Show UTAH COPPER AND ANACONDA COPPER EACH ANNOUNCE RAISE IN WAGE SCALE on oil the first of the month L S cates general 6 manager of the utah copper company announced that an all advance in the wage scale of the company that it is estimated will mean about monthly to the approximately employed emp loyes at bingham garfield and magna the raise amounting to a day for all men then receiving 4 a day and over and a day for men receiving less than 4 came as a result of the recent increase in the price of copper to 15 cents a pound the highest market price attained in three years wa wages g es of employed emp loyes of other mining 6 companies were not lot affected as they were not cut when copper dropped to around 13 cents a pound in 1923 the base scale of other miners still are at the wartime peak established in 1923 simultaneously with the action taken 1 by utah copper canie came the following announcement from the anaconda copper mining lining company from headquarters at butte effective as of october 1st alst 1928 and until further notice the wages of all employ employed emp loyes es upon the daily payroll will be advanced fifty cents a day over the present scale miners contract prices will be adjusted proportionally the above increase shall remain effective so long as the average dome domestic price of electrolytic copper as quoted by the engineering mining journal shall average fifteen cents a pound or more for the calender month in the event that the price of electrolytic copper as aloe ove specified averages less than fifteen cents a pound for r a full calendar month the scale will effective the first of the following month be reduced by a like amount of fifty ty cents per day this announcement applies to the butte itte mines and to the smelters shelters sm elters and refi refineries nerie of the ana conda acla copper at great falls other operators in the district agreed to the above scale ale which makes miners wages per day phenomena seem to be electrical in nature and presumably should be classed as physical rather than chemical As has already been stated however it is is difficult to draw a sharp line between the two types of reactions it must be said also that there is no strict classification of flotation reagents many of them perform several functions to a greater or less extent the object of the flotation operator is to select in each case the combination of reagents that will produce the best results sometimes the flotation effect of a given chemical is considerably modified by the presence of another used for a different purpose there is still much to be learned about flotation and much of its future progress will doubtless be the result of blind experiment but it can be said with considerable assurance that the art now rests upon a solid scientific foundation as much so probably as in the case of others that have existed for a considerably consider considerably abl y longer period of time |