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Show UTAH'S METAL MINES LEAD STATE PAYROLLS Metal mining is Utah's top industry in-dustry as far as size of payroll goes, B. L. Flanagan, executive director of the Dept. of Employment Employ-ment Security, announced today. According to a survey of 15 of the state's leading industries, covering cov-ering a three-year period from 1944 through 1946, the state's ten metal mining companies account-d account-d for 7.9 percent, or $49 754,923, of the total industrial payroll of $630,932,426. The survey included 582 firms in the state's 15 leading industries. Matal mining topped the list despite de-spite a six months' labor strike from January to June in 1946, which dropped payrolls from $16,-803,047 $16,-803,047 for 1945 to $13,821,183, the report disclosed. Foods and kindred industries had the second highest payroll percentage in the state, accounting account-ing for 7.3 percent or $46,000,037 for three years. Biggest payroll increase from , 1945 to 1946 was noted in the in dependent wholesale business which jumped from $9,950,814 an: nual payroll to $14,830,901. Smallest payrolls among the industry in-dustry was in personal services. Seventy-two individual establishment establish-ment payrolls accounted for only million total for the three-year 2.2 percent of the more than $630,-period, $630,-period, which was $13,859,834. |