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Show Big Compnay Brings in another Utah Mine f , -v... Bigness la not always badness when It comes to American or Utah Industry. Out of bigness was born at the beginning of 1942 a project pro-ject which might not otherwise have been possible. And It comes Into production production of vital metals, at a time when they have never been more welcome, due to the Importance that the war has placed upon copper, lead and zinc. We are referring to the Elton tunnel of the National Tunnel & Mines company, which went into production shortly after the first of the year. National Tunnel Is a subsidiary of International Smelting Smelt-ing & Refining company, a subsidiary sub-sidiary ot Anaconda Copper, a big company. The tunnel was completed from Tooele to Bingham late in 1941, at a cost of nearly $1,500,000 and opened up to production an area of the Bingham district which heretofore here-tofore had been held under the water table. The ore was not ac- cessible to ordinary mining from ir the surface. So the big company put all Its resources to work in -solving the problem and its ores p are now being added to those sorely needed for war. In this age of Billions, few of the smaller companies could undertake under-take to finance and foster such a project through trial and adversity and bring it to a successful operation. opera-tion. In fact it is only a strong company with plenty of capital could undertake such a project. Utah needs more big organlza- tlons to develop her Industries. Let H us all see to it that conditions are B made so favorable here that indus- g tries big and small will want to M come to Utah to develop and put H to use her resources. B |