Show BIG COAL industries rz imin coal is best put on markets in utah colorada Co lorada nevada and california BEDS IN CARBON COUNTY what prominent men afen in the VIC state say of the big coal fields it is estimated the consolidated fuel company have tone tons of coal to the acre and they have acres of coal land lana which would give them this number of tons of coal at ZOO pr per ton would mean the neat urn um of 0 which would kep most any family in comfortable circum circumstances for some time government expert experts estimate that a vein of coal ono an foot in thickness means that 1600 tona tons of black diamond diamonds can be taken from one acre of ground that t Is two train loads or 32 carp of fifty tone tons each during the year 1909 there was taken from the coal mines tn in carbon county utah tons of coal this was the output of the mines in other words 65 carloads of afif fifty ty tons each trains of sixteen cars each if the trains were connected together they would extend a distance of over miles ml en to produce this coal necessitated the help of SOW men at the colli collieries enes in carbon county the output from this county alone was 95 per cent of the total output of the entire elate the rho average number of tons produced by each man employed in the mine mines was wait tone the average mortality for each miners rain ers was 5 39 the dumber of days worked in 1909 was there are two foreigners to one american employed the total num number berof of entries of coal lands made in utah from the date of the passage of theat MaTch 3 1873 providing for the entry or coal lands to juno june 30 1909 the latest aval able statistics was with an average of and valued at 4 the contents of the coal fields of utah 3 calculated by experts in the ecological geological urvey survey of the government in tuna tons to be practically ABOUT TUB THE at hiawatha is located than tipple tapp of the consolidated fuel compala com paly this tipple la Is the moat most modern on in n utah everything about tt it ie Is handled the train can which carry the coal batel from rom the mine have neither end gatei or false bottom bot tomi brit are re tipped irom from the aide side there I 1 Is an tor through which the slack passes pusses so 0 o that when the slack Is loaded upon the care it ie Is pea coal in fact as a well as in name for all the dust is taken from it and thia this dust la Is used in malting making fills ballasting b al lasting track act FUEL COMPANY uram twenty one miles southwest from fro price in miller canyon canyo the consolidated fuel company of salt lake city a company incorporated for capital divided into shares of 91 1 each baji has opened up a colli colliery erv the of the company are P F A sweet president and genera general manager J lemly vice president W 11 sweet secret secretory try P F W francis treasurer this company haa has opened at the head of miller ilmer canyon a colliery it owns and has patents to 1600 acres of coal land and holds final receipts rec cipta upon acres nore more in all 2200 acre acres and behind this are thousands of acres more of coil that can only be reached through tala tl la property the vein of coal which thit tho company Is working Is twenty five feet in thickness or tons to the acre whit a makes the supply exhaustible ry is u known as the hiawatha the coal as an hiawatha coal and the town where the colliery is local is callied hiawatha the output today ia is SOO tons per day of this output OW tons is hipped shipped to points outage outside of utah the major part olaff to idaho the remainder to nev ada ads california both northern and south ern montana while the salt lake route take takes apart a part of the output all the present fifty miners are employed mp loyed aut but within the next two weeks this number will be doubled and the capacity of the mine that is the output will this will make the total botak non brof employ ca at tho taghi from price the castle vaclev railroad branches off and heads for castle valley in emery county where another colliery is to be opened from this junction point the railroad to price is under the joint of both the mine which was opened a little over one year ago has a splendid portal which enters a perpendicular wall perhaps SOO feet high right into the breast of the coal coal there is sufficient dripping in the tunnel to keep it thoroughly damp so that there is no danger from dust the tunnel is a compartment one WHERE IT is LOCATED ahe I 1 he m mine ne is at the junction of the north central and south forks of miller creek and in each fork there is a fine stream of water in the north fork the company has installed a pipeline pipe line which conduit it is a four ich pipe w witter liter is carried for half mile the water being for general purposes at the tipple Is 3 another gravity water system und and furnishes an abundant sup ply the fuel company owns all the water in he three forks and tl the a overflow or goes to irrigate Irrig afra a ranch of acres atres ined by the company farther down jhb th a oyon so that the supply is used to the 1 tt it advantage still another pipeline pipe line a gravity asyem vilem has also been installed above the th ani rn n giving ample force for all purposes at the townsite the value of these rights cannot be calculated S B sheppard foi several seurh in the employed of the atah V tah fuel co in the auditors office and it at the different coal camps in this caraty but recently tn in the brokerage 1 business husi nesa at eureka is a now chief clerk of the consolidated fuel co at Ul hiawatha awatha utah lie ile will brits hia his umily from tie te city as soon as the company completes a house they are pu putting tung up for him |