Show UTAH COPPER IS RAISING OUTPUT Building New Railroad Is In InLine InLine InLine Line With Large Increase Promised Preparations for the building or of an in dependent line of ot railroad from the Bins Bing ham hara mines to the Garfield mills is 1 in inline line with the announcement made by W V B Thompson one une of th directors of or the Utah Copper company when he was In this city two weeks we ks ago that the Joint capacity of the mills would within another year be Increased from about tons dally the amount of ore now flow handled when transportation is af forded to tons a day The Rio Grande Railway company has his been slow unnecessarily slow it would Betm In providing the th transportation fa fac a c which the Utah Coppers enor enormous enormous enormous operations call for Eastern officials offIcials rals of the railroad company apparent apparently ly have failed ailed to appreciate what those operations mean they have hav seemed to ta top t tp I p discount the mining com corn statements of or Its needs The rail railroad railroad road toad except for brief intervals when all conditions were favorable has from tho first failed to deliver the ore ton tonnage tonnagE tonnage nage required although it is certain the tha Rio Grande has no other like mileage of track which compares In earnings with that between Bingham and Garfield Those who have read General Manager D C annual reports of Utah Coppers affairs will remember that he at atthe atthe atthe the outset favored the build buildIng buildIng Ing lug Us Its own line of railroad from the tho mina mino to the mills He gave Up that idea for tor the time being only upon the most ab nb abB B lute promise of th railroad people that they would take care of the traffic Called Attention to Need But Bat th promise was not kept In suc sue successive c reports has hos the manager called attention to th tl deficiency and to the ad nd of or his Is at least ar arranging arranging arranging ranging for auxiliary service the last an annual annual nual report having stated explicitly that unless certain conditions were fulfilled Within a reasonable length of time steps would be taken to provide additional transportation tra facilities The Rio Grande Grandc company during the thelast thelast thelast last few months has increased itt its it fa facilities a duties to the end that during luring February F and nd March ore has hes been delivered at th Garfield mills In about the quantities re but it was after several months of or shortage which was wes enormously ex x pe to the Utah Copper company And It Is likely that the plans for building a n nw w line of railroad by an Independent Independent Independent dent company are the result of unmistakable unmistakable unmistakable evidence that the new demand to be 11 made by a 66 per cent Increase of the th mill capacity will not be met in any other way wa Cutting down the tonnage which works like those of Utah Copper are prepared to bandle handle cuts cuLl earnings In two ways reducing the output and Increasing tha th cost per pound of production A striking object ct lesson of or this will be ba provided when hen the record re ord of Utah Coppers Coppes production Von tion for the quarter Just ended ende Is avail available able January production was cut short by of or ore ai 01 a the mills Feb Februarys Februarys Februarys production with nearly nearl complete delivery was back to normal and the production of March will open the eyes of the world as to what the porphyries rles are capable of or doing |