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Show Utah Industrial Indus-trial Review Pacific Coaot Manufacturer and ' Industrial News Bureau - Aug. 4, Salt Lake City lobert C. Gemmell, genearl ,nunager of the UUih Copper X lias announced the following .iicrcase in wages: At Bingham (ttU day-labor formerly paid more itlian $!J.25 a day receive an advance ad-vance of 75 cents per day, and all day-labor paid $3.25 per day I or less receive an advance ol ,f70 cts. per day. These changes are effective as of July flflth. At the Garfield concen-rating concen-rating mills and leaching plant .wage changes are as follows: I Ml day labor formerly paid more than 15.25 per day will 'reccivo an advance of 75 v.enu, und all Juy-inbnr pud $3.25 per day or less will receive an ad-ponce ad-ponce of GO cents per day. These changes are effective as of July ilGtli. Mr. Gemmell says thatl 'present conditions do not Just-! 1fy increase made but a living. ,lwago requires It and company (is basing advance on future prospects. ; ' Snlt Lake City Crop condi- tlons in Utah aro not seriously . below normal In spite of the drouth, and there is no occasion 1 fior alarm on the part of the sugar Industry, according to J. I W. Jones, sugar beet expert for ' ,the United States Department, "of Agriculture. The monh of July will witness an actual reduction in the vol- wine of unsold copper surplus which has been piling up slnco llast November. i . A company has been incor-j porated for the purposes of prospecting pro-specting and developing tho oil territory in tho Moab valley and in tho vinclnity of Valley City, j RooBcvelt Granite school to get $7,549.98 worth improvements. improve-ments. Salt Lake G one-story buildings build-ings soon to be erected here at cost of $30,000. Mantua $200,000 club house to be built at fish hatchery near 1 here. i While educated, college and technical help Is abundant there i3 increasing scarcity of farm I md common labor over the country. i Salt Lake Emigration Can-tyon Can-tyon road to be improved. Ogden Project proposed to irrigate nearly all of Weber 'county. Salt Lake $50,000 improvc-nents improvc-nents to bo made at Wilkes theatre. Oil reported Btruck at 400 ft. n Guatavcson Oil Co's. well in Diamond Fork field. ' i Salt Lake Orders issued for Stage line to Uintah. Silversmiths report great tecarity of bar silver. One New I (York factory employing 1000 j less handH in manufacture ol silverware. Ogden $40,000 Improvements Improve-ments to be made to Shupc Williams Candy Co's. factor'. Parowan Coal mine being I opened up in Maple canyon. j Brigham City Work starts I on new $4000 business block. I Ogden Preliminary surveys of proposed Irrigation canal from Bear River being made. 1 Sandy $20,000 apartment house for school teachers to bo built Losing tho conservative fanner fann-er voto only hope of tho North Dakota Non-Partlsan league is to lino up tho labor vote. Brigham City Bonncyville Sand & Gravel Co. Incorporated. Incorporat-ed. Companies operating as reciprocal re-ciprocal of intcrinsuranco ex-clinnges ex-clinnges in Utah now number eight, some of which never before be-fore operated in the state. Lava Hot Springs State Bank to erect $25,000 building. Salt Lake Old Sierra-Nevada mill building to bo converted Into In-to modern warehouse, costing from $15,000 to $20,000. Cedar City A plan is on foot to construct a road up Parowan 'canyon. I, Conditions surrounding copp- er industry gradually improv- ling. A new high level electroly- tic copper reached in Bales foi ffl September shipment at 20 1-2 ents lb. Higher prices appeal inevitable. Supposing the state regulat-cd regulat-cd the price at which grocery 'fcupres could sell to consumer but laft the farmer free to charge 'grocers any amount he could screw out of them. Everyone Would say it was unfair and yet that is exactly position of pub-ic pub-ic utilities today. tatc to erect power line from Cedar City to St. George to sup-ply sup-ply electrical energy for mach-jnery mach-jnery and trucks used in high-ways high-ways construction. Salt Lake $1G1,203.2G con-tracts con-tracts let for street paving here, St. George Contracts let to build 29 cniles road between Enterprise and Diamond Val- Old silver mines of Utah gradually being reopened, mines which continued operations rearing to increase pi eduction. while new companies are being formed for purpose of develop-ing develop-ing properties in proved dis-tricts dis-tricts . Contract for construction of Iron county section of Cedar-Long Cedar-Long Valley National forest road let for $G4,000. Giccii River Record wool shipment of 128,000 lbs. made East Garland to get $30,000 water system, $75,000 company formed. Salt Lake Road to Zenitli mine ready for hauling. j Concrete cooling tanks at Quicksilver Mines Co. plant in 'Jersey valley completed and iurnaccB again discharging tho quick. |
