Show FOR THE BENEFIT OF EMPLOYEES by W H korns A recent visit isit to the silver king coalition mines and mills at park city utah revealed a continuation of the development and improvement that has marked the progress of this titanic property since its inception and especially so under the of james humes the editor of the mining review is aware of the tidy clean appearance and systematic methods employed in and about every branch of the coalition mines the mills and sampler store house and from the woodworking wooda working shop to the machine shops but he may not know that a force of painters have been employed continuously for more than a year in brightening up all the buildings on the outside and whitewashing them within the several bunkhouses like the homes of the foremen assayer chemist and superintendents of the several branches of the works are quite as modern as the most cosmopolitan homes of the city with steam heat hot and cold water shower baths and electrically lighted and all miners in every camp in the land have heard of the famed dining hall which is run as a loss to the company of several thousand dollars a year it is pertinent to ask what other company would suffer such extravagance yet it is mr kearns orders and lie he insists that no food is too good for men who do hard labor plans are drawn for a gigantic chemical mill to be erected with the opening of the coming spring but the latest word in modern conveniences for miners is a change room which is not a room at all but a building complete in itself about thirty by seventy feet with a sixteen foot ceiling this building of reinforced concrete is not yet comple completed but still in the course of erection is fireproof and is to be equipped as all other company buildings with radiation heat lights private dressing rooms shower baths etc it will be equipped with devices for lifting the mens clothing to the height of the ceiling for drying the plans for this improvement were designed and drawn by mr humes superintendent in charge and we opine will be copied by other progressive mining companies |