Show USE OF COPPER LINES ASSURED AT BOULDER funds to purchase worth of copper for transmission lines lilies train from the boulder dam dain to southern california were made available monday by the reconstruction st finance corporation 0 after representative abe mur murdock aek presented a plea tor for copper in preference to aluminum said eald a plat dispatch from washington D C representative murdock murdoch urged the use of at copper in the transmission lines because of the aid to t the be copper In industry eNstry in the west za P pe action utah are expected to benefit as the transmission lines afford the largest single copper purchase in sight the los LOB angeles bureau ot of power and light expressed a preference for the copper lines but since bids on the aluminum wire were 10 per cent lower announced that without a federal loan copper would have tet be ba it was at this point that representative murdock intervened in behalf beat h at f of the copper interests ile he appeared before the R P F 0 monday with AZ richards salt lake engineer and after considering si 61 their pleas directors approved the use of copper despite its greater cost coat the utah representative senta tive said tile the utah mines should share heavily in the revival of the copper market which Is expected to follow the placing of mhd th order the total coat cast of the project will be and the copper lines will be 14 inch copper tubes do signed to carry more electrical energy tha than n is transmitted over dyer a any ny existing system in the united states tribune of june 6 |