The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-17
UTAH MAKES BIG RECORD
METAL PRODUCTION 1917
COPPER AND SILVER INCREASE
OFFSET DECREASE IN GOLD,
LEAD AND ZINC.

In 1917, according to Victor c. Heikes
of the United States geological sur
vey, department of the interior, had
value of over $106,0OO,00O. an increas
of nearly $17,000,0 900 over 1916. Thi
is a record value for the state out
put, reached largely because of tn
high prices for silver copper and lead
There was decrease in the output o
gold, lead and zinc but the increas,
in the output of silver and copper ant
the higher prices greatly increased thu
total value.
During two months in 1917 two o.
the large smelling companies places
on their ore shipments an embargo
which affected particularly the small.
Ter shippers. These larger companies
limited their shipments to half The
quantity called for in their contracts
On account of the congestion OF
freight on railroads it was difficult Il
get sufficient cars, but in spite of all
difficulties, about 100000 tons OF
ore was mined during the year, against
13,920,64S tons in 1916
The mines at Bingham produced
about H,275,0OO tons of ore, an in
crease over the 12,7776S3 tons mined
in 1916. A large part of the ore was
moved by steam shovels The por-
phyry copper ore mined amounted to
1892, 900 tons, an increase over the
| 11,767,9 a6 tons mined in 1916.
Tintic District.
The Tintic district, with more than
forty shippers produced about $4,000
tons of ore, which, however, included
considerable oxidized iron ore shipped
from the Dragon property to the
shelters in the valley as flux. Even
after this ore is deducted, however,
the output still showed a slight in
crease over that of 1916, which was
365.949 tons There We're fourteen
shippers and each shipped over 1000
tons during the year The largest
shipments were made by the Chief
Consolidated, Iron Blossom, Centen-
NAL Eureka and Dragon. The Tintic
Milling company treated local ore and
produced considerable silver and cop
per, most of it from base bullion and
precipitates shipped from points fur
ther west
Cottonwood and American Fork.
From the Big and Little Cottonwood
and American Fork districts nearly
$4,000 tons of ore were shipped, de-
cided increase over the 42,S2S tons
shipped in 1916. The Cardiff NINE
in the Big Cottonwood district, main
tanned its output of lead and the Max
field and Iowa properties made large
shipments. The Michigan Utah,
South Hecla Columbus Rexall, and
Emma mines at Alta made increased
output.
Park City.
The shipments of ore and concen-
trates from Park City increased from
81, O72 tons In 1916 to about $4,000 tons
in 1917. The value of the output of
Park City will be nearly 100000 for
1917, as there was decided increase in
the shipments of both silver and lead.
The main producers were the Silver
King, Coalition, Judge Mining &
Smelling, ontario, Silver King Con-
solidated DAILY West. and DAILY Mining
each of which shipped more
than 1000 TONS
Beaver County.
The shipments of ore and concen-
rates from Beaver county increased
rom 57,2O6 tons to over 10000 TONS |
The principal producers in the vicinity
If Frisco We're the Horn Silver the
Utah Leasing company. working on
copper tailings, and the Caldo Leasing
making zinc concentrates
rom Horn Silver tailings. Part of
he Horn Silver milling ore was ship
'ed to Midvale for concentration. The
arge producers in other districts of |
Beaver county were the Montreal, Ma
estic, Monitor and Copper Ranch.
Other Districts.
AhS SHiPiHeHtS VI crude ore and +
Milling ore from Tooele county, in
luding those from the Ophir, Stock
on. Rush Valley. Clifton and other
mailer districts, amounted to about
41,000 tons, against 124.695 tons in
SIG.
In the Rush valley district large
hipments. were made from the Bullion
and New Stockton proper
es. 4
In the Clifton district. or Deep creek |
'gion, the new railroad was operated G
nd a considerable quantity of low 1
rade copper ore was shipped, prin- II
pally from the Western Utah Copper s
,mpany. In
In the Ophir district the main pro- d
icers We're the Ophir Hill Consoli- s
tied, Ophir Coalition, Hidden Treas
e and Cliff. n
Gold. e
The production Of gold in Utah de- "
eased from ss,574,947 in 1916 to f
'out $3,4S9,OO0 in 1917. All the gold O
cept very small amount of milled I,
llion and placer dust, was derived G
'm copper, lead and zinc ores smelt- Fl
Silver. III
The output Of silver increased from L.
253,037 ounces in 1916 to about IA Ia