Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 8 | Anaconda Shipping by Way of Panama

AUDI SHIPPING BY WAYOF PMI New Routing of Copper Product Means Material Saving in Freight. Special co The Tribune. BUTTE. Mont., Feb. 4. The Anaconda Copper Alining company's, new plan of -hipplnc it- copper to New York, by way rf Tacoma. and tl'ie Panama canal, is now in effect. This change l' phiii will mean a material savins; in freight to the com- any. From Butte to Tacoma shipments will be made over the Chicago. Milwaukee Milwau-kee &. St. Paul railroad, in winch Amal-ainated Amal-ainated interests are kirce stockholders. Between 1000 and liSOn tons of copper introte will be shipped every twenty days from the Washoe- smelter at Anaconda, and at Tacoma it will be transKhipped at the Milwaukee ocean dork to steamers of the W. R. Orace & Co. line, to be hauled by way of the Panama canal to New York. The first shipment Is of 10v tons and will be taken to New York by the steamer steam-er Santa Cecilia, The second shipment will po by the steamer Santa Cruz of the Grace lino, about February 20. " Tt was announced many months a ecu that tho Anaconda company -would take advantage advan-tage of the canal route, but It was not ofilcially confirmed until the facts were alven out a few days apo by the Milwaukee Mil-waukee freight department. ttou tin: of the new freight is regarded by shipping men or one of the greatest traffic readjustments which has taken ' place since the opening of the Panama canal. The cau.se of the elia litre in the copper routing by way of Tacoma instead, of the usual all-rail route to New York Is ffiven as merely a question of cost In ; delivering- the copper. The all-rail route from Anaconda is flO per ton, and it is said that the Anaconda-Taconia rail and steamer rate is considerably less. In the intercoastal trade by way of the canal, the Orace line is operating- the steamers Santa Cecilia, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and Santa Cat a Una, which were built especially fur the company by the Cramp ship yards at Philadelphia.