The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1921-01-07
AROUND THE LOCAL CAMPS;
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE


Mutual Coal company has promi-
scd its stockholders shipments to the
markets this month
American Fuel company at Sego is
working iull six days a week with a
good Northwest demand for is coal.
Henry G. Ward OF Myton was the
other day offered a lucrative position
with the Union Pacific Coal company
at Rock Spiugs. Wyo. lie has de-
ciined IL.
Most OF the Carbon county prop
critics arc working five days a week
However, some OF the smaller ones
arc going Sis. There Is an increased
demand lor coal from many quar-
tiers.
G. W. Lindsey and Deputy Sheriff
East were in Price on tuesday last
from Castle Gate. The .nincs taere,
they report, are working SIX days a
week and the other properties 5i the
Utah Fuel company going i've AND
six days
William Littlejohn, general super
intcndcut OF the Utah Fuel company,
was IN Price the iorcpart OF the
week II may be a month or longer,
he states before Mine No. AZ Sum
nysidc gets back TO Is output OF be-
fore the fire.
John n. Tonkin. general manager
loi the Independent Coal and Coke
company. had business az Price last
Friday after an inspection OF tic
properties az kcniWorlh. They are
working around five days week
with an increased demand for coal
! Utah concerns that retain the priv
ilege OF insuring their own employees
will be compelled TO put up a bond
for twenty-five thousand dollars with
the state industrial commission after
February |, 1921, according TO rcso-
luton passed By that body. Another
resolution adopted changes the dis
count allowed for medical exclusion
on coal mining rates OF industrial in
suranec from u TO Is per cent This
applies also TO seli-insuring COM
Ipanics.
J, l., Finney who left Myton some
time ago TO accept a position with the
| Union Pacific Coal company at Rock
Springs. Wye, has been promoted 10
travelling auditor Himself and family
do not expect TO be gone from the
Uintah Basin permanently ln q re-
Ircnt letter he says, Having been
in the Basin during tie pioneering
period, also wish 10 be with Il when
Il comes into rs own II Is my aim
20 own land near Mylon before the
great boom comes"
p One petition for compensation was
granted by the state industrial COM
mission last Friday when an award
OF sixteen dollars a week Tor a hum
bred and fifty-seycn weeks and eigh-
teen dollars for one week was made
, TO Mrs. Nellie Lorimer whose son,
Bernie. was killed while az work for
the Liberty Fuel company al La
tuda, February 10. 1920. The mother
was shown 10 be a partial dependent
A hundred aud fifty dollars was also
ordered paid the Liberty Fuel COM
Ipany by the insurance carrier, Tor
funeral expenses advanced.
II. Foster Balm, recently announced
INn hilA INV AAlAAAhA AhA WV NffhNh'
States bureau OF mines, was formerly
} Ian operator In Colorado, and was
well known among mining men In the
Rocky Mountain region. lie was
manager OF a gold and silver proper,
~ AZ Idaho Springs from 1900 TO 1905
and as such contributed special arIi.
cles to mining journals Subsequent
lly he went 10 San Francisco, where
for several years he was editor OF the
, Mining and Scientific Press. OF late
years he has been connected in yari,
, Gus capacities with the United State
, bureau OF mines in Washington
d. {.
As one OF his last acts as stat,
, auditor, Joseph Ririe last Monday
/, sent a letter TO the state land board
, explaining that he had caused th,
coal lands report, filed as a part o.
: the governors hundred to one
, shot" to be compiled as a separat,
: report Ririe explains that the Goa
, survey and report was made by +, !
: Olson, formerly OF Price, under th,
, personal supervision OF himself a
, state auditor, and that he did no
want il confused or submerged by thu
other report He also criticizes th,
e fact that the report was printed a
, considerable expense when a few
4, copies would have sufiiced.