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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 COPPEB, 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 acconmiodate the workers in the Gar- 



