Show A GREAT SHOWING FOR 1904 the mining industry of utah for the year 1904 made a most commendable showing and the advancement made in every branch of mining affairs demonstrates only too clearly that our commonwealth is destined to take rank in the very near future as one of the greatest metal producing states in the union and during the period mentioned not only has the production of our mines been much larger than ever before in this section but the dividend paying record has been well maintained while the achievements in our numerous berous mining camps in mine equipment and mill construction have eclipsed all records in this direction ever before chronicled and a greater amount of development work has been accomplished during the year our mines havo have paid nearly four and a half million in dividends eighteen properties contributing to this grand aggregate and whose total distribution of velvet money to date exceeds the princely sum of over twenty four million during the year the mines of utah produced over thirty million in gold silver lead and copper as against twenty four million in 1903 the total production du action of the mines of the state during the past pas t thirty five or forty years being estimated in round figures at about three hundred million and yet we are proud to relate mining in utah is but in its infancy as yet in the production of gold silver lead and copper a decided increase for the year has been noted and especially is this the case in the copper output which shows a gain of nearly two million over last year during the year quite a number of mills mill 3 and reduction works hoisting works and other mine and mill equipment have been installed and upon an extensive scale the united states smelter has been blown in the majestic smelter has been completed the bingham con and the utah con smelt ers have added to their equipment and their capacities have been increased at bingham the utah copper company has put in a large concentrating plant and the ohio copper company has reconstructed constructed re and remodeled the old Win mill while the yampa company has constructed a fine smelting smelling sm elting plant at stockton the honerine company has installed in stalle d large reduction works and the stockton mine has but recently constructed a mill of its own at park city the kearns keith mill is one of the new improvements for this grand old camp the daly west and the daly judge have added to their milling equipment and them comstock mill has been completed while several large and up to date hoists have been constructed co at alta the columbus consolidated has put the finishing touches upon its new mill and has its electric power plant in successful commission besides which the company has erected commodious and comfortable surface buildings in the same camp the continental alta mines company has just installed a fine mill and a three mile aerial tramway as well as other equipment which should make this enterprise successful and profitable during the coming year in the foothills between big and little cottonwood canyon the consolidated jefferson Jefferso ir mining company has installed fine hoisting works at frisco the horn silver mining company has its new zinc plant about ready to go into commission while at the town of newhouse the splendid concentrating mill being built for the cactus copper mine is rapidly nearing completion as will be seen elsewhere in these columns improvements have been made at the century mill in box elder county the united states at bingham has added to its aerial tramway equipment the copper belt railroad has been extended to the great mines of carr fork gulch while a new railroad has been built to connect frisco with necho newhouse use in addition to which minor improvements have been made throughout the various mining camps of the state all of which improvement and equipment will greatly swell the ore output of the state during the coming year which now promises to be the most wonderful season of prosperity in a mining way that the state diate has ever witnessed the showing made for 1904 in mining industry is great indeed but that for 1905 promises to be much greater |