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Show ! WILL IVIOVE MORE L ; DIRT THAU PANAMA i 1 Figures Regarding Magnitude of Utah Mining Operations ' i ;. "Will you kindly answer me . the following question: Will the working of the Utah Copper ; mine involve the moving of more K capping and ore than was actu-ally actu-ally handled in the excavation of material in the construction of the Panama canal?" ----- Yes.' Answering this question the ;; ' Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Journal-Press says that according to the new international encyclopedia, i 232,353,000 cubic yards of earth ' was excavated in the building of , the Panama canal. According to the annual report of the Utah Copper company for 1921 the to-. to-. tal quantity . of material capping cap-ping and ore removed from the property to the end of 1921 , ! was 145,000,000 tons, so that at the present time the balance is heavily in favor of the Panama canal. However, Utah Copper i3 still a young mine. Ore re-" re-" , " serves were estimated at 362,- 910,000 tons on January 1, 1922, which, added to the quantity of ' ore already mined, 91,697,600 tons, would indicate that the op- ! erations at the Utah Copper mine will easily surpass the Panama Pa-nama canal in size before the deposit is exhausted. In fact, when the hundreds of thousands of tons of capping that remain to be stripped are considered, the total is much more than twice the amount of material that was moved in building the Panama canal. In making this comparison, compari-son, 1 tons of rock or ore is taken td be equivalent to one cubic yard of material removed r- . -. from the Panama excavations. Razing a Mountain. Iu many ways the working of the Utah Copper mine is just as spectacular as the construction of the canal. A mountain is being be-ing razed in Utah and a route for the canal had to cut through many treacherous topograph- cal hindrances, from hills to swamps. Both enterprises have added greatly to the wealth and . progress of the world. |