| Show B. B Midsummer Meeting l i By Dy W W. P. P FP EPPERSON N Kaysville Reflex I The mIdsummer meeting of the Utah State Press association was held heldt t at Tooele Juno June 18 10 II and 20 and proved to be one of ot the most Instructive Instructive Instructive tive and pleasurable meetings ever held by the association I Most of or tho the party ma made e the tho Journey journey journey jour Jour- ney to the place of ot meeting by auto and no so perfect arc are Utah roads that the tri trip proved a ft real pleasure The rhe writer of ot these lines and his party arrived about half and hour lato Into Saturday morning the tho delay being caused by complying with tho the or orders ers ersI I on a sign board nailed n on a role pole planted in the middle of the highway highway high- high j way about half way between Salt Lake City and Tooele The sign read road 0 O 0 OI I CITY LIMITS I 1 i 1 15 5 Miles per Hour b 0 U O We Vc regretted being late but hut re rejoiced rejoiced re- re that there was one price place in Utah which was in line with the California California Cali Cali- fornia boosters who claim all the territory territory ter- ter between their own and neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- neighboring boring cities When wo we explained n nto as asto asto to the cause of oC our delay the tho mayor mayo r of Tooele said that ho he would see seo t tit to it that a II cipher would be added fo for r our especial benefit when wo we again came that way s On our arrival we found the tho caravan caravan cara- cara 1 van parked in front of oC the Transcript- Transcript Bulletin office and the full countenance countenance ance of ot Alex Dunn editor thereof f beamed an unalloyed welcome Soon I after aCter our arrival the procession was formed and a start was made for the mills milia and smelters of the International Smelting company The trip to the smelter some six M soles ules was rondo made at ata n a rate of speed d which justified the he removal of the tho limit sign board Loard Arriving at nt the tho smelter office the f cars were parked and the party was wall welcomed by Superintendent II 11 L. L Sackett and hi his fellow officials The the party was divided Jed into groups of aix dx which were personally conducted over the tho vast plant We will w not attempt attempt atI at at- I tempt to describe tho the mills and smelters smelters smelt smelt- ers which are fully de described cribe in the article on the first page of ot this sup sup- Suffice it to say that the machinery and methods employed in inthis inthis inthis this great plant or a series of ot plants lire are modern and up to The writer has a general knowledge of smelting melting and milling of ot precious and lind semi-precious semi ores but was wall not prepared for the great changes in treatment and handling bundling of oC ores or orthe ortho ortho tho the now methods of ot saving values which formerly went into Int the slag dump After Atter inspecting the plant and gaining gaining gain gain- ing a faint idea Idell of ot tho the great expense and labor of ot securing valuable metals from great oro ore masses the thc party were summoned to a feast In tho the company company company com com- pany dining room Superintendent Sackett ackett presided d at the table and proved himself the tho most agreeable of hosts We will not attempt to enumerate the thu food listed oil on the tho menu but butwill butwill will w say sar that if any of ot the good sub- sub and seasonable foods were lacking we failed to mentally note noto the absence The food was cooked in a most splendid manner and the tho service e was nil all that could be bo desired by the tho most discriminating After a further inspection during g which time the copper smelter wa was s visited tho the party returned to town n where the business meeting of ot tho the association association association as as- was held in the Strand then then- tie tic During this meeting the ladies ladie s of the tho party part were blin being entertained sd d with a picture nt lit the tho Ritz theatre After tho the business meeting which whit h HII J v u in lag ing and accepting the resignation of Secretary Porte who is scheduled to soon lIoon depart with his wife wiCe for a trip around tho the world and the tho temporary temporary appointment of James James II H. Wn Va Wallis li lie as temporary secretary and hearin hearing the report leport of President Will I P. P R. R Holmes Holmeson on his trip to toUho the International Press Foundation meeting which was held in Florida last winter the business meeting was adjourned to bo ho again convened at the Saltair pavilion ion the following evening The Banquet The final event of the day was the banquet in the amusement hall Here again was another feast largo large and varied in its variety of food and perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- served by Tooele's bobbed hair chiffon hosed and daintily shod daughters Here was spent the evening evening even even- ln ing of a n perfect day with music which thrilled inspired and soothed music which proved that the tho small towns of Utah possess young oung people of musical genius who sooner or later will be ho called out into the world worM Following Follow ollow ing is the program rendered at lit this banquet Musical prelude prelude Columbian Columbian BonTon DonTon Bon Bon- Ton Tun Orchestra A America America A Assemblage lagI Inti Introduction of ot Toastmaster Mat Matthew Mat Mat- thew Spiers Toastmaster Mot Remarks Remarks Harry Harry G. G Baker Maker Instrumental Selection Selection Columbine Columbian n Ton Hon Orchestra I Welcome to the Editors Peter Editors Peter M M. Clegg chairman count county commissioners commission commission- I ers rs of ot Tooele county I Response to Welcome Will Welcome Will R. R Holmes president Utah State Staw Press association Choral Selection Tooele Male Chorus two thirty male voices led by Joseph Stevens Address Address Address Hon George II Dern governor of Utah Choral Sele Selection Selection Tooele Tooele Male Chorus Thumb Nail Editorials John Editorials Johi l 1 E. E Jones Western Newspaper Union Karl S. S Kenton I Beaver Denver County News Auld Lang Syne Assemblage Syne Assemblage led by Mr 1 Redding Hedding In hi the Big Uig Orchard Nine o'clock Sunday morning again found the editorial party at the tho rendezvous ren ren- denous in front of the office of oC the Transcript Refreshed from flom sleep and breakfast in the homes of the citizens of Tooele had prepared them for another strenuous day of I entertainment full of ot information and education After a run lUn of oC six miles I I I up mo tue valley over a rono gina gina- i became almost a dugway the caravan hea headed ed down a steep step road toward a n large orchard on the floor of ot the tho valley vaHey This orchard proved to be the famous Bauer apple orchard an orchard of about one hundred I sixty acres and said to be bo the largest in Utah tah This 01 orchard chard Is ia located near the portal of ot the great mine one of the oldest mines in Utah It is claimed that the mine was discovered by the soldiers of oC Prices Price's army an and was first owned b by G General Connor and his 1 ates For lor years ears the mine was worked through h shafts shafts and much valuable mineral minerai extracted but finally water which could not be bo controlled at that time caused suspension of operations After many years ears owners owner of many adjoining ad ad- joining claims got ot together ether and ran I Ithe the tunnel through which the mine is isnow isnow isnow now drained draine and worked In draining the mine a II great body of oC water was encountered and to save this water to the company a water filing was made and a considerable body of oC land was purchased and water was assigned assigned assigned as as- signed to the land for irrigation atin In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way and in this way vay only could the water become the property of ot the mining company To hold it it was necessary to make beneficial use of ot it and to do this the orchard was es es- The party part was shown over the tho orchard of ot Charles L. L Crockwell manager of or the tho Bullion Coalition company company com corn pany and manager of ot the orchard an and d farm lands of ot the company It i isaid is s said that this Is the only commercial orchard in the world belonging to a mining company Mill and Mine 1 From the orchard the party was guided d to the mill of the Combined Metals Reduction company the officers of the company received the party The story of this company and its mill will be found on page 2 of oC this supplement At the mill those who desired to enter and make the trip into the great Honerine mine now as we understand it under lease to the Combined Metals 1 Reduction company were provided with suitable clothing caps cups and carbide lamps loaded into horse-drawn horse mine cars anti started into the mine The party was in charge of Mine 1 Superintendent I i W. W A. A Youn Young and there were forty in inthe inthe inthe the party half of whom were ladies For two miles and a half the tho party penetrated the mountain and the way was as made pl pleasant by y the novelty of oC the scene pointed jokes remarks and singing As the party passed pass into the bowels of t the Ie great reat mountain their thel cars drawn by patient plodding horses horse the tunnels and slopes echoed with the songs of the happy free care-free party and it must be recorded l that i there were many ninny good voices in that party and the songs sung were those which have been ben favorites fa with the people for generations At last the party arrived at nt the farthermost farthermost farthermost farther farther- most en end enu of the woi workings kings in virgin ground 1200 feet below the surface and at the collar of n a shaft which reached COO feet further into the earth Back nack in a slope stood n a hoistIng hoistIng hoisting hoist- hoist Ing engine and an air compressor and the hoist was bringing up great buck buckets ets eta of rich lead and silver ore from the tho shaft l For or the pas past three m months this rich ore has been coming out of tho the shaft and 1111 as soon as the present nt deposit is exhausted exhaust d another just like it and as rich is rend ready for mining After viewing and handling this rich ore the return journey was commenced commenced com com- and finally after an absence of oC three hours the party journeyed back into the brilliant blinding sun sun- light Another Dinner It was a dirty disheveled party that sat down to another of those great repasts which was a n marked feature of this meeting Abundant and delicious were the viands placed before the famished party Oh Boy Doy how they did stow it away Even the daintiest flapper in the party made a consumption record E. E I P. P Evans vans din din- ing room steward for the company was in charge of the gastronomic contest contest contest con con- test and saw to it that the most ravenous ravenous ravenous enous member of the party was filled to capacity From the mine and mill in inspection of the Combined Metals 1 Reduction company the party was as headed back to Tooele Tooele- where after a short stop for Cor gathering up baggage and personal person person- al belongings the journey to Saltair was taken up At Saltair At Saltair the New Saltair another and final banquet provided by the joint Relief Societies of Tooele was spread in the new picnic bowery of the pavilion All declared they were not hungry nor had they any right to be but when seated at table and confronted confronted con con- fronted with home fried chicken an and andall andall d all the other good things which go with that delectable delicacy hunger hunge r came ame and there were not many scraps left for the sea gulls And thus end ended d another perfect day the last of the meeting and the scribes got into their cars too full for utterance and went their several ways was and we hope finally arrived safe saCe and sound at their widely scattered scattered scat- scat homes We e Learned Something t. The Tooele meeting opened another chapter of the greatness of or Utah smelting and mining industry to most of oC the editors They know as never before Lefore the hazards of the industry both physically and fin financially The They feel that the mines are paying sufficient sufficient suf suf- tax they feel that the United States should pay a fair price for the metal in its cent silver dollar instead instead in in- stead of making a profit out of the miner and the mill owner Yes the editors learned much during this visit i to Tooele much of which you oU will i read about in this supplement and much that you will not read about Much can b bo learned that cannot be conveyed in words cannot be described de de- scribed it is that something which makes all men kin |
