Show how LEAD MINES FATHERED UTAH l l g By W H EARDLEY Manager Midvale Plant of United States S R n 8 M Co OT sliver silver not gold sold not copper NOT N Is Utah's greatest breadwinner nero ner Its prize product Is lead Though you may be bo awed by the tremendous tonnage of ot copper from one camp you will learn from care care- carefully carefully fully kept statistics that lead has surpassed It by 47 During the 71 years ears from Crom 1864 1564 to 1935 1035 she live tons of lead was produced against tons of the red metal Lead ore cropping from the ground gave the first Intimation that this might be a mineral state find and lead mining gave birth to the first smelting operations here It was in Beaver er county about four miles northwest of the present site of Minersville l In the year 1858 1358 IS that the extraction and reduction of ot the metal began Isaac Isaae Grundy Grandy Grund and associates dug some ore from what was called the Rollins Hollins mine since named the Lincoln The lead lend lendIn leadin In the rock was ideal material for bullets to shoot Indians Melting It out Olit was vas the next task A crude furnace was erected by Grundy Jesse N Smith Tarleton Lewis and William Barton It was the first smelting plant in Utah The ball having started the search for lead mines spread Soldiers under Gen Can Patrick E Con Con- Connor nor discovered ore In Rush valley Mining 1 called for smelting Almost as fast as mines were found Cound furn furl aces sprang up One of ot the earli earll earll- earll est was built buill near Stockton in 1864 1364 It was purchased by I S Water Water- Waterman man in 1871 1371 and is said to have ha been operated successfully for a number of ot years Also In I a second lead furnace was built at Stockton by the Rush Valley Smelting Co formed by b officers at Camp Douglas That summer Bummer and fall six other smelting furnaces were vere erected In and around Stock ton Some got no further than their trial runs By Dy 1866 1566 ore was being produced In Little Cottonwood canyon canon south south- southeast southeast east of ot Salt Lake and the smelters followed locating usually in the vicinity of ot the city where water I was plentiful Lead strikes at BIngham further stimulated smelt- smelt er building In n Salt Lake valley aile The first to ship bullion was the plant of ot Woodhull Bros In Sep Sep- September Sep Sep- September 1870 From 1870 to 1874 1374 there was an epidemic of ot new plants and a steady growth In size and efficiency reflecting the development of new lead mines Beaver county scene of ot the first experiment came back into IntI the picture with smelters at nt Shanty Shaunty Springs and Milford In the late nineties with bettor better trans trans- transportation many combinations and consolidations took place Fewer and bigger plants were In order Mills were built to concentrate low- low grade ore preparatory to smelting By 1911 the dozens of or little plants had coagulated Into three major smelting companies The lead smelter of the American Smelting Refining Co was con con- constructed at Murray l In 1902 the plant of or the United State S R M t It at Midvale In 1902 and that of the International Smelting Co at Tooele In 1911 1 11 Flotation Is now used In the treatment of ot zinc lead ores ores by b the U S S R n M Id Co the International the Combined Metals Reduction Co at Bauer and the Silver Sliver King Coalition mill at Park City The merging of ot the smaller smelting companies into larger ones made profitable the production production tion of ot ore theretofore too low grade to mine and smelt and ac aCt ac- actually increased the demand for workers This is confirmed by fig fig fig- figures figures ures compiled for Cor December 1935 It places the number of ot tons of ot ore milled in zinc lead flotation I plants at af tons of ot charge treated at nt t lead smelters tons of ot coke used at lead smelters tons of ot coal used at lead Smelters 1553 gallons gallon of ot oil used at lead smelters feet of ot gas used at lead smelters cost of ot supplies and equipment used 1 paid railroads for freight on products received and shipped men on payroll at lead lend smelters and ana lead zinc line flotation mills 1387 estimated number of men employed in Utah to produce fuel used by lead smelt smelt- smelters ers 93 estimated number of or men employed In Utah to produce scrap iron lime sand and lime rock used 45 estimated number of ot men em em- employed In Utah by railroads to handle handlo freight In and nd out of lead smelters and mills total num num- num number ber of t men directly employed in Utah to carry carryon on lead smelting operations 2080 estimated de de- de for each man employed 43 13 number of ot persons in Utah di dl dl- dl dependent upon lead smelt smelt- smeltIng ing Assuming that the number em em- employed indirectly to raise food food- foodstuffs stuffs furnish heat light water and amusements manufacture the goods used and transport and dis dis- dis distribute tribute the commodities to the workers and their dependent fam tiles Illes is as great grent as the number di di- di directly employed we may my say that nearly persons person In Utah dl de- de depend pend on the tha lead smelts g Industry try for tor support And this does not In in- in include clude the men employed at the mines to produce the ore treated treat d |