Show BINGHAM'S FIRST BILLION r fir a N M X M Perl of Main Street r w Bingham M Q t tS S t w wt t Underground at Nid are Mine A By 81 J J. J A A. A INGOLS 6 U TIM probably Will was th thE J JIM I Arai white man ruan to see lee what hJ h Ii J now the raining mining camp o ol 01 f This Thin pioneer tr trapper and and i scout l le I. credited with the discovery of Or treat at Suit Salt lake hake In III 1825 1826 PresumAbly Ably be bp looked upon the tree clod mountains to tin tile south which con con- cal d fabulous wealth In gold coM silver lead and copper then un suspected d. d No more did the same seas c ot suggest mineral mineraI to Young and his ilia band of hard hardy pl Detri n when they thu emerged front from Emigration canyon canon on Jul July 21 2 HIT lIn What attracted them was Ih the hl w wealth of ot timber available fo for forIon r logs loge sad and lumber The Idea of underground un came caDle first lint to Oen lien Patrick K JC Connor ConDor and hie hI soldier at Fort Tort Douglas Dougl In 1862 Earl Early IB In 1161 un George D. D e picked up a piece of float which h b h. h took to den Oen Connor It prove proved d to te be lead ore Sept IT 17 1863 1883 O 0 Oe B. B Connor Dill Bill Hickman and 23 U otla other located the round ground as th the s Jordan Lode The district Will wai e christened West Welt Mountain from Iron h the Indian name Transient nt miners began washing free tr gold lold In 1861 1864 and andIn In the net next t n years yean recovered It U la le estimated ecU esti mated a a million dollars worth orth Tb The e Jardin to J J. J W. W Kerr ae and d aldore Morris who built a smelter i then In 1876 to I. I E K 1 Holden o othe of f the United States State Mining Co au and d eventually In 1905 1906 to the United Unite d States Statu Smelting Min Idle Mining lag ing Co This with other gives 1 the U U. S. S company th the e largest area and end the largest largest pr 1 pro ro o- o of lead silver In th the I Bingham mind and adjacent lark Urk dis db Copper destined to be the dominant dom leant metal of the camp was no not t recognized recognised until 1868 when a carload carload car load was wai shipped to b by Y Wal Walker u Dros Bross Bros and It was wu of o no IIO o commercial Importance Im until after atte r If 1907 1101 07 when concentration on a large laru e scale was wai Introduced Including copper production fro from m 1883 1183 to 1930 1936 I U Is calculated calculate l r rat at tons toOl of or ore are worth wort b The lareau of Mines a la to 1933 counted 33 53 producing mines s la I. the district Samuel New Newhouse house was WAI promoting leg ing the Highland Ho cloy as 1 a got gold goldmine d mine In 1893 1895 Copper in the or ore e Interfered with Newhouse Newhouse New New- house wa was In l Denver nYer raising mane mone money r for tor payrolls payroll when his hll dent deal Thomas Thomaa Weir wired him that tha thatIS t IS 18 percent copper ore had haul been bee n opened The Utah Consolidated Mining t Co was 1111 formed I It took over tD the e i i Highland Boy Hoy Yampa and other I groups In 1899 the Yampa smelt smelt- I i i l er of tour tons capacity rapacity was WAI put InI in I operation continuing until 1923 1 i j Alter After litigation with the Utah Utah Apex Apex which terminated In la favor of the ills I Apex the Utah Consolidated passed to the tho International Smelting Co and was Willi operated as aa the tho Utah Utah- Delaware Mining Co The Utah Apex by shaft and has attained n a depth of or feet This Is the lowest depth reach reached Id I'd by any mine In the state elate The Utah Metals Metal Mining Tunnel Co of today Is II the result of consolidations con and ancl purchases It I Is south louth of the Utah Its ground has baa been mined for SO 10 years yearl and several leveral large bodies of silver silver- lead ore have bave been developed and I sloped eloped by uY It The main outlet from the Lark or southern louthern end endor of or the camp came Is the Ma Mascotte cotte tunnel to which world world wide attention was attracted by the practice of the tho Ohio Copper Co Ca In la leaching copper cop per from the beds bed and draining the solutions through the tunnel Transportation has haa kept pace with the growth of liens Horse and aerial tramway narrow gauge railways and then Standard gauge lines succeeded one another soother la In 1911 the Bingham Garfield railroad rail road connected the various mines mints with the Western Pacific racille During the last lut 72 73 years yearl It U Is 18 estimated has been pall paid for labor by the deep mining companies of the district This does doel not Include the millions spent on ou miles tulles of at u underground avenues which had to be opened ore ore c could could-be Be nest ed Where did all oil this money go goT The miners being misers miners spent It SH It it went Into circulation From retailer to wholesaler wholesaler to producer producer pro pro- ducer ducat It rolled with frequent deductions deductions de do for taxes One should count also allO the tho millions million diverted to Industry through the purchase of or mining machinery equipment and supplies Bingham has haa bat battled lied ceaselessly to commercialize l lower and lower grades of ore Up to 1895 1695 the ore mined underground averaged about 47 17 a ton Now the average la II nearer 10 Science dares darel not re ro rolax relax lax Us Its struggle for lower costs It has lIu to compete with the autocratic labor control l of or Hussla the black block labor abor of Africa and the tho peon labor of South America It U needs need every rick trick the the superior ol or American labor th the best beat skill of of American technicians technician and moderation modera lion tion of the tax tux burden which threatens tho low grade mines with extinction and end the American miner with a lower loner standard of ot living I |