Show t 0 The Story o of Garfield Garfie a r Y V k j 2 r y 5 s MIt r q A 4 d a. a 4 r Copper going to war All records Ing copper for the war effort Editors Editor's Note This is the sixth of a series cones s of eight titled The Story of Garfield When the cakes of ot blister copper are loaded onto railroad cars at the Garfield plant this Is by no means the end of the Industry created by this metal The blister copper Is then shipped to copper refineries that are located In or near large centers of population population tion Hon and consumption Large copper cop il per refineries In the United States U are situated at Baltimore Maryland Maryland Mary i r land Tacoma Washington Great t. t j. j Falls Montana Laurel Hill Hili Long Longi i I Island land El Paso Texas and Perth ear tr t Amboy New Jersey I Copper used in the electrical In s austry in the brass and bronze in fn and for roofs water pipes etc must bo be pare pure and therefore the blister copper produced at the 7 Utah smelters smelter must be further refined re re- 0 fined to remove remOTe the precious metals and before ft It caa be used In the were broken at Garfield In treat treat- thousand and one and articles which one we wesee wesee wesee see and use every day Since Pearl Harbor virtually every every ev ev- ery cry pound of ot copper has bas been diverted diverted di dl to war use nse or to Industries vital to the war effort Copper is known ao as the war metal due to Its manifold uses in the shells and implements of ot modern warfare There 1 Is no substitute for the red metal in many of ot its war var functions During Doring 1943 1893 when the armament demands rose to new heights in III preparation for the European invasion Invasion In in- and the world-wide world offensive of the Allied nations the production tion tiun of copper In Utah broke all ail previous records In history Utah's Utah mines and smelters responded mag mag- to the call for tor copper producing for Cor our nation more than thaD twice the peace time record The seventh article of ot this series will wUl willbe willbe be published later In these col |