Show tintic gintic district A greater number of dividend payers are to be found in the mines of this district than in any other district of the state there were thirty five shippers during 1905 I 1 t q wip wt AA r 17 op V i agwu X orai W partial view of bingham utah the total output of which amounted to tons among the most important producers may be mentioned the centennial eureka mammoth bullion beck uncle sam consolidated gemini balge blue dell bell yankee consolidated grand central may day swansea south swansea beck tunnel carisa eureka hill and godiva this district has always been an interesting field for the mineral collector as it affords a great variety of rare copper and arsenic minerals of decided beauty beaver county in beaver county are located the horn silver and the cactus mines the former forme r has produced principally lead silver and zinc ore while the latter is a copper mine many other mines of less importance from the standpoint of ore produced are to be found in this district the cactus mine owned and operated by the newhouse mines smelter company has been developed on a plan which at first strikes one as financially daring to the point of audacity and yet on closer examination it appears to be based on a careful scientific study of the conditions and cost it is stated that the development of the mine the building of the necessary railroad connections plant etc cost the promoters over before they were in a condition to obtain any return from the reduction ot their ore on the other hand they claim to have in sight tons of ore which will carry on an average 3 per cent copper recently in the development of the property an extensive ore body feet wide of higher copper c content i has been encountered on the three lower levels of the mine the outlook for the future of this district is very gratifying the gold mountain district of plute county is represented by two important pro dubers the annie laurie and the sevier consolidated gold mining company these companies are mining gold ore averaging 7 or 8 per ton and are extracting the gold by cyaniding cyan iding and amalgamation mercur district at this camp on the ores of the consolidated mercur company occurred the first operation of the cyanide process for the treatment 7 of gold ores on a commercial scale new ore bodies are being opened up in the camp and the treatment re e nt of old tailings by the holderman filter tank company is showing interesting dp de about 1000 flasks flacks of mercury per year are produced by the sacramento mine in the mercur district bingham the rapid and extensive development ot of the past few years has placed bingham not only in the lead of copper producing camps in utah but among the great copper camps of the country am among ong her leading pro dubers may be mentioned the highland boy mine of the utah consolidated company the property produced during 1905 approximately pounds of copper and during the same year paid over in dividends the company operates its own smelter and reduces upwards of tons of raw ore per day the united states mining company Is operating a number of mines in this district and at its smelter at bingham junction in salt lake valley is treating about 1000 tons of copper ore and tons of lead ore per day the bingham consolidated copper gold company operates the commercial dalton lark and other mines of bingham and at its smelter at bingham junction is reducing about pounds of copper per year the yampa consolidated company is treating in its new smelter in bingham about tons of copper ore from its mines in this district 4 W 4 ail MOM A V 17 xi t I 1 V ul the utah copper companas Comp anys concentrator at bingham utah photo J many smaller companies are successfully operating in bingham many of then them are am in the shipping class and yielding the owners handsomely A most striking feature of copper mining milan in the bingham district in the last two or three years is the complete success of ox ex in the treatment by con peri ments ts made cent ration of the so called disseminated ores in which sma small 11 particles of copper sul bhide occur disseminating through altered porphyry enormous bodies of this class of ore occur in bingham they were formerly considered of too low grade to work but have now been proved to yield a handsome profit when concentrated twenty into one arrangements are being rapidly completed for the treatment of tons of this ore per day from bingham the ore bodies are mined in open workings with monstrous steam shovels and even with the copper content of the porphyry about 2 per cent the improved methods of mining and milling employed make it possible to treat the ore at a handsome profit it is claimed that the utah copper company and the boston consolidated company have over tons of this class of ore available for extraction it is probable that these two bingham properties possess the two largest bodies of copper ore that are known besides the copper smelters shelters sm elters already referred to the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining companas comp anys lead smelter at murray is one of important metallurgical establishments eight large blast furnaces with the necessary ro asters sampling mills and additional dit ional auxiliary apparatus atus make this the largest lead smelter in the united states although the united states mining company has recently started up its lead plant at bingham junction the amount of ore foy for lead reduction exceeds the combined capacity of the two plants because of the greatly increased capacity of our mines with this increased output of the mines ot of the state has arisen the need tor for increased smelting smelling sm elting facil facilities liles and every smelt er in the salt lake valley has either increased or is increasing its capacity until today the valley is a very important import ant smelt ing center when the new smelter sm elters now under way are completed salt lake will be one of the greatest smelting smelling sm elting centers in the world the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining He fining company is erecting at garfield beach on the great salt lake a smelter which when completed will have a capacity of three thousand tons of ore per day and its is claimed this is only a starter and that this plant will eventually excel in size any other plant in existence the plant now being erected is thoroughly modern and will cost upwards of two millions five hundred thousand dollars some of its furnaces have already blown in and the entire plant is being pushed rapidly ahead A m 12 rv R st q el 1 M 11 A 57 arl A n ia al af iron droppings Crop pings in iron county the utah smelting smelling Sm elting is building a smelter near ogden the plant is practically finished and the furnaces will soon be turning out the reduced metal iron utah is destined to produce iron and steel for the future trade of the pacific coast and the orient iron ore is found in various parts of the state in juab and utah counties in weber and uintah counties but by far the most extensive deposit is found in iron county in southern utah in this iron mountain outcrop there is estimated by the best experts to be five hundred million to one billion tons of iron ore in sight the immense deposit covers an area of fifteen miles long by three miles wide the ore averages from fifty nine to sixty five per cent metallic iron with very low sulphur and phosphorous content the adjacent limestone is conveniently situated to the deposits and will serve for a cheap flux to be used in reduction in many places the black iron ore stands out waiting the coming of capital and human energy to carry it to the furnace and convert it into the thousand varied commodities of civilization iza tion hundreds of acres of this deposit will require no stripping and except where the ore outcrops it is a soft red and brown hematite this deposit is said to be the largest surface showing of ore known good fluxing flexing iron ore containing some gold is found in the district and shipped to the smelters shelters sm elters in salt lake county coal utah is putting on the market over a million and a half tons of coal per year this supply comes principally from the book cliffs coal field embraced within sevier aler emery carbon and grand counties in the east central part of the state three other coal fields of less importance are the weber river the sanpete and the iron county fields coal has been discovered in many places in the state but up to date these have only produced coal for local consumption the number of these discoveries may be estimated when it is known that the state coal mine inspector reports coal mines in utah for 1904 the utah fuel company of salt lake city owns and operates all the producing mines of the extensive book cliffs field the coal field extends over an area of about seven thousand square miles although the entire extent is not yet definitely known at every locality investigated for a distance of more than one hundred miles in this field the beds of coal range from three to twenty five feet in thickness is free from matter and is decidedly massive seams or lines indicating stratification fi are scarcely discernable discernible discern able immense blocks of massive coal from these fields have made striking exhibits at the recent fairs at st louis and portland no other state in the union displayed such massive chunks of solid coal as was shown by utah the coal is of excellent quality remarkably mar kably uniform in composition showing very low ash and sulphur contents that from the sunnyside Sunny side mines is readily burned into an excellent grade of coke the extensive output of these mines amounting to more than half a million tons per year is now entirely used for coking the product comparing favorably with the best pennsylvania variety the market for utah coal and coke extends throughout the intermountain states and the entire pacific coast asphalt utah Is particularly rich in hydrocarbon hydro carbon deposits although many occurrences in different parts of the state are recorded the principal deposits of these minerals are found in uintah basin the northern rim of this basin Is the uintah mountains and adjoining plateaus in the western half of 0 this basin are found the abundant deposits of hydrocarbon hydro carbon minerals for which T utah is famous the principal occurrences consist of Uintah lite gilsonite erite maltha and a great variety of bituminous or lime stones sandstones and shale of these the most important under the present conditions is Uintah lite or the gilsonite of commerce it occurs in true veins or fillings of fissures which cut through the sedimentary rock of the region the uses to which Uintah lite and other hydrocarbons hydro carbons have been put are numerous the principal supplies of hydrocarbon minerals for use in the united states are derived from the island of trini dad water transportation is so much cheaper than shipment by rail that the f foreign 0 r product has been imported at a lower cost than that required for the delivery of the utah minerals to the centers of consumption this is the only reason for the comparatively small demand for utah hydrocarbon hydro carbon gilsonite however is of a quality to command recognition even inthe in the tace face of cheap transportation of inferior material demonstrated facts warrant the statement that the hydrocarbon hydro carbon deposits of utah surpass in variety purity and extent all other recorded occurrences they outcrop in a manner conducive to cheap mining and transportation facilities alone are lacking to make the deposits a bonanza of wealth to the owner and a cheap source of valuable and most desirable material to the consumer security of investments in utah few labor troubles have interfered with the workings of the mines in this state the sentiment of the people is against strikes and lockouts lock outs and in almost every instance of difference between the employed and the employer the difference has been settled amicably without resort to strikes and the suspension of operations capitalists are now appreciating the favorable relation between capital and labor in utah and are showing a preference for our state as a place to invest their money opportunities are numerous for investment in the undeveloped industries arising from our extensive mineral wealth her mineral deposits already discovered with those yet undiscovered the wealth of her briny sea and the metallurgical treatment of her m mineral fineral products along with the stability of capital and labor in utah invite men of means to make investment in our state with assurance of satisfactory returns |