The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-11-26
AROUND THE LOCAL CAMPS:
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE


Standard Coal company shares are
offered by Salt Lake City brokerage
houses at fifty-six cents.
Standard Coal company bonds are
quoted by Salt Lake City brokers at
$4,000 They are 1924 skies.
Zion brokers are quoting Indepen-
dent Coal and Coke company stock at
fifty-seven ccnts-the new issue.
h. Roy Gibson, auditor of the Unit
ed States Fuel company, has been in
Carbon and in Emery counties lately
checking up on taxes He this month
will turn into the treasures of the
two counties a small fortune.
Charles Leger, chief engineer for the
Cameron Coal company, was down
from that camp a few days ago anil
told The Sun the daily output there
at this time is averaging around nine
hundred tons. Cars are not lacking.
Mutual Coal company, opening up a
new property in Spring Canyon, has
executed a mortgage for ten thousand
dollars to the Continental National
bank AZ Salt Lake City on its holdings
locally. The debt becomes due in Feb
ruary next.
Superintendent Of Mines Hill was
in Price from Mohrland on Saturday
last. The property over which he has
supervision is shipping at the rate of
about twenty-one hundred tons daily.
There is little complaint Of lack Of
railroad cars.
Thousands Of tons of German coal,
intended for some Of the entente ma
tions. have been stolen while on route
down the Rhine and smugglcld into
Holland ON bargcs. Only a part Of
Che coal was unlooded nc the allied
dcpots, and the rest, covered with
stones, was taken down the river 10
Holland
Independent Coal aud Coke com
pluy has leased 10 John II. Tonkin,
Charles W. Buckley and W. j. II
wood some four hundrd and forty
acres of It's coal land holdings in Sec.
-, Twp. 10 South, Range 10 East, the
consideration being seventy thousand
dollars. The lease runs until all coal
shall have been extracted from the
lands.
Colorado Fuel aud Iron company,
for The quarter ended September 30,
1920. reports a surplus after interest .
taxes, sinking fund and soforth, Of
S6Dl ,GS5, equivalent after preferred
dividends 10 Sl.0O share earned on
f3i ,235.b00 common stock This COM
parcs with q surplus of ~ ,5i6,ssl or
$40 a share in the preceding quar-
ter and F5A000 or Sli7 n share in
the corresponding quarter of 1919.
One of the sections of the worlmon =
compensation law may be tested ia
court. II provides that IN eases whore
there b. NO dependent for an insured
who b. fatally injured, the sum of
seven hundred aud fifty dollars must
be- paid by the insuring company into
the state treasury, establishing q fund
10 aid men who are permanently dis
nhled when not covered by insurance.
This test will come in the Dirk Green
ease, who died without dependents,
though his father later attempted Ia
prove dependency
Carbon County Land company, the
Miner estate, has decided 10 the In
dependent Coal and Coke company
eleven hundred and twenty acres OF
It's holdings in Sees. 3, 10 aud II, Twp
10 South, Range IL East, the CON
sideration being five hundred thou
sand shares Of the capital stock OF
the Independent company. The deed
carries four hundred and fifty dol
lars revenue stamps. The sale is sub
ject to mortgage OF $4,000 due
the state of Utah ON a compromise set
Element made just recently involving
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