Show Before s After fter In Mining t y Sk i Y Syr e t y d ly w y One could hardly believe that the above two taro pictures were taken of or the same mountainous hills Both are of Bingham Canyon Utah and serve sene to indicate how mining transforms barren wasteland wasteland wasteland waste waste- land into mote Industry The top picture was taken taleen at Bingham prior to 1900 when th th camp was yielding small quantities of or gold silver and lead Below Is Isa isa isa a 1939 1039 view of or the same hills hills' alter after science engineering and anti Industry has taken a a. hand What a contrast Little did the pioneers who roamed that area In Inthe inthe inthe the early days das realize that it was to become one of the won wonders ers of or the earth arth The early day miners 1 knew that there insisted a great stock of or porphyry that contained less than 2 per cent copper but the they believed the tho deposit Worthless worth worth- less If the hills had remained In their original state Utah would be minus one of Its greatest assets today and Its greatest revenue producer Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the past quarter of a century Normally the Utah Copper which operates the great mine employs men at the mine mills and i railroads representing an annual t. payroll of ever o Up to the end of 1937 the mine had paid In wages spent for power supplies services servo sere ices etc pal pails In federal state county and md city taxes and paid 1311 for freight smelting smeltIng smelt- smelt Ing refining etc Most Most of this money y remained within tho the state nate In 1938 1935 the as- as valuation on which the company company company com com- pany paid taxes was equivalent to 55 per cent of the valuation of Salt Lako Lake City and It was 13 per cent of the valuation of the entire state It n was Colonel Daniel C. C Jackling Jackling Jackling Jack- Jack ling who the possibilities I of or this groat enterprise and made It possible Colonel Jackling made his original report in 1899 1399 and and launched the project In 1903 It took tool millions of dollars to lo prove his theory which which- revolutionized copper mining and has been a benefit bene bene- benefit fit to humanity ever since mine is now treating ore averaging less than 1 per cent copper cOVInI with small amounts of gold silver sHyer and anti molybdenum This is iii a athin thlu thin thread upon which to bace bare such a great industry which I Ii fa the very heart of the and Industrial Industrial In tn life of the state j I |