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Show UiaEi Miming Industry Plans for Postwar Era No modern industry can survive rapidly changing conditions of tlie present day by adhering strictly to general rules of the past. No industry in-dustry realizes this better than non-ferrous non-ferrous metal mining of Utah. Extensive staffs of research engineers en-gineers are at work first on problems prob-lems of winning the war and second sec-ond upon the welfare of the industry indus-try and its workers in the postwar ra. As metal mining normally employs em-ploys directly and indirectly approximately ap-proximately one-half the population of the state, it can readily be seen that much of the well-being of the state in the postwar era depends upon the metal industry. Despite the progress made in the field of lighter metals, which in many instances will affect the non-ferrous non-ferrous metals, the metal mining industry is looking forward to the future with optimism. Coppar, lead and zinc as well as the precious metals, gold and silver, will be greatly in demand in the postwar reconstruction period. At the present rate of production, however, there will undoubtedly be , considerable copper, lead and zinc above ground and in fabricated form when hostilities cease. Eventually Even-tually this metal will find its way into constructive effort, but in order to avert a complete unbalancing un-balancing of the metal mining industry in-dustry when the fighting is over, and before the reconstruction era actually takes hold, it has been suggested sug-gested that the government stockpile stock-pile metals against a shortage in the future. This plan is meeting with favor in industrial, labor and governmental govern-mental circles, as it would permit development in an industry which has badly depleted its reserves in an effort to supply the war demand. In addition it would be good insurance insur-ance for a nation, against the possibility pos-sibility of not finding ore bodies for the future. |