Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17
Salt Lake
Utah's Copper Produc-
ton Will Approximate
Fifty Million Pounds
This Year.


were not for the reduction plants that
have been provided at a cost running
into the millions Of dollars The two
are synonymous; one could not very
well do without the other and a good
many other industries could not pros
rer quite so well were 1t no. for those
directly applied to mining.
During the past few years remark
able progress has been made in the
building up Of the smelling enterprise
in Utah. Activity IN this regard has
been directed principally to the Salt
lake valley where all the custom
plants are located.
ARTERIES OF WEALTH
A few companies. operating in re-
mote sections Of the state, have pro-
ylded plants for their own properties.
But practically all the wealth produced
IN this mountain commonwealth, comes
through the arteries OF the shelters at
Murray and Bingham Junction.
Considerably more than S2O,OO0,OOO
passed through these avenues last
year and nearer s9O,OOO,OOO will have
come into circulation In the same way
when the curtain rolls down and the
year 1904 has passed into history.
A BEEHIVE OF ACTIVITY.
So active has the smelling industry
become In the Salt Lake valley that
the farmers, who settled In this fertile
spot. have raised an alarm for fear
their places will be devastated Of veg
citation unless some means are provid-
ed for the control Of the increasing
volume Of smoke emitted from the
stacks at the several plants. This
matter was brought to the attention
Of the smelling companies by the land
owners not long ago; and while the
problem Is not one altogether easy OF
solution, the former hope to find a rem
edy for the condition before the crops OF
next year begin their plant life, Some
Of the countrys most noted chemists
have been employed to conduct series
Of Investigations Of the trouble and
these talented gentlemen have been
procured only at great expense to the
corporations most directly interested
GREATEST SMELLING CENTER.
Salt Lake is rapidly becoming the
greatest smelling center in the world,
and substantial progress was made I'm
that direction this year. All OF the
plants located here have spent large
sums Of money In providing additional
equipment to increase treatment ca
pacty.
FOUR THOUSAND TONS DAILY.
The four great plants south Of the
city are now handling approximately
1000 tons of ore daily, and plans are
being considered to greatly increase
this amount.
NEW LEAD PLANT.
Up to a very recent date, tho Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company,
which owns the great works at Muir
ray, was the only buyer OF lead ores.
The other plants-the Utah Consolld-
ated, Bingham Consolidated and Unit
ed States, being equipped with furnaces |
Intended only for the treatment OF cop
per ores. During this year, however,
the United States company broadened |
It's sphere OF usefulness by the con-
suuction Of new lead smelter at a
cost approximatlng little over a half |
million dollars, and for the class Of
ores mentioned, Is In the market In
competition with the American. The
plant has not yet been blown In; in
iact Il is not quite completed, but will
be early In the new year, Enlargements
have also been made to the company's
copper smelter, which Is turning out
copper bullion at the rate Of about 49,
10000 pounds annually, The lead
smelter has capacity for the treatment
OF about 400 tons Of ore daily.
AN INTERCHANGE OF ORES.
A year ago the American Smelling &
Refining company had In contemplation
lot this year, the construction Of a !
copper smelling plant to cost Upwards
OF N5oQ0O The project would have
been carried through perhaps, had II
not been for an arrangement for an
Interchange Of ores with the Bingham
Consolidated, The latter, having R
large reserve Of lead ores In It's own
mines, had about concluded to install a
lead stack. But under the arrange
ment entered into with the American,
me latter Is to receive all the lead
ores the Bingham Con. mines IT.
self or obtalnG In the markets. on the
other hand, the American switches all
Inc copper ores Il purchases over TO the
Bingham plant, at Bingham Junction,
Where It undergoes treatment. BY this
Arrangement great deal has been
saved to both these concerns In
trying to keep pace with the rapid de-
VeIopment OF the mines IN this and
other states-for nearly all the ore
Produced in Nevada comes here for re-
auction, as well as a good portion Of
,ne tonnages yielded by the camps Of
wyoming, Idaho and Colorado. As Il
- the American has not been COM
PEELED TO build complete copper plant
anu the Bingham Con. has found no
necessity for a lead shelter; neither
.0Fe had to worry about where It's
nuAes are to come from If the supply
runs short Both companies, however