Show Gilsonite Story Told in iii New Nev Mining History A comprehensive history of Utah's mining industry is pre pre- presented presented for the first time Ume in a publication issued in connee- connee connection bon tion with Utah's Mining Cen Cen- Cen Centennial tennial 3 Utah is the only producer of that tha very versatile mineral gilsonite Edited and published by the Utah Historical Society the page book contains chap chap- chapters on each phase of the in In- In Industry including coal iron oil and gas copper lead and zinc and the precious metals uranium and the numerous It is amply illus illus- illustrated Illustrated with old time pictures The Mormon Pioneers In their systematic colonization of the Utah Territory follow follow- following ing their arrival of 1847 found and developed the min min- minerals minerals needed to support their isolated economy Iron coal limestone salt clays gypsum and lead were among the min min- minerals found and developed by those pioneers to the extent to their abilities and needs needs- THE MINING was done on ona ona a cooperative community bas basis is No claims were located no mining districts were or or- or organized or mining codes writ writ- written ten to regulate individual ownership and operations as was done in California in 1849 after the gold discover discover- les ies and in Nevada Idaho Colorado and the other western west west- western ern stat states s as mineral discoveries ries were made during the and Utah was unique in this cooperative type community mining Forin in Utah in its early development ment colonization was prime objective and development was subordinate e In other western states the location of the early mining discoveries dictated the loca of the camps and later towns and cities The Federal troops who were sent to the Salt Lake Valley under General Patrick Edward Connor in 1862 in in- included Californians ex man many in mining activity As military demands were very light General Connor encouraged the soldiers to prospect The discoveries made led to locating the first firstI I mining claim organizing the first mining district and writ writing ing of the first mining codes or regulations on September 17 1863 Commercial mining of the base and precious met metals als initiated by those actions was not a success however un until til the first transcontinental railroad was completed through ough Utah in 1869 I THE EARLY mineral dis dis- discover discoveries cover es by the Mormon pia pio-I pio and their cooperative community developments the discoveries and formalizing I of location rights codes and I claim recordings coupled 1 with the completion of the railroad in 1869 paved the way for a steady progressive 1 widening development of of Utah's misting industry to its impressive present day post I Lion tion A story told for the whole industry for the first time at the end of the first one hundred sears lears of commercial commer- commer commercial cial mining in Utah The Historical Society had been working toward articles I featuring mining but the Centennial offer Mining J year ed the opportunity to go all out and devote a full issue of their publication to broad cov coverage of the subject The au au- au authors thors of individual articles in in- in include clude Dr Leonard J Arring- Arring Arrington Arrington ton Professor at the Utah State University Dr ElRoy Nelson Vi Vice e President of First Security Corporation and formerly Director of the University of Utah Bureau of Economic and Business Re- Re Research Re search and Dr Osmond Lr L Harline the present Director of that Bureau 1 These and the other auth auth- authors ors had previously con been been con con- conducting ducting extensive research in their respective subjects subject The several chapters on Individual ual segments of the industry clearly portray how it has pro pro- progressed gressed over the years to its present impressive status Utah ranks high among the major producers of copper lead zinc gold slIver silver coal iron hon uranium oil and gas and has an impressive production tion record for the nonmetallic minerals Including ing gilsonite salt gypsum phosphate potash cement various clays etc President Abraham Lincoln propheticallY remarked in the early that Utah will yet become the treasure house of the nation The l book Ook Utah The Trea Treasure sure House of the Nation vividly portrays progress to- to toward toward ward that status tatus I |