The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1918-01-11
FOUR MILLIONS OF
TONS AND THEN
SOME
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les. the Independent Coal and Coke
and the United States Fuel, are inter-
ested.
Liberty Coal company up Spring
Canyon is at this time sending out
about two hundred tons a day. which
soon will be increased 20 five hundred.
n the present railroad car supply
keeps up and the tonnage at the mines
as well. operators state II In but q
question OF time until sales agents are
again on the road for the products Of
local properties.
MacIain a Mays are preparing TO
ship coal from Hardscrabble Canyon
above Helper a spurtrack from the
Denver and lilo drande has recently
been put In. The product Is 20 be
hauled by wagon 60 the spur.
Lars Frandsen last Monday began
delivering coal TO local consumers
from the Knight mine In Deadman.
lie finds "a ready market for all he can
get down 90 Price. Wellington folks
buy at the mine and do their own
hauling
Work IL well along on the surface
tramway Of the Spring Canyon Coat
company at storrs. a six-hundrcd foot
tunnel IL being driven In connection.
This will do away with the aerial
tramway In use since the camp has
been operating.
Watts will not be shipping until
about the first OF February. when this
newest OF Carbon county's camps ex-
poets 90 start off with n production OF
five hundred tons a day. Completion
OF the branch railroad 90 the camp II
causing the delay.
Preliminary estimate places the De.
lccmber production OF coal at $1,000
900 tons. the lowest recorded since
lAprii. 1917. ON this basis the entire
1911 production should be approx.
matcly 5it.i42.O0o tons. representing
an Increase over 1915 Of s.3 per cent.
Moroni Holncr. one Of the vice pres.
identa Of the United States Fuel COM
pany. was at the three camps OF that
concern over south last week on one
OF his periodical trips OF inspection.
lie stopped at Price going and coming.
hut had nothing. he said. OF Interest
to the newspapers. lie was pleased.
however. with what he saw In the way
81 increasing production.
plenty OF mon az this time. says Rob
crt Howard. state Inspector. who was
last week az most Of the camps OF the
county. Miners average seven 20 ten
dollars a day the district over. Some
at Winter Quarters and elsewhere are
drawing down a. much nH three hun
bred and twenty-five dollars a month.
and not working fun time at that
Pennsylvania II by far the largest
coal producing state her total output
aggrcgatinE nearly 2bO.OOO.000 tons.
against about 10000. 900 In West vir-
glnia. $4,000. 900 In Illinois. $4,000. 900
In ohio. 2i.000. 900 In Kentucky, H.
900. 900 IN Indiana and 100000 IN
Alabama. Practically all OF the am
thracitr coal produced In the United
States IL mined In the state OF Penn
sylvanin. whore " forms about one
third OF the total output.
In the five working days OF Christ
mas week the soft coal mines OF the
country are estimated 90 have pro-
ducod S.s6t. 900 net tons. an average
per working day OF i.7sa,OoO tons.
The recovery from the extraordinary
depression OF mid-December contin-
yes. but the rate OF production has
not yet attained the mark set for Mo-
Nembcr. The Increase was effected In
spite OF continued adverse weather
conditions
Solid coal trains were ordered NOV
ed eastward ahead OF all other freight
last Friday and Saturday. after con-
ferences between the director general
of railroads and the fuel administra-
tor on further plans for speeding coal
TO New England and other sections
short OF coal In the midst OF bliE-
zard. The railroads were directed 20
give preference so far as possible 10
shipments from mines nearest the des-
tination 10 eurtail hauls and promote
efficiency.
| Asking that coal prices To consum-
ers In general be based on the actual
cost OF producing coal at the mine. a
communication was sent 10 Dr. II. A.
Garfield. national fuel administrator.
last Tuesday by the Manufacturers
Association OF Utah. The eommuni-
cation calls attention TO the fact that
during the recent hearing OF coal pro-
ldueers before w, w. Armstrong, state
fuel administrator. they refused to
furnish figures relative 20 the cost OF
producing coal at the mine.
The quantity OF coal consumed on
the oceans of the world by vessels en-
gagged In international trade and the
naVies OF the various countries II es.
timated at about 75.OOO.O 900 tons per
annum. valued at approximately
$3.50. 900. 600. these figures relating 10
conditions preceding the war. The
total quantity at the present time Is
doubtless materially less, both by rea-
son OF the reduction In the uumh0, Of
vessels engaged In ocean transpOrta-
tion ana the further fact that many
.of the vessels are now using oil Tor
fuel instead Of coal
The three mines over south OF the
United States Fuel company have
, been working exceptionally well since
, tho Utah railway began operating It's
, own line. General Superintendent Ma.
graw was down from there during the
I week and says that for twenty-five
working days In December last the
property at Black Hawk turned out
, close 20 forty thousand tons. while Tor
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