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Show l08 Geneva and the industries allied therewith, furnished for Utah The fact that much of the. state's rural people. grated from farms nities tunities created saw that population to urban areas incii·cates that more economic available in these urban were jobs essentially new by Geneva, the agricultural production areas as a government, result of opportu job oppor We and other industries. has not suffered tion because of increased mechanization and new mi a greatly from this migra reduced need for labor on farms. (8) Returning to an analysis the state's steel and allied industries population-growth jobs built in the state since 1940. previously of $Z, 892 reporting It W'ould to the Utah seem population growth, already covered, created at the seven and ZOO in in addition to about 14,000 new government installations The average annual wages approximated $3, installations cited were of 1950, compared $3,870, respectively, paid by these to the two averages for all industries Department of Employment Security, and for Geneva. reasonable to conclude that Geneva Steel has tended to pull Utah wage scales up, rather than down. (9) Negatively, of land, ae r e s evident that were some t.he new Geneva Steel took out of of which was many times greater than the new farm land. However, it is jobs which resulted from the plant f s oonstruction were Another thing to note is that the by high-grade production about 1,600 63, those provided by farming 000 persons who are being the land. sustained jobs created by the state's steel and .allied industries, in turn, create new demand for Utah's agricultural products. Before 1940, |
