| Show MINING INDUSTRY ENJOYS BIG BD M PA PAYROLL Y OLD WILL FILL ILIJ n REACH ACU Coal ConI Mites Minos or of State Slate Will 1 Y ll Increase e the Working Force as a JL- JL I Result of or orthe the High Price o of Copper el ne Beginning May flay 1 the Utah Copper company compan the American Smelting and Refining Refining- company the BIngham Garfield railroad the United States Smelting Refining and Mining company company company com com- pany and several of the smaller copper copper cop cop- per mines in Utah will operate on full fun time and thie thO pa pay rolls which have havo been gradually Jally increasing since February February Feb Feb- will amount to each month The coal mines In Carbon county Count will put more men to work and th enormous contracts which the the- smelters have for spot copper to be furnished England Eng and the allies mean that the mines and smelters will continue continue con con- running on full fun time until October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 1 I at least Tuesday copper men said there thero was not a pound of copper in the United States which had not been sold and jand the smelters have ma made mado o contracts for fut future re delivery ery to England England England Eng Eng- land in such quantities that It was has announced that the tho copper supply of Utah is cornered 1 by y England The Utah Copper company has been adding gradually to its force of men menat menat menat at the Bingham Dingham mines for two months but the great demand for Cor copper since April has decided the company to return to full working capacity The mine which had been running on half t time me will have a full fun night and day shift from now note on with the exception ex exception exception ex- ex that there will not be as man many strippers stripper at work Tho rho smelters will be placed on full fun time May lt 1St t tan an and the 1200 men who were laid off at atthe atthe the tho outbreak of the tho European war when the demand for copper fell away below helow normal will return to work The rhe mills at Magna and Arthur have ha keen been running on full time for fifteen Says and the Garfield smelter will be bo placed on full time toda today More Iole Motive e Pow Power cr The Bingham Garfield railroad which when the retrenchment order was made white-leaded white two of Its Mallet Mallet engines engines and six switching engines engines engines en en- gines took them out of ot white lead Tuesday and have placed them In ser ser- vice The increased operations of ot the mines mineE at Bingham necessitates more mor motive power on the Bingham Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field than is in use at present Switching Switching Switching Switch Switch- ing and train crews which were laid I off indefinitely last September will be be- put back hack to work by the Bingham Garfield and the section hands and carpenters who vho were laid off ore also wilt will go to work The monthly pay rolls of the Utah Copper company and the Bingham Garfield railroad together with the mills at Magna and Arthur will amount to The placing ortho of or- tho the smelters on full time will 1 bring ring the total pay rolls at those places to to- a month During the time the retrenchment order was in effect the Utah Copper company's pay roll including the Bingham Dingham Garfield was approximately a month The rhe opening up of the copper mines mines- on full time means that the pay rolls will be doubled led Coal Mines t to Benefit With the placing of the smelters on full time the demand for coal It is said will trill be Increased per c cent nt and notice has already been sent to the Utah Fuel company the Utah Coal Sales agency and to the independent mines In Carbon county that the smelters smelters will nee need twice as much coal as the they are getting at at thi this time The rhe Denver Rio JUo Grande Grand railroad will benefit from the re resumption of operations operations opera opera- on full time and it will be necessary necessary necessary sary for the tho road to place at least twelve twel new freight trains on the Utah grand division to handle the tho traffic from the tho coal fields to tho the smelters The rhe demand for copper has Increased ed until Tuesday it was quoted at 18 cents the highest price it has reached since 1907 when It went to 26 cents cents- a 3 pound and then dropped to u 3 cents cents' a pound It Is expected by mining men that copper will wil go to 2 25 cents cents- before all the tho contracts are arc filled s- s I |
