The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-12-14

agent of the Denver and RIO orlando
with headquarters at Denver. Colo.
WIS In Utah last Friday and Saturday
90 Inspect freight conditions lie was
Especially concerned In the hauling OF
coal from the Carbon county mining
district.
Tho NTH big Santa Fe locomotive
OF the Utah railway was run out OF
tho oregon Short Line roundhouac
Sunday. under her own steam. and
another IN due this week. The Utah
railway IN getting into fine shape TO do
business Three long coal trains per
day IN the schedule now over that road
into Zion.
Exercising n right which they
claimed 90 have earned by "aauatting''
on the property. Oscar Bccbc and
John y. Iiccbc of Castle Dale applied
To- the United States land office last
Friday Tor permission 10 buy two hun
drcd and eighty acres OF coal land for
ten dollars an acre. The land h 10.
Gated IN Eastern SEWER county.
Less coal H. being hauled from the
Carbon county mines by the Denver
and Rio Orande since the advent into
the business n the new Utah railway,
u IN reported o. the state public utili-
ties commission. IN the week ended
December Nth the Denver and Ito
Orandr hauled twelve hundred aud
forty-ninc cars out OF these fields.
James Russell OF Denver. vice pres
idcnt OF the Denver and Rio orandr.
arrived In Salt Lake city Wednesday
after making an inspection of the
Utah lines. Tie says that the progress
made In the handling of coal from tho
Carbon county mines may De consid-
cred satisfactory. he was accompnn-
led on the tour Of inspection by y. y.
CLARITY. assistant general manager at
the Utah lines.
John A. Lawson. labor leader OF
Colorado who was recently elected
president OF the Colorado State Fed
Grafton OF Labor pledges the loyalty
of the lnboring men of his state Ia the
nation In this hour Of need. saying that
none viii lead them In devotion and
sacrifice % the flag and the country
and that the laboring men of Colorado
wiz stand second 60 none In America
Lawson was but recently released
from tho Colorado penitontiary. being
convicted of completely In murder
In the coal mine troubles at Ludlow
In that state
Before leaving Tor his home AZ SEQ
held this tFridayD morning. Nell NJ.
Madsen. county fuel administrators,
had telephone communication with
State Fuel Administrator Armstrong
at Zion. The latter said he had no
notice aH yut from the national ad-
minlstration AZ Washington. ID. g., re-
garding the advance In coal prices at
the mines said 10 have been made
Tuesday last Until official word h
had coal continues al the same fig
ures as have been prevailing. The
new prices announced are given on
the sixth page of this impression OF
The sun,
r.. santschi. ST.. who Was Ia Price
last Monday from Hiawatha. states
that the three camps over south OF the
United States Fuel company have
been working almost every day since
the first OF the month"; great con-
trast with operations before the
change In the Utah railway manage
ment. II IL now work every day 10
the miners and others with the prom .
Use of a continuance right along Ter
months. The company has orders DIR
coal far ahead. The new cara and = .
gines OF the Utah railway and tne
movement OF coal by this road Is pne
OF the big happenings OF the year.