Show history of mining in morgan county the following early eaily history of mining to in morgan county countr was gas written by hugh P F oneil and appeared in the western mineral survey of august 22 richard R fry of morgan said ithac the eaily settlers in the found gold in the hills above morgan city but that the ore was riot not I 1 sufficiently rich to pay returns about 1900 in the durst mountain mineral deposits the carbonel Car bonet hill and silver companies produced and sold some in lead zinc silver and gold ores mined from shallow workings working gs during 1940 a road was built to this mine to haul ores to salt lake valley smelters sm elters eltera A report of 1902 indicates the ure cresence sence of aluminum and bismuth liban lib ln ane to county anty A small 0 ot of lead ore from the dan heiners mine was shipped to a smelter in 1940 in 1917 some organized and 15 to 20 unorganized mining districts existed in the state of utah the production of the greater number of these was unimportant a as about 90 per cent of the entire population can be credited to from 8 to 10 districts of the total value ot of the recorded mineral production since the beginning of mining minin in utah and estimated at around 2400 over ever 98 per cent has been derived f from tom the five metallic and one nonmetallic minerals the distribution is about as follows copper oer ner cent silver per cent lead per cent coal per cent gold 64 per cent z anc ne 27 per cr cent nl and others 9 93 3 per cent |