Show M I 1 mes ne S had a great greal year car utah mines pill close the year 1916 with a record breaking ore out put of gold silver copper lead and zinc having a total value of 0 about 97 as estimated by victor C heikes of the united states geo logical survey department of the interior this record an increate Inc reave of nearly 77 per cent or 42 over the output of 1915 all the metals showed increases Inc and there mere record outputs of copper lead and zinc about 14 tons of ore were mined in 1916 against 10 tons in 1915 the mines of bingham produced the larger part of this ore or nearly 13 tons mostly by steam a level mining this quantity in eludes about 12 tons of per phyra copper ore the output ot of which in 1915 amounted to 8 tons in all districts many of the old mine and tailing dumps were reworked or shipped directly to the smelters ore shipments from the diarist totaled about tons depre benting an increase ot of 36 per der cent over 1916 1015 the estimate includes a quantity of oxidized iron ore agn grater ater than that shipped in any pre previous ilous year caused by the demand ot of flux 4 W ak i 4 at the different smelters several thousand tons tells of ore and old duirk material that are not included in the estimate were milled in the district in tl the tle e cottonwood Cotton woo I 1 ind american fork ork districts over 47 tons ot of ore 0 of sapping prade was mas product I 1 in 1916 nearl nearly halt half the output mas hauled by wagon and tractor engines down big Cotton cottonwood mood canyon agvon to the valley nalley furnaces tre tle park city re t glon gion produced less milling oro ore and more ore of 0 shipping grade gr which with concentrates from three ore mills and two large tailing plant plants amounted to nearly 90 tona tons a decrease of about tons from the output of 1915 in ili 1916 two new mills were erected at 1 and Pew houe e in heaver counte to work tailing yielding copper lead and zinc concentrates concentrate 3 which etli the ore shipped from tho the different mines aggregate 1 6 5 0 0 0 tons tills Is an increase of more than 46 4 I 1 tons over 1416 it 15 the ore output in it toselo county principally at t r and tho the stocal ion ton camps inel d the smelter districts north nor ic c columbia DU dui way ai an I 1 arif lo 10 an a antel I 1 to ton th s jn I 1 c eluded the milling ore of the thea a and ild bullion coalition prop a continued on last pas mines had great year continued from page 1 I there was an increase of 14 tons of ore compared with 1915 some soule increase lu in gold and the gold output in utah shows a slight increase from 3 in 1915 to 3 in 1916 moat most of 0 the Ind increase rease Is probably derived f from rom copper oies a as s the gold pro districts were not very ac tive bull valley sheep rode rock an ali ne lauric laurie and west mercur mines each produced a little gold bullion tl TI e placer gold production in the state is negligible the production of silver sil ver is eight per cent greater increasing from 12 ounces in 1915 to 13 ounces in amounting to an increase in value of over 2 GOO among the silver mines the ontario was producing ore of ota shipping grade and a large increase may be made from the cottonwood d districts in the district sit 11 ver ores will benefit by the ing roasting process which was put in successful operation treating ore and old dump material from the e iron blossom dragon swansea and black jack mines precipitates containing high silver were produced and aver aged a car a month before the in creise cree cre ise of to tona tons in the roasting capacity of the plant copper lead I 1 ead and aine increases copper pio production n utah broke ill records increasing from pounds in 1915 to pounds in 1916 an increase of 29 9 per cent in quantity and over 33 in n value The gigantic operations b by steam shovel at the great porphyry copper mine of the utah copper company kept two railroad lines busy hauling an average of 31 tons of ore dally to its two concen faa I 1 ration mills at garfield 15 miles distant there are days nhen hen tho the ore hauled exceeded 40 tons at lark the ohio copper mill ed on low grade copper ores from its mine which was in the hands of lessees lead production also surpassed all former records increasing from pounds in 1915 to over pounds in 1916 the in crease amounting to about 7 per cent in quantity and over C 5 in value A large increase in the out put of lead was made from the mines of bingham the principal prodoc ers mere the utah apex united states highland boy new haven and dalton lark properties hs the P production ro of lead from the tintic gintic and park city districts will not be much greater than in 1916 prices for zinc zin continued high dur ing the early part of the year and much ore and concentrate containing the metal was marketed but the price broke in may and was low in june when hen a general ailing falling off ot of the pro was noticeable until the markets became settled altogether there mas ae produced about 29 pounds of metallic zinc by 39 producers against 24 pounds by 34 producers tn in 1915 the in III crease in value was nearly no new zinc districts were opened in 1916 and the largest de do posits ot of the higher grade ores were about depleted tn in several districts some spelter was recovered electro lyrically ally at one experimental plant and another was about to start at the end of the year its operators ex pecking to run it permanently all the smelting plants murray oar gar flold midvale and international were operating at full capacity the entire year dividends were mere paid by 22 92 mining companies amounting to about 24 34 as against 9 la in 1916 |