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Show DESERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY DECEMBER: 22 1917 riilt I rJ iS High Price of Metals Increases Value Form Big Merger of Output of Mines 35 Per Cent Of Bingham Properties V iii: . , the smelters of.Utah during th Tear. Equipped to handle an enormous tonnage there were time when the plant, to the vernacular of the street, douad theme tree up againet It and were not able to render the figures BOW available It appear practically certain that the required, service. Thin wat not due to FROM of Utah mines for the year 11! will hare a eaah value of near Illi.lOl.tOI as against a total of I1,1II,0M for tha lack of capacity but 1 accounted for from the fact that the long bard winyear lilt. ' This to a gain nearly St per cent, which to largely atter of a year ago caused a congestion tributable to the increased price of metals and not to a material increase at the mines and when shipments in the tonnage from the Various mines la 1910 sliver had an average j began tha ore came in such quantities is that the. plants were taxed to the! value for the year of .(St cents an ounce, while this year tha average utmost to take care of It-- Then again. .89 cent! copper tact year was figured at .tt cents a pound, while this Immediately following the declaration year It to .291 oeijkTs; lead In 91 was .Oil cents a pound against .9901 for of war labor troubles set In and these 1917, while sine last year was .14 cents a pound and this year It Is .917 for rendered tt extremely difficult cents. From these figures it will be seen that' the rise in value is due to smelting companies to secure the re , the improved metal market, all but xinc having made healthy advances over qulred help. The result was ah accumulation at 191. the various plants which was only While labor troubles hampered smelting plants to some extent there relieved by the declaring of embarwas no scarcity of or and all were kept at, full capacity during the year, goes, which shut out much of the ore in fact, at certain periods thereewaa wsslnore ora oo hand than they were and gava the smelting pleats sn opportunity to catch up. These embar-to able to handle and only Bow are they beginning to catch op. Kor a time, goes were charged by the Smelters especially during the months of June and July, when silver and lead had the railroads oo account of In reached almost historic heights, the m Inea poured la their product at an turn while the railroads - charged it op to the smelter with the enormous rate and some of tho plants bad to order the bars up, so to apeak, sufto keep tt out. Had It not been for this halt, brought about by the declaexplaaatios that they had not ficient men to do the work. Whichever ration of aa embargo, tho tonnage from the Various mines would have to right the fart remains that much been much greater than it is and the Increased value over 191 would have of the ore. except 1 hat needed for flux. reached probably 4 per cent ing, was turned down and the mine . had in. pile it up as beet they could Utahs Metal Contribution.. . ilia smelter let until sueh time Bines theECglnftlhg of mining In this state, which dates back to down the bars To some extent this condition exists at the present time, Utah's contribution to the worlds metal supply la practically $932, 0.690. many of the big mining companies Of this amount 191,006, 6 to gold, 1171,006.006 silver, 1160,066,060 copcomplaining that they are limited to a per, $10,006,600 lead, and $lt,006,666 sine and other metals. Among the - certain tonnage, beyond which the latter are arsenic and cadmium, produced bs the United States Smelting - smelting companies refuae to go. company, and figured in this and Iasi years reports.' While arsenic to now By a peculiar coincidence the ema period bringing as much as II cents n pound, the average for the year baa been bargo continued through - cents, while cadmium to quoted la New Tork at when silver and lead were at their about 1.4. vTbe foltn metal white the years, highest point lowing tables show the results of Utah mining for the years 11 and being well above a dollar an ounce, , while lead was quoted in the New Tork 1017: . . froOscdos Record fog 111. market at something better than lb cents a pound. When the embargo was Geld. 172.9110 ounces at $2071 $ 2.(74.04 It taken off, however, these metals had Silver. 11.281017 ounces at .051 cents.. 8.720 49 18 and those who .24 01 cents. (.107.804 dropped considerably Copper. 240,279,12 pounds at had been piling, up., ore. for the better Lead. 20L498.Q76 pounds, at .00$ cent 11,902.818 18 '1,962,71$ 75 figure were keenly disappointed and Zinc, 20,(72.(28 pounds at .114 declared they had lost many thousands 118,027 80 Arsenic, 1,117.120 pounds at .00 eents, ... , . of dollars as a result. ((.117.(0 Cadmium, 40,014 pounds at' $,1.40. American Smelting A Refining. 21 2(9.429.722 The American Smelting A Refining Production Record for 1017. company, aa far as output is concern,. 2,(47.20 81 ed. had one of the beet years In Its Gold. 17M00 ounce at 20 (711.. ounces at .8010 cents. 11.421.(29 (2 history, the Murray and Garfield plants Silver, 14.110.220 2918 274.842.547 cents 264.897. 05 90. st pounds .Copper, having more or for treatment than iliOM.MI paewto st. OM1 emta. . , 17,251.901 87 they could conveniently handle,. In Imd at-0917 2.845.088 00 Zinc, 21,680.000 eents,, MthOO pounds "aios common with other plants some diffi145.000.00 a Arsenic, 1,4(0.000 pounds at . 10 cents. culty was experienced in keeping an Cadmium. 51,(25.00 42,(00 pounds at $1.45... adequate working force, but the plants worried along a best they could and 2114.987,720.8 cloeed the year with a showing highly satisfactory to all parties concerned, of ere ready for treatment. Then again Is known as the Holt-Deroasting roiled States Smelling. the plant was seriously hampered on process and turns out the ore In the cars of and lack account mill of has The of form bullion. copper The United States smelting plant at shortage Midvale turned out a satisfactory ton- of coal, conditions which combined to handled during the year from 200 to nage during the year and contributed prevent its operation at anything like 250 tons of ore daily and the results have been highly satisfactory, the plant In no email way to the treatment of full capacity. The plant has five lead and five re- shipping about two cars of bullion a western-oreThis company enjoys a 0 wide patronage and draws from mines verberatory copper famaoee and , is month, valued all the way from to $40,009 a car. tn all parts of the country. It alec capable of handling a large tonnage. dose considerable mining on Us own The company employee about 1,000 reto sent to eastern Tha bullion account, being owner of properties at men under normal conditions and re. fineries where the contents are segreBingham and Tlntle aa well as In i' celvee or for treatment from eight gated. the gold and silver being taken camps outside the state. The company states, Utah, Idaho, Montana. Nevada, out It is hoped in the near future and I to now managed locally by L. D. An-- 1 Oregon, California. Illinois to so. the process of treatment of jdiana. The two latter states, however, as to perfect formerly superintendent this segregation render smelt era while C. E. Alien continues send only smelter products or ma at the plant. possible Indeed, experiments to terial from other plants whioh con- this end have been as manager of minea going on for some tain values and can he worked over time and it Is believed Tooele Smeller. that early at .r profit. in tha new year the Improvement will The International smelter located , Tlntie Milling Company. ' be put Into effect. The plant originally at the mouth of Pin canyon tn Tooal county, has bad only an ordinary year Among the custom plants figuring employed what was known as the process but this was although the first six months were re- In the treatment of Utah ore is that n aa For some time. of the Tlntle Milling company at Silver later Improved and became the garded satisfactory. the company had considerable dlffi-.Ci-ty which handles principally tha process This form' of treaton account of strikes the trouble put of the Knight mines, among them ment Is now being applied -- to the the I the Dragon Consolidated, Iron Blossom ores of the Cobalt district in Canada covering several weeks during aimmer when there was an abundance and Colorado. This plant employs what with highly gratifying results : Insuffi-cient'car- a, I tills ton. and the Keyall charges, M side stone tunnel which is Ur th of tha mountain for nearly a mUe, : th entire . is la or practically forha also endistance. Th Valentin countered or of remarkable richness i and th Tlewauko has several thouand sand feet of tunnels, cross-con raises, ail In paying milling ore. which work will be continued. due to tb unibtkn faltn It Utah daring th th untiring effort of W. E. put year,- and Lake City thst this of Hubbard there has bon none more to- i consolidation Balt baa at last been purport nt than the consolidation of ihs Hubbard about a year ago venous properties located adjacent to went to ths Hawaiian Islands where the Utah Copper property at Bing- - the succeeded in interesting a group ol Bingham, ham which have been token over bv capitalists in tb Montanathese eapl- ;Wrthin ,h, month, Ue Montana Bingham Consolidated headed by Robert W. Shingle, Trust Mining company. Th merger includes president of the Waterhouse tho property of th original Montana company, of Honolulu. John Watt, a Hawaiian eogar man; Major Bingham mine; th Valentine, which ; Wealthy Jorgensen, a prominent Honoj organnslner adjoins th Utah Copper holding and j,ulu and tunnel expert; C. O which owns the mineral rights under Baliantyna. manager of the Honolulu the town of Bingham; the Tiewaukee, Traction company, cams to Salt Lake mmatede burchm-- of w&ch has a racord of production of City hms tbouand upward! of $2,efreM Bamberger, eupplted adequate fund to finane tha completion of and of tons of nillinf or in ufbt; Wmpl ' the development of the vartoue the the famous Fortuna. formerly and took over the control of property of Gov. Simon Bamberger on Montanl E,nehim Consolidated. which there la now a hall mill with j th extensive Interests In flotation plant la active operation and Honolulu, Mr. Baliantyna took overnageraod general a fourth interest in th Elnrham the presidency of the company. He la now fh ship' whose property Amalgamated through Honolulu completing arrangements for rune th transportation' tunnel of the transferring his home to this city to assume th active management of tb Montana Bingham. company. The other official of the Hold Big Acreage- - . under the new arrangement The combined properties. Including oompany B Ecclea. of Ogden, of th 'Bingham Amalgamated. John Pingree. president of the City, 40 acres. 'Merchant bank of tot It take consist, of approximately It doe adjoining and clew. uyln, and W, E. Jorgensen Major te th Utah Copper company's ground, are the ether directors. The main work now being performall of th properties included In the development of the Mayconsolidation, have practically th ed is the vein by the same mineralisation a that which flower andendFortuna transportation tunnel drainage occurs In th world' greatest copper whkth ha been driven in th mounmine, except that the ora deposition tain from the Bingham side 5,800 feet, cut th Eddie, cfeeurw on tbs Montana Bingham! and whic.j has al and ' Congor Cleveland. Mannefay property in regular veins as well aa ledges. 11 of whi-enormous carry the era tonnage. The tuanel being disseminated throughout gives a depth on of the Mayof feet the 2.200 and .dip quartxit. porphyry and Fortuna veins where they Th Fortune vela to shipping to the flower -which exon and surface th cute Garfield smelter the richest copper, tend opthroughout the property. la dishim mined la th been enore ever Blnghadi these drifts native copper 0 of feet across a fac the and countered from concentrates trict and the assays have run from 1.04 to- $ per mill how to- operation run from 2 cent copper. Plans are also afoot for to 22 per cent copper. It ha shipped the erection of a large mill at tha virgin ora within th past few months mouth of the Bingham Canyca la . . that netted th company, after paying order to handle the ora. 14, 1- ............. ...... ......I ...... ...... ... ..... ......... ..... ....... . rn ut vu pa, J an. (n .. Ta7d - ,ii , Jo Jl city. It te treating about 1,200 tons daily at the lead Plant and 1,500 ton dally at th copper plant. This make a total dally treatment of 2.769 ton. The company is operating tb load furnaces at full capacity, and this has all been maintained practically through Iha year. The copper plant had to reduce its work mainly oa account of Its Inability to Occur sufficient coal to furmaintain all It reverberatory naces la continuous operation. At present only1 three of the five fur, naces are now treating ore Or to furnish the Tooele plant to from mine of coming principally Utah, Jfevada, California and Idaho. Most of the copper or being treated today to coming from Bingham. The Utah Consolidated tram Its or over the Oquirrh mountain down to th smelter which to only a few miles disThe Utah tance to tho northwest. Metal A Tunnel company to at present a heavy patron of the InternaPrince Consoltional smelter, Th idated has been shipping a large The Western Utah weekly tonnage Copper. tH blggesr shipper from the Qf Deep, Creek, send all new Ha copper ores to tho Tooele smel. ' ter. Has Big FayrolL The.Internatlonal Smelter company new has a payroll of about 2 100.000 a month. It to employing an army of abont 00 men. Most of the employees live at the new smelter town, or at Tooele city. The smelter to -- cp . 21.200 ounces. Lead, 24,040.000 pounds The Tooele plant is considered by smelting experts to be one' of thy moK complet In tho United States AL though It was first built for oopp, eras only. It was soon after starting, found' that the company was kutag much available lead business s. aoon after th five copper turnaa-we- ra in operation, the lead deuart ment was speedily built and baa hT, ,' a source of steady income ever sb Plan Well Equipped. Th plant embraces a mill, calcining- - plant, furnace, converter plant and verier bag house. What Is consiuwl ed a feature of the lead plant to Grossing department which is eon ! with kettles ped of 2) tarn great capacity each. Th lead after beta, dremed to siphoned from the kettlis into cast Iron mold from which h obtained bullion bare weighing s pounds each. Th here are loaded onto trucks and trammed overbou lion scales Into railroad cars fog .u,, ment to the refinery. The sintering machines ere of m. pacts! Interest to visitors te the anett. er. They are housed in a steel sad concrete building. Th Ingredients la th charge are conveyed by means of belt to th hoppers feeding th AisftHate fuet ig from a pressure tank service. supplied Th efficient management of tbs Tooele plant of the In tarnation U Smelting Co. has for yean been with William Wraith, general nianager. Bs has been ably assisted by o. X. Kucha, th superintendent ot tbs plant. The local bead office- h I the Kearns bonding. The officials of tb company am C. F. KePeyJ pMeident; W. D. Thnra- ton. secretary: D B Hennessey sad, treasurer. A. H. Melin. M k. tu hT, Ltoh the bi .bulb i uwr mine's past i wins gwai a : "rrefS: TJ - ? i it lead-silv- iTl unqf biagesi It has is i ess'm Mto..cxrtavp tu. stweam , triuute than $ - a Shari Vi Tea out of due dm veious sibiiiue ahi known lion. ( proper, aa oeai dreame him a Refmrn acquirei the mti this grt And; perlenci be mad his fins. CeL da Sineer. Coion dynamic a exp work of ho pro eeing, fa ing othi boa ney copper p I int ool Buyers ot a i el Gold, Silver, Lead and - , - - - to - Copper Ores ini Mattes, Bullions and Furnace Products , ' J " J Copper Plant at Garfieid, LJtahi Lead Plant at, Murray, Ctali Address all Communications ito C. General Manager VV. WHITNEY, add-tlon- s Room 714, McCornIck Block . A -- I'f Salt Lake Clty.Ufiii wb-a- SSSE" y bettor, laaden payers npe. W to have gold-silv- fef 1 pect a buck history aad inv ' ngh.lv I kaoaa SE igan-Uta- 1 lb per ' six-to- ? It with ! -- I yrvivlt 1 1 tr n haC" tali' et mater tent th heie ai Active located tn I During the past summer the number often went up to 150 men. Alta, was reorganized In K'V'IHB Bingham Mines company spring of 1915,. Very IHUel SttTSEpSST. 1 was done during the year 1111 wny, It Is then transported over the owns the Dalton 'A Lark and Commercial groups of mines except leasing in a small way. In tramway to Tanner's Flat. OK miles tt in is tb canyon below. CThence January, 1910, tha company, haring and controls the Yosemlte obtained some funds began to extend , hauled by .teams 2Vk miles to W-t- h Mines company's property at Bing Copper Prince tunnel north, and catch, tha easterly terminus of the 8. work has been continued en this tun--1 L. A Alta R. R. company. From that nel from that lima te this It baa .point tt la transferred by rail to the The Dalton A Lark irrottp hai been bean extended Into the mountain be- U. 8. Smelting company's plant at worked steadily throughout tha ydur. tween 1.700 and 1,200 feet. Many Midvato. laterals have been driven, including The railroad has been built from producing lead silver and copper crosscuts ets A crosscut was start- Wasatch to Alta by the Little Cotton- one. The Commercial has not been ed In the summer of III to the east wood Transportation company. A let .operated. Bu batontiai earnings were to murcept the Orlaly end LvlnUter from the uperiatendv-- f h that recorded for th Bingham properties In. Thw temporarily aban- - j company Informs Mich doosd to enable the eompanyto de- management thatthetb problems of nrihdTtorty tnouths of th jesrTuid velop a body of copper ore intercept- transportation has finally tb years net will be considered in the main tunnai. The latter ap- been solved. ItforIs Alta claimed that by ably In excess of 1910. The high pears to be a vast bed of magnetite using n cam n and powerful enIron ere carrying capper and geld val- gine and with a very slight reconstruc- earnings et the forepart of the year ues and with proper shipping f acui- tion of tbs road in three places that have not been maintained in the latties can be made to pay handsomely. the road can haul all the ore that can During the past summer the com- be produced In tb Alta camp. Along ter 'part, due to smelter embargoes and the lower price of lead together the crosscut to the the Una where anow slides ars pany . , . . extended iA Bt th 8 will be shedded; also! with existing shortage of labor. The riift snow plow, wilt be put on' results tn th whole, however, are htoh'Viu ZrJ wa tr lh road to keep the main part of the satisfactory. The outstanding bond , tsl!!Lnfnhi open during the winter. issues of the Bingham have been ene fromthis tirely cleaned up, and In addition the of has paid in dividends duris very satisfactory. company bdrember and December, ehould L amount drift habeen etartud JeceDtJ ing this year $117,500. the La-u- 0 igadoe OUnCeC Vt W1VCP( win ia flMIOM Ora W DCfS: Tha Toscmlte Minas company's, t ho'dir.gs are being prospected witn f . beg" striking sulphide ora which encouraging results, although It has to come in end th. face of the drift not yet been developed Into a steady I R? tb producer. 2 look fine and iti e expected that .' A1. TO.wlt!of ,lnC this will gradually widen in extent in uJiT... ratotUL Earnings the very near future. Large bodies of j In the Tlntie district the Bingham ore were also token from this part of ' property of the Michigan-Uta- h Mines company owns tha Victoria the vein 209 feet shove the present Pxten1 from Lake Solitude on the Big' which has bean operated t Cottonwood aide for two miles mine, working. nearly I ortrL the mountain te Alta on fut Hie year with satisfactory Lease Old Workings. th Lit-'- 1 through result Tha property produces a the' old working of Che mine in1 Cottonwood aide of the divide It ore and a dry ca,le1 th Solitede mostly lease, of which there ate une .n which SmrRer embargoes and thi product. Lake Solitude three principal ones, namely, the Tri- heajnal 7C0 feet. This is con- - lower price of lead have been a hanangle Muting company. The Pioneer ! lest few months of th Leaning company and grnest Kiel. ,H.nnel dicap the raU7l2Wft,!!.tt,o th earnings for the year. However, The ore extracted by the Pioneer the ton -will robably be in excess of Lessing company comes from the east cieav.. .J!Li to raise through the year a Increase over substantial $150,000. its on mouth the end of the property, and while th fis--l th previous year. j sure at that point is small, the ora' is Over 90 per cent of th Eagle A Michigan-Uta- h one tunnel of an excellent mri tk. Blue Bell, also located tn th Ttutlc district, is owned by the Bingham Mines company. This ropery bat each of whtrh Is several hundred feet been worked the entire year with ex In extent. TTien there la the and will good results, ceptionally Copper opened up what may prove tb be a Prince tunnel, described at the begin- probably close th years business j M bonanza on the top of the Patsy Mar-le- y of this . article with A net t peraling gain of abiui bill in a'drift run off from the old ning Prince to substantially all new Copper work. $500,000 as compared with $154,000 ( Patsy Marley shaft. Development for 191 A The Eagle A Blue Bell is reckoned to be on of th best lead In tha T:ntic .district. Con S producers LSS5J274"L,r-smeribl have been te j similar troubles. These trou- - Or reserves, and sn increasemade to to s fact in av-- . ! erase value has been noticeable. Ii Air Claim stti.Med'dn'nrar aTtm ,"n,PPM rrom ,h M'ehigan-Uta- h Following is the list of officials of ,n th d1reeTl"n a wlm"r L. GeBlngham Mines company: James nd nter m X P.. Graves, i esidei t. Boston: Th a 8. Woods, treasurer, Boston, a no I Imer Pelt, general manager. 8t.lt riy about too men 4 Lake City. ICH1GAN-UTA- ' - Bingham Mines - Properties Properties Michigan-Uta- h At build! aive l I New Ore Bodies Uncovered In opera ing tbs tt cessft 'reverb! American 1 ' leach. const; tftrougi out-cal- ty 'ill amou aoqul Gold, Holt-Der- H D the International about 2 mtleo southwest from But plant at Lsc and to near the Salt Lake Root! operating less which to connected by a abort ran. thah sight years d has grad- road running op to tho smelter st it, ually worked itself up until it to to- mouth of Pino canyon. Tho'l 317 production of tho To) day one of the leading Institutions of it kind In the west. It first fur- plant, with' December estimates. Was nace was blown on July 24. 1910. At as follows: present It la epersting only at about Copper, I (.2 10 000 pounds Silver, 4,250,000 pounds (0 per cent of its total copper capa- ALTHOUGH company's been a. il) .j 6 - sr $25.-00- t9b International Smelter Keeps Small Army of Men at Work 3 r |