Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-22
LOSS TO MINES
WILL Be GREAT
Instances Of How Coal and Car
Shortage Has Affected Utah's
Great Industry.
SHELTERS WERE HIT HARD.
While Mines and Mills Have Been
Forced to Pun on Short Tonnage
Or Close Down.

II would be difficult to estimate the
losses that have been sustained by the
various mining and smelling compa-
MES during the past few months as y
result of the distressing coal shortage.
1t has been only under the most trying
circumstances that the managers of the
several smelling corporations have been
able to keep their plants in operation
and several times their supply OF fuel
on hand has been so low that few
hours of delay in making deliveries
would have necessitated complete
shut down of the works OF the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining company at
Murray and the Bingham Consolidated
and United states plants at Bingham
Junction. However, the management
of these plants has been put to the nee
essity of running ON short tonnage
at various times by blowing out one.
two or more furnaces, in order that
production might not be entirely cut OH.
The new Garfield plant of the a, 5. u
r.. as well as the Yampa smelling
company In lower Bingham have not
Jared so we'll the former has been
Il time while the latter Is just getting
under a head Of steam again after
the second shut down within 10 days
which have been partly due TO the
fuel shortage and TO the Inability OF
the Copper Belt railroad to move ore
from the mine to the plant with dis
patch at time when II has been
most needed. For the same reasons,
the big concentrating mill of the
Utah Copper company. and the less
portentious one OF the Ohio Copper
company, have been unable to keep
up normal production. During Decem-
ber the Utah Copper plant treated
less than one-third the normal tom
mage; while the Ohio Copper market
ed less than two cars of concentrate
per week. The foregoing are only a
few instances OF how the coal famine
and shortage OF railroad equipment
have affected the mines and Kindred
industries of Bingham. The same
condition prevails elsewhere. In
Beaver county practically every mine
OF any consequence is either out or
commission or partly so. The Cactus
mill of the Newhouse Mines and
Sme1ters corporation has been down
several times this winter and ut this
writing not wheel in that magnif-
cent plant--one of the finest m the
VESTS now being turned. The man
dSeUltnt, lloNtNSt, iibS ~ DiiiSI VI "
lief in a few days. The new hoisting
pIast OF the Frisco Contact mine near
Frisco is ready to go into commission.
but Manager Rohlfing has been I'M
able to get coal
In Tintic yesterday the May Day Tn
Gle Sam Con. Yankee Con. and Grand
Central We're out OF business, because
the fuel bins We're empty. The Centen-
NAL Eureka, Swansea Star Consolidat-
ed. Ajax and several others are said TO
be near the danger line. The superin-
tendent of the Swansea reported last
| night that he had just about enough
| coal to keep up steam until tonight and
unless something turns mp today opera
| lions at that property will have to cease
until a supply reaches the mine.
The Consolidated Mercur company
which was compelled to lay off several
I hundred men in December. has been
| successful in getting coal from a source
| which made deliveries to one of the
! sugar companies during the autumn
| months and has its mill running up to
| about capacity again.
| The big copper companies particularly
| have much 10 complain about during
| these days of % cent copper,