The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-08-03
AROUND THE COAL MINES:
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Standard Coal compnny's contract
Tor furnishing the schools nt Salt
Lake city with coal for the winter
months will run around twenty-five
hundred dollars.
Frank W. Dewoif ~ Urbana. Ills.
has been named assistant director 81
the bureau OF mines at Washington,
u. G. lie has been until recently
gcologlst 81 the state of Illinois.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has IN accordance with IT, find
Ing In the u per cent rate ease grant
cd the railroads application for an
Increase ~ ten cents "A ton In freight
rates on hituminous coal from mines
In Illinois. Kentucky, Tennessee ana
Alabama. 10 points Ia Mississippi Val
ley TERRITORY
Investigation hy chief of Police
white at Zion last Monday resulted In
the Release ~ Henry Cook. arrested
there Ice alleged coal HWlndira. but
not until he had refunded o. numer.
Jus housewives amounts they had adj
yancrd In payment for coal at below
market prices. Cook had intended 10
open Hn abandoned mine az CoalViile.
Says last Saturday, Dcsorct News.
- tree branch buried some centuries
AKA omong the coal dads OF Willow
Creek Castle datD Has found its
way Ia the pcsorct Museum through
the courtesy 10 len N/Bird. Tho fos-
III h twenty-siX inches long and xix
inches In di,metcr at la thickost part.
the grain ~ the wood and knots show
INK plainly In the solid coal.
Six miners were pretty badly burn
cd from gas explosion al s,orrs a
Few days ago. They had gone 10 an
abandoned cave 90 do some work
when the explosion occurred. They
were az once given medical attention
and later taken 20 hospital No
damage was done 10 the mine by the
explosion and none Of the men are
thought 20 De seriously injured.
Representatives Of coal operators I'm
nineteen states met at Washington.
u, c., last Friday with the coal pro.
duction committee 20 arrange for dis.
rihution of coal Tor government use.
The question OF price was not taken
up, Members OF the committee point-
cd out that six Of the eight million
tons OF coal required by the govern.
lnent are being drawn now from Vlr-
klhla' West Virginia and Maryland.
Ihey urged that some plan be deter
mined upon whereby other coal states
VIII contribute an equitable share.
Large quantities Of rails and copper
Mlie from the abandoned Emigration
canyon railroad az Salt Lake city
were purchased this week by Utah
Fuel company. Cost OF the removal
ana transfer Of the equipment TO the
mines IN Carbon county viii be neon
S'quentlal and with the price OF rails
Hhl copper az is highest mark. orr
'lals OF the Utah Fuel company an.
"'lpate "a material saving.
According TO First Things In Can.
sua' complied by the late George
Sonhson' dominion statisticlan. the
llIsl recorded mention 81 coal la Nova
scotia was In 1854. Coal was g.th-
cred In Nova Scotia al a very earl,
"a'c without mining. mention be,n.,
made Of It In l72I. coal was sbinnaS
W. rlah,e from Cape Breton In ii4a.
H.. ,'a',u III letter from NJ. Ducham.
W." 10 inc French minister"
several new Utah coal properties
a's 70 De opened during August with
" view TO Increasing the Tomas, no.
'o'' eold weather sets In. Tho own-
W "l the coal mines lust east az C,o-
1"I ,'S are preparing To install an
e'l'' tramWay down into the valley
rom their mines up the mountain
WIN the expectation that the SAIL
AM Route will thch build from,
Luna to Cedar. thiry-fiye miles.
1ohh H. Bruff chairman OF the
Nl'r"aa committee OF the Manufac-
,u,sIs Association OF Utah. A. nre-
par'ng data relative TO the reouest y,
l's railroads for an increase OF fif,esn
,n eH's per ton for coal haulage. The
ws ''' a nation ION Is being prepared ~ the
mnDy ,n,'lests OF the association.
s''peFs OF which are heavy