The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-30
BANCROFT ON
COAL SITUATION
Continued from PAGE I.

shortage despite the fact that they were
manage1 by men of keen business fore
sight and who fortify themselves in ev-
cry possible way-by the making of long
time contracts. by the purchase outright
of coal mines. as the Anaconda Smelter
company had done in the case OF the
DiamOndville mines, and as the Amalgd-
mated Sugar company had done in WyO-
ming. These large corporations had been
dangerously near a general shutdown.
which in its effect on the people would
have proven quite as disastrous, if not
more so, than the temporary closing of
schools and churches. Continuing, Mr..
Bancroft states that whether an equita-
BILE distribution as between industries and
schools and churches and private con-
sumeTs, actually occurs, or whether some
believe there are Inequalities that might
he corrected. such discussion does not
properly come under the head of trans
portatiCn."
What the Short Line Has Done.
Mr. Bancroft makes a general state
ment "of the measures undertaken by
the transportation lines in an endeavor
to perform their duty and fulfill their
obligations to the public" He recites the
enormously expensive undertakings of the
Oregon Short Line in securing %, 900 tons
Of coal in Australia, a portion of which
has already arrived, and the extensive
purchases by the Short Line and Union
Pacific Of coal in Colorado, Illinois and
the southeast. which will greatly relieve
the strain. He declares positively that the
railroads are doing everything possible to
foster and encourage the development
of new cCal properties. Two new mines
recently opened at Kemmerer will short
~ produce LOCO to 100 tons of coal daily.
The old Amy mines. recently re-Opened
and equipped with new machinery by the
owners and with trackage by the Union
Pacific are now producing ten to twelve
tons a day and expect by Oct l to in
crease to twenty-five or thirty tons
day.
Capacity Doubled.
Coalville and Grass Creek properties had
been enabled to double their capacity
within the past sixty days. The latter
mines, being in Utah on the Union Pa
fife, have through rates to Oregon Short
Line stations and the coal therefrom will
help relieve the situation in Utah. The
mines owned by the Union Pacific Coal
company at Pleasant Valley, Utah. on
the D. & r G.. have been reopened and
are loading from 300 to 400 tons a day.
They hope t. Increase this output by Oct.
I, to 200 to 500 tons daily. That coal goes
to the Southern Pacific and 10 the extent
that 1t supplies that demand 1t releases
Wyoming coal for commercial use. The
Wyoming Coal & Coke company at Rock
Springs would shortly produce 300 tons
of coal a day. which would go to the
Amalgamated Sugar company. owner of
the mines. thus decreasing the demand of
sugar factories on commercial coal. Mr..
Bancroft cannot agree, in view of this
terfering with the output of coal
No Cause for Alarm.
In closing he says: Better equipped
as we are with a large number Of new
cars, I feel that we can say today not
withstanding the beet season, which is
close upon US, that the situation need not
give cause for serious anxiety" He ex-
presses the belief that the settlement of
the labor troubles in the Wyoming mines
with the possibility of an augmented la
Dor supply from the harvest fields and
other summer employment, will make It
possible for the mines to fully man their
properties, insuring a heavy and steady
output.