The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-06

latest collicry TO be operated in the great
coal fields of Utah.
Consolidated Fuel Company Mines.
Down IN Carbon county. to be explicit
as 10 location, twenty-one miles south
west from Price, in Miller canyon. the
Consolidated Fuel company Of Salt Lake,
a company Incorporated for $1,000 600
capital divided into shares of 81 each
has opened up colliery. The officers
OF the company are f. A Sweet. pCesl-
dent and general manager; j, l.. Leml5.
vice president; w. II. Sweet, secretary;
l.. w, Francis treasurer,
This company has opened at the head
Of Miller canyon a colliery. II owns and
has patents TO 1909 acres OF coal land
and holds ANAL receipts upon 500 acres
more. in all 200 acres. and behind this
are thousands OF acres more of coal that
can only be reached through this prop
erty. The vein of coal which tho COM
pany Is working is twenty-five feet in
thickness, or 10000 tons per acre, which
makes the supply ineXbaustiblc. This
coliery is known as the Hiawatha, the
coal as Hiawatha coal and the town
where The colliery is located Is called
Hiawatha,
The output today is 500 tons per day,
OF this output 600 tons Is shipped TO
points outside of Utah the major part
going TO Idaho, the remainder 10 Ne
vada, California, both northern and
southern, and Montana, while the Salt
Lake Route takes n part of the output
At the present fifty miners are employed,
but within the next two weeks this num-
her will be doubled and the capacity of
the mine, that Is the output. will be
doubled. This viii make the total num-
Der OF employees at the Colllery 200
Visited by Salt Lakers.
Saturday party Of Salt Lakers. ac-
companed by several other citizens from
other cities in Utah. made trip TO the
mine as guests OF the management of
Hiawatha was over the Southern Utah
railroad. 1t was tho first time that a
Pullman or other passenger car had been
run over the railroad, hence the party
In a passenger car The railroad is
standard euage. is well constructed, has
two locomotives, one a Shay engine. and
was built purely as n coal road.
The ride was delightful ore The
road passes over n part OF the tract OF
the Price River Irrigation company, and
thence up Miller canyon past the Miller
ranch. a property which recently sold
for $4,000. up 10 Hlawatha. from which
point Il tram was taken 10 the mine.
the road is a 3 por cent grade.
Eight miles from Price the Castle
Valley railroad branches off and heads
for Castle valley in Emery county where
another colicry is to he opened, From
this junction point the railroad TO Price
Is under the Joint ownership OF both
roads,
About the Colliery,
At Hiawatha is located the tipplc OF
the Consolidated Fuel company. This
tipPle Is the most modern ono in Utah.
Everything about it Is electrically ham
died The train cars which carry the
coal from the mine have neither end
gates or false bottoms. but are tipped
! from the side. There Is an oscillator
! through which the slack passes SO that
when the slack is loaded upon the cars
/ it is pea coal In fact as well in name.
! for all the dust Is taken from IL and this
dust Is used in making fills, ballasting
track. etc.
From The mine the coal Is brought on
n tramway. the longest tramway in the
United States. Tho tTamMay is 10000
| feet long and 1t Is a gravity tramwnY. the
! loaded train down drawing The empty
cars baci. 10 the mine. The cable for this
tramway weighs 1So00 pounds There
are eight cars Ia Il train, and when these