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Show The Story of Copper in Utah t -r; vi ,,v Tcopper new power plant at Magna, shown at right, was placed In operation In February, 1944, and Is an Important addition to Utah's Industry and demonstrates faith In the state's future. Part of the Magna plant Is shown at the left. . , IThis Im the eighth and con-st0I7 con-st0I7 of CoPP" In Utah. ) Mankind has benefited to a sub-,ntial sub-,ntial decree from he operations f t rah Copper, principally because ?, has provided low priced copper Lt has reduced the cost of the Latitude of manufactured products H services in which copper plays art and has been responsible In Urge part for the impetus given to he electrical era, which has helped o bring man. particularly Americans Ameri-cans a higher plane of living. The PeoP'e of utah have beneflt-ed beneflt-ed particularly from Utah Copper Orations because of the large pur-Sses pur-Sses made in the State, Its tremendous payroll, and the substantial sub-stantial part of the load it carries of the cost of providing government agencies which otherwise would hive to be borne by remaining business and people of the State. Normally copper mining is the bi'gest enterprise in the State. In s vear before the war, the assessed valuation on which the company paid property taxes was 15 per tent of the valuation of the entire State. ' . The Bingham Mountain has en riched Utah by many millions. Since Utah Copper's inception $183,-000,000 $183,-000,000 has been paid in wages-1200.000,000 wages-1200.000,000 for supplies; $165,000,-000 $165,000,-000 for federal state and local taxes and $220,000,000 for freight, smelting smelt-ing and refining, and all except federal fed-eral taxes has gone into trade channels chan-nels of the State. Thus the "dream" of a man nearly near-ly a half centry ago has proved to be one of the truly great "dreams" of American Industrial history, an achievement that has added much to the material, economic and social wealth not only of Utah, but America Am-erica as well. Utah is proud of Utah Copper and of those who have kept it on its sturdy course for the past 40 years. Copper has been an important factor fac-tor In Utah's destiny and will continue con-tinue to have important bearing upon the future of the State. To encourage the development of 6 or 6 "Utah Coppers" is a goal much worth while and, accordingly, the cooperation of every individual Is needed to provide the best possible "climate" so that new industry ' cannot afford to overlook the opportunity op-portunity of coming to Utah to help further develop the State's natural resources. |