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Show CHILEAN OPERATOR VISITS UTAH MINES ' M."A. Prieto, a large owner of copper mines near Santiago, Chile," arrived In the 'city last night . " ' ' Senor Prieto is traveling with his 'son through this country to investigate the latest American ideas in mining. He has been in New Tork. Chicago and other large Castern cities, before coming West, and. has been studying mining conditions at Butte before coming here. He will visit the smelters of the valley and many of the larger Utah mines while here. Senor Prieto says his study of American mining has been highly instructive, in-structive, and he already has several new ideas which lie will put Into practice prac-tice on his own properties when he returns. re-turns. After leaving here, he will go to Europe, Eu-rope, looking into the Welsh mines and those of Germany and Austria. Senor Prieto says that 4.000.000 tons of nitrate are produced yearly by the fields of northern Chile. |