Show The Story of LiT 1 e d R ftc J W i i's s 's Copper going to war All records were br broken ken ng ing copper for the war effort effort at Garfield In ln treat treat- Editor Not This Thi b is the of ot a erot er lerka Berle of ot eight ankle ule titled The Tho Story ol ot Garfield When tho the cakes of blister copper are loaded onto railroad cars at the Garfield plant this is by no means the end of the Industry created by this metal t. t The blister copper Is then shipped to copper refineries that are located in or near large centers of Lion tion and consumption Large copper cop cop- per refineries in the United States are situated at Baltimore Maryland Mary Mary- land Tacoma Washington Great Creat Falls Montana Laurel lilli 1111 long Island bland El EI Paso Texas and Perth Amboy New Jersey Copper used in the electrical in in the brass and bronze in and for tor roofs water pipes etc must be pure and and therefore the blister copper produced at the Utah smelters must be further re re- fined to remove the precious metals and before it can ran be used in the thousand thousand one and one articles which we wesee wesee wesee see and use every day Since Pearl Harbor virtually every every ev ev- ery cry pound of copper has been diverted di di- to war use or to industries vital to the war effort Copper Is known as the war metal due to Its manifold uses in the shells and Implements of modern warfare There is no ho substitute for tor the red metal in many of its war functions During 1943 when the armament demands rose to new heights in preparation for the European Invasion invasion in In- invasion in- in and the world-wide world offensive of the Allied nations the production tion of copper in Utah broke all previous records In history Utah's mines and smelters responded mag mag- to the call for tor copper producing for tor our nation more than twice the peace time record The seventh article of at this series willbe will willbe willbe be published later in these col col- columns |