Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-29
COAL PRODUCTION
HAS INCREASED
Illinois Takes Second Place on
Producing List Beating
West Virginia.
PENNSYLVANIA STILL FIRST
Army of Moths Reaches Chicago
Fight Against Proposed Advance
In Railroad Rates.

In Railroad Rates.
Chicago, July 25.-Increased pro-
duction of coal in the United States
has caused change in the order of
the coal producing states, according to
statistics which have just been COM
piled by the government geological
survey. Illinois, which in 1906 was
third in production, is now second,
and West Virginia has dropped to
third place. Pennsylvania is still first
on the list. Illinois production for
1907. as given in the report, was 5l.-
3l7146 short tons, having spot value
of $54,6S73S2. Exports of coal
from this country to Canada, Cuba
and elsewhere have been steadily
growing, and this year promises to
break all existing records. Latest gov
eminent reports show total exports of
coal for a period of L months as l.
$685. tons. with a value of $86,75O,-
637. Corresponding figures for 1907
showed total of only 20,099,947 tons
and 1906 was stlll less. The change in
Illinois position recalls the big coal
strike of two years ago, as the increas-
ed production for 1907 was due to the
renewed activity of mining after the
recovery from the effects of the sus-
pension on April 1, 1906. During this
suspension practically all the import
ant mines of Illinois were idle and
4g,792 out of total of 61,9SS miners
We're unemployed for 5S days. Be-
cause of the conditions the production
of West Virginia in 1906 exceeded that
of Illinois by 1,S1O,246 short tons. as
the suspension there affected only
small number of the mines for ABOUT
80 days
MOTHS REACH CHICAGO.
The army of moths which has caus-
ed such destruction to trees In Buitalo,
Detroit and other eastern cities, mas
at last reached Chicago in It's west
ward course and the winged pests are
now ravaging the foliage in the city
parks and in the suburbs, Gardeners
and city authorities everywhere are
uniting in an effort to save the trees
and a war of determination Will begin
at once The invaders are the par
ticular kind known as white marked
Tussock moths and. according TO en-
tomologists. they have made unusual
Roadway this year because certain
other insects, their natural parasites,
have been destroyed by atmospheric
conditions The moth Is native OF
this country and its favorite udbits are
the leaves and young bark OF the
lindens, soft naples and horse ches-
nuts. The caterpillar is gorgeous
creature. with coral red head, yell
low body streaked with coral gray and
a pair of waving black plumes on It's
forehead that remind one of the dec
orations of a funeral hearse. The fe-
male moth deposits from 100 to sou
eggs in a gray-colored oval mass.
which may be seen hanging from
twigs of trees. The young caterptllars
begin to feed on leaves as soon as they
are born. They also prey upon frult
and have habit of girdling small
twigs by eating the bark in a circle.
The pest is spreading westward at an
alarming rate and vigorous steps are
being taken TO stamp it out. me
most effective way to protect trees
that are attacked, say those VINO have
made study of the matter, is to spray
the leaves with solution OF alsenate
of lead and water.
SUPPLANTS STEAM.
Electricity as motive power, which
MAYOR Busse has urged should be used
on the trains entering Chicago to do
away with smoke of locomotives, mas
lust scored a new triumph In being SUD
stituted for steam in the longest SUB
marine tunnel in the world TINS Is the
ST. Clair tunnel under the river con-
Meeting the United States and Canada
at Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia'
Ontario This is on the irect line from
Chicago to eastern Canada on the
Grand Trunk railroad, and the
first electric locomotives have already
been put into service at the tunnel on
trains running to and from this city
| The identification OF the tunnel marks
| a great step in the progress of the
| electrical science as applied to trans
| portation The mighty steam moguls
! which used to handle trains through the
| tunnel have been replaced by compact,
| powerful electric engines driven by $50
! horse power alternating current mo-
| tors. The frames of the novel locomo-
| tlVes are similar to those OF steam mo-
| glils on the frame there being a can
| of structural steel provided with doors
| at each end and each side The en-
! gines are built as two half units, each
| with three driving wheels, and these
units can be coupled up to one when
desired with fgree passage through the
| doors from one section 10 another In
| side the cab is the electrical equipment.
| Practically the entire operations con-
neCted with the running of the trains
are carried on by electricity. a motor
! driven air compressor Is installed in the
cab and supplies compressed air not
only for the operation OF the brakes on
the engine and the train service but
also for tho working of the various de-
| vices on the locomotive for which COM
| pressed air is used, including the opef-
alton OF the trolley bow and the cleo
trically controlled switches, the ringing
of the bell the sanding of the track
and the setting of the circuit breakers,
The tunnel has been in existence about
fifteen years and is now one Of the
most important gateways of traffic be
tween CanadA and the United States
and hereafter viii be one OF tho
| smokelcss ones
FIGHT ADVANCE IN RATES.
The fight against the proposed ad-
vance OF railroad rates, which centers
I'm this city, progressed another step al
the conference OF shippers, and Is beinf
conducted with dignity, and every
amicablo effort 10 change the decision
of the railroad executives, before more
vigorous tactics are employed, Is he
ing made. Letters commencing the dis
passionate letter To President Roose'
Welt sent by the shippers, asking hi
intervention. and the resolutions adopt
ed by the shippers AT their meeting II
the offices of the Illinois Manufacturers
association, have been received from
MANY quarters The tolerance Of thu
resolutions aud the proposal that rail
road executives hold another meeting
with the shippers were especially ap
proved, the wording Of the resolution
having included the following: TIT
shippers represented by TINS confer
once now propose 10 the carriers ina
the carriers submit TO the interstate
commerce commission the propert
and reasonableness Of the proposed IN
Il.