Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-09
.JACKL|NG HEIR
TO HE|NZ.E' CROWN.
-- : 1900 -------
How Utah Operator Is Classed
BY Writer on a Los
Angeles Paper.
STORY ABOUT UTAH COPPER
STORY ABOUT UTAH COPPER
It's Origin and Progress-Fi Figures
Showing Immense Tonnage
OF Copper Orc.

The Los Angeles Times has printed
several interesting stories about Utah
mines lately from the pen of Sidney
| Norman. mining editor of that paper.
who visited Bingham recently. Not
long ago Mr. Norman had something to
say about Ohio Copper, but Utah Cop
per Is the latest subject treated, and
| incidentally, General Manager lacking
is again crowned as a copper king.
The State OF Utah, which now ranks
| lonrtn among the copper producing
states and territories of the United
states, and which gives specious prom-
Use OF forging even further to the front
Mltnln the next few years, has gone
INTO the copper GROWING business on
It's own account and, within the past
year, offers to the world the claims
o. a new copper king, who, at the age
or less than 80 years, is in control Of a
concern which turns out 5O,00O,O00
| pounds OF the metal every year. This
man who has usurped the youthful
Napoleonic position hitherto occupied
ny Montana's spectacular candidate
! II. Augustus Helmets D.. c.. jack
ing, the man who has nursed Utah
copper from its inception and now
manages the comDletest, and one of the
very largest, plants in the whole world
It was over ten years ago when /
| hrst met Jackling and he was then en-
ployed by the Montreal owners of the
Republic mine in Ferry county, Wash,
IN the erection of the immense reduce
ton plant which didn't reduce and
which still stands as a monument to
the assidious asininity OF some people
| VINO profess to know something about
the business Of mining. 1t VIII be re-
membered that this was Washington's
big gold mine-its first. and, I believe.
It's last-worked with some success
by Patrick Clark and sold by him
WIN more success The failure OF tile
mill was in no wise due to any lack
OF netallurgical knowledge on the part
OF lacking. but 1 know that he took
the. subsequent fiasco much to heart
ana looks back with little pleasure
upon his northern experience The mine
rad no pay ore--that was all.
BUILT MERCuR PLANT.
Before his experience in Washing
ton. lacking, even at the age of Is.
mad gained fame In his chosen profes,
sion and among other big works, had
constructed tho. Mercur plant for Capt.
De Lamar, with whom he was closely
associated and who had the greatest
| confidence in his ability. Leaving the
SHOWS OF the north in his wake lie
returned to Utah. and. within a few
years, as the work Of men are Judged.
has fought his way to the very pin
nacle of mining success. Always ener-
getic, master Of every detail of the
work in hand, he has constructed a
plant at Goldfield within sight of the
Great Salt Lake, that must stand for
many day as preeminent example
or what human ingenuity can accom-
| plish. Eight acres of solid concrete,
| covered with the ever whirring wheels
OF machinery grinding into CONNER
| cial product 5000 tons Of ore every day.
Two hundred and thirty-ton train cars
| OF product that passes each day auto
madcally through the plant and comes
| out at the other end ready for the
smelter And not a pound OF ore run.
ning over z per cent copper. That is
| surely an achievement of which any
man might well be proud.
STUCK no IT.
| Jackling's connection with the inn
! mense lowgrade porphyritic deposits
OF Bingham canyon, now owned by the
| Utah Copper company, dates back
| about 10 years. but 1t was not until
| he had returned from the north that
he made any determined effort to solve
the question Of reduction upon an
economical scale. In 1898 he inter-
ested Capt. De Lamar in the project
| ttll SSLGilslNt tltfelDplllSElS were I'M
| dertaken. In 1899 he spent many
/ months In making an exhaustive re-
| port upon the character Of the de-
| posits and Incorporated IL plan of re-
| duction which he thought would result
| in great prof.. His hacker about the
| same tire was afflited with frgidty
| In t,ie lower extremities and matters
/ fell back into a state OF Inastsrful in
activity until the year 1903. lacking
| Their obtained an option upon control
and. after many further delays, sue
ceeded in interesting Charles Mcneil,
| of Colorado, Spencer Penroseg of Phila-
delphia and few others who were
struck with tile evident grasp of the
situation.
and that was the beginning Of
(! Utah Copper. The erection of 800
ton experimental plant was COM
menced at Copperton and its capacity
was gradually increased to 500 tons
within the next four years. The great
plant at Garfield was commenced In
| September, 1905 and the first of it's IL
| 5o0-ton sections were started in June,
| 1907 Since then the progress of the
| undertaking has been a matter of com
| mon mining history and now, after q
total expenditure of 100000, the COM
/ pany has entered the list of the great
copper producers Of the world and
| Utah. with unanimous consent. has
| handed lacking the copper crown
which he now wears with such becom-
! ing modesty.