Show STRY i UTAH ORE SMELTING ETER TER OF STATES LOCATED IN SALT LAKE ft COUNTY I 1 lit investment in plants power ue uses and machinery aggregate thousands of men being err aloyed in their operation BELTING salt lake county la Is k the commercial ore smelting r of the I 1 acted states the laith plants at tooele thoele midvale ray ay and garfield now employ an so of 2470 men and pay them h 8 of aus 2 11 heir other run expenses taxes and fixed char annually double that amount be bt the distribution of dividends divi denas the thousands spent for improve ts and up to date facilities for ro ng ores aluir present invest t la a plants power hoies and chinery aggregates TWELVE LION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY USAND DOLLARS besides their a holdings in lands mining claims balte 1 i the four plants have hava boned treatment capacity 0 of 0 toni dail the latest feature aie e facility lor for treal theallas tre allas low grade aad and anc z nc ores heretofore una ible able th a means a great deal to stat state 33 1 I 1 tab tah now stands THIRK the be union in the production ot of ores itah also stands second ii rio of silver fourth as to er and sixth in gold the tota e cf of all ores smelted in mis tills state ill haa has he be n placed at 1 output for 1912 Is expected t ed this amount I 1 MILLS the 7 concentrating mills in this e play a large part in handling ores from the time they leave toe the es s most every large mine baa as concentrator near by much of ho 13 mineral output Is of such a de e that it can bo be treated econome ajr r at th tha smelters as it comes ra i the mines principal among se e concentrators in the state are great migna and arthur mills of altah copper company at gar employing fourteen hundred t men the plant of the ohio per company at lark the united tes 3 ng company at mide 1 tho 3 of the sliver silver king daly est t daly judge ontario and gar I 1 at park city the cyanide in 1 of consolidated IIer mercur cur gold mine pany at mercur the bingham v lla gaii n the redwing and utah ex i at bingham and that of tills uth A I 1 itah tah mines company at no new use ie there aro are many other plants plan in the various mining dis acts s of the aate it Is estimated at tee te tte e ellla represent a total in strew of 9 that they em OY 2510 men and carry a monthly itol ol 01 of salt lake coun takes an enormous toll from this du try na M st of ane output from e 1 in the state como come to this a i y f r t t fitment at ut the smelters shelters sm elters 0 1 t ullmon N 1 shipped cast ird 1 for ta V r 1 international T the in matt a riisa n 1 SOT king refining corn com f la its splendid new at nc tone a not tho the largest le e 6 nor liar ahr in capa ty lern lo 10 every appoint at a at t thoroughly equipped 11 t fn c lines and dos des d I 1 a laree larce part in tho the 7 ent of the commercial t u tra tr of tha the in V c r Is its dally capacity for 1 it i T r n r ores Is fifteen bund hund tj f r to 1 the lead learl furnaces 4 ft fi c hundred additional tone tons T a e mammoth chimney arg 5 I 1 c 9 it of five hundred fifty alc feet wide at tho the 1 I 1 u edings ario of brick luct tuc lon tion these with 11 1 if lament ment cost THREE 0 OLLARS T L A R az T v first opened its off I 1 A i I 1 ik city early in 1909 11 ground was brt 1 on sul july r spry lighted cuder its five reverie four of which ore are caper orea received 13 if s of utah nevada M litant at present the bingham district are the range to aerial tramway tha the railroad L ke route nt at a dl dis seven miles from 1 T otilde a means of 0 fr r tonnage to and t as its well OB as passenger 1 the smelter and ana the t ns of thoele this rd and operated by r f ra I 1 k 1 I F STATES con anted states smelting elting 1 na I 1 ling company Is op cip ly in utah it main inifi as na ass off ova ces in salt lake operates P centennial eureka and bullion it minon 1 in and old jordan N and nna telegraph Tee Teo graph mine anim am two vvo anille d i hugo sine ter at midvale Mid vule utah lau su as bas buelting su elting and rind ref refrains re flain lains ts at needles and kennett call annl at orar Grafel elli ll indiana and braine new jersey TY e un ted tates states smelting plant it midvale naj completed in 1902 t has coet cost MILLION DOL 5 for or improvement general equipment and has a ally colachy of twelve bundred ton tone it lead ores and eighteen hundred ns of copier copi er tires it handles a all ive ot of the matal antal ores taken from the nines of V ah though its il 0 at i resent kad and zinc the pi cent equipment of 0 the corn pan at its concentrating mills ane ini un elter fo a eving and si smelting the th anc from tho the complex ores 0 of its it own and surrounding maneg 1 has greatly increased the importance import ince of its plants to the mining Indu industry itry of this region this company was the first to erect a complete at its smelting plant and it Is now op crating thirty thirtyfour four blast furnaces without any tiny or fumes leaving its stack by this system it recovers arsenic sud aud several valuable solids as by byproducts products AMERICAN SMELTING AND RE FINING COMPANY the american smelting and refining company began its operations in utah in 1893 when it i took over the old germania han ilan auer tho the ibex smelting company of leamington leavington Lea and the pennsylvania plants then smelting leaa ores principally ci in 1902 the present plant at murray was built at a coat cost of 1 the furnace building power house bag bouse and storehouse are all of brick and steel construction the plant has a dally capacity of twenty kwo wo hundred tons of ore the eight blat furnaces and twenty seven realtors are used in treating lead ores lead copper ores ores iron ore and gold and silver ores theta arc are five miles of railroad on the ground and forty bouses houses belonging to the company in the vicin ity cf its plant for the use of its ta employees the big garneld garfield plant of this company treats only copper oreg at present handling the entire output of the bingham mines of the utah copper company and does a i genet al commercial comme iclal smelting this plant was built in 1906 it Is also of brick and steel coi construction and has a dally capacity of forty five hundred tons the blast furnace building Is feet long feet wide and 92 feet high it contains four blast furnaces six furnaces and thirty roasters the two smelters of this great company together with its power houses and other buildings cover an area of eighty acres |