The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-10-26
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struck last Friday. The chief COM
plant n In reference Co payment FOR
/ the removal OF rock.
Production Of beehive coke during
/ September ~ estimated at 2.Si2.SGS
net tons an average per working day
OF iiG.9s2 tons. Tho cumulative pro-
duction since January LIST amounts a.
approximately 26.OT6.b3i tons. ~
compared with the 2s.6t3.3G3 tons
produced In the corresponding months
OF 1915 this was a decrease Of 80 per
cent
Local coal operators are rcmarking
that the carrying out Of the HuRKes.
ton OF u. l.. winchell. director ~
traffic of the Union Pacific system.
that half million Chinese be brought
TO this country 10 labor In the various
Industries until after the war. ought
10 be- carried out That would relieve
the serious shortage IN the labor mar
ket that has now become such a
menace.
Diamond Coal aud Coke company
OF Salt Lake city H. defendant In u
suit filed Saturday In the federal court
of Cheyenne. wyo.. by United States
District Attorney Charles l.. iligdon
to recover s2s3 acres OF coal land near
i<emmcrcr Wye. and Go pay more
than 81. 200. 900 Tor coal removed dur
/ ing twenty years at occupancy The
company Is charged with having hired
Eighteen persons 60 file claims on the
60 the company
OFFICERS aud organizers ct District
No. 10 of the United Mine Workers ~
America at "a meeting at Denver.
| Friday agreed unanimously t. use
their influence 60 avoid any local
strike or shut down during the period
of the war" The meeting was called
Co consider means of preventing dim.
mutton of the coal supply during the
war. Officers at the organizations
which have strong representation
throughout the Colorado coal fields.
declared.
W. W. Armstrong state fuel adj
ministrntor, said last Wednesday that
he had not been advised of the open
Ing of a ear service and motive power
bureau office In salt Lake city. lie
added that the two transportation
problems were being looked into by
members of the coal administration
committee assigned To that work.
And that for the present he has no big
meeting In mind. and that satisfa ctory
progress was being made In handling
the coal situation.
Wear aud tear on steel contriyances
may result In an addition OF twenty
| five cents a ton for coal II the aims OF
- A
panies are put Ia effect. The abnor-
mally high price Of steel chutes and
other coal handling machinery IL said
10 be responsible The coal chutes
are used In the delivery OF coal. They
are ten feet long and are made OF
iron aud are now quoted at twenty
five dollars against twelve dollars a
year ago, chutes wear out with SUR
prlsing rapidity,
In response Ia numerous requests OF
residents of Idaho AN examination OF
certain reported coal fields In the
eastern part OF that state was made
last summer by "a geologist OF the
United States geological survey, de-
partment of the Interior In order that
any coal land present In that part OF
the state might be- classified and thus
made available for local mining. so
as Ia relieve the high prices and
threatened scarcity Of fuel. This work
mas Just been completed. and the re-
suits are not at all encouraging ~ far
a. the development OF local supply
h concerned.
Soft coal mines Of the country con-
llhur Ia produce In excess uf last
years output but the rate of Increase
over the production of 1915 IL slow
ing down. During the month OF Aug.
ust the 1917 production gained four
million tons over the corresponding
lSle production. During September
the gain was only one and half mil
non Expressing the same idea I'm
terms OF per cent hy the end az Aug.
ust the 1917 production was III per
cent ahead OF that for 1919. by the
end OF September IL was only lO.5
ahead. II seems Increasingly prob
hple mat the total production of the
year 1917 VIII better the record of last
year by not more than 10 per cent.
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Look for the Cranes Shoe shop.
nly shop In Price equipped for sew
ing aoles on 10y modern machinery