CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-08-11
4 PROMISING PROPERTY.
The Royal Gorge Coal Company
Preparing to Increase Its Ca
pacity for Taking Out The
Black Diamonds. Will
Build Railroad Track
To The Mine.

The Royal Gorge Coal Company,
which was organized about two years
ago, has pursued the even tenor Of its
way through the Industrial ups and
downs of that period and is today one
of the most prosperous enterprises of
the kind in this section of the Ar
kansas Valley. 1t has been saying
nothing and saving wood. or, more
correctly speaking, taking out coal,
while most of its competitors have
been unable to successfully carry on
their business operations on account of
the distressing labor strikes, iniuring
alike the employer and the employe.
The Royal Gorge Company began
mining in a small way, and, while not
By any means large concern yet, has
steadily increased its output in spite of
all embarrassments and is now taking
out something like one hundred car
loads 4 month. considerable part of
which finds its way into Kansas for
consumption. 1t has not neglected the
local market, and during the more
strenuous day OF the strike last winter
the major part of the coal used in
Canon City came from its mine. So
well did it meet the requirements OF
the home trade that il had no difficulty
in establishing itself in public favor
and many customers prefere its pru-
duct to the coal from other mines
In addition TO a large clientele of
small consumers it supplies the Colo
rado Electric Power Company and the
penitentiary with all fuel needed for
heating and steam making purposes.
which is eloquent testimony in favor OF
the efficiency OF its product for work of
that character. Aside from taking out
coal for market the company has had
lot OF dead work to do in opening up
its property for future development,
which ha. necessitated the expendi-
ture Of considerable sum of money
upon which there was no immediate
realization. The company i. exploiting
its property, in a systematic manner,
preferring to make haste slowly in
stead of pursuing get-rich-duick
policy that would prove disastrous in
the future.
The mine is now so well opened up
that a much larger force of men could
be worked IL they could be had, but the
labor market is not as plethoric as
many people suppose and mining men
are hard to get by reason of the ex-
istence OF the strike throughout the
Arkansas Valley. At present there are
about forty-iive men on the company's
pay roll thirty of whom are coal
miners. the remainder being teamsters
and employees connected with the
hoisting plant The company pays
semi-monthly and has never yet de-
faulted when pay day came around
The company is compelled to haul
its coal to Canon City, distance of
two and one-half miles, to load it on
the cars. but arrangements are being
made to build spur to the mine from
the Santa Fe branch running out to
the Empire Zinc Company's plant,
nearly . mile away, and when the
track 10 laid it will save the six or
seven hundred dollars now paid to
teamsters in hauling its coal to Canon
City. II the necessary labor could be
bad the company could take out four
or five cars of coal every day, instead
of half that amount which is now the
case.
A new incline of larger capacity than
the one now in use is being opened up.
and on its completion the output OF