Show TUNING MINING IN UTAH IN 1018 1918 the metal production of 0 utah u lih in ili 1917 reached the high value of 19 according to preliminary figi res just made public by the united states geological survey department part ment ot of the interior this is a record for the state the shipment of ores and concentrates in the mining districts of 0 utah during the first sl si months of 1918 according to V C II elkes of the geological survey were however less than those of 0 the corresponding period in ili 1917 production was affected by severe winter weather neather higher costs sho shortage rt of labor and smelter embargoes the prices of metals except siler were lower than in 1917 larger shipments were being made front from aca beaver er county and from the park city region in the first liali cy ol 01 1918 than in ili the later part of 1917 but decreases are noted from tile the mines at gintic tintic and Bing gingham liam tile the mines at park city were shipping at al out tons of crude ore and con cen a month during the early part of 1918 in the tintie district the shipments decreased to about tons a month the tintic milling co continued to treat custom ores by leaching but the shipments from many mines were cui tailed and the Mam Alam month mine was closed the shipments from alta should improve during tile the grimmer as the narrow narron gage line from froin wasatch to alta was operating in ili june most alost ot of akl tl ig pr gold and silv silver tr produced in products byproducts by obtained in ili sni smelling smelting sm elting copper and lead ores the output of 0 gold in 1917 was and that of silvear was line find ounces sall sal lake county 75 per cent of the total metal output ot of the shiite in 1917 so ao alo present conditions at bingham in thit that county are of considerable interest the utah copper co according I 1 to its report tor for the first qi quarter arter ot or 1918 vas nias producing slightly Igl itly less in that quarter than in ia the first quarter of bf 1917 though its output showed improvement in april and may the new copper leaching plant of this company which is now treating about 1500 tons of 0 low grade carbonate ore daily may add much copper to the output of 0 the diate state but the opera loii ot of the plant so far has been in ill pant arlt experimental A larger output is expected from the ohio copper cos property in ili 1918 I 1 IS as the old mill operations oper allons and two units of tile the new mill each having a daily capacity ot of goo tons wore were active in mayi may in ill march tile ho yampa which produced cons lerable copper was closed derane itly and the plant ot of fie utah nistal tunnel property was closet closed kempor ariy an ly no great increase in fit the copper output of utah is expect iu ili 1913 the total production in ili 1017 1917 was wab ilg 6 pounds valued al ai 46 0 44 the increase in the output uc or lead it art at park city m may ay offset file decrease in that of oc the tintic t most ot of the load produced in utah comes from bilingham where no increase lias has been made in ili 1918 the utah apex mine was again closed for a time on account of fire in thee the workings encouraging shipments of lead are being in made we from the tintic gintic standard mine in fit utah county in 1917 utah produced pounds of lead valued at the prospect is not favorable tor for nit an increase in the output of zinc the mines ot of utah produced 2 pounds ot of zinc in fit 1917 which was considerably less than the production in fit 1916 the united states smelting smelling Sm elting co continues continue to ship lead zinc ore from its properties at bingham the largest zinc producers in the state slate the mines ill beaver county are arc keeping up shipments cuts ot of zinc concentrate and the electrolytic plant of 0 the judge mining smelting smelling Sm elting co at park city continues to market spelter the tour four smelting smelling sm elting plants in utah are active but apparently no effort has been made to increase the present rate ot of shipment of 0 ore |