Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-17

solidated Mercur company occurred the
| first successful operation OF the cyanide
| process for the treatment OF gold ores
on a commercial scale. New ore bod.
| les are being opened up In tho camp and
the retrcatment Of old tailinse by the
Holderman- Filter Tank company Is
| showing interesting developments,
about 1000 TASKS Of mercury per year
arc produced by the Sacramento mine
In the Mercur district.
The rapid and extensive development
| OF the past few years has placed Bing.
ham not only In the lead of copper pro.
dueing camps in Utah, but among the
| great copper camps OF the country.
Among her leading producers may be
mentioned the Highland Boy mine of
the Utah Consolidated company, the
| property produced during 1905 approx
| imately sixteen million pounds of cop
| per and during the same year payed
over million dollars 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 a number OF
mines IN this district, and at It's smelter
at Bingham Junction IN Salt Lake val
| ley is treating about 1000 tons OF cop
| per ore and 400 tons Of lead ore per day.
| The Bingham Consolidated Copper and
Gold company operates the Commercial.
Dalton and Lark and other mines OF
Bingham, and at its smelter at Bng-
ham Junction II reducing about 1900
600 pounds Of copper ore per year. The
Yampa Consolidated company is treat
ing In Its new smeter In Bingham
about coo tons OF copper ore from It's
mines IA this district, Many smaller
companies are successfully operating In
Bingham, many OF them are In the
shipping class and yielding the owners
handsomely.
STATES IRON DEPOSITS.
Utah Is destined to produce iron and
steel for the future trade of the Pa
ciflo coast and the orient Iron ore Ia
found In various parts OF the state, In
Juab and Utah counties, In Weber and
Uintah counties. but by far the most
extensive deposits found are In Iron
county, IN southern Utah, In this Iron
mountain outcrop there is estimated by
the best experts to be 500, 100000 TO L.
000, 900 900 tons of iron ore in sight. The
immense deposit covers an area Is miles
long by three miles wide. The ore av-
craBes from 80 70 65 per cent metallic
iron, With very low sulphur and phos-
HHpi 10 IplNNHl Inc duJdNHHN llIlltSlONc
Is conveniently situated with respect to
the deposits, and will serve for a
cheap flux 20 be used In the reduction.
In many places the black iron ore
stands out waiting the coming Of capt
tai and human energy 10 carry II to the
furnace and convert Il into the thous-
and varied commodities of civilization
| Hundreds OF acres OF this deposit will
require no stripping, and except where
the ore outcrops IL Is soft red and
brown hematite. This deposit Is said
TO be tho largest surface showing Of
iron ore known, Good iluxlug iron
ore, containing some gold, is found In
the Tintlc district and shipped TO the
smelters In Salt Lake county.
IT'S GREAT COAL MINES.
Utah Is putting on the market over
n million and half tons OF coal per
year This supply comes principally
from the Book Cliffs coal field, em-
braced within SEWER, Emery, Carbon
and Grand counties, IN the east central
part OF the state. Three other coal
fields Of less Importance are the We
Der river, the sanpete and the Iron
county fields, Coal has been discover
ed IN many other places In the state,
but up TO date these have only pro-
duced coal for local consumption. The
number OF these discoveries may be es-
timated when II IL known that the state
coal mine inspectors reports l55 coal
mines In Utah for 1904 The Utah Fuel
company of Salt Lake City owns and
operates all the producing mines OF the
extensive Book Clifts field The coal
field extends over an area of about
1000 square miles, although the entire
extent Is not yet definitely known. At
every locality investigated for n dis
lance OF more than 100 miles In this
field the beds Of coal rangs from three
10 y feet In thickness, is free from
shaley matter. and is decidedly mas
sive. Seams or lines Indicating strait
tcauons arc scarcely observable, Inn
mensc blocks Of massive coal from
these fields have made striking ex-
hibits at the recent fairs at 81. Louis
and Portland, No other state In the
Union displayed such massive chunks
or solid coal as were SHOWN by Utah.
The coal Is Of excellent quality. re-
markably uniform IN composition
showing very low ash and sulphur con-
tents That from the Sunnysdle mines
Is readily burned into an eNcelIen,
grade OF coke. The extensive outpu,
Of these mines amounting TO more
than half million tons per year. il
now entirely used for coklng, the pro-
duct comparing more than favorably
with the best Pennsylvania variety
The market for Utah coal and coke ex.
tends throughout the intermountai
states and the entire paclfic coast