Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-06-25
DESCRIBES VISIT TO
COLORADO COAL MINE

into New Mexico and Colorado.
On the evening Of June lth ge
boarded the ~. Worth A. Denver
train at Amarillo. and on the follow
INK morning We reached Trinidad.
Colorado on time and there took the
Santa We train for Ration. New Mcxi-
60, the objective point Of our visit
We had long desired 10 soc up-to-
date coal mining IN first class mine
and We are here 10 tell you We saw n
Al Ration. New Mesico. We we're met
AT the station by j. G. Larkin. Gem
eral Sales Manager for the Swastika
Fuel Company, most afiaDlc gem
tleman full Of mignetism or what
ever that element Is that draws men
10 you and inspires confidence aud
a desire for comradship. tBy the
way Mr. Larkin Is what car truly be
termed self-made man having
worked himself up from a boll-b1y IN
a Denver hotel sp by step. by his
indomiiable enc y and " nin ness
10 do his work a a part OF 9th
or fellows. wo 10 sni has
reached the YER evlabIe p,s ION Of
General Sales AGENT for ~ gasii-
ka Fuel Company whose e. city IS
over three thousand tons Pc day 81
domestic coal alone. not 10 speak Of
steam coal which Is three thousand
tons more TO give YOU a. idea o.
what this amount OF coal means I
will pm b. this way Il means one
hundred iOrty foot cars aith the
space occupied by the couplings
means q string mile long. Think of
n. alI coming out OF a mine in one
day
Nr larkin or Jack as he is cali
cd hy every man on the works. high
cor .oR. from President a. the hum
blcsl miner) Is OF Irish decent and
proud OF his lineage. took us over
iD Ihe Scaberg Hotel and after Sc
curing comfortable quarters took ms
over 10 the general office of the II.
Louis. Rocky Mountain and Pacific
company and introduced M 10 the
president Of the Company Mr. Van
llUuten, Hollandcr by nativity out
d Westerncr by adoption and by ma
tural tendency. having left his ma
tive country very early In lie aud
into New Mexico In quest
Ut fortune.
Mr. Van Houten Is eminently fitt-
ed for the position of President OF
a great corporation for so far as We
we're able to y dye he had gained the
respect and AQperatiop OF every
man uudcr his aSthorIN. As MIR.
l.arkin cercs'ed II, ioyalty and co.
opors,iop 10 ovse aottp and ne whole
qamp my'rrseca with 10 .a~~
y Ann our Introduction and a
pleasant hat with Mr. Van Houten,
he had AZ auto brought around and
sent MS W carr OF MIR. l.arkin up
over the Scenic Highway This High
way was built by territorial convicts
starting ont OF one OF the main
streets OF the beautiful little city of
Ration and winding atund the crest
OF the mountains originally ascend
ing, giving YOU a wouiorful view OF
the Spanish Peak andiho snow caps
of number of other saks. cascades
aud canons.
We can feel the laiuiios Of the
vision placed before 4 but We lack \
descriptive powers III portray he
one hundrcdth part d YOU. After
ascending to the dizzd height Of =,
SOC feet We returnedl our hotel
where mine hos had pNpJrod a sum
ptuous meal and GOD soft clean
white beds for our coa Tort.
Early next morning our party
10y Mr.. LA Boo. took an
auto trip up the beaudiul Sugarite
Canon TO see the Sugstic mines =
miles northeas' OF RATA This was
a most enjoyable trip adj enlighten
ed US wonderfully as q what rea
scientific mining was. d. the wayJ
Sugarite mines Is where the famous
Domino Lump Coal. the coal that
has usurped the place ofcc held by
Niggerhead In the hearts of the peO-
pie, 10 mined Here Va were met
hy Mr.. Tom Harvey Superintendent
n very intelligent aflabe gentleman
who took great pride ia showing as
through the Domino Nine. This
mine is only about two years old and
consequently runs hack into the
mountain about half nile. at an ele-
walton OF about six hundred feet
above the bottom of the canon. AT
the bottom OF the canon the tipples
screens and leaders for the coal are
systematically arranged so that there
Is 30 lost energy or motion.
The weight OF the loaded cable
cars coming down from the mouth of
the mines carries the empty ears on
another track, back to the mines
again that It is a continuous up ana
down with the loaded and empty
ears throughout the day. The min
Is proper are electrified and equip
ed with clecteric motors that pull
the coal cars throughout the mines
and to the inclines where they are at
tached to the cable and let down 10
toe tipple The mines are lighted
~ by electricity. Mr. Tom Harvey
the superin 'endent informed us that
they were installing machines for
mining the coal IN order TO save la
Dor and get the coal out in larger
lump1
Al the lCucm they have four sets
Of track scales for Weighing the en-