The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-06-25
AROUND THE LOCAL CAMPS:
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE

Prof. William Peterson. state geo
logist, came down from Zion last
Saturday and this week has been Civ
ing his attention 10 coal matters at
several camps Of the Carbon county
district.
r. NJ. Fuller, superintendent Of the
Mutual properties, was In Price last
Saturday purchasing materials local
ly Everything il going along nicely,
he says, with the work under his SUI
peryision.
The industrial census of the inter
mountain region will be completed
September LIST, next, s. y. Peavey, in
charge in this district, announces.
The census will list all the mines, fac
tories and quurries.
II. NJ. Magraw, general supcrintcn-
dent of the United States Fuel prop
critics, is back at Hiawatha from
recent business trip To Zion. That COM
pany's four local properties are work
ing five days a week 10 full capacity.
Several men have just lately been put
10 work up Gordon Greek near the
former Sheya ranch developing the
holdings Of the National Coal com
pany where there soon Is 10 be a
new camp. The Sweets, c. n. Sire
veil and other Zionites are behind the
proposition,
W. b. Williams, former general
superintendent of the Utah Fuel
company and quite well remembered
in Carbon county, has been very IN of
late at his home in Rich Hill, Mo-,
from whence he came to this district.
He has been out of the coal game
since leaving here. Letters from the
Missouri town 10 mutual friends To-
eally state that he is improving,
Senator Albert h. Cummons, chair
man of the committee ON interstate
commerce, recently Offered a resolu-
ton in tho senate proposing an in
quiry by the naval committee 10 de-
termine whether American naval and
merchant vessels now equipped 10
burn oil fuel will have 10 return to
the use of coal because of the oil situa-
ton. The committee would also be
directed 10 consider the question Of
government acquisition of coal fields.
State Coal Mine Inspector John
Crawford was in Price Wednesday
last after one of his periodical inspec-
tions of the properties of Carbon dis
trict, Briefly stating ID, he says, the
mines airs working everywhere on an
average of five days week, miners
are scarce and railroad ears plentiful.
Many men about the camps are going
back 10 the farms for the summer,
while still others are taking vacations
of various kinds. Unless forces gen
orally are recruited there will soon
not be sufficient numbers 10 get out
the coal for which there is market
and railroad ears in which 10 haul IT,
Trustees of the Fireside Oil and
Coal company were summoned before
the state securities commission last
Friday and then notified that their ac'
tions in selling stock were not in ac,
cord with the "bluesky" law. Those
representing the Fireside were Jo,
seph Musser, DR. j. T. White and j
Wisenborn, calling themselves trus
tees, whose legal representative be
fore the commission was George ii
Smith, attorney He claimed for his
clients that the company was legally
right in conducting such business
as the Fireside Oil and Coal com
pany, as they are working under q
trust agreement, and that they do moi
come under the qualifications of the
bluesky" law. The matter was re
ferred to State Attorney Genera
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