Deseret Evening News | 1904-06-18 | Page 8 | America Leads the World

AMERICA LEADS TUB TIlE WORLD WOULD Copper opper IMS lall become n a great necessity I of or modern life lire In the th development nr if f I mechanics III 11 1 8 In III the matter of or supply tho tIt Ih United lends leads the world The Tue tt N n n total production of copper last host III year wan IM 1 0 pounds of which 0 pounds were Ott ert mined In this country This represents t nn an Increased output of about since lIlt 1881 Spain anti Portugal como come next In Una Ilia HH as copper producers but hut they ore are tar fur behind their total being hardly more than oll of ot that of or this country Mexico ranks third but her yield also nillo Is III small us liS compared with that of or tho the United Status With tho tim development t of ot elec olec electrical and tho thin growth of ot applied electricity a n demand for tor copper arose arMO Which only tho tue most tremendous tr energy has hn been aIde able to meet American skill and tind enterprise rOM coca to uncut tho demand and the th copper output has hll Increased by leaps bounds und nod Is IR still stilt forging ahead Tho copper milieu In Mexico are aro being bolnA worked by American capital and labor but the tho output Is of ot course ac lie accredited accredited credited to the tho country that produces It Portland I I