. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . Smelting and Ore Reduction THE milling and smelting of ore has kept step in Utah withthe march of her mining development. From a few littleplants of ten years ago, the industry has grown until mam-moth concerns costing many million dollars are in opera-tion, and Salt Lake has become one of the largest ore reduction cen-ters of the world. The most notable smelters are: The Americanplants at Garfield and Murray, the Utah Con., Yampa, UnitedStates, the Independent at Ogden, the Knight at Tintic and theMajes
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . Smelting and Ore Reduction THE milling and smelting of ore has kept step in Utah withthe march of her mining development. From a few littleplants of ten years ago, the industry has grown until mam-moth concerns costing many million dollars are in opera-tion, and Salt Lake has become one of the largest ore reduction cen-ters of the world. The most notable smelters are: The Americanplants at Garfield and Murray, the Utah Con., Yampa, UnitedStates, the Independent at Ogden, the Knight at Tintic and theMajestic in Beaver County. The principal reduction mills are: The Utah Copper and BostonConsolidated at Garfield, the Newhouse at Newhouse, the GoldenGate, Sacramento, and Boston-Sunshine at Mercur, and the Daly-West and Silver King at Park City. The model smelting town of Garfield at the base of the OquirrhRange, just west of Salt Lake, isa center of activity. Here the. Utah Copper Mine, at Bingham, Utah. A GLIMPSE OF U 7 A H page forty American Copper Smelter, which cost 5?ooo,ooo, and the Utah Cop-per and Boston Consolidated concentration mills, which cost about$6,000,000, are located, and here may be seen any day, an exhibi-tion of modern ore treatment upon a scale as colossal as any in theworld. Ores for these plants come largely from Bingham over abranch of the Rio Grande Railroad, and for the smelter from allover the mining west. Beyond Garfield seven miles from Tooele City, the Inter-National Smelting and Refining Company, recently organized in
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