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Show Published Every Saturday by goodwin8 weekly publishing A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager SHSFSKI, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ing poriage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, fcrsix mcrins. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal COh INC. E $50 per y ear. 7 Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake under Act of March 3, 1879. the City, Utah, Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- 13 . UTAH'S MINERAL WEALTH It may noi be generally known outside of mining id that Utah led the Union in the production of circles, but it is minerals in the r just past 1924. Over 66 millions of dollars was dug out of the It and and mining properties paid over 10 millions in dividends. ko a noteworthy fact that Utahs mining industries supply over 85 cent of the freight traffic which originates within the state. The Lai and smelters give employment to nearly 20,000 men and total more than 30 millions of dollars-Withi(itd inqual payrolls 26 miles of this city is the Utah Copper Company, the mine in the world. Within 90 miles is the Tintic jest adard mine, one of the three largest silver mines on earth. We enough coal to supply the entire country and an unlimited sup-o- f iron deposits which assures fuel and supplies for manufactur-purposeWe are also blessed with immense stores of electric rer which lias become the favorite power of our mines and mills. We have the largest veins of hydrocarbons, gilsonite and elater-foun- d anywhere in the world, and these adjoin the oil shales and 1 deposits. There is an unlimited supply of raw materials for king cement, gypsum and plasters, and Utah also put out more cnic than any other state. We have large stores of phosphate rock I IT potash for making fertilizers. Utah has every essential known Krai, fuel and gas, and many streams which have been harnessed lie Utah Light and Power company for electrical power. Utah is centrally located in the middle west and is a natural dis-- o wring point for raw and manufactured materials, and holding the lit iy position it should in the next few very fast. progress years J s ot-jnill- n steam-shov- el s. PARLEYS DAM. When the Parleys canyon Mountain Dell dam was built, it was constructed that if more water was desired to be stored an addition lie height of the dam could be added little cost. However, at very addition was found necessary, it was also discovered that in krto add height to the old reservoir it would be necessary to rein- the old foundation. from the general appearance of Judging old dam, the city commissioners did not act any too soon in because the old dam has every appearance of ug very unsafe, notwithstanding all that has been said to the concn the ent pro-reinforcem- tjiAn inspection of the dam will show that the cement is peeling Htjinany places and deep furrows in the dam show where the has fallen away. How long it would take for the structure to e and gve way is uncertain, but at the rate it was going the could not have lasted longer than four or five years, and it Wave out at any time. : been a seepage of water through various parts of the iJj tilfreezing zero weather. The water in the cement Urjng nal' .illy disintegrated the artificial rock structure. This ion is i;, Ua jn cement dams. The engineers of the Utah go - Light and Power company have built many large dams and not any of them are pealing through weather conditions. Dams in Canada where the thermometer drops to 50 and 60 degrees below zero are affected in no way. Why then is this dam pealing? Some time ago a prominent contractor of this city made the statement at the Commercial club at a meeting of business men that the dam was the sloppiest job he had ever seen and he did not believe it would hold. Cement men say that if the proper mixture of cement is poured, water will not go through nor will the cement peal because of excessive cold weather conditions. If that is a fact, then why does the Mountain Dell dam peal and why was not the proper mixture used in the first construction? It is a very serious matter to back up millions of gallons of water in a direct path of a city by an inferior dam. Now that the old dam is going under reconstruction, the citizens of Sugarhousc ward should see to it that every precaution is taken to place the former old dam in a safe condition. According to the East Salt Lake Times of April 10, a committee of southeast investigators reported the dam absolutely safe. On this committee were M. 0. Ashton, Edward Laird, Andrew Davidson, J. B; Keddington and Jack Burt, who in company with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen and Commissioner T- T. Burton, made the inspection. The editor of this paper also made an inspection of this dam last Saturday and found the old dam disintegrating. There has been much talk of this dam of late and it is not held as safe as it should be. The people have been advised that it is perfectly safe, but there are many prominent people of this city who will say that the old dam was not - safe- EnThis is too serious a proposition to fool with. Lynch-Canno, the dam. It is gineering Co-- was awrded the contract of heigtening their contract to Enoch Smith, who is now in said that they charge of the work at the dam. This switching of so important a con: tract from one to another, and both expect to make money out of it is a matter that should be weighed mighty carefully. The lives of thousands of people are at stake and millions of dollars of property flourishes under this dam. Therefore the city should see to it that the dam be constructed in the best possible manner with the best possible supervision it can secure. If The Citizen had its say in this matter, we would place a man like Pat Moran in charge of this dam and tell him to go ahead and hold and we know that when the job was put in a dam that woulld completed that it would stand the test. AlThe Citizen honestly believes that it was the will of the the old dam was ordered at this time mighty that the reconstruction of and this city has been saved a great catastrophe. Now is the time for the people to see that they are given every in right, there is no need for any fear. protection. If the dam is put n sub-lease- d . |