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Show Oil CfiPPEH 18 OlltlE ' fill 11111118111 This Great Surface Mine Has Furnished The Sinews Of War In A Remarkable Fashion By Producing Metals Necessary To Carry On The Machinery Of War And By . Contributing Of Their Means And Men To Prosecute This Fight For Free- dom The Company Maintains An Immense Payroll And Mines A Vast Tonnage. k - 1918 will go down In history as a 1 banner year for the mining properties of Bingham. Not' because these com- panics made greater profits . or took lout a larger volume of the precious metal, but rather because this year J " the mining companies did the big M( thing by the country which protects ; and gives them the possibilities - of ! life and liberty. Through the aid of , these big mines the town of iBing- ham has the reoord of putting over ! every Uberty (Loan and Red Cross drive which has come this way in less time than any other similar community commun-ity in the great United States. This Is the contribution which the mines of Bingham has read into the records of this the greatest nation of the i world for 1S18. I Much has been written and more perhaps spoken of the king of kings in the mining world (The Utah Cop-t Cop-t . per) but permit us as the closing I . days of 1918 are casting their Bhad-; Bhad-; ows about us to pay our humble trib- , ute to this greates producer of red metal in the world today. 'Long tables of figures are always more or less monotonous to the average av-erage reader and yet when we come ' to a producer which rivals the con-f. con-f. t traction and operation ol the Panama Pana-ma Canal we are at a loss to present our picture without using at least a few numerals. But let ns repeat that the greatest contribution that th!s company or any other company in i iBingham has made to the weld (his year is not the millions of dtil-ir&: worth of metal which has been taken ; Kjlrom the earth by her,, employees, T'TjUt rather the lives of her splendid . Jf young men which have been offered as freely as her dollars to hasten the end of the most gigantic war in all - history. In 1904 Colonel D. C. Jackling began be-gan to shape this company which bids fair to rival all other mining or manufacturing man-ufacturing concerns in the world. At , that time iMr. Jackling was a plain, unassuming civil engineer. But he y had deep set convictions and the ten-" ten-" iicity of purpose In carrying through "H.hese Ideas is the secret of the success suc-cess of this remarkable company today. to-day. On . every hand you could hear bickerings that surface mining was a failure and that it would only be a few months until this project would . ; ' be abandoned and the company would resume underground operations. But 'Mr. Jackling had a very different idea of the future of this company. As a result today this company has mined copper at 8,14 cents per pound. The story of how. much the western west-ern states have contributed to the successful prosecution of the world war is indissolubly linked with the production of copper, The wonderful development of th ) . low grade porphyries has been large-. large-. ly due to the genius of one man. He first exper'mnted with the low grade ores of Bingham and, in the face of the strongest opposition and adverse criticism, he brought it to a successful success-ful issue. He demonstrated his plan and put Utah in the fourth place as ' a copper producing state. Not con-: con-: tent with this, he took the low grade porphyries of Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico and from the copper - properties in these states that he de-veloped, de-veloped, is now producing over half a billion pounds of copper annually. J Others followed his lead and adopted his metallurgical and mining methods and mef with success In developing still other low grade copper mines, with the result that the 'Western ' States are producing over. SO per cent of the copper metal of the country. Through sheer ability and integrity he financed the great property known . as the I'tah Copper and has produced , and distributed in this state over $:JOO,000,0H) and employs an army of nearly 6000 men. ' jj -' In less than fifteen years the Utah f 'Copper mines have shipped 74,000.000 . -tons of ore out of which there has been extracted almont 1,500,000,0('0 i pounds of copper, 430,000 ounces of geld and 4 finO.OOO ounces of silver. From the other properties that he has developed proportionate amounts . have been distributed in our sister states. The Utah Copper Company disburses disburs-es for labor, supplies, smelting charges, charg-es, tn:es, etc., nearly $l!,000,000 each month. ' During 1918 this company has tak-T tak-T en frcm the earth over 1 2,000,000 tons . A. of ore and this has brought forth - from the m;ll and the smaller more than 2'W),(M)0,000 pounds of copper, i ax I'.eo'il"" taHnir this amount of ore r " from the earth they have developed by removing the capping more than the tiTVunt named above which they have tn-en from the earth. The policy pol-icy of tills company is to continue to develop more ore reserves. The last annual report shows that more than 371.7vJ2.0O0 tons of ore developed or partly developed during the year of 1&18. It may be assumed now that the ore reserves are well above the 400,000,000 ton mark. During the year the company has completed a fine new office building which is not only a big addition to the company's many office buildings and store rooms here, but also a red-it red-it to the town. Another of the big structures which this company hae con pleted during this year is the big leaching plant at Magna. The capacity cap-acity of this plant which began operations oper-ations eaily this summer 1 about 2,000 tons a day. High grade precipitates precip-itates are being shipped dally from" his plant to the smelter. The 'Bingham and Garfield Railway Company has played an important part in this production. This company handles more than 1,000,000 tons of freight dally, a large percentage of thin being ore from the mine to the mills. During the year this company has added another of their mallet engines en-gines to the rolling stock of the B. & O. Company. The cost of much of the material used by this company has soared to unheard of prices since the war started. For example, steam shovels which cost a few years ago in the neighborhood of $20,000, now copt approximately $100,000. It would seem that Mother Nature seeks to provide means for carrying on the world's work, both in war and in pence. Our country would have (Continued on page four) U'TtH CBfPfO (Continued from Page 1) ) been in a ssd plight if the gold and silver mines of California and Neva-la Neva-la had not been developed prior to the Civil War. It was due to the great production of the precious metals that 'nabled the country to rehabilitate itself it-self after the destruction caused .hrough that war. In the present ?reat war, he country would have been severely handicapped if the Jtreat low grade copper mines had not been developed and, even with the snormous increased production of today to-day as compared with ten years ago there is not enough copper produced to carry on the business of the world and the war's requirements. It fs estimated es-timated that at least $5 per cent of the copper produced is being used for war purposes,, (Some of the officers of this company com-pany are R. C. Clemmel, general manager; man-ager; John M. Hays, secretary and treasurer, and J. D. Shilling, mine superintendent.' These men are each experts in their particular line and are serving this big company Just as faithfully as our boys ar serving Uncle Sam at home and abroad in un iform |