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Show THE STORY OF TOOELE r - - s .; , . - ; Among the many development projects undertaken by International Smelting and Refining Company , that have brought industry to Utah Is the $2,000,000 Tooele to Bingham tunnel. View shows surface 1 plant at portal of tunnel at Tooele. ' (Editor's Note: This is the fourth of s series of eight articles titled Story of Tooele".) Tooele takes a place high in the list of Utah's industrial generating communities as a result of the ecope of operations of the International Interna-tional Smelting and Refining Company. Com-pany. Ia one year the company paid a railroad freight bill of $4,000,000 on ore, bullion, and supplies, and bought 513,000.000 worth of ore from Utah and tributary mines. Stemming out from Tooele also is this program of exploration which has been performeel by the International Company. When the company entered an area it gave encouragement to others to follow. Where a project was successful, It had the effect of stimulating additional ad-ditional exploration and bringing new ground into productivity. Naturally not all of International's Internation-al's exploratory programs have been successful. Many times thousands thou-sands of dollars have been expended expend-ed in prospecting that will never return one cent One of the company's most recent re-cent projects was the linking of Tooele and Bingham with a deep drainage and transportation tunnel, tun-nel, which opened to economical operation an ore zone below the water wa-ter table. The tunnel was driven from the west side of the Oquirrh range into the heart of Bingham's ore producing area, a distance of i 4hi miles. This tunnel has unlocked new ore reserves that are now giving powerful support to the war program pro-gram and to the industrial of the state. The project required imagination, imagi-nation, co"rage, and the expenditure expendi-ture of ?2,000,000. More recently the company brought into production a copper producer at Copper Canyon, near Battle Mountain, Nevada. The ore is being shipped to Tooele for smelting. The fifth article in this series will appear in these columns soon.) |