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Show WHERE UTAH GOLD SUHMS FOUND Copper Companies Produce a Good Percentage of These Precious Melals. REPORT OF 1910 GIVEN 'Mines of Utah Occupy an En-viable En-viable Position Anion0; Those of Country. The United States geological survey, in Its dealing with the gold and silver production pro-duction of 1910. gives to Utah a prominence promi-nence lhaL cannot but be of pleasure to the mining Industry of the state. In a volume just Issued treating of these two metals, the following is contained: "The gold production of Utah In 1910 was ?l,032,0Su. against $l,206.rIS in 1909. Of tho total output, $7.r)J.127 was recovered recov-ered In amalgamation and cyanldatlon. chiefly In the Camp Floyd district of Tooele Too-ele county and in Iron, Piute. Salt Iokc and Rox Klder counties. The remainder of the gold production whs almost entirely en-tirely from The smelling or copper, lead and dry ores and concentrates. Salt, lakc counlv ranked Hint In gold output with 5I.T7Gr0nS. inalnlv from copper ores, and from the Rlnghaiii or West Mountnln mining district. Juab county was second, with 51.IRl.3U0. chlellv from copper, lead and slliclous ores and from the Tlntlc district. Tooele county followed with 5721.301, inolnlv from dry or slliclous ores of the Camp Kloyd district, and Utah county was fourth with 5193.231 from the lead ores of the Tlntlc district. "The silver production of Utah was 10,-4fin.!7l 10,-4fin.!7l fine ounces In 191". giving the stole third rank In the United States Juab county produced 3.S33.0G3 ounces, or which 2.031.3(51 ounces came from lend ore. S29.99I ounces from copper ore. and 370.02! ounces from dry or slliclous ores, chlellv from tho Tlntlc district. 'Summit and Wasatch counties together to-gether fPark City region) produced 2.il.-771 2.il.-771 ounces, of which 1,313. lit ounces came from load ore and 989.133 ounces from lead-zinc ores. Third In rank was Salt l.akf county, with 2.000.131 ounces, of which I.IS0.072 ounces came from copper cop-per ores. ::tl . 101 ounces from lead ores. 239. ounces from load-zinc ores, and 1 20.893 ounces from copper-lead ores, mainly from the Bingham dlfitrlet, but also In pari from the Rig and Utile Cottonwood Cot-tonwood districts. Utah county ranked fourth, with l,aU.3Sl ounces from lead ores of the Tlntlc district. "Of the total silver output of Ltah in 1910, Jcad ores produced 0,123.523 ounces, copper ores. 2.030,909 ounces, and lead-slnc lead-slnc ores. 1,22$. 398 ounces." |