| Show Christensen c C Watt Wattis is 1 i Construction Company The personnel of or the thc Chr Christensen stensen k Wattis company is 5 for con can construction construction company rather unusual The Thc men who form the company are privately engaged in lines of work that would seem to be directly opposite to that of general contracting However cr these men have made their firm one of the most highly respected in the west and have ha succeeded ceded e in swinging g c g some of the biggest contracts ever er awarded in Utah The Christensen Wattis Vattis company is really a union o of two corporations the thc Christensen Construction company and th the L. L R R. Wattis Vattis company The Thc firms combined in order to handle tho rather large contract of grading ing the Capitol IIi Hill Bill Tho The work o of laying laving out the grounds about Utah's new classic structure stricture involves imol the removal of great rent quantities of dirt and rock The Christensen S Wattis company compan began its work ork some months ago anti and in the course of la laying ing out ont and parking the property adjoining the Capitol grounds proper has hns practically removed a n largo section of mountain Beautiful drives have hmo been laid out all nIl over ocr the grounds and terraces terraces terraces ter ter- ter- ter races hove have been laid out on the thc various approaches to the front and sides of the Capitol building The Christensen Wattis company took the thc contract when hen there was much skepticism as to the practicability of attempting any artif artificial arti arti- f parking on the nagged hill on which tho the Capitol stands Since the work has progressed however the tho contractors contractors' lave hac shown that a avery avery very fine park system may be he laid out ont around the thc hill The work is now nearing completion and probably by next summer t the Ile grounds about Utah's new Capitol ill sill compare favorably fn with t those of any other state capitol in the United States The Capitol grading ing contract however is only incidental to the general business of the big construction company In addition to many large jobs now contracted d for by the Christensen Wattis Vattis company the individual firms which form the corporation have many largo contracts contracts con con- tracts under way Both the Christensen Construction company and the L L. L R R.- R. Wattis Mattis company have hae man many large municipal and state jobs in various stages of completion throughout throng Utah The Christensen Construction Construction Con Con- company also has a large Inre railroad grading contract near Ogden D. D H. H Christensen Christ one of the principal stockholders in the Christensen Christensen Christensen Chris Chris- Construction company is superintendent of schools in Salt SnIt Lake His work as as' as a n. school executive c has hns been on a n par with his bis work as ns a n builder Since he took charge of tho the work of educating the children of Salt SnIt Lake he lie has brou brought ht the school system of the city t to a n. high degree of efficiency L. L R. R Wattis rattis of the Wattis firm finn is interested in numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous ventures aside from construction His name appears on tho the list of stockholders of many growing industries throughout the state w w ic igan igana a i a cines Co o. o The Utah Michigan Utah an-Utah Utah Consolidated development and operation n of the co COIll- COIll n- n Mining company 0 an 3 was vas reorganized AP April i IX pan pany r on t the 1 Alta side of the mou mountains Lt 15 1915 The ca capitalization P It r of the of-the th the e c company com 1 Scenes genes on the e consists of two to lono long tunnels one of these puny pany P an Y 1 is IS s sh shares afra par al value 1 of proper properties ro er te leS is IS t the I lC 1 lower o er t tunnel 1 on th tl the Ie e G C. C City 1 t y a 25 1 5 cents Of th the these se there are hM distance of 2400 feet all and the Grizzly y 0 of the which about feet shares share tunnel is 2000 long o outstanding the balance nc Ce being fr a M I 1 held ill In in the treasury T The offs officers eels of the ther M Michigan Michigan- ichi g an an- In t the he City tunnel which was i com company P an r are Norman W V. V r Haire pI president eSl- eSl U Utah tan lah run m more ore than forty years ago four dif hf- different I dent H. H R. R MacMillan l vice vice r president ferent sets Ceis of lessees lessee a al are e llo now working and i Ito L. L H. H Farnsworth treasurer with p. p T 1 I Duncan Dun Dun- 1 C Consolidated onsol id aled giving employment to a lag large b o force of i can Mac MacVichie hie N. N AR A. A Robertson son and M Mines Ines men At the face of the tunnel a raise mise raise of Fra Frank k B B. B Cook Co as members of the board w feet connects with Solitude tunnel in ill in of directors Company L Utah Mines Coalition ground which is s 1 2700 0 feet i in Ill ten length m tIl The properties of the company r arelo arelo- ca cited t e 11 high ng 1 ln in th the e mountains t on the lJ 1 Ie Al Alta Alt a 7 Lii t i s. S.- S. This raise laise is now o bc being heing ln straightened i- i X J i. i f. f y 1 t and Big Cottonwood god side of the 1 divide s 0 fr o W and Il timbered Cl all and d 1 will b be c used as a ti L don double 11 e with underground workings S 'S through 1 the 1118 4 af 4 c compartment 0 n 1 1 nt shaft equipped with th skips When this shaft is in working order older 10 mountain connecting 1 with the company's b II pro pro- production main the Alta AHa r from the virgin g ground lolled below the main side workings on and ana a nd the o o i. i N level of the City T Rosh Rocks will begin It is is former e outlet of or th the Utah Mines 1 Coalition pall y the intention to tv continue continuo t the Solitude t tion just above Lake S1 Solitude Rude the o on ell t Big b tunnel to an outlet on tho Alta Alta side ide This Cottonwood side work V will III develop 2400 zU feet of 01 i rich ground During the month of August the com coal company J with feet o of f backs a up P to the ille level leyel of p pany any has two shipped shipped l edt two o carloads of of ore a financing and aull future development of th the and fractions over ha half f of which wInch a are lc patented pat pat- the City tile the ti Rocks locks At the bottom of the raise raise d day 3 from the City 1 Rock vein vela which l ha have hae e property on a large Jarge lar e scale seal e have been peen made d and s sonIC some of which Inch before the thc merger flier mer from front lot a Solitude has b been heen to 1 the tic sunk City Rocks Hocks and slid levels tuii- tuii averaged better hetter than 4 per cent copper The domain of the Utah Michigan el and consolidation constituted l driven gel ger g constituted groups at a various arious I s depths The rhe ore from with good gool silver and lead lend value The company corn com Consolidated t Mining 0 company embraces o ff C d b by r mining companies that had these levels below belo the Solitude c tunnel net l as aswell Pan pany r has also opened 11 up 1 a good body o of f valuable ground extending b J 0 over oyer r a large laro-e c. c llla made d 1 e records 1 1 S for f or P pro production d ue well vell r as s th that at from floral a above VJ will 11 all al 1 1 be he c hoisted belated or ore in the Grizzly yem vein gill and mul h has as been beel area and includes ude 1 properties lo I wl which were 0 I Included in the list 1 is s t the hc J Jeo old l City 1 through b the raise raIse and thence tl red out shipping about ten cars a month from this tillS famous as rich producers during the call early r Rocks Hocks WIt with r 1 a reputed output of O 0 00 through a mh the Lilt City Y Rocks ROCK S tunnel onto a I section of the workings Officers of th the t history of mining In in U Utah In all th the 8 and I t the Ile Grizzly with a record of 1500 1 J 00 sus suspension terminal bridge b e 1 which connects the ll 1 of the aerial upper 1 P tl tramway i a r com company any T sa say J that arran arrangements O ts for company an v owns o r about abou t sixty three sixty three ca claims s Tile The I principal n-I n ncI I a 1 work vork so fur fat in In the with vi th the workings r 0 1 1 s 's sS 3 S It |
