| Show ARE WE GOING AHEAD LISTEN since the last issue of the salt lake mining review many things have happened that points uner unerringly ringi y to the fact that the metal mining business coal minin mining g railroading steel manufacturing and industrial enterprises of every kind everywhere are clearing their decks for action that they have determined to bury the pessimists of the land and go ahead those who are unable to see it are holding their field glasses wrong end to those who can not feel it are too far 9 gone one to experience a sensation of animation even though the they y should be jabbed with a pitchfork pitch fork within a comparatively few days the great steel and iron manufacturers of the country have voluntarily advanced their wage scales about 20 no one will char charge chare zat e them with having done so just for fun they know th that there is big business ahead and they propose to be ready to handle it they know of the plans being matured for a mighty campaign of railroad building and equipment they know of the demands that will soon be made upon them thein for structural materials and materials out of which all classes of machinery must be fashioned they are in a position to feel the pulse of the nation 1 and the world for that matter and they evidently have de decided e aided that there is nothing in quibbling over a few pennies a z day in a man wage scale if they are to secure manpower man power th eyare are going to require they have bigger fish to fry and nd they propose to fry them i within a few days the coal strike situation has been practically cleared up and just as sure as the surf sun shines the railroad strike situation also will be cleared up that has just GOT to happen and we believe the great b steel manufacturing concerns and the great coal mining companies will exert their powerful influence to MAKE IT HAPPEN very soon and the public will back them up the rio grande western railroad has been authorized to spend through its receiver and president in betterments the pro gramme ramme includes the laying of miles of new steel rails between denver and salt lake the utah oil refining Z co intends to spend in additions to its plant in this city the columbia steel co through 6 its road building agency is already grading for railroad lines to its iron and coal mines in the southern utah counties and the oregon short line is seeking permission to do a lot of road building in the same region on its own account all of the big mining and smelting smelling sm elting concerns of the west are greatly enlarging their facilities to handle the business of the future and as an evidence that they are being followed along these lines by smaller operators it can be truthfully said that mining 6 and milling 6 supply machinery machiner y concerns of salt lake and other western supply points are rapidly reducing b their stocks to the vanishing evanishin C point they are replenishing now and the bit big manufacturers and the railroads have got to see that their orders are filled As a result of it all the prices of metals are steadily advancing and stocks are running low this spells prosperity for the metal mining industry and when metal min in ing prospers the country prospers and strikes strife and bicke rings b s cease are we going ahead INT we e are all aboard |
