Show S HP TIT I 1 TT i The History of Mining in in Utah 1 i t t I 0 F I 3 1 I t S 'S c S. m F V t 4 5 Are with Metals Extracted finds its resting place on slag dump once its surged up from far beneath the surface to provide Utah re re- re sources 2 I EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE NOT This if ii tto tt second of configuration is easily determined merits of el ht articles on the history of But it has passed into geological the metal mining industry in In Utah history The great Sierra Nevada S With the end of the water period mountains formed a barrier for the the record tells of the beginnings warm moisture moisture-ladden winds of I of the Rocky Mountain uplift t of the Pacific Paci ic causing them to drop the formation of the Great Basin their moisture before they could and how its rock formations were pass So So this area areal hemmed in in by being squeezed and faulted and the and arid the the Wasatch on contorted between the Wasatch on the east and the Sierras on the the east and the Sierra Nevada on west was deprived of its normal the west of how the fissures and amount of rainfall and the region t cracks were formed to allow the became e more or less arid On the penetration of metal bearing solutions floor of old Lake Bonneville re re- reside re- re and of how in places aces the sur sur- side Q per cent of the people of face of the earth failed and the Utah nd ind 75 per cent of its ir irrigable ir- ir irI I molten material underneath surged land is there up causing rhyolite flows and Then came man first the savage porphyry and and ten 1 the civilized man The some of which as in Bingham car car- carried Pione rs who arrived under the ried ned enough mineral to become val val- valuable leadership leade hip of Brigham Young July JulyS S as ore Much of Utah liter liter- literally 24 1847 as a result of religious ally rose out of the water to share persecution moved from Nauvoo here resources with mankind m And in the State of Illinois and began beganI then came the ice ages the colonization of the territory I As the ice of the last one melted They turned the water w ter from the away there was formed in Utah a mountains mo to the soil and thus de de- developed deI de- de degreat great fresh water lake known as vel modern irrigation The I Lake Bonneville and in Nevada an an- another early comers omers adopted a policy of other one that has been called Lake making themselves self supporting Lahontan The markings of Lake as to foodstuffs raiment and hous hous- Bonneville can easily be seen on ing The third article in this the flanks of various mountain series will appear in ill these columns col col- colI ranges From these benches its soon s on I I |