Mining Interests in Utah
Just prior to the tumultuous events of 1907, Heinze’s interests had turned to the mines of Bingham Canyon, south-west of Salt Lake City, Utah. Heinze purchased a controlling interest in the Bingham Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company and the Ohio Copper Company. Unfortunately while Heinze fought his many charges in the courts, the operations struggled for funding and Heinze’s involvement in Utah eventually proved to be more as an impediment than as a saviour.
The mining operation and mills of all the companies at Bingham were located in the narrow Bingham Canyon, including Ohio’s small 150 ton/day Winnamuck mill. The story went that the canyon was so narrow that for a dog to wag his tail in the canyon the dog had to wag it up and down, not side to side.
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