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Show TELLS GF COPPER I IffiJF PERU I Louis Seckels Returns From '9 thc Famous Cerro de ' :H Pasco. f JH OTHER SALT LAKERS 3 jfl IN POSITIONS THERE Company, He Declares, Has i l Done More for Pern Than jfl Anything Else. jfl Louis Seckels, Sr., for tho past five ifl years agent of tho Ccrro Do Pasco "1 IH Mining and Railway company at Lima, i H Peru, arrived at his home, "l076 First jj H avenue, Tuesday evening. This Is his ill first visit homo in two and a half I jH He speaks with enthusiasm of the ad 11 vantages found in Peru, especially In I'l the copper mining industry. The Ocrro TtH Do Pasco mine has thc largest coppci 'ill deposits known in South America, ox- ; 'i H tending over a great expanse- of coun ' ' try. The mines were originally worked ' H somo 300 years ago by the Spaniards for thc silver ore found near the sur- j H face. Thc working of thc Spaniards extended to between 250 and -100 feet ' f iu depth. riH Several well-known Utah men nrc con H ncctcd with tho mines. 1?. II. Channing, H Jr., formerly manager of sonic of tho t largest coppor mines in Utah, is gcn ! H cral manager of tho Ccrro Dc Pascc 11 company, and among hi assistants nrc i F. W. MacLeunan," superintendent ot 1 1 il tho mines. S. J. Gormley, formerly v.-itb H the Bingham Copper company, superin- tondent of tho smelter; II. S. Kerr, for. ' H morly superintendent of the Sanpott . .Valley railroad, is superintendent of M tho Cerro Do Pasco railroads, and only . ! a few months ago moved his family fl JH from the States to Pern. j M "Our compaivy is producing over 100G ' fl tons of pig copper a month,'1' said Mr. til Scckcjs, "and wo are increasing the H capacity continually. This American H company has done more for Peru than j jfl any other company in South America, - W on account of tho vast expenditures it fl has mado for labor and supplies. II "We employ the Indians as miners. W and find that thov learn very readily jfl under kind treatment, both in tho mines fl and smelter. Thoy rcquiro lots of pa- H tieuce in the instruction of their duties . jfl .but are docilo and easy to get along IU "Their wago runs from 50 cents to v jfl $1 a day. They rcquiro very littlo to 1 fl get along with, living mainly on rice, jfl spending" their money for liquor when- 'jfl ever they enn get it. (fl "Tn the early days of the Spaniards i'-ifl they were virtually' mado slaves and , fl compelled to do tho hardest kinds of . jfl work. In developing the mines the In- f fl dians would have to carry away the oro ' ;Jjjfl on their backs thc same" way Mexicans ilM in many places of old Mexico do to- ; jjjlfl day. Our mine is provided with many 'wjfl of thc modern improvements, and labor 'slfl is economized as much as is possible." . -lfl |