The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1918-06-07
AROUND THE coal CAMPS:
Personal AND OTfIERNI~E


shortage Of labor. both miners and top
Of the ground men. The company
however. is working normally.
Independent Coal and Coke com
pnny has recently put on about twcn-
ty-ntc more miners. men secured
from over the state and from Wyo-
ming and elsewhere.
About q thousand tons a day Is
coming out of I,ains. "a greater pOr-
ton Of u going to Pacific Coast points.
About twenty new cottages are going
In there for the Use Of Carbon Fuel
company employees.
Watts Coal company recently
placed nm order for four coalcuttors
and two air compressors. Fifteen four
room bungalows are being erected for
employees az this new camp. The out
out In about two hundred and fifty
tons daily and Increasing.
a. y. Gibson. superintendent at
Rtorrs. was down from that camp the
first 81 the week. Tho output there
is now thirteen hundred tons daily
aud the property working every dag.
with the completion Of the new tip.
pie and tramway IN" capacity viii be
doubled.
Liberty Fuel company az I.atuda is
building sixteen more miners dwell
iings. making forty In all Sam 6.
sheriff. contractor and builder. has
charge OF construction. The company
| ~ Installing an electric hoist This
new equipment viii materially In
cr"arc production.
Konilworth ~ working fun six day.
q week with an output when fully go'
ing ct about twelve hundred tpn'
daily. OF this about "a hundred and
my tons comes from the No. mine
recently put into Commission. Super
lntcndcnt Elwood. like most others ai
this time. u short Of miners.
Two rhoveilng machines have re.
gently been Installed az Black Hawk
hy the United states Fuel company
This company has n building prograni
laid out which contcmpintes this
erection ct miners change and
bathhousr NJ M6hrland and iargci
hosting aud other machinery ~ Pan
Their.
Claiming that the Iron County Goa
company has failed To pay him Ms
rahry, George W. Hawn has in-titut'
I'd action against that company at Sal
Lake city TO recover eight hundred
doilarr alleged due Tor services rem
drrcd. iiawn. according 10 the com
plant. was general manager OF th'
coal company
A. "a result of the death 81 Nicl
PnppaH, atlas Sick Dromonir. Wills
performing his duties as a labvrer IL
the employ of the American fuel
company, suit 10 recover two hundred
aud nrty dollars was last Monday a
Salt Lake cay instituted by Spyro
Drumonis, father Of the deceased. VIII
asarrts he IL the only relation 10 Pap
pas and that rappaS perNiouF to HI
death had always contributed Co hi
support.
The sun press this week turned Oh
la count. OF hundred booklets fol
Spring Canyon Coal company-rulci
adopted and approved by In" min'
igfcty committee "a that camp. TN
committee meets once u month nns
discusses problems of interest pn,
h,nrfit H. thosr employed at th'
property, Every cmploye h Co 10
given copy OF The book. and more
o. expected 90 familiariE" himself VIII
what u II intended Co teach.
Aiisslssippi has enacted law au
thurizing the establishment and mpin
tcnancr IT municipal Wood and coal
yards during the period nf the wa
aud Tor one year thereafter a. u mean
IT meeting the fuel shortage. This q
said a. be the first legislation "f III
Kind hy any state. Municlpalitiv
taking advantage ot this law may pro
vide the necessary machinery, tram
lpnrt. sell and deliver fuel, ana are an
thotlxrd t. use for this purpos" grn
ernl municipal funds, and alsn. VIII
certain rcstri,tlons. L. borrow m"n"'
u necessary
| standard Coal company II conStruc
ting tWenty-four additional minor
lrcsidences These are at brick am
ltlr aud provided with water connrr
liens. laVatoricH and toilets Ia add
tlon the company h building mrT
tonminghnusc and "a two-st"ry amurV
m, at hail The latter h being pro
Nlded With ladies room, rrudin
room and ponlhall, soda water foun
tnins aud confectionery department
Ilrsides sewerage system n hoiu
CONSTRUCTED for the TOWN. The min"
Lot the company are producing nor
lmnlN. The war draft continues 4
ldeplrnish thu working force. hut th
COMPANY b. satisfied. aud happy d