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Show II, GREAT MINES OF UTAH M i , : Bingham, Park City, Alta, Tintic, II Beaver county and Mercur arc all in , the best physical condition, and after ft ! having taken hundreds of millions of J dollars worth of precious metals from lj ' the mountains of Utah, there is more ijjlj and richer ore being mined this year jj' than in any preceding year. Copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc and I coal arc coming into the Salt Lake I City markets by the trainloads, and jj ' the great smelting plants in the valley are converting the metals to a com- I mercial basis, and giving employment I to thousands of both the skilled and I unskilled laborers. I Reduction Works. 1 Great reduction works have been I built and arc being successfully oper- I atcd in several of the camps from 1 which this ore is coming, and since ; J the r-dvent of the present year two of i the most modern mill plants in the world have been built and are in com- I mission on the shores of Great Salt Lake From these plants the low- i grade product is converted into a j concentrate which is placed in J the great furnaces of the Garfield Smelting company's plant and made ready for the refineries. Salt Lnkc City has become the great mining center of the United States, Canada and Mexico, and as a result some of the largest machinery houses arc located here, and the camps of every section arc provided with ever article in the mining line. Time was when some of the large centers, which were provided with better railroad rail-road facilities, furnished almost all of the mining equipment, but this day has passed, and whenever anything in the mining line is needed the orders arc sent direct to this city. All of the large manufacturers have branch houses or special agents here, and the railroads make special effort to get the contracts for hauling rain-loads rain-loads of mining equipment to Utah for distribution into Nevada, California, Califor-nia, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. A number of new inventions have been made by mining engineers who arc operating in the Utah fields, and some manufacturing is being done here. That this will in time rcsu't in the building up of big factories in Salt Lake City is assured, and some ----- - - - - ... - of the mining men who have amassed fortunes are investing this surplus in these new enterprises. Murray Smelters. At Murray is situated the silver-lead silver-lead smelting plant of the American Smelting and Refining company, which handles from 1000 to 1200 tons of ore daily. At the new Garfield plant, owned by this corporation, between 1000 and 1500 tons or ore is being handled daily. The United States Smelting, Refining Refin-ing and Mining company's plant at Bingham Junction, and the Bingham Consolidated and Utah Consolidated plants at this point arc all immense plants. They have been taxed to the fullest capacity, with ore stacked up in the yards sufficient to keep the great furnaces employed for a long period in case any emergency should arise in the matter of transportation or otherwise. The Yampa smelting plant at Bingham has an abundance of ore from its own mine to keep it running at full capacity for an indefinite in-definite period. Wlith all of these smelters in successful suc-cessful operation in the valley the tonnage from the mines cannot be properly handled, and besides some enlargement of the present plants, new smelters arc being planned Sites have already been purchased by the Utah Consolidated and the great coalition of interests that has been formed with F. Augustus Heinzc at the head. New Heinze Smelter. The new Heinzc smelter is to be the largest plant of its kind in the State It will have a daily capacity of 3000 tons, giving the mine owners a quicker quick-er settlement for the ores that are con- ; signed to this market, and facilitating the smelting industry of Utah. ( In addition to the two new smelters that arc assured, a local company is preparing to install a plant in the valley, val-ley, which has many new inventions for handling ores, and which has demonstrated dem-onstrated its superiority over other plants now in existence. This new A company will erect an immense plant it is asserted, and with this and other improvements facilities will be provided pro-vided for the treating of all Utah ores, as well as those from surrounding surround-ing States that arc consigned to the local market. Through the smelting branch of this one great industry alone more than 5000 persons arc employed, and with the increasing of the plants now in operation, and the building of new ones already planned, there will be from 10,000 to 15,000 men employed near tlic city. Tintic's Big Advance. From every mining district come favorable fa-vorable reports of new mines that arc being developed. Tintic has made advances ad-vances since the first' of the present year nothing short of marvelous. Several Sev-eral dividends have been added to the jk long list of bread-winning mines from that belt, and indications point strongly strong-ly toward other mining properties being be-ing in shape to begin successful careers car-eers of production within a very short time. Beck Tunnel, Colorado, Lower Mammoth, Uncle Sam and May Day have been added to the old-time string of favorites in the divident-paying division di-vision from Tintic, which is long to be remembered as the home of the Centennial Eureka, Gemini, Bullion 1 te Beck, Mhmnioth, Grand Central and many others of this class. Silver King. In the Park City district improve- : ments have been made in the ore re- I serves of the old mines that have been in the list of money makers for a num- ', bcr of years. Possibly the most grati- Ifying progress has been made by the Silver King company, which was reorganized re-organized this year and has acquired additional territory. The old Wood-side, Wood-side, Kcarns-Keith, St. Louis and Magi'olia properties, as well as some of the lesser possessions, were taken over by this corporation. Since the reorganization the output of the Silver King Coalition Mines company, as it is now known, is the largest of any of the mines of that section with the prospects most flattering flat-tering for increased shipments from time to time as the ground is more extensively explored. The progress in draining the old Ontario has not been quite so great as the Bamberger household had hoped for, and thus far the ore taken J out of that territory is confined to the V levels above the water. These pent- '; up waters have also retarded the de- veloi.ment work in both the Daly and Daly West mines, which arc controlled con-trolled by the Bamberger syndicate. i At Alta. That the great ore zone of the Park ' City diggings extends to the Alta dig- gings has been the theory of experts for many years, and that this opinion has been verified is shown by the rc- j suit of the development of a number of the mines of Alta. Tony Jacobson I -"x 's one of the younger generation of mining men who went into that region several years ago, and has since placed two propositions in the producing class, the Columbus mines, one of which has entered the dividend-payers division. In addition to this he has three other properties on which he is doing a good deal of work and ". before another year these will prob- ably be added to the producers from i that section. Fred Price is the owner of a pro- pcrty at Alta which has passed bc-" bc-" yond the era of a prospect. It has ( produced quantities of rich ore al ready and when the new machinery ; and appliances being now put in .begin work it will be one of the biggest producing properties in the state. Mountains of high grade ore arc in sight only waiting to be taken out. It means a fortune for Mr. Price. Other properties in the Alta camp arc promising .mining propositions, including the City Rocks, which is shipping considerable ore this season, sea-son, and more than paying its own way. The Emma is another of the properties in Alta that is so located that it will be a source of disappointment disappoint-ment to a number of mining engineers if it docs not prove to be a mine of considerable magnitude, as it has among its officials some of the biggest big-gest mining men in the country. Continuing over to the American Fork region, several mines have been located and arc sending a fine production produc-tion to the market. This is one of the sections that will have to be provided with something better in the transportation trans-portation line before the mines can be successfully worked in the summer as well as in the winter season. It is planned to have an immense tunnel to intercept the ore bodies in that region, as well as to provide an outlet out-let for the rich deposits that arc too far from the railroad loading stations at ptescnt. Mercur District. In the Mercur district, formerly known as the old Camp Floyd, there arc several of the old gold producers that arc soon to be rejuvenated as a result of the discovery of a new treatment treat-ment for the low-grade ores. This process has been given a tryout, with results that showed almost every particle of the values being be-ing saved. The management of the Consolidated Mbrcur mines has done more for the camp than any of the other operators in that section, and its patience has been rewarded by lhe receipt of something like $3,500,000 in dividends. Mercur is not the only gold-producing camp in Utah, for in the Gold Mountain, Mount Baldy and Park valk'y sections, there are mining properties pro-perties that are being worked. Some of these have already reached the stage when money is being taken from the product in sufficient quantities quanti-ties to insure the payment of dividends divi-dends o shareholders after all operating oper-ating expenses have been paid. Such sections as the Deep Creek country arc among the possibilities of Utah's coming mineral-producing area. This is one of the southern mineral belts, whose merit has been proven, and yet it is handicapped for the lack of proper railroad facilities. Before the close of the present year it will be tapped by the great Western West-ern Pacific that is building to the coast from this city. When completed complet-ed this road will afford the means with which the mineral-producing country of that southern portion of the State can transport its ore to the home market in the valley. Beaver County Beaver county has been one of the greatest surprises of the season that began with last January. Here is where the great Ncwhousc mine is located. lo-cated. This unqucs'ionably has a greater tonnage of high-grade ores in sight than any other mine in the West. It has just started upon its career of dividend-paying by the distribution dis-tribution of a nice little purse of $300,000. In Beaver county also several sev-eral of the old-time dividend payers were discovered, and these mines are still in existence, as well as a number num-ber of others which arc coming into their career of usefulness. No more promising section of Utah is held out to the mining man than the various mountain ranges and valleys val-leys of that belt, in which metals appear ap-pear in so many places that it seems at times that the entire county would produce silver, lead, copper and old if properly developed. Bingham. Of all the mining sections of Utah there is none other to compare with Bingham, so far as the size of the ore bodies arc concerned. The millions of dollars worth of the low-grade copper cop-per metal that can be mined in that camp will probably make it the longest long-est lived proposition in this line that Utah can boast for a couple of generations gene-rations to conic. Fabulous sums have been expended in the tunneling of the ore rones in the mountains In Bing- ham district, as well as the tearing H down of the upper crust of earth in H order that the concentrating and high- H grade ores may be mined simultanc- H ously. H The Boston Consolidated, Utah H Copper, Bingham Consolidated, Ohio H Copper, Yampa, the properties of the H United States company, the Utah H Consolidated and others of this type H of in.'incnsc mines arc well known to H the mining public. These concrrns I hav? great acreages of mineral-bear- H ing territory that will be producing H ores when the present generation ot H children has passed over the great di- H vide, and some of these properties H will doubtless divide more money H each year among their shareholders H than is now declared by all of the H dividend payers of Utah. H 1 hat the mining industry of Utah I is still in its financy is the opinion of I every well-informed mining engineer, H and vhat the future will bring forth I cannot with any degree of accuracy) H be forecasted. That the improvement H will be greater than a great many have H calculated it is safe to wager. The H past performances of the mines of H Utah show conclusively that a won- dcrful career awaits the State and that H none of the resources of the inter- H mountain country will be greater than that of mining. H |