Show another utah company adopts mine store plan the management of the silver king coalition mine at park city is planning to operate a store and coal yard so that employees of the company may be enabled to purchase groceries fuel and staple lines of clothing at cost price plus a small percentage to cover the expense of handling these goods that this plan which has already given so much satisfaction at other mining properties over the country may prosper the management has purchased a coal yard and other buildings says the salt lake tribune labor conditions at park city according to mine aline manager M J dailey are more satisfactory is than they have been for months both the supply of men is more plentiful and efficiency of the labor at present available greatly increased at present the company has a larger pay roll than it has had at any time since the fourth of july of this year if as many men apply for work in the next several days as in the last week or so the company will soon be able to employ a force large enough to carry out the ambitious plans of development mapped out As fast as new men can be employed they are being put to work in order that development wor work may be kept ahead of shipping demands that sufficient labor is becoming available to do its important and interesting development work which has been held back for many weeks is a great satisfaction to the management exploration work pushed important work is being done in virgin territory on the 1100 foot level according to mr dailey on this level the quartz drift is being run to the southwest and the blood drift to the northeast both of these drifts are cutting through a lime formation close to the contact with relation to the blood drift the lime quartzite contact has been accurately located two diamond drills are being used in the quartz drift and vertical and horizontal holes are being driven to establish the horizon of the ore bearing beds the ore showings in both of these drifts is reported to be excellent on the 1300 level in the M L M section considerable development work is being done to keep ahead of operations the results of recent development between this level and the 1500 have been such as to make inake the management confident that the high grade silver lead ore along the same fissure system the obrien will be found to be persistent in the obrien fissure on the 1300 and the 1500 levels in the same lime beds as those being explored by the blood drift feet above the richest and most productive at present being exploited have been opened up should the in lime beds which pitch from ten to thirty degrees from the horizontal be persistent from the lowest horizontal level the 1500 to the surface the area will be extensive in the brown raise between the 1200 and 1300 foot levels near the cavanaugh fissure a fine of bonanza ore has been opened up according to mr dailey geological conditions and the character of the ore are afe favorable to the belief that this ore are deposit is the downward extension of the copper one of the richest and most productive mineral bodies in the mine which faulted between the eleventh and twelfth levels in the silver hill territory considerable ore is being opened up company stories success during recent months when the cost of living has mounted so rapidly the maintenance of stores by mining companies for employees has found wide favor the nevada consolidated copper company last summer started at ruth an employees commissary to distribute at cost some of the staple provisions while the plan was at first an experiment it was supported so well by the employees that the stock was increased to include practically every kind of food sundry household supplies and some kinds of clothing the saving to the average man with a family it is said amounts to fully 25 per cent of what he formerly paid although the business is financed by the company employees have a voice in the administration of affairs the following comment upon the store being operated by the judge mining smelt ing company at park city was made recently in the mining and scientific press the judge mining smelting smelling Sm elting company has just moved a stock of goods that it lately has carried for the benefit of its employees to a larger and more conveniently situated store room in the business portion of park city in utah here coupon books are to be used exclusively only employees of the judge company and its subsidiaries are to be served in the event of a man leaving the company his book is cancelled and the remaining coupons redeemed 0 N friendly the general superintendent has recently added coal to the list of things that can be purchased he is confident that he will deliver coal in two ton lots to the homes of his employees at a saving of H 4 per ton over the retail price of the coal dealers this is a considerable item in a country with a winter climate like that of park baity city mr friendly emphasizes the advantages of systematic buying in larger quantity also he believes that the employees are influenced perhaps unconsciously to im prove the character of their bill of fare by being el offered good grades of substantial and wholesome lood food shoes are sold at priced 35 per cent below those prevailing in most places the store is conducted by the company with no operative cooperative co features but the prices are only 5 per cent above the wholesale cost and there is no intention on th tha part of the company to derive profit from the business |