Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-05-26
ONE FEATURE OF THE MING IN.
DUSTRY.

valley, when the energy OF the p1O-
neers was required to conserve d
water supply and reclaim the desert,
making the fertile farms and orch
ards that please the eye today, when
the energy was required to provide
for the actual necessities of life, min
ing received no encouragement. The
great mineral wealth of the hills SUR
rounding the valley was unknown,
and it is related that when a party of
miners on their way to the new gold
fields in Idaho with, among other
things in their outfit, a saw mill, they
were entreated and offered big in
ducements to remain and work the
forest wealth for the settlers. But
they passed on, and out of history.
Later with the settlers more comfor-
tably fixed, mineral was discovered,
miners began to flock in and with
the latter came machinery for work
ing the mines and treating the ores.
The machinery, what there was of it,
came from long distance; when an
accident occurred, it was a long wait
to get the repair part, or a case of
repairing with the tools at hand, oft
en- rough and crude, and usually I'M
satisfactory. Being up against 1T,
they were forced to use ingenious
methods and to adapt much of their
machinery to their location, and to
the necessities of their methods. AS
was usual in new communities with
large natural resources, and good
ly amount of brains, much that was
good was developed, and with the lat
ter came the call for the local ma.
chinery and supply house, small at
first, gradually expanding to this
needs of the industry. In some in
stances, leading in improvements, de
veloping devices for the man in the
field modifying to suit the needs and
ideas of the latter, in close touch witt
the industry and ever alive to its
necessities. In the early eighties
there stood in Salt Lake City, OF
Main street, a modest place of bust
ness for the convenience of the mines
mills and smelters, the Utah and
Montana Machinery Co.. with joint
store in Butte, Montana. After serv-
ing the mining interests of the inter
mountain country for number OF
years, it was absorbed into the Mine
& Smelter Supply Co., of Denver
Colorado, a young. vigorous and con-
sentative corporation which, as its
name indicates, caters to the neces-
stiles of the mining industry. With
general offices at AZ Broadway, New
York City, stores and offices in Den
yer, Colorado; Ell Paso, Texas; Salt
Lake City, Utah, and the City OF Mex
leo, where it is known as the Mexico
Mine & Smelter Supply Co., local Of
fees at Douglas, Arizona, and Nam
pa, Idaho it is known as the largest
mining machinery house in the world.
1t is agent for the International Pump
Co.. which manufactures the well
known Knowles, Blake, Snow, Dean,
Worthington, LaidlawDunn-Gordo
and Clayton pumps and compressors;
the Atlas Engine Works., makers or
the Atlas Water Tube and Fire Tube
Boilers, and the Atlas Engine; the
Dodge Line" of Power Transmission
Machinery; the Buffalo Forge Co...
the McKiernan Drill; Hoyt's Betting;
the Revere Rubber Co.; the American
Tool Works, and many other prom
inent machinery and supply manufac'
turers of the world.
It's name is connected directly as
owner and manufacturer of the VIII
fey Concentrating Table and Sinner
which are such an important factor
in the ore dressing operations or the
world. About nine thousand Wiley
tables have been sold and are in use
l., oil mining camps Of the world, III