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tons of material is being handled daily, of which 38,000 tons is cap 
rock and 22,000 tons ore. 
As seen from the station of the Bingham & Garfield Railway 
the canyon resembles a fairy scene. Here and there on the mountain 
side gnomes and dwarfs are digging their way along its front. Puffs 
of steam show the location of tiny steam shovels laboring away to 
peri and lead ores to difficult sulphides 
ing specks of 
e that constitutes the 
the oe er ore mined at the 
Sites tr tim 
The saeniiiadt of the ore has kept 
pace with discovery, Ra adually de- 
veloping from the panning of placer 
gold and the saad) on and cya- 
nidation of gold and silver ores to the 
value of over $1,500,000, and there was 
a be consolidation of cared 
in order to effect economy i 
Patio on, and the building of thie 
paiitiee plants to treat these ores 
began 
-In 1902 the United States Smelting & 
g Co. constructed a 
ant was 
by the Bingham Copper & 
re t 
built near Murray. Both these plants 
operated for years but were afterward 
dismantled, Ore from the Yampa mine 
was treated in a copper plant in the 
eanyon below the town. e American 
in Refining Co.’s lead plant 
at Murray, with eight blast furnaces, 
was erected in 1901; it had much to 
do with the exploitation of lead ores 
There have been sev- 
lead-zine ore is now shipp 
a maze of underground workings, miles 
extent. Without a map or guide 
traveling in the tunnels is dangerous. 
Some years ago a Mexican eriminal, 
by his knowledge of the workings of 
the Apex mine, succeeded in eluding 
How he got out and where he went is 
one of the mysteries of Bingham. 
In 1905 the 21 mines in operation pro- 
duced more than a million tons of ore, 
which was valued at nearly $10,000,000 
necessary to 
to use draneportution tunnels or aerial 
tramways. Several tramways jead 
down the canyon or e crest of 
er 
| the range to the Scant smelter 
at Tooele (too-ell’y), which in October. 
1916, was treating 1,200 tons of copper 
charge and 1,500 tons of lead charge 
aily. 
Although the ores mentioned have 
played an important part in the past 
development of Bingham, they are now 
of less relative value, for the great 
trating, and smelting of copper ore, 
which averages about 1.5 per cent of 
