Show Officials of Copper Company Doom Ghost f Town Thriving cOPPer ing i By JUNIUS NIELSON GARFIELD SMELTER CAMP CAMP- The smelter workers' workers camp here a mere ghost town today compared compared compared com com- pared to the busy community it was in World war and war pre-war days is slated to yield to the march of progress this fall fall it was re revealed revealed revealed re- re Friday Plans to remove all the houses by about September 15 and use the ground to stock surplus ore during the summer rush seasons were announced by Whitman C G. G superintendent of the Garfield plant of the American Smelting Smelling and Refining company Once home to nearly 1000 em em- of the plant the community now has only about residents including wives and children of workmen Some of the houses have been removed and these there are arenow arenow arenow now about 60 structures remaining nearly half of which are vac vacant nt Mr said Utah Copper company clos closed d during part of 1938 now is running running running run run- ning at capacity and the smelter here is receiving an increased supply supply supply sup sup- ply of copper concentrates from the Arthur and Magna mills the superintendent said in explaining the need for additional space in which to store surplus ore stocks We will Increase our reserve to carry carryover over the slumps which usually occur during the winter I New ore largely sulphides and Colorado oxides from mines in Utah Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- I rado Nevada and Idaho are stored n jn the summer to permit the smelting smelting smelt- smelt ing ng first of the main ore supply of concentrates from near by Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur and Magna mills Mr Rouil- Rouil lard ard said Both the land and houses in inthe inthe inthe the camp are property of the American Smelting and Refining company but residents will be permitted permitted permitted per per- to bid for purchase of the houses Purchasers then can acquire acquire acquire ac ac- ac- ac quire ground elsewhere and move F y A g ti y s 1 Y Y 1 t w a N NRc v V S- S a Rc 1 r G 4 M v f. f Ji Z r Rl A. A w w GHOST TOWN TO YIELD TO MARCH OF Or PROGRESS Above a view of Garfield Smelter camp today lower right John longest resident of camp 1 the buildings which are of frame construction Mr bell believes eves most of the houses will be moved east along South street in Magna Hunter or Granger where plots of ground are available John 60 the only resident resi- resi dent who has lived in the camp since it was established adjacent to the Garfield plant in 1909 said nearly all of the smelter moved to the camp soon after it was established They first lived in tents here he said About of the workmen at the plant at one time resided inthe in inthe inthe the camp Mr said During During During Dur Dur- ing the World war when employment employment employment employ employ- ment hit a high peak at the smelter smelt smelt- er workers bunked together in houses or lived in tents There are about 1000 men employed here now but most of them live elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where in Salt Lake county Residents in addition to Mr who have lived here 27 years or more are Paul Stamos Louis Kovazovich Joseph Drak- Drak 3 t t tf f a i I lick lich Paul Joseph Price and Paul Theros |