Deal to End Kennecott Landlord Role Continued from Page 25 will be deeded by the copper firm to those institutions. During the course of the nearly year long negotiations with Galbreath, it has been the suggestion of some parties that Copperton unite with the community of Bingham through extension of the latter citys limits. Police and fire protection and other services would then be extended to the copper roofed homes of Copperton. Mr. Pett said the homes at Copperton would be sold to employes at a reasonable price with a reasonable down payment and mostly monthly payments. The houses for off site removal at Magna Garfield also will be priced at a reasonable figure. Involved in the Utah transaction are 217 houses at Copperton, 90 in and around Magna and 394 at Garfield. A similar pattern to Utah operations will be followed in the case of Nevada Mines Division at Ruth, New Ruth and McGill, according to John C. Kinnear, division manager for Kennecott at McGill. The Nevada sale, involving two million dollars, affects some 900 employes of Nevada Mines Division. Ruth, housing, which was in danger of being affected by the new underground operations of the Deep Ruth project, will be sold for removal. Homes at McGill reduction center and New Ruth will be sold at reasonable figues to employes of the division, Mr. Kinnear said. WHILE THE transactions are expected to be completed in six months, the Nevada Mines Division is prepared to extend rental conditions where any deed problems may arise. Assets value of the Ray and Hayden townsites is placed at 600,000 and that of the Hurley and Santa Rita, N.M., townsites at 1 and one half million dollars. The disposal of townsite housing at the western copper mines is regarded as recognition of the age of the automobile and the march of metropolitan civilization into the area. Folks just dont have to live next to a smelter to work there. Original purpose of company owned housing was to provide facilities where outside private enterprise could not or would not do the job. In the old days, company housing in mining camps of major companies was superior to that enjoyed by boomers and others who lived on the payrolls of the miners. The Galbreath Co. in the past has handled similar housing arrangement at Dragerton and Columbia, Utah, for United States Steel Corp.; the community of Henderson, Nev., which Galbreath purchased; 14 towns in the area of Union town, Pa., for Carnegie Illinois Corp.; eight company towns near Birmingham, Ala., for Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. and the Wilmerding, Pa., town for Westinghouse Air Brake Co. AS A RESULT, the Galbreath Co. has gained an excellent reputation throughout the United States for successfully completing projects of this type, Mr. Michaelson said. The Galbreath organization has been in the townsite purchase business for 25 years itself a reflection of the growing trend in American industry of disposal of company housing. Gerald H. Galbreath Jr., project manager for the firm, said his company will establish offices immediately in each of the communities bought from Kennecott. (Offices wall be set up at 211 4th East, Copperton, with Melvin E. Dunkley in charge, and in the old library at 180 Lincoln Ave., Garfield, with Wilbert Walhberg in charge.) HE SAID that home purchases may be financed through the Galbreath organization so as to make low monthly payments possible if the occupants so desire. Details of the home removal plan at Garfield and Magna will be announced within the next few weeks, Mr. Galbreath said. It is anticipated that as much as two months will elapse before actual sales can be made to the present occupants. In the meantime, rentals which were in effect during the Kennecott ownership will continue in effect, Mr. Galbreath explained.