Show trade and construction construct Con on notes the griffin wheel company has let the contract for the construction of the buildings for its new salt lake plant which will be located on a fourteen acre site at eighth west and eighth north streets it is understood the work on the buildings will commence at once while definite construction plans have not been completed the saratoga mining company crown king arizona R S patterson superintendent has completed the sampling of the mine and analysis of ore and is studying the type of mill best suited plans for the mill will be drawn up at an early date A small test mill with a capacity of ten tons per day erected by the good hope mining and reduction company at bearcreek Bear creek colorado seems to be a success according to A S sturgeon of silverton colorado A chemical process is being used and if the mill continues to be successful it is planned to install a larger plant edson S pettis reno metallurgist and mill man has gone to inyo county calif to build a small concentrator for the sierra vista mining company to treat gold silver lead ore the company is owned by four eastern men and the property which consists of twenty one mining claims five miles north of bishop the utah construction company has received word that the contract for building the gibson dam in montana had been awarded to the ogden company the company received word several weeks ago that it was low bidder with a figure of which was assurance that the contract would be awarded later the gibson dam will be an auxiliary in the sun river project and will have a capacity of acre feet J R of birmingham ala president of the pacific states cast iron pipe company of provo is in salt lake for the purpose of conferring with D H botchford of san francisco vice president george E sibbett general and L E rains director manager on plans for the plant mr and his associates will spend starting the major portion of their time in provo where they will in the plant now under construction work on the plant is being done by the provo foundry and machinery company and other local concerns at the recent sale of the plant of the solvay process company which culminated disastrously for the promoters of the proposition the morse bros machinery supply company of denver were the successful bidders for the entire works including all machinery and equipment the purchasers are now dismantling the plant and it is understood the machinery equipment and buildings everything will be placed on the bargain counter by morse bros as soon as the inventory is completed the plant erected to recover salt and other valuable products from the brines of the great salt lake cost a great deal of money and as it was not operated to any extent the machinery and equipment is said to be in first class condition improved road projects in eastern utah proposed or now in course of construction aggregate more than according to ira R browning chief engineer of the state road commission who gave an outline of highway improvement in eastern utah in answer to an inquiry from the price chamber of commerce this includes four projects west of castlegate Cast legate the castlegate nolan red narrows section red narrows thistle and thistle astella strips the complis commission also expects to arrange with carbon county for the construction next spring of the price cat canyon project at a i cost of about the engineer said the mileage b covered by the foregoing projects and approximate cost of each is given as follows castlegate nolan miles red narrows section miles red narrows thistle miles thistle castella miles |