The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-26
Establishment of Gigantic Enterprise Means Dawn
OF Era for Which People Have Waited Many
Years; nsures Coming of Thousands of
Skilled and Unskilled Workmen
DEAL COMPLETED FOR FORTY-AcRE SITE
Authentic Report Is That Work of Construction
Will Begin at Once; Vast Iron Deposits in
State Will Be Developed as Result

either slngly or in groups. have been in
Salt Lake. and upon these visits studied
The situation with an exacting care. Not
only have the general officers OF the COM
pany made these visits, but their cngi-
neers have also gone over the details
with the attention Of experts.
After Careful Study.
That the Griffin people have long had
salt Lake in view as tine location for the
biggest Of their plants is shown by The
fact that the purchase Of. the site has
been accomplished by piecemeal The
first purchase was made in May of 1905
and The second In September of the same
year The present acquisition Of prop
erty, according TO the broker who man
aged the sale. has been under negotiation
since last June
The site chosen by the Griffin Wheel
company Is In every way suited to the
The location is served by the tracks OF
the big railroad systems that center in
Salt Lake. and there is ample space hard
Ge '9g t9faion n OF the factory Itself for
thousands-of homes that will be occiI-
pied by the workHen. The payroll OF
work OF manufacturing car wheels and
the incldentals TO the industry call for
the employment OF the highest class OF
skilled labor, In addition to the expert
mechanics who will draw large salaries
there VIII be an army OF unsklled labor
ers. All OF these will make their homes
In salt Lake, and as consequence there
many hundreds of thousands OF dollars
each year.
Will Open Iron Deposits.
Not the least-indeed possibly the
greatest-beDefit that will accrue from
Works ens "a sa1, Of the &c Griffin wheel
opening OF the vast iron deposits OF the
state. state 1t long ago was demonstrated
that the iron ore available in Utah is
In, v,..,,
alone. according to reports of experts
there is enough iron TO supply the world
with iron and steel for centuries To come
With the coming OF an Industrial enter
prise that requires vast quantities of
iron ore in its business, there can be no
question that these great deposits will
time
1t is not TO be imagined, of course.
on1I 6nas sn-os sne car wheel wheel works viii be the
this iron ore. Presently there will be
call for the mineral from all parts of
the land; with the opening of the iron
more factories that produce iron manu-
factures: and so. within a few years
there will be an amazing number Of iron
In Importance. the erection of the Grif-
fin wheel works here may he compared
with the coming of the International
10 Garfield and the United States smelter
TO N1idvale. with this difference: that
In the operation of smelling plants the
works are necessarily remote from the
city OH account of poisonous fumes and
the unskilled labor far outnumbers the
skilled. In the manufacture OF the pro-
ducts Of the Griffin company, the re-
verse la true with reference to labor.
The wheel works employs far more
skilled labor than Unskilled and as
consequence its. payrolls are much larger.
III view of these facts. then, 1t must
be "A source OF congratulatlon to the peo-
pie OF Salt Lake when they read this
article in The Tribune this morning fer
certainly II seems that the beginning of
Utah's real industrial era is dawnlng