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Show Utah Copper Tonnage Equals 1929 Output Wage Of Day Worker Given Boost On March 1 On March 1 day wage employees of the Utah Copper company received receiv-ed a 25 cent pay boost. This makes a total of 75 cents the day wage employees of this company have received re-ceived since September 1, 1936. The last previous raise was made January Janu-ary 1, amounting to 25 cents. During the past few weeks two new four and one-half yard capacity capaci-ty Marion shovels have been added to equipment of the Copper company. com-pany. Six new electric locomotives out of an order of 12 have arrived and have been put in use on the hill. The other six are expected to arrive shortly. At present the average tonnage of ore from the Utah Copper amounts to approximately 60,000 tons daily. This figure represents the maximum tonnage produced and equals the 1929 production. During the past week the Utah Construction company has been io-lining io-lining the D line tunnel that was u,, nnf in .Tammrv Three shifts w. V - of approximately 50 men are employed em-ployed at this work and it is expected ex-pected that it will be completed by the middle of April. This tunnel is used to transport waste to the waste dumps.'' |