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Show COMPARES THE 111 COPPER COP-PER TO THE PANAMA CANAL The Wall Street Journal has the following fol-lowing interesting article on the Utah Copper Company, in which it compares com-pares the moving of material here with that of the great Panama Canal, and, points out that, before the work is completed the copper company will move more tonnage tnan was moved at the canal. D. C. Jackling. the moving spirit of the Utah Copper Company, determined deter-mined to move a mountain to secure the copper hidden therein. And he Is doing .t This big chunk of nature is 30 miles from Salt 'Laxe, ?n Bingham Canyon. Since 1903 material carted away has totaled 15,ooo,000 tons, of which 90. .000 wus waste. Yet only n all part of the mountain has been removed. This gigantic undertaking bids fair to surpass the digging of the Panama Canal from standpoint of material ma-terial removed. Earth and rock excavated exca-vated at the Isthmus totaled 232,000,-000 232,000,-000 cubic yaros, which, mining men have figured, is equivalent to 461,000,-000 461,000,-000 tons, exceeding Utah's achievement achieve-ment by 314,000,000 tons. But the mine has at least 30 years of life ahead of it, and in time Utah should remove about 370.000,0(10 tons of ore alone, not to mention millions of tons of barren bar-ren rock. |
