The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27

r HE mining industry OF Utah has
enjoyed unprecedented prosperity
during the year now drawing
rapidly to a close. as illustrated in the
carefully prepared tables Of metal pro
duction and dividends paid. There has
been no friction between capital and
labor worthy of mention and there are
no premonitions of trouble for the fu-
ture. Miners receive good pay, work
eight hours and find more and better
accommodations ia the various camps
than in most any other portion of the
west. Utah miners. as a class. are
hOme-OWners ana hOme-builders. They
feel and recognize their responsibilities
as citizens and therefore labor not only
fer their own educational and social ad-
vanCement. but also for the benefit Of
the community in which they live
Employer and employee rarely set at
cross purposes and when they 90 their
differences are invariably adjusted in
a cOmmOn-SenSe, manly fashion and
everything moves along without fric-
ton and without ill-feeling- These are
the principal reasons why mining pros
pers in Utah and why 10 viii continue
to do so in the future
States Actual Production
In the compilation Of the metal pro
ductiOn table careful pains have been
made to make il in every sense reli-
able. All Of the reduction and mining
companies from which il was neces-
sary to get figures have supplied them
I to The Herald, in many instances at
great Inconvenience TO themselves, but
in all cases most willingly and prompt
". IN some cases st has been neces-
sary to estimate all of Defenders
business. While in others the data sup
piled was complete up TO the 18th.
Nothing has been exaggerated, moth
ing Overestimated- Everything has
been taken into account. Ores from
outside states have been brought here
for treatment. while ores mined in Utah
have gone elsewhere More lead has
gone out than has come in-more silver
has come in than has gone out, but the
figures submitted on both, and on the
other metals, also, for that matter. win
prove to be so close to the states ac-
tual production that if is hard to see
where the governments statisticians
viii be able to make their tables in the
future more accurate.
Increase During the Year.
With these. explanations il win be in
order TO draw a few. comparisons on
J the changes which have occurred IN
the twelve months. Ii win be noticed
: LAdl an increase mas Dctn lu1Qe IN the
/ production Of eli four metals-an in
/ crease that is equivalent to S5.4SI. go. al
as compared with 1902. The better
/ price obtained for copper and silver
/ accounts in a measure for this in
/ crease, but when it is explained that
some of the big mines Of Park City
and Tintic have, for various reasons
/ been but limited contributors this
/ year, the main cause for the increase
will be readily Understood as repre-
senting the rapid growth of the new en-
/ terprises. over 1900, 900 ounces Of silver
/ is included in the increase Of the white
metal Nearly 100000 pounds Of cop
per, an increase of nearly one-third
/ over 1902. was the record in that metal
| Nearly 1000, 900 pounds of lead has
/ been tackled on to last years figures
while the production of gold has been
/ increased S1.261.540
New Enterprises Being Considered
/ Owing principally to the unsettled
| conditions prevailing in the big in
vestment and financial ceuters of the
| country during the year. the amount
| Of new capital brought into mining re-
gions of Utah has not been nearly as