The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-13
WILL DEVELOP
MILLER CREEK
COAL PROPERTY
Mines Will Be Shipping Pro-
duct Into Salt Lake Before
First of November.
PRESS RAILROAD LINE
TO EARLY COMPLETION
STEEL AND MATERIAL BEING
BROUGHT HITLER WITH ALL
POSSIBLE SPEED.

Coal will be shipped from Miller
Creek. the new coal camp 100 miles
south of Salt Lake, before Nov. 1.
General Manager Arthur A. Sweet
stated yesterday that at first the daily
output of the camp will be from 500 TO
700 tons. but that this will be gradually
increased to from 1000 TO II 900 tons OF
coal daily.
The moving spirits in the coal mining
enterprise are Salt Lake men, j. H. r.
Franklin and A. A. Sweet They are
now building a railroad from the Rio
Grande tracks at Price into the Miller
Creek district. This line, which will bs
eighteen miles long, will cost $500. 600
The work of construction has pro-
crossed SO far that rails will be laid
upon portion of the line within
week. General Manager Sweet thinks
that the graders will finish their work
within month. and that the new rail-
road will be opened soon afterward
A large force of men is now at work
in the Miller Creek district developing
the coal mines so that shipments Of
coal can be made soon after the COM
pletion of the railroad. and in building
the new town of Miller Creek, which
will be the home of the coal miners.
Consumption Has Increased.
Manager Sweet says that the con-
sumption of coal has increased so
greatly in the past few years I'm the
Salt Lake valley and In adjacent re-
gions that he does not think the out
put from the Miller Creek mines will
have any marked effect upon the mar
ket until the maximum daily output OF
10000 or 1900 tons of coal is reached.
Will ME
TONS he said, land that amount and
more. too. could be used daily by one
of the newest enterprises centering in
Salt Lake-the Western Pacific rail-
road.
1T would be absurd to say that with
the output of the new mines all possi-
bility of a coal famine this winter
could be averted. Salt Lake and the
region of which il is the center uses
an immense quantity of coal every year
and the increase in consumption is ex-
tremely rapid. New sources of fuel sup
ply are urgently needed.
"A short time ago when c. II.
Schlacks. vice president of the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad. was in Salt
Lake he told me that the consumption
of coal in the Salt Lake valley had in
creased 1000 per cent in three years.
Last year Utah produced 10000 900 tons
of coal. but the state consumed 10000
tons more than il produced. That
means that we must mine 10000 tons
for home consumption in excess of what
we mine at present to supply our own
wants before we can ship to other
states The Consolidated Fuel COM
pany. which owns the Miller Creek
mines, expects eventually to ship coal
to Nevada and California in addition
to meeting the demands of consumers
in the state
Organize Two Companies.
The men who are developing the
Miller Creek district have organized
two companies, one, the Consolidated
Fuel company. TO control the mines.
and the other. the Utah Southern Rail-
way company, TO control the railroad
from Price into the coal regions. ]. H.
r. Franklin is president and A. J..
Sweet is general manager of both COM
panies.
The railroad extends eighteen miles
enthusiastically from Price to the
Miller Creek camp. The Utah South
ern company has bought the track of
an abandoned railroad in Missouri as a
quick means of getting a supply of
rails. The Missouri railroad was built
only a few years ago and its steel is in
good condition. The track of the aban-
doned line IS now being torn up and
shipped to Utah. The Utah Southern
has an agent at the loading point to
inspect the rails and reject all that
show signs of wear.
Large Tracts of Land.
The coal company has LAO acres OF
coal land. which it holds under govern
ment patent. Mr.. Sweet says that the
company's holdings cover the three
canyons of the Miller Creek district.
and that this gives II control of the
entire district. The company also
claims the right to cut wood from
Is. 900 acres of the government national
forest.
In addition to this, il has acquired
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