| Show WO R LD WAITS FOR IN JL ALUMINUM 1 P Z 7 75 1 1 W PO h P I 1 a nt in I 1 eba to a 1 g vl 1 1 41 J 7 W 7 wl vi 7 by THE MARYSVALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DOZEN utah counties point A with pride to mines of gold silver and lead butone but one only can boast in addition to these a mineral in demand and that in unlimited quantity the area around Mary avale pluto plute county moun has so BO far or as known a amono ono poly of alunite the rock from which aluminum to extracted adventure and romance attended the discovery and development ot of the silver lead and gold deposits decosi is which first lured prospectors to marysvale Marys Mary vale and the ahe adjacent territory originally marysvale Marys Mary vale was wall abot marysvale Marys vale at all nor was it a mining settle settlement beautiful trees and sparkling waters made it a summer summer camping spot so ideal that mormon church leaders on an exploring expedition in 1856 called it Merr merryville its present name was adopted later frank E king started a ranch there while he raised calves an old california miner named hewitt panned for gold the miner found colors along pine creek jacob hess and ebenezer hanks in 1859 1869 tried sluicing this failed but crossing the creek they discovered abode a lode and filed on the webster the first mineral location in plute county the ore was rich but transportation cost was prohibitive and a homemade smelter did not work some prospectors locked flocked in good were found but no one could afford the wagon haul to salt lake city joseph smith from silver reef stopping at a ranch south of marys vale went deer hunting one day in a path worn deep by migrating herds herd she he saw the gleam of metal tests showed high values in silver lead and gold digging began j in 1873 and 1874 about toes tons of 85 ore was waa hauled miles to the nearest railroad point and shipped the ore body proving large attempts were made to mill it it not however until the salisbury brothers brother of salt lake city blocked out a great tonnage and erected a modern mill did the door deer trial become ft a bonanza at one time this mine had bad a monthly 1 I 1 payroll of more than employed men and paid taxes ot of about a year it to Is worked now by some 50 lessees lessels les sees after the completion of arail a railroad to marysvale Marys Mary vale the webster mine was enabled to send ore out to the smelters shelters sm elters the wedge on a peak south of the webster startled the public bythe by the extreme richness of its gold seams some of which are said to have averaged to the ton these high values encouraged prospecting tor for gold in the mountains northwest of marysvale Marys Mary vale ore was first discovered there jn in 1888 by douglass of fulmore fillmore in one claim a shaft struck rock worth per ton in gold and his partners formed a company and built a ton mill surrounding claims struck ore peter kinberly ot of chicago and associates acquired the annie laurie and other groups the camp was christened kimberly at the annie laurie kimberly erected a ton mill and employed men about more men were put to work by other mines and prospects by 1900 the little camp had become a prosperous town during eight years of 0 operation by the annie laurie pluto plute county ordinarily poor collected more money in taxes than it needed flush days ended the annie annia laurie was sold east by the kimberly interests and in 1916 was taken over by 13 F bauer of salt lake the price of gold was advanced bauer improved the camp remodeled the mill and in 1936 disposed of 0 the property to a new york syndicate near marysvale Marys vale masses ot of a pink spar had long piqued the curiosity ot of tom gillan samples sent to washington by A E R custer a salt la lake k e city a assayer revealed 38 lo 10 aluminum 37 sulphur and 11 potash gillan and J TJ sargent had already located S some ome c claims I 1 a I 1 ms the fl first r 8 t lo 10 locations C at I 1 ons ol of a on record the potash content was hailed as a means of 0 breaking the german monopoly of that product after the world war started it became indispensable A process tor for its recovery was devised by howard chapell and in 1910 the gillan and sargent argent Fi claims were bought by the mineral products corporation spurred by the war demand the corporation established a plant for the production ot of sulphate aul mul phate of potash between october 1915 and december 1920 more than 2000 tons of high grade alunite was mined and treated at a cost of a month the aluminum constituting one third of the alunite has since do dominated m the picture the source 0 ot f supply Is practically inexhaustible inexhaustibly a millions of tons remain in the ground ot of the mineral products florence irio renca and bradburn companies and there are vast deposits of lower grade grada ore around them the supply I 1 Is 8 assured only reduction facilities are lacking extensive research by the government and private capital alms at the development of low cost methods of extracting tr aluminum oxide from alunite in a form suitable tor for pr production 0 of 0 metallic aluminum E experience x peri Deri ence in foreign countries and the generation of cheap electric power of boulder dam point to success meanwhile the demand tor for aluminum in airplanes streamline trains ships wire furniture paints and industries still in the making grows day by day and a broad market tor for this unique product ot of marysvale Marys vales vale S hills will be waiting when technical improvements remove present obstacles |
