Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-23
ITALY WILL need
COPPER FORROADS.
VIII Consume Vast Quantity Of
Metal in Building and EIec-
trifying Railroads.
in DEMAND.
Chilean Copper Is Replaced By Amcri-
can Product at Cable Making and 4
Manufacturing Plants.

Italy is to be a great consumer of
American crude copper and for many
forms of American patented articles in.
brass and copper for electrical engi-i
neering in connection With comprchen-
sive plans for the identification Of
steam railroads, says the president of
the domestic car building corporation
to Boston Financial News.
For two or three years the Italian
government has been taking the advice
of prominent American civil and cleo
trical engineers. iron and steel trade
experts. railroad traffic managers and
car an delectric locomotive builders
on the matter of tho reorganization
of the principal railways of the KING
dom. The work Of reorganization is all.
ready going on Mt several important
railway centei.s. All the railways north
OF Milan are to be electrified, and all
that are singl track are to be double
tracked to deal with q rapidly increas-
ing traffic.
day before left Milan--Nor. II
the head of the greatest copper con-
Stunning interest In Italy told me that
Italy will not use less than 5o,000,00O
pounds of American clectrolytic copper
In various forms for the work that is
now beginning. All this copper will be
wanted within a year. Then there are
geiectrifications to he done in other
parts OF the kingdom, calling for suf-
Eficient copper to care for $500 niles OF
railway. There also is to be an cleo
trio towing system for the projected
barge line from Milan to Venice. Next
year VIII see also the electritication OF
the railway between Florence and
Boulogne and from Genoa to Milan.
There Is good reason for believing that
+ q great deal OF American steel will be
bought on account OF the rolling stock
to be made for the electrified railways.
REPLACES CHILEAN COPPER.
II found very warm feeling to-
ward the United States in all parts of
4 the kingdom. Within a decade. Italy'ss
trade with our country has assumed
large proportions, she is buying more
than ever from us and we are buying
more from her. l met a. number of the
executive officers of electric cable-mals-
Ing plants and chemical manufactur-}l
iers In Italy who used to consume Chill
can copper but who now are using
rotie But eiitans electrolytic copper.
One scable-making concern in Milan,
which employs 5000 hands, is about to
place a big contract in this country for
selectrolytic copper for ocean cables.
The METALS to be shipped in February,
March. April and May. I understood
that the specification would be for IL,
100000 pounds.
Italy is going to ennancipate herself
from British coal, and is doing more in
hydroelectric power plants than any
other country in Europe. At one place,
where 100000 pounds of American
copper is to be worked up for account
q of a hydro electric railway and lighting
plant the water OF a river is utilized
seven times in descent OF two miles.
THE king of italy told me that he be-
llcves that within 10 years there will
not be a dozen steam locomotives in
Italy engaged III main line traffic.