Show SUT sutherlands HERLANDS ASSAY OFFICE BILL the senate committee on mines and mining has reported favorably on the bill introduced trod by senator george sutherland of utah for the establishment of a government assay office office at salt lake as follows there are at present assay offices or mints in each of the important mining states with the exception of utah namely coinage mints at san francisco cal carson city nev and denver colo the two latter being at present conducted as assay offices assay offices at dolse boise ida helena mont deadwood S D and seattle wash As shown by the report of the treasury department on the iro production of precious metals the state of utah in the year 1904 produced gold and silver of the value of and the report of the director of the mint for the year 1906 shows that the production of these metals has increased to the value of these amounts being exceeded only in three states namely colorado california and montana the production of gold in the state of utah for the calendar year 1904 was in 1906 it had increased to the production of the precious metals in ill utah for the year 1907 will undoubtedly ex ced everything indicates that there will be a steady increase in gold and silver in this state year by year hereafter in addition to this during the last few years the valley of salt lake where it is proposed to establish this office has become the most important smelting smelling sm elting section of the entire country the american smelling smelting Sm elting refining company the boston consolidated mining milling company and the utah copper company have each completed a vast smelting smelling sm elting plant adjacent to salt lake the output of which will probably not be exceeded by any smelting smelling sm elting plant in the country other extensive smelting smelling sm elting plants have been recently constructed in tintic gintic bingham and other nearby points in which a great amount of precious metal ores are reduced not only are the ores of utah marketed at this point but a very large proportion of the ores produced in nevada and other nearby states are also brought there for reduction the result is that the amount of gold and silver actually reduced to bullion in salt lake valley vastly exceeds the amount of production tio il in the state itself the need of an assay office at salt lake city is probably greater than in many of the states where such offices now exist if such offices are of practical benefit in each of the other mining states and their establishment and continuance would indicate that they are of benefit no good reason is perceived why such an office should not be established in the state of utah |