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Show Utah Copper Plants to Be Put in Shape for Minimum Cost j Operation j " .. i Demand for copper is remarkably remark-ably good, notwithstanding the low price quoted for the metal, said Col. D. C. Jackling, president presi-dent and managing director of the Utah Copper Company, who arrived in Salt Lake Wednesday. Domestic demand has been better bet-ter during the current year. than it has been at any time irt the history of the red metal industry, consumption being almost double that before the war. j In the last two years . alone, Colonel Jackling said, there has been an increase in domestic con-sumption con-sumption of copper of at leapt 75 per cent. Work of the Copper Export Association in finding new markets and educating consumers, con-sumers, manufacturers and the public to the superiority of copper cop-per was strongly commended by Colonel Jackling. "What part of this increase was due to the work of: the' Copper Export Association," he said, "is, of course, impossible to determine. But the activity of the marketing organization has been a large factor in improving the condition of the red metal industry." Domestic Demand Grows. While copper consumption abroad has not increased as compared com-pared with the consumption prior to the war, he explained, it had not decreased. There is little or no disparity between present and prewar foreign consumption, con-sumption, but the proportional disparity is great, for European demand, because of the war, has not undergone the sequential increase in-crease from year to year that domestic demand has. Consequently, since thewar Europe has not taken by a half of what its demands would have been had the war not prevented the steady, persistent and widespread wide-spread growth of the use of copper that would have evolved normally. Settlement of European Euro-pean difficulties, in Colonel Jack-ling's Jack-ling's opinion, will doubtless result re-sult in increased demands for the metal. When asked whether there was any parallel between what the Copper Export Association had accomplished for the red metal industry and what a similar organization or-ganization might do for the silver sil-ver industry, he replied: "It is hard to draw a parallel between the copper and the silver sil-ver industries. The uses for copper cop-per are so much more numerous. It is such an important metal to so many industries, while silver users are neither as diverse nor as basic Utah Copper Pians Outlined. "Work of the Utah Copper Company will be continued along the lines of orderly procedure instituted in-stituted about a year and a half ago. We are getting our plants in the best shape possible, with a view to operating at the lowest possible cost, the highest possible possi-ble metallurgical accomplishment and the most economical capacity. capac-ity. "Our equipment is being brought up to the highest possible possi-ble standard of efficiency. We are not working to increase oui tonnage, but we are improving our plants in order to reduce costs and make beter recoveries. When we have completed the whole program the capacity of our plants will be about the same as formerly." |
