Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-22 | Page 16 | Makes Alta Tunnel Everybody's Mine

MAKES AU ALTA A TUNNEl EVERYBODY'S MINE Manager Bodfish Inaugurates Novel Method of Helping the unemployed It Is the plan of the tile company to tomake tomake tomake make the Alta AIta Tunnel and Trans Trans- property mine as s long as unemployment Is rife In Inthe Inthe inthe the mining camps declared Mana Manag Manag- er r Fred V. V Bodfish Monday Monda Waiving profits for the time being be ing we will wUl give as many men as we can accommodate a 0 chance to earn arn a living Jiving for themselves and lam fame lies We have housing room for tor only about 15 but bu i It is our hope that on the he demonstration of the success of our plan mines all aU over the west now low Idle will wUl follow our example Our scheme went Into effect a 2 month and a half ago with two men working Here Is is' the first result of the experiment Mr Bodfish held out a settlement sheet heet of one Olle of the smelters giving returns on tons of ore from the he Alta Tunnel mine in Silver SUver fork of f Big Cottonwood canyon The set set- price net was Value of ot the silver sUver content per ton was 1971 lead 1895 and copper 35 cents The plan is made possible by the willingness of the men to work for what they can make and the Ule willingness willing ness of ot the company to give them Ahem the proceeds of the ore they take out We have hundreds of feet teet of mineral veins on which the men can go to work at once without putting In a aday aday aday day on development The ore can be made to 00 pay even at present metal prices rices by careful picking and sorting sort sort- ing ng at the face fa of the drilL drift drift Under ordinary conditions the face fae would be b blasted out and the themas mass mas broken broken re ore broken ore and waste wast together would go to the mill mm Men by ex ev ti-a ti tr ra work ork and pains pais can a save ae e for themselves them selves selve the thet cost t of unscrambling Eventually we may make mke something by treating In i the mill what the men reject in sorting We Ve will also al benefit by jy having new ground gound opened u up but ut we are not looking for or expecting expect expect- big ing ig any profit from current curent ship ship- ments If II I we can c make life happier and more comfortable for the te victims of of the he depression without actual atal loss los t to the he stockholders which will not be incurred we feel that we will be 0 doIn doing dong do- do In ing ng a good go thing and starting a polIcy polIcy pol- pol Icy cy that ought to 00 be adopted as a a humanitarian hu hu- liu- liu measure by every ever mine in ina a similar to ours our There are for instance hundreds of dumps that cannot cot be made to pay wages but would provide an emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency Income for unskilled men Why material not make use us of at such wasted Mr Bodfish has increased his hi force of unemployed workers to nine anc and expects expect long to have H 14 1 or 15 a busy before