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Show September 19, 1958 Page Three THE EUREKA (UTAH) REPORTER ' Daird, a former resident of Eureka. They left for California late last week. Mrs. Duane Milne and son Alan, left last week for Grants, New Mexico, where they will spend the winter months. Mr. Milne is in charge of contract work being done there by Centennial Development Company. Mrs. R. II. Runyon and son, Gary of San Jose, Calif., left Tuesday for home, after visiting here for a week with Mrs. Recent gueets at the home of Mrs. Nellie Laird were Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Adams of South Gate, Calif. Mrs. Adams will be remembered as Flora Mr. and Mrs. Leo Green of Runyons sister and Mr. and Mrs. Walter brother-in-la- w, daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Franks. Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Phipps were Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Phipps and son, Blaine, and their daughter and family, Mr. ' and Mrs. Douglas Lowe and son of Spanish Fork.1 Field in Calif., where he will be stationed for the next several months. He was returning from. Illinois, where he had been taking special schooling. He has been a member of the Air Corp for the past three years. He is a graduate of Tin-ti- c high school. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ros-troof Mammoth, left Wednesday for Highland, California where they will visit with Mrs. Rostroms sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Spurrier. m Logan, were overnight guests on Sunday at the home of Mr; and Mrs. J. A. Bernini. They with another also visited Philip E. (Joe) Cook stopped in Eureka Monday for a short visit with his grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Duncan, Mrs. Reed Pett and other relatives. He was enroute to Mather Air Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gear were in Salt Lake City Saturday evening taking in the Fair, and auencung tne production Holiday on Ice, which is one of the main attractions at the Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tomlinr son and family, Kathie . and Johnnie of Hailey, Idaho,- left Wednesday after visiting with relatives here for a few days. They were house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Laird. Every working day an average of 270,000 tons of waste material and j.'ore are blasted loose and hauled from Kennecotts Utah Bingham Mine, j Thats Utahs biggest moving job. Moving this mountain of rock is expensive. Dynamite alone has cost Kennecott more than $1,000,000 a year. Because cost of supplies is an important factor in Kennecotts ability to compete in' the copper market, tests were started in 1955 to find a blasting powder that would lower costs. Ammonium nitrate met the test. It not only costs less, but it performs d better and is safer to use. So today, this explosive constitutes 60 of the blasting powder used at the mine. Lowering costs and increasing efficiency in blasting is typical of Kennecotts continued program to develop improvements in all operations. But some tremendously important costs are beyond Kennecotts control-tax- es, for example. Last year, state and local taxes cost Kennecott 14 times as much as blasting powder. One tax item alone, the mine occupation tax, known as the severance tax, amounted to more than $2,000,000. This tax is levied only on metal mines and oil and gas producers. Other taxes paid in Utah by Kennecott in 1957 included a corporation franchise tax of $1,800,000 and property taxes of $9,700,000. Federal taes, another fixed cost, were over and above all this. Utah-produce- A Good Neighbor Helping to Build a Better Utah - |