Show THE STORY OF 4 M 0 I 1 kaiml 6 4 Q am p S h S over the ahe dump goes the slag by continued improvements in sm smelling smelting elting practice at tooele thoele less mineral Is lost and the miner receives more for his product and Is enabled to produce lower grade ores editors Edl tori noto this to 1 the third of 0 ft a were known to exist of 0 eight articles ti titled tied the story ores began to pour into tooele thoele I 1 to tooele goes the distinction of having operated the first custom flotation mill tor for the treatment ot at lead zinc sulphide ores the tha plant was built in 1924 by the international smelling smelting Sm elting and refining company in line with its program to meet the crisis that had arisen in utah due to the dearth ot of oxidized ores area alter after the end ot at the first world war the plant originally built tor for tons toll dally daily capacity was waa sop increased to 1200 tons dally daily this was a revolutionary step in the process ot of smelting smelling sm elting it meant that before going to the smelter ores would be milled a process likened to flour in milling I 1 separating the chaff from the wheat it also meant that 06 the zinc could bo be separated from the lead and that the tha minor miner could be paid tor for the zinc as 03 well as the lead contained in the ores area that hla his mine produced naturally this revolutionary development proved a boon to mining in ili utah and the west as large deposits ot of sulphide lead zinc ores from oil all parts ot of western united which resulted in more industry pay rolls and tax money for or utah not content with being dependent upon ores from the outside to keep its smelter and mill in operation company acquired mining ground and began actual prospecting and mining productive and prospective mineral ground in ili bingham park city Eur eureka olca and ophir utah Aloun mountain tain city and copper canyon nevada was waa acquired during normal years in the mining industry the company through its diversified mining milling and arnel smelling smelting sm elting of copper ores and silver lead and zinc ores pours into the channels of 0 industry throughout utah approximate an duvally bially in the form of payrolls pay bollei sup ply pure purchases bises construction rail road freight taxes etc normally the company employs an ail average of 2000 workers and an equal num her ber are furnished employment in directly the fourth article lit in this series will appear in these columna soon |