| Show the story of copper in fai utah V 0 mw RIM f A j N L Z W W 1 n W 4 1 A f am utah emerged as a major copper produced with development of the bingham mine shortly after 1900 the above photo shows train of ore to mills editors note this la Is the first of 4 seriel of eight artie articles Jes titled the story of copper in utah historians have divided the progress of civilization into three great ages the stone age the bronze age and the iron age the bronze age should have been more accurately cura tely called the copper age archeologists archaeologists differ somewhat as to the dates of various ages due perhaps to the slow transition from one age to another this Is not of particular importance however but it is significant that civilization emerged with the beginning 0 of f the utilization of metals and has progressed as man has put them to use and to work tor for him one historian approximates that the age of copper began about years B C and that it gave place to the age of iron about 1000 years B C the iron age did not replace the copper age but supplemented it as down through the ages the production and utilization of copper has increased paradoxically the first useful manufacture of 0 copper was in the early days was for spear heads ar row heads knives and battle axes while today the red metal is playing a most important part in fighting world war no 2 known as the war metal copper is also known as the everlasting metal m and when the peace has been it will assume its place in the tb to sand and one articles that go tomake up our modern civilization utah emerged as an important world producer of copper shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century while some copper had been produced largely as aa a byproduct prior to 1900 it was the development of the utah copper miner mine at bingham that gave this state its top importance as a copper producing state hence the story of copper mining in utah Is largely a story of utah copper at bingham the largest producer on the north american continent this Is the first of a series of eight articles titled the story of copper la in utah the second will appear soon socia in these columns |
