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riot of color on the mountain sides, the dwarf maples showing great 
streaks and splotches of the most vivid scarlet and the aspens rivaling 
them with a blaze of yellow. 
The ores mined at Park City carry silver, gold, lead, zinc, and 
copper. At the end of 1920 the camp had produced 142,490,000 
ounces of silver, gold valued at $4,603,000, 661,000 tons of lead, 
37,000 tons of zinc, and 17,000 tons of copper. This was marketed 
for over $183,800,000. The ore occurs as vein fillings or in bedded 
layers in the sandstone and limestone of the Carboniferous system. 
BINGHAM, THE GREAT COPPER CAMP. 
A visit to Bingham can hardly fail to interest the traveler, for 
almost everyone enjoys seeing the wonderful things man is accom- 
plishing, even though he may not be interested in them financially or 
professionally, and nothing more spectacular than the mining in 
Bingham Gulch can be imagined. In a visit to most mining districts 
the traveler actually sees little of real interest. He may be told that 
this or that mine has produced so many millions of dollars, but great 
dump heaps and mine buildings are about all he sees, and he gen- 
erally leaves the camp with a very hazy idea of what actually takes 
place in the mine, for he can not see the work that is being done; but 
in Bingham it is different. Here he can see the work actually in 
progress, and he can almost watch the movement of the ore from the 
time it is gathered up by the giant steam shovels until it is delivered 
to the smelter. It is a wonderful sight that can be rivaled only at 
some of the great iron-ore mines of Minnesota. 
In order to reach Bingham the traveler has the choice of three 
routes: He may go by train on the Denver & Rio Grande Western 
Railroad or the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, or he may go 
by automobile stage or private conveyance. As the camp should be 
approached by the route that will give the best view with the least 
effort, for the sake of first impressions, the writer would recommend 
that the traveler take the Los Angeles & Salt Lake route, and then 
he may return if he wishes by any other of the routes mentioned. 
In going to Bingham by way of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail- 
road the traveler goes to Garfield on the main line toward Los 
Angeles. In this part of his journey he has a good opportunity to 
see the great flat plain at about the level of the lake, which stretches 
from Salt Lake City to Garfield, a distance of 15 miles. Near Gar- 
field he may see on the north (right) the pavilion at Saltair and 
some of the salt-manufacturing plants in the vicinity, but they are 
so far away that he may not be able to distinguish details. He 
sees little or nothing of the lake, for it is far to the north. The 
town of Garfield was built to accommodate the workers in the Gar- 
