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Show UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIA TION BULLET IN mbined Metals Enterprise Blazing New Trails for Metal Industry Old Lage Bonneville level Portal Honerine Mine Flotation Plant Leaching Plant Orchard 160 acres Apples Acid Plant GENERAL VIEW OF COMBINE D METALS REDUCTIO N COMPANY , BAUER, UTAH METALS ILI.ILI....,UCTION co. Few mmmg e n terprises anywhere possess more interest. than that of the Combined Metals Reduction company, at Bauer, Utah, for here science, technical skill and money are cooperating to pioneer a process which will revolutioni ze the treatment of silverlead-zinc complex ores, permit the manufactu re of metal direct from a crude ore without roasting or smeltand return to the miner ten times complex ores rE>Nor is this The fea;t~re. en~rprtse repreentry of the National . Lead company into Utah ~nd intermou ntain mining. The resources o.i' this powerfully financed company an: enliste in a venture to found an indus try that will make profitable the exp loitation of large reserv8s of mineral not now a mendablf! tiJ treat ment, and push the present frontiers vi profitable mining back- to previOJi>· ly unattained h orizonf:l. The Combined Metals enterprise, which even in its present embryonic state reprl;sents an annual payroll of bc~an in 1913 with but five E. W. Clark, E. H. Sny>n ''u'''"• Frank Nichols and F. Snyder and Sons and Frank Nichols was organized to block out the orebody and develop suitable metallurgy . By 1923, this work had progressed to the point that the National Lead company was induced to take part in the developme nt of the patents and the Combined Metals Reduction company, owned jointly by the National Lead company and the Combined Metals, Inc., came into being. From the laboratory stage, the process evolved to the pilot plant stage. Construction of the present mill was begun in December, 1923, and treatment of ores by the flotation process started in May, 1924, making the Combined Metals' plant the first selective flotation mill in Utah. How rapidly the Bauer industry has grown and how well it has prospered may be judged by the fact that during 1925, the company produced 1,686 ounces of gold, 373,305 ounces of sil- with this improveme nt, but has its metallurgis ts constantly experiment ing in order that the margin of profit to the miner may be further augmented. Did space permit the telling of the whole story of the steps whereby ore is converted by the Combined Metals process direct into pure silver or lead in the same plant, without roasting or smelting, and all the intricate changes explained, a romance based on scientific data, and as enthralling as any ever written out of sheer fancy, would result. But suffice it to say that the crude ore is ground ninety per cent to minus 200 mesh, and leached in a hot acid brine. Cooling of the hot acid salt solution containing the mineral values precipitates the metal, and without roasting or chemical or electrical precipitatio n, a high-grade product is made. Fully as daring and as well-con· an expansion program to take care of ores other than those from its own mines. In solving the metallurgy of the complex lead-zinc ores from Pioche, it has been found that practically all lead-zinc sulphides are amenable to the same treatment. WESTERN TOOELE COUNTY By R. D. HALLADA Y County Commissio ner and Formerly of The Grantsville News. Grantsville , on · the west side of Tooele valley, is the chief farming and stockraisin g city of the county. It was established by Mormon pioneers sent there by President Brigham Young as early as 1850. Owing to the hostility of the Indians these settlers were compelled to leave but returned in 1851 and remained permanently. The climate is tempered by the Great Salt lake on the north and is 10 degrees cooler in the summer and 10 degrees warmer in the winter than any place in the north or central part of the state. Farm products of hay, grain, sugar beets, onions, fruits and many othe;rs are produced in commercia l quanti.PA?rwou.r " ' I !)24 B~Ti!JKr THI' ~K ec no IV OJ' THF C.H.'iR. ,.,#NT #T 61<Yt'R.l/TAN ties. Sugar beet tonnage of 30 tons our OF FORTY eRR$ 'oF C"OHP~t'X <>Ki!"S THIRTY /'(INE WEI'T ,0~ TRE,q7ME.Hr C"HARt;E$ ,q/YO TO #VJIT.ST.t.' ANO 7HI! MINER 01'/.Y ti(JT AWRY WITH TH/! V/ILI/i!"S IN OHii C4R! to the acre can be produced in any ,OR HIS JH/II'U. favorable year. \Vater for irrigation is obtained from North and South Willow creeks and supplemen ted by artesian wells in the eastern and Large northern parts of the city. herds of cattle and sheep are owned here and ranged in the mountains to the west and north. Excellent pasturage for dairy cattle is obtained on the lowlands between Grantsville and the shore of Great Salt lake. The further developmen t of the agON~Y TN/kTY uO TO WR.ST~ AND FO-f 7RL'-'1TMt.'NT CH/1kqi!".s 1'/ND Jl"L(CTII/t' /'10{/lJ/tJ/{ ricultural area of Grantsville is dependent upon the obtaining of additional water from Utah lake as that available at present is used to the utmost and no more land can be brought under in-igation from the present sources of supply. Fully 60,000 acres of land, that will produce any crop that can be raised in a temperate climate, lies in the vicinity of Grants/~..ft:J ville awaiting the United States de/'111'/ER Till FOIC TW~/'ITY our PULl WIU LEilfHIIYG 11/'ID cis ion as to its reclamation by water OKI:J rLOTATI0/'1 from Utah lake. Grantsville is divided into two ecTreatment of Complex Ores Has Done for the Miner. cleciastical wards of th~ L. D. S. church and fully 95% of the populaver, 8,666,000 pounds of lead, and 10,- ceived an undertakin g, fully as illus- tion belong to that denominati on. The What it trative of modern mining methods as 512,000 pounds o! zinc. is 1,300, has excellent grade means to the state and county can the company's pioneering into new population a four-year high school, and be estimated when it is known that metallurgic al fields, is the reopening schools, climate. Vital statishealthy very a the company is now producing each of the old Honorine mine by the Com- tics to June 1, 1926, show only three month $125,000 of metal and employ- bined Metals. This mine had long since January 1, of this year. ing an average of 200 men who are ago been given up as worked · out. deathsconsisted of two elderly women paid an aggregate of approxima tely Now officials of the company, in view Theyone infant, all occuring between and of recent discoveries and present pro$360,000 annually. 9th and 12th of April last. But the importance of the Combined duction, averaging fifty tons of mill theBurmester, six miles north of shipping of tons ore and eighty-five the lake shore, is the on , ore daily, bel1eve that but a small Grantsville .• Salt company, the Morton the of home part of the mine's real potentiality company in the salt Important most in has been exploited. New horizons country and a the of part western unexplored territory, new and both old Pacific Western the of point junction fissures in what was thought to be from obtained is salt The railway. worked out ground, have made it cer.' evapinto pumped and water lake the upon entering tain that i.he mine is a second and probably more produc- orating ponds where the salt is detive era than that of the past when posited and then harvested into large piles during the fall and winter $6,000,000 or more were mined. for the next year's use. From months build to plans also company The up an important by-product business. 60,00U to 100,000 tons are obtained It makes its own hydrochlor ic acid for in this manner each year and shipped leaching by a standard process, from to all points in the western part vf salt taken from Great Salt lake. An- the United States. Flux, a lime quarry, and Dolomite, hydrous sodium sulphate, used in the lime mill, are located six and nine a conmanufactur e of glass, paper, and i l e s, respectivel y, northwest of m also is stock for ditioning powders manufactur ed. Twenty tons of con- Grantsville and are operated by the centrated hydrochlor ic acid can be Utah Lime and Stone company of produced daily and seven tons of an- Salt Lake City. These, together with BU:rmester, furnish employmen t to a hydrous sodium sulphate. Operations at the Bauer plant are number of men during the entire year favored by situation. Water for all and preference is given to people havMetals Red1:1ction Company purposes is abundant. Common point ing their residence at Grantsville . The freight rates help to reduce costs. deposit of lime rock at these two vital more even Supplies used in the various processes quarries is of the finest quality and, is the of enterprise cent Metals' tion tha sixty-seven per company acid, coal and limestone- can in addition to the rock used at the the -salt, Before miner. the to sulphide. is <.>re th• Yita'• Conte ...._of The Gr eenwood Leasing company worked out its present processes, out all be &ecured from nearby original sugar factories and smelters, a very high grade of calcium lime is prosoon fou nd it had a large tonnage of of a gross value of forty dollars to points of supply. remarkable the duced. nding received miner Notwithsta the ore, was of ton product the The ore, but po market. Salduro, eighty-four mile.s west of too low m zinc for a zinc smelter, and but ninety cents or but two and one- strides the company has made during made only on the Victory high,way, has it Grantsville years, two ninety the last too high in zinc for a lead smelter. half per cent. and out of this a large plant built fOl ultimately of site should the what is of minhis beginning pay a to and had miner sulphide cents, the Association of the zinc Today, under improved develop into one of the state's largest the extraction of potash, salt ant the lead s ulphide was so intimate that ·ing costs. ordinary concentrati on methods were methods of treatment, the miner re- metal manufactu ring · enterprises . Re- other products from the water !yin~ ceives ten times as much or approx- sults of operations have been so fav- just under the surface of the Great valueless . Accordingl y, the Combined Metals, imately 25 per cent or $9.50 out of orable that the company is planning American desert. This vast expanse Inc., consisting of J. C. Jensen, an ore with a gross value of $40. Charles Read, Willard Scowcroft, W. However the company is not content .. .,. .· ' •. " of land contains untold wealth in the form of magnesium chloride and other chemicals, iri addition to the salt and potash. Magnesium chloride is being used in the manufactu re of a metal, claimed to be stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum. The UtahSalduro company has an immense tract of patented land located on and adjoining the salt beds. These beds of salt, from three to twelve feet deep, are about five miles wide and thirteen miles in length. Wendover, on the Utah-Neva da line, is a freight division point of the Western Pacific railway and the population is composed mostly of railway employees. It is also the junction point of the Gold Hill railway and the Western Pacific. - Ibapah section, better known as the Deep Creek valley, is situated in the ; vivid in the memories of men seventy or eighty years old. The Alvarado and Kane Springs were the two mines which produced the ore in ·those early days, and in recent years very eminent engineers from large cities of the United States have pronounced these old mines • worthy of further developmen t. The Western Copper mine is one of the largest in this section in recent years, its main product being high grade sulphide arsenic. Many tons have been mined and shipped for insecticide products, and it has been the chief support of the Gold Hill section. The United States Smelting andRefining company have also contributed a large tonnage to the arsenic trade They within t;be last three years. anc.l ore sulphide grade high also have .... .. Hydrochlor ic Acid Plant, Combined Metals Reduction Company extreme southwest corner of Tooe)e county. This valley is particularly adapted to stock raising and farming. The agricultura l portion is from two to four miles wide and about twenty miles long. Its water supply is ob ·tained from the Ibapah mountains. one of the highest ranges in Utah, the highest peak being about 12,270 feet. There are about 4,000 acres of pas tures and farming lands, the chief crops being hay, grain and potatoes . The climate is invigoratin g as the nights are always cool and during the hunting and fishing season many come from the large cities to hunt deer and grouse, and fish for trout in the clear streams. The Ibapah mountains form the east side of the valley and taper to the northward through the Clifton, Gold Hill and Dutch mountain ranges. The mining activities of the section center in and about Gold hill, the chief town of the western part of Tooele county, and the terminus of the Deep Creek railway from Wendover, 45 miles away. Gold Hill was named from the gold extracting smelter which was built there in very early days. Authentic informatio n Is not available at this writine-, but old settlers claim that many thousand tons of gold ore went through the smelter yearly and left in its wake a path of prosperity which is still their mine is also equipped with mollern machinery and commodiou s buildings. With the exception of the Palm er Gold mine, the main developmen ts lead to the belief that Gold Hill is destined to become a lead-silver camp. The Palmer mine, however, is a continual shipper of high grade gold ore; and other properties adjacent and surroundin g the Palmer Gold mine are being developed with the belief that there i.s also gold bearing veins of • high values on these properties. South of Gold Hill six or eight miles is the Clifton Mining district which is rich in silver and lead ores. The most promising properties and those that are being worked and d e veloped are the Oregon, Undine, The Federal, The Copper Queen, Th~ At th ! Monaca and the Cyclone. Cyclone new, modern machinery hu:; been installed to expedite the extraction and shipment of ore. Ore has been shipped from this property since the first of this year. To the north of Gold Hill is Dutch mountain, standing out in bold relief 8,000 feet high, with a geological formation that indicates that there are within those gigantic limestone beds, large and rich mineral deposits. The two properties in Dutch mountain that are attracting the attention of (Continued on page 4.) GREAT ORCHARD buyers come to bid on the Combined Metals' crop. The market is far in excess of production. It is probable that the fifteen thousand trees in this orchard will never produce enough to supply the ever-increa sing demand. Los Angeles and New York, Butte and New Orleans pay fancy prices for beautiful, wax-like, golden-hue d Banana apples with their carmine Jonothans, Winesaps and cheeks. Spitzenber gers from the Combined Metals' orchard grace the tables of some of the leading hotels from coa:st to coast. The small ten-year-ol d trees, like that shown in the accompan:t ing picture, produce seven bushels of extra As high as twenty fancy apples. bushels of selected fruit has been harvested and packed from the fourteen-year-o ld trees. An average of ten bushels to the tree means that the orchard produces about 200 railroad carloads of the best fruit. Tooele county enjoys the distinction of having the only commercia l orchard in Utah owned and operated as part Situated at of a mining property. the portal of the Honorine mine tunnel,' from which rushes a torrent of clear, cold water, is a 150 acre orchard. Drainage water from the mine irrigates the throngs of graceful apple trees during the warm, summer months. Tons of glowing, juicy fruit are marketed over the mine tracks. Few people in Utah outside of the big buyers for export trade know that the Combined Metals orchard is the largest and best tilled orchard in the state, producing quality fruit, packed and shipped under the hlghest grade brands to most of the large cities of the United States. Year after year, from near and far, ._ ·'!> ·..• . ,·. I ~· Bauer Orchard of the Combin.. d Metals l<'igur~ in the extreme 1<':'-t. of: the picture |