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Show UTAH'S ORE RESERVES FALL TO DANGERLINE I f . . . S -J k . hf-:-z . - ' - - . . --.' f l " - - . i r ' . !, '4 " A I. -. , ' v - JLr ' - - v Scenes like this men and machinery tunneling through rock to find ore is paramount need in Utah today. j I Probably at no time since early history has the ore reserves of the underground mines of Utah been lower than they are today, as a result of tile patriotic policies adopted throughout the producing mines of this state. Exploration work has been neglected neg-lected in favor of production in an effort to keep the war machine of the United Nations functioning. Shortly after the war broke out the mines lost men to the armed services ser-vices and to war industries established estab-lished in Utah which were in a position to offer much higher wages. Mine operators were faced with two alternatives, sacrificing production produc-tion in favor of development work, or sacrificing development work in favor of production. Naturally they turned almost entirely to production produc-tion with the limited crews that remained. As a result 1942 saw much of the blocked out ores in Utah's underground under-ground mines fed into the war machine. These ores are gone and more must be found to replace them. Months and months of systematic sys-tematic work will be required to place the producers on a normal operating basis again. Some relief was granted to the mines when the army furloughed 4000 former miners to return to their former occupation. Utah mines received approximately 1000 of these workers, but still more could be used to insure metals for the future needs of the war program. |