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Show The Story of Copper in Utah " i i , ' : f-' ': j Utah Copper's new power plant at Magna, shown at right, was placed in operation in February, 1944, and is an important addition to Utah's industry and demonstrates faith in the state's future. Part of the Magna plant is shown at the left. (Editor's Note: (This is the eighth and concluding con-cluding article in a series titled "The Story of Copper in Utah.") Mankind has benefited to a substantial sub-stantial degree from the operations of Utah Copper, principally because it has provided low priced copper that has reduced the cost of the multitude of manufactured products and services in which copper plays a part, and has been responsible in large part for the impetus given to the electrical era, which has helped to bring man, particularly Americans, Ameri-cans, a higher plane of living. The people of Utah have benefited benefit-ed particularly from Utah Copper operations because of the large purchases pur-chases made in the State, its tremendous payroll, and the substantial sub-stantial part of the load it carries of the cost of providing government agencies, which otherwise would have to be borne by remaining business and people of the State. Normally copper mining is the biggest enterprise in the State, fn a year before the war, the assessed valuation on which the company paid property taxes was 15 per cent of the valuation of the entire State. The Bingham Mountain has en riched Utah by many millions. Since Utah Copper's inception $183,-000,000 $183,-000,000 has been paid in wages; $200,000,000 for supplies; $165,000,-000 $165,000,-000 for federalj.state and local taxes, and $220,000,000 for freight, smelting smelt-ing and refining, and all except federal fed-eral taxes has gone into trade channels chan-nels o the State. Thus the "dream" of a man nearly near-ly a half centry ago has proved to be one of the truly great "dreams" of American Industrial history, an achievement that has added much to the material, economic and social wealth not only of Utah, but America Am-erica as well. Utah is proud of Utah Copper and of those who have kept it on its sturdy course for the past 40 years. Copper has been an important factor fac-tor in Utah's destiny and will continue con-tinue to have important bearing upon the future of ' the State. To encourage the development of 5 or 6 "Utah Coppers" is a goal much worth while and, accordingly, the cooperation of every individual is needed to provide the best possible "climate" so that new industry cannot afford to overlook the opportunity op-portunity of coming to Utah to help further develop the State's natural resources. |