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Show Universal Microfilming Box 26C8 Salt Lake, Ut. 84101 tivtr mntn i Utah Inc., has opened a permanent office in Helper, its first one in the state, according to Larry Becker, vice president and general manager of the master land plan, regional provement firm's city of Lake Havasu, Ariz., having done the complete lot design, cluding control, grading, roads, sewer and water im- Utah operations. The firm's headquarters are located at 139 South Main, Becker said, where engineers are now working on a major Castle Gate water main consolidation project for Braztah of Utah. But Becker stressed that Trico is not a part of Braztah, nor has it been hired as a consultant solely for the coal mining firm. In fact, Becker stated, Trico is involved in all varieties of engineering work, particularly surveying. was practically Trico responsible for creating the plants, and processing, inspection supervision. The firm is perhaps most well know for having engineered the reconstruction of the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City. The 10,276 granite blocks for the bridge weighed 22 million pounds. Trico has also done master land planning for the new cities of Pueblo West, Colo., Spring Creek, New., Salton City, Calif., and others. Housed in the Main Street office are a small library, drafting room, several CafemcDair by Jean Ann Dimick 8 p.m. Soroptomist meeting at May 21 Country Club; 7 p.m. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers meeting at the home of Mrs. Shirley Rachele. 12:00 Noon Schools Out!!! Happy Summer Vacation!!; 1:30 p.m. Helper May 22 Women's Club meeting at Helper Civic Auditorium; 7:30 p.m. Helper City Council Meeting. 8 p.m. Bingo May 23 Church Hall. at Saint Anthony's May 24 12:00 Noon 10 p.m. Annual Rock Show at Armory Building in Price. -- 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Continuation of May 25 Annual Rock Show. May 26 in- flood Memorial Day. 10 a.m. Helper, Kenilworth and May 27 Spring Glen Relief Society meetings. offices and a reception room. The office also has a Wang 700 Series computer which performs surveying calculations. In addition to Becker, six people can be found at the Trico office at least on a president of Trico Corp., the parent company, is in the office three to four days a week though his home is in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ed Adair, J 1 ( 1 v. fa: 1 ) ' ' : ' ' am surveyor Ed Lewis, chairman, make the Trico office their headquarters, and Glynnette Rudman is the secretary. three projected Litizzette, city attorney. Litizzette said the consulting firm, Templeton, Linke and Associates, has so far examined plans and for the specifications Braztah utility corridor and has filed a preliminary application for a new reservoir and relocation of the main pipeline. Yet to be commenced is a study of the Castle Gate treatment plant south to Helper with an eye toward pipeline capacity. The treatment plant is now closed, and the study is expected to begin when it reopens. The study is funded by a grant from the Four Corners Regional Commission. & The fund drive for purchase of the "Jaws of Life" power rescue tool is doing well, according to Helper Fire Chief Jim Pugliese. The largest donation to date has been from the Carbon County Commission which pledged $500 with an Water study progresses phases of a Helper area water system study have been completed, according to a recent report given m. Rescue tool fund drive continues along with Blaine Porter, a surveyor and Bobby, Fox, a increasing NUMBER 21 10' Congress in 1968 to protect property owners who up to that time were unable to get coverage through the private insurance industry. All identified communities-t- he general area west of First West and east of Garden Street falls in this area-mu- enter the st program by July 1 of this year, and in return for the federal subsidy, state and local governments are required to adopt certain use land minimum measures to reduce or avoid future flood damage in their areas. Another requirement of the program is that property owners in communities where flood insurance is being sold must purchase the insurance to be eligible for any new or additional federal or financial federally-relatebe office could the opened as quickly as possible, assistance for any buildings located in areas identified stated Holdaway. The main office of the by the Department of and Urban bank is located in Helper, Housing with a branch office in Development (HUD) as flood Green River. having special Meanwhile, work on the hazards. As with individual bank's drive-u- p facility at the Helper office is property owners, federal for progressing, with sand financial assistance blasting of the rear of the buildings in the flood plain building finished last week will be unavailable for any and resurfacing of the community that does not parking lot now under way. comply with the act. Any property owner in a community that has had its application approved by HUD is eligible to purchase the insurance, with policies available from any licensed property and casualty inof the money would "drift surance agent or broker. Council members are also into this kind of program," but no money was voted expected to consider tenspecifically for the Scofield amendments to the tative city budget presented project. City The Boating Advisory at the last Almeeting byFinal Fossat. Council has proposed that Recorder will be the parking area at the park action on the budget be expanded to provide taken at the June 5 meeting. additional space for boat trailers and vehicles and has also recommended that, because the dock is small for the amount of traffic it handles, it should also be A Spring Glen man, enlarged. James Walker, was slightly The council had had hopes when the of getting construction injured Tuesday power pole he was climbing under way by this spring or at Castle Gate snapped off summer, Garr said. at the base. Garr noted that the Walker, an employee of project could be considered Harmond Electric, was by committees for interim reportedly salvaging wire study, after which time an from the pole at the time of approximate price tag the accident. He was taken to Carbon would be put on the project, but he described the Hospital in Price where he proposed expenditure as was reported in good condition later in the day. "not a huge item." flood-pron- e office due in Price Trico Utah Inc. vice president Larry Becker e. Stanley 69 New Helper Bank professional engineer, who also lives in Scottsdale, is in the office Two of the 1975 UTAH172-567- 1 flood-pron- e a registered Chief VOLUME The Helper City Council is expected to complete application for the National Flood Insurance Program at its regular meeting May 22, according to City Attorney Stanley Litizzette. The federally subsidized program was authorized by part time basis. Tom Griffin, executive vice part-tim- HELPER, Flood insurance, budget top city council agenda rico Utah opens permanent office Trico WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, i additional $500 possibly Ralph Taylor joins bank here Purchase forthcoming. price of the tool is $4,693. Other donors include the Ralph Taylor, 26, is the new operations manager trainee at the Helper State Bank in Helper. Taylor, who is originally from Price, came to Helper about 2V2 months ago from Salt Lake City, where he was employed by Mac $50; Price Kiwanis Club, $400; City of Price, $250, with a matching grant expected from Helper; Business and Professional Women's Club, Sorrelle D'America, $50; Stella Helper Lions Club, $50; Beta Sigma Phi, Xi, Alpha Zeta chapter, Mikco Industries of $50; Donald Chocolate Co. Utah, $25 and the Sally Mauro Elementary School A 1970 graduate of the University of Utah, Taylor, PTA, $25. attended the College of The tool, when purchased, Eastern Utah in Price for is to be kept in a highway his first two years of in Price for use car patrol college. He said he entered in the county. It is anywhere banking because of the designed for quick excareer possibilities. trication of victims of auto His duties at the bank, and other accidents on now center Taylor said, mishaps. learning all aspects of the trade "from the bottom Pugliese said few service clubs have yet to respond, he In the hopes future, up." and a raffle to raise the to become operations remaining approximately manager. Taylor lives in Helper $2,500 will begin as soon as with his wife, Kristen. possible. Ground was broken May 8 in Price for the new branch office of Helper State Bank, according to bank president War don Holdaway. The office, located at 690 East Main in Price, will be a temporary "modular-type- " facility with a drive-u- p window, Holdaway said. The bank is due to open in the near future, but no specific target date was available. The temporary facility was chosen so that d Scofield State Park improvements delayed Funds for the expansion of facilities at Scofield State Park were not appropriated by the last state legislature and probably will not be available at least until the body's next budget session in January, 1976, State Rep. John Garr said last week. Garr, a member of the Boating Advisory Council, said that group met May 9 with Harold Tippetts, director of the State Division of Parks and Recreation and learned that the money appropriated to the division would be used for ongoing projects and maintenance and that no expansion work would be done anywhere in the state. Garr said Tippetts implied that the money appropriated might not even cover current projects and maintenance. The legislature passed the spending bill, Garr explained, in hope that some Spring Glen man hurt in fall wmmmmmmmmm 4 Peerless Mine Ex-manag- A. Phil Cedarlof was a coal mining man for over twenty years and from 1936 to 1953 served as the - e- manager over operations at the low seam' mine that was the Peerless Mining Company's last -ii general attempt in the coal industry in this area. Cedarlof, in his lifetime, has served in many roles and positions, but his most recent is that of historian and writer about the coal industry, especially the history of the three Peerless mines, that once operated in the area. With the renewed interest in the Carbon County coal properties, Mr. Cedarlof Cederlof, who worked at the Peerless Mine in its final days, drives a Goodman Hydralic Shovel, a machine Burke designed to take up bottom in low seam coal mines. The shovel weighed in at 11 tons. writes history er says he has found much minsunderstanding and vagueness about some of the history of the early days of mining in the North Carbon area especially as it pertains to the Peerless Mine. In the interest of history and with the cooperation and encouragement of the Canyon. Although there is little left to show where it was, it is the first mine location reached, as one goes up the canyon. The coal land and history department at townsite property was Brigham Young University, purchased in 1916 from the Mr. Cedarlof is currently in Crystal Coal Company by the process of writing an W. H. Sweet and C. N. autobiography which will Sweet. These men, two of add much to the un- the four Sweet brothers derstanding of the history prominent in Utah Coal and flavor of the mines and mine history, opened and towns of the early North developed the mine to a Carbon mining area. of 500 tons per The following is a brief production The mine was purday. digest of what Mr. Cedarlof chased from the Sweet's in is writing about the 1918 by a Salt Lake compthat any, the Peerless mines principal owners of operated for so many years which were Ezra Thompson in Carbon County: and James Murdoch, early metal mine and real estate The original, or old men. Ezra Thompson was Peerless Coal property is e Mayor of Salt located about three miles Lake. West of Helper, in Spring The first mine Superinwas tendent Robert Howard, former Utah State Coal Mine Inspector. The initial engineering was done by Fred Jacobs, prominent Utah mining engineer. one-tim- Mining was 2M X Jl carried on in the Castle Gate "A" seam, with a small coming from V 7 v.. - V ..V :- .Li. ' r.'Vr-'.- tonnage Castle Gate "B" seam. Seam .thickness was eight to twelve feet. Extensive M aH- the -' burning was encountered as mining progressed and, from a projected 310 acres of coal, only 97 acres could be mined. Production capacity reached 1000 tons per day. This mine produced or was operative continuously through the winter of Total coal mined was approximately 1931-3- the town of Peerless, as it appeared in its' heyday. Phil Cederlof, former manager for the Peerless Mine Co. is currently working Pictured is personal memoirs of the mine, the went into building both. on a town and the personalities that 1,500,000 tons. 2. In the the Peerless company, in view interest to Mr. Thompson. Peerless Sales Company started operations in the 48 of the limited projected life inch and 42 inch of old Peerless in Spring subseams at the original Canyon, began development of a new mine in Price Peerless location in Spring Canyon, adjacent to the Canyon and, acquiring equipRoyal Mine at Rolapp. This modern, was on a lease arrangement ment as they went along, with Emmett Olsen and his operated successfully for brother Culbert Olsen who twenty one years - to 1953. held a Federal Lease on the March, Daily property. Emmett Olsen production capacity was a well known Carbon reached 600 tons. In March, 1953, the County coal man and and marketable mineable Olsen was Culbert engineer. coal being exhausted, the e an attorney and mine was closed and Governor of California. A pair of rock tunnels of liquidated and the outside approximately 2,500 feet in works and townsite were length were driven down to razed. Among those active in the the coal seams, and a modern steel tipple was operation of the built. Coal production began mine were A. Phil Cederlof, in 1929 and continued until General Manager, and Jack June of 1931 at which time Jones, now deceased, and the mine was closed. The Louis Vuksinick, Mr. tipple structure was later Superintendents. purchased by Utah Fuel Vuksinick later went on to Company and was in- play an important part in the the development and into corporated preparation facilities at operation of the Diamanti Carbon Fuel operations in Sunnyside. In 1931, Robert Howard Hardscrabble Canyon. Sr. (Peerless Superin- Chief Clerk was Evan T. tendent) and Robert J. Jones and Master Mechanic Turner of Price (Mining was Henry Draper. Production from the Engineer), formed a partmine in Spring nership and worked, on a royalty basis, the residual Canyon was 1,900,000 tons pillar coal in the old which, added to the Peerless "A" seam mine production from the "A" until May, 1932 at which seam mine and from the time, following the death of Price Canyon mine, made Mr. Howard, a corporation an approximate total known as Peerless Sales Peerless Coal production of Company was formed. In 3,500,000 tons. Included in the above this company, Mr. Turner and Ezra P. Thompson, son brief history is information of Mayor Thompson, were kindly supplied by Ott the principal stockholders. Burton, Claude P. Heiner Mr. Turner later sold his and Victor W. Sweet. mid-1920- 's low-co- low-co- al al one-tim- low-sea- m sub-sea- m |