Show the story of copper in utah ir 0 8 4 0 A wi W i KV Z A tv W A 14 4 49 men drilling into mass of bow grade copper ore at bingham editors editor note this thia la 6 the fourth of 0 a arim rise of 0 eight articles arti clen titled the story ot of copper in uth after colonel wall had proved the presence ot of a large massot massof low grade copper ore at bingham in his feet of tunnels drifts and crosscuts cross cuts it was time tor for men machinery elit chinery nery and money to tako take a hand this is is where D C jackling a farm boy born at appleton missouri who worked his way to an engineering degree at the missour school ot of mines began his history making experiments that were to revolutionize the copper world a tew few years later inter despite the skepticism that greeted e d jackling in engineering and financial circles when he advocated the utah copper venture ha was determined it could be made successful cessa u I 1 and that the key to binghan and its mountains ot of low grade ore was wa low cost mass production du etton benjamin guggenheim Gugg marcus daly senator W A A clark tharbis tharsis sulphur coppet copper company of t scotland charles A coffin of 0 general electric and others prominent anent la ill mining had the chance to finance nance utah copper but turned it down it remained tor for two colorado men ell charles macneill Mac Nelll and spencer penrose ot of colorado springs to back Jac klings wildcat as was called then with MacNei lI and penrose as backers jackling on june 4 1903 incorporated utah copper culminating six years of 0 work on the project Jac klings first report on utah copper had bad been written in 1898 while he be was employed as an engineer at mercur utah tor for captain joseph R de lamar who was wa a prominent figure in early utah mining jackling now had the money to start erection ot of a ton toa concentrator at copperton hopperton Cop a few miles below the mine at the mouth ot of bingham canyon the old concrete foundations of which still can be seen on the right as you proceed up bingham canyon in reality the copperton hopperton Cop mill was a proving ground tor for utah copper the plant contained a lot of 0 second hand machinery but it served to prove the accuracy of 0 mine sampling that copper recovery could be successfully made on a large scale and permitted the tha testing of 0 certain types ot of crushing and concentrating cent rating machinery so as to guide in the construction of 0 a ton plant at magna the fifth article in this series will appear toon soon in these columns |