Show fi I i C Buy More Copper I 9 j ii- ii c COPPER COPPER OPPER activities in Utah tah normally constitute constitute I. I tute one of the chief assets of the state r Most of the business depression experienced here herein in the last few months may be traced to the closing of these plants The Condition which precipitated precipitated precipitated pre pre- the shutdown was was' general and other oher copper opper producing sections s suffered as much or more than Utah Low prices caused by y yan an oversupply oversupply oversupply over- over supply of this metal were responsible le for forthe the ithe closing order which threw thousands of men lout out of work and created new p problems for local business interests Reopening of the Utah copper plants is confidently confidently confidently dently expected in the spring but there can can be no no assurance assurance that the condition will not recur until domestic consumption of copper is increased We Ve Weare are striving hard to abandon war war and this me means ns that many of the uses to which copper has been put in the past will be cast into the discard That Thatis is not going to help the demand on which production production production pro pro- and employment are based The need of developing n new w uses for copper becomes apparent Copper interests have not neglected this question and for several months they have had a L corps of research experts investigating investigating investigating gating the possibilities of the product They are areL I L seeking new ways to ise copper as well as to I divert copper to the uses now enjoyed by other m metals No doubt this product will figure more and nd more in the manufacture of household and andI I industrial articles a as a result of these investigations investigations 1 in the future t In the meantime meantime- copper copper producing sections i have a mission to perform Copper already is to avid vid wide wid of It is in subject a variety uses competition competition com corn petition with tin and other metals less serviceable I I. I and should be recognized in the everyday life of those people whose interests are more more or less t linked inked with the future of the copper industry l Numerous I cities in Arizona have adopted th the slog slogan n Buy Something Made Mad of Copper using I It on letterheads and stationery used in business I correspondence The movement merits the attention attention attention at at- of of- our local civic organizations If the L copper Lopper producing Sections of the country will but work together the domestic demands for this product can be greatly increased The purchasing purchasing ing ing public as well as those of our citizens who r are are actually engaged in the production of copper copperI I and the the business institutions institutions deriving indirect benefits would share in In the results of a successful success success- I f ful 1 campaign 7 |