| Show U trum ff efin OUTPUT ufa r big 31 U 1 OF L LOCAL OCAL M MINES I 1 N increasing N experts estimate enough coal in sight in carbon and emery counties to last sixty five thousand years the th e christmas Christ mae deseret news con iding 9 of a hundred and page and by far the typographically and otherwise of any similar publication ever issued anywhere uny where in he west devotes a page t to the city of price the early history history here in I 1 set out in fair fairly good chape although all houed there are a number of 0 inaccuracies photograph photographs of some half a dozen citizens and business r men nen with reading watter accompanying are run these latter of course are paid for on another are iare of tho the christmas nia we find this reference to the development tn in and around the mines of emery and carbon counties which in the main la Is correct iad which has been touched upon from time to time during the year by I 1 the greit gret moni moril and religious the atory although much lesa less coil coal vas mas stored in utah during the past sum mer and tall fill than was the case last year tho output of tho the mines of tho the state during tho the year 1912 has been boon about one fifth more than in 1911 or an a increase of over five hundred thousand tons equaling at the price to the consumer between and JOO the increase Is considered to be an excellent one since the state in many I 1 other ways has not had an increased growth equal to one fifth of its former records at the rate at which coal has been taken from the minea mines this year it Is I 1 estimated that utah could produce it for 8 6 years auch such an enormous amount of hydrocarbons is deposited under the hills os of thia this state experts have placed the estimate at not less than tons of ot tho the total amount only 31 tons or lightly slightly more than of the estimated deposit have tans thus far been for commercial purposes there was this year imported into utah about tone tons of 0 coal and bettan tive nal fand nfl sixty thousand tons for railroad purposes ees making a total import of adgit four hundred thousand tons while the export exports from the state reached about four hundred and twenty thousand tons obviously one of the greatest things in the future of the state of utah is its cool coal mining industry with that enormous amount adored beneath ita its bills all 11 or of which Is to eald said to bo be accessible access ble it may be said that utah has a latent resource worth orth at the consumers price an amount a a hundred and fifty four times aa as great aa as the estimated value of the other hydrocarbon hydro carbon carbons of the state extending die barket far ket expectation comprises a wide extension of its coal market wha has already reached almost ever a part of the country especially on the pacific coast and the applying supplying of a great number of steamers handicapped with only one railroad in tho the part of the tato in which coal fields are most widely developed and which is the strongest producing part and that road tiding wholly incapable or 0 properly property handling the fuel file during the rush season of the year the enlarging of the export market has been practically impossible it is the present plan ho however uever of the W G 0 sharp coal mining ml nine interests to extend its railroad line from the ining diati lct as far a ae as provo jo ing inc a much better opportunity tor for placing coal where it may bo be shipped to the various arlous parts parta of the tate and connecting with the silt lake lak L bouka tor for ita its transfer to tho the weal west thi this it Is expected wt make it IL possible poa sible to practically dou ble the prevent export trade of the state at the car shortage shur tage this year has not been so serious however ato a la in some years past in october the t he t only noticeable difficulty was as f felt elt and that came about because of the 11 fact that foreign cars those belong ins to eastern companies were j called home for the handling of the enormous crops in the east and utah was unable to use them for several deliveries d of coal and other products product t as is generally the case f the tact fact however that in spite ut of this the car service haa has been better than usual bespeaks to fo the utah f railroad companies a much rauch more manifest interest k L now new 1 opt ned store mines have been a oper i atlon thie this year than at any previous time four dew new mines have been I 1 added to the number of the states producers the neaten mine now no w thompsons Thomp sons owned by the american fuel company has tins been developed to a good extent A road has boon built it with the denver and rio illo grando grande and a tipple is now being wing for loading the railroad car cars from the truck trucks used in the mines 10 care cars a day are already being ship ped pod the willow creek mine at willow creek near cr castle atlo gate was wa s opened by the utah fuel company A motoi roid has bon b on constructed connecting it with ie the castle gate mine by which the coal is hauled from the new mine and loaded on the railroad rail rord d cars over tho the castle castle gare gate tipple two tunnels were drivon through be he solid moun tain for the motor road one of then them eleven hundred feet in length and the other three hundred and fifty feel feet long the panther canyon mine owned e it now by the castle gate coal company purchased recently from F X cameron by the sharp interests 0 la Is eang teang developed on the aide stile and the coal Is being h hailed from the mine and loaded on ine cars at the mouth of willow creek canyon the spring canyon coal 0 oat com lany jany owned by the jesie kinight interest interests a Is developing a mine in spring canyon and the tle camp is to bo be known aa as storrs A railroad four and one halt half mile in length lias been contracted connecting the mine with the main line of the denver and rio grando grande aboa helper and la Is now completed to the tipple atte site several houses bouses have been built and others are in course of jf an entirely new method for convoying coal froni from the mine to the tipple 1 la being tried out at this mine an aerial tramway capable of handling two thousand tons of coal in eight hours Is to be made aa as an economical means tor for carry in 1 dr the coal from where it U crops out rt U high points in the canyon to the tippie add to theto 4 the castle valley coal compan ut t 31 mohrland in emery county IB is still making considerable improvement fifty new ne bouses houses have been built and are o cupler A A new tipple a in course of construction and a practically new tram Is being made A five hundred foot tunnel ie Is boing being driven through the mountain to equalize tho grade A railroad la being built from sidohr lard to a point that will connect w with ith the donver and rio grando grande adway between helper and castle gate the black hawk coal company u bah added thirty five tive new housea to that camp and considerable other improvements have been made these three campa camps one day recently mined tons of coal in eight hours at castle gate and benit adorth also new houses have been built and occupied arid general improvements improve prove mentH ments made at tho the latter place the haulage roads have been bee a electric lighted and an electric c shooting system has boon been installed by which all blasts for or the breaking down town of coal will be fired from outside tho the mine and after all miners a are ro out at Sunny sunnyside side the only camp now making coke such improvements prove ments have been made aa as are needed for general growth an important thing about the wo work rk at the utah camps this var vear la Is the fact act that there has not ben even tho the lightest slightest labor trouble the wages haie have remained the same as last year and there has been only 0 the of relations between the operators and the miners generally the work has been made mado niter against accident there having been rawer fewer fatalities than in previous years though the num her ber of minor accidents have somewhat hat increased |
