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Show I The Ghost Walks -,.- ' ..; s "f . C r? I f V " r- - -o - ' - "iNV V" rf" j-x,:, -t J- ... V. 1 - . V --' 5 " " . V" ... -vW It's a happy day at the mines when the "ghost walks". Twice each month the "ghost walks" at the Utah Copper mine at Bingham. This ghost, however, runs on wheels, and it is a welcomed sight when the car rounds a turn at the huge copper pit, for it's pay day. Owing to the large number of men employed and the fact that the mine Is working day and night, the Utah Copper company has adopted this unique system of paying the men. Pay envelopes are loaded, on the car and stops are made at various levels to disburse payments to a group of workers, as is shown In the above photo. Every worker knows the expression expres-sion "ghost walks" and when It walks at the Utah Copper company It really walks. Normally the com- I pany employs at the mine, mllh and railroad about 4,000 men, rep resenting an annual payroll ol $7,500,000. This would mean that the mine pays out more than a half million dollars each month when conditions are somewhere near normal. Up to June 30, 1937, the Utah Copper had paid in wages $119,087,-433. $119,087,-433. had spent $146,141,202 for power, supplies, services, etc., and paid out $39,562,309 in federal, state, county and city taxes. Smelting, Smelt-ing, freight, refining charges totaled $132,6S0,6S0. The mine has produced nearly 44 billion pounds of copper since its Inception, which has required the expenditure of $347,000,000 In Utah for wages, supplies, freight, taxes, etc. |