| Show utah company goes east to develop mine it has long been common practice for eastern mining people to enter the development and operation of a utah mine but when a utah company goes east to open a new property that Is really news park city consolidated mines company a long time operator in the park city district where its ite principal product was silver has become one ot of the nations substantial producers of lead by putting into operation the ruth mine and a ton flotation mill in the southeastern lead belt near fred erick town missouri the southeast lead belt is currently the largest single lead producing area in the country in which are located a number ot of famous mines including mine la motte located by early french explorers when park city consolidated secured the cluth mine in 1941 there had been no previous production buethe but the utah people have chartered the company successfully success tully through a moderate e exploration campaign and a program of 0 mill construction and experiments the companas comp anys owners are principally utahna while it is gratifying to have a utah company enter successful operation in another field it is a warning tor for utahna to look to their metallic resources and encourage their development the utah company searched far and wide tor for a property to operate before entering the missouri field several several properties were examined in in utah for possible production but park city consolidated went to missouri this does not mean that resources are becoming depleted but it does mean that they are more and more difficult to find the states surface deposits ot of base and precious metals have long ong since been prospected and is necessary to probe deeper and further under the earths crust to find them it is probably a tact fact that metal reserves have only been scratched but it will require more courage capital and encouragement to develop them la in the future during its period ot of operation I 1 in U utah tah the company has produced ore valued at ot of which has been paid tor for labor in wages compensation insurance su rance social security and unemployment taxes has been spent for supplies equipment insurance su rance power and paid in taxes and paid tor for freight and umpires on ore sales |
