The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-01-28

alone. and an abundance Ut flrst-class
honey In addition To- their other
crops.
There b. great acreage of mex
pensive land here. ample Irrigation
water for the same excellent live
stock range. and good market "
supplied In the proper way 1f these
are. inducements Tor the homcsccker.
Carbon and Emery counties have
some very good ones To- offer.
Mining Industry of Carbon County.
Nineteen hundred nftecn has wit.
messed but very little now develop
mcut In the coal fields Ut Carbon and
Emery counties uf Eastern Utah. one
new camp. that of the Carbon Coal
company, l.. o. l,ainca general man
agcr. has been opened at point Just
west uf Helper and IL reached boy the
Spring Canyon branch line OF the
Denver ana iiiu Ornndc system. This
camp adioins the property OF the
Standard Coal company and h. some
two miles west ot the spring Canyon
mines of Uncle Jesse knight az
stottH Tipplcs and surface improve
time this article appears In print the
Carbon Coal company will be- ship
ping out from twelve a. fifteen hun
drcd tons daily The product L. uf
the same excellent quality aH that 1T
the adjoining mines The leading
spirits IN this enterprise are l.. q.
tlainoA. late general manager of the
Standard Coal company and y. J.
Quonly of Krmmcrcr. Wyo. For the
time being a greater portion 81 the
output IL Co gu 60 the several sugar
factories of the state Contracts were
entered into before development of
the property begun.
Taken aH "a whole. this year has
been decidedly an "off'' one ~ far M
Carbon county's production OF coal
goes The same n also true of the
mines of Emery county. and the
one az Ncslcn In Grand county. the
latter seven miles from Thompauns.
Actual figures for Carbon county are
not available. but Carbon county will
have done well u the tonnage reaches
three millions Of tons by the close OF
the year. This tonnage l. about
equally divided between clear creek.
Utah Mine, Castle Gate and Winter
Quarters all these properties belong
ing to the Utah Fuel company: Mohr-
land Gin Emery county,, Black Hawk
and iiiawutha camps of the United
States Fuel company, and the Cam
cron Coal company az Castle Gate,
the Independent Coal and Coke COM
pany az Kenilworth. Spring Canyon
Coal company az Storrs. ana the stan
dard Coal company az Standardville.
Neslen american Fuel company has
an output around "a thousand tons
daily.
AZ Sunnyside. the largest and most
prosperous camp ~ the Utah Fuel
company ana ot Carbon county. the
miners have worked practically full
time an tnc year. However. all the
product here goes into coke, foT
/ which there has been steady aud In
creasing demand from the smclterr
of Montana and Utah because Of IN,
copper markets prosperous condition
The output Of coke az Sunnyside viii
run around four hundred thousand
tons. with "a market value of close "a
$4,000, 600. During the year tests foI
cooking have been made of the lila,
watha and Hack Hawk coal Of an,
| United States Fuel company. hut thes,
are understood Co have been mast un.
satisfactory sn far. Eastern capita
] is experimenting with cooking Goa
from Horse Canyon. just south ol
|Suunysldc. and these tests are said {,
bee highly satisfactory. 4 big cokini
proposition is expected tn Dee m tul
blast there before the end of the com
ms year. Capital however, g. hest
tating under present conditions.
! Carbon county's payrnlls az N,
mines are at this time about $4,000,
, 900 annually which Is about hal
what il should be under normal con
J ditions. The slump In the coal indus
! Try Is attributed by the best postc,
, men locally 20 the fact that coal Is be
ing brought to the Pacific Coast sec
ton from Australia and Japan. And
! since the tariff was removed. Cana
/, dian producers have been invadin
the markets OF the Northwest. which
/ have heretofore belonged, as IL wer,
I 10 Eastern Utah producers. However
I prospects are brighter than they hav
4 been and orders now on hand for Goa
indicate good run Tor the winter a
3 all the producing mines OF Carlo
70 and Emery counties. Last year IN
G mines began 10 work short time a
i early as December. but at this writ
d Ing Il appears as II there would be n