Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-06
UNITED STATES MINING.
bingham Bulletin Undertakes 20 Ex-
plain it's Drawbacks.

The Bingham Bulletin undertakes in
It's issue of this week to point out some
Of the conditions which 1t alleges, have
stood in the way of the stockholders OF
that corporation partlcipat ting in the
ST. 800, 900 dividend which the directors
had every assurance they would be able
to pay before the close OF the present
year.
The Bulletin takes the Bingham cor
poration to task for making the report
some time ago to its shareholders that
the furnaces were operating success
fully, when. II Is declared, as a matter
OF fact they were not afterwards find
ing II necessary TO dispense with the
automatic feeders.
"At the time that report was made,
say we'll posted parties 1t must have
been known to the author that
the United States smelter in its
present form Is practically a failure,
and that 1t will never do business
until It's furnaces are torn out and
smaller ones are substituted. This
Is what has been done at the
Amagamated Companys Washoe
smeter, after which the United States
company's plant was largely patterned.
1t is said that the blast used is three
times greater than that OF any other
smelter In the valley. which being a
fact, no wonder the surrounding
ranches are being buried under rich
mineral dust
Again, Il has been stated that the
bucket tramway troubles are over and
were not the result OF serious defects
that could have been foreseen. Why
was this tramway defective at allY 1t
was deliberately planned by competent
engineers, money was lavlshly expend-
ed In its construction, and there was
the splendid example OF the Highland
Boy tramway to profit by. That tram
way has been doing business from the
day its machinery was nmbered up. IL
was constructed exactly on lines laid
down by those who planned It. II does
not present the spectacle Of carrying
buckets "a world too wide for its shrunk
shanks," a lack of towers, or any indi-
cation that there might have been job
berry in its construction.
Perhaps the United States company
has In some way discovered that Il Is
up against conditions In Bingham for
which as a company II is In no way re-
conditions that II cannot
well afford TO ignore albeit its mines
are immense, with the capability OF
producing a larger daily tonnage, and
for longer period, than any other
mine in Utah II not In the west Pei
haps is directorate has been assured
that the company has In a great meas
ure the lll'Sill Of its miners. and OF this
community. because Of the strange an
tipathy often entertained TO great cor
porations by their employees, and by
IA To- t.a J. 49, Na4uf "a rot
ness and which they benefit. But the
conditions here are not strange. There
IL a feeling Of prejudice quite generally
shared In Bingham against the United
States company-or rather against the
management with which only Bing-
ham has TO do--deep- because Of
ong-standing and the result OF series
of such impositions as are resented in
every well regulate mining camp, that
cannot be overcois while the present
regime continues And that prejudice
amounting to hatred-should not be
ignored As a result Of It the mines now
owned by the United States (more par
tlcularly the Old Jordan and Galenal
have for years been spotted by miners
many OF whom have scorned to put In 4
shift there so long as they c)uld get
jeb elsewhere.
Conditions as they exist win pass
away, for surely United states mining
will not allow them TO continue.
'Nhen thoroughly acquainted with the
facts. 1t Is one OF the most solid cor.
porations OF the country. II owns mines
that have already produced $50 1000 900
and are developed for years OF produc-
ton on the grand scale contemplated
and by rising TO the occasion the COM
pany can roundly meet every promise
that has been made. When the d.
rectorate Is on TO It's job. and directs
all the spines that are now pricking
will disappear; and IL will be possible
for the stockholders to receive the
promised dividend Of sl,JOO,0O0 year
that as yet has hardly begun to ma.
terializpn