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Title: A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Colborn, Edward Fenton 1854-1926
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Publisher: Denver, Colo: Passenger Dept. of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad,
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Arthur Mill, Utah Copper Company, Garfield, Utah. A GLIMPSE O F UTAH page forty Here are located the American Smelter, and the Magna and Arthurplants of the Utah Copper Company, representing an aggregate costof $12,000,000, and here may be seen any day an exhibition ofmodern ore treatment upon a scale as colossal as any in the world.Ores for these plants come largely from Bingham over a branch ofthe Rio Grande Railroad, and for the smelter from all over themining West. Beyond Garfield seven miles from Tooele City, the Inter-national Smelting & Refining Company has recently placed in opera-
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Copper Smelting Plant, American Smelter Securities Company, Garfield, Utah. tion a plant for copper and lead production which is, according to arepresentative of the company, the most modern and best smeltingplant ever installed anywhere. The cost of the plant, which in-cludes a railroad seven miles long, has run into the millions of dol-lars. This plant is in competition with the American Smelter atGarfield and will draw on all the inter-mountain region for ores. A GLIMPSE O F UTAH page forty-one Utah treats practically all of her own ores and a vast tonnagefrom neighboring states, especially from Nevada, where discoveriesfollow fast upon each other and values of amazing richness areconstantly being disclosed. As the years go on and capital and invention combine to pro-duce bullion by more simple and economical methods, the miningof low-grade ores is facilitated, and rock that once was cast asidefor its poverty has now become the very corner-stone of Utahsmining industry.

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