| Show GREAT MINING UNDERTAKING The papers chronicle the formation of the Utah Mines Iines Coalition which includes in its limits some somo of the tho chief great fissures at the head of Cottonwood and around tho the old camp of or Alta which gave up upI I millions in the tho early days and which its friends have 1 always believed held millions more in its grasp waiting wait alt ing for the nerve the thc mone money and the persistence necessary necessary nee essary to storm the mighty escarpment and to ch challenge challenge chal chal- l- l lenge Its tremendous depths This new company seems made up of the needed material to push a great enterprise to conclusion All AU the directors are famous in their respective fields and those who know them well are sure that if ii nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing is lacking but science energy perseverance crance courage courage courage cour cour- age and a fair amount of money to insure success the success will surely be realized All the presentations arc promising and then there are arc features about this property which escape the attention of careless lookers ers on Follow either of these veins for a few feet and then put the instruments upon it and take its bearings bearings bear bear- ear ear- ings and it will be seen that if it maintains its exact course for two and a half miles to the east it will merge with and become a part of or th famous Silver King ICing of Park City This was foretold thirl thirty years ago by Professor Clayton Then turn about and follow follow fol Lot low its strike the other way ay and the instrument will show that if it has a far off western terminus that thai terminus must be in the very yel-Y heart of old Bingham I Getting down closer and making a study of the I formations and it will be seen that at Alta Alia and in Bingham the tho formations are precisely alike and o of precisely the same age Before the steam dredge was wag thought of the glacier was in flow It is not impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible that below where here the sugar beet the potato and the peach are growing in tho the upper part of this valley a great bed of silver and lead and copper is waiting wailing for the miner of 1949 1049 All AU this us that sa save sae e for the imbecility which caused silver thirty five years ago this ground at Alta would long ago ngo have been heen explored j i with the fall of silver it was not possible for or the ores presented pre arc of exceedingly ed n l low grade There is just enough of values in ill the lead and silver sHyer with the tho present tariff on lead to leave a u small margin margin mar mar- gin gill of profit now under all the new and mighty appliances appliances appliances ances that have been brought to bear upon the mining mining mi mi- mi- mi ning fling and reduction of low v grade ores We think that hat perhaps the very cry best wn way isay to make clear to the I ways wars an and means committee of the house why the tariff should be retained on lead would be to in invite ite that hat committee to come comeS as S tho the guests of the Commercial Commercial Com Corn mercial club to Utah and amI give them with the exI cx- cx some object lessons of what it is to mine I and reduce low ow grade ores in Utah Give Ghe them one oneda da day daj at Bingham one lone at the smelters then take them themo to o Alta and show how them the nature of or the stupendous work about to be inaugurated there and then ask them hem how much money they would like to invest to tomake tomako tomako mako make that development even with th the tariff retained on lead W Wo We 0 fancy it would give them new ideas of how raw material from the mines is obtained for they would see that mechanics and chemistry and mathematics mathematics mathematics mathe mathe- matics and engineering have all been exhausted in making possible this production of raw material Steam electricity the thc forces of the air nil gravity arc are all enlisted to fight the gnomes the treacherous Water water wa- wa ter cr the air ail damp the altitude the jagged paths over which roads have haTe to be e built the avalanche a the heat hent and the cold and then when the fir first t sta stage e has been made comes tho the problem of reduction which though the he science of the old world had been struggling with it t for a a. thousand years it was found impotent for practical work when lien applied to the low grade ores of the United States We Ve think a visit of that committee committee com corn would convince tho the members in throe three days that hat there is a world here which the they do not understand understand under- under I stand tand anti antl a a. class of men whose accomplishments and I high ligh endeavors they cannot in a brief visit compre- compre hend |
