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Show THE SMELTING INDUSMIN UTAH COMMERCIAL ORE 8MELTINQ CENTER OF UNITED STATES LOCATED IN SALT LAKE COUNTY. Prent Investment in Plants, Power Houses and Machinery Aggregate 12,250,000, Thousands of Men Being Employed in Their Operation. SMELTING: Salt Lake county la today the commercial ore smelting center of the United States. The mammoth plants at Tooele, Midvale, Murray and Garfield now employ an average of 2,470 men and pay them wages of $2,178,000. Their other running run-ning expenses, taxes and fixed charges char-ges annually double that amount, besides be-sides the distribution of dividends and the thousands spent for improvements improve-ments and up-to-date facilities for reducing re-ducing ores. Their present investment invest-ment in plants, power houses and machinery aggregates TWELVE MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, besides their large holdings in lands, mining claims and mines. The four plants have a combined treatment capacity (if 11,700 tons daily. The latest feature is the facility for treating low grade lead and zinc ores heretofore una- , vailable. This means a great deal to the state, as Utah now stands THIRD In the Union in the production of lead ores. Utah also stands second in production of silver, fourth as to copper and Blxth in gold. The total value of all ores smelted In this state in 1911 has been placed at $15,000,000. The output for 1912 is expected to exceed this amount. CONCENTRATING MILLS: The many concentrating mills in this state play a large part in handling the ores from the time they leave the mines. Most every large mine has its concentrator near by. Much of Utah's mineral output is of such a grade that it can be treated economically economi-cally at the smelters as it comes from the mines. Principal among these concentrators in the state are the great Magna and Arthur mills of the Utah Copper , company at Garfield, Gar-field, employing fourteen hundred sixty men; the plant of the Ohio Copper company at Lark, the United States Smelting company at Mid- ' vale, those of the Silver King, Daly West, Daly Judge, Ontario and Gar-sel.i Gar-sel.i at Park City; the cyanide mill of ie Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines company at Mercur; the Bingham-New Bingham-New Haven, the Redwing and Utah Apex at Bint'.am, and that of tve South Utah Mines company at New-house. New-house. There are many other similar simi-lar plants in the various mining districts dis-tricts of the state. It is estimated that these mills represent a total investment in-vestment of $9,745,000, that they employ em-ploy 2,510 men and carry a monthly payroll of $222,025. Salt Lake county coun-ty takes an enormous toll from this industry. Most of the output from the mines in the state come to this county for treatment at the smelters, thence the bullion is shipped eastward east-ward for refining. THE INTERNATIONAL: The International In-ternational Smelting & Refining company com-pany has completed its splendid new plant near Tooele. Not the largest in the state nor the greatest in capacity, capa-city, but modern in every appointment; appoint-ment; compact, thoroughly equipped built on economical lines and destined des-tined to play a large part in the future fu-ture development of the commercial smelting industry of the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain west. Its daily capacity for smelting copper ores is fifteen hundred hund-red tons, while the lead furnaces aandle five hundred additional tons per day. The mammoth chimney rising to a height of five hundred fifty feet and twenty-five feet wide at the j top and all buildings, are of brick j and steel construction. These with the smelting equipment cost THREE I MILLION DOLLARS. ! The company first opened its offi- ; ces in Salt Lake City early in 1909, , and on April 16th, ground was broken bro-ken Cor the plant. On July 2oth, 1910, Governor William Spry lighted the first fires under its five reverbe-ratory reverbe-ratory furnaces, four of which are now treating copper ores received from the mines of Utah, Nevada, ; Idaho and Montana. At present the : ores from the Bingham district are carried over the Oquirrh range to the plant by aerial tramway. The Tooele Valley Railroad connects with the Salt Lake Route at a distance dis-tance of about seven miles from the smelter and provides a means of transportation for tonnage to and from the plant, as' well as passenger service between the smelter and the old and new towns of Tooele. This railroad is owned and operated by the smelting comiianr (To be continued next week) |