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Show - UTAH COPPER X WILL ELECTRIFY ; Increasing Output and May j Electrify Road and Ore Loading Machinery ' J Production at the Utah Cop-"T Cop-"T per company's properties is being be-ing constantly increased and it . 1 is safe to predict that the com-) com-) pany will begin to get back to ? its normal tonnage by midsum-4 midsum-4 mer tne copper market re-; re-; mains as favorable as it is at ' ; 1 the present time. There are V f over sixteen shovels now in op-feration op-feration removing the red metal I for the concentrating plants at ; Magna and Arthur and much overtime work is being done to ' supply the mills. T The going forward and preparedness pre-paredness policy of the Utah Copper company is again empha sized by the impending purchase pur-chase of two electric shovels by the company as the preliminary step toward the final and com- plete electrification of the property. prop-erty. It is reported that when ; completed the company will ' have a total of twenty-two electric elec-tric shovels at work "on the hill." Not all of these will be new machines, the plan being to remove the boilers from steam shovels and to install motors. This work will be done gradual-ly gradual-ly by the company, starting as soon as the purchase and delivery de-livery of the two machines now contemplated is completed. The estimated cost of the electrification is approximately $500,000 this representing however, how-ever, only one item of the general gen-eral plan which is being followed follow-ed by . the company to have its plant in the most modern condition con-dition so that every advantage may be taken of the copper market mar-ket when in the judgment of U,.,w - the officials it -is "right" -Recent rumors that the Utah Copper company was negotiating negotiat-ing with the Utah Power and Light company for a very much extended power contract are verified by the detail of the proposal pro-posal for complete electrification, electrifica-tion, it being said that the Contract Con-tract with the power company has now been concluded. The improvement plans of the company for the installation installa-tion of the floation process ,at the Magna mills and the general gener-al rehabilitation and modernization moderni-zation of that plant are going forward daily. While there has been no material ma-terial increase in the working forces or the output of the company there is Bhown a gradual grad-ual increase in accord with the continually improving copper conditions as reported from the Eastern markets. L. S. Cates, general manager of the Utah Copper company, left for San Francisco where he will be in conference during the coming week with D. C. Jack-ling. |