The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

From 1872, however, until the present
day Bingham has been steady producer
OF the precious metals, adding many mil
hons to the wealth OF the world.
BINGHAM's POPULARITY.
Bingham is essentially a sspoor mans
camp'-that is, the formation IS such
that, as rule, but little money is needed
TO work the properties. Millions
OF dollars have been made with
OF going beneath the grass
rooUs. This was noticeably the case with
the Old Telegraph, and 1t can be safely
said that there are more what would be
called poor men making living out of
the mines of Bingham than in any other
camp in the world. When mining pro-
pertles famous the world over for their
great shipments shut down because OF q
depression in the price OF the precious
metals, the miners OF small means keep
deIving away and sending down to the
smelters in the valley their modest ship
ments, which are pretty surely to at ali
times reward them with competence
The comparative absence of water, large
bodies OF lead and silver ore, and accessi-
bility to the railway are other reasons
why Bingham finds favor in the eyes of
mining men of moderate means. FWith-
OF the big companies, which have done
much for Bingham,' said Recorder
Barney Quinn in recent interview.
''there are fewer large companies
and more individual owners in
Bingham than in any other
camp in Utah, and this, from my e1per-
ience. is u very desirable state OF affairs.
Big mines and mammoth corporations
are a. all times welcome, but it is the
individual delivers IN The soil that pays
well who make up the prosperity OF
mining camp"
IMPROVEMENTS VERY GENERAL.
The improvements made in Bingham
during 1892 have been numerous and sub
stantial. Many new residences and sew
eral business houses have been built add
ing greatly to disappearance OF the camp,
and the convenience and comfort OF the
visitor. The Humphreys q Miner con-
centrator in Main Bingham, near the de-
pot, is one Of the substantial evidences OF
Bingham's progress. 1t was erected in
August last, and six men are now kept
busy running the plant, which has a ca
pacity of about forty tons per day. Many
tons OF ore that heretofore could not be
shipped are now concentrated there and
made marketable. a tramway is now be-
ing built to connect the mouth of the
Petro tunnel with the ore bin OF the con-
centrator.
The Dixon's new hosting works, cost
ing several thousand dollars are in close
proximity.
The new hosting works of the old
Jordan and South Galena, built to re-
place those destroyed by fire four months
ago; the old Telegraph hoist and the mill
at the Stewart No. 2 are also among the
Improvements that go to mark the ad
vance of Bingham during the year.
BINGHAM AND RAILROADS.
The Rio Grande Western is now the
only railroad reaching the camp, but there
is every good reason to believe that it will
not be great while before the Union Pa
ciic will come in for fair slice of the
mammoth business OF Bingham. A
survey which would take the
Union Pacific railway past the
rich mines of Carr Fork and into Upper
Bingham, at least four miles nearer The
big producers of the camp than the pres
ent terminus of the Western, was made
over year ago, and it is believed that a
few months will see the Union Pacific
heading that way. 1.-THE Rio Grande
Western cut into our exclusive business
at Tintic,'' said a prominent Union
Pacific official lately, and there would be
no violation of railway etiquette in our
road retaliating and forcing division of
the Bingham business Retaliation
aside, however, the business alone would
justify the Union Pacific in at once build
to the sold Reliable Camp Of Utah. -
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Bingham has two regular public schools
and catholic church, the latter erected
during the present year. 1t is a very neat
little house of worship. Bingham pop
ulation is about 1000.
BINGHAM's COPPER STREAM
Bingham has a curiosity in a stream of
clear water SO strongly impregnated with
copper that the metal is readily collected
by the immersion of old iron, to which
the pure copper clings. The stream
energies from the base of a precipitous
mountain, and all along the creek in the
bed of the canyon in Upper Bingham, are
strong indicrtions of copper. which some
day Will be an important industry in
Bingham. Little, ii any, copper has yet
been produced here, experiments being
conducted on very small scale so far,
but arrangements VIII be made early in
1893 by which a strong company will do
extensive prospecting in the canyon and
considerable development work on claims
already taken up, and which have most
excellent indications.
THE CLIMATE.
Unlike that Of most of the mining
camps in Utah, the climate of Bingham is
mild and equable When the snow is a
foot deep in the valley, but few inches
will be found in Bingham, while the tenn
perature is usually the same. Bingham
has direct communication by telegraph
and telephone with the entire territory.
Two hotels do a fair business, and there
are several public halls, secret society
buildings. etc.
OLD JORDAN AND SOUTH GALENA.
Anonc the heaviest shinnars not orl,,
in Bingham but in the whole territory, is
the Old Jordan and South Galena, which
was the first location made in Bingham.
and which has produced its millions. It
is connected with The mill by tramway
four miles long; the empty cars are hauled
to the mine by mules, and, being loaded,
descend by gravitation. Il is very likely
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