The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-10-27
AROUND THE coal MINES;
Personal AND OTHERWISE

PtRSONNl MD olHthNiNt
Twenty cents a share Tor Standard
coal company stock u being hid by /
the brokers at Salt Lake city.
Cameron coal company Just west /
90 Castle Gate. vs. outputting az this
time around seven hundred tons daily |
Thomas Beii H. thu efficient general |
superintendent thufe. The Cameron |
has market Tor an " produces.
American iaei company bonds are
being offered az salt Lake city hy
brokerage houses az siNty-fiNe. The
company operates at Neslen In Grand
county. GOV. william Spry b. largely
Interested In the property win %. y.
Bauer ~ salt Lake city
II t. stated that Southern Califor-
mia briruetting firms are negotiating
Tor the slack coal dumps in Eastern
Utah coal fields. the intention being
&C. mix the slack with crude dii IT low
grade before manufacturing into hri-
luctt-s Tor the fuel trade.
Wiifprd Wuff 81 Castle Gate. scale
Inspector Tor Utah Fuel company. was
In Price Tuesday last On his way to
sunny side on one ~ his usual trips
An Utah Fuel company camps arr
working good" says he. the railroad
car shortage and many other things
o. interfere considered"
Tariffs Of the Denver and Salt Lake
railroad which would increase freight
rates on hituminour coal from the
oak HillH district In Colorado TO
points In Kansas Nebraska Missouri
and Iowa were suspended recently by
the interstate commerce commission
until January 18th. pending investi-
CATION,
Carbon Fuel company reports Or
d~rs Tor coal lar Ia excess 81 the ca
pacity nf the mines. This company IL
nov furnished electric power hy Utah
Power and Light company Five a.
seven hundred TONS are mined daily
and IN" property working six DAYS u
week when railroad ears are avail
able,
| The n .Nrtnnc Coal company uf salt
Lake City reports that liz heavy or
dor- are Ia excess uf transportation
/ facilities, ana that yet, nntwithstand-
| ing this handicap, the company 10 doe
inE better aud larger business than
over before. while the future outlook
Tor the coal Industry H. most salts
factory.
Ketchum Coal company az Castle
Gate b. employing "a this time around
/ fiftren a. twenty miners al its newly
opened property thrrr The output
az this time 10 on an average 81 four
cars daily which viii be- increased
from week o. week az development
proceeds, The product II ~ the same
high quality as the Utah Fuel com.
pany's from the same vein.
Shipments Of anthracite coal during
September amounted a. b.bai,0TG
tons. a decrease ~ iik,Osi tons from
that month last year. hut an increase
lof l2.279 tons over August. ship
ments for nine months ending with
September aggregate 49,s3O.4I6 tons.
lagainst IS $50, $40 tons I'm 1915, Coal
on hand az tidewater shipping ports
on September 30. 1915. G7.sSi tons
and on August "a, 1919, 373,l76 tons,
standard Coal company has in
creased lis output W around two thou
sand tons daily. Numerous improve
/ NlfNiH hAf NfNNNh NNNNN ~ WV fNAAiH
ment which includes the addition 20
the motive equipment ~ a ffteen-ton
electric locomutiye, and the purchase
of thirty-siN new mine ears. The com
pany now has In operation new
three thousand dollar picking table.
aud has thirty modern residences.
both single and double including
apartments, complete and In course
of construction, these being Tor the
use ~ employees.
The coal mining Industry Of Utah
was never before In such a flourishing
condition, and but for the fact that a
shortage Of cars prevents ga pacity
production and coal deliveries this
would be the greatest year ever re-
/ corded In coal mining operations here.
/. There has also been shortage Of la
, Dor but this condition has been i'm
PROV ing OF late. Strange as II may
b seem, with 50 large "A number of pro-
+, ducing mines In Utah and the West
, there Is more than likoly 90 be- a coal
3 famine In Salt Lake city before the
wicter Is over. As one big producer
J, recently said: Going 20 have a Goa
!. scarcity? Why, We have II right
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