The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
BINGHAM

MlSnly IS bingham. 1t takes big
camp and big men with big backing
and world Of experience and ability
10 accomplish what has been gained in
ne Bingham district 1t is no child's
play 10 tear mountains so pieces and SO
handle the rock that IS blasted down
hat millions can be returned from ma
terial holding but 81 or SO a ton in
metallic values But that is Just what
IS happening At Bingham. the camp
which has the mines, the men and
money! and everything is being done
n a scale O. such magniieence that to
zee il is 10 feel that the work is not
Icing porioi -aed Tor today or tomorrow,
nut 10 endure and continue for all time.
This Is ;hc camp in which the worlds
record tor cheap production cost of
ooppar has been made; this is the camp
Ia which ore mine has paid its share
oldcrs over s.: ger share during the
asst nve years. and which stlll boasts
a. treasury containing something like
S.OG0OO1 This IS the camp in which
&. SIN greater mines win begin paying
dividends Before the next twelve
lnonths arc over; and this is the camp
which, according 10 present outlook,
VIII boast Il half-dozen great mines,
both copper and lead, within another
Two or three years. in addition 10 those
already made and recognized.
Bingham : bigger than Butte it is
bigger than Ely, it is bigger than any
copper camp in this western country,
and the assertion is made with all due
respect to the greatness and prospective
greatness Of such camps as Ely and
YoringtOn. in Nevada. and with pro-
found acknowledgement of the past
performances of that wonderful camp
On the north. called Butte Butte has
taken less than thirty years 10 go over
the divide and hit the down-grade. At
the end Of thirty years Bingham is just
beginning 10 assert it's importance, and
that after first paying fortunes in gold
and then more than doubling the per-
Torrance by making a record as a lead
producer.
Position of Utah Consolidated.
1t is the Utah Consolidated company
TO which reference is made above, and
il is fitting that, in mentioning some of
the mines of the district and what they
are doing that first place should be
given to this remarkable bonanza.
Within the past year Manager J. b.
Risque has completely revised the en-
lire system of mining and, in addition
TO making the property much safer
one in which to operate, he has sue
ceeded i'm opening some mammoth new
ore bodies and laying the foundations
for the campaign Of the years to come.
Where. a year ago there was talk that
the property had seen its best days,
il IS now acknowledged that its life is
Just begun. In fifteen months from now
the company viii be operating a new
800 or 2OO0-ton smelter Just over the
mountain from the mine IN the Tooele
valley, a point that Is not half as far
from the mine as are the present works
Of the company in this valley, and
where there will never be any such
thing as trouble from the smoke and
fumes that will issue from furnace and
stack. To begin with, ore will likely be
transported ta the new plant by aerial
tramway; Later il will be sent right
through the mountain in a deep tunnel
connecting the mine and smelter and
over tracks that will be kept we'll pol
ished by the whirr and buzz of the
wheels of lectrically-operated ore
trains.
Utah Copper History.
Now comes the enterprises that rank
ain classes all by themselves in the
Upper mining world. First Of these
the Utah Copper company and then the
Boston Consolidated. 1t was on the
properties of the Utah Copper COM
pany. the control of which was then
under option to Captain Joseph r. De-
Lamar, that it was completely demon
strated that the copper-bearing por-
phyry deposit of the camp, with its l
to per cent of the red metal, could
be operated at a handsome profit. De-
Lamar, through the maheuvering of a
bright lieutenant, was made to believe
that he could allow his option TO ex-
pire and get the ground on better
terms; but the nature of the play being
shown to Colonel f. A. Wall, the owner
Of the ground, he refused absolutely to
listen TO any new proposition, notwith-
standing that one-fourth of the ground
had already been purchased by the
captain.
d. c. Jackling, the present general
manager of the Utah Copper company,
had been on the metallurgical staff of
Captain DeLamar, and knew what
could be accomplished with the ore, so
he finally went to work and interested
Charles NJ. MacNeill, Spencer PenroseI
and others in the proposition, with the
result that DeLamar's interest was
bought outright and a deal was closed
with Colonel Wall that gave the syndi-
cate heavy control of the mines. Then
followed the organization of the COM
pany which is this minute tearing
down ore with six steam shovels at a
rate which supplies about two-thirds of
The tonnage that is going TO the 1000
ton mill of the company at Bingham
and the 6,000-ton plant at Garfield.
A section of the mine is depicted in a
half-tone accompanying this story,
where are located the steam shovel pits
Here the ore is loaded direct into fifty
ton cars of the Rio Grande railroad and
hauled 10 their destination at one or
the other of the company's mills. In
this mine there is more ore blocked out
than can be utilized in the next twenty
years at 10000 tons a day and the
ground has been prospected to sufficient
depth by drilling rigs TO make il Ger
tain that, II copper is still being used
. the mines can be operated steadily for
another 100 years. Where Butte is COM
PEELED today to mine at great depth
through deep and hot shafts, the Utah
Copper company will be still quarrying
out it's ore fifty years from now. That
is one of the reasons why Bingham is
a greater camp than Butte; that is
why Utah Copper is bigger mine than
any mine in Butte: that is the reason
IL is now operating full-handed. when
all of the deeper and older mines of
Butte are closed down. 1t don't cost
anything, hardly, to mine at the Utah
Copper company's mines.