The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-05
World Too Young and Too
Vast to Believe II IS
Fully ProSpected.
COPPER IN THE FUTURE
Local Engineer Believes the
Supply Is to Meet the
Demand.

We have the same right To doubt thh'
future exploration viii bring new copper
fields and copper deposits TO view Az INC
EXPERTS a decade or two ago had TO Doubt
i'm the limited knowledge. that anything
like the so-calIod porphyry deposits would
ever be discovered. or that those theh
sftxpccted would ever he worked COM
morcislly. One generation believes tha'
n bas reached the ultimate conclusion
when IL comes 90 experience and ability.
we have no reason 10 doubt now that
other copper deposits of importance wiz
bc discovered In time 10 keep copper
from hitting so cents from leaI OF oN
haustion Of the sources OF supply
An engineer OF prominence made tne
above statement Saturday To Tho IT'D
unr IS lie glanced over preulctloh
made by an eastern metal expert IN re-
gard TO the red metal and prices.
Future Need of Metal.
"We arc proceeding too much on the
theory he continued. 'that inc lu'HIs
generations will have great use for
copper a. we have today. They may
hav. "A greater need for The metal. but
some of these days there viii be less
,hs case al present. Adequate storage
hsttery facilities. for Instance. Will do
away with trolley wires. and there are
hundred aud ono suggestions man
can make regarding the future use oi
"Bu, az Tor tho source OF supply, for
ono do not believe for second that
the United States has been exhaust
ed by the prpspectoTs, Aud the
Rockies 10 the north Of our boundary
line are nothing more than absolutely
virgin territory. There is great deal
OF South America that has no, been
tramped over by prospcctors. and therc
are Alaska and Australia that certainty
arc far from as close a degree OF scrutiny
as their mineral Importance demands.
Africa Is Untouched.
africa is an untouched field. When
the world = hungry for copper. and
iifere IS nowhere else 10 turn. YOU VIII
find them pouring into Africa by the
thousands for IL II simply rot 20 say that
conditions there. either physical or metal
lurgical. arc such that man power can
When the United States began to dig
the Panama canal We heard about how
many men would die 10 each mouth
full OF dirt handled by tho steam shoNcls
The government experts have made tue
canal zone a far more healthy land III
which 10 live than any city Of the Union.
II they need Africa's copper they arc
going To get IL. We are learning more
about the meiallurgy OF copper each day.
and Just because we are uncertain now
az TO the exact process 10 rescue the cop
per values from the stubborn African
Eangue is no reason Tor overlooking the
fact that the expert talent OF tomorrow
Will know more and do things better
than We do now.
Dirt Today, Ore Tomorrow.
''Our operations today are losing from
90 10 80 per cent OF the copper contained
I'm tho ores treated. Dirt that Is called
oveTburden and waste today. on account
OF It's very low copper content. may be
commercial ore next week. Nouutalns
TODAY that guard their Inner secrets with
all the success OF the sphinx may on to-
morrow show To man another tremendous
copper ore tonnage. and the same mer
aud capital that are very careful about
Nenturing upon the development OF prob
able copper deposits, mon madc timid By
the fear OF over production. will ven
turc TO the limit again when this fear
wears off.
High priced copper defeats the end,
of those who should encourage It's use
We are hearing The same prophesles now
Ne heard ten years ago. Bingham mopeC
along for thirty years before it's por
phyry possibilities were realized. Let us
then. not overlook the fact that our SOM
and their sous are going 10 know tn
things We think we know better thar
wo know them. and they will know 2 10
about things We do not suspect today"