The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-03-02
AROUND THE COAL CAMPS;
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE,

About so per cent Of the striking
miners at Standardvilie have resumed
their former Jobs.
American Fuel company bonds are
being offered by Salt Lake City bro
kers at sixty-one and few sales.
Recently workable vein OF coal
was discovered by Myton man three
and a half miles from that town.
Independent Coal and Coke COM
pany stock IL being offered by Salt
Lake city brokers at ninety-three.
Independent Coal and Coke COM
pany stock II being offered at Salt
Lake city by brokers at around nine
ty-thrcc.
More than thodrand tons Of coal
went out Of start1dfdville last sun
day and Monday. 4otsigncd to various
parts OF the state and the Northwest.
The coal chutes Of the Milwaukee
railroad at Savannah. Ills. were de-
stroycd by fire last Monday. entailing
loss OF rcventy-five thousand dol
lars.
Carbon Fuel company. operating nj
lains. reports nef eafningr for 1915
of s2a.st2 and grSus NJ SCI .b3s. Spring
Canyon Coal contpapb nj storrs gives
net profit of s6S.S7e for the same
period.
Around forty feet OF snow covered
the farmhouse at standardviiic FOR sew
cral hours last week. preventing any
shipments Of the product from that
camp for about thirty-siX hours. II
came down In n slide.
J. y. Petit. state mine Inspector
was at standardvillc this week inquir-
INK into the strike OF Greek miners
there last week. lie IN not In sym
pnthy with the demands of the men
after an investigation of their trou-
blcR.
bingham has the distinction of hav-
ing the only school IN Utah remaining
open ON waEhington's birthday. owing
60 the number OF days lost this winter
on account of the coal shortage. Su-
perintendent willard decided 60 hold
the regular session.
kilograms from Berlin say that II
II officially announced that the bun.
dcsrath has authorized Chancellor Won
Bethmann-lloiiwcE TO claim. and
wherever necessary. seize the whole
production OF coal. Ignite. briquettes
and coke In Germany.
one Of the latest achievements Of
the German chemists has been the
utilizing Of tar OH. extracted from
burnt coal. for making soap. The new
process includes the treatment of
crude oil with potash. the finished
product yielding excellent soft, hard
and powdered soaps
sunnyridc coke pullcrr were last
week granted a raise of $50 per oven
from $50. The average man pulls
/ five ovens of coke In two days Other
employees Of Utah Fuel company
around the ovens were given rubHtan-
tials raises la wages In line with the
recent advances Co other employees.
Operating companies report that
there are still quite a number of To-
calitles In the northern part OF this
state and In Southern Idaho where the
coal stringency n severely felt The
United States Fuel company has re-
duced It's shortage In ruling orders Of
fifteen hundred cars. II was at one
time during the winter nearly three
thousand ears behind.
The equivalent OF eighty dollars per
ton for coal IL perhaps the maximum
reached during the present crisis In
Paris. The coal delivery man, who
extorted this price from a client In
great need instead of delivering II Ca
the customers who ordered IL at the
equivalent OF fifty-siX dollars "A ton,
has been arrested. The case IN report
ed Of one dealer who made the equiv
alent of twenty-five hundred dollars