The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-12-07

amount Of shifting. The pool becomes
effective Immediately. by pooling
coal carrying cars and using them in
tcrchangeably. the committee an
nouncemcnt states transportation ef-
ficiency will he greatly increased.
Lars Frandsen has taken a lease on
the Jesse knight coal mine about nine
miles northeast Of Price up Deadman's
Canyon lie will start Co work Il next
week. selling the product at Price and /
10 those who may go TO the property
for u. lie pays a royalty OF fifty cents
ton. Ills lease is for a year.
Fred ~ Abbott. special investiga-
tor Of the state public utilities com
mission. was in Price Wednesday in
quiring into the coal situation. II was
his intention when he came here Go
order railroad shipments of coal Co
Price stopped. but Is thought Go have
changed his mind after comforting
with local dealers and consumers lie
doubts whether. under all the condi-
tons prevailing. the Millburn and
other local properties can supply the
trade locally.
Dr a. a. Garfield. national fuel
administrator. Il authority for the
statement that while the annual out
/ put Of coal has been Increased APP
proxlmntcly nfty million tons. the in
crease In consumption caused by the
war h. hundred million tons. An i'm
stance cited o. that of the Bethlehem
steel company. which demands an in
creased coal supply Of three million
tons year. The coal demands of
public utility plants. particularly IN
the industrial sections. have Increased
third.
| Standard Coal company has recent
i ~ made many important additions 90
its mine equipment. including
Hraightfacc mining machine. two
shoftwall mining machines and n
lhaulagc locomotive. other equipment
consists Of a motor generator set The
Standard han Just completed twenty
one brick dwellings for It's employees.
1 Tho addition OF this new equipment
will Increase the productive capacity
Of the company's mine from fifteen
hundred to two thousand tons Of coal
daily
There was a slight decrease In the
production OF bituminous coal during
the week ended November gath. The
total produt ton of soft coal unclud.
ing Ignite aud coal made into coke)
H. estimated at ~ .2e0. go net tons. an
average per working day Of i.S7s.7iS
tons This was 0.G per cent less than
the output during the prcccding week.
Il H. encouraging to note. however.
that the weeks production exceeded
that Of the week ending November
10Th by "a per cent The bituminous
production thus remains higher than
at any time since early July.
Denver and Rio Orande cars haul
Ing commercial coal during the week
ending November sith numbered
1855. hut during the week ending De
ccmhcr LIT they totalcd i42S or an In
crease of 0 per cent slight de-
crcns. h shown In cars hauling mcr-
chnndisc. but the increase In ears
ears hauling ore was . per cent ~
b. shown that there was "a decrcnrc la
car hauling Hmeiter products. tn"
coal and coke proportion of all freight
I war $50 per cent during tho week end
Ink November 9th and bh.s per cent
during the week ending December 1T.
spring Canyon coal company, op-
Grating 80 StnrrH. has completed the
Installation uf IL big electric mine
hoist which win increase the capacity
of its mine hA i've hundred tons per
! day This hoist win handle siNty-two
I tons ~ coal O. trip. and viii make the
b trip in siN minutes During the win
d ter IN, company viii put In surface
I tram connecting the portal ui the
main mine entry with the old lpplc
+ a. we'll nH with the new tipplr Whcih
WIN soon hr built The yard capacity
( az the tipplv h nlrn being enlarged.
These improvements, when completed.
{ Twin more than double the pruduvtiv"
4 capacity of tho mine,
The Independent Coal and Coke
COMPANY recently sold IL five hun
I drvd kiluWntt steam turbine generator
a. Utah Power and Light company,
the plant h,ing shipped a. Montrosr.
colo. m, coal company II now re-
ceNing IT, electric power from the
Utah. The coal company has recently
purchased two shortwall coalcutters.
making eight OF this type now IN use
lea H. mine. Ia addition u coal shoV-
clrr har been installed Ia the use VI
this machine a test run at four hours
resulted Ia the handling uf a hundred
aud forty-siN tons of coat ry laying
douhletracks with the shuVcler ON
: one at them ana the mine earn on
I the other u h believed the machine
viii handle iva hundred AMI fifty
d tons n eight hours,
Liberty Fuel company mp Spring
Canyon hus already expended over a
hundred and nfN thousand dollars
lin the equipment of III new coal en-
trrprisv Under the direction OF Con
tractor Sam G. sheriff the buildings
ana store al IN, mine are now about
completed. and work IN progressing
ON the tipplc and surface tramway.
The machinery Tor the mine aud tip
pie h. arriving and viii be installed so
that regular shipments can probably
begin los the first uf the year, Al thu
present time the company h hauling
about a hundred tons of coal daily by
Wagon from the mine Ia the railroad
loading station, Frank \, Cameron,
! president aud manager of the com
Il punN Recently visited the mine and