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Show WHAT OTHERS SAID Many Midvalians attended the Galena Days celebration in Bingham Bing-ham this week, and all report that it was really a show worth going far'and wide to see. The Bingham boys certainly put on a swell icel-ebration icel-ebration and the town is gaining some mighty favorable publicity in the state through Galena Days. Midvale Sentinel The romantic old west returned return-ed to its own this week as the famous mining camp of Bingham rolled back the years and relived those days when prospectors wore beards and no gasoline taxes were paid on burros. The passing of time has seen the completion of seventy-eight years since ore was first discovered in Bingham Canyon. And during that period a prospector's first "find" has resulted re-sulted in the building of one of the nations great industries. Western Mineral Survey Efforts are made each year in many western communities to recapture re-capture in celebrations some of the spirit and color of important historical events and times. It is seldom these celebrations meet with the success that has come to Bingham this year in its observance ob-servance of Galena days. Salt Lake Telegram Galena Days, as observed by residents of Bingham, present colorful pictures of early times, primitive methods in mining, hardships endured and enjoyed by oldtimers of the west, against which the surrounding industrial plants of the present stand out in bewildering relief, showing progress pro-gress characteristic of this country coun-try and no other. Salt Lake Tribune |