The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-06-22
AROUND TIM coal CAMPS:
Personal AND OTHERWISE

AROUND TIL COAL CANpS.
Personal AND OTHERWISE
Kctchum Coal company D. making
small shipments from W. property az
Castle Gate Most ~ n goes 10 Salt
Lake city and Provo.
Huntington people have recently
located about thousand acres ~
coal lands up Huntington Canyon.
north ~ the Freed holdings.
Salt Lake dealers were yesterday
quoting by advertisement King coal
from MOhriand In Emery county Ut
seven dollars ton delivered.
Mpn Tor stone work are being ad.
,ertiHcd Tor In this issue ~ The sun.
They are wanted at Watts nj three
dollars a day. Board one dollar.
tatuda a pico are developing three
hundred and twenty acres % coal
land up near Rains and expect 20
have their product on the market
within couple ~ month";
Parrot a ThompHon. retail dealers
in coal nt Zion. ARE developing four
hundred ana eighty acres of coal
holdings north 81 Rains. They will
have n small output soon.
!. a. Manson. operating the Price
municipal power plant. has figured
cut that coal has increased tsa per
cent In price over what he paid some
two years ago for the same grade
chris X. Jensen. who was here from
clear Creek last Tuesday. states that
the mines there are working an aver
age ~ five days a week with an out
put ~ about twelve hundred tons
daily
Mohrisnd BLACK Hawk and iiia.
watha worked full six days each last
week and ~ Tar every day this week.
About four thousand tons daily are
going out 81 the three places Al
have orders Tor months ahead
JudEe George chrlstenasn ~ the
district court this week named VIII
liam Littieiohn of Castle Gate and
George Pearson of iiiawathn as NOM
hors uf the board on examinations of
fire bosses and mine forcmcn.
Following the advance of fifty cents
In cost per ton 81 coal az the mines.
put into effect last SUNDAY. Salt Lake
City retailers with the exception 81
one concern have put up nut and
slack coal each nf,y cents ton
}. g. Dick. engineer and mining
promoter, was this week lolking over
the properties 90 crystal Coal COM
pany not far from Storrs. Coal h
likely a. be- coming out ~ there with
In a month or six weeks from now.
Eighteen cars ~ coal from the
three camps over south OF the United
States Fuel company went into the
ditch a few days ago al Mile Post ~
on the Utah railroad. This left the
camps without cars because Of the
blockade for several days.
Ten new dwellings az Castle Gate
being built this month are now ready
Tor the plaHterers. Also quite mum |
her at SunnyHlde, The new camp OF
Watts. north of Hiawatha. will con- |
struct some fifty dwellings aud otner
necessary buildings between now and
winter.
The American f'uel company OF
Salt Lake city. operating In Grand |
county, In pushing work In the de- /
velopment Of its coal measures. which /
now are from six o. eight feet uf solid /
coal A. progress h made into the |
mountain the veins are continually /
growing In size. says Salt Lakes Min
inE Review,
Robert Howard. state Inspector al I
mncs. was az Coalyillc last week lie |
says very little h doing there Just /
now. However the old Weber mine
Il figuring an an output of coal az
soon AZ they are hooked up with a
new power line being built az this
time FOR electrical energy.
Watts Coal company has placed an
order Tor a large capacity winding
engine o. handle a trip ~ ten loaded
ears weighing total ~ fifty tons ON
a 80 per cent incline 40 the company's
property near Iliawatha. This wind
Ing engine viii hc similar In con-
structiun 10 the one al the United
states Fuel company's camp az West
Iiiawatha
"EycTybody's working over our
Nay, including father" said T.. SAINT
'chi. Sr who was, In Price Friday
'yening and Saturday from Black
Hawk. Railroad cars are coming
along better than for some time. and
L the present lick 10 kept up all three
n the United States Fuel camps will
io working every day right along We
nv SUING 20 nave great 'Nl'hlaAl"h
IN the Fourth and want all you Price
olks 10 como over"
Utah consumers of coal are 90 meet
With the public utilities commission
II salt Lake City In the near future
% rearange, n possible. the railroad
'ates 10 various state points, This
Mas decided az meeting last Mon
lay evening, The meeting early re-
ioyed Itself into discussion OF NE
prices Of coal and the superior quail
les Of certain Goals given by men who
we're interested In coal mines. He
'auss Of this fact, many matters were
not gousidareh