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Show THE SILTING INDUSTLWIII UTAH COMMERCIAL ORE SMELTING CENTER OF UNITED STATES LOCATED IN SALT LAKE COUNTY. Present Inveitment In Plants, Power Houses and Machinery Aggregate 112,250,000, Thousands of Men Being Employed In Their Operation. SMKLTINO: Salt Lake county Is today the commercial oro smelting center of tho I'nlted States. The mammoth plants at Tooele, Mldvale, Murray and Garfield now employ an averago of 2,470 men and pay them wages of 12,178,000. Their other running run-ning expenses, taxes and fixed charges char-ges annually double that amount, besides be-sides the distribution of dividends and the thousands spent for Improvements Improve-ments and up-to-date facilities for reducing re-ducing ores. Their present Investment Invest-ment In plants, power houses and machinery aggregates TWF.LVK MILLION TWO Hl'NDRKO FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, besides their large holdings In lands, mining claims and mines. The four .plants have a combined treatment rapacity of 11,700 tons daily. The latest feature Is the facility for treating low grade lend and sine ores heretofore unavailable. una-vailable. This means a great deal to the stale, as I'tah now stunds THIRD In the Union In the production of lead ores. Utah also stands second In production of silver, fourth as to copper and sixth In gold. The total value of all ores smelted In this state In 1911 has been placed at $15,000,000. Tho output for 1912 Is expected to exceed this amount, CONCKNTRATINO MILLS: The many concentrating mills In this state play a large part In handling the ores from the time they leave the mines. Most every large mine has Its concentra'or near by. Much of Utah's mineral output Is of such a grado that It can bo treated economically economi-cally at the smelters as It comes from tho mines. Principal among these concentrators In the state are the great Magna and Arthur mills of the Utah Copper company at Garfield, Gar-field, employing fourteen hundred sixty men; the plant of the Ohio Copper company at Lark, the United States Smelling company at Mid-vnlo, Mid-vnlo, those of the Sliver King. Daly West, Daly Judge, Ontario and Oar-selll Oar-selll at Park City; the cyanide mill of the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines company at Mercur; the Hlngham-New Hlngham-New Haven, the Redwing and Utah Apex at Hlngham, and that of the South Utah Mines company at New-house. New-house. There are many other similar simi-lar plants In the various mining districts dis-tricts of the state. It Is estimated that these mills represent a total Investment In-vestment of $,.l,74.".,()00, that they employ em-ploy 2.510 men and carry a monthly payroll of $222.02.r. Salt Luke county coun-ty takes an enormous toll from this Industry. Most of tho output from the mines in the stale come to this county for treatment at the smelters, thence tho bullion Is shipped eastward east-ward for refining. THK INTERNATIONAL: The International In-ternational Smelting & Refining company com-pany has completed Its splendid new plant near Tooele. Not the largest In the state nor the greatest In capacity, capa-city, but modern In every appointment; appoint-ment; compact, thoroughly equipped, built on economical lines and destined des-tined to play a large part In the future fu-ture development of the commercial smelting Industry of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain west. Its dally capacity for smelting copper ores Is fifteen hundred hund-red tons, while the lend furnaces handle Ave hundred additional tons per day. The mammoth chimney rising to a height of five hundred fifty feet and twenty-five feet wide at the topand all buildings, are of brick and steel construction. These with the smelting equipment cost TURKIC MILLION DOLLARS. The company first opened Its offices offi-ces In Salt I.ake City early In 1909. and on April 16th. ground was broken bro-ken for the plant. On July 2.rith, 1910, Governor William Spry lighted the first fires under Its five reverberatory reverbe-ratory furnaces, four of which are now treating copper ores received from the mines of Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Montana. At present the ores from the Hlngham district are carried over the Oqulrrh range to the plant by aerial tramway. The Tooele Valley Railroad connects with the Salt Lake Route at a distance dis-tance of about seven miles from the smelter and provides a means of transportation for tonnage to and from the plant, as well as passenger service between the smelter and the old and new towns of Tooele. This railroad Is owned and operated by the smelting company. THK UNITED STATES COMPANY: COM-PANY: The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company Is operated op-erated extensively In Utah. It maintains main-tains offices In Salt Lake; operates 1 the Centennial Eureka and IluIUon 1 Reck mines In Tlntlc and Old Jordan- 1 Galena. Niagara and Telegraph mine 1 in Hlngham; two concentrating mills and a huge smelter at Midvale, Utah. 1 It also haa smelting and refining 1 plants at Needles and Kennett, Call- 1 to bave communicated to the Greeks as they went Into action at Mycale. on the other side of the Aegean, a few hours later, although there wss no telegraphy In R C. 479 Grots compares Mlchelet's account of the storming of the Hastllle. which more than once emphasises tbe fact that nobody proposed It tbe whole pope-lac pope-lac seemed simultaneously Inspired. |
