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Show rial and the railroad companies are, coming com-ing in for a good share of the money tn the hauling of material. The first estimate on the total amount of money that will be expended was no less than $6,000,000, and with building the town at Garfield, putting In an electric lighting plant, a system of waterworks and many other items that were not previously considered. It is quite probable that there will be easily spent as much as 110,000,000 for the purpose of converting some of the refractory refrac-tory ores of Utah to a commercial basis. . This imroence amount of money Is only one of the items represented In the mining mi-ning industry of Utah, aa there are now in operation mills and smelting plants representing several times this amount of money, though the ten millions appropriated appro-priated by these three companies in a very short, time, would have required a years debate In the Congress of our Nation and provided the amount had been voted -by the lawmakers. It would have been the burning Issue In the coming campaign that would have aroused the entire Nation. Na-tion. ,- I . t WORK AT GARFIELD. Few people, not even among the mining - men, have any conception of the wonderful wonder-ful amount of work that Is being done on the two mills and the smelting plant, and the amount of money that is being ex- pended by the companies that are constructing con-structing these institutions at Garfield. According to the contracts that have been let and the plans that have been arranged ar-ranged all of these plants will have the steel structural work for the buildings that are to house the machinery completed before the winter season sets In again. and the equipment is to be on band in due time so that everything can be put in position indoors during the winter ""provided these plans work out, snd there is every reason to believe all will go as planned, in one year from date the Boston Bos-ton Consolidated reduction plant will be grinding out no less than 6000 tons of raw material dally. -with the Utah Cop-i Cop-i per Plant handling the same amount of stuffT while the smelting plant will have the furnaces eating up all of these con- - centrates In addition to a big tonnage of custom stuff from other copper producers, such as the Cactus mines in Beaver coun- tyVhile there is a great army of men employed at these plants, excavating and laving the foundations, there will be a great deal of expert labor required on the structural work, and In placing the machinery In place there will be several thousand men .kept busy day and night, for every day in the year as soon as these clants are placed In active operation. In addition to the thousands of dollars that Is being paid to the laborers for the wc;-k tfcere la a fceayjr item Xocifao wato A ' |
