Show HOW LEAD MINES FATHERED UTAH SMELTING I r n r 45 l' l I II F I u nn n By W. W H H. H EARDLEY V Mid Midvale vale Plant of States State S S. S R. R M. M Co Cc OT silver sliver not gold not pot copper Is la Utah's greatest ner nero Its prize product la Is lead hough you may be awed by the tonnage of copper from frome pe e camp you will wUl learn from care care- fly illy kept statistics that lead has It by 47 47 During the years from tram 1864 to 1935 1936 f ye ve e tons tone of lead was wal against tons of ot pe e red metal Lead ore cropping from the round gave eave the first Intimation bat at this might be a mineral minerai state nd lead mining gave birth to tile the rat t smelting operations here It as at in Deaver r county about four lies Hies northwest of ot the present site lite t f la the year 1858 at t the extraction and reduction t the metal began Isaac Grundy ad associates dug dun some ore from hat nat was called the mine ince named the Lincoln The lead lend the rock was Ideal material for to shoot Indians Melting out was the next task A crude mace was erected by Grundy Grund Uses Use se N N. N Smith Tarleton Lewis Lewi U 1 lIlliam Barton Darton It was WAI the first drat ng plant In ill Utah The Th ball having started the tie search for lead mines spread Soldiers under Gen Oen Patrick E E. Connor Connor Con nor discovered ore In Rush valley Mining called for smelting Almost as 81 fast as mines were found furnaces furn turn aces sprang up One of ot the earliest earliest earli earll est was built bunt near Stockton in 1864 It was purchased by 1 I. I S S. S Waterman Waterman Water Water- man in 1871 and Is said to have been operated successfully for tor a number of ot years Also in 1864 a second lead furnace was built at ot Stockton by the Rush Hush Valley Smelting Co formed by officers at Camp Douglas That summer and fall six ix other smelting furnaces were erected in and around Stock ton Some got no further than their trial runs By Dy IBM 1863 ore ora was being produced In Little Colton Cottonwood wood canyon southeast southeast south south- east of ot Salt Lake and the smelters followed locating usually In the vicinity of the city where water was WAI plentiful Lead strikes at Bingham further stimulated smelt smelt- er building In Salt Lake nile valley alley The first Arst to ship bullion was WAI the plant of Woodhull Bros Dro In September September Sep Sep- 1870 From 1870 to 1874 there was an epidemic of ot new plants and a steady growth In size and efficiency reflecting the development ot of new I ad mines minel Beaver Deaver county scene back of ot the first experiment came into the picture with smelters melten at Shaunty Springs and In I the late nineties with better belter transportation Wane trans many combinations and andI I consolidations took place Fewer and bigger plants were in order Mills were built buill to concentrate low low- grade ore are preparatory to smelting By Dr 1911 the dozens dozen of ot little plants had bad coagulated Into three major smelting companies The lead smelter of ot the American Smelting Refining Co was constructed constructed con con- at Murray in 1902 the plant of the United State estate S S. S R. R M M. at MIdvale In 1902 and that of ot the International Smelting Co at Tooele In 1911 Flotation is now used in the treatment of ot zinc lead ores by the U. U S. S S. S R R. R M M. M Co the International the Combined Metals Reduction Co at Bauer Dauer and the Silver SlIver King Coalition mill at Park City The merging of ot the smaller maller smelting companies Into larger ones made profitable the production production tion of ore thereto theretofore tore too low grade to mine and smelt and actually actually ac actually increased d the tb demand for workers This Is le confirmed by figures figures fig fig- ures compiled complied for December 1935 It places the number of tons of ore ora milled in zinc lead flotation plants at 2000 tons of ot charge treated at lead smelters tons ton of coke used at lead smelters tons tone of coal used at lead smelters 1553 gallons gallon of oil used at lead smelters smellers feet of ot gas gu used at lead smelters cost of supplies and equipment used paid railroads railroad for tor freight on products received and shipped men on payroll at lead smelters and lead lead- zinc flotation mills 1387 estimated number of men employed In Utah to produce fuel used by lead smelt- smelt ere era 93 estimated number of ot men employed in Utah to produce scrap Iron lime Ume sand and lime Ume rock used 45 estimated number of men employed employed em em- in Utah by railroads to handle freight In and out of lead smelters smellers and mills total number number num ber of ot men directly employed In la Utah to carry carryon on lead smelting opera operations lions 2080 estimated de do- dependents for each man employed 43 number of persons persona In Utah directly di dl dependent upon lead smeltIng smelting smelt melt Ing Assuming that the number employed employed em em- indirectly to raise foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs furnish heat heal light water and amusements amusement manufacture tU the goods good used and transport and distribute die dis tribute the commodities to the workers and their dependent families fam slice lUes is i. as AI great as the number directly di employed we may say that nearly ISOO persons In Utah depend de dr pend pond on the lead smelting industry for tor support And this does doe not Include include In in- clude the men employed at the I mines to produce the ore or treated I |