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Show The Story of Garfield h I -4 I' ' f " s ' it ' ' I - . Copper going to war. All records were broken at Garfield n treating treat-ing copper for the war effort. (Editor's Note: This is the sixth of a series X eight sricles titled "The Story of Oai-field.") When the cakes of 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 popula-tion and consumption. Large copper cop-per refineries in the United States are situated at Baltimore, Maryland: Mary-land: Tacoma, Washington, Great Falls, Montana; Laurel Hill, Long Island; El Paso, Texas, and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Copper used in the electrical in due try. in the brass and bronze industries in-dustries and for roofs, water pipes, etc., must be pure and, therefore, the blister copper produced at the Utah smelters must be further re-. re-. fined to remove the precious metals and before It can be used in the thousand-and-one articles which wa see and use every day. Since Pearl Harbor, virtually every ev-ery pound of copper has been diverted di-verted to war use or to industries vital to the war effort. Copper is known as the "war" metal due to its manifold uses in the shells and implements of modern warfare. There is no substitute for the red metal in many of its war functions. During 1943, when the armament demands rose to new heights in preparation for the European invasion in-vasion and the world-wide offensive of the Allied nations, the production produc-tion of copper in - Utah broke all previous records in history. Utah's mines and smelters responded mag-nificiently mag-nificiently to the call for copper, producing for our nation, more than twice the peace time record. (The seventh article of this series will be published later In these columns.) |