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Show THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPT. 27, 1908. ‘UTAH COPPER SETS NEW PACE IN LOW.COST PRODUC The Utah Copper company in the]ore a day, were placed in commission | of the Garfleld plant. This will involve! brought into commission, steady and | last year has demonstrated that its/{m June, 1967. The twelfth and last |the company's providing at least a/consistent reduction being shown) : Increase enormous bodies of low-grade copper} section has been started up within the | portion of its own transportation facil- | with of the scale of operaores in the Bingham ene have the in from one to four sections at a time|ham & Garfield Railway company, a; That Utah Copper is in reality an | commerctal value claimed for them- | to facilitate the trying out process.|; subsidiary of the Utah Copper com-| {industrial-a great that by mining and aceee them upon manufacturing But there was more delay on account| pany, was recently incorporated with! concern-is better understood the Weantic scale when laid out five years | ; of lack of ample transportation faclll- | 4 franchise to bufld a line of railroad| the character and extent of Its ore ago. v Mac? cC last few weeks. Nini ng anda asSpencer a eocwell, Penrose 2. control of the company, yy ; a source of profit even they they with imum liandles from Bingham The to the company mill and already smelter at Garfield owns and operates about ten miles of) big! gauge operations railroad in inconnection fulleng voonaapein §' standard with its mining Bingham developed {nto five years one of the its with its 1,000-| canyon, so that the expansion tonsa test Copperton builtto orelnally as mill, In mill, addition the Gar-| naturally has low-cost | field mill, has*bandled copper producers of the country. Op-|more than erating onder the disadvantage of just | throughout an average 5,000 tens of ore a the year and fer the of) and In cstimates the line More comes ing a portion of economy. | Jackling's Than Mect,. of latest ; General report, Development of several months has been prodqcing |aceusacy of previous estimates, but itis copper at the rate gf abort 60,468,- | believed that resufts are even better! 000 pgnnds a year. It ts expected that|than had been counted upon. So far by thé end of the year the ra wiJ/as is known, about the best that had ducers of theen country were closed 5 sae a down because they could not make a profit. The first four sections of the company's Garfield mfll, with total capacity of handling more than 6,000 tons of, have been facreased to 70,000,600| : pounds, whith Wik be about no1mai production until the size of the Garfield mill shall be increased It is generally understood that plans are being laid to double the capacity Manager which » s wane ¥ !#cture rock, seams hey and a and the average about body 2 ¢ ance 2 Seta eee | 000,000 tons of ieee eee ae the mass, both in per of o re | eee Crane better grade material, | ee drilling The total area in|. "boay of 20,000,000 tons is fully de- | Dowty the veloped: or, in other words. blocked {aries Cen Cit C?PPer. 0.15 of an ounce silver and 6.015 » of of an ounce gold. The primary predominating says: |The oped Mine, day,| The company's milling operons at} The mine has been been last| Garfield have pot only prove the by approximately 90,000 starting and trying out new machinery, Ji yet has operated upon a dividend-paying basis throughout ‘the period when many of the largest pro- | containing ralneiredis | feoccare noughout sured 30 | }rmined; that' it can be accurately "andite value definitely 920,000.00 °o mea- deter- 2 oe | ; ae has been donee of minera contained ‘within the property of ey ns 88 acres theaboutbound160 1s which Seema considered as inj i anyway bhi Ith h although a portion of the ‘area ' deposits and itsin methods~of mineral is chalcopyrite, but as Reversed that ee sy Aeperanet etc ee profitable are considered connection mining with its |C°PPer %andTesult of oxidization P | | grades. secondary deposit! of this mineral ments have gone far enoughx to prove successful milling equipment of, * secondary deposition of others, | : The ground to the south and east the the existence of this additional quanthese features no more comprehen-| pprate PANYlily RIP all OL of the "min= "eae material, but not sufficiently of the area shown as developed and sive {dea can be gained than by readals of copper are now sulphide present, the | far: to: permit" of -its: Deine a eo developed, and lying on the Immense Tonnage. in bringing the price for, the metal under ad- | however, the company, Copper i in these eta h Copper tions, ties than from: any other. cause, : become copper Despite the delay maltythe min: | concentrator Sew e eeepc as up to Se iieare, at .w hat. is regarced Sea selling hgen ea acquire The plant was brought| ities. With the end In view the Bing-_ one developed and area ‘covers 72 About 60 of the 72 being chaleocite. | 274 ‘snr ted os all sides, partially devel|4 acres of ground. | acres contain min- | ; cere The ee remaining | South side of the ‘canyon, same possibilities. This a number of more or Acres of ¢ Ore. 20,000,000 of the developed | eralized. porphyry of the average | 60,000,000 tonb is classed as undeyel feet of) value above stated. Tho remaining oped, for the reason that its existence underground workings, Very little underground development has been done since January 1, 1907, as the ore bodies at that time were blocked out been promised | for, many years in advance, and . by General £ Manager aS a8 ref, , . ; it Jackling in his preliminary estimates was, therefore, thought best to con- | = to produce copper at a cost of fine expenditures to the removal of | § cents a pound. And the cost had oxidized overburden ' been brought somewhat below that The ore bodies of the property con- | igure before the entire plant was sist of an altered silicious porphyry, | | workings on the ground, |done in the Immediate | contiguous property. also has by work is shown by less shallow and vicinity, : on '12 acres average somtwhat lower, | is only shown by5 a limited number | Taken: as a whole Ce notJ to exceed POL probably not much in excess of 1.4 of workings, most of which | >-he 2 ¢ per cent. The average thickness of aikmoud drill holes In the SAGES Sonia Cane Sate eae ae the ore body over this 72 acres has/| area under discussion is a AGE of developed Possibly ae has; bees not yet been fully de Mee eee by | lower grade ore, averaging about 1.5. one-half o a Lowexceed . z he undeveloped. portion deve lopment, but existir develop- | per ce anc , 4 = a ments indicate an pcarae depth Bf about LO Kon adi Pk hie oe won Deore 2 oe igh grade as the por- about 310 feet, which to 1,000,000 tons of ore 60,000,000 tons of the is equivalent per acre, or better grade entirely undeveloped, save by thet ot ees Pear thn oped: aoe it is likely diamond drill holes that pierce it, but rill on { ‘ alt eon ace | {ts existence has been proven liters tne Soe atin 2 eee BINGHAM GETTING STRIDE AS WORLD'S GREATEST COPPER CAMP ° With ° Big ° Companies ° Producing at the district it is now known is an ex-| 1tensive i 1 area of the monzonite, - which at some future time fs Hkely to be the seené of steam shovel operatione, . Full Capacit y Value of Output Will Exceed $20,000,000 a Year. from the proven zone, have been found! grec great ledges* sels in precisely 82 the®;:. same formation as that. of Bingham pro-| per, with surface showings at least.as/j ‘good a as | anything _ever disc ove reredLin | while in North Bingham,several mites |g the old camp. sha Bingham i8 certainly, theref¢ be a mining camp of anulughy tone life. The deposits opened by the large| compete Sare so immense in size e that at |the time it will take to exhaust them } y be ew Seba CETTE Ene ent Ree are yet to be opened r 1s virtually astually ab | sured, Fingham was born a gold mining |plant recently greatly improved actty, camp: lead-silver mines were later|@enlarged to 1,000 tons daily capa developed, and today {tis just getting manufacturing the product of its o¥ it 4) | big one Into blister copper. its stride as one of the greatest co ea The Ohio Copper company has nearpreducing camps in the world tly eanieie ted a milling plant | Bu regarded of no value whatever. But while the surface workings of . e Utah Copper and Boston Consollated companies now attract the eee attention and on account of+ 2 ,000 | their enormous production at relative-| of the early days the smelters pen-|tons daily capacity for treating the | ly low cost, are the most important of | alized the ores for the copper which/ores from its own mine all at this time, much mining aside they contained But now copper is The Utah Consolidated company from these operations ts being done in in iw position to avenge the indignity, | ships 800 tons of ore a day to the! Bingham camp, while the prospects for copper On the is king shores Garfield of Great Salt Lake tlally the American Smelting & Refining company has buflt a mammoth awe ing plant, of capable 3,000 and tons of in handling ore a to camp reckoning upwards| day, especially Bingham And that that of of intended ores the The designed treat capacity |ing the} its copper th Se Matentiinntedae metal a aaa every tio cur 24 ee esr hours, che tini. ast SRIteRntthicr: tia : ; F Big Mills for Camp's set toneeerie equalling copper Ores. tal 50 company smelter ores mines from are be capac tons is least of ae proximately th zie may strike In the copper of day, oon at are { by no treat-|__ Even great mines means Bingham | ®0lldated have own and plants to the 13 ete many wore grade levels came but Boston miles rhe after ground sight r Workings. « on- of peter by acres under. ‘other year j except with It] perty ae the caving of the low- | ore had been opened at various | it was that that the ore so' near discovered the surface the | | on!mining with steam shovels would & 9 | to- | practicable and cheaper than means;ingly cents, lost pianos d to do its mining ayerem, smelter- which in new be Utah C opper and at both to mde of Underground Biles its Garfield $23,000 copper at and a number shipping equivalent a for opening Pine} of ai prod detonate nvenos r at ity of par- In own and copper ores to various What Production Will Be. should sraduadien plans building States great lead pee a One GUC OU terrmee olin sia trie hati of concentrates representing 15 to} ates for mines at Bingham, other ]lead ton ainclter but It has smelter of its tons capacity United in Junction |}other of|of smelter it must be remembered ¢ bulk of the ores it handles are smelter, completed canyon a least 1,500 plan That abandoned in ike a few months yet for it to burden that gait, but it is in sight }use of other words, Bingham copper! able one where company has underground small a small section of mountain be] the| accord- mining its DIO- of over- arises to a height to make the the steam shovel impractic- lor the work of coneentrating Bing-|eamp will produce more wealth every The Boston Consolidated, however ham ores, the Utah Copper companyj|year than the Cripple Creel gold dis- | in addition to its large acreage of mon- | has built at Garfield a, mill of more | trict ever produced in any year of the|zonite, or copper-bearing porphyry, | thi an 6.000 tons a day capacity. It has} palmiest period of its history. The | has large bodies of sulphide ore w hich | at the mines another mill at 1000 tons)|cost of producing the copper is in|are mined in the usual way and ship- | a day capacity And plans are under|the neighborhood of elght cents per) ped in crude form to the smelter Way to increase the total milling ca-| pound, or about two-thirds of the The Utah Consolidated, the Yama, pacity to at least 10,000 and perhaps) present market price As the most | the Ohio Copper are large copper pro12,000 tons a day-this involving the !}important item of expense is labor it positions where only ae aba min- | building by the company of a line! will be seen that the copper producing | ing is done, Then there e or et railroad, which will enable it to, industry performs an important part | more of the newer STOR OMIGAn both handle its own ores from mine to/in the life of the community. |} copper and lead, some of them already 6melter n violent contrast to the pick and)|large producers, such as Utah Apex, | The Boston Consolidation company | shovel and cradle Of the oldtime placer | Silver Shield, Bingham New Haven, has at Bingham a mill of 3,000 tons! miner who worked the gravel of Bing- | New England, oe Ammalwainate sd, daily capacity, which it is planning to| ham creek for oo are tho steam | Bingham Centr Standard, Bingham | at least double in size, It also one at|shovels, which today tear down the! Butte, Utah Bing, Mystic Shrine, | the camp a mill of 200 tons a day ca-| walls of ‘the ivan, and the great/ while many oxcellert prospects are alpacity for treating sulphide ores vinly, mills, coveringgeocneeotof eronnd eocel roe ready to .go in the producing ey 1 com ny has in succe. separate from tho mass o ock the} class. Sintstaredion: in eal camp a Parana teen particles ae metal which the old-| On the northwestern extremity of " Boston Consolidated = Mill at Garfield, . Looking East Toward the Utah Copper Company y s United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co. Purchases, = | | Smelts, Converts Bars, and Ores, Matte, Refines and All Metallurgical Products Lead Copper or Bullion, . Concentrator. Dore at the Following Plants: United States Smelting Company Bingham Junction, Utah -Custom Lead Smelter VMiammoth Copper Mining Company Kennett, Cal. -Custom Copper Smelter United States Metals Refining Company United Chrome, N. J.-Custom Copper Smelter and Electrolyctic Company States Metals Refining Company Grasseli, Ind.-Custom Electrolytic Lead Refinery ia de Real . el Monte Pachuca,andMexico Mills -Mines | | International Metals ‘ Selling Company New York City | = | fatted | States Smelting Dooly a | Block; Salt Lake City, Utah. Company.) -- x ii ES) 5 |