Home Brew k :: - - ;: f; The Weekly Ravings I of Y Editor J As we enter the new year, pxac-! pxac-! tically all of us in Bingham feel " that 1938 will be a year of greater r activity and prosperity for all. With our mines keeping up production, employment will continue to in-r in-r crease and local business should i ' benefit. I. A live-wire community- is one that possesses prosperous business institutions. We would all like to have Bingham listed in the category of progressive towns. In our opinion, the best way to accomplish this is to keep as much of our money in our own community as possible. O 1 The man or woman who feels that 2 he or she must run to Salt Lake I City every time they need a pair fi of box or a spool of thread, is ho i asset to Bingham and we are sorry to say that there are many folgs just like that here. : . O The following Hem is taken from a book published by the (Bingham I Chamber of Commerce in 1909: "In the early days Bingham was f ' a lumber camp. The hills were then r- ; covered with timber and it is said r that the first saw mill in the state E. was erected near the mouth of the I , canyon. Gold was discovered in the I latter fifties and for a score of years placer mining was the chief industry, in-dustry, although considerable lead and silver were mined. It was not until the end of the past century that men began to see the possibilities possibili-ties of the camp as a copper pro-t pro-t ducer. Less than 15 years ago ,v ' (probably 1898) the first copper ore f- was shipped from the camp and in tbis short time it has become the ' greatest low grade copper producer on earth. The hills are heavily J mineralized, the ore averaging from , : 1 to 4 per cent and there is no end to the immense copper deposits. The t ore is as everlasting as the hills and -v bo long as there is demand for a single ounce of copper' the camp ; will endure." "Bingham will be producing cop-. cop-. per when every other camp has t i passed into oblivion. Copper min- 'l ing here is no longer a prospect, it t" is a cold-blooded business proposi tion. The industry has been mas- tered in Scientific detail. Millions of tons of ore are in sight. The human hu-man mind cannot fathom what vast quantities of the red metal lie beyond and underneath the ore already al-ready blocked out. The ore lies high and is easily recovered whether by' tunneling underground or by steam shovels on the surface. The main problems which have con-fronted con-fronted the engineers are transporting transport-ing and reducing the ore. Already these have been mastered to such a v nicety that copper can be produced here at a lower figure than any other camp in existence, and each - year increased facilities for trans portation and improved methods and appliances for the mills and smelters will still reduce the cost of production. "Bingham, even in its youth, weathered the financial flurry of a tfew years ago and forged steadily head producing the red metal when practically every other camp in the country was forced to shut down. This tells the story of its accomplishments ac-complishments at a time when it was really in its development stage. Now it has entered into an era of production and, judging the future by the past no words can exaggerate exagger-ate the untold wonders in store for the camp. Surely, there are big days ahead fort Bingham." O We don't know who wrote the above article, but the writer must have known and loved Bingham . well. His words are just as true to day as they were 28 years ago. O "New Deal spokesmen are trying to impress the American people that relief for our all too many unfortunate un-fortunate unemployed would not be possible if it were not for the bene-f. bene-f. licence of this Administration. This is repugnant to every italr-miinded American. It is being deeply resented. re-sented. Still deeper resentment is felt over the fact that the (Roosevelt (Roose-velt Administration is also attempting at-tempting to use the relief money, which is the property of every taxpayer, tax-payer, to try to keep itself in political poli-tical office." Chester C. Bolton, Chairman National Republican Congressional Con-gressional Committee. O Col. Lindberg and his family have taken up a temporary abode in England. Eng-land. Few will be inclined to blame them. It would be an injustice in-justice to the Colonel to state that he is simply peeved because Mr. Hauptmann has not been electro-. electro-. cuted promptly enough. The 6 tress of the past few years has been great Mr. Lindbergh's prominence, the proximity of the scene of his sorrow and torture, and the efforts of cranks who buzz around a murder mur-der have not lessened the tension. 1 (Lindbergh has not lived long, but during his brief life-span he has ac complished what may be considered k 1 :r i a complete fulfillment of his duties to the public. If he sees fit to flee from a personal woe and search or a haven of peace, that is his own business. It is better that he should slip away and catch up the threads of a broken life, while youth remains, re-mains, than that he should tarry here and move on tq an embittered old age.