| Show hot metal A vital stream wf 4 I 1 na 4 let us backdrop for a moment from the various battle fronts and see what is going on behind the scenes in one of the major industries supplying americas vital war sinews one glance reveals that the worlds greatest mine is pouring out cut copper the red metal of war taster faster than it ever did in history at a rate faster than any mine lid did in its history this is the utah copper mine at bingham utah where men money and machinery are pouring out the ted led metal at an all time peak in an effort to supply those at the fronts with the needed implements to win and win quickly as possible all previous records have been broken iu in production at bingham mountain and the men who moil the earths crust are contributing a glorious part to the war effort prior to the beginning of the emergency the peace time record of production at bingham mountain was around tons ot of ore in 24 hours in recent months an average of tons of ore has been mined each day in addition to about tons of waste a total of 0 tons of material per day from this hugs huge open cut pit pil which sprawls over acres of 0 mountain at bingham canyon think of it mining and delivering at the mills a total of tons of ore in 24 hours or approximately 1000 railroad cars about 41 cars every hour a carload every SS seconds the previous record copper pro auction was reached in 1940 when pounds of copper were produced at bin bingham ham mountain the estimated production for 1941 is pounds of the red metal it it were not for the large scale operations at bingham the mountain would today be busl a barren waste as the ore contains less than 1 per cent copper |
