The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-05
MORE COAL MINED
. IN THE PAST YEAR
lr( 1904 and 1905 Production
yOf Utah Fields Showed a
Decreasing Tendency.
BIG INCREASE SINCE THEN
BULLETIN SENT OUT BY GEO.
LOGICAL SURVEY.
BIG INCREASE SINCE THEN
Especial to The HeraId.)

Washington. D. c., Sept 4.-The coal
production of Utah. which had shown
decreasing tendency in 1904 and 1905, felt
as did the other Rocky mountain states,
the stimulating influence of the shortage
created by the suspension of work during
the spring Of 1906 In the states of the Mis-
sissippi valley Utahs output increased
from 1,352.372 short tons, valued at 81 793.-
5lO in 1905, to LIZ, 55I short tons valued
at S2.4OS'S8l in 1906 gain of 44O,179 short
tons, or 30 per cent in quantity, and of
S6l4,8u or 4-S per cent in value. The per-
centage of increase in Utah was larger
than in all the other cOal-prOducing
states. There was no material change in
price. the average for 1906 being 81 SO per
short ton, against Sl-35 in 1865.
The number OF men employed in the coal
mines of Utah in 1906 was 1572 against
1851 in 1905, and 1876 in 1904 The aver
age working time in 1905 was 2SS DAYS
against 2i7 in 1905 and 294 In 1894. Utah
enjoys another distinction in coal mining
besides the largest percentage of increase
for the year. and that is in having the
highest average production for each man
employed. In 1906 the average production
per each man employed in Utah was 1,12L6
tons, the nearest approach TO which was
lO331 tons, in Wyoming. In 1905 Utah's
average production per man was 979
against 1913 tons for Wyoming. The aver
age daily production for each man in Utah
in 1906 was S.92 against 1886 in 1893.
MOT RHected by Strikes.
The coal mining industry of Utah was
not in the least affected by the labor trou-
DleS IN the spring of 1896 there having
been no strikes or suspensions at any of
the mines in this state.
According to the statistics of Conner
THOMAS, state mine inspector. there was
total of twenty-eight accidents in the
mines of Utah in 1906 OF these seven re
suited fatally. OF the nOn-fatal accidents
fifteen were serious and six were of a
rrn0 oh lone
four deaths and falls of roof in the min
ing chambers the other three Seventeen
OF the injured men were hurt by falls Of
roof, eight of which We're in rooms and
nine in gangWayS and entries
Like the other cOal-prOdUcing states of
the Rocky mountain region. the coal areas
of Utah are widely distributed. The larg-
est field and the most important in re-
spect TO thickness and development of
the Goals as far as known is that of the
Book Cliffs, extending from the Colorado
line westward TO Castle Gate. near the
center of the state, and thence south
westward to Castle Gate, near the center
of the state, and thence southwestward in
the eastern eScarpment of the Wasatch
plateau. to eastern Sewer county. Its
length in the state is about $50 miles. Only
the western half has been surveyed. but
the total area will probably approximate
about l,6O0 square miles.
Next in Importance as regards known
occurrence and developments of coal is
the Coalville or Weber river field, sit
Uated in Summit county, off the eastern
flank of the Wasatch, mountains. This
field has an area of a few square miles
of available coal. The protracted fault
ing and fitting of the strata including the
coal beds are obstacles to the extensive
development of the Coalville Goals.
Areas Known to Exist.
(Other known coal areas are on Henry's
fork and Ashley creek, in the northeastern
'$part of the state: on Colob plateau in the
southwestern part, and in the Henry's
mountains district Workable coal beds
are reported to occur at a number of
places in the northern part of Uintah res
ervation in Uinta county, but little is
known to the extent and quality of the
Goals i'm these areas. According to reports
coming from the Colob and Uinta fields,
il is possible that their combined areas
may equal that of the Book Cliffs fields.
All of the really. large mining proper
ties are in the western part of the Book
Cliffs field, at Sunnyside, Castle Gate,
VVfnterduarters and Clear Creek, in Car
bon county which produces 95 per cent of
the coal mined in the state These Goals.
with that at Coalville, are bituminous in
character and OF fair. grade. Some of them
make good coke, over $4,000 tons of the
total production in 1906 having been thus
consumed
During 1906 the United States geological
survey made an investigation of the east
ern part Of the Book Cliffs field from
Grand River, Colo, TO SunnySide, Utah.
connecting at that point with the work
which had been done during the previous
YEAR and parties now in the field are
extending the work
An advance chapter from Mineral Re
sources OF the United states, Calendar
1913 by f. w. Parker, chief statistician
of the United States geological survey,
will be ready for distribution by that bu-
reau in September