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i ... 34 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING-, DECEMBER 29, 1907. i
j' ' I Bingham Camp and Garfield SmeliersM
i
Bingham a ml Garfield arc so inti
mately associated together that tlic
mention of one necessarily implies the
I mention of the otlior. Bingham pro
vides tho ores, aud Garfield provides
1 tho concentrating plants and tho smel-
. , ' l;er, without which Bingham rock
V. would bo tho vnlueloss and usolcss
, product of nature it had boon for so
many years before copper and coppor
1 ore treatment bad reached the prosent
; ' state of desirability and perfection rc-
j ' spcetively.
Bingham is ono of tho most fasci-
! tinting mining camps in tho world. In
: the past few years it has attained a
I Klatc of prominence not enjoyed by
any other district known to the min-
! : ing industry; it deserves and. is gladly
; 1. . I given the honor of providing tho stag-
:f ! ing for pioneer efforts in solving metal
lurgical problems of a world-wido im
portance. Once Silver-Lead Camp.
; , ' There arc several who deserve credit
i 1 for malting Bingham what it is today.
, At first a silver-lead camp of wido use-
j fulness, the early operators of .Bing-
I ham encountered an apparently insur
y mountnblc difficulty when their shafts
v - and tunnels ran into tho porphyry rock
II carrying very low averages ot coppor.
J Coppor in those days was worse than.
l a drug on the market. Thorn was no
(I demand for it. consequent ly there was
h s no uso to mine it, especially out of
mountains containing around 2 per cent
5 of the red metal, when other sections
lj were more (ban capable of producing
all that could bo utilized in tho va-
, rious channels of commerce from ore
i that wns practically all copper,
i j The early miner and mine ownor had
I l gouged around the surface of the dis-
1 trict, and after relieving mother earth
s ' of a great, deal of silver-lead rock,
! packed their tools and struck out for
fir other camps of more promise. Biug
p '', Lam becamo 0 deserted camp, a deso
L j late shadow of its former self, and it
V was a mighty fow chimneys, that evi-
II donced a faithful soul resident bore
pi and there over the Utile city strung
i'r up the canyon.
j I But every emergency presents its sa
il f vior. There were a few bravo souls
fj J that had a sufficiently strong faith in
P J their judgment to remain 'behind and
f1 eoek tho one redeeming feature of this
:' Abandoned region. It took a character
1! i of foresight to appreciate tho opor
II 1 unities of Bingham that iB halted by
:! nothing to gain a desired end. There
U ivoro a very few men who appreciated
L the future "of copper to a sufficient cx
Ji -tent as to remain faithful to Bingham.
" a They .were successful, they were right,
, and great has been their reward.
Ij'j . Famous Bingham Operators.
llfjr Some day a history of Bingham will
i'f be written in which the Walls, tho
1 1 Weirs, 'the MacVichies, the Kobinsons,
If 1 Iho Chanuings, the Jacklings, the New-
1 - houses, tho Ilauchct,ts, and many oth-
; t 1 ers will occupy prominent niches in the
t1 hall' of Bingham's fame. Thoir efforts
i in finding 'out the proper methods of
' I . treatment for the low grade porphyry
y , ; ores, their endeavors to discover the
k I most economical and practicable moth-
j ; ods of mining so great a tonnage as
9 necessity demanded in order to make
the canip one capable of paying, the
" t great engineering problems seized on
h ! and solved, all brought to tho present
happy conclusion illustrated so clo-
1 , queutly by what Bingham is today, be-
m . long in history. This account is sup-
posed to be an outline of what Bing-
- ' ham is today, and what was nccoin-
plislted thcro during tho year that has
A , ,-just taken its appointed place in his-
I; 1 'tory.
, In order to appreciate the kind of
I work that has been goiug forward in
Bingham for tho past year or two. one
must forgot ordinary mining that con
templates seeking for mineral wealth
bv means of tunnels, shafts and in
clines, and bring to bear a mind pre-
f, pared for undertakings that arc revo-
1, lutionary in character. One must for-
t get the windlass and the hoist; he
i must bring to bear a mind capable of
L conceiving vast mountains moved from
y the spot where nature deposited them
J to where the ingenuity of man has pro-
! v.ided a new setting for them. Not only
U is ore "being brought out of the Bing-
Bl ham mountains, but Bingham is losing
v .her mountains, losing her landscape.
' Mountains refused to move for Ma-
I hornmet, but modern mining and metal
lurgical mcthpds aro moving Bing-
U ham mountains. The task at Bing
ham compares with any engineering
problem ever tackled by man.
Tlio average man with a cellar ca
pacity for ten tons of coal these days
of cramped homes deems himself pretty
well fixed for space. But in contem
plating tonnages at Bingham, it takes
a person of more than average com
prehension to appreciate properly the
I tremendous amount of workable rock
If in Utah's greatest mining camp, and
It in what everyone concedes to be tho
If world's banner red metal section,
r Bingham's Two G-iants.
E1 Mention of Bingham necessarily
L. brings to mind its two great mines,
r! These arc tho Utah Copper and tho
t' Boston Consolidated properties. In the
& Utah Copper mine, .iust for tho sake
' : of illustrating Bingham tonnages to be
: 1 handled cheaply and quickly by niod-
ern mining and engineering talent,
I- j ihore are now developed to availablo
I ' form 100,000,000 tons of ore. and only
a small fraction of tho availablo ter-
II ritory has been opened by the manage
j, ment. In the Boston Consolidated mino
t there are 58,5S0.000 tons d porphyry
, ore available. To handle this tonnage
T takes a young army of experienced
F't men, to say nothing of the brains and
' ability behind the two organizations,
mj Tho mining requires the operation of
I giant steam shovels, hundreds of rail
I 1 road cars, many engines, special rail
I 2 road lines, and millions of dollars cap
) ri ltal. Up to tho present time, these two
I ;1 organizations have spent over $0,000,
I'A 000 in preparatory work. They arc
now assuming shape, but it will take
over two millions more, perhnps, to
i bring everything to the logical point.
' Utah Copper Figuros.
U. , Some figures on tho Utah Copper
ft. company will bo of interest as well
Rj as illustrnitng more than anything else
l the gigantic undertaking 0 this min
is! iiig organization. In this mine at
H Bingham, with only a portion of its
I ground developed, there arc 39,000,000
Hp tons of )orphyry ore that averages 1.S
m per cent copper. Thcro arc 100,000,000
W' tons of ore available ho far, the avcr
II age copper content of which is 1.25 per
fivi 1 cent. In the mere task df developing
RtHli this mine, 350,000 tons of ore were re
IB (Hi moved, the average of which was 1.0S2
IB' per cent copper.
DuIK The company has two mills, ono at
nb Bingham, which" has been renovated so
H us to bring it up to a high staudard
M Btj of utility for tho future, the other
Blj being the new mammoth concentrating
Wm plant at Garfield. With those two mills
jJjS i in complete operation, ,ih thoy will be
within the first few months of tho new
Hhj ' year, the same will treat 2,500,000 tons
nUI of oro annually, from which will bo
wrung 58,300,000 pounds of refined cop
por. Now copper is not going to stop
at any price like- l-l cents a pound;
it will come closer to 17 cents, but for
tho sake of conservatism, and in order
to bo ablo to give a more favorable
account at the close of 1D0S, we will
nut copper at M cents a pound. At
that price the Utah Copper company,
after allowing S cents a pound for
treatment (and this again is a bit too
high), the annual net earnings of the
company will bo $3,500,000. This is
equal to $5.30 per share on the 000,000
shares of tho company, or 2G.5 per cent
return on tho etoclc with tho slock
quoted at $20 per share.
In this mine at tho present time
thorc aro sovenloeu milos of under
ground workings. Taking the tonnage
of the group from tho l.S per cent
copper standpoint, or 39,000,000 tons of
oro, tho mino will last at tho abovo
rato of activity sixteen years, which,
at $5.30 per share a year, will bring
to the stockholder in that period tho
sum of $S5 per share profit. Figuring
the tonnago at 100.000,000, of tho 1.25
per cent oro, tho Ufo of the mino will
bo even greater, and the profits pro
portionately moro gonerous. And it
should bo remembered that tho so far
untouched portion of the propertj' is
capable of bringing forth returns of
equal magnitude.
But supposo copper goes abovo 3-1
cents, a pouud. and it will. What
thou? Each advanco of ono cent per
pound in coppor will mean to tho Utah
Copper stockholders an additional
$600,000 per year net profits, or net
earnings pf almost $1 per share.
And this is only ono Bingham mine.
Somo figures along similar lines
nbouf, tho Boston Consolidated will
also be of interest.
Boston Oon. Tomiago.
So far devoloped. tho Boston Con
solidated company has availablo a to
tal of 5S.500.000 'tons of ore, the avor
ngo copper content of which is 1.5 per
cent. Included in this total are 10.
026,000 tons of oro which average l.S'2
per cont copper. In addition to this
tonnago, the property includes 100
acres of ground, within which is an un
told and immense tonnage of coppor oro
which averages 1 per cent copper.
When the new mill of the company is
completed at Garfield, it will be capa
ble of treating 1,000.000 tons of ore
per year. From this amount will bo
produced 23,320,000-pounds of refined
coppor.
Figuring copper at (ho same level.
14 cents a pouud, and allowing again S
cents per pound for expenses of min
ing and treatment, the annual net earii
igs of this company will be $1,400,000.
This is equal to $2.25 per share net on
the 625,000 shares of the company, or
15 por cent on the stock with the stock
quoted at $15 per share. Thcro aro
six miles of underground workings on
tho Boston Consolidated, and taking
tho tonnage at 10,026,000, tho life of
the mine na far as the above tonnage
is concerned will be 11. years, which,
at $2.25 per share por v'car. means a
net income for the stockholders of $25
per share. And these figures nierelv
contemplate a small portion of the
available resources of the 7roperty.
Cost of Production.
These two organizations. will be ablo
to produce copper at less than S cents
ji pouud, it will be closer to 7 cents,
and perhaps still less as the plants arc
limbered up to their logical state of
perfection. This is important, for
while other camps with a coppor cost
of from 10 to 14 cents a pound are
helpless with a low copper lovel, Bing
ham caii go straight ahead safely and
serenely, knowing that its low-grndo
ores can be brought into a commercial
form just the same, with a splendid
profit.
This point has been illustrated by
the Utah Coppor company during the
past few months. When all Ihft other
organizations of the State and the
West were closing down their mines
until the copper slump hnd progressed
into a more favorable phase, the Utah
Copper company kept right on work
ing, mining its' ores, and milling them
by means of the first seven sections of
its new Garfield plant, and the mill at
Bingham. It was the action of. this
company in keeping at work that
helped clear tho Utah situation. Jt
showed hone in the future, and the wis
dom of this course was apparent when
timo began to unwind the tangled af
fairs of the nation. The company now
has nine sections of the mill success
fully at work, and it is handling a
better tonnage than 0-100 per day.
It has been by just such mines as
these two Bingham propositions that
the fame of the camp has oxtendod
clear round the globe, and Bingham is
looked to today as tho grcateSt red
metal district known.
But there aro other mines at Bing
ham. Utah Consolidated.
There is one especially . that is re
garded as an ideal illustration of what
legitimate mining activity can produce
for an investing public. This is tho
Utah Consolidated "company. The Utah
Consolidated company has served fo
bring much honorable fame to Bing
ham, and its dividends for the pact
year, amounting to $2,100,000, estab
lishes it as one of the great mines of
tho world. The Utah Consolidated ores
contain copper and gold, and the com
pany has tho advantage of mining via
wisely plannod avenues in a most eco
nomical manner. And its own smel
ter, constantly operating on nono but
its own ores, has given tho company
a tromendous advantage for good.
Some few mouths ago. a report was
freely circulated that the Utah Con
solidated company had encountered n
great fault at depth, .the bottom of the
mino shifting on to the Yampa ground
adjoining. After considerable discus
sion back and forth, in which everyone
assidiously took part wjth the sole ex
ception of the officials of tho company,
tho silence of tho Utah Consolidated
official household was broken, and a
donial of the reports issued. This de
nial has been believed, and it is be
liovcd yet, and no one is found now
with the courage to predict an early
declino in usefulness for this organiza
tion. Low Cost Assured.
It looked for a. while that the cost
of copper production would be increased
for the company, owing to the extra
amount of equipment and labor neces
sary to bring the ores from deeper
levels than heretofore,, but closely fol
lowing these convictiona came tho
word that on the 0J6 lovol the man
agement was developing a body of
splendid copper rock which promised to
bo among the greatest bodies of this
noted old proper'. When last heard
from, several months ago, the manage
ment hnd opened over a half-million
tons in this ore chute, and with the
end of the ore nowhere in sight, al
though it was being' attacked from
nearly all sides by the miners of tho
company. The cost of coppor produc
tion por pouud to the Utah Consoli
dated company has been 5 cents, the
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I Utah '$ Dividend Record i
1 for 1907 j
T X
? Beck funnel, Tintic $ 340,000 jr.
X Bingliain-Ncw JIavcn, Bingham 22,865) X
:f Bullion Beck, Tinlic ... ) 30,000 '
f Ccnlnry. Tintic 6,000 $
Colorado, Tintic 320,000 ?
$ Columbus Consolidated, AUa 212,623 t
1 Daly-Judge, Park City 225.000 t i
J Daly West, Park City 378,000 :: !
:: Kurcka Hill, Tintic (estimated) 1.00,000 t
Gemini, Tintic 100,000 ,
Grand Central, Tintic -J .... 147,500 $ j
lj! Horn Silver, Frisco 60,000
Iiower Mammoth, Tintic 57,000 t
Mammoth, Tintic , , . 80,000 $ j
J May Day, Tintic : . 64,000 i:
Newhouse, Newhouse , 300,000 $
Silver King, Park City 375,000
? Swansea, Tintic , . 5,000
J Uncle Sam Consolidated, Tintic . . . . 70,000 J
:: Utah Mine, Fish Springs ' 36,000 t
J Utah Consolidated, Bingham 2,100,000
f Victoria, Tintic : 30,000 I
T T
x Yankee Consolidated, Tmtic 15,000 X
? United Slates S. R. & M. Co., Bingham 2,564,436 ?
Total $7,638,428 1
? Gain of 1007 over 1906, $2,487,93$. J
lowest production cost of any copper
mine in the world. This has boon due
to easy facilities for mining, and to
tho moro precious metallic contents of
the rock. ovor3-thing but these being
considered as velvet, by the company.
The Utah Consolidated company has
$1,000,000 in its purso with which to
provide a new smelter across tho
mountains. Tt will bo built during
1008. and this is nierelv one cumulative
particle of evidence that the property
has a groat manv .years of usefulness
yet before it. One very significant
disclosure of tho year lor the company
was the opening up of a great body of
lead-silver ore, the same being capable
of providing a very snug and independ
ent income to tho organization during
tho new year. Tho Ut,ah Consolidated
is one ot tho giants of Bingham, tho
camp of giants.
Yampa Anothor Giant.
Among tho big fellowa of Bingham,
and well up to the frout. is the Tintic
Mining and Development company,
popularly called Iho Yampa. The
Yampa 'is a big minc and among its
extremely valuablo assets is its smel
ter, free from all trouble with the
farming element owing to its protected
location. During the past year the
Yampa closed down its mino and smel
ter for the purpose of adding to the
furnace capneity of the plant, to com
plete the installation of tho aerial
tramway, and to allow sufficient coal
and coko to accumulate to assure un
interrupted operation. This close-down
lasted only for a very few vceks. and
early in November the fires were light
ed in the furnaces to bring them to a
correct heat for active smelting by
December 1.
The Yampa has not. developed its
ground to a very groat extent, for it
takes years to bring into available
form great bodies of coppcr-gold-silver
ores. But within .-the mino now are
over 2,000,000 tons of ore. better than
which for value few mines in Bing
ham can present. The preseut year will
find tho company in tho dividend list,
barring any great cataclysms in tho
mining industry such as we experienced
last season. The property has tho ores,
tho company has the smelter and in
every way is equipped for a splendid
era of prosperity from the present
time on. The company is backed by
prominent Eastern capital, it is a close
corporation, and it is not an easy task
to get news regarding operations. The
company goes along its oven path, say
in" little, but ever accomplishing and
successful. The new manager, Mr.
gasman, has won his way into tho
hearts of mining Utah during hia short
stay in this State.
Ohio Copper Company.
A few suspected that the Ohio Cop
per company had a grea proposition on
its handfi when F. Augustus Hoinze
stepped in and took charge of tho or
ganization, but few boliovcd that this
mine could have been brought up to its
present ideal condition in the brief time
allotted to those having the responsibili
ty of developing tho property. Tn tho
absence of exact figures, it can bo staled
that this property' has devoloped up to
tho present time betwocn $10,000,000
and $12,000,000 v.'drth of ore, figuring
copper will locale at 1-i cents a pound.
Mr. Hoinze pecurod control of tho
property in 190G for something liko 00
or SO cents a Kharc. In 1907, ,it to
foro the great financial crisis seized on
tho nation, this stock went up to $7
per shun). This illustrates that there
is mining and money in mining going on
in Utah.
Late last summer there was organized
a new railroad company in Salt Lake
City at tho head of which appeared
Hovcral well-known Salt Lake poople.
It is thought that Mr. H.?inzc really was
the moving hand in this organization,
and that he intended to construct a line
from the mouth of the Mascottc tunnel
to Salt Lake, and to his new smelter
site round tho mountains. He holds an
option of a valuable power franchiso :
secured somo timo ago by Salt Lake
people, the railroad lines; therefore,
when completed will bo operated elec
trically, Tho Mascottc tunnel is .boring its way
into the Ohio Copper mountain with re
markable speed. It will tap under tho
point whore tho Ohio Copier manage
ment has, developed its great ore bodies.
This tunnel will strike under this de
veloped point fully 700 feet. Now, sup
pose the tunnel opens the ore as lib
erally ns thoy wcro found to bo opened
above? Tho Ohio Copper property will
be ono of tho greatest mines ot tho
West.
Ohio Copper Mill.
By the coming March, the new mill of
Iho company will be completed and in
operation. This plant will treat 2000
tons of oro per day immediately after
its starting up, and" it is merely "a ques
tion of securing the required equipment
to increase this capacity. Tho mill
should havo been completed last July,
but the delay in securing tho structural
steel and other items of construction
put the company back all theso months.
Had tho mill been completed on time,
tho Ohio Coppor company would havo
been in successful operation before tho
last of 1907. Tho compan" is fully
financed for all time to come, and wiil
bo making a splendid earning in tho
new year. Last summer tho company,
then organized under tho laws of Ne
braska, was reorganized under tho laws
of Maino. a State with laws much bet
ter suited to tho needs of mining com
panies. Tho Salt Lake directors of the
company aro Thomas Weir, who discov
ered the merits of tho group sufficiently
to interest Mr. Hcinzo; David Keith
and Captain Duncau MeVichio. Mr.
Hcinzo is vico-prcsident.
Utah Apcx-Eed Wlug.
During tho past season, the Utah
Apex and tho Utah Development com
panies, by installing their joint con
centrating plant, brought into available
form their largo tonnages of coppor
ores. Both have enormous roserves of
red motal, the Red Wing mino of tho
Utah Development company especially
having available a fine toniiago of mill
ing rock. The Utah Apex has been
fortunate' during its history in finding
much coppor ore whoso vj'ilues permit
direct consignment to the smelters.
Theso two companies havo utilized the
mill the past season each month alter
nately, and both havo succeeded in pil
ing up very satisfactory earnings. Tho
mill has been operating in a splendid
manner, being shown conclusively a big
inctallurgieal success. Both companies
have i bright future, both have been
accomplishing in 1907, and had it not
been for the unfavorable coppor condi
tions, combined with the unfortunate
smeltiug difficulties during the past few
months, they would havo registered
larger returns during the year. As it
is, their resources aro available for bet
ter results this new season.
United States Company.
Another company that maintained un
interrupted oncrations during the finan
cial panic was tho United States Smelt
ing, Refining and Mining company. This
organization's Bingham properties pre
sented a very busy appearance all year,
and assisted the company in accumu
lating that handsome surplus by which
dividends wcro maintained without in
terruption. Tho mines of this company
have responded with all their usual
faithfulness, and they havo been con
ducted along the samo high pianos, in
which ability plays no small part, as
havo characterized this organization in
its dealings with its various extensive
enterprises. In spite of their many
years of active operation, these prop
erties scorn to never play out, thoy
are apparently inexhnustilile, and will
servo the compan' for numerous sea
sons to come.
Among tho disappointing develop
ments for tho year in Bingham was
tho closing down of tho Bingham Con
Bolidatcd mines, owing to tho smelter
snioko decision, forcing tho smelting
plant of tho company at Bingham Junc
tion to coaso operations. Tho Bing
ham Consolidated mines aro among the
most valunblo possessions of tho gigan
tic copper camp, and will undoubtedly
give agreeable answers to tho efforts
at the management when the now smelt
ing Plant ol tho samo is completod on
tho Tooele side of tho mountains.
Bingham Amalgamated.
Thcro were somo powerful youngsters
developed in Bingham in 190. Ono of
the most picturesque was the Bingham
Amalgamated company, an organization
completed during tho season. This com
pany took over tho ownership of the
old Illinois group, also tho control of
tho Copper Glance. Tho company is
dirving a deep working shaft to depths,
the samo behigono of the most ellicient
avenues into Bingham hills now search
ing at depth for miuoral. On tho 300
foot level tho manairenuwui has oncaim.-
trcdo nn oro chuto over sixtv foot by
sixty foot in dimensions, tho on tiro
body averaging 'I por cont copper, with
bunches of oxtromoly high-grade rock
all through it. Jlow much larger this
ore bod' is no ono can tell, but every
thing points to it becoming one of tho
most gratifying sources of mineral
wealth in that section. Tho 3haft is
down bolow tho -100-foot level at this
time, and work is being carried for
ward to open up this body on each suc
ceeding lovol. This company is ono
of the roal winners of Bingham.
Other Organizations.
r3ackcd by powerful Eastorn caoital,
the Bingham New Haven company is
quietly but surely opening up ono of
thosu typical Bingham red metal mines
that will rnako tho best sort of history
for Utah. Little over has been allowed
to reach the public from this company
regarding its operations, but during the
mist season tho same sort, and extent
oT ore chutes wcro opened up that have
made tho Utah Consolidated company
ono of the banner earners of the min
ing West. Tho Biugham-New Haven
has been a Hteady worker and earner
in 1907.
Early in the year tho famous old
Winnamuck group wns gathered in by
Thomas Weir and his association, and
with a splendid acreage of surrounding
patontod mineral laud, tho Ute Copper
company was organized by them, and
work started l.hroo shifts with a gon
erous forco of miners. This company
had a big task beforo it. for it was
necessary before commencing the real
era of activity to clean up all the
iormer workings to mako them safo and
permanent workings A firo destroyed
tho compressor and compressor ho'use
during tho summer, but both wcro
quickly replaced, and operations con
tinued along tho samo vigorous lines.
The Ufo Connor company will bo heard
trom in lflOS in a most positivo and
gratifying manner.
Such mines as the Bingham Central
Standard, tho combined proportics of
tho Bingham Standard and the Central
companies, the Montezuma, tho Butte
and Bingham, Last Chance and numer
ous others all aro being rounded out
in order to make thoir prcsenco felt
m tho coming twelve montho. Bingham
is in ideal shape to prove itself tho
great giant the world now so readily
believes, and 190S will be tbo best vea'r
in its history, and with tho certainty
that each succeeding season will bring
forth lruits in ever-increasing ratio.
Industries at Garfield.
Not long ago an Eastern writer in
?u rr sl'PPsed was a learned article
on the-Utah smelter question spoko free
ly about the smelters of the Utah Cop
por and the Boston Consolidated com
panies at Garfield.
As a matter of fact, these two com
panies have no smelters at Garfield.
J.no Garfield Smelting company, a Gug
genheim combination, has a smelter at
this now point, but the other two com- (
panics mentioned have only concontrat- t
ing plauts, or mills, tho" product of I
which goes to the smelter for final dis- i
position.
Garfiold has been tho center of in
terest to tho mining world for the past
year or two, for there wei'e being cen- I
tored millions of dollars in improvement '
work that will mako their prcsenco felt I
trom tho present timo on. Tho new
smelter was blown-in late in 1905. At
first there came reports that this plant
was not a success; that tho furnaces
had been unevenly proportioned, and
that a general rearrangement would bo
necessary before the invostmcut would
be a paying venture.
Smeltor Complete Success.
No argument advanced by tho com
pauy in refutation of these reports
brought groater conviction of their fal- i
8i'ty than the fact that the smelter con- i
tinued its operations without lot-up, and
that it handled all tho copper ores it (
could secure in a manner highly satis-
factory to the great interests responsi-
ble for its being. If any combination
of intorc'stH in tho world knows how
to build'8moltors it is the Guggcnheima.
Tho owners aro not only operating tho i
present battery of furnaces in a high- 1
ly capable manner, showing that the
adverse reports were entirely out of i
roason, but thov constantly aro adding
to the plant along tho same lines as
havo governed from the vory start of
work. Tho plant is a success and ono
of tho most efficient smelters in the
country. x t
It bears the distinction of being the
only copper smelter left in tho State
of Utah. Perched on the shores of the
Great Salt Lako, the plant is freo from
tho shafts of tho farming element. The
company wisely purchasod about all the
Burrounding land capablo of support
ing a garden patch thalMnight fall with
in the smoke-affected zone beforo break
ing ground for tho plant. Its posses
sions are not numbored by acres, but by
miles. Tt wns erected originally for
tho purpose of treating tho ores and
concentrates from the Utah Copper and
Boston Consolidated mills nearby, but
in its furnaces will be treated copper
ores produced from all camps of tho
State. It is to thu operation of this
plant that tho copper output for Utah
in 1907 assumed such magnificent pro
portions. Utah Copper Mill.
Tho main fcaturo of Garfield for
1907 was the placing in operation of
tho first sections of the Utah Copper
plant. This mammoth mill, whon fully
completed, will have a capacity of C000
tons of oro per da', divided into two
units of equal capacity. TIiq . main
building containing the two units is 600
by 508 feet in dimension. The mill is
divided into three individual compart
ments, containing tho coarso crushing,
tho fine crushing and the concentrating
departments. Each unit has its own
coarse crushing and concentrating de
partments, each crusher having a ca
pacity of 700 tons of ore per hour.
In tho fine crushing department aro
Chilean mills to tho number of thirty
six, and twenty Bets of crushing rolls.
Tho concentrating department is con
fined to three floors, tho total area of
which is 242,000 6quare feot of rein
forced concrete, or over fivo and a half
acres in extent. Tn this department arc
seventy-four jigs, forty-eight Wilfley
tables and 1104 six-foot vanuers. Tins
department will also contain twenty
four compartment classifiers, and 3i4
nino-foot 'conical settliug tanks. Tho
mill is so constructed that each unit of
3000 tons each is made up of six sec
tions of 500 tons each, making twelvo
soctions in tho plant whon complete.
Each of these sections is a complete
mill in itself, capablo of being operated
independently of the others, thus assur
t ing a continual operation of such as aro
in perfect condition whilo one or more
j of tho rest need adjustment or repair
ing. i
Presont Operations.
. Tho Utah Coppejr company now ha3
nine sections in full operation, han
i dling over 5000 tons per day. Tho sec
tions aro cnpablo of doing moro work
than their capacity calls for. For in
t stance, on the nth of December last the
seven sections treated 6000 tons of
j ore, but this was a very unusual day.
Tho mill is under the careful manage
I mcnt of D. C. Jackling, general man
I agcr and vice-president of tho com
pany, and Jt. C. Gemmel, tho general
superintendent, both recognized as lead
ing the leaders of tho metallurgical
world.
During tho past year tho Utah Cop-
pcr company nlaopj U
mammoth power ninf operation Hi
current gcno Ptxal ait, &
aro of 1G00 kilow-.tf, , theao set? "
throe of 2250 kEtV'achUth' other "
Power. This plant ' Sr i300-hor39 &?
tho two mills one i at r nr 8aPPlyiiiff '
other at BinghaLrficld Jnpdy g j
vent being conducted ivT"' tho S ft
pule copper and stool clht VOlccn. ' 2
ing many thousands of lm- cat-
installation of this eKSJfv M th f
Copper company finds IB 1 tho Ut&b
free from the coal 8hortLPrActicall7
been one of tho preffl ? 5.at ia
flucnces with which B&SardiaR
have had to wrcstlo ,DKham operators
The Utah Conner mitt '
splendid saving o? vaSnl I3 makinR '
expectations, feoth aa To Yh"1"1 "all
ore treated and the amouS0 ?xtox of-
valucn extracted. &L nt of molallic ?
giants of tho coppor m&! 00 of tbe
U carefully. paiil affS?, WH !t
the very beginning that tbs f.rom iJ
bo assured beyond all d0ubt. 3 mishl J,
Boston Consolidated Mm,
A liberal portion nt m, t, .' -
fiolidated mill at Garfield Bo8ton Coa- ,!
its task before the comnM roaa7 fr j
pared to deliver tho n?P fay wae Pro-
limited porphyry deJositS F lts ua" "J
December, howovor th0 rom? fi?fc ot
to ship porphyry orn In n began
mill, AnS it Sl be a ntr ' at tho '
a very few week! nntf he mill ?f '
operation. ine m'U us in
Tho Boston Consolidate ' i
structed along differ!!? llSeS SL"011-
that govorned tho Utah p2n tihoso '
Instead of Chilean mS& X ;Pknt ' 1
in the latter, tho jW.&n ? us.e !
equipped with Mssea .Urn mJ?
lurgiats have been intereS ft1 , i
operation of tho twn ;u f i& the
process, tho ore of ho r.EC9.Yhich I
cal, becomes the best f1Dj? ident5- il
stration. Thoy havo i , jde?10""--
over, that either nroCei ?fCd' btm J
one and both Sm'h
Equipment of MM.
The Boston plant is made un of tit-. ' '
teen sections, each containing ilt? ;
tour Btan twenty-tw WiBe 15m ' '
and eighteen vanners. together with
their classifiers and settling taJS K!
section will handle approxiS-
Th? nlf Tde P" twK four's J
1 he plant is ostimated to be capable I of 1
The Boston Consolidated company al
nnn n75 oxPondel something ike -
000,000 on development and construc
tion work. Original estimates w
hardly adequate, and steps wero taken
recently to increase the capitalization
to bring oyer a million and a half dol- 1
lars more into the treasury to completo ;
tho plana, and to provido an ample
working capital. This new move will
placo the organization in tip-top condi-
tion for operations, and it can ho ex
pected to entor tho race in lflOS with :
all in readiness for usefnl activity. It
also is one of the giants of Bincham,
and has on its managerial staff soma o 1
the leading talent of tho country. Of J
these should bo mentioned General Man- 11
ager Lafajetto Hanchett, a gontlomaa J8
or wide engineering experience and of m
vast oxecutivo ability; A. J. Battles, tt
mill manager, and L. S. Cates, mino X
manarrcr.
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AMERICAN FORK CANYON j
BUSY DURING THE YEAR I
One hundred and fifteen carloads of
ore were shipped from tho American
Jork cauyon during the year of 1907.
Lach car held an average of fifty tons,
making a total of 5750 tons of ore,
valued at an average price of $50 per
top, thus making $2S7,500 which the
mines of this district have added to
the wealth of this Stato during tho
year past. Of this amount the Wyom
ing mine produced $267,500, or all ex
cept eight cars. '
Tho "Wyoming mine, which has
proven itself to be such a bonanza,
is located on Miller hill, near the
head of the canyon, and is beiu"
operated under lease by the Tyng
Brothers' company from the old Mi'llar
Alining company, in which Judrro B.
N. Baskin of Salt Lako City has an
interest. Tho balance of power is held
in Now York by tho Aspenwall
estate. In order that this amount of
ore might be sent in to tho market,
fifty teams havo been engaged steadily
between this city, which is the railroad
shipping point, and the ore bins. Owing
to tho fact that the canyon is snow
bound for a portion of tho winter, ship
ping was not commenced until tho
latter part of tho mouth of June.
During the very height of ore haul
ing a mud slide came from tho sido of
the canyon, making it impossible to
"Cither got up or down the canyon for
three weeks, and requiring tho con
struction of an entirely now piece of
road, which was dono mostly by tho
aid of tho mino owners, alt'houg'h tho
canyon road bears the distinction of
being tho only toll road in this State.
The canyon has shown moro
activity for tho soason just closing than
it has at any period sinco the early
days, when it wns a very active mining
camp, and . producing an immeuso
amount of high-grade ore, tho amount
nustifying the construction of a rail
road to tho mines, which operated for
a long time. Tn all about 200 mou "wero
employed in the different canyon work
ings during the most of tho summer
montas, tapering off as the winter
months commenced to sot in, making
tho work not easy of operation.
Nineteo'n Groups Busy.
Nineteen mining properties of any
importance wero worked Thoy aro
as follows: Osborne companv; Sham
rock, owned by Judge U. N. Baskin of
Salt Lake City, and operated under
lease by John J. Jones of this city:
Mineral Flatt, Silver Piatt, tho Cleg
horn group of claims, Major Evans Con
solidated, Live Yankeo, tho Troasurer,
Wyoming mine, Surprise Mining and
Leasing company, tho Mountain Dell,
Dutchman mine, Whirlwind, the Pacific,
tho Bog mino. tho 01ivcrx Signet mine,
Old Sunday mino, and the Scotchman
mine. Besides theso properties many
smaller ones have been worked and
much prospecting done, making tho
canyon very nctivo during the year
and preparing tho way for a vcrv nc
tivo ecasou daring tho year 1908.
During tho latter part of the summer
months Jesso Jvnight and his asso
ciates of Provo purchased the Mineral
Halt mining property, on which thev
at once commenced activo develop
ment work, and which is now at this
time working three shifts and aro pre
pared to do so during the entiro winter
months. . Although the development
work which they have done is limited,
they have opened up several bodies of
ore.
Mountain DeiL
The Mountain Dell property, which
sent out some very high-grade ore dur
ing the summer, is owned by local
and Salt Lake capital, and is considered
one of the most promising properties
which is now being operated. The
property is located in such a manner
that they have been ablo to secure
some good tunnel sites, and are now
developing the largo ore bodies in a
very systematic way.
Tho Pacific Mining and Milling com
pany, which owns tho Blue Rock prop
erty, not far from tho Wyoming, have
somo 2.-)00 feet of development work
done on this property, and aro at this
timo. engaged m completing an air tun
nel in order that they might properly
work somo of tho large ore bodies
which they recently uncovered in one
of their long tunuels, and where the air
was so foul that thoy were unablo to
remove it with artificial means. In
addition to theso oro bodies, this com
pany has an immense amount of milling
oro which carries high values' in zinc,
aud the company is seriously consider-
1 .
jng the construction of aMnill for treat- J
meiit. This company has been the- "1
most energetic of nny of the olf3jLld
canyon companies for the manner inTKf
which it has followed up its develop- l,i
ment work.
13. J. Wilds and his brother, Heher, 3
who have boon operating the Dutchman
mine under a lease for tho past I
year, have sent to tho market a few f
cars of very high-grade lead-silver ore, J
which has made a good profit. "For
some time they have been following
a small . vein or stringor of ore, which
varied from an inch. to. a foot wide, ft
occasionally opening up into a pocket. K'
Each time" tho pocket would be larger, wl
until the last ono was' of large proper-
tion. and will mean a nice littlo SDm ff,
for the operators. Duo to the slump in ' 1
tho price of metals, they lacked $600
of receiving as much for. tbe last
car they sent out ns they did for tho J
previous car. It is for this reajon that J
they will sack and Btore all the oje
which they will now take out until th h
price of metals is improved. ji
The Old Sunday mine, which hM
been operated during the year by !
Georgo Uarkins of Salt Lake, in con- 1
noctioh with somo other Salt Lake in- ;fl
toresta, is following, out a BjstemaUa a
plan of development, and is noir in if
possession of somo ore which is ex- '
ceedingly rich. They will store this
ore and await, other developments. This f
old mino is ono of the history maiera
of this section, and during the early
days sent to tho market some of. tie
richest ore that has ovor been mined . jl
hero. ,
GOLD MO UNTAIN DISTRICT
'
Down in Piuto county, Utah, in what
is generally termed the Gold Mouutain
district, thoro has been growing a prop
erty that deserves special mention on
account of its present physical condi
tion." It is tho Gold Mountain Consoli
dated company, financed by prominent
Snlt Lake and Eastern capitalists. The
Gold Mountain company is tho owner
of tho Mammoth, the Annie Laurie and
tho Kimberlcy groups, consisting of
aoycral thousand acres of highly-mineralized
patented ground.
Tho past season has closed on a very
successful campaign of work for ch'o
loadur of this camp. Salt Lako has
not kept closely in touch with tho prop
osition, for tliB operators havo been
rouuding out plans that aro to be moro
positively felt in tho now soason. Tho
company finds the present mill too small
and antiquated for their needs, so a
new mill, having a daily capneity of
500 tons of ore. will bo erected in 190S.
The company haa what President Al-
frcd Carr'crms a second nomestake
mino, one that will bo paying dindonds
whon the grandchildron of tho present a
generation'' havo forgotten the details ,
of their ancestors' efforts. Th( prop gf
erty has several great veins f,nUSg "J
ore, sprinkled hero and there TrtW it
bonanza gold values, and with e " S
dent certainty of finding a very large
body of high-grade, gold rock as i Jo
progresses farther into th?.Snom 1
The" Gold Mountain Consolidated com i
panv during the year has ' Wft -iS
$250,000 worth of gold buU,0A ana W E
bo in the dividond list 1JW. d J
This activity on the ,V jto t m
Mountain company Mountain M
ganizations oWU1v?nr3rd exploratory fi
proportjos to hurry orxrsaa v. y
work. Among. tho prop00, the S'- "i
worthy of special men on re theaurio g
ier Consolidated and for Bpion- -jj
Extension. Both arc 'AgX B,will U
did results, and "d-S?;er amount j
achieve thorn with proper h
of effort. Ono fhi " cerMu , "
must reckon Go d Mountain Mrc j
as ono of its, rich mineral scciiou m