Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-01 | Page 2 | Want Smelters to Continue Operation

' WMT SVELTERS TO ! COIIIE IPERtTltl! Citizens of Murray and Sandy Will Try and Effect Adjustment. Murray and Sandy business men, with other merchants in that section of tho valley, have decided to muko a determined deter-mined effort to got the fanners aud the smelter .people together for one moro conference over the smelter question. At a big mass mooting, hold Monday night n Murray, tho following committee commit-tee was appointed to wait on .1, B. Jiisquo of tlio Highland Boy smelter aud ascertain upon what conditions the smt'ltcrmen will agroo to meet tho farmers, farm-ers, Mayor JJransford, Orson Hewlett, .John P. Calioon, Mayor lirown of Murray, Mur-ray, W. W. Wilsou, Mayor .Tunseu of Sundv, W. P. Cooper of" West Jordan, and Mr. McDonald of Jiiugham Junction. Junc-tion. TIu'b committee visited Mr. Risque Tuesday morning and was informed that lie would consider any proposition the farmers or anyouo representing them had to make. Tho committee expressed an intention of hunting up the original signers of the petition for tho injunction issued against the smelters und securing their consent to a continuation of operation by the smelters, for several mouths at least. It litis becu ascertained Mint the .Qigli-laud .Qigli-laud Boy smolter employs JUS men of American birth, 220 of whom aro married, mar-ried, and that 518 children aro dependent depend-ent on the men for support. At the United States smelter there aro 1300 men at work, drawing $35,000 a month in paj, About half the men arc Americans.