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TI1K OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 2 1011. GREAT - IIEIKG. INTERESTS! Villi Laj Claia to Bein. a Leadixj Hineral State. SLC05D IN LEAD PH0DUCTI05 vw ! Attract F-aetrra Capital a Weateri Stat la Rapidly ImpraTlas Metfc-4 f Cettla; ! edaet from Greead. BT HORACR Dt"XBAR ALT LAKE CITT. Feb. tFpeclal Correspondenc to Tin Pm ) Th state of Utah, long looked upon by the world a no of tlie curiorty shop of the nation. M a commonwealth 1hm sole right to distinction was he.ed upon her Mormon temple and great Salt lake, stands among tba states of the union second In lead production, fourth In copper, third In silver and alrth la go'd. It metal output la 131 waa aa follow: Value. "old. J r mmcea.. 4 '- Hlver, 11 72 0 ounce g rw rg Lai. 112 r-oun1 4 "1 .? Copper. I?5'0y6 pounds U.r sm Zlne. li.J37.67 pounds K1 :.?.7 Total value nvi-'JOJ U Owing to low mntal prices and tba dif ficulty experienced In financing new mla , trig organixatlona. the year 119 waa a moat trying on for the Industry, yet d jrtng "this period Utah mines paid a total of ' :1 1 i f 1 t W- i SALT LAKE MINING EXCHANGE. W.Ti?.ST3 la aivlderds. exclusive of the caai mining and Quarry Interests. In Bingham. Utah has th greatest in-, 6i idi;al copper ptoducing compui; In the wo; Id In the I'tah conper. Its 1'iC o:fut lacklns a few pa ni cf reaching O'iv'JB potT.ds of th- rr.'ial. la the Tiru ..ai;. I'taii r.x c-ir if Ire irrateat si . i.'Jd camp of the vest, a camp onu.nnj. unicr mrnui: ::trt-l conditions, the greit ct n-rrbrr of dhldtnl ia)lng silver-Had corruanus of n, jn.nlng district in -tha Un..cd ft-:te. Jnst Urine Dev I op-eel. nnlns in t"t;:h la just being developed. The camp wilh the greatest records of output, ir.d.cete unmistakably future nee fulresj far In excels of rant per forma act a, while distributed throughout her richly mineralised mountain ranges are new r 1' 1 5 ; A VIEW Of DALY JCL'CK mlaes ard new c!jilrict respa4iag with gfp.'rous hand to the efforts rf tho miner. ! drctntratlnj plants wl.tio tlii porpliyry Utah. sas th fri.ttd Sisica .-eolog.cal j ore Is taken and whrre tho copper content survey, has the create undeveloped Iron j Is taken by the wet cone emrst.an process deposits now known to the world. Ra l-1 from the worthless gani;ue. Near ut har.d roada In time i:i mtke thete available, i i the CarCItld copper fmcltcr where rU for there Is aa rcaS'Ha to doubt thJt th? ' rtvetlerttory furnace reduce these enn vnanufacturlng lrnd of the coartrv w;ll ccr.trstes te copper matte, tvhlch In tu:-a Is be steadily c.'tcjd. Cloe at han1 r i re fined to blister cawr. the coal dcposi:s. experts l:'.lf l.'.g t tS;j Tact two ir.llls are the !a.-yt of their cxlster.o of s il.lcler.t coal t i rrov.di tar PsaUIc coaat I nr lour to Tve ce-.u.-lej In the eastern and southeastern part? cf Utah, a here i.ccx5 Is rat r;t:icted largely to freht team, ex'.t cxte-Jive and valuable h Cro-crrbon. de-ocf.s. a large tonnage of asphitum being mined " " '.'"" VTF'V Sl.OV F TUT UTAH (wn I'tah and conducted Intel nere Tla C-lr1i. nels pf Mrnm In Kan Juaa county ia the Jun oil field. )ust now. and for the first time, be in developed through the appuuaUoa at willing? east am eapl'aX This rtUtlil fin es quality to ba found la th world, baring a parafln baae and a ejallty of which the world will never bare too great a supply. There arc fourteen producing walls axw at Fan Juan and thirty wells showing oil at depths not yet considered eufflrlent to bring them Into tha prod-icing list. From a mining standpoint the are a few assets of Utah needing nry tho Alladln lamp of capital to add still more to tha wealth of the wet- Copper Iatereata Grewlaf. During the last four years tho copr-ee mining Industry of tba world has under gone Its moat marvellous transformation of history. Copper miners bad been educated from tha earliest times to vein mining where tho ore occurred In limited bodies of commercial grade. .'When tho consumption of copper began to increase tho world over by leapa and bounds these old-time mines were unable to supply the demand, one result being artificial prices of unwise height which, if continued, promised to place a prohibitive value on a metal so extensively used. The so-called porphyry copper propositions have solved this difficulty, the propositions be ing nothing more than Immense) deposits of .copper ore of a metal content so small that BO successful method of handling the same waa devised until metallurgists of ' A I. . I' I'tah opened the Aoor. Credit for this great advance la metal lurgy belongs to D. C. Jatittllng and asaocl n'.es of the Utah Copper company. Their ;ytf m involves the treatment of enormous tonnages of this low-grade porphyry ore. there belr.g now developed by this one com- I any at Bingham close to J0O.000 009 tons of workable rock. Twenty steam shovels ars t' Torx on this property, eighteen being employed In eating away the waste or ever trcrtff n rerrMg on the org deposit proper. anl t'o r 1.3 vols mining ore. Each shovel !a good trim Is expected to handle K.OM cul:c yards of dirt monthly. The company expends from C&,W to S20.C0Q eash month on powder, blasts shattering aa' much as 1QCX00 tons of - ore at a time -ao that the aws of the shovels cam find a grip to do their work. : f ..; 7 . - ; 1 - ' r,;-T-r.al MINE. PAHK C1TV. UTAH. i At Oerfleld. Utah.' tt" r!nrxnr has tro j .1.4 :n tue wo:ld. Being the pioneers In :llr lice they have naturally presented problems which f n'y experience can furnish x clue. Tbe experts of the company hive mads many Improvements, cr.e plant 4 it 'At-t.it toicy 1 eatable cf tract nr liroa tons of porphyry ore d&lly, the seconl is COIT ,R COMPANY'S M1NF l uit'-wLl avteC a. J 1 L. i rr. 1 . 0 W. IL CHILD. now being ucreaaed from 1.000 to t.000 tons dally capacity, and wtthla a few months these mills will be handling 10.000 tons of ore a "day at a cost of not to exceed cents per pound of copper produced. Utah mines and mining men. therefore, have revolutionised red metal mining, be tn among the few copper companies able to operate under low-priced copper condi tions on account of the low coat of produc tion. Many of the old-time producers oould net produce their .copper for lees that 11 to II cents per pound. With copper selling at 1S.T3 cents per pound, the average prlos during 1SW. their margin of profit waa pro hibitive, but tbe Utah Copper oornpany could operate and paid m dividends to shareholders In WO. Dee to miek Xlse. Salt Lake City was largely brought to Its existing beauty and wealth through profit from Utah mines. The dtvldenta from Park City camp more than from any other section of tbe state have been paid Utah stockholder and thus remained wlthtir the state. Park City has produced over :oo.O.e worth of ore, paying be tween e00O.OW and I3.000,000 la dividends, j clean money, the cleanest earned anywhere. Tet la spite of this magnificent record the Park City camp today contains a tonnage of rich all rer. lead and gold or aa large as at any Urns of Its experience, while only a portion of tho knows mineral area has been developed to any extent. Tbe famous Ontario. Silver King Coalition, Daly Judge. Daly West and Paly mines are) lo cated In this district. Mining waa first done In Utah by sol diers, these crospectora being given the op- iportunity to searcn for minerala that they might at once help in the development of the then territory and at the same time keep, out of mischief. Blnce that time tbe Industry baa been given Increased atten tion each year, until men of capital of every civilised spot of ths universe have Inspected or invested In Utah properties. Engineers from all over the glob bar ournied to Salt Lake to see tbe milling land ameltlng works surrounding the city, and ail came confessing that the object of their visit waa to learn. Caaea of Present Cwadltloa. Tbe remarkable development of mining properties has been due to several things, mainly to the richness and- extent of the ore bodies, to the ever increasing Tailroair- llnes Into mountain and deeert, to the great abundance of food and water pro vided by nature for the animate of the prospector s outfit and to the market af forded nil sorts and conditions of ore at Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City Is known as the rmelter center of tbe country. At Garfield, aa al- - ,...-4-" 5 .'' - i ' i L !i TOED C. DERN. i- JS;; .-;:v v- 'y': jr -. , ; ' . .- : ON THE WFT OF PISOHiH ClVTON. SHOWIXO THF FXTENT OF STEAM SHOVEL .J.-i-U f wll Tliii lnJaiJS COAltwUAILj iU-.J CO-if AN I. reedy ment'or.ed. I the Amrlnn STT,t!-i: I nd H'fln'n? ".'ppr worV; near hr ai? the Ti oele inilnr. t rutra mrrr t-1 r, it of :h In'ernatln-ial S-nfi;i-g an 1 Uf-fir'ne; . c mpary: th m!?nrpt-d Coi r 'nter- aeta, wlle at Bingham, la the copper smelter of the Tampa company. Five m let south of Salt Lake City stand the rrlrer and lead smelter of the American Pnidttng Interests, and at Vldrale, Utah, within sltht of Salt Lake City, Is the silver rn1 lad smelter of the United States Smelt ing. Rfflr.lng and M nlng company. . This lattr on- pany tecently has tnstal ed a concentratlrg p'ant to reduce low grade t.nc orea to a ameltlng condition, thus throwing open a market for an enormjus tonnace of tine ore which have teen ex tracted durlrg the rast many rears along wl:h more desirable ore. but fcr which ao market existed Methods Are laapreied. While the smelting comranies f the country are f ghtlng either the government ' C. M. JAMIESOS. or surrounding farmers on account f the poisonous fumes and solids emitted by smelter stacks. Utah smelting experts went to work and Installed lmprove4 methods of preventing this waste, thereby securing aot only permission from tbe courts and farmers to continue operations, bat reap ing stIU greater earnings by simply rescu ing and saving minute solids and gases heretofore lost, the product being bri .netted and resmelted. The many railroad lines entering Salt Lake City from all points of the co.np i bring In not only from Utah camps ores of all grades and descriptions, but ore from Idaho. Montana. Nevada. California, Arlxor. a and Colorado to ba sold and smelted. Ore from each and. every nook and corner of the world, for the commercial treatment of which ao metallurgical process exists. la shipped to Salt Lake City that the mill ARTHUR THOMAS. . . experts and the unezcelled experimental fsc.il'.;. i a .'tillable lier may asce. lain wlr tyjtrm of handl.rg will rescue tie p:cl.uj ar.d atubborn metal contents cf lh ore from their worthless xsaoz.ated gargue or rocx. Each known ore concen tration process the experience of the world ha developed la Installed In th varlooa Sal: 1-ake City experimental works, and If no kr.otn process '. capable of successful app! cation, one that will achieve thj de sited ri-ihs wiil be deviitd Easterner Peel afc. Ecttcrr. Investors feel safe In placnx carltal la 1'u.h mining properties, for. re jardlcss cf the demonstrated mire.al wealth of the H-i n y active ezn-is. tt ix a; matter cf universal comment that the j - K ::t 'v - ':: - . . . .. - . - ; , . .. r ' " -'---- " ' - r .'"' ' . - . . i '. - X I i. - ' -; - a i V : t -.J t ' 1 f" - . ; , , r, V . i M .. .. ; . a. . .. . ... - v f- , . - . " ' ; . .. ' , if w- . - , I ' - . " - V-v--efv""- u iyrr- '" .T; ''if ' 7 -" JAMES. A POLLOCK. mot.ey la placed In honest underground de velopment work. The majority of com panlea pay very small salaries to manag ers, as these usually are large stockhold ers who Intend to be satisfied with ulti mate dlvidecda. kilning stocks with but fsw exceptions are assessable In Utah, and no other character of stocks should be countenanced for the development pros pect While a few aseeaymer.ts may be levied to carry on operation. It Is tetter to pay these than to close down a prop erty and loee what money already has been placed In work oh account of Inability to raiae more funds. Little Labor Troable. Utah alo has been remarkably free from labor trouble and strikes. In the major ity of caaea tr.e mine labor Is American, made up of miners who frequently prefer to take part stock Inxtead of all cash for their labor. Utah has been abeolutely free from the wildcat, the stamp of the stats on a proposition being considered a guar anty of good faith. These are one or two of the theories which govern mining In the Utah camps. One of the most satisfactory usage Is the fni and In many cases monthly or Quarterly, reports of companies, by which shareholders are kept In honest and con tinual touch with Cnanc'.al and mine con dition. The year Wll glvee promise of being the moot prosperous year In the history of the state, that It will exceed 1910, the banner season. Jut as 1(10 gained Importance In advance of 130- There Is not a more lucra tive field in the west than Utah mining properties for capital. There Is a vast and rich field among aur mountains await ing development. If Reet. Are you la favor of woman suffrage?" sbs asked. "Oh. yes! Enthusiastically." he replied. "Now, I wish you would tell me why you think women ought to forget their children and their household duties and get out Into the world to mix up In polit ical affairs. If you know of any good rea son " Good heavens: I beg your pardon. I merely, said I waa in favor of it to avoid arguing with you. Can't a man be aafe oa any side any more?" The Housekeeper. Hater "War. -Tour eoldiere look fat and happy. Ton mutt have a war chest?" "Not exactly, but things are on a higher plane than they ud to be. This revolu tion Is being financed by a moving picture coaoern." Louisville Courier-Journal. - t V V.;. ARTHUR THOMAS. ' ' v y.:y - : : OPERATIONS A3 T1IET EXIFTED IN Tuo Progressive Youun: Men from East 60 to Front C IL JiLmifson tnd D. E. Ttioinpoa Blake Good in SaU Lake City in Very Short Tin:e. ALT UKK CITY. Feb iv-Cfpeclal Correprndence to The Bee ) C. M. Jam'e on and I. R. Thompson, two young men of the eat. have opened In the Ne!io.:e building", this city, e esant office, th sle bustne.oa of which will lo.-et;rg home steed uj-on free government land In Utah. Mr. Jamieon is s youne Canad.aa from the province of Alberta and came to Sail lake City one year aao In charge of the Car.ad an Kacinc railway Ir.-lrail. n col onization dpatmert office to the Inter mountain went. Purlng the time that he l.as been here he has sold to people of this section thousands of acres of Canad'ar lands Impre-ed with the opportunities tt te found In Utah, and sure that when th great colonisation movement of this coun try would flad Its focus In Utah and the Intermoumam wtst. he baa added to his business the locating of eastern homeeeek ers upon th free government land of Utah air. D. R. Thompson waa formally special MI.V:J V3 AT WORK X.S0O agent of the field service with the United States land office In Utah and under the government employ baa located and trav eled over and knows by sight practically every foot of free government land In the Intel-mountain west. Mr. Thompson Is orig inally a Wisconsin man. but came out here and entered the government employ and has lived In Utah sixteen year; thus h adds to his knowledge of the eaat and eastern conditions a full, complete and of ficial cognizance of the land situstion and the government free lands throughout all the Intemrountaln west. - This la but another example of the op portunities for any man in this section of the country. Thousands upon thousands of acres of government lands, some of them close to transportation and others capable of being Irrigated, have been ly ing out here in Utah aver since the state waa settled. The opportunity of locating these lands and of settling them through homesteaders from the eaat baa been wholly overlooked until now. Utah's exhibit at the recent Land show at Omaha, which has Just closed, baa been another means of- bringing Utah agricul ture possibilities before the people through out the central states, and the rush for Utah's enlarged homesteads, as shown by J'l 7; ' yyyy. 1 '' 1hj . OHIO COPPKH COVrFNTRATINa MILL. :.t' TONS OF ORE. the United S'.Mes land office in Salt Lake j City, fcas started In ea-nest. Thousands of acres or this r-rt'.l .and ar being fuea ujon c&ily. The f irrcniior. of this company, how ever, makes It possible te secure full, com plete and accurate Information concerning Ira o-icio homesteads capable of being taken up und-r the enlarged homestead act throughout Utah. Reflections of a Bachelor. If an artuuc trai.vrrament can't make a livlnt tt has no riouMs sbout itself. A nin who can wail: fifty tnllea for fun without fel.K tired will faint If It Is only tlii"e for r.us.nosa. A Wi'-mcn Lfrir that It Is specially her duty to tvlleve her husband has brajn when he kuw he htm t A mn ': r. i Incurable idea that his wife m:kM to prefer to sit around and aee h:m amcke an old pipe to hie taking her to (La opera. New York Preaa. . r MARCH. 131. IN TUE UPPER PORTION w - .. " - f '-. t . 1 r '.' - . "' '' ' YEARS Preach Aarennrer I Ilia tfce t nrtale ef tbe I'r.tt re and fella W bat II fea Within the next 1 years, ear CamllM Flammarton. th population of Europe will hare Increased from ir,!. to ?"fl(wio, tht of Asa from rvwo'vo to 1 OA nmertk that of North and South America from 1?V worn to l.rA'i.i. that of Africa front .(rnenn to jrO .frw, that of Australia front S.rty to nAr..wa. the whole population thu rising from l.iX.0X to J MO.X) OflfV Languagee will be almost unknown. Th ceaalesa progress of science and tnduatrt will have almost altered the face of th English lanirtiase. which In Its new font will be spoken as a quasi-universal tongu throughout the g'o(-e. War will disappear soon after we have reached the year tOro. The republican form of government wit come to prevail universally. A single-money currency will prevsJ throughout the globe. There will be on universal meridian thet of Greenwich and the hours will be calculated from on to twenty-four. Meteorology will become at exact a science as astronomy, and the ex pens of ?T1 A. D. will be able to foretel the weather almost to a raindrop, a snow flak or a ray of sunshine. ; Electricity will, of course, bar taken tV c-y-y xCx .V f -.. . - ' ;'V -V.;-- FEKT BELOW SURFACE. place of steam, btit tha most popular rno-1 of transportation from one point to aef etker will be by dirigible balloon. Tbe sV will b brought to Paris by means of vast canal, and electric ships will arrtv at tho French capital from the Atlantic aa from the Pacific by way of Panama, London will be connected with Paris b a rapid transit underground railroad. Th Mediterranean will be Joined to tbe Atlas tic by a canal Issuing at - Bordeaoa. aa compressed air tubular trains will eon one Spain and Portu U with northern Africa. There will be telephone communlcatia between all the Inhabitant of tha oarti and telephonoecopy will enable tba tlrw citizen of Chicago to listen to tba Carua or Tetrazxlnl of the day la Parte or Los don or see tbe great operas or dramas) en acted. I Human slavery or domestic service will b unknown, and trained ourang-outaaga ' chimpanseea will da, all man's house wor: for him. Chemical synthesis will nave don' away with all th -trouble of oooklng elat . orate dlshe. Gluttony will be unknowri and men and women will entertain eacl other la conservatories, the banquet con) listing of compressed viands or uelieaci. Jjqjj - ' ' LARK. UTAH. DA1LT CAPACITr. served oa silver trays, the tabloid m el Us I In one's mouth and doing away with th I vulgar necessity of mastication, but givinq neverthelesa. th same rtaulta. If not mur superior, as far as digestion la concerned -Tbe human body will also undergo Strang enough tranaformationa. Tha bead, fa example, will be larger, the body smaller as a result of the decrease la manual la bet the Increase In Intellectuality, tbe natu.-' of the dietary and the greater intelllgeac shown in ths selection of life partners. Going still further Into the future, for th vorid has still at least 10,000.000 of year to run, it Is certain that the human belu of the year 100M A. V. will be aa tad vldual of small stature and a peculiar whli" lsh skin texture. Once the notlona of brut force and tnyuatioe disappear man win ba com Ideal. New Tork American. . I OF THE PHOTOGRAPH 18 KliavrM S It