The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
WHAT BINGHAM is DOING.


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y Mechanics 8D y
4 Tradesmen 1O Z
On railroad construction $1,000. 300
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e IabOrerS -..--.---..-.-..-.--.-...-. 90 ?
= Total ....-.....;;,..--:-,:.;;..7.. 1900
= $4,000.
! Daily ore production of 1850 tons. es-
= timated at SIC per ton. is 81 2l53o y
per month or, per year, s14. $4,000 \
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The figures quoted above give but
the faintest kind of an idea of what is
doing these days in the famous old
camp of Bingham. the home OF Utah's
bonanza copper mines, excepting. of
course, the Cactus of the Newhouse
Mines 6 Smelters corporation IN Bea-
yer county eye Columbus Consolidated
and the Dixie mines of the Utah &
Eastern company in Washington coun-
~ Bingham is today the biggest camp
in the state. and it is only just getting
started. As much. or more money is
going into machinery, buildings and
equipment as is represented in the
payrOlls, and on that account the
camps real dividend career has not
vet opened Within another year the
Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated
companies viii be out Of the woods
with their construction and better
ment'' accounts, and then these mines
viii begin pouring money into the laps
of the shareholders at a rate that will
fully compensate for the vast expendi-
lures now being made. What is true
of the companies named is also true of
the Tintic Mining & Developing COM
pany, owner of the Yampa mines and
smelters. 1t applies with equal force
TO the Ohio. Bingham Consolidated,
Utah-Apex and a whole lot of other
properties.
Work Retarded by Prosperity.
While the year in the camp has been
an unusually prosperous one, lack. of
labor, lack of transportation facilities
and a subordination of production to
vigorous campaigns Of development has
materially held back production of
shipping grades of ore. The production
Of the low-grade porphyry ores has not
commenced on an extensive scale as
yet, nor can this happen until the
great milling plants of the Boston Con-
sOlidated and Utah Copper companies
have been completed and placed in
commission. 1t win be necessary, also,
for the Rio Grande Western railroad to
finish the many miles OF trackage to
the properties and from there to the
mills and smeIteTs before a tonnage
such as is contemplated can be handled.
No expense has been spared to get
oil in readiness for the campaign ahead,
but Bingham has been no different to
other sections Of the west. and the
great corporations have found, for the
first time in their existence, that there
are many things which money could
not buy. All through the summer and
fall months there was not a day when
there was not work for many more
men than could be found: there was not
a day when the big companies would
not have given almost anythfngfo more
cars; when they needed coal; when
they were waiting for material and
supplies Of one kind and another In
the face Of it all they have done the
best they could and, everything con-
sidered, wonders have been accom-
piished.
Mountains Torn Down.
Mountains have been literally torn
down by the Boston Consolidated COM
pany. Millions of tons of overburden
have been removed from the underly-
ing billions of tons of copper-bearing
porphyry ore and this work is progress
Ing all the time, in good weather and
bad, with the aid of numerous trains
of cars and huge steam shovels. With
these devices an entire mountain side
is being cut down TO a depth varying
anywhere from twenty TO fifty or more
feet. and the material thus cut away
is moved back a mile or so and dumped
into the canyons and gulches that have
been scored out of the nOn-mineraI-
bearing quartzite, where it can rest
forever without being in the way.
Where these gulches are being filled
up and level planes have been made the
company has been erecting great board
ing and lodging houses for its men; ma
chine shops, power plants, etc, have
been installed and every provision has
been made for the day when the haul
ing away of the porphyry ore shall
begin, No one can quite understand
what this work means without seeing il
done. To see a putting locomotive come
dancing around a point of the noun
tain and pull UP alongside of a man.
moth steam shovel; to see the great
arm OF such a machine swing a steel