The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-05

Where all the men are coming from
that will be required to handle the big
list of weighty undertakings that are
already under way and being planned
for the early spring in the realm Of
mining, milling and smelling is a sub
jeet that is beginning to bother the
brains of the men and corporations
that have them in hand The require
ments four or five months hence VII Re
several times what they are today and
as il is, it is next to impossible TO find
men, teams and equipment enough TO
dispose of the work now in hand.
At the first approach of settled
weather and the disappearance of the
SHOWS from the canyons. zoo or 800 men
will be needed 10 build the brOad-gauge
railroad and tTamWay from the valley
smeiters to the camp of Alta and, by
the time that work can be commenced
as many more men viii he needed in
the mines of that rapidly growing
camp. The installation of the new
rover plant i'll the mouth of the canyon
leading to Alta, the building of another
big dam and power plant in the Big
Cottonwood canyon, just this side, to-
gether with the string of poles and
wires into the valley and up 20 the diff
ferent camps. viii call for not less than
500 more men, teams etc, so to relieve
the situation on that side Of the valley
will call for a total OF over 1000 men.
Many Needed at Garfield.
Within ninety days at the outside
the 500 or 200 men now employed in
building the new smelters of the Amer
lean Smelling & Refining company and
doing preliminary work at the sites of
the monster milling plants of the Utah
Copper and Boston Consolidated COM
panieS VIII have 10 be increased to
1,500 at least. The building Of the new
town OF Garfield and the railroads that
will feed the mills and smelters with
ores, fiuxes, fuel, etc, will demand cas-
lily 1900 more.
AS soon as all this work is far
enough advanced 10 justify il, every
contributing mine in Bingham will
need TO double its force TO get things
in readiness for the enormous ship
ments that will follow It Is safe to
say, therefore. that by May l 5000
more men than are now employed in
the section mentioned will have to
come from somewhere.
Added to this is the constantly in
creasing army that is being hurried
into the building field Of the Western
Pacific across the desert and skirting
the Deep Greek mining country. Be
tween the point of the mountain west
of town and the Nevada state line it
is estimated that 2.000 men will be at
work by the end of the year Pipe
lines are now being laid for a distance
Of forty miles through the desert coun-
try TO insure pure water for the forces
that are being rrarshalled. and. if it
is possible to secure them, the chances
are all in favor of twice the number of
men mentioned being employed on that
section OF the road
Deep Creek Has Boom.
Deals for Deep Greek mining prop
erty are now pending and everybody
in that rich mineral section is claiming
that the road will not be finished
across the 100 miles or more of desert
until there is a genuine boom on.
Eastern capital that has long had an
eye on the Deep Greek country is
right now hurrying engineers into the
field and some of the better known
properties are being sought. As the
mines and prospects change hands ana
money is provided TO handle them, hun
dTeds Of miners and mechanics will be
required out there
Instances OF this character might be
mentioned without number New en-
terprises IN the mining regions from
one end of the state to the other could
be included 10 show that the winter
spring and the coming year. to say
nothing of the years 10 rolloW. will de-
mand so much i'm the way OF men and
material that it is. in reality, a grave
question as to where the demand is
going to be supplied.