The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-10


redeemed from desolation and given TO
the plough. adds to their tmporta nee.
With these preliminary remarks let US
consider some of the reasons for salt
reasons that prompt the belief that the
city Is Just entering upon an era of ex-
traoTdinary growth
Rich Mines on All Sides.
The principal mining of the United
States is within her tributary country,
which consists of western Colorado. west
ern Wyoming, al OF Ieaho. all OF Mon
Utah For five hundred miles In every
direction mineral mills and mines are at
work They all pay tribute TO Salt Lake
City En- one way or another No other
mining city Of the United States is so IA
vorably located. Denver IS on one ex-
IRENE Of the mining region. San Francisco
on the other. but Salt Lake City is at
The very center Wherever the districts
are they are more conveniently reached
from Salt Lake city than from any other
point and mining men VINO operate prop
critics in British Columbia California
Arizona and Colorado reside in Salt La ke-
Every mine west of the ROCKY Mountains
that seeks "A purchaser seeks him flTSt
i'm salt Lake city. where there are mil
lions of dollars available for meritorlous
mining enterprises Tnere are streams
Of ore from every direction flOWlnE con-
stantIv to the Salt Lake smclters- and
streams of money going out of salt Lake
banks to pay the miners ana mining eX-
Id
uish All kinds of machinery and supplies
Mining stocks are sold in the Salt Lake
mining exchange. and the litigation that
sometimes unhappIly arises over con-
fIirts il handled by Salt Lake lawyers
There must be in every mining region
a residential center for the men who own
the mines. For the region mentioned SAT-
Lake is that center Whenever fortune
smiles upou the proSpeCtor and miner his
first thought is of a home IN salt Lake
That this is true hundreds of mansions
Of IA nrAa r-EsrnNe 4
not he a diScredit to Fifth Avenue VIII
testify. There Is nothing in the property
lire quite 50 good 10 have as a successful
mine There Is nothing quite so good for
= CITY to have as successful miners Tn
der their lavish touch mining CenteTs
grow in beauty and wealth with almost
AIaddiu-like speed
What SmeIters Are Doing.
But not alone in that way will Salt
Lake profit from the mines Ores need
to be reduced to money-and that Is done
in the SrnelterS- Nature has been sin
Euarly prodigal in giving to Salt Lake
a diversity Of ores and fluXeS essential
To successful smelling. and on that &C
count Salt Lake has been growing year
by year as a smelling center. until II has
become the greatest in the United States
the capacity for ore treatment reaching
5-00o charge tons per day. And this ac-
COrding to Mr. Samuel Newhouse. viii,
within the next two or three years. be in
creased fourfOld. when Salt Lake viii
have smelteTs that will be treating 61,-
600 tons per month"; 800 coo tons per an
uum-mOre ore than is raised every year
from the mines of Colorado, These smelt-
ers will require thOusa nds of men in their
operation and thus viii Salt Lake greatly
increase her population.
4 study Of the mineral resources of
Utah alone-aud these are but part of
Salt Lakes mining stock in trade-will
amaze You
Here are some facts.
Estimated value of gold. sill
Yer. lead and copper ores
now exposed in Utah 81 Geo, e9oeN 90
Ttah's total output of gold,
silver. lead and copper to
the present time ------------ ssJe.0Hots0 -
Total mineral product Of
Utah for 1904 ---.--.--- 900 e. $50 81 %
Estimated product Of Ctan
Total copper production of
for 1895 -. =. ~. 49,. 5000 G00 %
Utah for 1894 0bsl ..----..---. 55419 500
Estimated copper production
for Utah for 1905. 0bs.) ----.... 100000
Value Of copper product of
Utah for 1876 ----------- ----.-S III -2J0o00 %
Great Future in Copper.
To appreciate the enormous growth of