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Show t : , :-,-.w ". J Lh 1. ET-C 1. A train of copper ore crossing Dry Creek Canyon en route via the Bingham & Garfield Railway from Bingham tc the large concentrating mills of the Utah Copper Company at Magna" and Arthur. 2. An ore train leaving the busy Bingham terminal of the Bingham & Garfield Railway. Utah Copper Company's mammoth mine in the background. 3. Bingham & Garfield Railway passenger train approaching ap-proaching Bingham, the greatest copper mining camp in the world. The great mine of the Utah Copper Company can be seen in the immediate background. 4. Electric tramway for use of patrons of the Bingham & Garfield Railway, which allows you to go from the Bingham Bing-ham & Garfield Railway depot to (he town of Bingham and v buck throughout the day. An elegant view of the great mine of the Utah Copper Company, as well as the whole town of Bingham, can- be had from the B. & G. depot grounds. TIME TABLE Trains Leave Salt Lake Route Union Station No. 109. No. 111. Lv. Salt Lake..; 7:45 a.m. Lv. Salt Lake ..3:15 p.m. Lv. Arthur ". 8:20 a.m. Lv. Arthur 3:50 p.m. Lv. Magna 8:24 a.m. Lv. Magna 3:54 p.m. Lv. Bacchus 8:33 a.m. Lv. Bacchus 4:03 p.m. Ar. Bingham 9:05 a.m. Ar. Bingham 4:35 p.m. No. 110. No. 112. Lv. Bingham 9:25 a.m. Lv. Bingham ..4:55 p.m. Lv. Bacchus 9:52 a.m. Lv. Bacchus 5:22 p.m. Lv. Magna 10:03 a.m. Lv. Magna . . : 5:33 p.m. Lv. Arthur 10:05 a.m. Lv. Arthur 5:35 p.m. Ar. Salt Lake 10:40 a.m. Ar. Salt Lake 6:10 p.m. Chief among the wonders of Utah is the high line of the Bingham & Garfield railway, which climbs the peaks to the southwest of Salt Lake City. Spreading before the tourists as they scale the heights in the well-equipped trains of this road are the Great Salt Lake, the beautiful Salt Lake valley, dotted with its cities, villages and hamlets, lakes and streams, Lake Utah, pretty scenes along the way and a magnificent view of the great Wasatch range of mountains. In passing along the way on the Bingham & Garfield railway, now the greatest scenic road in Utah, one rides close to Utah's inland sea Great Salt Lake past mills belonging to the Utah Copper Company and which arc the largest in the world, and then on up through the hills and valleys of the Oquirrh range to the oldest camp in Utah and the greatest mining camp in the world Bingham. Nature has endowed this railroad with .a wealth of scenery that cannot be found at any point on earth, and, in addition, carries car-ries one along the great artery of industry of the state, ending at the greatest mine in the world, where 75 per cent as much material mineral and waste-is waste-is handled each day as was handled by the myriads of workers on the Panama Pan-ama canal. Over the Bingham & Garfield railway each clay passes over 30,000 tons of ore and other freight, and the tourists have an opportunity of seeing some of the largest trains in the world. On account of the grade a heavy type of Mallet articulated compound locomotive is used. These engines are next to the largest that have ever been constructed. At the time the engines were Dp .: - :r-.. , .;. . .. ... .... .. ' l s f . ' ' ' - " - . ' ' I ' ! . ' 1 " ' U IV t 1 - - , - 1 f - . - - " ' -X ' - , - j ; " ; - ' V , V- ' -4 - v , : v- vV . "r.v. 1 .k built they were the most powerful ever designed. These engines are used exclusively ex-clusively in the hauling of freight. The engine and tender have a combined t weight of 650,000 pounds, with a weight on the driving wheels of 457,000 f pounds, and there are 16 drives. The total length over all tender and engine is 90 feet 6 inches, but, on account of the articulated feature, they c take the curves better and easier than the large consolidated type'.' The great r trainloads of ore are made up of steel cars. These ore cars have a capacity 6 of 120,000 pounds, with 10 per cent excess allowance for overloading. They r are the hopper bottom type, so that the ore can be dumped direct into the ore c bins at the mills at an almost inappreciable cost per ton for unloading. Besides the innumerable features that the road possesses from a commercial com-mercial and sightseeing point of view, the construction of the line shows some of the greatest engineering feats in the west. All have been worked out to 1 satisfaction, so that the trains glide along up the mountainside with the same ease that would be felt in riding over a prairie railroad. The work has cost as much per mile, if not more, than any other road in the state. Every effort has been made to make the line as short and straight as possible. In doing this some of the greatest bridges in the state were constructed and several tunnels were necessary. " The maximum grade on straight track is 2.5 per cent, or 132 feet in a j mile. The rate of grade is much lighter on the curves, on all sidings and tunnels. The average grade for the entire length is 2 per cent. The maxi- 1 mum degree of curvature is at Dry Fork, where there are two 10-degrce curves. The total length of the railroad is approximately 20 miles. c '-f k '- - , ' y i L -( .,-' ' f ' y s p r t Tx ' t y ' , ' U 4 - th ' J . , ., -S The total length of tunneling is 4795 feet, divided into four tunnels of he following lengths: 6S2, 754, 2079 and 1280 feet. These tunnels are 18 eet wide and 22 feet high above the top of the rails. There are three steel iaducts in Bingham canyon; one across Carr Fork, adjacent to the mine and ire yards of the Utah Copper Company, having a length of 690 feet and a uaximum height of 100 feet; one across Markham gulch, having a length of i40 feet and a maximum height of 225 feet, and another across Dry Fork, lear the old Copperton plant of the Utah Copper Company, having a length if 670 feet and a maximum height of 168 feet. j! The Bingham depot of the Bingham & Garfield railway is high up ibove the town of Bingham in Bingham canyon. To reach the town the ailroad has an electric tram that runs up and down the side of the hill for he purpose of carrying passengers. These tram cars are provided with seats md every convenience for the comfort of passengers. i From the depot a splendid view is afforded of the great mountain if copper ore that is beingeaten away by the Utah Copper Company. On its ide can be seen 27 terraces, or levels, up and down which ore trains tug md puff and 22 steam shovels are at work gouging out the mountainside, besides this there are thousands of men at work drilling and blasting, run-ling run-ling the trains and steam shovels and at other occupations. From this mine 10,000 tons of ore a day is sent to the market. At the same time an ex-:ellent ex-:ellent view of the mines in Carr Fork and Upper Bingham can be obtained |
