The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-17
DERN IS SLATED
FOR PRESIDENT
continued from Paae 1.

Cen
tennial-Eureka. Mammoth. Bullion-Beck.
Uncle Sam Consolidated. Gemini Eagle
q Blue Bell, Yankee Consolidated. Grand
Central. May Day, Swansea. South Swan
Godiva.
This district has always been an inter
eSting field for the mineral collector, as
il affords great variety of rare copper
and arsenic minerals OF decided beauty.
Beaver County
In Beaver county are located the Horn
Silver and the Cactus mines. The former
has produced principally lead. silver and
zinc ore while the latter is copper
mine. Many other mines of less import
ance, from the standpoint of ore pro-
duced, are to be found in this district
The Cactus mine. owned and operated
by the NewhouSe Mines & Smeter COM
pany. has been developed on a plan which
at first strikes one as financially daring
to the point of audacity, and yet on clos
er examination appears to be based on a
careful scientific study of conditions and
cost. 1t Is stated that the DEVELOPMENT
of the mine, the building of the necessary
railroad corrections. plant, etc. cost the
promoters over 81 100000 before they were
in a condition to obtain any return from
the reduction of their ore. On the other
hand, they claim to have In sight 9 100 600
tons of ore, which will carry on an aver
age, 3 per cent copper. Recently in the
development of the property an extensive
ore body 225 feet wide. OF higher copper
content, has been encountered on the
three lower levels Of the mine The ont
look for the future of this district is very
gratifying
The Gold Mountain district of Piute
county is represented by two important
producers. the Annie Laurie and the
Sewer Consolidated Gold Mining COM
pany. These companies are mining gold
ore averaging 81 or IS per ton and are ex-
gamation.
Mercur District.
At this camp. or the ores of the Con-
solidated Mercur company, occurred the
first successful operation of the cyanide
process for the treatment of gold ores on
commercial scale. New ore bodies are
being opened up in the camp and the re-
treatment of old failing by the Holder
man-Filter Tank company is showing in
teresting developments.
About 1000 TASKS of mercury per year
are produced by the Sacramento mine in
the Mercur district.
Bingham.
The rapid and extensive development of
the past few years has placed Bingham,
not only in the lead of copper producing
camps in Utah but among the great
copper camps of the country. Among her
IeadIng producers may be mentioned the
ttlghland Boy mine Of the Utah ConSoli-
GATED company. The property produced
during 1866 approximately 5000 eco pounds
or copper, and during the same year
PAID aI. over Sl,00.OOO in dividends The
company operates its own smelter and
reduces upwards Of 500 tons of raw ore
per day.
The United States Mining company is
operating number of mines in this dis
trlct. and at its smelter at Bingham
Junction in Salt Lake valley is treating
about 1000 tons of copper ore and 400 tons
or lead ore per day.
The Bingham Consolidated Copper &
Joid company operates the Commercial,
Dalton & Lark and other mines of Bng-
ham, and at its smeIter at Bingham
junction is reducing about 1000 900 pounds
OF copper per year.
The Yampa Consolidated company is
treating IN Its new Smelter in Bingham
ABOUT 600 tons of copper ore from its
mines in this district
Many smaller companies are success
fully operating in Bingham, many of
them are in the shipping class and yield
ing the owners handsomely
A most striking feature of copper min
ing IN the Bingham district in the last
two or three years is the complete sue
cess OF experiments made in the treat
ment by concentration of the so-called
disseminated ores. in which small parti-
cles of copper sulphide occur disseminat-
ing through altered porphyry. Enorm-
Gus bodies of this class of ore occur in
Bingham. They were formerly consid-
cred of too low grade to work, but have
now been proved to yield a handsome
profit when concentrated twenty into
one.
Arrangements are being rapidly COM
pleted for the treatment of 20,oo0 tons of
this ore per day from Bingham. The
ore bodies are mined i'm open workings.
with monstrous steam shovels, and even
with the copper content of the porphyry
( about . per cent. the improved methods
of mining and milling employed make t
possible to treat the ore al handsome
profit It is claimed that the Utah Cop
per company and the Boston Consolidated
company have over 6OOO0,000 tons of this
| class Of ore available for extraction. 1t is
probable that these two Bingham prop
critics possess the two largest bodies of
copper ore that are known.
Besides the copper SmelterS already re-
ferred to the American Smelling & Re
filming company's lead smelter at Murray
is one of UtahS important metallurgical
establishments. Eight large blast fur
naceS, with the necessary roasters. samp-
ling mills ard additional auxiliary ap-
paratus. make this the largest lead smelt-
err in the United States. Although the
United States Mining company has re-
Gently started up its lead plant at Bing-
reduction exceeds the combined capacity
Of the two plants, because of the greatly
increased capacity of our mines.
With this increased output of the
mines of the state has arisen the need
for increased smelling facilities and every
smelter in the Salt Lake valley has either
increased or is increasing its capacity
until today the valley is a very important
smelling center. When the new smelters
now under way are completed, Salt Lake
will be one of the greatest smelling GEN.
ters in the world.
The American Smelling & Refining
company is erecting at Garfield Beach on
the Great Salt lake smelter which when
completed. will have a capacity Of three
thousand tons of ore per day. And it is
claimed this is only starter, and that
this plant will eventually excel in size
any other plant in existence. The plant
now being erected is thoroughly modern
and will cost upwards of two million five
hundred thousand dollars. Some of it's
furnaces have already been blown in. and
the entire plant is being pushed rapidly
ahead.
The Utah Smelling is building a smell
ter near Ogden The plant is practically
finished and the furnaces will soon be
turning out the reduced metal
Iron.
Utah is destined to produce iron and
steel for the future trade of the Pacific
coast and the orient. Iron ore is found in
various parts of the state. in Juab and
Utah counties, in Weber and Uintah coun-
ties. but by far the most extensive de-