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Show CHILEAN COPPER MINE VISITED BY DR. RXFRAZIER .Concerning a visit to Valparaiso, Valpar-aiso, Chile, with members of the u. S. Antarctic expedition, Dr. Russell G. Frazier wrote: "The Chileans were very hospitable, hos-pitable, entertaining us five days. We were invited to visit the Brad-Snn Brad-Snn P,per comPany at their mine 1UU kilometers back into Chile; that is, the geolocists of the party. "They are mining 23,000 tons of ore each 24 hours. Underground, Under-ground, the mine is situated right up in the top of the Andes at an 1 elevation of 8000 feet. The town , is literally plastered onto the side of the mountain, just about like the hill in back of the Bingham post office. I "Americans working there have ; comfortable quarters, but the na-. na-. tives live in long, five-storied , houses, tier upon tier, about 16.Q00 of them at the mine, mill , and smelter. "The ore from the mine is dumped right into the mill and is hauled by buckets to the smelt-; smelt-; er. The ore runs around two per cent and is a porphyry similar to ours. "The men get the highest wages wag-es paid in Chile for common labor, la-bor, 36 pesos a day (30 pesos for one dollar). I still believe that the men at Bingham are the best off of any group of men I have ever found. All one has to do is get away from a few miles and he is glad to get back. "Since I left home I have traveled trav-eled about 25,000 miles and made nine foreign ports and I would not trade the poorest job on the Utah Copper hill for the best one that I have seen. "You cannot realize what living liv-ing conditions really are until you have seen how people live in the rest of the world. It would be a good investment for the company to send a delegation of bur men to a few jobs out of the states for awhile. Like me, they would be willing to walk to get back to Bingham. "We have the highest type of workmen of any place that I have been. In fact, our workmen would rank in education and in standard of living above the best of the foreign, so-called upper class. (Continued on page ten) O expedition was asked ''What he missed most at Little America?. His answer: "temptation . And I believe that is about the right answer. "I hope to have a bunch of movies to show you all when I get them back from Uncle Sam. I do not know what they will be like, for the film has been through the tropics twice and spent a winter in the antarctic at some pretty low temperatures. 76.2 degrees de-grees Fahrenheit was the lowest that we recorded. Film at the temperature will break like glass, as will most everything else. "I plan to show the film at the Gemmell club and at the local theatre without charge. It can be shown at the state fair been planned, too, so th '. one who wants will hal portunity to see it e "After I land atB(Kt . have to go to Washing1' ville and Chicago to laboratory work done ih! ,s up the coast, "But we JLt used to that by now; 9 t a long time to be at sei h1 next trip I am going to from water that I will k dig for it!" 111 CHILEAN COPPER JUNE VISITED BY DR. R. G. FRAZIER (Continued from page one) "The trip through the Panama canal and our stay at Panama City was most interesting. When a ship puts into the canal it is boarded by soldiers, a pilot and a complete deck crew to handle the ropes through the locks. One man stands with a gun beside the pilot, to see that his orders are carried out. Another by the engineer. en-gineer. In other words, the whole ship is covered by soldiers with fixed bayonets. "Foreign ships under any degree de-gree of suspicion are placed "in forms" that are underslung with great heavy wire nets so that no time bombs can be dropped overboard. over-board. The locks have nets lying on the bottom so that the locks rise automatically if anything is thrown overboard. "Our ship, being a government boat, only carried a pilot. A bunch of us rode topside the bridge and had a wonderful view of the canal and surrounding country. Every hill is covered with gun emplacements, so that a ship can be covered every minute min-ute that sha is in the canal. At night the sky is continually lit by beams of light flashing off and on, sweeping the sky. Makes a marvelous sight. All this was a gigantic job, and yet seems so simple now that it is all complete. com-plete. "We met three boats in the canal going east, that is to the Pacific side; to go east through the canal you go north west, as the Atlantic side is west of the Pacific side. The tropical covered cover-ed hills were quite a treat tf us, who have not seen a tree for so long. One of the boys on the last |