Show UTAH COPPER PLANT IS CLOSED BY BIG STORM Four FOll Thousand Men en Idle and wid lIu Daily Dally Production Loss Caused b by First Suspension o of Sort in Years Other Plants Also Suffer I Forn thousand men were thrown out of work worl and the daily production of GOO pounds of or O ore has been checked l at al the Utah nah Copper company company's s sr J r plant lant bv by y the snowstorm which hid has Juas tripped ripped Utah Lh for the tIle past l five t days This is the the first tine time in ten years Us U's that the mine l rune railroad laud hind concentrator plums have ho been compelled to do dose close c down on account of inclement weather The flowing closing of ut the plants plains r pr nu of a 1 dally lo bits 8 to 10 the tho company The trouble oame first in the lie movement of or the railroad trains drifts drift from ruin the unprecedented December er snowstorm piling up two twenty-two ft t. feet ct t in places This suspension of oC the movement 1110 of ur the lie Bingham and Gartl Garfield J trains and the tho stoppage of ot the thc ore ero 10 trains of the D Denver Denver Den Den- ncr n- n ver cr C KIo Itlo Grande Grandy made mati It Imperative that nil all of oC this the twenty big shovels sho be e halted i Tilt the failure of the lon long ore train rains to 10 toi i reach each the th Arthur J and anti mills at Garfield finally c caused this th down lown of or these Ise monster r mills mill t The da day the mine mille finally gave n e neIta lip up It had handled thirty four carloa 9 or of ore only or 2000 tons compared w with Ith a i nor normal I lion mal of or tons a 11 Ja day However a a. a large larRe force of ot men la is now at work worl digging digging dig dig- Kin ging out the railroad cuts luh An it the storm torm seemed to be abating yesterday afternoon It Is IN expected tint the tho or ore i trains twill begin moving 1110 toila today It will twill take take- I a few days daa t to get the hn twenty big shovels 18 In shape e to clear r the levels Ic up th the moun mountainside where t they It are operating oper oper- sting atilt and to have the two mills mill back at nt normal It IK is tint that inc the cost COt of ot removing the drift snow from front the railroad cuts cut will reach S At u th the Utah Consolidated most of or the flue theore ore 1 is I handled II by lh the tramway ay over the Oquirrh range ran to the j 1 smelter Th Thu Tho m had 11 been n tr celebrating cel cel- the holidays and th the lie expectation expectation tion Is to have ht the HII mine operating near I normal h by the middle of ot the week Tho rho ham Ung-ham Mine Mims lin o Utah Metal A k Tunnel and oth other r mines wore crippled somes somewhat hat h by the lie lu heavy Y snowfall snowfall snow snow- fall but aru are expected lu to be Le operating near lIlar capacity b by the last at of oC the week ill All the mines had been een closed cloned down for three or 01 four days aYK for the tho Christmas festivities and most meat of or thornoil thorn theta oil on li the west side bide will be moving mo somo some ore or ur directly The Knight railroad Ion on the south and anti east side hIe is tied up for several days and anal this will twill affect a t th thIron tIt the theiron Iron Blossom om Dragon anti and other Knight ht mines minei The Eagle la le Blue Bell resumed operations yesterday following Its holIday holiday hol hol- hIl iday layoff The hel heavy fall tall of or anew has i tJ tied led d up both hoth the BI Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood mines temporarily |