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Show The Christensen Construction Con-struction Company XT Is always good medicine to have a man tell you that "business "busi-ness Is good;" especially so, when the man is a substantial payroll builder. If, as is often said, the mainspring of success in modern business is optimism, opti-mism, then Mr. D. H. Christensen, the president and general manager of the Christensen Construction Company, surely deserves all the good things that are coming his way. According to Mr. Christensen, his company is enjoying an unusually profitable period and has work planned ahead that will make 1917 the banner year. After completing the big job on the capitol grounds, the main force of this concern was shifted to the Deep Creek country, where it was engaged in grading a fifteen-mile stretch of the new railroad running south from Wendover into the region now under development. This contract con-tract has been just recently completed. com-pleted. This year -the company will scatter its operations over a wide territory. It Is engaged at present on several jobs of considerable size. Included in the work contracted for and now under un-der way, are two draglines for the Utah. Copper Company; the building of a dyke and the changing of the lines of the Western Pacific and the San Pedro railroads at certain points, which work involves the moving of 300,000 yards of material, most of which comes from below the water level. One steam shovel is at work excavating near the acid plant at the Garfield Smelting Company, and the company is operating "two steam shovel camps on the grading of the new Union Pacific line in Wyoming. In addition to the work already stated, stat-ed, the Christensen company has subcontracts sub-contracts under the Utah Construction Construc-tion Company 'for work under way for the Utah Copper Company and the Union Pacific railroad. The yard and repair shops of this company are located at Murray, between be-tween the Denver & Rio Grande and the Oregon Short Line tracks. The main offices are maintained in this city in the Felt building. Associated with Mr. D. H. Christensen in the control con-trol of the company's affairs are: G. M. Paulson, secretary; L. H. Hersilt, vice president and treasurer; J. F. Derbidge, vice president and auditor; and A. It. Christensen, assistant sec retary. These men are all live wires and are bending their onergies to the task of making a still better recdrd for the big company. |
