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Show THE rihlLii Coal Plays ji. Industrial Carbon In Role Important Helper, Utah, Wednesday, December 23, JUUIUXAU of 19". the opened. In the fall coal ' r '2 r , . . 46 Billion Tons Utah railway, an exclusive Carbon 43 Mines Now road, was completed from Commercially; connect to counties and Emery in Big Processing at with the Union Pacific system the OTTO IIEHRES five years next By prove la the 'Vice President and General Manager, U. S. Fuel Company. the state's output doubled and was to date, maximum production Depression, drouth and competireached in 1920, being 6,005.199 toward the and tion from natural gaa, fuel old and placing mines, tons. have had the interest on money invested. The coal companies operating By far the largest tonnage of effect of cutting the production in Utah in recent years and shipcoal sold is slack for industrial follows: of Utah coal in half during reping by rail are as purposes and the domestic stoker. Coal company, ChesBlaze Blue cent years and employment to a This size of coal is quoted curterfield Coal company, Columbia corresponding: degree. Greater ef- rently at $1.50 a ton at the mines Steel company. Independent Goal ficiency in burning coal has also and at delivered prices varying in and Coke company, Liberty Fuel played a part. From present in- accordance with railroad freight company, IJon Coal corporation, dications the bottom was reach- rates and other delivery and hand company, Maple ' " . " , r V jjj MacLean Coal ""VT ,' m ' ed in 1934, and the induHtry Is ling charges. :. Monay Coal company, Coal Creek again in the up grade. under a Mining is conducted Mutual Coal company, company, Output for 1935 was nearly labor agreement with the United National Coal company, Peerless 3,000,000 tons, with a value at Mine Workers of America, arising Sales company, Royal Coal comthe mines of approximately from section 7 (a) of the former Scofield Coal company, Sev' One of Carbon County's modern steel Tipples which i3 typical pany, From this amount it is national industry recovery act, inier Valley Coal company. Spring of the mines of the district. This is the Spring Canyon Tipple. was volving a seven-hou- r estimated about $3,700,000 day, Coal company, Standard Canyon Jaid out for wages and salaries week and basic wages ranging Coal company. Sweet Coal comand nearly fl,000,00 for equip- from $4.98 for seven hours to United States Fuel company, ment, mine supplies and power laborers outside the mines, to suitable for such processes, the passes production, as it inevitably pany Fuel company, and Utah purchased. Tax charges and roy- $7.50 for seven hours to machine possibilities for Utah coal in this will from one cause or another, Coal company. alties accounted for approximate- runners underground. connection are most interesting. it will be necessary to turn to of the Utah coal minei Many Goal mined in Utah finds a The future, with its developments coal. Coal may then become by are ly $400,000 nd expenditures for and equipped with modlarge insurance, including compensation market In the states of Califor for processing coal, will bring far the most of the em machinery. About important amounted to about $200,000. The nia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, many changes. of the production comes from 10 rich resources of Utah. remaining income from coal went Oregon, Utan and Washington, Little or no coal is mined, or many mines, each having an output of, for Items such as interest charges, and small tonnages are taken by can be mined in Arizona, CaliforHistory Traced more than 100,000 tons a year,! The earliest story of the Utah lents and advertising. The indus- Nebraska, Kansas and Alaska. nia, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon, although there 43 mines in all try aa a whole has not Bhown a About half of the tonnage is sold because this area, although rich coal fields may be read from the classed as commercial producers. profit, or paid dividends, in re- outside the state nd brings money in many minerals, has limited rocky pages of the Book cliffs in In 1934, 84 per cent cf the coal cent years. into Utah to pay the costs of of coal. These state3 com- eastern Utah. Some few million was cut from underground face3 How Money Is Distributed mining, and in some part the bined produce less than 50,000 years ago a shallow inland sea by machines, and 24.9 per cent According to the best available freight charges are returned for tons of coal a year. Records show existed in the vast lowlands of was loaded, into mine cars mechinformation, for each .dollar re- railroad payrolls and supplies. that California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Palms and semitropical rather than by hand anically, ceived by the Utah coal mining Freight rates cn Utah coal to Oregon have taken most of their plants and present-datrees, such shoveling. Where grades will percotton-woocompanies in 1935, 62 cents went representative points on the Pac- requirements from Utah andj as quaking aspen, willows, mit, many mines use only electric for payrolls, 15.5 cents to Utah ific coast vary from $4.75 for southern Wyoming. From present maple oak, pine and cedars locomotives to haul the coal, but business concerns for supplies bunker coal to $5.15 for slack and indications this will continue to grew and accumulated in the where grades are steep, hoists tind power, 7 cents to the state for lump. be the case, with the exception sfampy waters of this cretaceous are usued. Haulage from the mines and government for taxes and Ilydrogenation of coal to gas- of tonnage moving from Washing- sea and were buried under its to railroad cars at the tipples at loyalties, 3.5 cents for insurance oline has been successfully devel- ton to Oregon. Utah ha3 supplied sedimen's. Terrible dinosaurs left some properties is handled by and workmen's compensation and oped on a commercial scale. Be- the greater proportion of the ton- their three-toe- d tracks along its electric locomotives; others are 12 cents for maintenance and re- cause Utah coal is particularly nage. Southern Wyoming coal goes muddy shores. In passing years opened on coal outcrops in cliffs to a large extent, to the railroads the land was uplifted far above inaccessible to the railroads, and and finds a considerable commer sea level and great mountains hoists and long surface tramways cial market to the east and north. were formed. Fermentation and are required. Since Utah is the main source pressure changed the accumulation Pioneer in Safety Methods of coal supply for California, Idaho of vegetable matter to coal. In Utah has been a pioneer in the and Nevada, and to some extent this manner light and heat of practice of safety measures in coal Oregon, it is evident that in the sunshine was concentrated in the mining. the important Among industrial growth of the Pacific form of coal by nature in Utah for the protection ot taken steps coast Utah coal is a factor of long before the dawn of our time. the miners are: Sprinkling at all importance. California, for years, Coal at Wales in Sanpete coun- working faces with water to wet has been producing about one-fift- h ty was the first mined in Utah. down the coal dust, which is exor more of the crude oil of Two men who had been miners under certain conditions plosive the United States. When increas- in Wales in Great Britain learned as a precauin air; overtakes and of the coal from an old Indian ing consumption tion against coal dust and gas chief who called it "rock that explosions; the use of permissible would burn." In 1857, the town explosives exclusively; and firing of Wales "was founded and coal shots by electricity to break the mined, and in 1858 some coke coal after men are out cf the was manufactured and hauled bj mine. machine cutter Mining ox team to Salt Lake Gity. Coal chains are equipped with water was also found in the vicinity of Coalville, Utah, about this time. As you homeward on After the completion of the Union "Pacific railroad in 1889, mining on a commercial scale began, and in 1876, the Utah & of Eve Pleasant Valley railroad began operations between Scofield and the town of Springvllle. This probably marks the date of the first remember mine operators on a commercial the scale in the Carbon county coal Shoe Shop fields, where most of the output of Utah is mined at present. little missle of About 1878, the Rio Grande West- Engineers Estimate Producing Future Fuel Available; - - ! ) hydro-electricit- y . 35-ho- Uta-Carbo- n two-thir- de-rosi- ts y 193a .I 12 I jLiiie Friendly Sort O' Way When a man ain't got a cent, and he's feeling kind of blue. An' the clouds hang oark an' heavy an won't let the sun- shine througn, a great thing, O my brether-en- , for a feller just to lay His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort o' way. It makes a man feel curious, it makes the tear drops start, An' you sort o' feel a flutter in the region of the heart. Ycu can look up an' meet his eyes; you don't know what to say When his hand is on your should-er in a friendly sort o' way. Oh, the worlds a curious compound, with its honey and its rt s 1 gall, With its cares and bitter crosses,' but a good world after all. An' a good God musta made it Leastways that's what I say, hand is cn my shouldei When in a friendly sort o way, To The Helper and Vicin; ity ' Miss Ada JudJ, a student at Westminster Junior College is home visiting with her folks over the Christmas holidays. sprays to keep dust made by cutting out of the air. All of the mines are lighted with electricity and the miners use electric lamps on their caps. No open flame lights and no smoking are permitted under ground, even in nongassy mines. Safety hats, safety shoes and eoesrles to prevent eye in juries are worn by a majority of the miners. People o From the CARBON ICE CREA COMPANY Price and Helper I L. $G-3- Li-- rock-dustin- g JV - vx-?- - mj , ? We have appreciated the trust put in our establishment during the past year and wish our friends a very Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. GREENHALGH PHARMACY HELPER UTAH ou ami nave to dc zictt to enjoy Mctt whiskey! 1 with your heart full your various friend's Christmas greetings, Christmas Greetings Krissman from our joy! "Satisfaction is Guaranteed" ern railway began construction through the Carbon county field. Stimulated By Smelting Development Increased until the year 1900 when large smelters began operations in Salt Lake valley and gave coal mining in Utah an impetus that first carried it to an annual output of a million tons. During the past 25 years, many new mines have been KRISSMAN SHOE AND HARDWARE GO. 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