The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1918-12-06

planned to establish a field organizn-
ton throughout tho coal producing
country In connection with obtaining
Increased efficiency In the use 81 vleC-
tric power In coal production.
Utah coal mining companies report
that all requirements Ter coal can
now be met. Notwithstanding short
axe OF help due Co war requirement.
and spread 90 influenza. and that al
orders can be promptly filled.
a. n. pfelffcr 90 Castle Date. rest
dent engineer for Utah Fuel company.
has resigned ana h. now located at
Iierin. Ills. whore he has accepted "a
position with an enEinccring COM
pany. Tie hes been succeeded By v.
q. RALPH. formerly with the Salt Lake
city office of the company.
tndepcndor' coal and Coke com-
phny ~ meeting with gratifying sue
cess In the development of tn new
mine. which II electrically equipped
throughout Tho company n oniarE-
Ink the hotel and annex gt the mine,
office building and hospital. and Hvy-
erai new houses nrc beinE constructed
which viii be- modcrniy equipped with
water facilities. baths and electric
lighting
u H. reported from San Francisco.
Gala, that the government has au-
thorixed the expenditure of $4,000
| OoO for the construction OF coal bunk
rrs at Pacific Coast points IN order
&C. increase ocean shipping facilities
Tho coal for trann-ocean shipment
viii he drawn from the zeal fields Of
the Western States. What effect tho
recent arInistice win have on the pro-
gram IN not known.
Inland Fuel company has cstah-
liHhed wholesale and retail office In
the Mcintyre building M Salt Lake
Lake city The compnny's mine N
located above Helper Ia Hardscrabbie
Canyon. This ~ a new property and
In the early stages of development
and equipment lite product H. styled
pine Canyon Coat" Yards Tor the
handling OF this coal viii soon be
established In Salt Lake City. w. A,
IIickenlo0per h general manager Tor
the company and J. NJ. Allen "a man
nger OF the retail department.
John A.. FnddiA. superintendent Of
tho Union Pacific mines at Cumber'
land, Wye. was crushed 10 death
there one day 'ast week by runaway
ore car. Faddis had been uuperin'
tendent OF the mine ton years and foi
b seven years preceding was fireman
Al one time no was resident of Coal
, Vile, coming 90 this country from
Scotland, where he was born sixty
, iva years ago. lie In survived by nj
widow. three sons. three daughter
! and one sister. The dead man wa
well known 60 many residents OF TN
camps of Carbon county, end wher'
he has several relatives.
~ the meeting OF the National Goa
association directors In Washington
In. c., recently the bylaws wer'
amended providing for the admlsslol
OF individual companies IN looalitie
where there Is no local organization
/, OF operators as members 90 the ma
tional association. Under the amend
ed bylaws the companies elected q
: membership are the Anchor Coal CON
pany. Cleveland. o.; Brothers Vale
10 Coal company. New York City; Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company. Den
4, yer. Colo; Robert Gage Coal company
p Bay city. Mich. Gallup. n NJ; Mon
A., arch Coal Mining company, Monarch
4 Wye: w. j. Rainey. New York cip
. other members are Alabama Fus
association. birmingham, Ala, an
Z Jackson District Coal association
u Wellston, q.
According 90 advices from Denyel
= Colo, there IL an abundance OF coa
4 and no coal famine this winter Is and
cipnted. Colorado rs seven weeks Do
y hind la coal consumption. Compare
"A lively mild weather and the enforce
closing OF large amusement plact
h aud public halls for five weeks o
i account OF the influenza are roasou
n given for the abundance OF coal on
setting this somewhat II may be sal
that the producing end OF the industr
(, has suffered from the inroads of IN
= epidemic. and estimates are that Nv
: thousand five hundf al miners an
down with the Influenza or have bee
called upon 20 care Tor those who al
r in. leasening tho outpus. Colorado
: tonnage Is four hundred ana fifI
II thauaanA ahaad ~ last Vanr'a DrOdut