Show the story of copper in utah ot C P 01 I 1 4 e V 4 V A 14 al n ak I 1 1 1 1 I 2 ae INI N r NU WL 1 1 l ay iett i yav agte t mountain man and machinery combine to produce about one third of nations output editors note this hilt 1 li the second of 0 a series erles of eight articles titled tilled the story ot of copper in utah the story of 0 utah copper Is a story of a mountain men and machinery all combined to produce from one mine approximately one third of the nations output of cop per and to td make greatest employer arid and largest taxpayer the mountain Is situated about 28 miles southwest of 0 salt lake city the mountains to the west of 0 salt lake city the an indian name meaning west mountain afountain look much the same as the other peaks that surround salt lake valley one hill ot of this vast oquirrh range Is a porphyry mass a rock resembling granite through which aich Is disseminated a small a amount ot of copper less leas than one per cent to the ton and minute amounts ot of gold silver and denum this spot Is known as bingham bangham ace sance lilot 1901 men and machinery have en whittling away at this block of ore to supply copper for peace 1 time ime industry and tor for war during these 42 years a huge bowl has been hewed out ot of the mountain so that a great ampi theatre now exists not unlike an oversized toot foot ball stadium to view this great enterprise from one ot of the upper levels al most compels ones s imagination to wander men alen at work look almost gnome like ailts against the tha huge terraces that torm form the walls which slope outward from the center of 0 the great pit the tha vast network ot ol tracks that cleale each level or terrace and the trains appear not unlike toys in the vastness of the huge bowl when man first this en ter prise he was thought by many to be a dreamer like many other inert men who wrought some ot of the great accomplishments of industry and science the man who utah copper was D C jackling who in 1890 examined the porphyry hill at bingham and the possibilities that existed through the application ol of machinery to make anake production on a scale large enough to make the cost ot of prodoc tion low enough to permit commercial iner cial extraction ot of the small amount of copper this was new to the copper industry as up to Jac klings time the worlds copper production had come from veins ot of high grade copper ore are jackling had no easy time many turned his project down and it took years tor for his broad vision to win recognition this Is the second of a series ot of eight articles titled tilled the story of copper in utah the third will appear in these columns soon |