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Show THE SUN. PBXCE PAGE SIX LOCAL COAL OUTPUT IS SHOWING DECIDED re-po- DECLINE of the undertakings of the last year in which he detailed progress made in many ways, lie was as secretary fur the coming year after a vote of thauks had been accorded him for his past services to the association. Other utticers besides Fernet rein and Billings elected are John Farr, Ogden, vice president ; William C. Stark aud II. B. Smith, Murray; Arthur Salt Lake City; Fernstnun, Billings, Farr and H. B. Randall, Ogden; James Larson, Provo; W. W. Evans, Park City; George Barnes, Kaysville; Heber S. Rup;ier, Provo; H. D. Ooldsbo rough, Nephi; David Holmgren, Tremonton; J. A. Anderson, Heber City; C. E. Sharp, Boise, Ida., and Willard Luud, Pocatello, Ida., directors. The association decided to enlarge the scoie of its activities during the coining year and execta to with the producers in many respects. The new executive committee will be called to meet shortly tp formulate Siecifically the general policies outlined by the convention. ed FALLING OP IS CLOSE TO FIFTY FEE CENT. Hines of the Cirbon County District Working Mostly Three Days ly and Some of Them But Two Utah and Idaho Retailers Meet With Operators Last Week at Zion. Week- Coal production in Utah for the first three months of this year more than 10 per cent lieiug from Carbon county shows a very decided decline, amounting to from 40 per rent in Jan-uur- y to more than fid er rent last March, as roniared with the first three mouths of 1929, according to estimates made by the mine inflection deiartmeiit ness meeting and al the banquet which followed. At the meetiiig Stark led in much of the discussion of the current problem of the coalmen. S. L. Billings, Jr., secretary, rendered a rt of the state industrial Mae-Farlan- e, commission and made publie last Saturday. The estimates are based on the weekly rejKirts of the ojierating RATES ON COAL ARE CUT BY RAIL BOARD RULING companies, and, although two or three failed to report regularly, these were the smaller one. The estimates ean be considered reliable in the opinion of the department heads. The tonnages of production for the first three months in 1921 are January, 356,200; February, 322,688, and March, 284,573. The production for the first three months in 1920 was January, 589,668; February, 515,214, and March, 5217,606 tons. At the present time the mines of Carbon county the bigger oues are working but two aud three days a week. The little ones lately have in some instances worked three day's. At Scofield the Kinney Coal anu the Scofield Coal company have been closed down entirely eince about the first of the year. No market is the reason given. Up at the Mutual in Spring Canyon the payroll is said not to be coming along as it should. One of the members of the imblie utilities commission visited the projierty this week and last to inquire or rather look into conditions there. The concern is asking jiermission to sell stock that further improvements may be made from moneys derived from such sales. CANADIAN RECORD IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD ONE Consul (leneral Brittan atWinnipeg in a late report to the department of commerce states that the output of Canadian eoal mines in 1920, according to figures compiled by the dominion burau of statistics, was 16,068,-86- 8 short tons as against 13,919,096 short tons in 1919, an increase of 21.9 per cent and a record in the history of coal mines in Canada since the previous high mark waa set in 1913 at 15,532,878 short tout. The exports increased to 2,558,223 tons as compared with 2,070,050 tons in 1919, and imports from the United States were ijn ,8 15,590 tons aguinst 16,982,773 tons in 1919. Except in Saskatchewan, the output of coal in 1920 in the Canadian provinces was every where in excess of that mined in the previous year. Alberta led in output with 41 r cent of the years total production. Nova Beotia produced 37.88 per cent of the total, British Columbia 18.3 per cent, Baskatchewan L9 jier cent and New Brunswick 1 per rent. By kinda of coal the increases in output for Canada amounted to 0.3 per cent for anthracite, 16 ier cent for bituminous and 5.6 per cent for lignite. Importation! of bituminous coal from the United States into the province of Quebec fell off very markedly during 1920 as compared with those of 1919, the total being 2,073,813 short tons in 1920 and 3,503,410 tons in 1919. LITTLE RELIEF IS COMING DECLARE THE OPERATORS Prospects for summer storage rates on coal at prices less than those prevailing at present were held very slight unless the uncxxcted should oceur, according to producers and retailers who 8Kke the other day before the anmiul convention of the o Retail Merchants association at Salt Lake City. I F. Rains, y president of the Curium Fuel and representing the producers, told the retailers mime of the problems operators are facing aud expressed the belief that a reduction in the mine price of coal will be very dillicult unless wage readjustments can lie made. Rut he said further that inasmuch n the miner are now working hut two days a week, it is hardly fiossihle to accept any reduction in their present mmiansation. He bosH)ke the cooperation of retailers and producers in arriving at methods for mutually serving the coal consuming public and proffered the friendly services of the operators. H. F. Fernstrom, manager of the Bamberger Coal comiany, was elected president of the association. lie made a brief address on freight rates in which he rejeirted that efforts looking toward a possible redaction on coal during ti e summer months had been thus far fruitless, with but little prosjiect that the carriers are likely to find themselves able to make substantial reductions before the general business skies are clearer than they are at present. President William C. Stark presided at the busi Utah-Idah- com-pan- ltstes on eoal from the head of the Great Lakes to various points in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota have been found by the interstate commerce commission to lie unreasonable snd unduly prejudicial, and new rates are prescribed by the commission to go into effect July Cth. In preacribing them the commission took iuto consideration various prevailing rates and traffle conditions in the territory and fixed a scale graduated in and blocks, ranging from eighty rents for thirty miles on both anthracite and on bituminous, to $3.85 on bituminous and four dollars on anthracite for a haul of six hundred and fifty miles. When these rates become effective they will be increased 35 per cent in accord with the general freight rate increase ordered last August after the present rase had been filed with the ten-mi- le twenty-five-ini- le commission. The rase grew out of the old Minnesota rate case in which rates within that state were reduced and were upheld by the suiireine court. This resulted in different rates over the two routes from Duluth, the interstate rates being higher than those over the state route in Minnesota. The commission, in ita decision, ordered the railways to cease and desist on or before July 6th and thereafter to abstain from exacting relatively higher rates, distance considered, for the interstate transportation of anthracite and bituminous eoal from the head of lakes porta to destination! in Bouth Dakota, east of the Missouri river and to destinations in North Dakota, than mainthe rates contemporaneously tained for the state transportation of like trafllo from Duluth to iointa in Minnesota. The commission also held that carriers having indirect routes to miuts reached by more direct lines might meet the rates established by way of the direct lines in accordance with a distance scale prescribed by the commission, and that the roads might maintain higher rates to intermediate jioiuts. AMERICAN FUEL LEADING EVERYWHERE IN EUROPE LONDON, April 9. The cost of production of British coal has gone to a point where the American product ran oe shipped across the ocean and undersell it. As a consequence America ia taking the plaes of England iu European coal markets. British capital and labor in the eoal industry are in grave dispute. Many pits are closed and many miners are out of work. This depression is reflected in Britains trade in other lines, for coal is the very backbone of Johnny Bulls marine commerce. Italy has concluded a deal whereby America will supply that country with most of its coal for the next five years. England's exports of coal fell off more than forty-eigmillion tons in 1920 as compnred to 1913. Greatly increased imports of American coal are shown by Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland Sweden, Denmark and Portuht T UTAH-EVE- RY RID FRIDAY, APRIL AY. IS 18Q COKE IS COMING FROM BITUMINOUS I COAL The Fuel's the Thing OF EAST A ST. LOUIS, MO, CONCERN MOST SUCCESSFUL. IS High Freight Rates Stimulate Experiments That Later May Prove of Great Valne la the Bituminous Fields of Carbon County District and Elsewhere in Utah. The service of your heating or power system Recent successful development of a coking process for llliuois coal is of more than passing interest to Utah, both for the light it sheds on the possibilities of industrial development of this states vast coal deposits and because the freight rate situation was responsible for the Eastern cx;eri-mea- t, a reason which may equally prompt similar undertakings here in Carbon county. The Illinois coal is lignite, a much lower grade of fuel thau the excellent bituminous of many Utah beds. If the Illinois lignite ean be coked successfully for blast furnace use, there is, in the opinion of exjierts, no reason why much of Utahs coal could not be prejmred for a similar purpose. TLe report of the Boston (Mass.) News Letter on the experiment says: Illinois coal ia being coked in the new $9,000,000 plant of the 8t. Louis Cuke and Chemical company at Granite, near St. Louis, by the Roberts process. Cuke is being produced in connection with the operation of the commnya three hundred and fifty ton blast furnace. Thia ia probably the first successful ojieration in converting the eoal from Illinois fields into coke for blast furnace purjxxses, which has hitherto been considered impracticable. The economy of the operation ia principally in the difference in freight rates between Illinois and coking coal from the Eastern fields, amounting to more than five dollars a ton. The Roberta process ia owned by the American Coke and Chemical company, rights to the patent being leased out iu a manner similar to the Solvay process. The American company and the National Enameling and Stamping coinpauy are the major holders of the St. Louis company's securities, of which $3,090,000 of 8 jier rent bonds, due in 1924, $5,090,-00- 0 in 8 per cent preferred and common are outstanding. The BL Louis eonqmny and its plant owe their origin to the desire of the National Enameling company to have available a supply of pigiron near its plant, as well as the fact that the coking of Illinois coal ia made possi-b- y by the Roberta process. The plant ia equip d with eighty Rolierts ovens and of which forty are oierating. Each has a cajuicity of fifteen tons of coal, the coking process requiring seventeen hours, so that the rokemaking capacity with all ovens ojierating is about fourteen hundred tons daily. They are fourteen iuehes thick, 42Vj feet long and the coal stands twelve feet high, being fed in by automatic machinery from above. Between each oven ia a compartment in which gas arising from the coking process is burned to supply heat needed for conversion of coal into cuka. Results thus far obtained show that 72 per cent in coke is obtained from the coal with additional recoveries in the byproducts, $10,-000,0- 00 is no greater than the service of your coal. No matter how good the machinery and construction of the system if the coal is unreliable the life of the plant is shortened. Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coals are superior fuels. They insure a steady heating organization. They are reliable, clean coals, burning evenly and leaving a minimum of ash for a maximum o f heat. ASK YOUR DEALER UTAH FUEL CO. Miners and Shippers of Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coal exclusively plaint that he entered into a contract with the two defendants September 25, 1920, to deliver the contract for a certain parcel of land in Lincoln county, AVyo., with the understanding that they would organize the company, that a thousand shares of the capital stock should lie issued to him, and that he should be aid seven hundollars. He aldred and eighty-thre- e leges that the corporation was never organized and that the money has not been paid. Tasker and Krolki have failed, he declares, to- pay two thousand dollars or to render to him any accounting whatsoever of money advanced by W. P. Funk under terms of LICENSE PLATES DISGUISE an agreement entered into May 27, TRUCK ON PASSENGER CAR 1929. The inspection of motor vehicles, The defendants in the action, it ia before and after licenses have both refused have to and failed alleged, pay a note for five hundred dollars been issued, which ia required under held by McCornick & Co., signed by the new automobile laws of the state the Btar Coal company und indorsed as passed by the 1921 legislature, is by the plaintiff, who ia now libale for bringing to light several attempts to its payment, according to the com- obtain passenger license rates for cars plaint They also have failed to de- that should be paying license fees reliver free carloads of coal as required quired of trucks. Secretary of State under the terms of certain promissory Crockett reported last Friday that notes held as security for the five one Utah town, by no means the larghundred dollars note in xissession of est in the state, had been subjected to a somewhat casual investigation of the bank, it is charged. Col. H. P. Tasker has lieen more or its motor vehicle license plates. The less prominent around Green River people there are not considered as and elsewhere in' Eastern Utah the any more dishonest than those in the last five or six years as a promoter of average Utah city, yet observation of oil lands and uranium deposits. This cars on the street for a day or two ia lielieved to be his first dip into the brought out the fact that some forty-thre-e cars with license plates almve eoal game. Ontpnt Very Pleasing. C. G. Rice, president of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company in his annual report issued from the Boston, Mass., offices last Friday, says: Continued high ojierating costs, the very heavy shrinkage in prices of metals during the latter These latter include tar, ammonia, part of the year that the resulting curthe light of oil products, lienzol, tol- tailment of custom ore production reuol and soforth, which are recovered sulted in unsatisfactory ojierations at from the gas. the metal mines, smelters and refinery The blast furnace requires be- in this country. The coal output of tween five and five hundred aud fifty the United States Fuel company for tuns of cuke daily, and arrangements the year 1920 was nearly 50 per cent are being made to sell the surplus higher than that of 1919 amounting output of the ovens to the various in- to 1,548,222 tons the largest in the dustrial plants nearby. The coal sup- history of the company and resulting ply is obtained from the minea of (Continued On Page Eight.) the company in Willjamson county, miles from the plant, Ills., eighty-tw- o where it lias a productive caiacity e fur two thousand tons daily. is contracted for from the Columbia quarries, about ton miles from the plant, while the ore coines from the Mesaba Range with sonic Missouri ores also being used. X want all tht hop In Cartel and Emery counties for shipment. Highest price paid. Will giro poors the ones onr any time. Writs or phono D. Heber Leonard, HUNTINGTON, UTAH ORRIN ELMER seven thousand were in reality trucks. No truck license plate should lie numbered higher than seven thousand. COUPON, VTAU DAMAGE SLIGHT HERE Reports received at the Salt Lake! City weather bureau from scattered sections of the state indicate that the damage to fruit by the recent freeze waa greater in some counties than in others. At least 90 per cent of the apricots have lieen lost in all sections and peaches also have suffered heavily. Reports from Carbon county to the bureau are that the damage is but slight for the reason that very little! fruit was in blixim locally when the cold weather and snows came. General Mcrchanillxo and Stockmens Supplies llotrl. Dipping Vats and Lots In Connection Feed Where You're Treated Right ! (lubber stamp, punches, ink pads and office supplies. The Sun. Successor to MARBLE CRANEB Coupon books la stock. Ths Sun. r Lame-ston- Delicious1" gal. For the firm time Eurojie is keep- snry for llowatt to put up an appeal ing warm, generating electricity and bond of two thousand dollars and thia running its railways on American was immediately effected. eoal instead of on British or German This will make two contempt cases coaL appealed to the Kansas supreme court, lioth in connection with the vioALEXANDER H. HOWATT IS lation of the injunction granted by CONVICTED CF CONTEMPT Judge Curran September 14. 1920, prohibiting the calling of strikes in PITTSBURG, Kan., April 9. Alex- the Kansas coal fields. One more acander II. Howntt, president of the tion against the lender is landing, Kansas United Mine Workers, was namely, the ease in the Cherokee found guilty of contempt of court in county district court brought bv the the Crawford county district court Mate, and in which llowatt is chargyesterday. A xace bond of five thou- ed with violating the criminal sec.1 sand dollars was imposed by udge A. tions of the Kansas court of indusJ. Curran as a part of the iienalty, trial relations. That case will lie tried but a stay of execution was granted at Columbia at the May term of court. pending the decision of the Kansas supreme court and to which tribunal SUITS TO COMPEL FORMING the case is to he spiraled. The senOF STOCK COMPANY FILED tence provided that llowatt pay a fine of five hundred dollars, put up a Asking that the defendants lie rebond of five thousand dollars with the quired to organize a corporation to lie state as a guarantee that no further known as the Star Fuel couijmny with strikes will lie called snd that in the a capital stock of $509,090 of a par event of his failure to comply with value of a dollar a share, Leo Neilaon these terms he be placed in jail to stay filed suit in the Third District court there until the payment had been at Salt Lake City on last Saturday made. 'With the stay of execution against Charles P. Tasker and Max granted, however, it was only necet- - KrotkL Nielson claims in his com-- Buying Hogs U)Hf (1 Mew Orleans New Orleans Kss become a great port for coffees entering from South America. 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