve the miners formation I of District the ut attempting a technical de hf the district it may be said t la tat t he mineral is found in tolerably gular r formation n The description riven tivon iven by y an experienced miner gives it in c t l few words clearly An earlier t exerted itself in a direction f om rem m east northeast to west southwest li ting the stratified te andr and r lime rock lOCk from the horizontal towards a vertical position and leaving then them at atall atall all sorts of angles of inclination nd more or less broken At some la 1 ar et I period another disturbance in a dirac tion a little east of north and west of south opened a system of crevices crossing In the general course of the first series Rrie and usually more nearly n arly vertical Through these fissures there appears to have come mineralised mineralized solutions having such chemical properties as to dissolve the limestone and by precipitations and combinations to have filled the va vacant vacant vacant cant spaces aces with the minerals as they I Iare are found at present While most of i ithe the ore is js found within the area ared of the I lime beds as left b by the th earlier up it hi Is always found contiguous to the t fissures of the second period in greater or less mass ma and sometimes has been heen deposited in in the the assures themselves them themselves selves to a considerable distance away from the he first or what are generally known as the contact veins Where there th re are no fissures fissure there is no ore Where here the lime has bas been removed the space 18 Is not uniformly filled with the deposited materials but the rich and poor ores are mixed with the gangue matter in every very conceivable position to it U to Js thickest and richest on to or of indenting wall and perks as often otten he situation is re reo reversed reversed versed and the best hem ore is found next to the Ule hinging hanging baD bag or overlying wall wali Again Apin it will be found running cross crosswise crosswise wise wlM at all sorts of angles in a general The ore veins are of varying width from front a mere crack where on ont wall wan of the country rock roc rests on the theother theother other to 10 M as much a M ac or 01 even o feet Again Apin re e are comparatively long distant where the vein matter or gangue ue will continue to a thickness of several everal feet but with so 80 scant mineral as to permit no use u e of it Pew P Deep Workings I In the larger mines of the Bingham district such as the Highland Boy Boythe Boythe Boythe the Old Jordan Jordar and Old Telegraph the earlier workings were all 11 near the surface sur surface surface face of the ground und seldom mote more than feet deep For the first 10 1 feet teet the ores ore o pined Drained c were carbonates from which tits ie sulphur had passed pa sed by oxidation dation They irhe could be treated more morer readily r T y the then in vogue Thin came camen e the more distinctive lead sliver silver ores oN showing a trifle of gold values These e called for another class clus of nt by smelting They con contained tam ed a a much larger larg r percentage of ofu u which must be removed as aa a first procedure before the smelting can be accomplished While these theae were being mined the prospecting to lower tower depth depths showed the presence of copper much of it in the form At the first Arst and but a few years ago P there was waa lit e demand for copper copner and in some me ees ci sea it was considered con so 80 unde undesirable undesirable undesirable that the prospecting shafts or I win would be filled lest the discovery discovery I ery might ml mig tt t prejudice the mine in the I opinion of investors and depreciate Its I l value In the nast years It has bas been j f found that tuat this claw class cla a of ores oree is ill really I j very desirable All of the three largest large companies of the Bingham district have been formed by b grouping smaller companies or In Individual Individual Individual properties into organizations with ample capital to prosecute pro the mining on a large scale and with the purpose purpose of utilizing utilising the ing I ores as the basis ba lB of their smelting operations Two of them already have their own smelters In operation and the third one has hall the largest of the three in course of ot construction It Is f 4 I I j i i I l Y j t r 4 Ia L THE BINGHAM BINGHAY TERMINAL RAILWAY This line known in local parlance as the Copper Belt is not a long one but it is Ig a hard road to trav tray travel t el its ita grades ranging from 7 to 9 t per cent or 3 O to feet per mile The ordinary locomotive cannot climb such auch steep secants ascents and nerd recourse is had bad to gearing to increase the climbing power but at the sacrifice of speed peed I It crawls along at the rate of about four miles an hour with two ordinary cars making a full load for an en engine engine 4 gine gins of or apparently normal size alas The illustration shows the triple cylinder construction so arranged arrn ed that two 1 third the of the full fun power is exerted as a the centers are pasted passed in succession lon The road was changed chanced from a nar narrow narrow narrow row to a wide gauge and was put in operation early in the year Its upper terminal is at the Commercial mine of the Bingham Copper Gold Mining ft Smelting company the ownership resting impractically the same par parties parties ties 4 b 4 claimed that the tJ cost cost of smelting by bythe b bythe the processes p employed in them t m is not more than 3 per ton and a as the cost of mining is proportionately proportionately low where such Urge large U bodies can be handled en masse with only a few miles of down downhill downhill hill transport between b tween mine and aDd smelter smelter ter it is possible to utilize utilise ores of a alow alow low average grade Each of the three has a producing capacity at the mines mine equal to the full capacity of their smelters or near f t f t t tr tM o t e t M J rt r w I 4 A At 1 I a t J Jp p i q 4 r 1 H i I I L 1 i t 3 j i iI f I I II f t f I y I y yf T 1 ar ry KU a Y a F I 1 1 I II 1 S FURNACE FLOOR A ID jD D BALLOON SHAPED DUST FLUE Affi TOPPER A fit GOLD GOLI SHELTER TER The stUd solid concrete is I continuous from the Ue furnaces back to the ore bins biM so that the ore Or can be bt load loaded i to their full and be handled with facility Three furnaces have been in operation two of them fince Tice February and the last lat one for several era months A fourth is Just ready to be put in commission and d there re is i room mom j In prep provided idea for fir fn two twi more mare In the bottom of the d en there their nr aT hopper ho chutes at fit clos intervals rut under which a car receives ecles its load of If the fine dust t which i gi s to the machine on oil the sum 5 I level n The Tnt accumulation of o this tins dust is i very nry rapid and an a force fon e of pearly nearly a men ne n is is constantly j emId rd d in handling and preparing it fur returning to tu the furnaces io ic it i ii tt t t t tt j I iI i 3 t j o Q a it c L ly tons per day for each of the two in operation O The United States Min Mill Milling tug lag company which is 18 doing dolog but little underground work at present claims to have blocked out ready for extrac extraction extraction extraction tion when hen the smelter is completed as much as tons of pay ore that will m show snow an average value alue of or more than 10 per ton This vast quantity is enough to supply tons per aay for ten years of continuous operation Mr Mayberry says ays that the prospect prospecting ing at no point is more than feet below the surface and that the meas measurements measurements measurements do not include more than ten feet anywhere below the actual pres present present present ent excavations ss and but little below the level en l The same gentleman in speaking of the general gereral formation of the district stated that there is a broad mother lode extending entirely through it on which are located the Old Brooklyn the Old Telegraph the Old Oi Jordan and Galena and after passing parsing ing a fault caused paused by a great porphyry po dike ap appearing appearing appearing again ajain about feet further to ta th northwest with the Highland Boy developing the same general con conditions conditions conditions This mother mot r lode is of great width often orten as much as feet although like all ll other veins reins it swells and con contracts contracts contracts tracts and is fat or lean by turns as regards r ards the quality of or its ores Other Promising Mines Nines On either side Bide of this mam main lode Jpe are others of less width lying parallel with it on which are mines of greater or less promise some of them yielding a richer class of ores which compensate for tor forthe forthe the lesser leaser volume though not readily adaptable to the extended operations we have outlined This TIlls last remark must not be held bejel to apply as to the Bingham Copper ft A Gold group which though on a parallel lode has bas very large larae ore bodies and is one of the three companies to when we have bae ape specially 8 daily referred The general conformation of the district dis district distrIct is distinctly favorable to mining operations tunneling being practicable in most instances in by which the th opera operations operations operations are facilitated and cheapened None of the mines would be classed clas d das as wet some of them being as dry dryas as a bone and d others yielding barely enough water to serve the purposes of the operating companies The Tife snows never get so deep as further north and aDd andin aDdin andin in the Wasatch range generally so 80 that all aU seasons are practically alike for the Binsham miner minerAs minerAs As may be said aid of every district in Utah the development of the ore bodies is but just begun Even where mil mul millions mullions I lions in value have been taken out there are scores score of millions yet vet to be realized and the of the future can be prosecuted pro with the benefits of ot past put experiences and anti consequently with a larger measure of profit and satisfaction sati The United States The United States Mining company of which which A F Holden Hoiden is the general manager with Andrew P Mayberry local manager at the Bingham mines and C E Allen in charge of the Tintic properties is a 8 corporation with far reaching plans and ao as immense capital to carry them out With a capital at atthe atthe atthe the beginning of ot the year of increased at a shareholders meeting in May to it is making ac active active tive preparation for large production when the smelter now in course of con construction construction construction near Junction shall be ready for action They own a group of the oldest and strongest properties in the Bingham district including the th South Galena the Old Jordan and the theOld theOld theOld Old Telegraph These mines have pro produced produced du d millions in the past pA t but the de developments developments developments now made indicate their capacity to far surpass SUrp 8 their previous achievements Just before Manager Holden left for the east in October he be I made the statement that there is 18 now bloc ed out in sight no lest less than 1 tons of ore carrying a fair per percentage percentage percentage of copper and of an average value of at least 10 per ton Mr Ma Maberry Maberry berry said to the writer that the sail esti estimate mate as fo o value is very conservative and that the measurements were were care carefully carefully carefully fully mide The force of hands hinds now in the mines is small and it is wholly employed in preparing the property for rapid production when hen the tit th time arrives Extensive Improvements The Improvements both at the tile Old Jordan and the Old Telegraph are ar on ona ona |