Show REPORT FROM COAL PROPERTY elk coal company submits figures to stockholders no liquor sold to employees there are a number of stockholders in this county in what is known as the elk coal com dany whose property is 13 in wyoming Wv omine the company has just sent out its report of the conditions of the property at the close of last month the follow ma ine is taken from the circular letter to stockholders we are now chicoine shi coine from the and 1100 foot font level so BO and the coal at t that deuth depth is at least leant per cent better than it was at the foot level we are minine minina dt at present approximately tons per day and expect to increase this out put out within the next tew weeks we have employed men and our mine is thoroughly for an output of a thousand tons a day which we expect to reach before long lone we are shipping ship coal in the west to nearly all points in california and nevada and all through the north as faras far as boo boozane bo okane karie washington the reports from these various points show that our coal is on a par with rock springs Dia kemmerer and other leading coals with the excer tion lion perhaps 01 its ita being beine yet a little too soft for storing storm however this objection is 18 rapidly being overcome as the coal continues to harden as we increase in depth I 1 believe that within the next nent few months wo we can ca show to tn our stockholders a gross cross earning of oer der month I 1 do not think that my estimate is high bieh as I 1 have studied thoroughly the conditions both at the mine and with respect to our sales we could sell two thousand tons of coal per day right in the fields where we are now operating po rating that should be encouraging for the residents of this county who in vested their earnings with this com pan ganv the elk coal company has a townsite it their and they own and control the entire site no liquor is permitted to be sold on the ground and men who indale in liquor ire not considered desirable employed emit emp loves loyes the company has furnished a reading room and gymnasium for the and they endeavor to supply all needs of the men in the wv way of amusement and recreation the company has lost considerable money by bv its attitude as to saloons an offer was made by bv one firm of for one scars nears rental for cent ground on which to erect a saloon but the company agents would have none of it the management figures figured that the company is ahead in the proposition by more efficiency in its working force in the absence of liquor from the townsite tiie the town is named eithol and it is ed about three emilei from the roain main line of the oregon short line |