Show the story of copper in m utah Q p e 4 V r d W aw fa 1 01 utah with development of the produced emerged as a major copper bingham mine shortly after 1900 the above photo a shows hows train of ore to mills editors Editor 1 note ahls li Is the first of a trio series of elijht articles titled tilled the rhe story 1 of I copper in utah historians have divided the progress of 0 civilization into three great ages aea the stone age the bronze age aee and the iron age the bronze age se should have been more accurately cura tely called the copper age archeologists archaeologists differ somewhat as to the dates of various ages duo due perhaps to the slow transition irom from roe otis age to another this Is 13 not of particular importance however but it 11 la Is significant that civilization emerged with the beginning of 0 the utilization ot of metals and has pro crashed as man has put thern them to use se and to work tor for him one historian approximates that the e age of 0 copper began about 0 years B BC C rind and that it gave place e 1 to the age ot of iron about 1000 years 11 D C 4 the iron age did not replace the i copper age but supplemented it as dorn donn ahr through lough the ages the production and utilization of copp per has increased paradoxically the first useful manufacture ot of copper was in th the 0 early days was lor for spear heads ar row heads knives and battle batlle axe axes while today the red metal is playing in a most important part in lighting fighting world war no 2 known as the war metal copper Is also known as the everlasting metal and when the deaca has been won it will assume its place in the thousand and one articles that go to make up our modern civilization utah emerged as an important world producer ot of copper shortly after the beginning ot of the twentieth century while some copper had been produced largely as a byproduct prior to 1900 it was the development of 0 the utah copper mine at bingham that gave this state its top importance as a copper producing state hence tho the story of copper mining in utah ts Is largely largely a story of utah copper at bingham Bing liam the larg largest est producer on the north american continent this Is the first of a series of eight articles tt titled tied the story or of copper in utah 11 the second will appear soon in these columns |