to the ton and carried a little copper and lead as well to dividend payments is available, but it is known that

as a few cents in gold to the ton. the mine has been very profitable, especially from a
time shortly after 1900 to the cessation of operations
while under the ownership of the ·W. A. Clark
The Ophir Coalition group is on the north wall of interests.
Ophir Canyon, about. half a mile north of Ophir, just Geology.-The productive workings of the Ophir
west of the workings of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Hill Consolidated mi~ are all confined to the Ophir
mine. The group consists of about 12 claims, of which formation and almost entirely to a few limestone beds
the Lost Boy, Teller, and Montana have thus far of the formation. (See pI. 28.) The most consistently
proved the most productive. mineralized limestone is that known as the "Copper
The mine is developed by means of a vertical shaft vein" limestone. It is about 8 feet thick and is about
about 500 feet deep, with inclines in the limestones of 110 feet above the base of the formation. Just below
the Ophir formation. Litigation with the Ophir Hill the "Copper vein" limestone and separated from it
Consolidated Mining Co. resulted in a decision in only by llh to 2 feet of shale is the" Blue vein" lime-
favor of that company, to which the more productive stone, about 6 feet thick. This is also consistently ore
part of the workings, developed through the Montana bearing and is commonly mined in one stope with the
shaft, were awarded. These workings formed the "Copper vein." About 25 feet above the" Copper
Clark stope of the Ophir Hill. The geology of the vein" limestone and separated from it by barren shale
Montana mine is like that of the Ophir Hill Consoli- is a 10 to 14 foot limestone known as the" Middle
dated and requires no discussion, as there has been no vein" limestone. This in turn is separated by 25 feet
development other than that in the Ophir formation. of shale from the" Big vein" limestone, which ranges
from 20 to 40 feet in thickness. A 2-foot shale part-
ir..g divides the" Big vein" limestone from the" Top
Looation.-The Ophir Hill Consolidated mine is vein" limestone. Still higher, at the top of the for-
about a quarter of a mile northwest of Ophir, and the mation, is a 5 to 8 foot limestone to which no name
working adit and drain tunnel are in the north wall has been given. This bed is also locally altered to ore.
of Ophir Canyon just west of the town. The "Copper vein" limestone, with its close asso-
Development and production.-The properties of ciate the "Blue vein" limestone, is most widely re-
the Ophir Hill Consolidated mine include a consolida- placed and has furnished the largest ore bodies of the
tion of many claims, of which the Wild Delirium, mine. The" Middle vein" and" Big vein" limestones
Miner's Delight, Bartlett, Northern Light, Bannock, are less consistently ore bearing, and ore bodies in the
Burnett, Cooley, Severe, Maud S., Our Boy's, and " Top vein" limestone are only sporadic.
First Northerly Extension of the Miner's Delight have Almost all the workable ores of the mine occurred
so far proved most valuable. in the block of ground in the angle between the Cliff
The development of the mine was first carried out fault and the Canyon fault. Considerable exploratory
by inclined shafts in the ore, but in 1911 a drain tun- work was done on the northwest side of the Cliff fault
nel about 2,400 feet long was driven, with an alti~ude but was rewarded by only very meager discoveries. It
at the portal of 6,502 feet. Considerable drifting was seems very probable that the localization of the ore
done on the drain-tunnel level and on the 200 and 400 was due primarily to the shattering of this wedge-
foot levels below it. All together more than 10,000 shaped block during the faulting.
feet of drifts and tunnels have been driven, with many In this wedge-shaped block the strata strike N. 60°-
raises and a few winzes, and the stope workings must 75° W. and dip 15°-25° NE., forming part of the
be of even greater length. The water in the mine northeast limb of the Ophir anticline. The attitude
stands at the level of the drain tunnel. No informa- of the rocks is very regular except close to the Cliff
tion was obtained as to its natural level before the fault, where there is a great deal of drag and much
completion of this drain. slicing of the rock into horses of large and small size.
The production of the mine began about 1870. The There are few faults of any consequence except the
mine was idle for many years in the period between Cliff fault and its branches. A nearly vertical fault
1880 and 1897, but work was resumed then and con- called the Big fault, with a downthrow to the north
tinued until 1926, when the mine was abandoned, be- of 40 feet, cuts the" Copper vein" about 300 feet down
ing considered exhausted. During this period over the dip from the outcrop in the Wild Delirium stope.
1,200,000tons of ore was produced, and the value of This fault curves from a course about N. 70° E. to
the output must have exceeded $15,000,000and may about N. 55° E. and also cuts the Miner's Delight
have approached $20,000,000. The ownership of the stopes at about 300 feet down the dip from the out-
stock has been so closely held that no information as crop. A number of steep faults having throws as great
 as 5 feet also occur in the mine. They strike generally
east, and all but one also show downthrows to the
north, like the Big fault. The ore bodies cropped out
a short distance north of the Canyon fault. The ore
occurred in blanketlike replacement masses along a
series of roughly northward-trending fissures, follow-
ing the intersection of the fissures with the several
favorable limestone beds. There were also very large
stopes in the sliced rocks in the Cliff fault zone and
in the hanging wall of the Cliff fault.
The stopes along the Cliff fault extend for over
2,000 feet, though not continuously mined for this dis-
tance. The very rich Clark stope was developed at the
west end of this zone in the "Copper vein" in the
. hanging wall of the Cliff fault. A large ore body
was found in the "Middle vein" above and west of
the Clark stope, and a smaller stope was developed
in the "Big vein."
Along the Cliff fault to the northeast the Senator
stope was developed in a horse of the" Big vein," and
from this point a practically continuous series of stopes
were developed to the northeast along the plunging
intersection of the limestones of the Ophir formation
and the Cliff fault. Many of these ore bodies were in
horses in the fault zone, and their proper description
would require a detailed map, permission to publish
which was not received.
Of the ore bodies localized along fissures, the most
westerly was the West stope. This was developed,
with some small interruptions, for over 500 feet from
the intersection of the "Copper vein" with the Cliff
fault. It trends from due north to N. 75° W. The
principal stope was in the "Copper vein" and was
locally 50 feet wide but probably averaged less than
15 feet. The" Middle vein " stopes were not so per-.
sistent nor so wide, and the "Big vein" was mined
for only about 200 feet along the fissure. None of the
ore bodies along this fissure system extended to the
surface. A branch of the West stope fissure system
trends easterly, and the stope along it in the" Copper
vein" connected with the " Copper vein" stope along
the Miner's Delight fissure system, some 150 to 200
feet east. Two other small ore bodies were found
along fissures between the West stope and the Miner's
Delight.
The Miner's Delight fissure system trends almost
due north and has been mined for a pitch length of
1,450 feet from the outcrop, practically to the inter-
section of the "Copper vein" with the Cliff fault.
Ore bodies in all the beds were very good, the " Cop-
per vein" stopes averaging about 40 feet in width, the
"Middle vein" about 10 feet, the "Big vein" about
40 feet, and the " Top vein" being more continuously
productive along this fissure system than anywhere
else in the mine, some of the stopes in it being 80 feet
wide. . small ore bodies were found. The" Big vein" was
A few small ore bodies occur along minor fissure
systems 100 to 150 feet east of the Miner's Delight
system, but they were not continuous, although one
stope over 300 feet long was developed in the " Cop-
per vein" south of the Cliff fault.
The next major fissure system east of the Miner's
Delight was the Wild Delirium, which extends in a
course about 300 feet east of and subparallel with the
Miner's Delight fissure system. It controlled the
largest and most valuable deposits in the mine. The
ore bodies extended from the outcrop to the Cliff
fault in the " Copper vein," about 1,500 feet in pitch
length, and were only slightly less continuous in the
"Middle vein" and "Big vein" limestones. Except
near the outcrop no valuable ore bodies were found
in the "Top vein" limestone. The ore body in the
"Copper vein" limestone was 90 feet wide for sev-
eral hundred feet along its pitch, but near the sur-
face, owing to a branching of the fissures, it attained
a width of 120 feet. These brunching fissures near
the outcrop showed some continuation down the dip
about 200 feet east of the Wild Delirium fissures
proper, producing the ore body mined in the Peterson
stope, a continuation of the very rich Bonanza stope
just below the outcrop. Caving had rendered this
portion of the mine inaccessible at the time of this
survey, so that the mutual relations of the fissures
could not be ascertained.
In the "Middle vein" and "Big vein" limestones
the stopes along the Wild Delirium fissure system
were very wide near the surface, exceeding 100 feet
for short distances, but were very much narrower
down the dip to the north, averaging 20 to 30 and
10 feet, respectively, in width.
The 7112drift was run in the " Copper vein" lime-
stone east from the Wild Delirium stopes at the drain-
tunnel level and revealed ore bodies along two fis-
sure systems. One fissure about 250 feet east of the
Wild Delirium localized ore bodies that were minable
for about 500 feet in the "Copper vein" and for
about 100 feet in the" Middle vein" limestone. The
other system, about 120 feet farther east, localized ore
bodies that were mined for over 600 feet in the
"Copper vein" and nearly as far in the "Middle
vein" and "Big vein." None of these ore bodies
cropped out.
A few smaller ore bodies were found east of the
Wild Delirium system, practically along the Cliff
fault at and below the 200-foot level below the drain
tunnel.
Extensive explorations were made on the northwest
side of the Cliff fault, chiefly in the "Copper vein,"
which was followed for about 800 feet on the drain-
tunnel level, about 300 feet on the 200-foot level, and
over 1,700feet on the 400-foot level, but only two very
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explored on the 200-foot level for about 1,200 feet of
strike length northwest of the Cliff fault without suc-
cess and on the drain-tunnel level for a short dis-
tance, where a small ore body was found. Explora-
tions in the lower beds of the Hartmann limestone
northwest of the Cliff fault on the tunnel level were
I fruitless.
I Essentially aU the fissures along which the ore
i bodies were localized are nearly vertical, with per-
haps slight westward inclinations. They are surpris-
ingly inconspicuous, considering the great size of
some of the ore bodies. Commonly the fissures are 2
to 3 inches wide, but locally they attain about 4 inches
and elsewhere shrink to mere knife-edges. As a rule
there are several such fissures in a zone as much as 4
feet wide, within which they are found to join and
separate continually when followed along the stope
roof. Despite their narrow width and the additional
facts that they sharply cut the replacement ore that
made most o'f the ore bodies of the mine, and further-
more, although almost without galena or sphalerite,
carry much more pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and ten-
nantite than the replacement me, their central posi-
tions in the stopes and their never-failing presence
are conclusive evidence of their genetic relations to
the replacement ore. They are traceable in the shale
between the ore bodies as well as in the shale and
quartzite below the "Blue vein" limestone where the
workings have extended.
On reaching the conclusion that the Ophir Hill Con-
solidated mine on the north side of the Canyon fault
was exhausted, the company began search for another
ore body south of this fault. If the Canyon fault had
been postmineral, they would have been practically as-
sured of success, but the evidence of a premineral age
of this fault is almost conclusive, rendering the results
of exploration by deep shaft south of the fault much
more uncertain. After diamond drilling had revealed
some pyrite in limestone of the Ophir formation
south of the Canyon fault, a winze from the end of a
3OO-foottunnel in the south wall of Ophir Canyon was
begun in 1926 and carried to a depth of about 1,400
feet. Drifts were run in the Tintic quartzite in search
of fissures and also in the" Copper" vein limestone of
the Ophir formation, but without result. The work
was abandoned in 1928.
Evidence of the premineral age of the f!llultingmay
be summarized as follows: First, the practical absence
of ore northwest of the Cliff fault would hardly be ex-
pected were this fault postmineral. Second, the fray-
ing out into northeastward-bending "horsetails" of
almost all the mineralized fissures just south of the
Cliff fault suggests that the fault was earlier than the
fissures. Third, the mineralized limestones in the
Cliff fault zone show no evidence of drag. Fourth,
the Cliff fault has clearly localized metamorphism on
the hillside between the Ophir Hill and Cliff mines
and hence is premineral. Fifth, vugs in the Cliff
fault zone contain anhedral pyrite and galena, which
also occur in the fault gouge, although no broken crys-
tals are seen there. The Cliff fault appears to be a
branch of the Canyon fault. (See p. 75.) Sixth, the
mineralized fissures show no offsets where they cross
the small faults that are parallel to the Canyon fault,
and these small faults are mineralized well away from
any limestone beds, proving their premineral age~
Their parallelism to the Canyon fault suggests that
they are of the same age as the Canyon fault, which
hence is also premineral. Seventh, the Canyon fault
carries quartz-pyrite filling locally, as above the Ophir'
Hill mill. Eighth, the rhyolite dike that crosses the
Canyon and Cliff faults without offset and is clearly
later than these faults has been mineralized in the
Hidden Treasure mine. Ninth, the manganese mine
of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Co. follows a fissure
system that is parallel to and only a few score feet
from the Canyon fault. The manganese (introduced
as manganiferous calcite) was almost surely formed
at the same time as the lead and zinc minerals, which
were hence la·ter than the Canyon fault.
Some of the evidences above enumerated are not
strong, but others are nearly conclusive in themselves,
and all suggest the same conclusion-namely, that the
Cliff and Canyon faults are both premineral. Ac-
cordingly this conclusion carries considerably greater
weight than it would have from any single line of
evidence.
The conclusion drawn from the evidence just cited
is directly contrary to that of Olmstead 97and Wich-
man,98neither of whom states the reasons for his con-
clusion. The exploratoiI'y work carried out by the
Ophir Hill Consolidated Co. south of the Canyon fault
apparently confirms the evidence that the mineraliza-
tIon occurred later than the faulting.
Twelve carloads of manganese ore was mined dur-
ing the World War by the Ophir Hill Consolidated
Co. from the Bowman limestone, just south of the
Canyon fault on the spur between Hartmann Gulch
and the gulch in which the easterly outcrop of Tintic
quartzite occurs. The ore was all oxidized, consisting
of pyrolusite, psilomelane, and wad, undoubtedly
secondary after manganiferous calcite. The ore was
localized in the hanging wall and alOlIlgbranches of a
fissure that trends due east and dips 80° N. The lime-
stone has been replaced through a vertical distance of
about 60 feet and locally to distances of 6 to 8 feet to
the side of the fissures. Certain limestone beds appear
fl7 Olmstead, S. G., Economic geology of the Ophir mining district:
Econ. Geology, vol. 16, p. 447, 1921.
os Wichman, F. M., The Ophir mining district, Utah: Eng. and Min.
I Jour, vol, 110, p. 562, 1920. .
to have been selectively replaced, leaving nodular lime-
stone residua convex toward the fissures, but on the
whole the irregular minor fractures that abound in the
rock have guided the replacement. Mining was done
by the room and pillar method.
The ores.-The ore of the main Ophir Hill mine
was composed of mixed pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and
chalcopyrite, with some argentite occurring in the
galena and some tennantite and pyrrhotite as minor
constituents. The gangue was extremely. variable,
rl1nging from nearly all silicate to fairly pure lime-
stone with only a small percentage of insoluble matter.
The insoluble matter in the ore ranged from 13 to 92
per cent. This made selective flotation very difficult,
owing to the variable effects of the changes in lime
content of the mill heads.
The metal contents did not vary systematically from
one bed to another nor from one fissure to another,
although there were considerable fluctuations in the
relative proportions of the several metallic minerals
within any given ore body.
The tenor was rather low except near the outcrop of
the Miner's Delight and Wild Delirium fissure sys-
tems, where oxidation had produced very rich lead
carbonate and silver ore. This did not extend more
than 75 feet down the dip, according to Mr. E. S.
Bowman, of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining Co.
Along the Cliff fault oxidation occurred to much
greater depth, supergene chalcocite being found on the
Miner's Delight level, about 2·5feet above the ·drlli~
tunnel. The average of the ore mined in the latel
years of activity ran about 1.3 per cent of copper, 5.5
to 6 per cent of lead, 6 to 7 ounces of silver to the ton,
4 to 8 per cent of zinc, 12 per cent of iron, and 42 per
cent of insoluble material. The gold content was insig-
llificant. The lime content of mill heads averaged
about 8 per cent. Most of the ore was milling ore, but
some ran 12 to 15 per cent of lead, 2 per cent of copper,
and 15 ounces of silver to the ton and was shipped as
mined. A little copper ore, running 4 to 5 percent of
copper, 3 per cent of lead, and 15 ounces of silver to
the ton, was also shipped. In general, high copper was
accompanied by high silver content and very low lead.
The maximum contents reported on carload lots were
15 ounces of silver to the ton, 15 per cent of lead, 10
per cent of zinc, and 30 per cent of iron. The small
amount of manganese mined ran 47 to 48 per cent of
manganese and 1ounce of silver to the ton.
Until 1921 the ore was milled by straight gravity
concentration with jigs and tables, but in that year
the jigs and fine tables were eliminated and replaced
by flotation. In 1924 the tables were also eliminated
and flotation was used alone, with about 30 per cent
better recovery of copper and about 10 per cent better
recovery of lead and silver. The tailings losses were
copper 0.096 per cent, lead 0.5 per cent, silver 0.6 ounce
to the ton. The extraction, according to R. V. Thomp-
son, mill superintendent, was about 90 per cent of the
copper, 91 per cent of the silver, 93 per cent of the
lead, 55 per cent of the iron, 67 per cent of the zinc,
8 per cent of the silica, and 8 per cent of the lime con-
tained in the mill heads. The concentration was about
2.5 to 1, and the concentrates ran, when the process
was standardized, about 20 to 30 per cent of lead, 4
per cent of copper, 30 to 40 ounces of silver to the ton,
and 7 or 8 per cent of iron.
The Ophir Queen prospect is in Hartmann Gulch
a few hundred feet north of the Ophir schoolhouse,
just north of the northern branch of the Canyon fault.
Brooklyn portal
,
af
100 Feet
,
FIGURE 19.-Map of the accessible workings of the Brook·
lyn mine, Dry Canyon
A shaft was sunk here about 250 feet, and a small
amount of drifting was done in the limestone of the
Ophir formation. No production was ever reported,
and the shaft was abandoned at the time of the survey
in 1926.
The Brooklyn mine is in Dry Canyon about a quar-
ter of a mile north of the Kearsarge. It was discov-
ered in the early days of the district, and most of the
work was done at that time. No data on the early
production are available. Less than 1,000 tons of ore
was extracted at about the time of the World War,
but the mine was inactive at the time of the writer's
visit, and most of the workings were caved and in-
accessible. The accessible portions, amounting to
about 1,000 feet, are shown on Figure 19. From the
small amount of workings visible it is difficu~t to say
 450 PRECIOUS METALS.
The Waterman smelter fs situated half a mile southwest of Btockton, near the northern ahore of Buab lab.
The Arst furnace in the temrory, an nnaocce88ful reverberarory, was ereoted here in 1864. by General Connor and
his officers. It Wall bought in 1871 or 1872 by Mr. I. B. Waterman. Two stone stackll were erected, and water.
jackets were bally added. The bail.linga were burnt"d in 1876, but were imme«liately reboilt. This smelter ran
quite 8teadily for several years on Hidden Trea8ure ore and some custom rock, but not proAtably. It has been
idle for nearly two years. The works are neat, roomy, anel in good condition. All parts of the building are made
of sheet iron, or lined, or covered with it. There is also a Ane brick boarding.house and office. The machinery
consists of a Blake rook.breaker, two No. 0 Baker blowers, two steam pumps, two horizontal boilel'S,4i by 16
feet, a 40 horse·power engine, and two shaft furnaces. These latter are water jacket furnaces of about the game
size. There is a Ane-dust condenser, iovented by a former superintendent. It is so constroctf'd that the oust
should pa88 through water, the draft being increased by a fan blower. Owing to idleness of the worb it cannot
be described. A report made by George W. Maynard gives the following details: During the four years euiling
Aprill, 1878, 26,270 tons of ore were smelted, and yielded 8,312 tons of base bullion, which sold for 8109 64 per
ron, or 'Oll,300. During this time 3,300 tons of Aue-aust were caught, which 80888oyed from 36 to o. ller l.-ent.lead
and from 13 to 35 ounces I:rilver.
The Chicago smelter is at SlagtowlI, on the eastern shore of Rush lake, about 2 miles sonth of Stockton. It
was built in 1873 by the Chicago Silver Mining Company, an Eoglish company, which once owned tbe Cbicagoand
the Queen ofthe Hills mines in Dry cailon. It ran quite steadily untill8i"7. It was tben idle uutilleased iu 18i9
. ro Mr. Brooks,.whoran it until the autumn of 1880, when it was shut down. The plantconsistaof one 50 hdlse-power
engine, two boilel'S, two Blake rock-breakers, one No.6 Baker blower, and three stacks with small duat chambel'll.
(For dimensions of these see table of Utah furnaces.) These stacks are similar to the otbers, excepting tbat the
water-jackets might more properly be called spl'3y-jacketll. One stack has a rectangular Cl'088-aection 4 by 3 feet.
The jacket ill in four sections, one on each side and end. These sections are 3 feet high, and are made of ~
iron. Tbey bave no open lIpace bet\veen tbe walls to contain water, but iustead have three Aangf18 upon the outside
which form three V-troughs 2 incbes deel). These are set level, and a stream of water is poured into the
uPI,er one. It overtJows into. the middle and lower troughs, from which it runs off in a pipe, thua wetting the entire
side of the jacket. The cast iron is about an incb thick. The jackets appeared to have stood well witbont
warping or bUlging. One stack has a hexagonal jaeket, 1 foot 9 inches on a side, having the same V-troughs.
Another has a circular o-foot jacket of cast iron, single thickneaa, without the V-trongbs cast on the side. Thil
is used with a spray of wat'er.
OPHIB MINING DISTRIOT.
[November, 1880.]
The Ophir district is lIituatecl south of and adjoining Rush Valley district, from which it was separated iu the
summer of 1870. It includes several caiions and lidges on the western slope of the Oquirrh range, the principal
of which are Ollhir or East canon and Dry canon, containing tbe mining camps of Ophir City and Jacob City,
respectively. There was mucb excitement in 1872, 1873, and 1874, since which time the camp has gradually
declined. At the period under review there were not 50 persons where formerly there were 1,000. The reconls
showed about 2.500 locations, on not over 150 of which was 8.88es8ment work kept np. The surface of the country
is very rough, consisting of steep hillsides amI precipitous walls of mountain gorges. The altitude of the claims
varies from 6,500 to 9,000 feet. Iu general, the couotry rock consists of a distinctly stratified limesrone, having a
small northerly dip. Near Ollhir City, there are strata of quartzite and siliceons limestone. In many pJaoes,
particularly in Dry canon, the limestone is interstratified with calC8ol'eOns shale. In this place, also, there i8 one
large dike of granitic porphyry and severa) great faults. .
lUuch of the ore of the district has beeu very rich, the 8088ays sometimes averagiDg among the hundreds, and
even thousands. In East canon the ore was u8ually a very siliceous or milling ore; ~nt that from Dry canOD
contained moch'lead, and was smelted. Tbis district has produced many million dolla.ra; how many, can never be
known, as the mine owoel'S of the early days are scattered over the Pacific C088t. Many local attemptS to treat
tbe (;res were made in East canon, but were for the most part failures. The works remaining at the period under
revi~w were the buildings of thli Pionel'r amI the Baltic mills and tbe Cleveland and tbe New Jersey arrastra&
'fhtl llioneer 111m was built ill 1871 b~' Walker Brotbers, of Salt Lake City, to work ore from the ZeUa group and
other mines on Lioo hill. It was a 20-stamp c1ry-crushing silver mill witb an Aiken furnace, aod cost abont 175,000.
Many hundred tboosamIlIollars in bullion were extracted. The machinery W88 moved to Butte, Montana, 8f\-eral,
years ago. The Baltic mill was a Arnall 5·st.amp mill, with two pans aad a settler, and was run by a tnrbine watt't-
wheel. It was not worked regularly. Tbe arrastras were in bad order, not having been io operation for seferal
years. They were usually run by water·wheels. A small boiler fnrnisbed steam. They were fairly BUcce&'lfD1t
owing to the high grade and free nature of tbe ore. Latterly, ore has been shipped to Bait Lake City or to the
Stockton smelters. The distances and costs of transportation are as follows:
Jacob City to Stockton, 10 milel, from t2 50 to f3 per ton.

,
Ophir City to Stockton, 16 miJllI,l4 per toD •
.
 APPENDIX I: MINING INDUSTRIES O~., U'rAH.' 451
I

The following works were built in early times, but had been moved away or were in ruins:
Pioneer amelter, built in 1871. Probably produced 126 tone of bnllion.
Ophir amelter, bnilt in lRi2. Produced but little.
Faucett smelter, built in 1872. Small product.
Brevoort mill, built iu 1872. Two stamps.
Enterpme mill, built in lSi3. Five stamps.
One mill (name unknown), built in 1874. Five stampB.
Also Beveral small nrrastraB run by \Vater·whE'ela.
Owing to the ext1'f'me dulln('ss of tbe camp when visited, it was impossible to get full information ef mallY of
the minef'. Hence probably some will be omitted and others will be described very imperfectly.

JUNES OF BAST CABON AND VICINITY.

•
Tbe ZelIa group comprises the ZelIa, Mountain Tiger, Silver Obief, and Rockwell, patented, and several others
unpatented. It is situated on the western side and near the summit of Lion bill. The mines were discovered in
the autumn of 1870, and sold to Walker Brothers in 1871, who worked tbem until 1876, since which time they have
been leased. The ore,ol1tcropped in two places, tbe croppings assaying '200 per ton. Three large bodil's and
several smaller ones were fOl1nd about 20 feet below the surface. The ore is a soCt, yellow, siliceous cbloride
assaying several hundred dollars per ton. The country rock is blue limestone. No water has been encoun,teredo>
The mines are opened by several sbafta and tunnels, in allover 6,500 feet. The actual working development on
the stratum containiug ore does not, however, extend over 125 feet verticaUyand 800 feet horizontally. During
the census year the property was lelUled to six men at a royalty of from one·third to one·sixth of the net receipts.
Eighty·four tons, assaying about 120 ounces silver alld,9 gold, selling for 1100 per ton, were obtained. It W8&
impossible to ascertain, except approximately, the total product of this group, but it was estimated at '750,000.
The Monarch group includes the Monarch, Monarch No.2, Monarch No.3, and Empire. The mines were
discovered in 1870. The principal work was done in 1875 and 1876. Since then the property bas been leased.
Tbe ore is found in a stratum of quartzite, dipping slightly NE. Th('re is limestone below, Bnd porphyry, in some
placeR at least, above this stratum. The explorations were in a ~pace from 5 to 25 feet in height, and 500 by 400 fPoet
in length and breadtb. There are two or three large bodies, one 75 feet long, from 3 to 3() feet wide, and from ~ inches
to 12 feet (average, 2i feet) thick, and several smaller ones. The ore is a porous quartz containing cavities filled
with the" chloride" of the miners and some carbonate of lead. In the center of the body it is quite soCt and fine,
but npon tbe edges vel')' bard and coarse. It is said tba.t tbe ore averages 130 ounces silver per ton witb from
notbing to '8 in gold, and from nothing to 12 per cent. of lead. Much of it, however, would assay npwards of
'500. The mass of the quartzite stratum near the ore is much broken, and the seams are filled with crystals of
quartz and calcite, all being somewhat stained with oxide of iron. The cblorider's rule in seeking new ore bodies
is to follow soft ground Bnd the stronger ocher stain. The richest ore occurs next the lime Bnd the porplJyry.
The mine is worked througb tunnels, and has abont 2,000 feet of cuttings. In no place are these over 125 feet below
the surface. Six men were working on lease seven months dnring the censns year, paying from. one· third to one·
fifth royalty. They took out ore which sold for'12,556. The total prodnct to the close of the census year waa
'1l7,bOU. ,
The Douglas mine was located in 1871, and was worked principally in 1875, 1876, and 1877. It has been idle or
leased since. It is situated near the western· summit of Lion hill, about B mile southeast of Ophir Oity. It is
near the Monarch group, which it greatly resembles iq gangue and ore. The country rock is stratified limestone.
Whetber the quartzite gouge of the two former claims is an iuterstratified qnartzite bed or a local mass of quartzite
cannot be determined from tbe developments. This stratum is 30 feet thick, and is known to ext~nd 250 by 300
feet. Two bodies have been found of about the same size 50 feet apart. One is 150 feet long, trom 2 to 12 feet
thick, and from 4 to 15 feet wide. The mine is dry and is opened by tunnels and shafts. It is WOI ked over 150
feet from th& surfa<>,c, and has about GOO feet of cuttings. The total product is said to be at least 1,000 tons of
100·ounce ore. This is worked at the Pioneer milL
The Trace group was located in August, 1878, and worked in B small way since by the owners. It embra(l4>,R
four claims on the northern slope of Lion hill. The l,rincipal claim is located on a fissure vein, from 6 inches to 6
feet wide, traceable for 900 feet through blue limestone, dipping 750 W. The ore is found mostly on tbe foot wall
from 2 inches to 2 feet wide, but there is also• a band of it upon the hangiug waU, which contains much more gold
('20) thyon the other ore. Between th~se bands of ore is an open fi!l8ure, from 5 inches to 2 feet, somet,imes filled

and '9 gold; second class, '11 ounces sill"er and 'U
with a lime sand from the surface. The ore is a soCt yellow sandy ocher, which assays: first class, 130 ounces silver
gold. Tbe mines of this gronp are developed to a limited
extent, mostly by tunnel8, and contain over 1,000 feet of cnttings. The total product to the end of the census year
was .11,565.
 452 PRl~CIOUS METALS.
The other mines of Elist canon 8n(1 vicinity are:

~ I
lDIuoa.
Total
l.ujZtl! 01 !
opelLillP.1
Total )II"CIIlaA !i COD4lttlaa. at tbe abe of
the _ _ year.

---. -'--- ---- ----------

.r.c. '
JbcIIaDpaudS1lDllJ8l4e.. 1,001'_080 •••••.••••••.•• '~tworkdoue ••.
L10u •••••••••• ••••••• •••••• 1,080 1120, 080 •••••••.•••• ·.··1 .....
do •••••••••••••••••
ChlortdePotut aDd otben .••....... , .•••....••.•.••••.•••••••.•... do ••••••.•••••.•••••• 8etl"!~ lIuDdred lee, or oa&t.lDp. PIOdaaed -:r tboDuPMIa III euJr
OD SUTt'ropolta hill. ~
lODer's Delight JrI'OIIp..... a 800 I...... .......... .......
Worked 00 1 _.••.•••••. : Ore ._yalllo1Dlcee sUTer aud 11 to If1*" _t.lead; wJlalorf7ptrla
I I Totall'roduct, maD)' thou"Dd t.oDe; 1, 200 &ooa estraeted ID ...,- y...
BoaaDsa .............................. ,..... .•••..••.....•••. . •.... do .••...•••...••.••.. IIu produced coDlIlderable ore.
Cle..e1aDd KlDluK Com- 1fII'IO 1 100. 000 ..•...•••••.•••. ,...... •••••. •••••• . .•• .••• .. Ore _ya ,1110 to ~,oao per too.
paD)'.
Sua JoaqaiJI •••...•.. .•.•.. ! '
7110" 000 .•••...••••..•.. 1 Worked Irregularly....... Ore --1a '100 to etuO per &00.
POO1'DlIlD...... ••••••. •••••• " IiOO Small .••••••.•..•••••• : Idle .••••••.•.•••.•••...•.. · Little ore e..er Yipped.
:Buckhorn.................. &800 , .•••......•••.•••...••.. 1 Leued.... .•.....•....... Ore __ya:110 _ _ Ulnr.85 per _t.I.ad. Koch ore formedypn-
' da~.
1
lIouDtaiu Gem aDd Aute- Sarlare ..re -:ra 20 oaD_ aUft!", ao per ("eat. 1-.1. Se1'8IIIl ........
1.000 .....•••.•.•...••..•••.. '. . . . ••• . ....•.•....•....•.. '
IOlk. I ' toD. &hIpped lD 1877 aud 1878.
California.. .. ...... . .•••...••....•. !........................ , A.cU..e............... . ... i Ore aBUYa 25 OUDCea an"er, 115 per _to Iud.

alDcIlue; alae other OUttlDJI8. "DrlftRI ulao .baft 01 M ..eraI h1Dldred feet.

HINES OF' DRY CARON.

The Hidden Treasure mine is situated on a steep hillside above and three·quarters of a mile northeaatof Jacob
City. It waalocated in 1865 as the Saint Loui81ode by General Connor's soldiers, who had been told by Indiana
of the outcropping bowlders of galena. Little work was done until Apri1, 1870, when it was relocated 88 the Bidden
Treasure. The mine has beeu exten8ive1y but irregular1y worked since 1872. It W88 idle during' a few montba
. preceding the writer's visit. The property consi8ts of the Bidden Treasure, Saint Louis, Cedar, Summit, Red
Line, Sacramento, Hidden Treasure East Extension, Columbia, and Western, all adjacent c1aim8. The oreie found
in one or two chimneys in a bedded vein in a compact bluish Jimestone, which dips about 3()0 N. 320 W. About 3
,feet above the ore there i8 a contact vein an inch or 80 in width between an overlying stratum of siliceou8 elat.
(locally called "block slate") and the limestone ~neatb, Very rarely, however, does the ore body make to the
contact (in some of the upper works the ore W88 on the contact). One chimney began at the surface, or at ll'aat
within 60 feet of it, and coutinued for 000 feet. It then split into two chimneys, which continued 800 feet or more.
The upper chimney W88 from 20 to 100 feet wide and from 3 to 20 feet tbick. Tbe branches were from 10t021Hee'
wide and from 1 inch to 20 feet thick. Tbe ore found in the Ohicago mine W88 in two bedded pi~, which werein
a limestone stratum about 100 feet beneath these ore bodies. The pipes turned upward and AnaJly connected with
the Hidden Treasure vein. The ore of the Bidden Treasure is a soft reddish· brown ocher, contaiuing cerussite,
galena, and traces of copper carbonates. It assays from 15 to 40 ounces silver and 20 to 50 per cent. lead. A feW'
hundred feet to t'e north of this mine, in the direction in which the 0re-bodie8 dip,.a great dike of granitic porpbyl'1
cut8 tbrough the country. The mine was formerly opened by Ave inclines, three of whicb were in ore, and several
tunnels. It was worked at the period under review through a 5OO·foot tunnel, from which au BOO-foot incline \Vaa
suuk between the two chutes of ore. The extent of the working8 on this stratum was 1,600 feet on the dip and
~O feet horizontal1y. Within this area there were proba.b1y 9,000 feet of iuclines, drifts, and winze&. The 01'8
chutes continue at the bottom, though small in p1aces. Some seepage water was encountered and zineblende
occasionally appeared. The steam hoisting works consi8t of a 40 horse·power horizontal engiue with i-inch steel·
wire rope in the tunnel at the top of the incline, and one horizontal boiler 'at the snrface. Water for use in the
boilers has to be purchased at 1 cent per gallon, except in the winter month8, when sno.w is used. During the
censu8 year about twenty men were employed, at 13 per day, 10·hour day and 9·hour night shifts. There were
1,408 tons of are produced, which assayed about 33 per cent. lead, 18 ounces sill'er, a trace of gold, with 7 lJel' cent.
moi8ture, selling for about 120 per ton at the Chicago smelter. During the four years ending April 1, 1878,28,400
tons were mined. Most of this was smelted at the Waterman smelter at Stockton. The cash received for this
, amount of ore, whether sold as ore or as bulliou, was 1988,700. It was tonceded that the mine made mouey, bot that
the sme1ter 108t it. Several thousand tous of ore were produced prior to 1814.
The Chicago mine was located in 1871, aud sold to an English company soon aft.erwllrd. The mine was worked
vigorously for several years, but has heen idle since 1876. Ore was found in two pipes 60 feet apart in the" reef"
of limestone under the Hidden Treasure. These pipes came to withiu a few feet of the 8urface, co\'ere<! only by
the iron cap, Bnd diverged 80mewhat 88 they went down. They were in geuera1 about 21 feet in diameter, but
varied in shape considerably, especially beyond 400 teet. One pipe was followed 1,300 feet, and decreased in size
until it was only 6 iuches ill diameter, when work WSiS abandoned. This had five smaller pipes branching from it.
The second pipe went dowll quite regu1arly for 800 teet, tben sudden1y rose 60 feet and continued on its course. A
second rise brought it to the Hidden Treasure vein. The ore i8 ocherous, assaying from 25 to 35 ounces 8ilver and
 APPENDIX I: MINING INDUSTRIES OF UTAH. 453
from 40 t.o 45 per cent. lead. On t.he sides of the pipe there is DBuaUy from 6 inches t.o a foot of a valueless oxide of
iron, freqnently stained by copper carbonates. The total cuttings amount to about 5,000 feet. The mine is turnished
with a Uallidie wire-rope tramway 2i miles long to the wagon road in the ravine below. This gave great satisfaction,
and was at the time of the writer's visit still standing. The mine produced considerably over 12,000 tons of ore.
This company owns the Chicago smelter, and when the mine failed bought the Queen of the Hill, Flavilla, and
Mahogany locations. These claims are on three chimneys in a bedded vein, from 1 to 6 feet wide, diPl>ing 170 to
200 W. between a siliceous limestone above aud a blue limestone stratum below. They'were located in 1870-'71,
and were worked extensively between 1873 and 1877, but very little since. Shortly after the pnrchase the Chicago
company came to the fault and failed. The Flavilla Mining Company was then organized, and had just begun
prospecting to find the vein beyond tbe fault. This group of claims was the moat developed of any in the
district, and is situated about half way up a large steep hill, 1 mile south of Jacob City. The (lip of the
chimneys is N. 300 W., being obliqne to the dip of the strata. The distance between them is abont 80 feet
and 160 feet. Two faults were found, one along the line of the Mahogany chimney northeast and southwest,
and the otber nearly at right angles to it, faulting all the ore chutes ami diPlling a little northeast. This fault
showed a fissnre 20 feet wide, of which 4 feet on one side waa calcite (locally called "water spar"), the remainder
being filled with clay and fragments of country rock. The 1lrst chimney was 350 feet long (before being cut by
the fault) and was from 25 to 40 foot wide, having a thickness of from 18 inches to 2 feet of ocherous ore containing
but little coppt>r, and said to assay from 20 to 25 oUllceS silver aud 50 per oont. lead. The second chimnl'Y was
1,000 teet long, from 60 to 70 feet wide, and also had from IS'inches to 2 feet of ore, generally upon tbe hanging
wall, assaying about 40 ounces silver and 30 per cent. lead. The third chimney was about the same size as till'!
secontJ, but the ore contained some tetrabedrite, much malachite, and little lead, and assayed about 60 ounces 8ilV'er.
Th\' claims are opeued by two m~in incliues 1,000 feet and 1,400 feet long and 6 feet square, which branch near
the surfuce like tbe lctter Y. The borizontal development is 1,200 feet. It is claimed that there are 8 miles of
openings. but if the stopes were not counted there would proba.bly be not over 12,000 feet. The hoisting works
have a Copeland & Bacon vertical engine of 35 horse-power. A double-track tramway with j-inch steel-wire rope
extends Reveral hundred feet from tbe mine to the beclof the raviue below. The product of these mines could
not be ascertained. It was probably over 11,000,000, as 26,000 tons, 8ssaying from 30 to 40 ounces silver, were
sbipped while llr. Davis was the su'perintendent.
The Mono miue is situated half a mile south of Jacob Oity. It waa discovered in the autumn of 1871, and waa
owned in its early days by Gisborn, Embody, Heaton & Miller. It was worked vigorously by them until 1875, when
Gi~born bought the remaining two-thirds interest for '400,000, mortgaging the whole to eastern capitalists for the
money. About three months after the sale a fault was found, or the ore chute" pinched", and only a small
prospecting'force was employed until June, 1879, since which time it has been idle. Ore began at the surface and was
found In a chute from 10 t.o 50 feet long, from 3 to 5 feet wide, and 300 feet deep. Below that depth it was in a series
of sman deposita. It was an oxidized ore, from silver, lead, copper, and iron sulphides. Slabs of horn· silver were
frequently found so soft that they would retain the impression of a coin like wax. Its value, by the ton, waa
from 1100 to 15,000 in silver. This ore Occurs in a stratnm of clay sbale. The ore chute seems to cross this
.tratum aud enter a black shale at a depth of 400 feet. In the lower workings the ore was limitea in quantity, and ..
only assayed abont 1100 per ton. The main incline is 850 feet long, with an angle of about 330 • The greatest
horizontal extent of the development was only 300 feet, but the total cuttings amounted to 2,000 feet. It was t·be
opinion of many who were familiar with the mine that the dip of the incline was away from the ore chute. The
mine had small hoisting works which coat abont 112.000. The total prodoct was not known, even by the original
owners, aa they divided the proceeds after the sale of each Jot. By one it was placed somewhat over and by
another somewhat under 11,000,000.
The Mono Tunnel site is in the ravine 800 feet below the Mono mine. Work was begun in 1872 or 1873. The
tuunel is about 1,100 feet in length. Burleigh drills and an air-compressor were nsed. Only assessment work
has been done for some time.
The Kearsarge mine, located half a mile west of Jacob Oity, was discovered in 1871, a.nd has been idle for a
few months. The ore-bearing formation is a stratum of limestone, in which the ore occurs in chimneys and
exceedingly irregular maases. The overlying stratum or hanging wall is a very compact siliceous limestoue.
One chimney began at the surface and went down 500 feet. In this there was a chamber 70 feet long, 30 feet wide,
and from 10 to 20 feet high. Three or four other bodies were foond near the main chimney. In one of them
several tous of $10,000 chloride ore were encountere(l. The ore is a soft ocber, similar to that of the Hidden
Treasure, bnt lUnch richer. The mine was opened by a 945-foot incline, having a dip of 300 to 3,'jO. It was not
prospected over 100 feet horizontally, but contained at least 3,000 feet of cuttings. The ore coutinued in the
bottom of the incline 20 inches in width, but water had stopped the work. The hoisting rig consisted of a wllim
with a. ~ inch steel-wire rope. The t.otal protJuct waIlS unknown; l)erhapllS 81,000,000 bad been received. Belougiug
to this property is the Jennie claim, having a. 3JO-foot incline aud 650 1eet of other cuttings. A few hundred tous
of 40-onuce ore were produced.
 454 PRECIOUS METALS.
The Deseret group consists of the Deseret, Shoo Fly, Azure Queen, Ivanhot'!, Americiln Flag No. 2, and Thad.
Ste\~en!l,overlnpping claim8. They were located in 1870-'71. Work on them was begun in 1874, and discontinued
January 1, 1879. The Deseret claim has a 750·fuot incline, following the chimney at an angle of 450. There W88
little drifting: There are 8mall, neat hoisting works, containing a 50 horse·power engine, and a Bow('rs air-
compressor was U8e(1 to run two Woods drills. The ore has a lime gangue, containing very little iron, oxide of
lead, and assayed 70 ounces ~ilver and a trace of gold. The Thad. Stevens has a 38().foot incline and about 250
feet of drifts. The ore of thi~ chimney averaged about a foot in widtb, and assayed 35 per cent. lead and 30 onucea
silver. Tbe total production of the group was estimated at ,30,000.
The other miues of Dry caiion are:
,
! Total ConditlOll at the clORe of
Mm.. , lenJtth or Total prodllOt. the IIOIIIIU year.
iOlK·DiDga.
-----: - -----_.-.-
FlIt.
WuderlngJew........... 4,200 ........................ Little work dOlle .......... Afewhnndredt0D8of8O-euucoallYOl'lIDd85per_t.leadoreutneee4.
Utah QUIItln ... .. .. .. . .. .. IIOI! ........................ A_ent work done... , Large amoant of ore extracted.
Sacram. uto .............. 800 ........................ Idle....................... Considerable ore taken out f'ormerly.
Monntain Savage a.d L
X.L.
I
1,010 2,100 tau ........... ~mentWOl'kdo.ne .••. Ore_ystOoDllCOesilverand26per_t.lead.

Emporia ................... 1,800 f30,000 ............... Leaaed ................. ..

FODrth or July.. .. . • ... . . . ."'0 1, 000 tau. . . .. . .. . . ... A_out work done. ••. Ore _,.. 80 ODDCOR aliTer RDd 10 per _t.1eed.
Evenlog Star. .. . •. .. .. .. .. ISO ............................. :do .................. Some good crede ore &hIpped.
Kagoulla....... .... .. ...... .......... ....................... . .... do ................... BoTerol hlmdred feet or meUne and drtftL Militia JIl9IIII1 . , . , lltae
reociTed.
Rattler .................... .......... ........................ Idle....................... Few huuclred feet of work clone.
Brooklyn ........................................................... do .................. Do.
Elgin .............................................................. do ................. ..
lloyea .. ............ ...... .......... .................. ...... .... do .................. .

.
• lDoUno; also other II1lttlDp.

Tbere are many other claims having considerable development whi~ are not mentioned, 88 they were not
represented a.t the time of the writer's vi8it.
OAMP FLOYD DISTRIOT.
[November, 18eO.]
The Camp Floyd district is soutb of the Opbir district, and is on the same range. It is an irregular rectangle, from
" 7 to 9 mile8 on a 8ide, the mines tbemselves, however, being included within an area of a square mile. Five hundred
and uinety·fi\'"e locations had been made, of wbich but twenty· five were hE'ld at tbe time of the writer'8 visit. Aside
from those employed by the Carrie Steele Company, not ten meu had been working in the district during the
. " preceding twelve months. Tbe formation is a blue·black limestone, dipping from 100 to 250 NE. An exception to
this is a ~tratum of quartzite or siliceous limestone (locally called a" reef"), from 25 to 75 feet thick, on which all tbe
claims are located. Lewiston, the town of the district, is 18 miles soutbeast of Stockton, witb which it is connected
by a good wagon road. Tbe Carrie Steele mine is about one·quarter of a mile from Lewiston, and is 7,000 feet above
sea·level. It was discovered in 1873 by Leaudro SteE'le; was worked from 1876 to July, 1879, when it WRS 80ld to
the Ca·rrie Steele Mining Company, of New York. This company has a capital stock of 11,000,000, in 100,000 8bures.
A working capital of '30,000 was raised by the 8ale of 20,000 shares. The ore in thi8 reef outcropped in a single
spot Ul)OU the hillside. Tbe workings 80 far bave been' through three tunnels, and bave explored a space not to
exceed 50 feet in deptb and 200 by 274: feet. The levels and drifts amount to 1,420 feet. One large body of
antimonial ore, 20 feet tbick and 60 by 70 feet in extreme width and length, was found at the surface. The ricbest
ore averaged 1700, and occurred in a Beam from 8 to 10 inches wiele, next t.o the roof. Tbere are three crevices a few
inches wide, parallel, and 30 feet apart, wbich ran NE. and SW. through the "reef". The 8econdary small bodiE'S
of o~ were found on the uorthwest side and adjacent to thes~ crevices. The ore is a bard, tough siliceous limestone~
rarely 80ft and fine, sometimes much broken, and containing seams of oxide of iron and crystals of' quartz and
calcite. The silver is in the form of horn·silver, except iu the case of tbe ant.imonial ore. Tbis last oro seems to be
an argentiferonK stibuite, and assays from '100 to '500 per ton. Tbe great mass, however, is low grade, from
'10 to '50, until 8Orted, and is free milling. No water is fouud. In the censuK year about eighteen men were
ewployetl, aut! 1,500 tons of unsorted ore were produced. Tbe silles of ore prior to tbe purcbase by tbe present
cowpa.ny amoullted to about '80,000.
The mill iK a wet·crushing 20·stamp silver mill, haloing eight pans and four sctt.1ers. It was built by an English
company in 1872-'73 to work the ores of the Sparrowhawk mine, and was said to ha\'e cost 180,000. It waa purcbased
by the Carrie Steele Mining Company in 1879, and ran from lIay 10 to Augu!'t 15, 1880, since which time it baa
been idle. The mill is a quarter of a mile from the mine. The cost of hauling ore ,vas 75 cents ller ton. Owing to
f;carcity of water, which WaK brought 21 miles in a pipe, it was pumped from tbe settling tanks and 1l0wed again
througb the battery. Ore was worked with salt and sulphate of copper. Tbill method is said to save 83 per cent.
 dab

VOL 29 no 21 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH FEBRUARY 15 1928 single copies 15 cents

making new camp of famous old ophir dry canyon district

illustrating properties of ophir mono mines in north end
reference is made to the old ophir dry canyon district
if there is any one thing
thine more than another that mining men of
utah have excelled in it has been in demonstrating to the world that just over the divide and a faw miles southwesterly from the
metal producing districts in this state once established never play out
this has been proven time and again and with frith increasing frequency world famous camp of bingham home of the utah copper
during the past few years in the fifty years or more of metal mining
in utah many rich mines have been discovered in numerous districts united states mining international Sm smelling
smelting
elting and many other
and quick fortunes have been wrested from the original surface or
grass root deposits following the hectic days of mining these near major operations the ophir dry canyon district also is
surface discoveries and largely because of lack of adequate equipment
nd a greater lack of geological and mineralogical knowledge and train-
and closely connected with the salt lake route to los angeles and
ing owners would cease operations and retire toj toi enjoy their fortunes
or turn to less exacting pursuits ana and the camps would fall into a state
within a distance of twenty to fifty miles are located the greatest
stale
of innocuous desuetude and await the injection of new blood sm elting and
smelling
smelting
presto
then prestol a vigorous revival takes place and the world soon ore treating works in the world
hears that the old estop
cal ap has experienced a comeback that
for mances no matter how all absorbing and electrifying they may have
formances
past per- these features alone give a district under review and scrutiny
been are quickly crowded out of the
ance begins
and the REAL perform- an enviable place in the sun
this illustration has had exemplification at park city in
the gintic
tintic district at Bing
Bingha ml and to a lesser extent a number of
hami
other utah mining camps but none of the camps in utah were ever dividends and production records
known to go down and out for the count first one and then another
jumps to its feet and carries on with accelerated speed and turns out but the incentive to greater urge in a campaign to develop
dollars where only nickels were commandeered for duty before editor
and further explore the known and prospective mines of the
I1
ophir dry canyon district beyond and below the comparatively
the foregoing remarks are intended only as an introduction shallow horizons made so productive and profitable in the
to a recital that calls for and is justified by events now taking earlier days is not based entirely on the available statistical
place in one of early day bonanza camps a district that data that credits the district with dividends closely approximating
poured millions of dollars into the laps of such extensive and and with a gross production value of somewhere
widely known old time operators as the lat senator william A between and in reality however that
clark and marcus daly of montana the walker brothers matt is only incidental
gisborn col E A wall william S godbe henry lawrence during the past several years and augmenting the work
dick mackintosh ben hampton and many others since passed done by tenacious camp operators highly trained mining en-
to their final reward gineers geologists and students of physical conditions as they
gi

MONO MINES

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EAR sARGE
41

4
TAJ 4 QUEEN Z

glimpsing portion of ophir mono abines

ahir abines holdings
panoramic view of dry caneco
 10 THE MINING REVIEW FEBRUARY 15 1928

apply to this district and others in which deeper and more in round figures without encroaching on reserves at
extensive explorations have been conducted have reached the the same time shares in these companies for most part advanced
only and a rational conclusion namely that the potential in market value several times their original par on sale value
possibilities of expanded mining development in the ophir dry these and many other reasons might be advanced to show
canyon district are at least on a par with the best accomplish- why old mines and old mining districts are commanding unusual
ments resultant from the exploitation and application of modern attention these days they serve also to illustrate why the
methods in other camps of the state where operators with nerve ophir dry canyon section is swinging into line for a place
and judge
judgmentent have played the game and won alongside of the other districts and mines that have made utah
preeminent as a metal mining
state and that is why the min-
ing review has selected for illu-
stration one of the several propos-
itions in that district as a sample
of the camp s potential possibili-
ties
organization and operations
Operation ss

of the ophir mono mines

A few years ago with a clear
odthe
knowledge of the camps early
day history and the operations of
16
those then in the saddle murray
C godbe with his coworkers
co workers
10 na 00 buckled down to the task of ac-
quiring and making available for
consolidation purposes holdin
holdingss
in the northern or dry canyon
oo
00

end of the district many of which

had been real history makers in
the early days of the camp when
this task was finally accomplished
a stretch of country covering
about two by three miles in extent
and embracing some 1600 acres
had been brought in to the fold
the accompanying panoramic
view gives an excellent perspective
of the physical lay of the land
00 aw s from the head of dry canyon
on the left over and across the
A
divide into ophir canyon not in-
cluded on the right and above
early day records carelessly kept the town of ophir and the holdings of the ophir hill consoli-
early day operators in the mining districts of utah and dated comp anys mines and mill owned and operated by the
companas
elsewhere for that matter were proverbially careless in com-
senator
senatorerW clark estate the panoramic view takes in prac-
W A dark
tically all of the mining properties shown in the sketch map
piling and preserving statistical data that might later be used
of the northern portion of the district printed herewith
to show their accomplishments THEY were satisfied and did not considered together it is easy to grasp something of the mag-
care a rap whether the world knew what they were doing or nitude of the ophir mono mines companas
comp anys estate
not because of that attitude mine dividend records are incom- following the organization of the company plans for de-
plete but actual figures and close estimates by statisticians who velopment and equipment were whipped into shape and with
have been and still are delving into the subject indicate that 9 eo agica
the aid and counsel of a competent engineering and geological1
1

0
metal mine di dividends paid in utah to date will easily total more staff manager godbe began the work that is designed and ex-
ihan
than one recent compilation shows the total to pected to place these various mines on a productive and earning
ve been nearer
chave a
basis once again finaly ro position was laid before
finally the proposition
or sundry and justifiable reasons several prominent min coterie of friends and wealthy investors of detroit who were
nies which paid regular dividends in 1926 decided not
Ompaantes
companies invited to back the undertaking when fully explained the
31 ay last year but the eight companies which did contribute enterprise appealed to their business judgment and sagacity and
an
llast year and whose total disbursements aggregate more than godbe was authorized to go ahead with his plans and count upon
ar
enriched their shareholders to the extent of 15 their full support without appealing to fo the public this

4
 THE MINING REVIEW FEBRUARY 15 1928 11

gement
ran nent virtually makes of the ophir mono what may be
ranger sampling was 1780 a ton assay values were as follows gold
designated as a close corporation where only the selected ounces silver ounces lead in lead ore 1651 per
few can hope to participate and where only kindred spirits so cent copper in copper ores per cent lead in zinc lead ores
to speak may have the satisfaction and privilege of reaping per cent and zinc in zinc lead ores 1219 per cent
such reward as the development of the proper tys latent re- concerning the outlook at the various properties general
sources will secure continued on page 28 manager cecil fitch reports that the should henceforth
continue a steady earner of good profits new ore opened at
COLLEGE OF MINES U OF W SEATTLE the grand central should mean a small profit accruing from this
TO CONDUCT INSTITUTE OPEN TO ALL mine
the ore body in the eureka lily mine reports mr fitch
mining institute open to all men interested in any branch
A
which was encountered several months ago has developed into
of the mining industry will be held at the college of mines good size and grade from which a product is being shipped the
university of washington seattle during the week beginning returns paying all development charges in addition to yielding
march 5 according to announcement made a few days ago a small monthly profit
by milnor roberts dean operations at the chief consolidated mill have been pro-
prospectors miners mine owners persons interested in gressing in a very satisfactory manner in recent research work
metallurgy investors in mining enterprises and the public we have discovered that we can now treat 90 per cent of our
generally are invited to attend this institute will take the oxide ores both in the wet concentrator and volatilization plant
place of the winter mining session which originated at seattle at a great saving over present costs of treatment the plant
in 1897 and continued for twenty eight years the complete is now being tuned up for a run on these ores and within the next
new equipment of mines laboratory will be used to give few weeks should be successfully operating
demon stations of new machines and processes in mining ore
demonstrations chief consolidated mining company and mining
dressing and metallurgy this year the ceramic industry in- comp anys consolidated surplus account january
companas 1927 to1

cluding cement and branches of clay working of special import- december 31 1927
ance in the northwest will be included in the institute all surplus january 1 1927
surplus adjustment items
deduct
instruction will be given by specialists
prominent technical men and managers will give lectures add net income to surplus for period
on their special subjects among the speakers engaged are sales of ore lime concentrates etc
less operating costs
G T jackson formerly superintendent of the alaska gastineau
net profit on operation
deduct other expense
and the Chica mines who will speak on the mining of large interest on first mortgage bonds
bodies of low grade ore R F mcelvenny superintendent of bend discount and expense
accrued federal and state taxes
the tacoma smelter on the nature of contracts that a smelter
can offer to mines and prospects M D leehey mining law- add other income
interest on investments
yer
er on some popular errors regarding the mining law H H interest on bank deposits
other profit items
townsend on the exploration and purchase of prospects by period
net profit for mining
operating companies J L mcallen on quartz mining in the deduct dividends paid to minority stockholders
company
willow creek district alaska F powell on gold dredging
net income to surplus
in the evenings lectures illustrated by stereopticon views and i

moving pictures will be given the week will close with an deduct minority stockholders equity in surplus of
mining company
excursion to mines and plants
net surplus of chief consolidated mining company december
31 1927
CHIEF consolidated MINING COMPANY
KS CO BOOKS SOME BIG ORDERS
WORKS
CARD IRON WOR
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1927 SHOWS FAIR PROFIT
in its annual report to shareholders recently issued and W H bachman secretary of the C S card iron works
covering operations for the year 1927 the chief consolidated company of denver who left for home a week ago after spend-
days among local coal operators and metal mine of-
fining
mining company shows that total shipments of mine product ing a few
and other prospects was asked how he
lie
amounted to dry tons after transportation sampling als contractors
ficials
fici
business conditions and the outlook for the new year
andd all other operating charges this product yielded found
since coming over here I1 have
ss
as compared
with tons and for the year good replied mr bachman
or more carloads of coal mine dump and
cross cuts represented 27
previous drifts raises dinzes and crosscuts booked orders for ten
as supplies one of my last orders was for a
5 feet
while a total drill footage of feet covered mine other cars as well reservoir
to be used at the big echo canyon
developments for the current year themetal yield for the carload of dump cars
recently sold the colorado fuel iron
year was as follows gold ounces silver ounces dam at home we have
outlook
company several carloads of new dump cars and the
lead
ad in lead ores pounds copper in copper ores encouraging mr bachman
pounds zinc for increased business is most
pounds lead in zinc lead ores a banner year for all kinds
in
ln zinc lead ores believes that 1928 is going to prove
pounds coal mining sections of the western
of business in the metal and
the average gross value of mine products amounted to
33 06 a ton elting freight and
smelling
smelting
averaging net value after sm states
 28 THE MINING REVIEW FEBRUARY 15 1928

MAKING A NEW CAMP OF THE FAMOUS SALT LAKE MINING STOCK quotations
OLD OPHIR DRY CANYON DISTRICT the range of thebymarket from january to february incle
quotations furnished J A hogle co direct wires to all leading inclusive
mart
markets
ana eccles building ogden utah
so main st salt lake city utah and
continued from page 11
among the famous old mining properties included in ophir stock 1I open dhigh
high ilow
low 1I
L S I1 CLOSING
bid I asked I sales
1
1

mono holdings may be mentioned the mono the queen of the alta michigan 46 47 1
45 45 45 48
alta con 02 02 A 02 ya 02 0 2 12 1000
hills wandering jew the brooklyn and the garber their tunnel
alta merger 04 05 04 05 05 05
alta
alan I1
05 07 05 06 05 06
locations are shown on the name plates on the photograph copper
beaver copper 00 00 00 00 00
it is not the purpose of this article to go into detail con- rig hill
big 15 15 15 15 15 18
bingham metals 12 13 11 11 2 1112 12
cerning the workings or production of any of these or other prop- central standard 08 13
1312 08 1 2 1 11 11 11
columbus rexall 05 004 03 va 03 03 04
erties of the ophir dry canyon district mentioned here As a comb metals
colorado con
05
13
05
24
05
13
05
17
05
17 afi
17
matter of fact however work now is under way at different crown point 08 09 08 0 9 12
9 09 09
cardiff 75 75 70 71 67 71
points in the consolidated property and wherever considered crof
crofff 02 02 02 2 02 02 34 02 20
20000
chief cons 1152
advisable advantage is taken of tunnel or other openings to east standard 03 04 03 03 03 04
emma silver 01 01 01 Y4 1I
01 VA 01 01 1000
speed up the task of developing virgin ground or reopening ore emerald 04 04 04 04 03 05 1000
east crown point 02 34 09
03
1

02 03 ls
02 03
vu
bodies previously known to exist owing to the rugged lofty east gintic
tintic con 54 66 53 62 62 63 41 60
eureka bullion 38 41 37 40 38 39
contours of the mountain range in which the mines are located eureka lilly
it is going to be possible in many instances to open the mineral eureka standard 2100
fall river 00 00 00 ya 00 00 00
gold chain 04 05 04 05 05 13 2800
2300
bearing ledges and deposits
depo sits at much greater depth than when gold mountain 40 40 10 10 jl
11 12
such operations were proscribed by the limited boundaries of H 0 well 01 01 01 01 01 01 2000
ir on king 59 75 58 73 72 73
the old company or individual holdings without having to sink keystone 25 25 25 25 23 30
kennebec 15 1 15 14 14 10 16
AG 1000
shafts and explore in that manner little may 02 02 01 01 01 01
lehi gintic
tintic 02 va 03 02 ya 02 02 02
just recently it is reported fine ore has been encountered leonora
magnolia lead
02 2
17
08
17
02 ya
16
05
17
05
17
05
18
in driving one of the tunnels on ophir mono ground while other mammoth
mineral veins 09 10 07 07 07 08
developments are approaching objective points but these are mountain view 03 t 05 ya 03 05 04 05
mo scow 10 15
1512 10 15
1512 15 17
subjects for news treatment as such and when released for public montana 09 09 08 08 07 10 2500
monarch lead
consumption new quincy 23 23 20 2 1 IA 21 22
north standard
worth 07 08 07 07 07 08
many concerns and companies operating north lily
ohio copper 95 92 93 90 95 2000
the camp as a whole now is enjoying more activity than park bingham
park utah
25
1200
26
2612
1225
22
1200
23
1200
23
1175 1200
24
1014
it has known for many years for more than a year past the kiutus
prince con 03 04 03 04 03 04
ophir hill consolidated darkclark property has been engaged in pioche bristol 02 02 02 02 01 60133 2000
park galena 80 80 60 75 75
prospecting at a depth of more than 1400 feet below the bottom provo 28 35 28 35 35 36 2900
of ophir canyon from a tunnel driven on the opposite side of rico argentine 57 67 55 67 66 68
boo
south standard 11 11 11 11 11 13
swansea con 02 02 13
the canyon from its old mine a shaft has been electrically silver king coal
01
1137
02 ta
1150
01
1125 1150 1150 1175 1790
equipped and sunk to a depth of 1400 feet crosscutting and sioux mines 10 10 08 09 09 10
silver shield
drifting from the bottom of this shaft has been progressing for tar baby 04 04 02 02 02 03
three kings 09 17 09 11 lo
10 12
several months for the purpose of again opening up a faulted tintie central 03 03 03 03 09
03 03
gintic standard
tintic 1600 1600 1525 1600 1587 1600
section of the lode that has proven so productive and profitable utah con 02 02 01 02 02 02
west toledo 01 01 01 01 aig
01 01
for the past twenty years in the old mine walker mini
miningng 70 70 78 78 79
zuma 06 07 06 07 06 07
this and other activities in the ophir dry canyon district west gold I1
04 04 04 03 02 05

have had their effect in stirring many other interests to work ashley valley 05
OILS
09 h 05 08 08 08
out consolidations form new companies and generally bix six 03 03 02 02 02 03
9 ene rally to take Colo river 01 01 00 01 00 01
advantage of changed conditions ands crescent eagle 00 01 00 01 02 01
and opportunities to revive diamond oil 05 05 03 Y 03 03 03
old and develop new mines all through the district equity oil 07 05 07
the old mountain states
utah southern
04
08
09
26
04
08 25 20 26
1400
kearsarge the utah queen the hidden treasure the properties
utah petroleum 1 I
oll
01 orv
01 11 01 01 1 1 01 01
rounded up by L G burton R J evans guy R lacoste and
a number of other promotion and brokerage concerns are
receiving all kinds of attention and out of them no doubt some established 1904 incorporated 1916
mighty fine propositions will be developed some of them GEO H WATSON CO
according to report already are making good and others are STOCK BROKERS
being presented as sure winners wee specialize in utah stocks
members of salt lake stock mining exchange
hotel utah salt lake city
EASTERN STOCK quotations FEBRUARY 1928

american smelting
smelling
Sm elting refining
anaconda copper I
1

bingham 58
bineham mines
chief consolidated
nevada con copper
54
4
stock certificates coupon bonds
park utah consolidated
silver king coalition
22
12 GROCER PRINTING COMPANY
tintie standard 11 A
16
a 11
16
so W temple wasa
wasatch
ohio copper
utah apex 85 Q 93 LAIM CITY UTAH
SALT LAKE
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Utah Mining Timeline

Ken Krahulec*

ABSTRACT
The mining history of Utah really begins with the arrival of the Latter Day Saints in the Salt Lake valley in
1847 and the discovery of gold in California the following year. Little is known of prior Native American ef-
forts at exploiting Utah’s mineral resources, however, several of the earliest recorded discoveries by the pio-
neers apparently resulted from leadership by aboriginal guides. The massive influx of Forty-Niners resulted in
a scattering of mineral discoveries across the Great Basin as the prospectors traveled to the California gold
fields, e.g. placer gold was located near the Comstock lode in 1850. Later, a wave of discoveries fanned out to
the east from the gold fields of California as disenchanted prospectors went further a field in search of their
fortunes. The 1860s saw the discovery of new mining districts and ore deposits throughout Utah as a result of
prospecting trips by the Third California Infantry under Colonel Patrick E. Connor during the Civil War, e.g.
Bingham Canyon and Park City. The arrival of the railroads in the mining districts in the 1870s sent off a
boom in both base and precious metal production from these newly discovered camps.
Utah’s mineral discoveries continued into the first half of the 20th century, accompanied by a surge in metal
production. The eastern Great Basin’s increasing ore production turned Salt Lake City into the intermountain
west’s milling, smelting, and transportation center. This period also saw significant innovations in mining and
metallurgy, led by Daniel Jackling’s important pioneering work in the bulk mining and milling of porphyry
copper ores at Bingham Canyon. A huge emphasis on metal production was placed on the mines by the Allies
efforts in the two World Wars. This prioritization generated renewed prospecting and exploration activities
leading to additional discoveries mostly within known mining camps, e.g. the East Tintic district. Utah’s lead,
zinc, and silver production all reached their peaks during this half-century.
The later half of the 1900s were a difficult time for Utah’s mining industry, however it also saw the rise of
organized mineral exploration groups, e.g. Kennecott Exploration Company. The new demands of nuclear
power and atomic warfare set off uranium prospecting rushes to southeastern Utah in the 1950s and 1960s and
an accompanying bull market on the Salt Lake penny stock exchange. However, uranium production had
tailed off by the 1980s. The Clean Air act of 1971 forced the closure of all of Utah’s base metal smelters and
the majority of the base metal mines of the Great Basin closed with them. The beryllium deposits near Topaz
Mountain (1968) and the magnesium production from Great Salt Lake brines (1972) began during this period
and have continued to date. The sharp rise in the price of gold in the late 1970s led to renewed gold explora-
tion programs in the 1980s and early 1990s. This effort resulted in the discovery and opening of several new
gold mines in Utah using open-pit mining and the new cyanide heap leach technology that had been developed
during this period, e.g. Barneys Canyon and Mercur. Utah’s gold and copper production peaked in the 1990s
as a result of these new gold operations and the continuing production expansions at the Bingham Canyon op-
erations.
The new century has seen the closure of nearly all of the metal mines in Utah. However, gold and silver
production has continued in the western Great Basin, most prominently along the Carlin and Battle Mountain
trends in Nevada. The Bingham Canyon porphyry system remains Utah’s most important source of metal and
appears to be set for at least another decade of copper-gold-molybdenum-silver production.

*Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84116 Krahulec, Ken, 2006, Utah Mining Timeline in Bon, R.L., Gloyn,
kenkrahulec@utah.gov R.W., and Park, G.M., editors, Mining Districts of Utah: Utah
Geological Association Publication 32, p. 1-5.

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Ken Krahulec Utah Mining Timeline

NOTES puter diskette.

The data for this chart have been compiled from
innumerable individual sources over a period of sev-
eral years. The information resources used have in-
cluded books, newspapers articles, websites, periodi-
cals, USGS and state publications as well as some
unpublished materials. The Long and others (1998)
database was particularly valuable for important
dates in the major mining districts in the U.S. as
were the Ore Deposits of the United States volumes
(Ridge, 1968). Unpublished spreadsheets of mineral
exploration discoveries compiled by Jay Hammitt
and Dave Caldwell were also very helpful. The most
important references are listed below. The text bene-
fited from reviews by Hans Rasmussen, Jay Ham-
mitt, and Bob Gloyn.
REFERENCES
Boutwell, J.M., 1905, Economic geology of the
Bingham mining district, Utah: United States Geo-
logical Survey, Professional Paper 38, 413 p.
Mako, D.A., 1999, A post-mining view of the Mer-
cur gold district, Tooele County, Utah: G.S.N.
Special Publication 30, 51p.
Meyerriecks, Will, 2003, Drills and Mills: Precious
Metal Mining and Milling Method of the Frontier
West: Second Edition, 264 p.
Notarianni, P.F., 1982, Faith, Hope and Prosperity:
The Tintic Mining district: Tintic Historical Soci-
ety, Tintic, Utah, 189 p.
Ridge, J.D., ed., 1968, Ore deposits in the United
States, 1933-1967, the Graton-Sales volume:
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and
Petroleum Engineers, New York, 1880 p.

Butler, B. S., Loughlin, G. F., Heikes, V. C., and

Others, 1920, The ore deposits of Utah: United
States Geological Survey, Professional Paper 111,
672 p.

Chadwick, J., and Hinde, C., 2003, A century of

mining: Mining Magazine, September, pp. 94-106.

Craig, S.E., 1953, Utah Operations - Combined Met-

als Reduction Company: Mining, Smelting, and
Railroading in Tooele County, 1986, Tooele
County Historical Society, pp. 15-18.

Erickson, A.J., Phillips, W.R., and Garmoe, W.J.,

eds., 1968, Park City district, Utah: Guidebook to
the Geology of Utah, No. 22, 102 p.

Krahulec, K.A., 1997, History and production of the

West Mountain (Bingham) mining district, Utah:
Society of Economic Geologists Guidebook, v. 29,
p. 189–217.

Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H.Jr., and Ludington, S.D.,

1988, Database of significant deposits of gold, sil-
ver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States:
U.S.G.S. Open-File Report 98-206A, 3.5” com-

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 The remainder of the district output in 1933 oonaist«l. of siliceous
from the Ganison, Success, Pocahontas, and Tom Tom groupe ; oud
a little co~per ore from the Lucy L. And Pole Star cl .. jms.
=,:
ONI from the Alvarado, Gold Spar, Il.Ild MidlUl properties ; lead ore •
and
Fru Coi~ didrid.- A lessoo ahipped I car of o.ndU;ed lead ore
of swelting grade in 1933 from the BumdinWlt group of the LeBd Ore
Mining Co.
LakuUk diltrid.-Nearly .500 500 tons of lead ore were shipped in 1933
from the Monarcl1 property 17 milea nort.h DelIe on the Western
north of Delle
Pacific Railroad.
OphiT
Ophir di#Md.-The pro,PUty of the Ophir Hill Consolidated Mining
diril"id.-The proJlllrty
Co. (under lease and option to the International
I nternational Smelting Co.) W!l8
was
operated in 1933 by 188800s leiid~zinc ore
lessees who shipped several cars of lead-zinc
to the Combined Metals mill at Bauer and several hundred hundt-&d tons of
amelt.er at Tooele. Several lata
lead ore to the smelter Iota of silver
ailver ore were
wern

\
_....
shipped from the Chloride Point property, fWd
are
ore from the Queen of
amelter.,
RuM
Rud Valley distrid.-The
diltrid.-The Blueatone Lime
IUld 2 cars of oxidized zinc
Hills.. group were shipped to an eaatem
or the Hill
Lime« Ii Quarwu.
eaat.em zinc

Quarlziu. Mining Co.

continued regu1u
oontinued operaooIlll at
regu1a.r operations itA Cyclone-Tip Top group in 1933,
ai itll
shipped about 25200 toIllltona of lirat-cllll lead ore to the amelj,er
or fint.-class lItneit.e:r near
neal
Tooele, and wu l&lK8llt producer of lead ore in the State; however,
wae the ialgeSt
motals waa
production of all metals LeBSee~ oontinuecl
was less than in 1932. Lesseee continued.
opera.tions at the Honerino-Galena
operations Honerine-Galena. Kjng King property of the Combined
Metals Reduction Co., treated several hundred tons of lead ore in the
jig plant, and shipped fint-class lead ore to the 8lllelter
&hipped fink18.881ead smelter nea.r
near Tooele.
The Combined Metala Reduction Co. started
C<lmbined Metals stut.ed operations at the West Weat
, . August 16 and treated nearly 5,200 tons of lead·zinc
Calumet group Augus"
ore in the flotation Jil:lant
lead-zinc
\l:l&.nt at Bauer before the end of the year. The
Combined Metals mill which had been idle since Deoomber Deoowber 193 1 Williwas
·unit basis in August 1933
reopened on & lI-unit 1933;; :reooipb
Mceipts were chiefly
lead-zinc ore from Pioche, Nev. The remainder of the diatrict
lead·zinc ilistrict output
in 1933 conmted
consisted of lead ore from the Utah Ophir Mines Co., GisbOm- GisbOrn-
Muirbrook Mines, Inc., and two proapecb.
prospects.
VllITAE cou.-n:
UllI'tAH COUlfn
Orun Ricu diltM. -The Utah Mining Ill.
Ricer diltrid. &: Metal Corporation and
dle
the Rio Verde ~ &: Met.a.l
Met.a.J. Corporation opers~f!:r
opera~acerclaima20
e1aiDlll 2()
.miIe5
.miles 80uth of Vemu
Vernel on the Green River at Ho oe Bend;
Bond ; gold
bullion was sold at tha
the Denver Mint. .
1JTAH
UTAH COUlITt
COO1lJTl
Production wu, valued at $I 680,893 in
$1}6S0,893
J
1933 "om mine~
was chiefly lrom mines
in the
SlDl.llting &: Refining Co.
American Smelting C<l.
ore from the fiveLive Yankee mine
property ,:w~M;;,;I.eased
was leased sho after-
rtly after-
&hortly
.~
were resumed by the IMeoo. . More than 6,600
ore containing eilver and copper were shipped
&hipped to
. Production of gold in 1933 was only ebout about

•
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QOLD, 8lLOB, I,EAD,, 4Nl>
COPPlIlR, qUD AND .uNC
ZOiC LN. UTAH
UTAIl 341
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and
~d
•
ore of smelting gra.de was ahipped in m
and a prospect.
Treatiure Mining & Development Co.
Hidden Ttzuure mine on & Iuse basis
more than 4,000 tons of high-grade lead-zinc
ore mill at Midvale; in addition to the milling ore 2
ears ore were shipped for smelting. The Ophir Development.
Co. continued shipm611te from the Otlhir trill Consolidated mine in
1934; lead-zinc ore (2,594 tons) was afiipped to the Combined Metals
mill at Bauer and crude lead ore (3,352 tons) to the emetter at Tooele.
The remainder of the ()Phir district. output com"prised silieeoUll silver
ore from the Chloride ".Point, Zel1aJ Buffalo, Fisk Ophir, Lakes of
Killarney, Ophir, and Croft properties; lead ore from the Wandering
J ew and Queen of the Hills mines; and copper-lead ore [rom the
Kearsarge Standard 'pro~y .
Bud. ValUy dVtrict.-Tbe out.l!.ut. Cyclon~
output. of lead ore from the Cyclone-
Tip Top group hy
considerably less in l';'~
M!'i: &: Quartzite Mining Co. waa
J.ime &;
by the Bluestone Umfl
~a .in 1933, but
1934 t.hr.n
was
the company retained its
but. t.be
position as the l&tgest producer of lead ore of smelting grade in the
State.
The Combined Metals Reduction . Co. Co. continued to operate both
the Honenne and West. CI~=:ef0Up8 in 1934. The output from
the West Calumet. group ' considerably; lead-zinc ore (more
than 12,000 tons) was shipped to the Hot.u.tion mill at Bauer and
crude lead ore (nearly 2,900 tons) to the smelter at Tooele. The out-
put from the Bonerine group co:::ruriBed a little lead-zinc ore treated
at the Bauer lead-zinc HOtaUOD and several hundred tons of lead
ore coneeottat.ed in the jig JilllUlt at. Bauer. The lead-zinc Hotation
_._rom _\...B._Jler opera.ted.coDtlDl!ously_during_the_year,----ehielly-Oll-·ore_. _____
from Pioche, Nev., but considerable custom ore also was treated.
The remainder of the production oC the Rush Valley district in
1934 was oxidized lead ore of smelting grade from the Commodore
group of the Utah Ophir Mines Co.
Wea Movntain di.tfrid. -The Weat. Mountain district lies almost almost.
wholly in Salt Leks County, but. ita established western boundary bound&ry
extends over the divide of the Oquirrh Mountains into Tooele County.
The Bingham Star mine, in Tooele County near the head bead of Pine
Canyon about one-baH mile from the Salt Lake-Tooele County line,
was reopened in 1934, and nearly 100 tons of ailieeous gold ore were
&eDt to Oarfie]d for lIIDeiting.
....
Willow Spring, di.mid.- . The output of the Willow Springs district
in 1934 (lOll8isted
coll8isted of 38 tons
toll8 or gold ore from the Eagle's Nest mine
25 miles from Gold Hill and a small of copper ore from t.be
lo t oC
smaUlot the Nicholes
pl'08pect near Ibapah.
prospect
ODT ..... CooaTi
ODT.i.B COIa'Tt
Oarbonale dwrid.-A
Chrbonatt diBIrid.- A small lot of oxidized copper ore from the old
Dyer mine and 1 car of oxidized lead ore from the Lead Bell property
25 miles north of Vernal were shipped crude for smelting.
&melting.
 GOLD, SILVER, OOPl'£lt, J,JUD, AND ZINC IN UTAD 535
Co. completed a new cyanidation
J:nilled nearly 9,000 toni of ore ;
25,000 tons ollow-grade gold ore
Geyaer Marion mine. '
in 1936 included the Herschel,
Mining .t
ore to the
1935 and

from
ore !rom
in 1936 inoluded the Buffalo, Fisk, Kearsarge
of the Hilla, Wandering Jew, Commodore, and
UTU conn ,
Amuican Fork diltrid.- The following t.ble givee the prOOuetion
from mines in the American Fork district in 1935 and 1936.

.~.
-
,
ProducinK..mines in the American Fork district in 1936 included the
Blue Rock, Dutcliman, Globe, Yankeo, Miller, and Bog Iron proper-
t.iee. .
Tiw didrid.-The mines in the UUh County section of the
Tintic distriot are reviewed under Juab County.
446 l\fINEltALS YEARDOOK, 1938

was reduced one-half in January 1938 when the mine was placed on
a one-shift hasis. The Park City Consolidated Mines Co. operated
the Roosevelt group and shipped 38,464 tons of zinc-lead-silver ore
to Midvale for milling; the output of ore was considerahly less thun
in 1936, when nearly 55,000 tons were produced, but the output of
silver was only slightly less. The New Park Mining Co. operated the
full year at the Park Galena mine and shipped 10,761 tons of zinc-lead-
silver ore to the custom flotation mill at Midvale. The remainder of
the output from Wasatch County in 1937 was zinc-lead are and lead
are from the New Quincy mine shipped to Tooele.
TOOELE COUNTY
Camp Floyd (Mereur) district.-The output of gold from the Mercur
district decreased about 1,000 ounces in 1937 due to interruption in
milling at the Manning cyanide plant. After completing re-treatment
of the old tailings dump at Manning, the Snyder Mines, Inc., dis-
mantled and moved the mill to a new site at Mercur, and milling
operations on Can M ercur are were resumed September 27; in addition
to ore cyanided, the company shipped nearly 7,600 tons of p:old are
for smelting. The Geyser Marion Gold Mining Co. continued opera-
tions on a 300-ton basis durin!,: 1937, and in addition to treating
nearly 57,000 tons of are from the Geyser M,nion mine the cyanide
mill also handled nearly 9,300 tons of custom ore from the Herschel,
Sacramento, and Rover properties. The remainder of the district
output was gold ore shipped for smelting, chiefly from the Herschel
and Boston Sunshine mines, and gold precipitates from the eyanidation
operation in 1936 at the West Dip mill- an operation that proved
unsuccessful.
CU/ton (Gold Hill) district.- Crude ore of smelting grade was shipped
in 1937 from severnl mines ncar Gold Hill, including the Bonnemort,
Ca.ne Springs, Garrison, Monarch, Manocco, Spotted F awn, Success,
and Silver Hill.
Ophir and Rush Valley districts.- The Hidden Treasure Mining &
Development Co. shipped 27,702 tons of zinc-lead ore to Midvale in
1937 for milling, an increase of nearly 6,000 tons over 1936. The out-
put from the Ophir Hill Consolidated property was 3,300 tons, or
slightly less than in 1936; it comprised lead ore and silver ore shipped
for smeltiug and zinc-lead are milled at, Tooele. The remainder
of the output from the Ophir district was ore of smelting grade,
chiefly from the Tintic Ophir, Ophir, Queen of the Hills, and Wandering
Jew mines.
The Cyelone & Tip Top mine was operated by the nluestone Lime
& Quartzite Mining Co. and the Combined Metals Lease in 1937;
the output of lead ore was only 15,000 tons, a nmrked cleCl'case from
the 28,000 tons produced in 1936. The Comhined M etals Reduction
Co. shipped more than 42,000 tons of ore from the Honerine and
West Calumet mines in 1937 compared with about 32,000 tons in 1936;
zinc-lead ore from both mines was treated in the Bmwr mill, and lead
are was shipped to Tooele for smelting. Other producing mines in
the Rush Valley district in 1937 included the Commodore, Sharp,
Salvation-Hercules, Silver Eagle, 01 a, J enny, and Moylen.
Other producing mines in Tooele County in 1937 included the Four
Metals mine at Dugway (zinc-lead are shipped to Tooele for milling),
476 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 19 39

15,969 tons of zinc-lead ore to the mill at Midvale; development at

the mjne amounted to 1,861 feet, and arrangements were made to
reopen the Mayflower tunnel and extend it about 1,600 feet to open
the Park Galena fissure at a depth of 760 feet below the present main
tunnel.
The remainder of the output from the Park City region in 1938
comprised small lots of ote from the New Quincy, Keystone, and
Park Flag properties and old t·ailings from Silver Creek.
TOOELE COUNTY
GGdnP Floyd (Mercur) district.-The output of gold from Mercur
increased from 14,016 ounces in 1937 to 23,001 ounoos in 1938, as a
result of inereased output by both Snyder Mines, Ine., and Geyser
Marion Gold Minin~ Co. Snyder Mines, Inc., operated the re-
modeled Manning mlll from January to Ocf.Qber and treated more
than 85,000 tons of ore from the Con Mereor property by combined
cyanidation and flotation; in addition, the company and lessees
shipped 21,150 tons of gold are for smelting. The Can Merour mine
was the third~largest producer of gold in Utah in 1938. The mill also
treated by str~ight cyanidation about 5,100 tons of oxidized custom
ore from five properties in the district. The G~ser Marion Gold
Mining Co. completed the installation of new crushing, leaching, and
precipItation equipment at the Sacramento and Geyser Marion
properties, increasinI{ the capacity of the twoflants to about 800 tons
of ore a day. The mills handled 65,251 tons 0 low-grade gold are from
the Geyser Marion open-cut mine and 34,529 tons of custom are,
including 27,157 tons from the Sacramento mine; the ore was treated
by straight cyanidation. Other producers in the Camp Floyd dis-
trict in 1938 included -the Go1.den Gate, Herschel, Boston Sunshine,
West Dip, McCornick, Rover, and Silver Lode properties; most of the
out~mt from these mines was treated at the two custom mills, but in
addition gold are was shipped crude for smelting from the West Dip
and Boston Sunshine mines.
Clifton (Gold Hill) district-Crude are was shipped for smelting
in 1938 from several mines in the Gold Hill district, including the
Clifton Standard, Garrison, Gold Spar, Midas, New Baltimore, Rube
No.3, and Success. -
Ophir and Rush VaUett districts.-The value of the metal ou tput
from the Stockton-Ophir region decreased more than $1,160,000 in
1938, owing to decreases at the Hidden Treasure mine and at the
properties operated by the Combined Metals Reduction Co. The
Hidden Treasure property near Ophir was sold during the year to the
United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.; production was sus-
pended in July and was not resumed until early in 1939 after comple-
tion of an extensive reconditioning and development program. The
~ifli~t in 1938 was 13,742 tons of zinc-~ead are shipped to Midvale for
g, a decrease tram 27,702 tons m 1937. The Ophir Develop~
ment Co. continued work at the Ophir Hill mine, shippmg 2,112 tons
of zinc-lead ore to the mill at Tooele and 218 tons of lead ore for smelt-
ing. The International Smelting & Refining Co. com{>leted the
erection of a 600-ton flotation 'plant at the Ophir Hill tailings dump
and placed the plant in operatIOn November 21 ; about 5 000 tons of
tailings were treated by the end of the year, and copper-l~ad concen-
 GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC IN UTAH 477
trates were shipped to Tooele for smelting. Much of the equipment
used in .the const~ction of the mill was salvaged from the old Utah-
Apex mill at Bingham, which was dismantled during 1938.
The Combined Metals Reduction Co. curtailed operations at the
Cyclone (Bluestone), Honerine, and West Calumet mines in 1938,
and the output of lead ore and zinc-lead ore was much less than in
1937; the output from the Cyclone mine decreased from about 15,000
to 8,429 tons and lead ore and zinc-lead ore from the Bonerine and
West Calumet mines from more than 42,000 to about 32,600 tons.
The lead ore from all three properties was shipped to Tooele for smelt-
and the zinc-lead are was milled in the flotation plant at Bauer.
~~:'''' in the Stockton-Ophir region included the Kearsarge,
Tintic Ophir, Opbir, ZelIa, Mono, Commodore,

UTAH COUNTY

American Fork district.- The value of the metal output from the
American Fork district decreased $91,205 in 1938, as the output from
the Live Yankee mine declined. The propert:y is owned by the Ameri-
can Smelting & Refining Co., and lessees' shipments of gold ore and
zinc-lead ore declined Crom about 4,300 to 877 tons. Other producers
in the American Fork district in 1938 included the Blue-Rock (Pucillc);
Dutchman, and Bog Iron mines. . .
Tintic district.- The mines in the Utah County section of the TmtJ.c
district are reviewed under Juab County.
WASHINGTON COUNTY

The Dixie (Apex) mine in the Tutsagubet district, operated by the

Utah Southern Mining Co., was the only producer m WashiDgton
County in 1938; the company shipped 147 tons of copper are to Gar-
field for smelting.
 GOLD, SlLVJ:R, COl'PIIR, LJ:AO, .urn ztNC IN UTAH 461
continuous in 1940, and the output of r:inc-lead oro shipJ?Eld to Midvale
W38 about 42500 tona-nearly tripla the quantity ill 1939. The
company W38 b'y far thE' llU1lest gold producer in the region. Durillg
1940 all operations Wer& transferred to the Marll.ower tunne1, which
intersects' the Park Galena fissure at depth. 'the Mayfl.ower tunne1
and the P&.rk O&l.ena mine are now oonnected, by raises. I.eeS6es
opE!l'8tOO the AmeriClUl Flag property of the Park Flag Mines Co.
and shipped about 6 600 tons of gol d~Jver ore crude t.o sme1ten.
The remainder of the rroduction from the Park City regiOll in 1940
comprised shi pments 0 zine-lead ore to custom mill!! and crude
silver oro to swelters from the New Quincy property and old tsilings,
principo.lly frow Silver Creek.
ToonK COtJli'TY

[rom tho Clift.on

smelter from the
ore from p1"Of!;pects

c-: __ Coinage district

group ~d load
(Ltd.) property
 462 MlN!:RALS TIlAJlBOOK, UVIliW OF 19tO

tions of
Hidden

of lead ore from a prospect

1039, almost aU the output
.~: );::'leee~ operations at. the
mine. ,( the Depres&on property
direct to a
'ODf1'.lH ConT!
A little copper O1'e from the dump of the Dyer mine w .. eent to a
smelter in 10tO. The rest of the output. from Uintah County was
place1' gold from the Big Ben, Big Lizard, end Utah State Leatie No.
788, all on Green River.
trTAJI COOlin

A~n F()Tk dinrict.-There was a marked gain in output. f:rom

the AmOtkan Fork district. in tHO compared with 1930. The Pacific
Consolidated
Higb~e zine-l
Min:! Co. ehipped about 130 tons of lead coneentratea.
Ol'e was ehipped to Midvale f:rom the Dutchman
mine. Other mines act.ive in 1940 included the Yankee, Globe,
Silver Bell, Silver Dipper &nd Red Cloud.
Norlh 1lnw: dis/rid.-l trial lot of iea.d ore from the Lobi Tintic
&*'n
mine was ehipped to a emelt.er in 1940.
was am
dWrid.-A liule gold orelrom the Golden Leaf propert.y
at.ed in 1040.
Tinw: wriet.-Minllll in the Utah County eection of the Tintic
district are reviewed under Juab County.
WA8HIBGTON OOtfRTJ

A small amount of gold ore from the Bull Run mine in the Bull
Valley district was amalEamat.ed in 1 ~0. Some copper ore was
shipped direct to a smelter from the Dixie property of the Utah
Southern Mining Co. in the Tuteagubet diatriet.. .
 GOLD, SILVER, OOI'Pn, Lt:AD, AND ZINC IN UTAH 473
tion 1rom the cyanide mills, about 40,000 tons of siliceous gold ore
WeJ'(I shipped direct to Garfield for fluxing purposes. Active niiaeB in
tbe distuct included the Consolidated Mercur, New MercW'1 La
C4!:ale, Omaha, Sacramento, Geyser Marion, and Boston Slm!!!!oine.
7JlijUm. (Gold Hill) didrict.-The Wa;tern Utah Copper- property
WII8 the only producer in the C\ift.<m district in 1941.
Dvqway distritJ.-Crude lead ore and zinc-lead Ol'e were shipped
direct to the International smelter IPJ,d Bauer mills, respective!Y. 101
treatment from the Four Metals property. only active mine 10 U1e
Dugway district in 1941. _
Free Coinage district.-A small ;mIment of lead ore, sent direct to ..
smelter from the Utah B\Wker . mine, was the only produetioo
from the Free Coinage district in 1941.
I,ak68ide diririct.- Lead ore shipped crude to a smelter from Ute
Georgia. Lyn, Lead Prince, and Monarch mines comprised the out.pu~
from the Lakeside district in 1941.
NortA Tintic dUtriet.- The &ranton properly was operat.ed by
hneee in 1941 , and shipments of zino ore and lead ore were made
direct to the smelters.
Ophir diltriet.-There was a sharp drop from 1940 in the me'"
output from the Ophir district in 1941, due chiefly to the decline in
output from the HIdden Tl'eaaure mine, largest producer in the die-
trict. The property was !'pert.ted by the United States Smel....
Refining & Mining Co. The tonnage 01 le&d-copper ore ehlpped
crude to the Midvale smelter was 3,000 tom less than in 1940; Ute
DrOduction of zinc-lead-copper ore amounted to about 400 tons.
'rhe Ophir Development Co. operated the Ophir Coalition and Ophir
Bill prop6lties in 1941 and shipped to smelters 3,825 tons of ore o1.u
cl"'es. In addition, 1,67.'5 tons of zinc-lead and zinc-lead~
ores were ehipped to the International eulfide concentnLtor. ~ ~
grade lead ore was ~hir!:e crude to a smelter: by the Meooa MiDlDg
Co. (formuly theCW'f ) from the WandenngJew. Amongolher
mines active in the Ophir district were the Northern Light, QU_ of ·
the Hills and the Mono group.
Rush Vallev diWitt.-The output from the Rush Valley district in
1941 declined from that in 1940. The W~t Calumet (Calumet)
property, owned and operated by the Combined Metals l'ieduction
Co,,. was by far the llUp8t producer in the district in 1941. Over
38,000 tona of zinc-lead ore from the Calumet were treated at. the •
Bauu plant, and in addition over 1,000 tom of crude ore were shipped
direct to a emelter. Lead ore was shipped crude to the Internaticinal
smelter from the Bluestone mine in 1941. Other producers -in die
district included the Honerine, Salvation-Hercules, and Argenta.
"SflUlUr" distMct.- 'l'he International Smelting & !tefining Co.
erected a alag-fwning plant at the smeltu location near Tooele. The
plant was completed m September 1941 and during the rest of the
year treated' over 29£:~ tons of zinc-lead slag and a lew bundred tons
of crude zinc ore. . recovery averaged nearly 1,OOO,OOOpouodsa
month during 1941. During the-first quarter of 1942, the produclion
had exceeded 1,000,000 pounds a month. The lino fume produced
averaged over 65 percent zinc and 2 percent lead and was shipped tAt
the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. and to Bart.l.eeVille (Okla..) for
treatment, The lead fume aV«aged about 45 peroent lead and wu
treated at the Tooele lead emelter.
", ,,' do' ",., I ,.' " .'- ,," ,
• ,
,
•
OOW, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND Z'lNC iN UTAH 501
.,. WI\l'e lhipoOO direct to Garfield for
receive fluxing material from the
~!i ~"t'llm'42~'J~The principal produC61'8 were ' ,,' ,
Gold Mirnng Co. -
lead ore was shipped ~t ,
,
in
to the Inter-
FourMetala "
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mine Bhipped
£rom the Ophir
the inorctL8ed
Jarge8t {)ro·
t.he Urut.ed
produced
800 tons over 1941.
"'concentrator
mthroughout. 1942 and
aDd lIDlelter.
,

in 1942, the most. im-

from only
the States ,
lead blast
adjacent to
, ;.'<,.
plAnts have ,~~ ,
&.8 to ..now the
silver, copper, ,-<
,

trate&, old slap, eto., '.

• recovery of ziM. The averaged 71 percent. :tine < .

and the lead fume 49 -

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district in
Calumet.
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Bhipped tons of
The property "'&I

UTAB cOtrJl'TY
Amm.can. Fork di8trict.-The Howell Mining Co. operated the
Globe mine from March through December 'and the Live Yankee
mine intermittently in 1943. A total of 109 tom oC gold-fliiv8l' ore
was shipped direct to smelters and 267 tons of zinc-lead ore to custom
mills. Moat of the remaining production was zine-lead ore from the
Silver Dipper mine.
Tintic dUtrid.-Minee in the Utah County &eetion of the TinUc
district are reviewed under Juab County.
WUEDlGTOJt COOTY
T1d.taguht-t dL!trid.-Tbe Apex Mining Co. operated ita Apex mine
from January. to April 30, 1943, and shipped copper ore direct. to
Oodicld,
 460 MIN ERALS Y}.:ARBOOK , 1 9 44

Ot.hcr prod ucLion in the P ark City region included zinc-leR.d lUld
silver ore from tbe Park F lag mine (formerly AmeriCAn F lag) and
zinc-lead ore from the N ew Quincy mine,
TOOELE COUNTY
T ooele COWl t.y contiUU(ld in 1941 to rank fourth a mong the met.al-
prodllCing are"" in Utah . Min!!f:l in the (loUnLy prod uced gold, s il ve r,
copper, lead, nnd zinc val\1od at $2 ,542,21 8 compared with $3,243,258
in 1043.
Camp Floud dwrid.-Crudo siliceous gold and gold-silver ore rrom
!.be Geysel' :Marion group and Sacramento pl'Opert.ice, shipped to t.ha
Oarfield smolter, comprised the out-pu t from t.he Oamp F loyd district
in 1914. ThfflC properties were granted an excoption to t.ho gold-mino
closing order so n.s to supply siliceous o r B to COPPIll' smcHf'-l'8 for
Ouxing. 'r ho Sacramento was opera ted under lca.sc by Cbarles
Mercer. ond lhe Geyser Marion group wu ol)erated unlil November
7 by the Geyser M a riotL Co. and thereaftor by A. J . K i rkman u nder
len.se agreement. .
Olifton di5tr1cl.- Tho Gold H ill arscni(' millo Willi op~ated under
Ica86 ill 1944 by the Uni ted States Smelting, Refiu:i ng &. Mini ng C o .
T he prin eipru outpu t was a.rsenic oro from w hich some gold~silv(l.t orc
wns d c.rived M a byproduct. T he property was closed in J u.nua ry
1{H5, flfter the kuown oro bodies wers exhaustod.
Dugwa1l diltrict.-T he Rip Van Winldc C Ollsolidated M Uting Co .
bcgW I operation o f it.! Sm elter C n..oy on m ine Sep tem ber 13 Ilnd (:<In-
tinucd the rest or the Y08.f. Produe~ion included 593 t ons of zillc~l Clad
ore tlnd 50 tOilS of ail vru' oro shipped to tho Tooele smelter and 305
tons of zinc-IOtl.d milling orc ~pod to thl) rn ternationnlsulfide COIl -
ccnLra,t or :lod C om bined M c . mi ll a.t n aucr. A s ln n.llio t of gold
ore wns sh iPl)O({ t-o a smeh er from t bo Finn.! S ucces!! mine. .
T.Q.kesidt'. dlBtrid.-The M onarch m inll wnll op er at ed by the L n.k e-
side M onarch' Milling Co. for 6 months in 1944 a.nd produced 680
tons of lead ore shipptXI. t o the smelter at M UlTay .
N(}rt!. Tintic distTict.-The out pu t from t he N orth T intio distl'ict in
1944 consisted of 30 toilS of zine Ore from t he d ump of the Scl'1lllton
minCl and was shipped to the Toocie sing-fum ing plant.
Oph.ir di8tr-ict.-The H idd ell 'l'reasure min c, opcru.tod by th e
United StaLos Sm elting, R efining &: M ining Co. from JanullJ)' I to
May 3 1, 1944, was t he chief producer in the Ophir di9 tr ie ~ dunng the
y ear; ou t pu t was 1,458 tons of ora of several e1nssls shipped to smciters
and J33 tons of ;r.in e~lco.d-copper mill oro ~hjpped to tho Midv ale
conceutrator, Thl) O phir Development 00: operated its SpbirHill
property throughou t 1944 a.n d produced 772 tons of oro ( ciASllCS)
whlcll wa!! shipped to smolters and 4.01 tons of zinc.-Ieud ore which wns
shi p ped to th e TaoGle 8ulfid o concentrator ; the com pnuy al!\O pl'O -
d uced 400 ton~ of ore of several c100scs from the Mont.o.na LOIlSC, an
adjoin ing property . O ther 'producers in t h e d istriot included the
R earsaq::e grou p of properties, Shoo Fly group , T ogo claim, aud
Wa.ndcrlllg Jew mine.
R-1Ulh. VaUell districl.- T he W est C alumet (Calumet) m ine opera ted
by the C om hined M et als R ed uction Co. ww; one of the principal
producers of :r.illc o.nd IllRd in the StIl.t.e d u ring 1944 Ilud WI\S 0IJerat.cd
o n bot h oo mptm y and lessee 8CC(lun t.. Produo tion oonsisted 0 40,31 l

•
476 MINl'RALS Y&ARBOOK, lIIoU

Wrtsatch County the Empire Canyon Mining Co. shipped 291 tons of
zinc-lead oro to the Tooelo concent.rator.
TOOELE COUNTY

Oamp Fl&yd dutrict.-l'he GoySOl' Marion group, the only produc·

ing property in the Clunp Floyd di~trjct in 1114.~, was worked from
January to September, and sili~ gold-silver oro WIlS shipped to
the Garfield smeller.
Dugway dutrict.-The Rip V...n Winkle Consolidated ~rining Co.
operated th e Smelter CUJ\yon and Foul' ?!:Ictlt\a group throughout the
yea... Of the total output, the Tooele lead smelter receivod 1),411 tons.
of zinc-lead. ore conta.ining 9 ounces of gold, 1(125 OUJlC(l8 of SIlvor, 318
pounds of copper, 110,068 pounds of Jead, an( <f02,8415 pounds of zinc.
'fhe remain ing 484 rons of zinc-Iw.d oro went to thr> Tooele conoontrIV
tor and Bauer mill for treatment; tho metal oontent was 3 ounCM of
gold, 411 OlInC@B of s il ver, 68 pounds of ooper, 43,143 poundB of lsad,
and 110,04-2 pounds of !;inc. Other product.ion from tha district was
from the Cannon property and comprised 21lons of copper ere con -
signed to the Tooele and Garfield coppBr smBltc.rs and 10 tons of lead
oro to the T ooele lead smelter.
Erickson diBtrict.-l'ho I da group and the 'l'int.ic Delaware m ine
together p rooncod 52 tons of zinc-l und ore in H145; 38 tons went to t.he
T ooele leM SllloiL.er and 14 t om t o the Tooele C<lncentrlltor.
Free OoinaU6 diserice.-Totnl product ion froin tho :E'J:ee Coinage
district in 1!)45 was 83 /.(Jns of lead OI'e shipped to th e Tooele lead
e:meller; metal content was 90 ounces of silve r, 10,160 pounds of lead,
Rnd 753 :p?unds of zinc.
Lalund6 di8!7'kt.-Two properties wore worked in the Lakeside
dist ri ct in 1I)45-0llc p roduced 49 tons of zinc o re sent to the Tooele
Jead smelter and the other 111 t ons of lead ore shipped to the MUI'ray
NIIeltor.
North Tintic district.-H. A. Bellows shipped 45 tons of zillc ore
from t.he Scrnnton WflSW d ump to the Tooel9 l ead smelter.
Opllir district.-The Ollhlr Hill mine, operated by the Ophir
Developmcnt Co. throughout the year, was the largest produoor in the
O ph ir district.. Output com pris«! 490 t OM o f zi nc-load ore trca.ted
at the Tooele COl1C:elltrllior, 265 to ns of zinc-lend ore sb ipped to tho
Tooclo lead smelte r, nnd 61 tons or silver ore shipped to the Garfield
smelter. R ecovered metals totaled 6 ounces of gold\ 5,831 ounces of
silver. 12,711 pounds of oopper, 146,953 poundS o f cad , and 66,488
poun(ls of zinc. The Ophir un it of the United States Smelting,
Refinillg & Mining Co. opernted at ,,-bout 65 percent of itB 1941 rato.
ThG bulk of the output Wl,I.e zinc-lI~l~d ore treuted at the M idvale nnd
T ooele ooncentraoors. Other production from the district included
54 tons of copper ore cons igned to the Garfield emelte r f rom tbe Shoo
Fly grou p and 30 tons of lead 01.'0 shipped to the Midvale smelter f rom
the Mooca group.
Rtuh V alley district.-ThB leading producer in the Rush VaUey
d ist r ict ill 1945 was the W est Calu met (Calumet) mi ne operated by
thc Combined Metals Rod uction Co. The oompMy mined 31,263 tons
of zlne-1Md oro, which was treated nt tile Bauer mill, and 414 tons of
load ore shipped to the Tooolo load smelter. The company a lso
 1647
&: Huber produced 37 toils of lead
shipped ~
tons oJ lead- ore
..
the waste dump at the
year and shipped 2,900

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Willow Springs
from January Ui
ore to smelt6rs; 9 tolls
mine.
UTAH COUNTY
American Fort was worked under
y::tis
lee ..e the entire
custom flotation . ;
ore were shipped to
...n was 56 ouncee of
gold, 7,798 ollDcsa of p.;UO<IB of copper, 370,798 pounds
-
 UTAH-GOLD, SIJ,.VER, CQPPER, - lJIl4D; -AND ZINC 1523
Kine prodll~oll of lold, sIlur, eoppu, lead, ud lino ill Part 01" relioll, SUl:IIJILil
&lid WaHlc" COlllltie., Ukb, 11»6-41, aDd total, 1810-11141, ill- torDli ot
reeo.ued meW.

41,460 tons of zinc-Iesd ore, compared with 28,401 tons in 1946.

Gross metal content of the ore in 1947 was 985 ounces of gold, 478,013
ounces of silver, 337/321 pounds of copper, 7,120,891 pound,<; of lead,
and 6,674,124 pounue of zinc. Of the wtal ore, aU but 592 tons was
milling ore.
The Pacific Bridge
Silver Creek all yeu
1,

Park Galena and May.

ore produced from 61,802
1947. Of this quantity,
eontaininJ;!: 13,311 ounces of
pounds of copper! 7,316,640
~ ~i~,~~d. of zinc. Remainmg output
W.,'oreParkan.imine for 5
19 tons of
re--treated sbout
Coalition mill in
•ment at treat,..
operated
silver ore
siliooous ~:~:i[:!;;;j;,
shipped to
, TOOELE COUNTY
Op}lir Dbtrict.-The Hidd6.ll Treasure mine, a major producer of
lead and zinc in Utah in 1947, was worked all year by McFarland«
Hullinger, lessees. Output comprised 4,385 tollB of zinc-l611.d ore,
!J780 tons of lea-d ore;., and 1,568 tons of zinc-lead-copper ore. The
Treasure Hill Mines lXI. operoted the Shoo Fly claims for about 9
months in 1947 and shipped 627 tons of silver smelting ore containing
26 ounees of gold, 10,848 ounces of silveJ', 26,S91 pounds of copper,
Iilld 47,490 pounds of lead. The Ophir Development Co. worked its
Ophir HiD mine all ySM' and produced 229 tons of zinc-lead milling
01'6 and 64 tona of lead smelting ore. Remainin, district production
W8.I> l66 tons of zinc-ISM milling ore from the Ophir Unit of ths United
1524 MIN~L.S YEARBOOK, 1947

Statcs SroeltJng, Refining.& Mining Co" 38 tons of riDe 8llleltmg ore

from the Queen of the Hills mine, 39 Willi of lead smelting ore from
the Meccfl. and 8 tons of simila.r ore from the Mono and Kear-

ooo~

~d,4,O"
smelter.

~.~ opcl'llted the Oro Del Rey group

lead ore containing 572 ounces of
pounds of copper, and 334,748 pounds
ore contaiuing 115 ounces of gold, 275
of copper, and 10,210 pounds of lead.
UTAH COUNTY
Ameriea.n Fork District.-The Dutchman group was operated under
lease the entire year; output was 2,478 tons of zinc-lead milling ore
containing 32 ounces of gold 19,498 ounces of silver, 12,766 pounds
of coPlIeI', 566,907 pounds of 1ead, and 1,1351587 pounds of zinc. The
Howe Mining Co. operated the Globe 8M the Live Yankee mines
all year; the Globe produced 228 tons of zinc-lead ~ Of6 contain-
ing 3 ounces of gold, 1,499 of silver, 792 poullas of copper,
21,201 pounds of lead, and pounds of zinc; the Live Yankee
produced 249 tons of similar containing 8 ollnces of !rold, 492
ounces of silver, 431 pounds copper, 6,551 pollnds of lead, and
28,497 pounds of zinc.
Tintic District.-Mines in ths Tintic dilltrict, inclllding those in the
Utllh County section, are reviewed under J uab County.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Tutsa.gnbet District,- E. L. Oox worked the Dixie mine all year and
shipped to smeltel'8 773 killS of lead ore containing 4 ounces of gold,
9,937 ounces of silver, 1,255 pounds 01 copper, 278,332 pounds of lead,
and 9,275 pounds of zinc; and 615 tone of copper ore containing 63
ounces of silver and 160,694 pounds of copper.
 UTAH--GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC 1615
Park Utah CoMOlidated Mines Co. operated ite property t.hrouf$h-
out the year and shipped 44,753 tons of Uue-load. ore, compared wat.h
41,460 tons in 1947. The ore in 1948 contained 1,527 ouncea of gold,
602,880 ounces of silver, 168,368 pounds of copper, 7,625,586 pounds
of lead, and 7,055 731 pounds of zinc.
P&cifie BridR:e~. operated its 1,000-ton .flotation mill and treated
292J 358 tons of old zinc-lead tailings from the Gras e Jlj dump, compared
witb 459,944 tons in 1947. Conoentn.te8 comprised 5,635 toIlll of
lead ooneeou-ate containi ng 224 OUDcea of gold, 98 M6 ounces of silver,
76,264 pounds of copper, 1,816,229 pounds or lead, and 569,849
pounds of aine' and 4,6 11 toM of zinc concentrate containing 121
ounee& of gold, 69,404 ounces of silver, 41 ,345 pounds of copper,
4~t768 pounds of lead, and 4 818,599 pounds of zinc.
1
l'jew Park Min~ Co. prOOuced 72,83 1 tons of ore in 1948-a new
high-oompared With 68,256 tons in 1947. or the or8 output in
1948, 62,951 toIlll earne from the Mayflower f188ure and 9,880 tons
from th"e Pearl lissure. All was zine-read milling ore and contained
19,272 ouncee of gold, 417/OM ouncee of silver, 866,196 pound s of
copper, ?12SS,644 pounds 0 lead, and 10,084,961 pounds of zinc.
The Silver King Weatm-n mine came into production in t:p~ber
and shipped 342 toM of lead oro to srneltera. M cFILrland & ullinger,
leesees, operated the Daly No. I waate dump uuill August and shippea
32,745 tons of siliCOOWl silver ore to a smelwr. Reuben Gru:bot pro-
duced zinc middling in a small flotation mill by re-treating current
t.ail~ from the Silver King Coalition mill. Remaining district.
br~tion was principally li64 tons of dump silver ore from the
t property and 58 tom of copper ore from th e West PlLrk mine.

TOOELE COUNTY

om.
by lessees working
lead 8IJlelting ore
809 pounds of copper,

~';i;;:.::;: tons of lead ore

and tons of zinc-lead ore Crom claim 90 tons of .riDe-
lead ore and 82 tons of lead oro from MeW's group, and 173
tons of zine-lead ore from the Cannon property.
lriebon Diawot.- Principal out.put. came from t.he Esther grou~
984 tons of zinc-lead milling ore.
Ophir District;.-Leeeees at the Hidden Treasure mine produced
3,926 tons of zine-lead ore, 1,565 toIlll of zine-lead-oopper ore, 4.14
t.ona of lead ofel.....and 42 tons of zinc ore. The Ophir D evelopment.
Co. worked its vphir Hill mine all year and sbippOO 203 tons of zine-
lead ore contaimng 2 ounces of gold, 1, 173 ounces of silver, 2,926
pounds of copper, 29,732 pounds of lead, and 26,906 pounds of zinc.
Lenea operated the Shoo Fly group of the Treasure Hill Mines Co.
and shipped 423 tone of ailver ore and S8 tone of sine-lead ore. From
1616
the Ophir unit of the United States Smelting, Rofinillg &: Mining Co.,
lessees shipf.ed 575 tons of zine..leo.d milling oro.
Rush Val fly District.--Ore production a~ the West Calumet (Calu-
met) mine of the Combined Metals Reduction Co. rose from 31,294
tons in 1947 t.o 38,396 tons in 1948. Of the oro produced in 1948,
38,342 tons were ~inc-lead milling ore oontaining 2,716 ounces of goJd,
308,186 ounces of silver , 7 ,~,7 11 pounds of lead, and 3,838,606
pounds of zinc; 54 tons of lead ore went direct to a smelter. From the
company Honorine-Galena King group, 1 423 tons of zinc--Jcad ore
and 333 tons of lead oro were produced. The company Hotation mill
at Bauer treated about 62500 killS of pyritic gold.ilver tail~,
which y ielded 20,886 tons oi iron concentrate valuable cbieOy for 1\6
gold and silver. Ot·ber district output. was 708 tollll of zino-lead ore
from the Silver Eagle group and 70 tons of lead ore from the Circle
Amended claim.
Smeller Diatriat.--Output credited to producers in t.he Smelter
district comprises the metals recovered from 1,036 tons of old copper
sl~ shipped to II. copper smelter by the International Smelt ing &: Re-
finmg Co. at Tooele and 34,818 toDS of old zinc alag treated at the
company alag-fuming plant.
Willow SJ;lrintl Dat.rict.-.~L~r~'~"""",. operated the Oro Del R ey group
and shipped to smell.en! 781 tons of lead ore oontaining 1,346 ounces
of gold, 4,157 ounces of silver, 1,282 pounds of cofper, 345,765 pounds
of lead, t\Jld 253 pounds of zinc, and 63 tons 0 gold ore containing
177 ounces of gold, 193 ounces of silver, 100 pounda of copper, and
5, 181 pounds of lead.
UTAH COUNTY
American Pork Dat.rict .- Dut.cbman Mine Leasers operated the
Dutchman group throughout 1948 and shipped 2,550 tollS of zinc--Iead
milling ore containing 37 ounces of gold, 18,449 ounces of silver . 9,671
pounda of copper, 463,250 pounds of lead, and 1,147/095 pounds of
zinc. Rema~ district production W&8 200 tons 0 load oro from
the Blue Roek mme and 90 tons of zinc-lead ore from the Live Yankee
claim.
Tintic Diltrict.~Mines in the Utah County II6Otion of the Tintic
district are reviewed under J uab County.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Tutsa.gubet District.-E. L . COl: worked tho Dixie (Apex) mine and
shipped to smelters 959 tons of lead ore containing 7 ounces of gold,
12,061 ounces of silver, 8,167 pounds of copper, and 269,995 pounds
of lead ; and 175 tons of copper ore containing 1 ounce of gold, 61
ounces of silveri and 57,599 pounda of copper. Wayne Snow shipped
113 tons of leaa ore from the Black Warrior claim.
 1588 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1949

McFarland & Hullinger, lessees( operated the Daly NO .1 waste

dump and shipped 50,951 tons 0 siliceous silver ore to a smelter.
The West Park Mining Co. operated its property from June to October
and shipped 255 tons of copper smelting ore containing 10 ounces
of gol!!t. 176 ounces of silver, and 21,182 pounds of copper. Silver
King w estern mine was operated by lessees from May to December.
Output of ore, all shi]?ped to smelters, comprised 1,530 tons of lead
ore aDd 40 tons of silver 000. Reuben Garbett re..treated a Bub·
stantia] tonnage of current zinc tailings [rom the Silver King Coalition
mill until the mill closed at the end of June. Remaining diet·riet
production was 93 tons of silver smelting ore from the J. I . C. &:
West Quincy (New Quincy) property ana 119 tons of lead Ore from
, the Crescent mine dump.
TOOELE COUNTY

"tlmt was 80 tons of lead smelting ore from

163 tons of zinc-.lead
Metals group and 31

o=~
po=ds
Mono-
'::'01'6 and
alid

West CaJumet (Calu-

Co. dropped from
1948 to 32807 tons in 1949. the ore in 1949 was
. ore and contained 2,093 ounces of gold, 238,817
,~, 6,009,860 pounda of lead, and 2,920,100 pounds of
company Hononne-Oalena King group bad a production
816 tons of Zille-les.d milling ore and 11 tons of lead smelting ore;
and the Cyclone-Tip Top.soutbport (Bluestone) group, 239 tons of
lead smeltmg ore. The oompany flotation mill at Bauer treated
24,000 tons of pyritic gold-silver tailings, which ;riolded 7,643 tons of
iron concentrate valuable chiefly for its gold and silver. Other dis-
1602
62 pounds of zinc. The main Ollt.put was 139 tons of oopper.uver
ore produced from the Monoeoo mine.
DqWI" Diab'ict.- In 1950 Willil Smith operated four properties in
the I5ugway district.. The principal output was 245 tollll of zinc-lead
ore produced from the Four Met.aJs, Fnneea, &lId Raymond properties.
BricUon Diatrlct,- The Bar X Mining CO. worked its Esther group
most of the year and shipped 1,115, tons of milliDg ore containing 6
ounces of gold, 832 01lnces of silvOt', 143,300 pounds 01 lead! and 147,745
pounds of zinc. The Ida-Desert View group produced 47 tons of
l(,jno-lead ore.
Ophir Diltrict.-lead ore (4,303 tonal and zine-lead ore (1,642 tons)
produced b'y lesaees McFarland &: HII11inger--from tbe Hidden
Treasure rome in 1950 were by far the chief output of the Ophir
district.. Other district production included 1,345 tons of zinc-lead
ore from the Ophir unit of the United S ta tes Smelting, Refining &:
Min.i.o2 Co.' 330 tons of zinc-lead ore and 117 toM of copper ore from
the Ophir Hill. mine; and 75 toIlS of Jead..oopper ore, 48 tone of copper
ore, and 6 tons of .tine-lead ore from the Mono-K~ group.
Bulb. Valler District.- The Combined Met.&ls Reduction CG.
operated the West Oalumet (Oalumet) and Honorin&-Galena King
propertiea throughout the year; however, ore output from the Wost
Calumet mine dropped from !2cf07 tons in 1949 to 6,378 tons in 1950,
while that from the Honoi-in alena King group increased from 827,
tons to 8,225 tons. The ore from both properties contained 1,094
ouucee of gold, 1115)501 ounces of silver, 60,266 pounds of copper,
(14,084 w:.t
3,043,32 1 pounds 01 lead, and 2,11lJ364 pounds of zinc; most of it
was .tine-leaa ore treate<l in the Combined Melals custom
.flotation . at Bauer. Other diamct production was 273 toni! of
zino-lead mi1lin2: ore from the Silver Eagle mine (Hampton Mining
Co., I(Fee), and 82 tom of lead smelting ore from the Bluestone and
Blue Eagle groupe.
Smelter Di.trict.--Output in 1950, all by International Smelting &
Refining Co. pl.nIB ne&r Tooele, comprised 2,097 tons of old zinc Slag
treated at the zine-fuming plant, 1,746 tons of similar material smelted
at the lead smelter, 451 tolll of furnace cleani~ (zinc) shipped from
the zinc-fuming plant, and 1,308 tons of old sm ter cleanings (copper)
shipped from the copper smelter.
Third Term Distri~.-Ray Mining & Development Co. worked the
Third Term mine near Orantaville a few months in 1950 e.nd shipped
26 tons af lead ore.
Willow Springl District.-Lessoos continued working the Oro Del
Rey group near Callao and shipped to smellAlrs 218 tons a f ore con-
t.aining 379 0UIlCe6 af gold, 1, 116 ouncee of silver, 688 poundil of copper,
and 53,434 pounds oflesd.
UTAH COUNTY
American Fork DiatriCl.--Output in 1950 was 76 tons of zino-lead
milling ore from the F1orall.OO.e and Silver Leaf propertietl and 18
tons aT lead smelting ore from the Blue Rock (pacific) mine.
Tinlio Diltri~.-Mines in the Utah County BOOtion of the Tintic
district are reviewed under Juab County,
 UTAH-OOLD, SILVIlR, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC 1605
Owing to n early continuous operations throughout 1951 by all
of the principoJ producers in the Park City region, outpu~ oC ore and
production of each metal (ezoopt gold) were greater thlUl in 1950.
Output of zinc-lead ore, the chief lIOuroe of motoJ production, in-
creased £rom 120.].29 tons in 1950 to 190,178 in 1951, fI, 58-percent
gain. The New Yark Mining Co. was the leading producer in the
Park City region. T he oompany np6rted tha~ 88,296 tona of zinc--
lead on was shipptld in 19tH oompued with 70," 80 tone in 1950. The
oro in 1951, containing 21,087 ounces of gold l 434i219 ounces of silver,
1,019,881 pounds of copper, 7,737,916 pounds of o~dJI:nd 10,985,330
pounds of zinc, was treatea in the custom fl.otation . of the United
States Smelting, Re.fining .t Mining Co. at Midvale and Combined
MeW!. ReductIO n Co. at Dauer.
The Park Utah Consolidated Mines Co. operated its throe units-
Judge, Ontario, and KeetJey- all year and shipped 55,185 tons (38,23 1
tons in 1950) of zinc-lead ore to t he custom flotaLion mill of the inter-
national Smelting &: Refining Co. near Tooele' all ore shipped in 1951
came from the Judge and KeetJey units. The on oontained 2,118
ounces of gold, 315,608 ounces of silver, 22,605 pounds of copper,
9,249,384 pounds of lead, and 11 ,294,(00 pounds of zino. The oom-
l'('l8ulta of development in the Ontario mine dul"-
expeet.ations in the finding of new bodiee of ore on

•
f.

'&;n,
.~
pounds of
of corrent
r&-tn!ated by
Kingwute
of lcad.mlver
to a lead
tons) wu
varioua lo-

TOOElE
The most. productive Ill'6&S in Tooele County U'6 the Ophir- and RUBh
VAlley districts. In 1951, 4 mines in the Ophir distric~ produced
11 ,395 tons of ore oompared with 7,900 in 1950. Tltis e;ain was due to
increased production of zinc-lead on from the Ophir urut of the United
States smelting, Refinina: &: Mining Co. (from 1,345 tona in 1950 to
8,167 in 1951). McFarland &: Hullinger continued to operate the
Hidden Treuure mine, but output of lead 0l'6 and zine-l.ead ore do-

,
•
1606 ~ERAL8 YEARBOOK, 1111

clined to 3,054 tons. Other district. production WU 90 toni of zinc-

lead om from the Mono-Kearsarge group and 45 tollll of lead ore and 39
of zinc-lead ore flOIn the Ophir Hill mine.
Output of ore in the Rush Valley district increased from 14,958 tonI
in 1950 to 26,343 in 1951. Zinc-lead are produced from the WllIIt
Calumet mine by the Combined Metals Reduction Co. increased from
6,051 tollll in 1950 to 23,420 in 1951, while that from t he Honorine
min e declined from 8,030 tona to 2,320. The ore from both properties
con tAined 1,632 ounces 01 gold, 227,644 ounces of silver, 87,600 pounds
of copper, 6,060,404 pounds of lead, and 1,995,070 pounds of zinc.
Other district production Willi 570 tons ·of old tailings, oontain!ng
chiefly gold and lead shipped by the Combined Metals Reduction Co.,
U1d 33 tons of zinc-lead ore produced [rom the Silver Ea2le mine.
The BfU' X Mining Co. worked ita Esther group in tho 'krickson d ill-
trict all year and ,hlPfed 2,876 toOl! of ore, which contained 10 OUDCM
of gold, 464 ounC€16 0 silver, 4,866 pounds of copper , 380,554 Ji>Oundt
of lead, and 462,560 pounds of zinc. Other count.1 production in·
eluded 4,881 tons of old zinc slag from the I nt.em.ational Smelting 4:
Refining Co. dump near Tooele 1,441 tons of furnace cle8.llings from
ita l.inc fuming pl8.llt (also near Tooele), 115 to08 of zinc--Iead ore from
!.he Ida-Deeert. View group in the Erickson district 113 to na of oopper
ore from the Monocoo mine in the Oifton (Gold Hill) district, 11 tona
of zinc ore 8.lld zinc--lead ore from the Four M etals mine and 39 tons of
lead ore from the Cl~roperty in t.he Dugway district, and 50 tons
of lead ore from the B a.wk claim in the Blue Bell district.
UTAH
American Fork Diltrict.-Jay Jacohllon shipped 360 wns of old slag,
containing principally lead and zinc, from the Yankee property and
113 tons of lead~ilver ore from the Dutchman waste dump. Other
district production was 60 tons of lead ore from the Blue Rock (pacific)
mine and 11 tons of zinc--l.ead ore from the norallode.
Tintic Datrict.-Mines in the Utah. County section of the Tintic
district are reviewed under Juab County.
WASATGt
Puk CUy Region.-Minell in the Wasatch County section of the
Park City region are r eviewed under Summit and Wasatch Counti6l!!.
WASHINGTON
The Requa mine in the Harrisburg (Leedl:l) district. wu operated a
short time in 1951 and produced 52 tons of copper-silver ore. Ken·
tucky·Utah. Mining Co. worked the Dixie-Apex mine in the Tutsagu-
bet district moU of the year and shipped 111 tons of ore containing 42
ounces of silver, 40,726 pou nds of copper, and 630 pounds of lead.
918 MINERALS T EARBOOX, 195 2

min,
1,058
Refinjng

UIHTAH
The principal miner&J. commodities in Uintah County in 1952 were
petroleum produced from wells in the Uinta Basin and FilBOnite pro-
duced from three properties at Bonanza. Production 0 oil from the
Uinta Basin has nsen consistently each year since 1949, and the area
is eu!'reoUy the largest oil-prodllcing field in Utah. Uintah and
 'I'lD MINERAL IND11S'I'RY O:P UTAH 1021!
common
Wf18 j"
making brick.
:,"~~~in 1953; moat
~ Gra.nUlville
'1030
1,860,305 pounds of zinc. The Ophir mine operated all year and Willi
the principal producer; the Hidden Treasure mjne was
lease from January 1 to Auguat 31 by McFarland <I; H '
~!lfu,a,it under
.
lIush V..uey Dist.rict.- Four mines:-Gisoom.Muirbrook, onorine,
Silver Eagle, and West Calumet-produced 24,423 tons of ore con·
taining 1,407 ounces of gold, 233,370 ounces of silver, 51,083 pounds
of copper, 6,562,790 poullds of lead, and 1,325,954 po1lnd8 of ZillC ' .u
e:toopt SO tons W8B le&d·zinc ore treated in the Bauer flotation mitI of
the Combined Metala Reduction Co. The companx worked the West
Calumet mine all year and produced 22,918 tons of leoo.-zine ore com-
pared wilh 20,295 tons in 1952. The Calumet lease worked the
Honorine mine and produced 1,216 tons of lead-zinc ore. Other
production was 239 t.oD8 of lead-tiue ore from the Silver Eagle mille
and .50 klns of lead ore from the Gisborn-Muirbrook group.
Smeller District.-The mineral output of the SmeJte.r district in
1953 W9.11 20,143 klns of old zinc slag, most of which wae treated in the
Int.erns.tional zinc-fuming ple.n~ and 1,963 t.ons of old O()pp0l' slag
e.hipped direct to 0. smelter by the Intemo.t.ional Smelting <I; Refining
Co. In addition, the oompe.ny produced lea.d bullion at its 8IIleiter
near Tooele, lead ood zinc fume at its zinc-fuming planiit and lead,
ziDc, and iron coneentratoo at its cnstom Rotation mi also near
ToooI.
UINTAH
Detaila on mining operations and production in U'mtah County are
combined with tboee of Duchesne County.
UTAH
,

II THE :MINEaAL INDUSTRY 01' UTAH 1161

Goldl Bilver, lead, and tine with .. total value of $1 ,285 were ro-
OOVOI'O(l from ore mined by Scott M. Nebeker, Gloria Mining Co.,
•, aDd \V'd foro W . Sweeney from deposita in Sevier Count.y .
So.nunh•..:....The total value of ' the mincra.l production in Summit
I County increased from $1.2 mjllloll in 1955 to $5.6 million in 1956.
M08t of this gain came from the advanced out put of lead and zinc

I
r
in the county, mainly' from the United Park C ity Mines Co. mines.
Production by this company in 1956 C611l6 from illl Swnmit County
mines, whereas in 1955 most of it C&Il\e from Wasakh Coun~y mines.
The value of gold, Bilvel', copper, lead, and zinc output from deposita
in Summit County made up 93 percaDt of the wtal value of all minerals
produced in the county in 1956.
The United Pat'k City Mines Co. ,group. of mines Will! the 1 600nd·
rAnkitur: lead IlIld zinc IUld third-TaIlklll&: silver producer in the State
in 1956. The oompany reported that It minod a.nd shippod 83,427
tons of lead-zinc ore (with an averoge assay of 0.030 ounce of gold
and 5.71 ounces of silver p&f ton, 0.125 peroent copper, 7.10 percent
lead, and 9.64 percent zinc) to the International Smelting and Refining
, Co. (1S&R) pl&llt at Tooele and the United Statea Smelting Refi¢rlg
and Mining Co. (USSR&:M) plant at Midvale for concentration, lead
smelting, and fuming of th e zinc-beari.ng: B1ag produced. In addition
it shipped 10,376 tons of tailing material to American Smelting and
R efifiLng Co. (ASkR ) copper 8IIlelIM at Garfield and 1,260 toDlJ of low-
grade silicooue material to IS&R lead Bmelter and zinc-fuming plant
at ToocJ.e and ASd::R smelter at Garfield. In 1056 the company also
did 6J.:teus.ive exploration and development at ita mines comprising
22\988 fee~ of tunnel. 11 ,344 feet of dIamond drilling, ~ 42,514 foot
of ong-hole percUS8ion drillinll:. An oil warehouse, railroad. spur, and
loading dock were built near lteetley during 1956.
Five other mines produced varying quantIties of gold, silver, coPpcrl
lead, and zinc in Summit County In 1956. G . W . Wortley shipped.
material to thesmelter from the Atkinson tailing dump, WortJ~ Broa.
shipped from Clegg Leese tailing ~:81 Wortley Broa. and McFarland
&: trullinger shipped from the Gr I tailing dump, and McFarla.nd
& Hullinger shipped from the Ontario and Park Flag mine dumJ?8.
Nonmet ,l, played only a small role in the overall mining activity
of the mineral. industriee in 1956. Sand and gravel and stone for
highway Use were the moat important. The Federal Bureau of Public
Roads, the Utah State Road Commission, and the county highway
w£artment were all actively cng&.g6!l. in hjghway construction.
iting &; Haymond, Vernal 8&nd & Gravel Co., and Wb&elwright
Col\lltruetion Co. Wen! the ludi ng private contractors workin'! r"
these agencies· crusbed sand.wne wu the principal stone an wu
quarried by Utah Construction Co. for t·he Federal Bureau of
Reclamation. Clay production conaisted of 14,700 tons of miscel-
laneous clay mined by the Ut&h Fire Clay Co. from ito Henefer pit.
Coal was produced from the Chappell mineoperat.ed by theChappeU
Coal Co. The company employed 13 men. during the year.
Tooele. -The total value. of minEll"a1 output in Tooele County in
1956 (M million) was 9 percent above the comparable fi.gur6 for 195.5.
Increased output was r eported fOf 10 of the commoditiea produced in
19.5&, including gold, ailVEll", copper, lead, zinc, lime, potash, pumice,
and ~ swnee. Declin81 were reported for output of 8aIt, atone, and
'611871 51 74

,
 ][62
tungsten, and no production wu reported lor claye and sand and
gravel.
In 1956 Tooele County continued to be an important lead-zinc
milling and smeJi.ing area. The International Smelling and Refining
Co. l,.500-ton-per-day ooncenlJ'awr and lead &melw and r.inc-41lag
fuming plant at Tooele were operated on ore, concentrate, and slag
[rom Utah and other States throughout t he year. In 1956 Combined
Metals Reduction Co. continued to accept custom lead-zino ore for
treatment in itll 7QO..ton-per-<!.ay mill at Bauer.
Out~ut of gold, silver, copper, lead, and &inc came from 21 active
mine. In the county in 1956. Of thf!il(! operationa, the UnitOO States
Smelting, R efining and Mining Co. Ophir Unit mine, the Combined
Metals Reduction Co. Calumet mine and Bluestone tailingll-dump
operatioll8, and ZumA Uranium &: Oil Corp. Zurna mine were the
principal pro<iUOOl'II. Each of ilia 17 remaining active minee in the
county in 1956 mined and Bhipped or treated 1_ than 100 tonI of ore.
The value of nonmetals prOduced in Tooele County dropped to '1.8
million, or only 4.5 percept of \.he total value of all mineral products,
compared with a total value of nonmetal!! of Sl .9 million or 52 pereent
of the tOtal county value in 1955. Tbis moderate deelilJe was due
largely to lack of any clay and sand and gravel production and a
decline in salt output. Potaab was again the m06t. important com·
modity, and all output came from tbe Bonneville, Ltd., plant. Salt
ranked &eOOnd in tenna of vaJue, and the Grantsville a:rea of the
• coun~y was the 6cene of )~uetive activity by the Deeeret Salt Co .
and Stansbury Salt Co., c. ExOtlpt for a small quantil.y of orna.-
ment&! stones, the oolllltniction materials-lime, atona, and pumiOtl
and pwnicite---accqunted 101' the remaining production.
, At Bauer the coaJ-reein plant of Combined Metals Reduction Co.
was rebuilt with modernization after its destruction by fire in $eptem.
ber 1955. The n ew plMlt has the capacity to produce 10 ton. per day
of refined resins. The resins are used in chewing gum, paintll and
lacquers, and printing inks. The resina were received from \.he
Hiawatha coli! mine (Carbon County) wh6l'e a flotation concentrate
W88 produced 88 a brvroduct of the coal.mining o~tion.
Uin\ah.- Tbe Amerlean Gi.l&onite Co. completed Itt 8QO..foot, 4-oom·
partment shaft on the Cowboy vein at Bonan,;a in the spring. At the
same time, the compMlY l&ld the foundations for a gaaoline and
metall~eal-ooke nfinery near Grand Junction, Colo.
The giIsonite operation has developed considerable intereet in
lIeven.l UDUBUaJ feat.ures lIBIIOCiated with the mining! b'ausportation,
and refining of the solid hydrocarbon. Mining metnods take cogni-
zance of the e:qtloaive nature of gilsonite dust-laden air, and two
methode have been developed for breaking the material from the
face. A cutting machine of apecial design is Used where vein material
is hard and ururacturOO, and a water spray is directed through the
cutting tooth to reduce dust. Wbere the vein materia] ia fractured
sufficiently, as in most portions of the Cowboy vein, a hydraulic jet
directs hign-pre88urt1 water into the frfLcturea, rCllulting in diaint.egra-
tion of the ftu;:e material. No wetting down is necessary for prevent-
ing dust in the hydraulio method.
With both cutting methods additional water is supplied to the face
to wash the cut material down 2,,0 slopes to the shaft, where the coarse

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continued to be the only clay produOOl' j it mined bentonite and fuller',
earth from its Aurora and Redmond deposita. Salt product.ion ~
ma.ined at the aame level as that reported for 1956, and the Red mond
rock-salt mine of Poulson Bros. Salt Co. was the 801e source o f supply.
Elmo R. H erring !LIld Redmond S&nd &: Gravel Co. were the only
producers of sand &nd gravel and 37,100 tons of structural IUld paving
se.nd and gravel were reported.
CGaI produced by the Southern Utah Fuel Co. at its No.1 Ria-
watha mine increased 4 percent compared with 1956.
Sum miL- The tot.aJ value of !.he output of ~Id , silver, copper.
lead, and zinerroduced (rom deposita in SlImmit County in 1957 was
14.6 million 0 !.he $4.8 million combined value of all mineral. pro-
duced in the county.
The United Park City
Mines theth"0'~;;l;~'.:
was
Co. in
and zinc)
in the State.

was comprised of 45,700 tons of pav-

Gibbons, 'iVhiting &: Haymond, and
'~.~·"n sandstone, produced by Moun-
of crushed slJldstooe, mined for
Miacellaneous-clay product.ion
. from its Henefer pit.
ou.' o( each o( the metals, gold,
in 1957.
Two

lD.lDe wu :",a.d
operated by leuers.
continued t.o an imporw,nt lead-zinc
International Smelting and Refining
lead smelter, and ziDe-aiag
concentrate, and slag

potash
percen~
 963
, Coal production by the Southern Utah Fuel Co. at its No. 1 mine
on the hie seam was S percent greater than in 1957. The entire
output El Bees Uranium Co. produced 8
small the Flat Tire group and shipped
it

•i
,
,

its.Chappel mine for local con-

was below that in 1957.
lime, potash, salt, sand and
gml Stones was $3.1S million of Tooele
value of mineral production. Sub8ta.ntial
for some of lime,
stones. The

Output of xino- .
produced from oompared with Pro-
duction of tb_ met.a.la was recorded from 12 active l'IliJles., of which
the Ophir unit, operated by McFarland a. Hullinger, J noes, and
Calumet, operated by the Calumet I.e''', were the major producers.
International Smelting and ReRning Co. reclaimed cold slag ftom
the Tooele lead gmelter dump and treated it in its zinc-fuming
plant. Lees than 100 tons of ore was produced from each of the
remaining active minee.

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1046 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 19(10
19GO

Hales Sand & Gravel; and De Mar Mar W. Brimhall Construction, con· ,,
tractors for the State highway depo.rlment;
department; and construction crews !,
of Ephrain City Corp. mined 181,500 181,600 tons of building and paving
deROSit near Redmond was worked by :Morton Salt
vel. A salt derosit
ve}. Sal~ Co. !I
E fonnexly Royal Cryst&l Salt
formerly Solt Co.}
Co.).. From" deposit near Sterling,
Mini~f Co. recovered clay for use as "a soil conditioner
me Utah Min!:f
and for poultry f .
Dry natural gas produced at Joe's Valley field by Three States
Natural Gas C<iOi was 119 59 percent below that of 1969. 1959. The g1lS g1\S was
marketed through pipelines.
ma.rketed
pel'alnt of the value of mineral output in
Sevitr.--Seventy-eight percent
Sevier County resulted from the production and sale of nonmetals.
calcinioE of gypsum near Si~rd acoounted fot"
The extraction and ca1cinioE fOf
most of the
ths value. United Stams "Gypsum Co.
States UYP!!1lID CO. and Bestwall Gypsum
Co'
Co'll the mine producers, operated wallboard plants in conjunction
witn their mines. Fuller's earth and bentonite were mined and
processed by Western Clay & Metals Co. Poulson Bros. Salt. Co.
produced rock sa.lt.
salt. Coal production from the Soutbern Southern Utah The] Fue]
Co. No.1 mine was 4 percent mora more than that of 1959. Uranium ore
from the Helms mine was shipped to plants at Salt Sa.lt Lake CityO1ty and
lfuab for processing.
MmIb
Summit.-The value of gold, copper, lead, and zinc output
£Clld, silver, corper,
represented $4.2 million (88 percent) 0of the $4.8 million combined
I?roduced in the county. The United Park City
value of all minerals l?roduced
mines operated by Umted P ark City Mines
United Park Mine6 Co. and block leasers
lea.sers wns
leadin£ producer. To reduce the cost of operation, the complUly
the lea.din$
eliminated overtime pny by switching its employees from a 4S-hour 48-hour
week to a 40-hour week and issued small block leases in frin~ areas
th.t could not be economically worked by the company's usmg nor-
mal operating procedures. United.
mM United Park City and Keystone Min- ~fin­
ing Co. conducted.
conducted a joint exploration and development program at
the K eystone mine, and le.ad-zinc
Keystone lead-zinc ore re(:Overed
recovered as a result of this
work was treated at the United Ststes States Smelting Midvale mill. Mc- Me--
Farland & Hullingerllessees., shipped fluxing material from the Daly
mine dump, owned I>y United Park City llines ?lIines Co., to the Utah
Copper Garfield copper smelter.
Coal production, iillan from the Chappel Coal Co., was 9 peromt percent
above that of 1959.
Tooele.- The mineral industry of Tooele
Tooele.-The T ooele County continued to set
P roduction of nonmetal mineral products accounted
records in 1900. Production aCC<lunted
for 99 percent of the $6.1 million value of mineral output. The county
ranked first in shipments of lime, second in salt production, third in
qU3rrying of dals,
quarrying cloys, and was the only source of JIOmh JlOt&sh in the State.
Limekilns ~ere III In use at T he Utah Lime L ime and Stone
/:itone Co. and Utah
M arblehead L
Marblehead ime Co. operations. The latter plant produced the only
Lime
dead-burned dolomite m the Rocky Mountam Moun tam reglOn. Salt SRit for in-
dustrial and human consumption was harvested at so!Qr-evaporation
dustria! solllr-evaporation
facilities of Leslie Salt Co. and llnd Solar Salt Co. Utah Salt Co. re-
covered byproduct solar-evaporntion
solar-evaporation saltsnit from the brine ponds of the
Bonneville, Ltd., potash operation. Large Lar~ quantities of limestone and
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'1'Hk
'1m MINUlAL
J4lN1;RAL INDUSTRY
nmUSTRT OJ' UTAH
tJ'TAR 1047
, dolomite were mined for U96 Uge in manufacturing lim~ . and United
manuf&Cturing lime,
i\ bolining Co. rec()vei-ed
States Smelting Refining and :Mining recovered oolitic
oolitie limesand
limeeand
,
,•\
,
at Stansbury ISland.
International Smelting and Refining Co. reclaimed cold slag from
the Tooele lead smelter dump &nd treated it in its zinc-fuming plant
primarily to recover ZiM; however, some silver, copper, and lead . 180
were rooovernd. International Smelting treated State and out-of-
State custom ores, ooncentrates, and materials in its lead smelter and
zinc-fum ing plant at Tooele. McFarland &; Hullinger conducted de--
vel0r,ment work at the Ophir Unit mine, owned by United Stales
Sme ling Refining and Mming Co., and shipped lead-zinc ore pro-
duced to the Uruted States Smeltrng Midvale mill for treatment.
Shipmenta of small lots of gold, lead, and lead-zinc ores, each le8!l
than 100 tons, were made from seven other mines.
Uintah.-PetroJeum production from 112 wells in 5 fields was 16
peroent above that of 1959. Notable incresses were recorded at the
Ashley Valley and Red Wash fields. Five new 28Sfield9 were di&-
covered. The discovery well at the White River }leld, completed in
November, 80wed 1.25 million cnbic feet of J{U a day from the Wa-
satch formation at a deE.th of 6,422 to 6,432 -'oot. The Coyote W ash
field was discovered in January. The discovery well flowed 826,000
cubic feet of gas a day from the Wasatch formation at a depth of
4,888 to 5,004 foot. A well, 5.5 miles southwest of the discovery well
in the Uintah Unit, discovered in 1959, was completed in May and
flowed 2.2 million cubic reet of gas a day from tlie W asatch forma-
tion at a depth of 6,061 to 6,606 feet. The Rock House field t 5.5 miles
south of the Southman Canyon 1ie1d, was discovered in October. The
d i900very well flowed 12.5 million cubic feet of gas a day from the
Wasatch formation at a depth 014,144 to 51008 feet, a nd 900,000 cubio
feet o f gas a day from the Mesa..'erde at a depth of 1i,362 to 5,382 feet.
The Fence Canyon field, 10 miles northwest of the Westwater field in
Grand County, was diecovered in April. Initial flow of the discovery
well was 5.2 million cubic feet of gas a d ay from the Dakota sa.ndstone
at a depth of 8,544 to 8~ feet.
Development drilling was confined largely to the Red W s.sh-Walker
H olloware&. where 25 oil wells lUld 1 gas well were completed. In tile
Chipita Wells field. six gas wells were drilled. Two gas wells were
drilled in the Ute 1l-ail field and one in the Ashley Valley fie1d.
C&1ifornia Oil Co. operated its natural·gas plant in the Red Wash
field and recovered natural gaspline that was u96d as a blending stock
at refineries in the Salt Lake City area. Residual ~as was marketed
throuS-b pipelines. Standard Oil Co. of Californta began the con-
structIOn of a 40-million-cubic-foot-a-d ay natural.gll8 plant in the Red
Wash field. The natural gas liquids recovered were to be used at the
Standard Oil Co. refinery at Salt Lake City and the residual gas
were to be sold to pipeline companies f or distribution to consumel"fl.
Oil80nite mined at the Bonanza mine by American Gilsonite Co.
and at the Little Bonanza., Little Emma, and W amer-Quinlan mines
by G. S. Ziegler & Co. and cont.nctors was slightly ahovethatof lOtiO.
American Gilsonite Co'l !he major producer, further improved its
mining method using high-pressure hydranlio nozzles suspended
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OJ' UTAH 1055
Coal outpUt, all produced by Chappel Coal Co., was slightly below
thatof 1960.
~n_~1 s.ccounted for 91

increase in sales of 1XItas-

near Wl'J:\dover. Capacity of
additional ditches and in-
of a oompacting
was started late in
 IOSI
An M-percent
the decrelL98 in
'\'1'&8 U8ed as
ways. The
19,000
duood
225 tons

:,"; was &c.

L. evapora.-
precipItated

,
•

realized in quantity of stone quarried. Utah

Lime and Stone Co., and Utah Marblehead
. crushed limestone. 'The product, a.coounting for
most stone production, was used prinetpally for making lime.
It was used as flux t roofing, and aspnfLIt mlsr; in cement. stuooo,
terrazzo, cast stone ; and for poultry grIt and fil ter beds.
Quicklime and hydrated lime were produced by The Utah Lime and
Stone Co. at its.f.l'OO' 33ing plant near Gl'Ultsvilie. Utah Marblehead
Lime Co. made ead-bumed dolomite from rock quarried near TOMle.
Sand and pavel, produced by England Construction, Ine., was
I186d in building and road oonstmction.
70'1"-8111 sa 80
1082
Pipe and Ceramics Corp. and Interstate Brick Co.
;;;,.; pits at Five Mile Pa~ for producing heavy clay
was $1.26
was due
by Me-

•
ducer,
mine.
A to-percent inereas6 was made in the value of phosphate rock
mined by San Francisoo Chemical Co. at the Vernal unit. The rook
was shipped to Western Phosphates, Inc., at Garfield for processing.
Production of 403,400 tons of sand and gravel in seven operations
(four commercial snd three Government-and-contractor) was used
in building and rood construction. ' The U.S. Army Col]lS of En¢-
neers used 5,871 tons of limestone, quarried by A & B Construction
Co. and Hensen Construction Co., f or riprap.
Gem stolle material--agate Rnd petrified wood-was collected by
Francis Boege! and Wilson's Rock Shop.
Utah.-Nonmetals, consisting of sand and gravel, stone, lime, clays,
and gem stone material (1$ pounds of chrysocolla), oomprised the
entire mineral output. LImestone was quarried by tl16 Columbia-
('nm6vR Steel Division, United States Steel Corp., at the Keigley quarry
principall'l.for use fLS flux... in refractories, and as road metall;~~
Lake&de ime & Stone Co. l or use in dusting coal mines and in rna .
1024 ~ERALS ~BOOK. lRft4

Mining Co. in a joint venture with United Park City lfines Co.
Fluxing ore oontaining gold. silver, and oopper was shipped from the
~~ West dump by Wordey Co. and from the Ontario dump by
~ arland & Hullinger. The values of the gold, silver, copper, and
zinc were lese than in 1963; lead production was higher.
Among the nonmetals, clay (all mi8Cella.neous) output declined.
Producbon was by International Pipe and Ceramidl Corp. for manu-
facturing vitrified sewer til~ Interstate Brick Co. for manufacturing
buil4ingOrie][. and Utelite Corp. for ma1rin2: lightweight aggregate.
Production o( the other nODJ:l)etals, sand ana. grave] and stone. also
declined. The sand and gravel, produced by Wortley Co., was uged
in paving. Sawed sandStone was qUBlTied by Rooky Mountain
Qllarries and miaoollaneoUll stone was produced by a contractor of the
State highwa, department.
rooeIe.-IncrEpsee in the value of nonmetals output IWalted in a
8-parrent rise in the nIne of mineral production. r.im~ the major
mmeral commodity in value of production, increased. QUIcklime and
hydrated lime, manufactured by U.S. Lime, were used in constructionl
dlemieal, &nd other industries.. Utah Marblehead T,ime Co. produeea
dsd·bumed dolomll:6 for use as refractory lime. Leslie Salt Co.,
Solar Salt Co. and Utah Salt Co. produced 9OIar·eva.porated salt from
Grea.t Salt ~e brine. Output was valued at $1.9 million oompared
with $U million in 1963. Bonneville, Ltd., produced potassium salts
at its evaporation plant in
Sil: commercial operators
stone. Crushed . was
trol, flux, and .
dolomite. Dimension
duoed. Marble waa
o~~r:~

(gilsonite,
;~;;j reprtemted

Warren
Wonsiu
Jensen.) Pro-
 THI: IlI NEItAL INOUSTlt y or UTAH
operollors woe~ Mo"~ Knudlm Co .• 11K...
and eontnaon fo r the State highway dr-
pu"aml. The Utcl ile Corp. ncar Pcoo
produced _ of the Iobale io the counlY
for ..... 31 I raw matnial in tn:I.nufaauring
ligbtwcigtlt ' ' '''!p.1n.. Coal was miM<! .t
Ihe underground Chappell mine of Chap-
pell Coal Co.
Thi. counl Y wa. the lite of the ""ry
.ignilicanl decp Dakota 011 discovery by
Phill1p1 Petroleum Co.
T-'".-Inuu~ In the prod uction .... 1·
ue of gold. lead. line. time. and potassium
w~OI end rely offx l by deOTUCS in
lilver. coppe r. clay:s. w i. and .nd gravel.
and 1IoI0nr--l"Qullfd In a '·peKCllI mOt Ie
in lo tal .... Iue of mi""raI production. The
.....jor po,tion of Ihe ...hle of lbc li ve
metall produoed 0 _ from the under·
ground Ophir mine of USSRJeM Co.
(McFarl.nd I: lIuUingcr. leatec). ISl:R re-
rovctfd .ppr«Jable quanti lico of copper.
lead. and zinc from the Tooele cold slag
dump. The rompa.ny allD 1"«Qvetrd all Ii""
~talJ from the I SSeR milt clean up.
Ume. conllnulng "" Ihe major mineral
com modily. inc,euoed 11 pe.....",t In v.lue.
It waa produ«<l. by Ut.ah Marblehead Lime
Co. for \IIIC as ~fnclOry lime and by U.s.
Limt: Division. The riinlkou Co.. for uac
in conll ..... ClIon . dlemlcal. and OIhr-r indu ..
tria. PolaJSium ...11&. n nted x=>d in
productioa value, _~ produced mti~ly
by Bonne'tille Division '1 Wendover. Solar
cvapont.«! ult wao produoed hy Ha rdy
Sal! Co .• I..eIlic SIlt Co. (pu~ by
Hardy SIlt Co. In October). Solar Sa[t Co.•
and Utah SI lt Co.
Limestone. marble. and u nditonc Wrl"C
produ«<l.. The principal !IX for the limr-
IIOTIC was III a refraelory (dolomitt). Some
marble wu uRd in casl'l1one producU and
for tennw; u ndstonc wao used fOl" cui·
110m: a,,'"gate.
U' t+ The wunly w.. ranked lim In
nal un.1 PI and Ktond in cru<lc nilI'.....
duction. Natunl po production. vallO«! at
$S.of million. was S8 pelUtl l of the value 01
the State OU tpu t. Production oi crude pc--
troIo:\Im. "I' sJjgb tly. wao valued at $20.1
million. Ovtrall drilling. with the mmplr-
lion oi 20 dcvelopm~1 woell .. incrc.ascd 56
pe.....",t. Althollgh the number of explon.·
10'1' wrlll was the IWDC .. in 1964. three
o il and two p i weill were djllCO~ctrd . com·
pared wit h live oil and 0"'" gas w" U io
19M . Ont of the nil d i..ocovcricl ap,,"red
very promising! Phillipl Petroleum Co.
No. I R.lver Ju nction Uni l _ II was a.o .
pletetl. pumping 21H ba .....iI of oil prr day
from the Crtt'I"I R.iver formation (Tertiary).
ValU4' of pmducllon of phOlphatt rod
in cre.xcI .8 perotn r.. Increaxd mining and
expa ndon of plant faciliti.,. by San Fran-
cisco Chemlca l Co. near Vernal lIim ulaled
an increase In production . Production of
gillonite dccruxd I. percent in qua ntity
and [ ~ pcreenl in ..[ tIC. Sand and gnvel
WII prod uced chiefly by con tracton and
crew. fOl' Ihe Stale highway department
and by ae .. of the wumy high ...a)' de·
~rlmtn t for ux in pa.~ing. A COntractor
uled ..... dltone as ripnp and ..... d m«a.l
for the National Part; Servia. and mitoel ·
laneow other Iiones u ripnp fo r the fed-
eral Bureau of Public RoadI..
Utah OUtpul of lIone oona itut.«! the
largest percentage of the mintral produc:·
t ion value. Th e 42-perant 0\'cn1l inO"alle
in ~alue. howner. "'.. primarily the rauil
of incn:ascd production of lead. dn e. and
a.ac:l atcd gold and l il ver from t he Bu rJin
Shaft mine of KntntCOIC Copper Corp. Val.
ue of lime pmdoclion inertilXd 42 pcrant .
Outpul of copper. clays. and .. nd and
gn.vel dccrnRd in quant ity and val",,,.
roc .... t of the IIODe (crushed li rncstoa..)
_ p,oduoed hy USS for ..... as a RUI< in
manuf..:turing "ed. The company abo
produced crw.hcd IiIDftIDnC fo r ux in IDDD-
crete and II foundries. Crmhed litnfttonc:
produced by Lakeside Li"", I: Slone Co.
wao uxcl for mal·dust control and in
manuflcturing lime. LimCllone was aiM>
produced for the Siale high ...ay depart-
ment. San d and gravel from II operuio>q.
wn uled ch iefly fo r bllilding construct io n.
Kcnnew " Cop!"" Corp. produced lead·
zine and kad orell f,om the I .OSO·foot Inc(
of Bu rtin Shaft minco Some lonnal" wu
obtaIned from dcftlopmcn t work on the:
I .2OO.fOOl Ic-vcl. The main on: lOne conalst_
ed oi mia tura of , ulfid .. and osidra. The
main haulage co' 'lI1 ex tended 550 f«t
from lhe BUrFo No. 2 production abUI
Ind was to boo cxlcsidrd another 50 fCC"!.
Th" wa ter tahk was Iowacd by pumpi",
below the upper l.,..cI of the on: body. Ap-
prox l m~tely '.000 gallons per min ute wen:
pllmped by Ilainla. stro.l pump" Ihrough
polyvinyl t hlorldc·li ned pi~ bccaux the:
water ...., • IQlding 1-fO" f and contained
 THE IIIINl.RAL tN OU5TIY OF UTAH
~frlCto,.,. in fou .. d rieo, In " Iilt6S. and lu
TOtI'1'-drilling mud •. Fuller·. earth mined
from the wmpany'l AUTOn mine wu UJed
in 6.1Ieri", minnal oIb and nportftl. I,,·
le .... lional Pipe and c..n.mia Corp . and
IlIlernate Britt. Co. minn!. misttlbneoUl
d~1 for ma .. ufacturi .. g building brick.
.sand and IP"vcl fTom ..,"".. nperuions
w:u u.<"d mainly in TOlId and building con·
tl ruCilon.
SIlt produO!<l by R odmond Clay" SIlt
Co. wu UIed chieRy by gow',"nent ....
.... Iinr deicing road!.
See It. Dclpite d«reuu in productinol
of clay a .. d four of the he met.als. toeal
value of minenl OUIPUI increased 14 !"" .
""nt. Iniliation of petrO"'Um productio .. al
Bridger Lau field by Phillip" Petro"'u",
Co. and increases In yield of lead , roal ,
Nnd and IP"vel. and Itone Itimublle<! the
pin . The m UDty _ nlnUd Cleve'l lh U.
lhe State with • 100al production ..Iuoe ot-
$6.2 millioD. Metals, """In Ihe chid «Iura:
01 value. com prised 72 !",rceDt of the tow.
Melall produced In order 01 value we re
linc, lead, oil ""r, (.IIp!",r, and gold; tho
U .. ille<! Park City mineo 01 Unhed Patt
City Mina Co. mpplied the la~t output
o f each . Olher lipilleanl prod uction of
",!d, olio.,.. and coppe r wal h om ,he 0,,·
lario dump of McFarland" Hullinger aotl
the Dal y \Va t min e Ind dump of WOMlq
Co. U" iled Park City Mlnel Co.. in a jolnl
~.ntuTe wilh Keyllon. Mining Co .. pro-
duced the I<:'COfKI targtsi ItIIOUni of lead
and rine!rom the Keyatone mine.
The ...... t valued .. onmet.al .,.. Nnd and
gnlnl , o.ued p rincipally In paring: produ<·
tion IncrnJed I~ !"'lUnt. U tdill! Corp .
nUT Pew. produced lII0I1 of the thale lor
UK ill a n w material in manufacturing
lJghtweight aggupte. The underground
mlDe of Chappell Coal Co. wu the .. u.ce
of ~I in the counlJ.
The mu llly jollied the ..... ts of o il.pro-
ducing """ntiel wben the B~r lite
fi~ld ..... dlJrovcred and dc...,loped. Thia
deep field was roruidered one of llIe 111011
Important disro ~ia In the Roclr.y Mou. ·
tll n region. By yearend, t .... complel«l
wells had fielded 2-'1.000 buteb of oil.
T-,"...-Although increued outpul wu
,epooted fOT ni..., of the . , oommodi tlo.
produced in the coun ly. toni Yal~ <k.
dIned 2 I"" oelll bea UIe of dccn:at«I pro-
duction of potalli um glu by BonflC\'lIl1:.
Ud .• Division, Kaiser Aluminum" Chemi·
787
cal Corp. Leading commod itia In dccr~u·
ing order o f Outpul value weT~ lim~, A lt,
lead, ltollC. rin~. and A nd a nd ,...nl.
Magnaiu .. chlorldr for mqt>Qlum mew
was produocd for the fin t IUDe In U..ab, by
Bonnevilk, Lid.
The county ... nnUd finl in the Slate
in output o f II"", a nd salt ; lime Will pro-
duced hy two companies and Ali by th ree.
Pyrite concentnte was ,hipped from a
IwckpUe by LSlR.
MOIl o f Ih~ gold, Iii...,... copper, lead,
a nd line Clme h .... tbe Oph.lr ~ of
USSRi:M Co. (Mcfarland" H ulll",", leo·
....). Other appT«lable production o f the
metab ClIme from the T (IO(Ie cold·al ag
dump of IS8eR, the Argent mine o f Silver
Eagle Mining Ie Milling Co .. 111(1 the Wa n ·
dering J ew mine of Cutron ElI:plontion
'" .sand and grud &om ti,hl npe"lio:M
..... uxd ..ain ly in pning and hulldlng.
Slone produocd by The FliDlkotc Co.,
Uta h Calcium Co., In c~ and Utah Ma rble·
head Lime Co. Wilt u.s<:d chiefty In the pro·
duclion 0 1 Hme and as l refractory (dolo-
m ill!) .
Sola r..,,,,,,,,,rated ... 11 wu produocd by
Ha rdy Salt Co .. Solar Salt Co~ and Uub
Salt Co. H ardy SIlt Co. conllmeted twO
4l · .cre, salt ·evaporation poodl It lu uu
Point opt"raliot1 : lach 01 the ponili wu 10
yield fro m 20,000 to 25.000 tON of .all an ·
nualty.
U",," Th~ COUnty wu ranked fi lii in
pbonite proclunlon and ICCOIld i .. natural
gas, Dalunl gMOliru:, !"'troIeum, LP pift.
a nd phosphate ·rod. production.
All thcoc commoditi.. had decli .... in
production CltC~p t Mtunl guo ll ne and
ph05phllte rod:. Although total mlnenol
" Ut pu . valu e dccrcaoed by 4 !",reent. to
S29.6 millio .. , the counlY will ra nked third
In the Slate. Al lhough" d«rcaalng In value,
!",lroJ.eum coalinum as lhc leadi", toni·
modity. rcprewnling 66 pe' a:nl of the 10-
tal o UtpUI val ~. Gilsonitc. natural po.
a .. d phOlphate rock followed in order 01
o"tp"l val"e.
Largest decTcasa oc<u rrHi in giL..... ite·
and natu.al gaa. an<.! ..one production.
Phosphllte rock prod UClion val ~ incn:ued
,"b1ta"lially: Nllunl guoI ine production
inCTeased Iligh tly. OUlput of phoiophate
rod came e " lirely fTorn Ihe Vcrn.1 mine 01
So n Fnndaco Chemica l Co.
Explonlo ry drlll illi for oil and PI Te·
 THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF UTAH 719

Tabl~ 7._Vun: Min~ productron of gold, l ilvu, copper, 1,..,11, and Jinc In 1970,
by typeo of mat~r;"l pTOc....ed and m~thods of RCOV~ry, w terllll of ra:overablt metali
Type or mo.UorlaI p ..... UH i
.,.d mothod of """_y

Dl .......... tlna: of_

0<0_ " _. ____ . _. __ _• __ ____ • _______ •
f'recipl"'too ........ ......... .... . .
CloooUp I .d .oi1l_ ........ ..... __
Tm..L _••• ••••• _•• __•••••••••••
.
1 .116

8.832
&I).IM!

1.~79

521,e22 •.W
on
52.I1S, 4 .700

"
4,730
.
I. ~ I~

1.570
G"""d total • _____________ ••••••• _.029 6.029.787 295.7S11 n.377 S4.e88
I I .dud. O<>J><eIIt .... rrom unnlum 0", .
• 0.", may no< add ¥O totalo """010 - . .... otll>doptad .... rOUlldl ....

Gold.--Output of gold, ntuly a11 pm. l.ead.-Lead production from 12 minQ

duc1!d at a byproduct of ~ met.o! orq,
declined (i percent in !970. Value de·
cre..ed 17 perunt beo.ule of lower market
prices. The open.pit «Ipper mine ot
Bingham w at the princi pal gold prodUCfl"
The MayAo ..·cr mine woJ second in gold
production.
Iron Or ..._lron or~ was produc1!d at five
min.s, aU in Iron County. Th~ mines
wet'e as follow", the ComstOCk mine oper·
ated by Utah Const ruction I: Mining Co.
for CnI Sted Corp. (CFI:I); th~ Ikont
Mound mine of United SlattS Slttl Cotp.
(USS); and th e Iron Springs, McCahiU·
T hompson. and Alluvial min,," of Ut.oh
Conotruaion I: Mining Co. Total produc·
tion rose ~ percent, and >-alue inereued 10
percent.
Ores and conCCllU'attl Ihipped during
the year conlained an ave-rage of 5'.11 per.
""nl iron . The iron and Itttl indullry uti·
Ii<ed 99 percent of Ihe total ore and con·
""nlfate shipments. Th~ remaind~r was
used in making cement and paint.
rooe 10 pel""U'. T he leading producen, in
order of output, wet'e the U.s. and La rl<
mine of USSlU:M Co.; Burgin mine. Tin ·
.ic Divi.ion. Ke nn<:eou Copper Corp.;
Mayllo~r mine of H eda Mining Co.;
United Park City minco, Un ited Park Cit¥
MinQ Co.; and the Ophir mine of
USSRJcM Co .. operate<! by McFarland I:
Hullinger. Of the fi,·~ leading producing
mintS only th~ Burgin refHlrted increased
outpu t; production wu double the 1969
rate.
Unit1!d Park City MintS Co. a pproved a
lea.., arrangem~nt with The Anaronda
Company and The Am erican Sme lting and
Relining Company cov .... ing the United
Park City mining property in the Park
City districi. Tbese twO «Impanics. operat.
ing under the name Park City Ventures
are jOint ""'nen of 505 percenl of Unite<!
Park City ,,<>d.Unde-r temu of the 25·
)"~ar lease, P~rk Cily Ventures will spend
at Inst $25 million during the fin l 2
y..... n of the leaoe on explo .... tion and de-
velopment of lead ·li ne·lil.,..,r rest'T\'es in

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,
Figan: 2, ... 'rine produaHm of coppo ill Ulah, by mombo, iII lenni of ra:ol'erabl~ metab.
,
728 MINERALS ff..UJIOO l . 1971
,
~~u:.:!~. _._ ...... _____ .. ___ _
f'>w<b>i _ _• _________ ....... __ ......
TOW ••• • ___ ......... __ • ______
G ..... d "' ...L ____ __ • __ _• • • • • _. _. _. _.
y ... re 2._Mine prodllCtion 01 copper in Utah, by monlh in te ..... oJ
RlI11ined the principal gold producer. Th~
Mayfl~ m ine . operued by Hedo Mi n-
ing Co. of Wallace. lobho. w.o.. ""c:ond in
gold production in the Slate.
Iron Ott.- lron CYIl' wu pmdu cd at
four ~ pit miM:l. all in Iron County :
the D~l Mound mine of United Stat...
Slrd Corp. (USS); the Iron Sprin~ and
McCahill-Thompson alluvial m ineo of
Utah International Inc. (fonnerly Utah
CorutrucliQn &: Mining Co.) : and the
Conalod. mine operated by Utah Interna·
tional for CFld Sleel Corp. TQW produc.
tion declined 16 percent in quantity and
14 percell\ in value.
Oru and COn«nlrale!l , hipped during
the )'f'ar contained an uen.ge 01 53.0 per-
cent iron. The iTOn and lied indunry m i·
!ired 99 perrelli of Ih ~ lot.101 on: and oon·
cenlra\c .hipmenu, a nd th ~ T('tnainder was
U$Cd in making cemnlt and paInt.
Load.-Toul l .... d production fell 16
percen t; th e value of production feU 25
p"lO'Ut. The leading produ"" ... in ",.dOT of
output were Ihe U.s. and Lark mine of
USSR.&. M Co.; Burgin mine, Tintie Divi·
~.
,~,
1M" :zz
' .m
...
1 ,105 :0'/.111
_ 1,806 107, 1 1~
18,Z'lO 25,101
recoYaa~ metal&.
sion, Kennecott Copper Corp.; Mayfl_a
mine 01 Hecla Mining Co,; Ophir Hill
mine of USSRllcM Co., op"nled by Me·
Fa rb od " H ullinger; and United Part.
City Min ... United Park City Min .. Co.
On N""ember 5, a .uboidiary of The
Anaconda Company. announced that the
\cad . meher at T ooele would be cI.-d a t
y.... ,..n<l. Th e T ooele pla nt ~gan opuat"''''
as a copper . ... ell .... iu 1910. Faciliti .. 101'
.mehing \cad ore and roncentnte wuc
.tarled in 1912. Copper ._Iting n1ded in
1946. S. . ..... I of the lead oper.tions de·
pende" , on Ihe T ooe\c . ... eher WCTe also
forced to clooe. On Nowmber II , US5R1oM
Co. .nnounced plan. to close Ihe IClld·zinc
mine at Lark and the fIoGltion plant II
Midvale; production ceailCd in December a l
the Ophir HHI mine at Ophir. owned. by
USSRioM Co. and operated by McF.rland
.nd Hullinger, a leui ng pntnmhip.
Manganil~ ~.-ProdUClion of man·
ganiittolUl ote (0<'<': conlaining 5 per'
cent Or more manp"",,", natunl) wao aU
from the Burgin mine, Tintk Diyi.ion,
Kenne<:OCt Gower Coo"p. in Utah County.