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Show Headline News In Bingham Canyon For The Year 1941 Births, marriages and deaths these mileposts of life are the events that matter most to the individual families in which they occurred during 1941. But to the majority population popu-lation of Bingham Canyon, the big news of the year is found in those community happenings which brought the greatest degree of change in existing conditions or were of most interest and significance to the largest number of people. Since individual viewpoints differ, happenings or events are regarded as they present themselves with varying degrees of interest. looking back over the past year, the Bingham Bulletin selects for review these local happenings as "biggest news stories of 1941": " (1) Record breaking mining operations; op-erations; (2) Recent development work in Bingham district; (3) Improvements at Bingham's Community Methodist, LDS ward and Holy Rosary Catholic churches; chur-ches; (4) Bingham high school takes class B football championship; (5) Completion of the Dry Fork water tunnel improvements; (6) Efforts to unionize Utah Copper company employees; (7) Election of city officials; (8) 1941 Galena Days; (9) August flood; (10) Dr. R. G. Frazier returns from U. S. Antarctic expedition. . I. Record breaking mining operations; op-erations; Bingham's defense effort ef-fort With exception of 1917, Utah in 1940 produced more nonfer-rous nonfer-rous ore than in anytime in state history. Utah Copper company's Bingham mine production,, greatest great-est mining operation in the world's history, was regarded as almost solely responsible for the 1941 increase in total output, estimated es-timated at $96,000,000. About 97 per cent of Utah's 1941 output, or 530,000,000 pounds, came from Utah Copper mine, largest copper mine in the world. This is more than 25 per cent of the nation's copper production. pro-duction. Utah Copper company's Bingham Bing-ham mine is ranked second largest lar-gest lode gold producer in the ... world; and. in the year past increased in-creased gold output to 240,000 ounces. The sixth largest silver producer produ-cer in the world, Utah Copper company mined about 2,000,000 ounces in 1941. About 9,000,000 pounds of molybdenum mo-lybdenum were mined by Utah Copper company the past year, giving the Bingham mine ranking rank-ing as second largest producer of the steel-strengthening metal for the year. A six-day work week and continuous con-tinuous production gave Bingham Bing-ham mine a new record production product-ion averaging nearly 90,000 tons of ore a day. In a single day 210,000 tons of material, including includ-ing 105,000 tons of ore, was removed re-moved from the pit. Since concentrating con-centrating mills at Magna and Arthur have a combined capacity capa-city rated at 70,000 tons a day, the nearly 90,000 ton river of ore going through each 24 hours a day is the present limit. Contributing to a decline in gold and silver and to other metals me-tals in a lesser extent in mining properties other than Utah Copper Cop-per company in Bingham district dis-trict was stoppage of lessee operations op-erations because of a court ruling rul-ing that lessees are employees of the lessor except in isolated instances. in-stances. Further increase in metal production pro-duction will be seen in 1942, when operation of developments at National Tunnel and Mines company's deep levels of Bingham Bing-ham mines will bring vast quantities quan-tities of ore to the International smelter at Tooele via the $1,250,-000 $1,250,-000 Elton tunnel. The project was completed this year after four years' work. Those workmen employed by mining firms of Bingham district had the satisfaction of knowing they were laboring with companies com-panies of vital importance to the national defense effort 45 draftees draf-tees called by selective service, community civilian defense organization orga-nization and an American program pro-gram aimed at naturalization of the 10 per cent alien population were other phases of Bingham Canyon's total defense effort. II. 1941 development work A. Major mining development in West Mountain mining distrie of the year immediately past -completion in August of the, ' drainage and transportar? nel from Tooele on fr (Continued on PaU- AF of L and Independent Asj4 ciation of Mine Workers estaL lishing Main street offices g putting on a vigorous fight fc, members. Year's end found Independet Association of Mine Worken closely patterned after the unk, organized at Utah Copper conl pany mills' at Magna and ArthijJ seemingly on the upgrade in it continuous efforts to sign members. VII. City election results Incumbent city officials w reelected to office November " following an interesting cwt paign. A Labor ticket oppose-the oppose-the Non Partisan ticket with nuc jority of the latter party's candi dates up for election to thirC terms. Mayor Ed W. JohnA led the winners by attraetiif largest number of votes with e ception of Eugene Morris ,uno,a posed as city recorder. The winners Mayor Johnsor,: four year councilman, Franc. J. Quinn; two-year councilnuj A. J. Ablett, R. D. Johnston. Cnri T. Praggastis; recorder, Eugei,, Morris; treasurer, Alvin Hall VIII. 1941 Galena Days ) Famous over Utah as the "1U ners' Mardi Gras", Bingha Canyon's third celebration of G, lena Days was held Friday ar Saturday, September 19 and fca Unseasonably cold weather at storm kept many out-of-townru from attending the celebration sponsored by the Junior chambi of commerce. This did not prv vent all events from being rue off as scheduled, the parade ifo school children and historic p rade the morning and afternoon of September 20 being particuke ly fine. e IX. August cloudburst ti Thousands of dollars in proper. ty damage was one result of tin 3.64 inches rainfall, mostly 'v two cloudbursts at noon and h p.m. within the 24 hours of Aiy gust 9. Light rains August 1 and early August 11 brought .1 inch of moisture, accounting f0j, little damage in Bingham.' A hw vy rainfall in Highland Boy tit afternoon of August 10' damage roads and private busines prcji perty in that community. j X. Dr. Russell G. . Frailer n turns from the Antarctic "Utah, a Guide To the State published in 1941, mentions tL, fact that "In 1940 Bingham too, pride in its Dr. Russell G. Fr, zier, surgeon-physician with Ret Admiral Richard- E. Byrd's goi ernment-sponsored antarctic eij pedition." When Dr. Frazier turned home on May 11, follor ing a 20-months' absence, found a warm welcome and &r ger audiences waiting to hear his experiences. Dr. Frazier gei erously exhibited his color film of the antarctic and the tnj down and back before all loq groups requesting illustrated let-I let-I tures, before schools and college also lent the films to the Uut State fair and for benefit exhtt bits for the Shriners hospital f crippled children. , j B. $4400 in donations and pledges was assured the Community Commu-nity Methodsit church for extensive ex-tensive remodeling begun November No-vember 4. It is expected that the building will be ready for use soon after the New Year, although al-though vork on the interior will progress for months and the total to-tal expenditure for improvements improve-ments will amount to over $5000. The building has been lowered 9 feet five-inches, leaving one-and-a-half stories instead of two. A full basement has been excavated excava-ted and 'divided into a small store room, recreation room, kitchen, kit-chen, furnace and lavatories. The top floor is the sanctuary. A heating plant which will supply heat for the church and parsonage parson-age ' is contemplated. New furnishings furn-ishings and painting of the entire en-tire building, inside and out, are part of the renovation program. C. Members of the Bingham LDS ward contributed labor, time and money to the erection of an addition onto, the Bingham chapel and to needed improvements. improve-ments. Two upstairs classrooms, a Boy Scout room downstairs and an extension of the heating system, sys-tem, painting of the outside and wallpapering and cleaning of the inside were part of the list of changes for which $2000 will be paid by the ward and general church authorities. IV. Bingham high school takes stale class B football championship champion-ship Bingham high school's grid squad ascended Utah class B grid heights March 21 for the second time in school history by a 13-0 win over Park City at University of Utah stadium. Jordan high school's 20-12 defeat de-feat of Boxelder gave to Jordan district class A laurels, too, bringing bring-ing all state honors to the district. dis-trict. Coach Bailey J. Santistevan won high praise for his development develop-ment of a championship team from inexperienced light weight material. It was a team progressing progres-sing during the season from "rags to riches". v. Completion of the Dry Fork water tunnel improvements Extending over a five-year period, a program of improvements improve-ments in tne city water system was finished May, 1941, with completion of work at Dry Fork water tunnel. Modernization measures and repairs of the system sys-tem were essential to conserve the water supply. Undertaken with aid of the Works Progress administration, the Dry Fork tunnel tun-nel cost the city $4660 in supplies sup-plies and the WPA $19,650 for labor. The 1700 foot tunnel was lined with concrete slabs, requiring requi-ring use of 532,240 pounds of cement. ce-ment. VI. Efforts to unionize Utah Copper company employee . The National Labor Relations board held a three-day hearing in the Federal building in Salt Lake City in mid-July to take testimony from a number of representatives re-presentatives of union organizations organiza-tions desiring to represent workers work-ers at the open pit mine of Utah Copper company. Months later notice was given from Washington, D.C, that a number of the organizations had been adjudged unable to satisfactorily satis-factorily represent all the craftsmen crafts-men and workers on the hill. From a local viewpoint, the fight seemed to resolve itself into a triangular affair with the CIO, 1 1 Headline Hews In Bingham Canyon For The Year 1941 (Continued from page one) side of the Oquirrh range to Highland High-land Boy. The Elton tunnel was named for J. O. Elton, mining engineer who planned and directed di-rected the excavation. Begun in June, 1938, the tunnel tun-nel cost approximately $1,250,-000 $1,250,-000 and is about four-and-a-half miles long. Both Utah Apex and Utah Delaware mines, belonging to National Tunnel and Mines, a subsidiary of International Smelting and Refining company, have long productive records. Much of the ore was under water wa-ter and could not be mined e-conomioally e-conomioally under the system of pumping, hoisting the ore to the surface and tramming it four miles over mountainous country to the smelter. The tunnel will drain it and will also be used in transportation. B An extensive construction program completed by Utah Copper Cop-per company during the year, a 228- foot long underpass at the mouth of Bingham Canyon required re-quired about five months in building. The underpass will facilitate ore movement from the company's com-pany's east side workings of the Bingham mine to the smelters at Magna and Garfield via the B and G railroad. Of reinforced concrete, the underpass un-derpass is made up of two parallel paral-lel bores a roadway 228 feet long, 30 feet wide and 23 feet high, and a pedestrian sidewalk and guard rail; the railroad underpass un-derpass alongside is also 228 feet long, is 16 feet wide and 22 ty feet high. Besides giving a short cut for ore trains from the east side, the construction of railroad tracks on the earth fill over the underpass under-pass and across the canyon will provide an auxiliary railroad line from the mine. Until the railroad is completed across the fill and underpass, all ore shipments will continue to be assembled at the B and G railroad yards on the west side of the canyon. Utah Copper company acquired acquir-ed right of way across the lower portion of the city dump grounds and one corner of Dry Fork cemetery for construction of a fill on which, railroad tracks providing pro-viding transportation of ore from the east side of Utah Copper workings, across the underpass and Dry Fork fill will join B and G railroad just below Dry Fork. Work on the Dry Fork fill was begun in May. By the spring of 1943 Utah Copper company announced a $5,000,000 steam electric plant at Garfield owned by the company com-pany for their uses would be completed, IIL Improvements at Bingham's Bing-ham's Community Methodist. LDS ward chapel and Holy Rosary Ro-sary Catholic churches A. Fire resulting from a defective de-fective furnace caused an estimated esti-mated $2000 damage at the Holy Rosary Catholic church January 31. Through concerted efforts of all members of the parish, the church was repaired and a list of needed improvements accomplished accom-plished by Easter. The sanctuary wa9 entirely re-finished, re-finished, the ceiling of the building build-ing lowered, a tall tower and bell removed, new lighting ' fixtures fix-tures installed, windows of amber am-ber glass put into place, floor and pews refinished. walls covered cov-ered with a heat retaining celo-tex, celo-tex, a new organ purchased, the furnace room entirely concreted |