The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-01-05

urday. They are now In transit north.
and as the miners are now back TO
work and the weather In moderating
steady Improvement II likely Co be the
order OF the day.
All Of the Carbon county mines are
working better today friday -about
so per cent capacity From December
gath 10 December 10th. inclusive. n
period OF seven days all OF the mines
combined on the Denver and rio
Orandc loaded but seven hundred and
forty-onc cars. including two hundred
and seyenty-two from Utah Fuel com
pany's mines
Winter Quarters II working full
time because OF orders for railroad
coal ~ the clear Creek mines OF
Utah Fuel company four days were
put In by the miners last week They
also worked last Monday. Castle Gate
h going about three days week at
coal. AZ the Clear Creek mines OF
enccd from snow because of Castle
Gate being on main line of railroad
Little Of the coal that IL mined at
kemmercr. Diamondville and other
Wyoming towns finds itH way east
That which iH not shipped 90 western
points IN used by the Union Pacific Tor
operating purposes II IN said that the
Union Pacific uses ten thousand tons
OF Wyoming coal daily on it, engines.
and that u has u contract FOR n hun
drcd thousand tons Of Illinois coal Ia
be delivered at Omaha for une ON it,
western divisions
The Moffat Coal company at oak
Greek. colo. has offered bonus OF
Fer cent additional pay % all employees
who do not miss more than one work
ING day In each half month. The step
n taken 90 secure increased efficiency
md Co make the output ~ the mine
81 large as possible. now that there
W demand Tor more coal than can
De produced. The Bear River Coal
company az Hear River. colo. recent
| ~ adopted a similar plan,
with the Denver and Rio 0randc
operating at almost normal during
the past two days due Co warmer
weather. and with the transportation
Of coal trains being given preference
tower red balr' freight. the coal situa-
ton was materially improved yester-
day and today and many points In
Utah and Southern Idaho and Mon
tana. which were suffering from a
fuel famine for ten days. are now he
ing supplied with coal from the Car
bon county mines.
Actual count Of coal loaded ftom
the Carbon aud Emery mines and on
route west along the line OF the Dem
yer and Rio Granue for Salt Lake city
and points wet bf there on Sunday
last shows nohe ht Panther, thirty
seven cars az Castlk Gate. eighty-six at
Castle Junction Utah railway. forty
at Spring Canyon. which also includes
loads from Standard mine. two hun
dTed al Helper which includes coke
and red ball freight forty-ninc at
Cotton. one hundred and one at Sol
der summit. two al Thistle. eight az
Sprlngville. fourteen az Provo, ten az
Midyale or grand total OF five hun
dred ana fifty-slN west bound loads
between Helper and Salt Lake city,
including coke and red ball freight
This situation was materially i'm
proved Monday last
Coal and politics have nothing IN
common. hut some ct the Utah pro-
ducers are putting coat Of white
Munh AAA AAtAl NAAAllfNA 80 RlfN fNfN ~
Ia outside states. SAYS Salt Lakes
Mining Review. This h Ia determine
whether or not Il Is being stolen.
Shippers know that the drying out
process, the sitting of fine coal
through cracks, and soforth make a
very appreciabie difference In the
weight OF load between its starting
place and destination. hut Il seems
difficult to make the recipients un-
derstand IL,
Notwithstanding the fact that the
universal shortage at railroad cars
cut down the production OF the coal
mines OF Routt county. Colo, by from
20 20 80 per cent. still the output for
November was greater than during
any previous month during the pres
ent year. The total was si,72s tons,
hut this was 776S tons less than In
November. 1915. which was also the
highest OF the first eleven months
OF that year. The production OF coal
In the county up "a November 80,
1915. had reached a total OF Sl9,b22
tons, which h short only 26.46l tons
OF the output for the entire year 1915,
and as December promises 10 be fully
as heavy as November, Il is certain
that the year 1919 will break all pre-