Show the utah chapter in 1 n 1917 1 by MURRAY SCHICK S CHICK many of the problems arising from the entrance of the united states into the corid horld war were directly connected with the mining industry and called for concerted action by mine operators in states where no organizations existed associations were formed hastily to meet the exigencies of the situation in utah the machinery of the utah chapter of the american mining congress met all requirements and was of distinct benfit both to the mining interests and the united states government through the chapter government officials were able to communicate quickly with metal producers the records of the chapter afforded desired data on short notice and through the organization the operators were enabled to show the inadvisability of measures whose execution would have been disastrous to the government as well as to the mines collection of data for a professional paper on tile the alta cottonwood mining district begun by the geological survey in 1916 at the instance of the utah chapter was completed in 1917 and much valuable information was obtained this will appear later in official form the chapter was the medium by which the operators operated cooperated co in meeting a very difficult labor problem in the early part of the summer their collective action resulted in the adoption of a uniform wage scale the result of which has been to reduce the shifting t of employed emp loyes from mine to mine the chapter was the first business organization of the state to declare in favor of the principle of work mens compensation when that matter was brought before the legislature after the law had been enacted the chapter on its own owl ANI and jit its salt lake cuy city utah own cost brought a noted authority on work mens compensation to utah to study tile the situation here for the benefit of the state industrial commission and the mining industry copies of his report were furnished to the industrial commission as well as to members of the chapter the utah chapter has sought to give mine prospecting and development the fullest support the chapter in operation cooperation co with the state school of mines and the united states bureau of mines assisted in providing free courses in prospecting at the university of utah and furnishing free qualitative analyses of mineral specimens for prospectors all possible assistance was given the bureau of mines rescue car when it visited utah and officials of the bureau say this attitude was of value in making the tour of the car successful tile the chapter has participated as an organization and through its members individually in various worthy public movements such as the red cross fund and the liberty loans the chairman of tile the liberty loan state committee is a member men ber of the chapter Cli apter and an active mine operator operator when the defects of the war excess profits clause of the income tax law became glaringly apparent and the silver producers were threatened with a price limitation that would have put many mines out of business the utah chapter took upon itself most of the work of arranging a conference of western metal miners the conference was held in salt lake city in november and committees were sent to washington D C to present tile the relationship between the government ern ment and the mines to the law makers in its true light this representation has already forest forestalled ailed the blow at silver mining and there is reason to hope that a tion of the excess profits tax law so far as as it relates to mines and oil wells will be secured A regular part of the chapters work has been the publication for the use of members of legislative and other useful information in all instances where desirable the subject matter is annotated and indexed so as to make its purport readily ascertainable the state Work mens compensation law the new national income and war tax laws and the resolutions suspending mining assessment work are subjects that have been thus treated recently tile the chapter is growing steadily in ill strength and prestige it has accomplished in large part its purpose to unite those engaged in mining in the state and to give them service of direct value much work lies ahead but the achievements of the thirty months since the chapter was formed justify the conviction that its usefulness to t the ie industry has been fully demonstrated the officers and directors of the utah chapter are as follows A B apperson vice president united states fuel company governor walter fitch president chief consolidated mining company first vice governor C E allen alien manager of mines united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining and mining company second vice governor J william knight of the knight interests third vice governor L B mccornick vice president mccornick co bankers treasurer J F cowan fred cowans J C dick R J evans R C gemmell Ge minell norman W haire john M hayes thomas kearns G W lambourne C E loose duncan macvichie J C mcchrystal imer pett E J E S solon spiro IF J westcott C W whitley and william wraith |