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Show GENEVA STEEL IS REPORTED AS LARGEST EMPLOYER The Geneve Steel Company, a subsidary of the United States Steel Corporation, is now the largest lar-gest employer in the state of Utah, a. comparison of employment and payroll records disclosed this week. Employing 5966 persons, including in-cluding 4370 at the steel plant; 744 at the Geneva Coal Mine, 294 at the Columbia Coal Mine, 361 at the Ironton blast furnace, 46 at the Keigley Quarry and 151 at the Columbia Iron Mining Company, the company has an annual payroll of more than $19,000,000. " Most of this sum is distributed to workers work-ers who are natives of Utah or the intermountain area. The plant is current producing at full capacity of from 105,000 to 110,000 net tons of ingots an nually. The next largest employer in the state is the Utah Copper Division Div-ision of the Kennecott Copper Corporation which employs some 4500 men and has an annual payroll pay-roll of $15,000,000. |