The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-06-11
AROUND THE LOCAL CAMPS;
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE

United States Fuel company camps
are working five days weekly Of late
with fulltime for the miners in sight.
Prof William Peterson, state geol-
ogist. will sit in an advisory capacity
with the state board of equalization
while coal companies protest the
valuation Of their lands. Only six
companies object this year.
Claiming that large quantity of
the coal that is assessed against IL ut
Scoijeld Is on fire and has been burn
ing for several years, the Union Pa
cific Coal company has asked the
state board of equalization TO cut
down its assessment.
Application is made by the Rio
Grande Coal company for mineral
land leases up Spring Canyon which
they intend to hold for three years be-
fore starting development The state
land board is debating rs TO whether
II is justified in dealing in futures.
ConstanHnoplc is offering hun
dred dollars ton for Alabama coal
The Turkish capital is willing to pay
that much for fuel delivered from the
Birmingham district. but coal oper-
ators have been forced to reject all
orders because they cannot guarantee
deliveries.
Nine directors instead Of five will
hereafter control the destinies of the
knight Investment company, parent
company Of the Spring Canyon Coal
company, according to papers filed
with the secretary of state last Satur-
day. Hereafter officers shall be
chosen only from among the directors.
Thomas sheldon. one of tho best
known coal mining men in the inter
mountain country and for twcnty-scv-
On years superintendent of the Diam
ondville Coal and Coke company. died
NJ his home in Dinmondville. Wyo.,
one day last week He was % years
Of age. Funeral services aud burial
were at Ogden last Saturday
The Utah Chapter of the American
Association of Engineers is prcpnr-
ing the draft Of law 10 be- submitted
at the next meeting of the legislature,
creating q state board Of examiners
for civil engineers. &. J. ullrich, MS
sistant state engineer l.. j. Seckels
of the Oregon Short Line and c. G.
Burt, employed by the Garfield Smelt-
ing company, compose the drafting
committee.
Modern mine rescue apparatus has
now been installed Ia Eureka, accord.
Ing To G.. A. Allen, chief mine nspec-
tor, state industrial commission. He
states group of mining companies
there united in the purchase of five
modern oxygen breathing rescue APP
paRlus which has been placed in the
city fire station, Il is Kept there 80
that IL may be placed upon a high
powered truck and rushed To any one
of the large mines in the Ncinity,
whore accidents might occur. Men
are being trained in the use of the ap-
paratus in all the different mines
nearby,
Assessed valuation of the Utah
Fuel company proper Ibis year before
going through the equalization pro-
cess of the state board is sl,6SiO03,
as compared with S2,0O7 ,636 last year,
The difference is attributed 10 the
more exact classification of coal and
grazing lands possible under the new
state tax laws. On the other hand,
the assessed valuation of the Pleasant
Valley Coal company, which is prac-
tieally the Utah Fuel company, has
increased from S2,l20,747 in 1919 Ia
S3,2l2,650 in 1920, Thus the Utah
Fuel interests will pay taxes this year
on an assessed valuation of S7Gs,270
higher than it was last year