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Stock Code UCC1917 |
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Certificate number 4559, dated 30th November 1917, for 100 shares of capital
stock in this copper mining company.
Issued to the trustees of Charles J Paine, with the actual
handwritten signatures of N J Russell, Vice-President, and A L Herklotz,
Assistant Secretary of the company. Vignette of underground mining scene at top of the
certificate. Ornate green border.
Certificate size is 18 cm high x 27 cm wide.
A perfect personalised
gift for someone who:
- works or worked in the
mining industry or
- has the surname Paine,
Russell or Herklotz
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About This
Company
In 1903
Daniel Jackling and Enos Wall established the Utah Copper Company. The
company immediately constructed a 300-tons-per-day (TPD) gravity pilot mill
at Copperton. By 1905 Jackling had persuaded Guggenheim Exploration to
underwrite a $3,000,000 bond and purchase $500,000 of Utah Copper stock.
This helped to set the stage for the first open-pit mining in Bingham
Canyon. In 1906 steam-shovel operations began, with steam locomotive trains
removing material from the canyon. Also that year, Kennecott Mines Company,
named (although with altered spelling) for explorer and naturalist Robert
Kennicott, was organized in Alaska by Stephen Birch, and the American
Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) started the Garfield Smelter to
process Bingham ores.
Construction of the
Bingham and Garfield Railroad commenced in 1907 to transport ores from
Bingham to the Magna and Arthur mills at the northern base of the Oquirrh
Mountains. Utah Copper's Magna mill, a 6,000-tpd operation, started in 1907,
while Boston Consolidated's 3,000-tpd Arthur mill opened in 1909. In 1910
Boston Consolidated merged into Utah Copper Company.
Beginning at the turn of
the century, a large influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
and from Japan arrived in Utah to provide needed labor for the mining
industry. In 1912 the Western Federation of Miners sought union recognition
and, supported by a large contingent of immigrant laborers, struck Utah
Copper Company. The strike did not win union recognition but did oust
Leonidas Skliris, the dominant Greek labor agent, from power.
In 1915 Kennecott Copper
Corporation acquired twenty-five percent interest in Utah Copper Company.
Also in 1915, ASARCO and Utah Copper jointly constructed the first acid
treatment plant to control sulfur dioxide emissions at the Garfield smelter.
During the years 1918 to 1922, froth flotation gradually replaced gravity
separation at the Magna and Arthur mills. Electric-shovel operations began
at Bingham in 1923, and by 1928 mining operations became increasingly
electrical with the introduction of electric locomotive trains.
As the worldwide Great
Depression hit in 1929, Utah Copper constructed a precipitate plant at the
mouth of Bingham Canyon. In 1936 Kennecott acquired all the property and
assets of the Utah Copper Company.
Source: www.onlineutah.com |
