Show utah produces produces P 3 15 9 3 in in 1914 mines in utah produced ore and bullion during 1914 containing gold silver copper lead and zinc valued at as against in 1913 a decrease of according to victor C heikes of the united states geological survey a copy of whose report reached salt halt lake recently cent of the total state output the district in juab and utah counties ranked second with or 2921 per cent of the total summit county produced in 1914 and in 1913 tooele thoele county which was once the leading producer of gold dropped to in 1914 M 10 W N aw all 2 jr general view of the arthur mill of utah copper co garfield utah photo by Ship lers the gold output was valued at a decrease of or per cent compared with 1913 salt lake county was 51 the largest producer and made an output of gold valued at against 1777 in 1913 most of the gold came from the copper ores in the west mountain or Ding bingham harn district in salt lake county the yield amounting to or per silver production from ore in utah decreased from ounces in 1913 to ounces in 1914 against ounces in 1913 and utah county produced ounces in 1914 against ounces in 1913 the output of tintic gintic district comprising the larger part of the productive mineral area of these two counties decreased from ounces in 1913 to ounces in 1914 salt lake county produced ounces in 1913 1911 against ounces in 1913 the larger part of the output in 1914 ounces was derived form the ores of the west mountain or bingham district from the park city region the yield in 1914 was ounces a dorease from ounces or about 2051 per cent from that of 1913 output of copper from a record production of pounds in 1913 the copper output decreased to pounds in the bingham district led in production with pounds of copper against pounds in 1913 pounds in 1912 I 1 1 sw n and pounds in ili 1911 the tintic gintic district yielded pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 and 13 pounds in 1912 the park city region in summit and wasatch counties produced pounds in 1914 against 42 4 al VAX f AM C 41 lead blast furnace Furna cei international smelter international utah photo Pho toby by HW HOM smith pounds in 1913 and pounds in 1912 beaver county yielded pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 and pounds in 1912 in 1914 there were three producers classed as porphyry coppers which yield ed pounds of copper against pounds in 1913 and pounds in 1912 the lead contained in ili utah ores produced in ill 1914 aggregated U pounds against pounds in 1913 and pounds in 1912 of the output in 1914 per cent was derived from the mines in the bingham district which produced pounds against pounds in 1913 and ana pounds in 1912 the park city region MINE production OF GOLD SILVER COPPER LEAD AND ZINC IN UTAH IN 1914 BY COUNTIES by VICTOR C HEIKES U S geological survey 0 Z C 2 M C S C N i 3 C 3 C 0 3 i n 5 0 S ij 3 P j 0 C 3 MO 0 p 00 ca 0 D 0 0 n M ma 0 P iii i ii M D beaver 21 2 1 1 jt 9 I box elder elde 1 5 1983 cache 1 39 92 3 galfield gal field 2 1350 21 2 grand gr nd 1 2 1374 iron 1 4 2200 1262 juab 44 45 5 morgan 1 1 5 1079 45 piute diute 7 salt lat lake e 60 41 3 summit 10 4 1 tooele thoele 26 1 uinta 4 7 I 1 1 utah 18 1 5 2 5 wasatch 5 K washington washing ton 1 2322 1 9 91 1 1 total I 1 1914 16 1913 1 1 IS inc includes placer pro production produced 1 pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 or 1887 per cent of the total output the tintic gintic district yielded pounds in 1914 pounds in 1912 and p pounds 0 ands in 1912 spelter production the zinc production of utah figured as spelter delter aggregated pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 beaver county again eclipsed all previous records by yielding pounds against pounds in 1913 and led all mirl mining illg districts in 1914 bingham district was second yielding pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 and 2711 pounds in and the mines in the park city region yielded pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 and pounds in 1912 mines in the ophir rush valley and north tintic gintic districts tracts s yielded pounds in 1914 against pounds in 1913 in 1914 the larger part of the zinc was contained in sulphide ore principally lead zinc ore which was concentrated the smaller part was obtained from zinc ore and lead zinc ore and was shipped directly to zinc smelters shelters sm elters crude zinc ore and lead zinc ore shipped produced pounds of spelter and the concentrates produced pounds there were producers of ore in 1914 against producers in 1913 productive work was done at seven places in 1914 the total quaintly of ore sold or treated in 1914 was short tons against 5 6 6 tons in 1913 0 the average total recoverable value per ton was 4 35 in 1914 against in 1913 porphyry copper the output of porphyry copper ores aggregated tons in 1914 against tons in 1913 the quantity of siliceous ores treated by the cyanide process ce ss decreased from tons in 1913 to 1613 tons in 1914 concentrating mills reduced tons of ore to tons of concentrates which with tons of crude ore were sent to smelters shelters sm elters salt lake county as shown by the table continues to produce the largest part or per cent of the total output by value vala chiefly from copper having furnished per cent of the total production of that metal and per cent of the total tonnage of ore treated |