The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-07-21

'nc solid unbrok,r walt .f anal
fifteen feet thick aud with f.ur .,y.
tt'n-ioOt drifts or chamber. ,,t.,t.
ing back into a., mountain pa,rt, D,
mile with coal enough Boo stsbt a.,
Keep hundred skilled miner. M,
work Tor "a hundred year. co. com, >
was what " reporter fur Ga. Grand
junction ,Culob Daily News r,r.y,t,
FOUND ON % Visit o. th, coal mip.a Al
i'"Wlr. where the wonderful IuHrit,
coal is mined. The News SAYS. To
e person familiar with the sou,t,r
the mud and water and upaapitsr,
conditions ct the average bitumir,,t.
mining camp ui th, south and south.
west the trip through h, UnNi.
mine under The EuidHu., uf Suparip.
trId'nt Wallace Bowie was "a genuine
revelation ~ The conditions and pua.
Hihiliti"s "f the coal mining industry
~ The Western slope tn. gnvi.s
father and spnr. aii experts iu their
calling and who gav. their entire al.
tenti"n tu The mine have been az
Bowie Tor upwards NJ ten years and
have built ~ "a mining camp which
for completeness and safety j. ss Der.
feet as any camp can be-. IN the first
place the mine itself Is remarkabl.
one. having a. IL does. fac, " coal
aH high AZ q une.story house from the
entrance straight back into the noun.
tain ~ Tar ~ man knows Tn. mine
Il electrically equipped and an elcc.
tric saw operated by q crew ~ three
men cuts into the black diamond wall
with a sure swiftncss that would dazc
the old time miner who laying on his
back In the water holding drill Tor
his helper a. drive. and hy that meth
cd dlslodEc the three ~ four foot
vein Of soft coal.
At Bowie everything that can be-
done IN mining n done hy machinery.
lr1ening the danger aud increasing
N" production. In the last ten years
there has been but ono serious acct.
dent a. u worker In the mine and that
wHs caused by IN, carclessness ~
miner who disobyyed orders The
shot firms IL done by electricity from
out the mine and NJ man b. put In
danger 81 lie ~ limb. Even the pa
tient mules which draw m" ears ~
coal a. thu Incline nr. brought out ~
tn mine every day 10 the close ~
work The mine opening Be- at a.
point .umy ola hundred fert up the
mountain and IN, steel cable that
lowers the loaded carr a. the tipplr
ut the tracks 20 thu same tim draws
~ the empticH II speaks well Tor
the mine management that there has
never been strike or other labor dis
turhnnco. the mine ymplpyrs are sat
isficd and c"nt,ntcd and many Of
them haV, been there Tor wears They
have nice attractive homes with wa
ter and electric lights and nii the
convenience ~ u Cit1s There u but
one fiy in their ointment aud that H.
that the market Tor coal II Pc limited
that Tor large part ~ each year
they can only work part ~ IN"
time n srsms strange that with
such u bed 81 coal and Il Il known
that the entire Western slope iH|
hunrycnmhrd with Thorn. that the
railroad facilities are such ~ o. pre-.
cluir the profitable working ~ such
mines
The government II az present en-
gagged In spending something Ike.
forty ar nuy milton dollars building
% railroad a. coal fields IN Alaska To-
open up coal mines In that frozen
land. when half that expenditure
nearer home would open No aud pro-
vide 70 market Tor an unlimited sup
ply ~ the finest steaming coal In the
world right here in Colorado The
mines az Bowie are about seventy
miles east ~ Grand Junction and
were reached hy the reporter hN nu-
t.mnbilr In a few hours run over al
fine road much ~ which tnllows the
Wlndings ~ the North Fork, through
and past the attractive aud thriving
towns ~ Austin llotrhkiss aud Pa
onia. one ~ the most attractive See
al, roads out nf Grand Junction