Show hot metal A vi tal stream N 4 q k X let I 1 et us backdrop for a moment from the various battle fronts anti and see heo what is going on behind the tha 1 seener in one ot of the major industries supplying americas vital war sinews one glance 1 levells that the worlds greatest mine Is 13 cut copper the red metal 0 at war nar faster ister than it ner ever did in history fit at a rate faster aster than any mine did in lt bi bastory story this is the lie wait utah copper mine at bingham utah where pien men money md ind machinery nia are pouring out the idd mewl nt it ari an all time peak in an effort to supply those fit at the tha fronts fronta with the needed implements to win ind win illicitly jul cloy as possible all previous recoil have hava been broken in production 3 kt gt gingham bingham mountain and the men who moll the earths e crust are aie contributing a glorious part pait to the war effort prior to the beginning of 0 the emergency the iho time record a oc production at 13 ingham mountain w around tons of at ore are in 2 24 hours in recent months an average a e rage of tons tona of ore has ha laiq aden on mined each day in addition to about tons of waste a tonal of 0 tons ot at material per day from this huge huga open oDen cut pit yach sprawls over orex a acrea res ot of mountain lit at Dl nshan canyon think a of 11 it 10 mining and delivering at the be mills a total of tons of ore in 24 hour sor or al approximately proximately 1000 railroad cars about 41 1 cars cara overy every bobr a carload every 88 second ae cond tiia the previous record copper pro was waa reap liefl in 1040 when pound ot of copper were produced at bingham mountain tho the estimated eitl mated production for 1941 11 pounds of the red metal it if it were not for far the large scalo scale operations at bingham nin sham the mountain would today be just aisi a barren waste as aa the ha ore contal con nr less lesa than I 1 per cent copper I 1 |