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The town of Bingham may be as interesting to the traveler as the 
great mines that give it life. 
Through force of circumstances it is 
a one-street town, and this street winds and twists with the winding 
and twisting of the narrow canyon. The street is so narrow that 
the traffic is accommodated with difficulty. By patience teams and 
wagons are maneuvered so as to allow automobiles to pass, but even 
these autocrats of the highway are sometimes involved in an almost 
hopeless tangle. 
Residences have been built wherever there was 
space; if this space was on level ground so much the better, but it 
plants of this character, it is built on a 
an angle and partly covered with riffles 
or strips of wood. machine is 
agitated the debtes earries the lighter 
m ial ov 
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site of this principle, ah re heavy. 
Experiments with flotation are going 
on at Magna and Arthur, and if this 
system is used in conjunction with wet 
concentration the saving from losses 
in tailing will probably be increased 
t 
,000 to a 
If flotation can 
make a better saving on the sulphide 
ore and the leaching process can be 
used in treating the oxidized portion 
the future will be bright, especially as 
is 25 cents a pound ore is worth over 
$4 a ton at the present rate of saving, 
and all costs of mining and treatment 
are less than 
The great work of mining may be 
observed from the station of the Bing- 
m & Garfield Railroad. In the view 
Stig south, as shown in Plate XCV, 
B, the Denver & Rio Grande Western 
oad circle the hills on several levels. 
can be seen to better advantage if one 
walks along the main canyon. The ore 
body is about a mile in lengt 
shovels (Pl. XCV, B) operate on a 
great many levels, from the base of the 
hill up to the very summit, where the 
the old Jordan mine. 
the steam shovel lifts 4 tons of the 
ore into cars. The mining, handling, 
and concentrating on a large scale by 
the Utah Copper Co. of this great mass 
of low-grade ore, which for a long time 
was considered too poor to be of value, 
has revolutionized Bingham. The out- 
put of the Utah Copper Co. has grown 
rom 3,000,000 pounds of copper in 1903 
