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Show THE CITIZEN 10 little protection Is all that is neces-sar- y. Why the people living in the cities bordering on the lake do not recognize the commercial value of good fishing in the lake is a topic or general discussion on the outside. With good fishing at Utah lake there would be at least 10,000 people who would take advantage every Saturday and Sunday, and it would not be amiss to state that the number would run up to 25,000 people. FRANK E. SCHEFSXI. . SUPPLY AND DEMAND MUST REGULATE COPPER MARKET The law of supply and demand has always controlled the copper market and always will, says S. E. Dodge of the Plielps-Dodg- e corporation. "At present few mines are producing to capacity; many higher cost properties are closed down and several large companies, especially In south America and South Africa, are eager to undertake new construction so as to increase their surplus. I do not, therefore, expect a real boom in copper for a number of years, but the industry as a whole will be best served if the market avoids fluctuations. Consumption of copper is largest in history of the world. If leaders of the industry adopt the same good business policies displayed by other industries, adjustment of production at reasonable profit to consumption, anc stabilization of market, a price satisfacproducer and consumer tory should be effected. If such is the consummation of present conditions, copper mining will enjoy an indefinite period of great prosperity, predicts the president of Calumet and Arizona Mining company. Metal mining has a vital bearing on prosperity in many western states and for this reason should receive intelligent consideration at the hands of the public. -- to-bot- h CONCRETE PRODUCTS. Estimates compiled for 1925 indicate that not less than 600.000,000 concrete blocks will be used to build structures of all types in this country. Concrete brick sales show a large increase, this years production reaching a totai of some 300,000,000 brick. Other concrete products, such as concrete sewer pipe, lamp posts, garden furniture, silo staves, culverts, and tile show corresponding increases in adoption, according to A. J. R. Curtis of the Portland Cement Association. .Since the war, Mr. Curtis de- usage. Today there are millions of dollars of capital invested in high type manufacturing plants and production and sales have been put on an equal basis with othe large modern indus- tries. Not only houses and barns, but schools, industrial plants, store build- ings, office buildings, churches, and many other types of structures are being built of concrete masonry. New uses are coming thick and fast, so fast, indeed, that the industry is hard put to keep pace with the demand during the construction season. New Developments. A survey recently concluded shows that concrete products manufacturers are today making many new and specialized tyeps of units. Partition tile and block, floor tile, roofing tile, floor slabs and beams, posts, conduits and many other special products are being manufactured to meet the requirements of users. Machinery has replaced hand labor and special machines designed to insure uniformity are in general use. Plants representing hundreds of thousands .of dollars worth of machinery and property are replacing the one man shops of a generation ago. There has been a noticable trend of late toward a widespread revision of local building codes to give concrete products an equal standing with older materials. The underwriters laboratories have given concrete block fire rating. Concrete block a two-hour have' brought the hollow air space type of wall into great favor as the best wall for home building. Heavy Demand. Building materials figures show that usage of concrete building block and tile has within the last five years increased from about .48 block per capita to above 5.44 block per capita. To supply this tremendous demand some plants have been forced to work day and night during 1925. Several more plants climbed into the million blqck per year production class. The great interest now being man- ifested in Portland cement stucco with its numerous varied colors and tex- tures has been reflected in the demand for masonry walls to carry the stucco. Architects, contractors, and home builders have taken a most noticeable interest in this latest development of American home building. Through the combined use of concrete masonry and Portland cement stuqco a new and beautiful style of home, wholly American, is evolving, states Mr. Curtis. 4 clares, CON GRESS IS URGED TO AUTHORIZE $80,000,000 Not many years ago, rural construction where the user made his own molds pretty e block in nearly circumscribed the field of Washington, D. C., Dec. 19. To prevent national loss through delayed construction of the Federal Aid highway system on which state and federal governments are now working jointly, an authorization for the appropriation of $80,000,000 to cover the fiscal year of 1928 is urged upon me congress which has just conveneu Dy the American Association of State Highway Officials. A resolution to this effect was passed at the annual meeting of highway officials held in production of all concrete units has increased many hundred per cent. Concrete block ,as an example, has increased its sales from 50 million units in 1920 to 468 million units in 1924. In 1924 the American public spent more than $85,000,000 for concrete block and it is estimated that more than $100,000,000 will be spent for concrete blocks in 1925. Variety of Uses. home-mad- t Detroit recently. It will be necessary, these officials declare, to nave an authorization made by the present congress in order that highway departments may so plan their construction as to best utilize appropriations when they shall become available. A resolution also was adopted opposing any reduction in the Federal Aid system as being unfair to many communities in the various states. The appropriations now authorized by congres for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Federal Aid act do not extend beyond the nscal year ending June 30, 1927, and it is to prevent a stoppage in road building after that period that forehanded action is urged upon the present congress. To do otherwise, highway officials declare, will result in prolonging the completion of a nation-wid- e system of modern highways, at tne same time preventing the people lrom the full benefits of enjoying stretches of road already built Decause of uncompleted sections m me system. In conection with the $80,000,00u authorization desired for use in 1928, state highway officials also ask tor $8,000,000 for the construction or forest roads. In support of these requirements, facts are being gathered tor use at senate and house icommittee hearings on proposed road legislation. Facts are also being gathered ior the information of congress upon uic impracticability, from an economic point of view, of reducing the sybmu of Federal Aid highways whlcn nave been selected and designated by the highway departments of the several states and approved by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. This system as it now stands, highway officials assert, was selected alter careful study with the aim or providing a properly correlated ana connected system of roads that would best accommodate local and farm to market traffic as well as traffic m a state and interstate character. In the resolution which will be laid also before house and senate comofficials nave mittees, highway agreed that any reduction In tne Federal Aid system as now selected and approved would tend to breax me continuity of said system, and might so restrict the same that many communities served by highways now rightfully included therein, would ue In oppodeprived of such service. sition to any attempt that may oe made to reduce the system, state highway departments as represented in the American Association of State Highway Officials, are ready witn their answer to Congress as being opposed to any plan which has nor its purpose a reduction in the sysce? of Federal Aid highways as now for in Section 6 of the Feaerai Highway act. The United States Bureau of fub-li- c Roads, Department of Agriculture, was commended by resolution for its spirit of friendly helpfulness in its work with states during the first uec-ad- e of cooperative road construction. pro-vide- GENIUS IN DEMAND TO INTEPRET RURAL AMERICA Our self-stylintelligentsia tli word, like the breed,, is a Eurpoean importation or imitation ranging all the way from the sophomore socialists to the super smart-alec- s whose cleverly constructed wares enjoy a wide vogue among persons who feel superior, would be hard pressed for a vocabulary if Sinclair Lewis had not written his caricatures of rural and ed - You, Your Wife, Sons and Daughters, Get Best Service at DESERET GYM BARBER SHOP AND BEAUTY . 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