Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-22 | Page 15 | Copper Industry Leaders Tour Plants of S. L . Valley Area

I C r o p er Industry Leaders H Tour T plants of S. S L. L Valley Area I It GC 1 9 r G n d 9 v I k l jt j y t J 1 fl L IL t l lUNG BANKING COPPER PROCESSING OFFICIALS LS VISIT MINE AND MILLS IN s. s L. L V VALLEY Louis S. S Cates left D. D D. D D Moffat and Wylie Brown Brownt t Gates Cat tes Reports Dearth Machinery helps Dodge Chief Says Defense a es Most of Steel Supply ax ncr for steel for national defense is makin making it it difficult fe stopper opper industry to get new machinery but but production h huh haunt nat been greatly hampered Louis S. S Cates New York City p sit t of of Phelps Dodge corporation said Friday in Salt Lake 0 inV f Cates tes accompanied by Mrs CI and nd Wylie Brown New mity City president of the Phelps Mf Copper Products corpora- corpora arrived Thursday evening drill leave Sunday S morning by for lor Arizona ID D. D D. D Moffat vice and general manager of the h compa company y and J. J D. D Ming his assistant Mr Cates Brown inspected mines Bingham and mills at Magna T Arthur iday Domestic mines s are operating t j pacify capacity Mr Cates reported belief the United aces a shortage of copper though tb gh civilian is use being cur- cur shipments of the metal rt iving from South America id he anticipates a further l IH arp curtailment of civil- civil awe huse of copper in the future Phelps-Dodge Phelps corporation 1 gin production in Novem- Novem ed its new low-grade low mine at SMI southern Arizona using open-cut open methods similar to those employed at Bingham Ore bodies are being prepared for the operation and approximately approximately approximately tons of ore will be processed daily Mr Cates Gates said Huge electric shovels will be used Skilled labor s getting scarce in industry but ut we are not in bad shape the mining executive declared The Phelps-Dodge Phelps Copper Products Products Products Prod Prod- corporation is running heavily heavily heavily ily on defense orders Mr Brown said For the past month it has felt the effects of priorities he said indicating the priorities system system system tem needed improvement They are trying hard in Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington to do a good job and are I getting it straightened out he explained Mr Cates was a Utah resident for many years and was vice president president president pres pres- ident and general manager of the Utah Copper company He became became became be be- came president of Phelps-Dodge Phelps corporation in 1930 I 1