The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-09
COMMERCIAL ORE SMELLING
CENTER OF UNITED STATES
LOCATED IN SALT LAKE
COUNTY.
Present. Investment In Plants, Power
Houses and Machinery Aggregate
$12,250, 900, Thousands Of Men
Being Employed In Their
Operation.

SMELLING: Salt Lake county Ia
today the commercial ore smelling
center OF the United States. The
mammoth plants at Tooele, Midvale
Murray and Garfield now employ an
average Of 2.470 men and pay them
wages of $2178.O00. Their other run.
ming expenses, taxes and fixed char.
ges annually double that amount, be-
sides the distribution of dividends
and the thousands spent for improve.
ments and up-to-date facilities for 70.
ducing ores Their present invest.
ment In plants. power houses and
machinery aggregates TWELVE
MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS, besides their
large holdings in lands, mining claims
and mines The four plants have
a combined treatment capacity OF
11,700 tons daily. The latest feature
is the facility for treating low grade
lead and zinc ores heretofore una.
valuable. This means a great deal to
the state, as Utah now stands THIRD
IN the Union in the production OF
lead ores. Utah also stands second
In production of silver, fourth as to
copper and sixth In gold. The total
value Of all ores smelted In this state
In 1911 has been placed at $4,000, 900.
The output for 1912 is expected to
exceed this amount.
CONCENTRATING MILLS: The
many concentrating mills In this
state play a large part In handling
the ores from the time they leave the
mines. Most every large mine has
its concentration near by. Much Of
Utah's mineral output is OF such a
grade that II can be treated economi-
cally at the smelters as II comes
from the mines. Principal among
these concentrators In the state are
the great Magma and Arthur mills OF
the Utah Copper company at Gar.
field, employing fourteen hundred
sixty men; the plant of the Ohio
Copper company at Lark, the United
States Smelling company at Mid.
vale. those of the Silver King, DAILY
West, DAILY Judge. Ontario and Gar.
SELL at Park City; the cyanide mill OF
the Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines
company at Mercur; the Bingham
New Haven, the Redwing and Utah
Apex at Bingham, and that of the
South Utah Mines company at New.
house. There are many other SINH
lar plants in the various mimi dis.
tricts of the state. IL Is estimated
that these mills represent q total in.
vestment of $9,745,0O0, that they EN-.
ploy 2,5l0 men and carry mo2thly
payroll OF $222,025. Salt Lake un.
ty takes an enormous toll from his
industry Most OF the output from
tie mines in the state come to his
county for treatment al the smel ers,
thence the bullion is shipped cast.
ward for refining.
THE INTERNATIONAL: The In
rternational Smelling a. Refinn~ com
pany has completed its splendid new
plant near Tooe .. Not the largest
In the state nor the greatest in capa
city, but modern In every appoi"r
ment; compact. thoroughly equipped.
built on economical lines and des.
tined to play a large part in the III
ture development of the commercial
smelling industry of the intermoun.
tain west. Its daily capacity for
smelling copper ores Is fifteen huud.
red tons. while the lead furnaces
handle five hundred additional tons
per day. The mammoth chimney
rising to a height OF five hundred fifty
feet and twenty-five feet wide at the
top-and all buildings, are OF brick
and steel construction. These with
the smelling equipment cost THREE
MILLION DOLLARS.
The company first opened Its cffi.
Ces in salt Lake City early in 1909
and IN April 10th ground was bro.
ken Tor the plant. On July 18th,
1910. Governor William Spry lighted
the first fires under It's FIVE reverbe
ratory furnaces, four OF which are
now treating copper ores received
from the mines of Utah, Nevada,
Idaho and Montana. Al present the
ores from the Bingham district are
carried over the Olulrrh range to
the plant by aerial tramway. The
Tooelc Valley Railroad connects
with the salt Lake Route at dis
lance of about seven miles from the
smelter and provides means of
transportation for tonnage q and
from the plant, as we'll as passenger
service between the smelter and the
Old and new towns of Tooele. This
railroad is owned and operated by
the smelling company.
THE UNITED STATES COM
PANY: The United States Smelling
Refining and Mining company is op
Grated extensively in Utah. II main
tains Offices in Salt Lake; operates
the Centennial-Eureka and Bullion
Beck mines in Tintic and Old Jordan
Galena, Niagara and Telegraph mine
IN Bingham. two concentrating mill
and huge smelter at Midvale, Utah
It also has smelling and refining
plants at Needles and Kennett, Cal
fornia, at Graselli, Indiana, an
Chrome. New Jersey.
The United States Smelling plan
at Midyale was completed in 1870.
II has cost THREE MILLION Dol
LARS for buildings, Improvement
and general equipment, and has
daily capacity of twelve hundred ton
of lead ores and eighteen hundre