Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29
Within a Year il viii Give an Ex-
ira Daily Output Of Fully
1000 Tons.
MEANS MUCH TO THIS CITY,
Work Has Already Begun on a
Large Scale and Facts Are
0btalnable for First Time.
Personnel OF the Men Who Comprise
The Company and the Stock They
Subscribed For.

Subscribed For.
Quietly and unostentatiously work ia
now being pushed by the Independents
Coal & Coke company in Carbon coun-
~ with every indication that by next
fall daily output OF 1000 tons OF coal
will be shipped. This coal, say experts,
Is second TO none in the State OF Utah.
Government experts further have gone
on record as estimating the amount OF
this coal as running $1,000 tons to the
acre, or for the $50 ceres acquired by
the company a grand total OF 5I,2OOOQo
tonsl
This reads like an excerpt from q
prospectus OF wildcat company.
However when It is stated ON the au-
thonty OF G. y. Strevell and James
H. Patterson Of thio city, who are
heavily interested in the proposition,
that there Is no stock In the company
for sale and that they have been APP
preached By big smelling concerns to
sell out their interests and have refused
Ia consider any proposition of this
character, II Is due for all interested In
the coal situation to take notice.
GRADING WORK COMMENCED.
That the new company which quiet
ly filed It's articles with the secretary
OF state week ago tonight means bust
ness il instanced by reports that come
from Helper that already work has
commenced on grading from Bull Hol-
ftnipf ffaflaq distant
from Helper to connect with the Rio
Grande main line, AT the junction Of
the proposed line and the Rio Grande
tracks. about one mile east OF Helper.
the new coal company has secured l6D
acres OF land where are TO be located
tipples, coke ovens and townste,
In addition to the lands which have.
been acquired quietly during the past
three months, mostly from the Old
Utah Coal & Coke company, which was
organized three years ago with cap
ital OF 100000 divided into 100000
shares of the par value OF 81 each and
which came near dying natural death.
| owing to the car situation, the new
company has secured the old Aber-
| deem property.
Just TO cite what the new company
| has Il Is only necessary to stnte tina.
the Aberdeen property consists OF a
unique and important and valuable
coal mine located near Price from
which this city has secured Its coal
for 10 years.
SOLID COAL WALLS.
The property o. entirely undeveloped.
| but there Is enough to show a wonder
full wealth OF coal. The Aberdeen
| property consists of tunnel 200 feet
| i'm length through which wagons are
driven and loaded In big chamber
that has been dug out during the past
10 years whenever the citizens OF Price
needed load OF coal. To the News
this morning Mr.. Strevel stated that
this tunnel In part of the way made up
OF solid coal walls, ceiling and floor
and that underneath there are posi- :
bly, 800 tons OF slack that have been
ground out by the wheels of wagons
inside OF the chamber proper Is space
for possibly 30 wagons that has been
dug out II is affirmed that a man can
stand on the spring seat OF wagon
and yet not be able TO touch the coal
overhead with his hand.
Such was the story told by Mr.. Sire
veil TO the News this morning and
II sounded in these piping days OF coal
famine like the offer OF glass OF ice
water TO a perlshing prospector II
Death valley.
Nor was this all for, according "a
the story told the Aberdeen acquisition
ia but a detail for the real work OF
development ia now going on at Bull
Hollow, over a mile distant, where q
tunnel is being bored into the noun
tain which will tap three veins of coal
respectively % feet, 10 feet nine inchei
and IS feet In thickness. This tunnel
is now I'm 2S5 feet and IL being dug II
feet In width 20 permit a double track
with a capacity for an output of LOO
tons day.
THE Chinese cook who has been EN-
ployed at the camp arrived In gal
lake this morning. In answer 70 ques
lions all he could eSclalm was hear
coal, heap Itch men,"
A SINGLE TUNNEL
TO those familiar with the coal min
ing the fact that three veins are to b.
tapped with single tunnel, each veil
living on solid sandstone. Is an import
ant Item. This means that there will b
no timberlng necessary. In addition
there will be no timbering necessar,
plant 70 maintain sthere Is no water
Furthermore owing 10 the lay OF tn
country and coal there will be n
hosting machinery necessary and mos
important OF all gravity system I
posslble from the mine clear down I
the tipple on the Rio Grand tracks.
HOW UTAH FUEL MISSED 1T.
In the face OF all this the questio
naturally arises, how was IL that tn
Utah Fuel company did not secure hi
valuable property The facts In. tn
! case are that the lands now owne
and being developed by the Independent
Coal & Coke company were original
| hIed on by the agents OF the compan
who claimed them as agricultural landl
/ They were successfully contested. how
! ever. and the property was purchase
outright by parties as coal lands. The
paid the government the customary 5.
an acre and eventually organized III
, old Utah Coal & Coke company whic
/ | ala no business. however, owing to III
competition OF the Utah Fuel compan
5 and the Denver & Rio Grande.
! Since the Interstate commerce con
mission shake-up all over the countr,
, however. all this has changed. Il
: now possible Tor anyone TO 40 mi
/. the coal business ana be assured u
, railroad companies VIII play no I,
; vorltes.
i CORRECT VERSION,
: When seen this morning and asks
I. regarding the plans Of the lndepen'
y cnt Coal g. Coke company, Mr.. Str
T. veil after due consultation with h
Il PARTNER. James ". Paterson. stat,
y that now the story OF the big deal WI
!, out. the News" ought TO print II co
. reotly, II at all. as coming from tho
n on the inside.
1--WE have kept this thing quiet