The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-17

own smelter and reduces upwards of eight
hundred tons OF raw ore per day. The
United States Mining company is operating 2
number OF mines IN this district, and nt its
smelter at Bingham Junction In Salt Lake
valley is treating about one thousand tons OF
copper ore and four hundred tons OF lead
ore per day. The Bingham Consolidated Cop
per and Gold company operates the CONNER
ciel, Dalton and Lark and other mines OF
Bingham. and at its smelter at Bingham
Junction IS reducing about thirteen million
pounds Of copper per year, The Yampa Con
solidated company is treating in Its new
srnelter IN Bingham about six hundred tons
OF copper ore from its mines in this dis
triet. Many smaller companies are success
fully operating in Bingham. many of them
are in the shipping class and yielding the
owners handsomely.
Iron in Utah.
Utah is destined to produce iron and steel
for the future trade OF the Pacific coast and
parts OF the State: in Juab and Utah ooun-
ties. in Weber and Uintah counties; but by
lar the most extensive deposits found are in
IRON county: IN southern Utah. In this
lron roountain outcrop there is estimated by
the best experts to be FIVE hundred million 10
one billion tons OF iron ore u sight Tho
immense deposit covers an area fifteen miles
long by three miles wide The ore aver.
ages from 50 to 65 per cent metallic iron
with very low sulphur and prosphorous con
tent. The adjacent limestone is conveniently
will serve fer cheap Gux TO be used in the
reduction. In many places the black iron ore
stands out waiting the coming Of capital and
hum51 energy TO carry il 10 The furnace snd
convert n INTO the thousand varied com.
podiMes o. civilization Hundreds Of ocres
OF THIS deposit will require no stripping, and
except wnere the ore outcrops it is a eoft
RED and brown henatite. This dcposi, is
snid 70 be the largest surface showing OF iron
ore Known, Good auxing iron ore. con.
talnins some gold is found in the Tin.ic
III III
Lake county.
;T Ttah is putting. on the. rarEc; ove-
m5ili0n %5ii nn1 and sali toas o! coal PEI yes-.
Book cliffs coal field. embfacoa with!u se.
vier, Emery Carbon and Grand cour::cs IN
ne taS eass cehtr9l a paFt OF the State. Thrsc
Weber River, tho Sanpets and the Iron
county fields. Coal has been discovered in
many other. places in the. State, but uD 10
aete thess have only pToduccd coal fo- local
consumption. The number of these discover.
ies may be estimated when il is known that
mo State coal mine Inspector reports I55
coal mines in Utah Tor 1904 TIE Utah Fuel
company OF Salt Lake City owns and oper.
ateS all the producing mines Of the exten.
sive Book Cliffs deld. The coal field ex.
tends over an area OF about seven thousand
nos YET dehnitely known. At every locality
investigated for n distance OF more than
ono hundred miles in this field the beds OF
coal range from three To TWENTY-FIVE feet in
thickness, is free from shaiey matter and ;e
decidediy massive Seams or lines indicating
stretlhearoGs arc scarcely discernaole. I'm,
nense blocks OF massive coal from these
helds have made striking exhibits ut the
recent fairs az 81. Louis and portlsnd No
other State IN the Union displayed such
massive enunEs Of solid coal as was shown
by Utah.
The coal is OF excellent quality. remark
ably uniform in composition showing veTv
low osh and sulphur contents. Thai from
the Srnnyside mines is resdily burned into
an excellent grade OF coke The extensive
output Of these, mines. amounting 70 more
thsn nall million tons psr yeor. is now
entirely used for coking, the product com
gsring more than favorabIy with the best
Pennsylvania variety. The market for Gtnh
coal and coke extends throughout the inter.
coast.
Mr. Dern 8 paper continues to give
very comprehensive idea Of Utah and
her deposits of asphalt, building stone,
gypsum, fire clay, sulphur. salt vana,
dium, uranium and other metals. He
also emphasizes the security with which
mining investments arc being made i'm
the State, and predicts still greater
achievements for Utah aud her mines.