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Identifier: transactionsmining36amer (find matches)
Title: Transactions
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Subjects: Mineral industries
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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present output, lie within a single square mile.Bingham canyon with its tributaries drains the central andmore important portions. The slopes present a very rugged, 1 The complete report, Professional Paper No. 38, IT. S. Geological Survey (1905),with maps, sections and illustrations, may be obtained free upon request to theDirector U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. GENESIS OF THE ORE-DEPOSITS AT BINGHAM, UTAH. 543 scantily-vegetated surface that rises precipitously from narrowpartly-graded bottoms to steep ledgy divides. Bingham precinct, including the principal settlement scat-tered along the bottom of Lower Bingham canyon and severalsmaller settlements which have grown up about the largermines, has a population of about 2,000 (1,872, Census of 1900).Railroad connection with the trunk-line of the Rio GrandeWestern Railroad at Bingham Junction (11 miles south ofSalt Lake City) is by a branch line 14 miles in length. The region as a whole is poorly watered. In this immediate
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Fig. 1. —Map Showing Situation of the Bingham Mining District. section, only the main canyons and their larger tributariescarry water. A few good springs are known, though in thevicinity of the mining-regions the main sources of water-supplyare subterranean courses tapped by underground workings. Vegetation is relatively sparse. Sagebrush (artemisia) is theprevailing growth on the lower slopes adjoining the deserts.Scrub oak with an occasional cactus plant (puntia vulgaris), ju-niper, spruces and some pine characterize the middle eleva-tions; and mountain mahogany, certain grasses, and Alpinevarieties of wild flowers alone inhabit the higher peaks. The present topography of the Bingham region is composite. 544 GENESIS OF THE ORE-DEPOSITS AT BINGHAM, UTAH. It indicates that it has been produced during several distinctperiods. The prevailing areas are fairly-graded middle slopesor uplands. Above them rise ledgy ungraded peaks along themain divides; and below, these middle slopes fall

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