Show I Bingham Moving the Earth Editors Excursion to the Camp of Steam Shovels Big Mines and ic Hustling Men seen and she If conquered I had always Led that Bingham was just mining But ELlam moves the earth at the Wol over THREE HUNDRED fL um THOUSAND TONS Eg Some mining speak of Bingham Efer speaks of anything under thousand Bingham shy on music pj hut she is on the sifting out the and gathering together the liberal is steep and with narrow streets and small wooden but she has a good a highly and liberal Commercial and many hust ling business Bingham is very liberal in granting saloon There are over forty thirst parlors and a great plenty of gambling depots in that hustling T did not learn whether the American party had a stockade there or but four Out of every five that you meet in are from the lower strata of the people of And yet with all of her gambling and we were informed by Ted editor of the Bingham Press that there was a smaller percentage of drunkenness and arrests in Bingham than in any other city in the The State Association of Editors held their quarterly meeting at Bingham this Through the kindness of Benton of the Rio and Western R. in granting the editor of the Utah Independent a he did not have to There were many other that Benton kept from W. H. Capwell of the Times had a little and he showed nerve over Benton by walking up to the depot window and planking down for his Such arc at Bingham promptly on time and were met at the depot by Ted who conducted us to his Holman was smoking a and one of the Bingham doctors told the ladies in the party that the reason Holman smoked a pipe was because expensive cigars made his tongue The Press Bulletin office is well arranged and well supplied with working The editor's sanctum had a neat roll-top an electric drop light the editor uses in burning the midnight lightning in writing his and anti-prohibition there was also a long pair of shears on the We were next escorted to the home of the Bingham Commercial We were ushered into a large reception furnished with Smyrna easy and a large writing table with good There were plenty of books and papers and the walls were decorated with pictures illustrating the wonders of In an adjoining room were several large rectangular tables covered with green The tables had a rubber fence around the top and on the tables were some china balls and some long hickory flail handles to poke the halls around In another room was a store with a very high Behind the counter shelves filled with glass bottles containing In front of the counter hung two towels behind the counter stood the clerk in his shirt and he wore a long white The clerk was a kind and courteous who appeared to understand what was wanted of After the guests were seated in the first-mentioned Parley president of the State Editorial called the meeting to He introduced P. president of the Commercial who in a very pleasing- manner gave us a hearty The next speaker was Mayor Quillen was short on words but long on He gave us the keys to the town and ns to help ourselves to everything in including the police The speech of the day was given by in a clear and concise astonished us by telling of wonders and possibilities of the Bingham mining One of his statements was that Bingham had larger railroad more and shipped out more freight than Salt Lake Bingham's monthly pay-roll from all sources is per Leroy editor of the stated that inventive genius of man in printing- machinery had deteriorated the artistic qualities of the modern or words to that Armstrong forgot to state that the Herald-Republican had the largest circulation of any daily in and that its books were open for I. E. editor of the Mammoth made a report of his trip through Alaska this summer as a delegate of the National Press His talk was quite but very then announced that he had Just received a telephone message from D. C. that at 1 p. m. he would turn over the entire Utah Company's workings to minus the powder and After tendering a vote of thanks to the Bingham Commer- cial Ted Jackling and others who had contributed to our comfort and we Holman and Inglesby then escorted us to the and hostelry of good We were ushered into a large and spacious dining with tables loaded with the good things of the Let me remark right here that when an editor does have a chance to get a square meal he makes the most of his We all ate and did ourselves up to the collar Two large comfortable sight-seeing wagons and two Jehu drivers were waiting for us at the Holman was the guide and orator one while Inglesby padded our skulls with Bingham information in the It was a great The wonders of Bingham cannot be described on If you desire to see a mining camp that handles more ore and than any other copper camp in the then go to Mountains of-earth are moved there daily by scores of leviathan steam Aerial hundreds of feet above our are more wonderful than the hanging gardens of Babylon in the days of The hundreds of filled with coming and going so far above our were hire immense soaring above the Great search-lights are placed high upon the sides of the mountain to drive away the darkness of so that men can see to operate the mighty steam shovels from sun to The Commercial Club has published a large and beautifully book of Bingham It is so large and it cost so much that the club is obliged to charge one dollar per copy for If you desire to know about this great camp and educate your children concerning a portion of Utah's great mineral send for a copy of that Two went into 9 store to buy They weW shown a in the crown of was a piece of looking asked what that was for the who buys the hat to see how it I |