Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14

shovels are used for mining purposes,
these machines are a component part
OF mining operations Of the Bingham
district
People here in Utah. al least very
great majority OF them. do not begin
20 apr, 'iate the vast proportions TO
which mining activity has grown in this
noted district How often we have read
In the literature OF the promoter about
"a mountain OF ore" and which almost
invariably turns out to be untrue. But
In Bingham this application stands good
and Il is interesting 90 note what Walt
er Renton Ingalls,, editor OF the Engl-
neering and Mining Journal. said in
this connection after he had paid a
visit 10 Bigham last July.
MOUNTAINS or 1T.
"The mineralized mennonite" he said
commonly called 'porphyry' Of Bing-
ham constitutes literally a mountain OF
ore and the operations OF the Boston
Consolidated, Mining company and the
Utah Copper company can be char
acterized simply as mining a mountain.
At some future date the top OF the
mountain Of considerable proportions.
even as mountains go. viii have been
cut Off for three or four hundred feet,
the adjacent gluChes win have been fill
ed with discarded rock and the bulk OF
the mountain will have been distribut-
ed I'm the form Of fine sand and slime
over the slopes leading down TO the
Great salt Lake near Garfield. "a miles
from the original mountain No ono
would venture 10 predict when this
transfer will be completed. Even on
tho enormous scale Of operations for
which equipment is now nearly ready
10000 tons day-it win be many
many years before tho reserves las
rcckoned now are exhausted. ana be-
fore that time immense quantity ot
mineralized rock that Is NOS now con-
sidcred ore may have become so
through changes Ia conditions Of ex-
plotatlon.'
TOWN or BINGHAM.
The town Of Bingham is situated IN
"a long narrow gulch which rises steep
49, Near the mouth Of this gulch is the
first concentrating mill ~ the Utah
Copper company. A mile on SO further
up is the YamUa smelter. still fur
Their up the canyon are the lower ter
minals of the aerial tramways OF the
Utah Consolidated and United States
Mining companies; then the railway
station where the Rio Grande Western
delivers it5 passengers ANA freight; am
other half miles climb and the visitor
Is in the main part of the town. Right
there the canyon divides Carr Fork
makes TO tho west and along its cone
fines are located several OF tho biz
mines Of the camp and number Of
lesser importance Tho shawmut IS the
first This property is owned by east
ern people. but rs not producer at
this time Going on up the canyon
one comes 90 the compressor plant of
the Utah Apex Mining company and
near Il Is the entrance 40 the deep tuu-
uel-knoWn as the Paryenue-w which
will eventually De connected with the
main ore bodies of the mine. on 10 tho
INNN nII" fNNl "''H ANHNA Wy 'ff NAA' ''fHfff
tain. the steam shovels ~ the Boston
Consolidated worleng away vlcgiug
OH me oyerhurden from the 'pophy-
rles." and mining ORC for treatment az
lbs Garfield mill Just below n. the
Utah Coppera machines are perform
ing die same service. Occasion,
ally one can see ore trains moy-
ing along with their load ana back
again with empty cars for more loads.
Proceeding ON up tho canyon. one
comes 10 tho Yampa mine. the Phoenix,
the lower terminal of tho Bingham
New Haven Mining companyH tram
way. a little further Utah Consolidated
is reached ON to the lefi b. the sui
phldo mine of tho Boston Consolidated.
near Il Is the New England Gold a
Copper company's mine ana min and