| Show UTAH MINES INCREASE WAGES notice of an increase of 75 cents a day effective july 16 was posted yesterday at the park city and tintic gintic mines in the future the following scale for the various classes of mine labor will be paid machine man helper 5 miner 5 laborer 4 helper 5 cage rider donkey engineer 5 first motion hoisting engineer second motion hoisting engineer 5 and machinist ch inist 5 increases of wages of all men employed at the bingham mines has been agreed to by the principal mining companies notices were posted yesterday at the properties of the utah copper company at bingham and garfield that the amount of the advance would be announced within a week mines agreeing to an increase in the bingham district also include united states mining company utah consolidated utah metal tunnel and the bingham mines company the action taken at tintic gintic and park city of increasing wages 75 cents a day re lishes the maximum wartime scale of july 1918 when operations were curtailed fully 50 per cent in consequence of the destructive slump in metal prices operators are said to feel that this increase has been granted in anticipation of improved metal market conditions and in recognition of the fact that the cost of living remains as high as during the war it if in the near future expectations with regard to metal prices are not realized it is probable that some properties will suspend operations erat ions inasmuch as many were not meeting operating expenses under the scaled scale prevailing before the present increase statistics recently compiled and published show that utah metal mine dividends in the first half of this year were 43 per cent less than in the corresponding period of last year state and federal taxes which are an important item in the operation of the larger properties are very much higher than last year this consideration alone alona more than offsets the moderate reductions made in a few lines of mine supplies since the first of the year moreover quotations quotation on all principal utah atall metals with the exception of silver which is about five points higher are well below the prices prevailing last july when the equivalent of the present new scale was established salt lat lake tribune july 19 |
