Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-11 | Page 10 | Bingham's Advantages

E INGHAM'S ADVANTAGES. Conditions That Render Camp One of the Greatest. Cheap mlnlnp, cheap transportation, clK-ap reduction and exhaustk-ss oro bodies aro tho factors Of Bingham s greatness, writes Charley Harte In his icy lew of tho week at the Camp of Cop-j,.-r. Here ere-- can ho mined and milled. the concentratea smelted and the metal product marketed at a total cost of SI T.s pox ten. and a 10.000-ton mill cm handle ores tarrying but $3 in values at a profit of yU'i-"1 daJlj Oro carrying but 1 per cent copper can be made to pay expenses with copper at only lo cents per pound. Moreov it. the ore budles an- ..t' such tremendous tre-mendous extent that mamru'.tli mills can bo kept in operation f"r centuries, Tho enme conditions exist with reference l the smelting 'ires, which produce copper at a total cost of but 6 cents per pound. NdVhere else in the world do such conditions con-ditions prevail, except possibly in the Iale district, where In some Instances ..re containing but three-fourths of 1 per cent copper Is mined at a small profit.