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Show .UTAH COPPER IS f GREATPROOUCERj Now Has 340,000,000 Tons of Ore in Sight For the Steam Shovels. LARGEST PRODUCER OF COPPER ORE Immense Deposits at Bingham Mined by Steam Shovel Process. The mo3t wonderful feature of Bingham Bing-ham canyon is the Utah copper mine. Twelve years ago this mountain was only, penetrated by a few small tunnels; tun-nels; today it is one largo, wonderful mine. Here lies one mountain, laying lay-ing open its working of 340,000,000 tons of copper ore; which is, probably, the greatest deposit of porphyry copper cop-per that will ever be uncovered. This ore-only contains per cent of cop-per,besidcs cop-per,besidcs its output of gold and silver sil-ver that pays all mining and milling expenses. From this mine in the last twelve months there has been approx- Imately 11,000,000 tons of ore mined and transported to the mills and smelters smelt-ers at Garfield. This is an increase of nearly one' million tons over 1916. The operations of tho Utah Copper company extend from tho pit at the foot of the hill to tho top, over twenty levels extending for a total of 1900 feet In height. Every one of these twenty levels is equipped with electricity, elec-tricity, railroads, water, lights, compressed com-pressed air lines, coal and tho other supplies that aro necessary to carry on the work. Twenty-one steam shovels, shov-els, with a capacity of nearly seven tons, and sixty locomotives which are . operated on a four to an eight per cent grado arc constantly removing these treasures from tho breast of Mother ; Earth. The monthly payroll of tho mine is in excess of $200,000,000 and ; is distributed between tb,c 2000 em-, em-, ployes. This mine ships 30.000 tons of ore per day, and 200,000 cars of ore per year. Bingham is no longer an old fash-ioned fash-ioned mining camp, but is a modern ; city. Her no longer can the old shacks of her first miners be seen, . for the beautiful buildings and homes of Bingham's citizens rank with the , best in the land. Bingham has pros- perous mercantile establishments, churches, grades and a high school, . lodges, theaters and one of the best gymnasiums in the state of Utah. The "old reliable," as it was named by the old prospectors and miners, is : a town to be proud of, and Bingham citizens are Indeed proud of their town." Bingham will be known to the mining and financial world long after some of the greatest have fallen. If ; the copper production of the Bingham mining district would stop there would be a far less amount of shells going to our boys in France. Therefore, Bingham Bing-ham is recognized and reverenced for its production of copper the world over. |