Show half year in utah minin mi ni ng the metal output of utah increased slightly during the first half of 1920 according to 11 C heikes of the united states geological survey department of the interior the output of gold silver copper lead and zinc in 1919 was valued at about a decrease from in 1918 in may 1920 the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company operating the lead smelting smelling sm elting plant at murray and the copper plant at garfield requested shippers to reduce consignments consign ments of ore especially siliceous ore from the tintic gintic district so that no great increase in production can be expected for the year car shortage seriously interrupted shipments from park city and the tintic gintic district experienced miners are in great demand and wages were increased to a day with a bonus to those who work more than half a month gold about in gold was produced in utah in 1919 a decrease from in 1918 most alost of the gold was obtained from copper lead and siliceous ores mined in the bingham tintic gintic and park city districts the gold output of utah has decreased steadily since 1911 when the mines produced 4 more afore than half the gold produced in 1919 came from ores obtained from the utah copper united states mining and utah consolidated mines at bingham silver the output of silver in utah in 1919 was about fine ounces valued at 12 a decrease from ounces in 1918 during the last ten years the mines of utah have maintained an average yearly production of more than ounces of silver in 1920 there has been unusual activity at park city and the large mines of the tintic gintic district are regular shippers the chief consolidated mining company at eureka the largest silver producer of the state made shipments containing ounces of silver in the first quarter of 1920 against a total of ounces for the year 1919 the tintic gintic standard mining company the second silver producer of the state was making larger shipments in the first quarter of 1920 but these were afterward curtailed by the smelting smelling sm elting company on account of labor troubles the shipments from the ontario mine at park city have been increased and a company ha has been formed to operate in the old silver reef district of washington county once a source of considerable silver copper the production of copper in utah in 1919 was about pounds valued at a large decrease from that of 1918 the large monthly output of the utah 1 I copper company which produced nearly 90 per cent of the copper of the state in 1919 indicates no greater change in output in 1920 lead the output of lead in utah decreased from pounds in 1918 to about pounds in 1919 the average production of the last ten years was pounds and the output in 1919 was the lowest during that time the shipments of ore and concentrate from all mines averaged about tons a month in the first five months of 1920 the shipments from the mines of park city show a decided improvement and large shipments are again being made from the daly west and Nail driver mines at bingham a labor strike in february affected shipments production from the utah apex has increased but the shipments from the united states mining company are less in the district the shipments are larger especially from the eagle blue bell gemini and victo victoria ria mines shipments from alta in the cardiff mine in the dig big cottonwood have been delayed by snow but much ore is ready for shipment zinc the output of zinc in utah was pounds in 1918 and about pounds in 1919 production has ranged from pounds of recoverable zinc in 1910 to pounds in 1916 considerable zinc concentrate is being treated in 1920 at the electrolytic zinc plant at park city and shipments of zinc ore continue from the scranton mine in the north tintic gintic district tooele thoele county the utah zinc company is constructing a plant south of salt lake city to make zinc oxide by the wetherell process ore for this plant is being mined at the tecoma mine in the lucin district box elder county dividends were paid in the first part of 1920 by the utah copper tintic gintic standard daly dragon consolidated iron blossom daly west eagle blue bell judge and chief consolidated companies |