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Show ftfPAY, DECEMBER 16, 1921 THE SUN, PRICE, UTAH EVERT FRIDAY. PRE-WA- R DEPRESSION HURTS PAGE THREE THE THE COKE INDUSTRY KjJ suspension of in ,f.,e curtailment, and m some cases complete h u you like, you'll uot took M kmc d able to fUul anything to criticise lu work. On the contrary the mt laundry mure look the you'll admire IbomcommiMion, and th', presidaifi Ae perfect cteanllncaa of your linen seem to are continue until finluh. n It trlaL its i aed rsqulalte April (lln mentl0ned m the government award when the w2 up your aklrta and collars w Ut vweekdo and raised we are pretty confident Ml orell add youra Co our liat of plauea at decrease in volume of all classes of freight handled hv abk4i we are to call rerularly. the transportation lines hereabouts, and the PRICE 8TEAX LAUNDRY consequent corresponding decrease in the consumption of locomotive coal by the rail-Phone 218 ke "? - rates and high mine prices for coal l.he foreign all water borne coals to displace fKKSf!for steam business at all of the Pacific Coast ports. This ne coal is coming into the United States Watj . abso- free' and in addition to displacing the Utah Itlam Uir business, it is gradually and very materially encroach- dmetic market of Utah coal mines in close proximity to Pacific Coast ports. The Utah coal fields have always maintained a mine and underground development far in advance of the current market demands, but lack of adequate transportation facilities during nearly every fall and winter has created the erroneous impression that there was an actual shortage of coal production, when in reality the production was largely governed by car supply available at the mines for coal loading. The increased demand for coal during the war period and shortly after the signing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, together with intermittent, but serious car shortages for coal loading, encouraged the opening of additional mines and the further development of existing mines so that today the coal mines of Car-bo- n and Emery counties are capable of producing twice the amount of coal the natural market under normal conditions can possibly absorb, thus making the opening of additional mines or further development of present operating mines absolutely unnecessary and a mighty poor investment for a long time in the future. The inevitable result of this coal mine over development is a waste of the coal resources and destructive competition. With a ial ,2fL?ire8ent Spring Canyon Coal Co. Miners and JSluppen Celebrated of the Spring Canyon Coal MIium at STORKS, UTAH, General Officer, 117 Newhouae Building. Salt Lake City, Utah. Winters Coming In Earnest This Year The following Associated Press dispatch tells of Old Alan Winters arrival in Boston; Boston, Nov. 28 A storm of sleet and snow that reached its height early today caused heavy damage in central New England. The financial kiss was es- timated at $1,000,000. Winter will soon be here and everything indicates that we will have unusually severe weather. You will have nothing to fear if you have Winters two most powerful enemies guarding your home Castle Gate and Clear Creek coals. These economical, steady coals have been the leaders in Utah for more than twenty-fiv- e years be sure that you have them in your cellar before Winter breaks. free-burnin- g, ASK YOUR DEALER UTAH FUEL CO. Aliners and Shippers Exclusively of Castle Clear Creek CoaL Gate and revival of the metal mining and smelting hereabouts, and will in turn more than any other one consideration tend to quickly and materially revive the coal and coke industry in Utah. At best, the coal industry of Utah cannot reasonably expect a healthy market, except for possibly short periods, for at least another year and possibly longer, although it is hoped that the COLTON, UTAH It la soma aatiafaction to know coal industry of Utah has already passed the worst period and that you have tha beat saa obtainable General Merchandlso and will in be better. for the situation the any change when you go out on buelneea or Stockmena Supplied pleasure. You will set that During the past year little, if any, renewal or improvement If you hava had your work has been done at the coal mines. In fact, needed improvetank filled at tha There cases ment in been has work postponed. many indefinitely Hotel. Dipping Vata and Feed Lota In Connection have, however, been two modem Bchool buildings erected one at Castle Gate and the other at Hiawatha, and the mine owners at these places have erected at their own expense special modem houses for the residences of the school teachers. Where Youre Treated An incident of much importance during the year was the successful culmination of the efforts of Utah Fuel company in fightRight ing the fire in their Sunnyside No. 2 Aline. This mine is again on an operating basis after a suspension of more than a year of opCorner Eighth and Main Streets. Sueoeeaor to Beat liranda of Olla For The fire. efforts to this unfortunate due erations underground CRANER MARBLE All Purposes. mine are and the fire in the forth very reopening fighting put unique in many respects and have attracted the attention of practical coal mining men all over the country. In the use of oxygen CORD TIRES breathing apparatus no occasion in the history of coal mining has called for such strenuous and continuous use. For nearly seven men were continually workmonths an average of about sixty-fiv- e Wa hava opened up a new buswith oxygen apparatus, loading out caves, timunderground ing iness and want to provs to you GRINDING PLENTY danconditions under ventilation of heat and that wa give you pure goods and bering and extending Whole Wheat Flour, Graham service. Drive up to tho above real men witnot did who create to as among incredulitly ger actually Flour and Germ ad e. Bast when address. ness the effort. fresh. Get them right at the mill. Prices are light. IM It may give some idea to state that approximately 3865 feet of Mill and entries, crosscuts and rooms were cleaned of hot caves, some of the material being so hot it burst into flames as soon as it was Elevator Co. outside the sealed area into the fresh air. To accomplish taken A WILBUR BURNHAM, vast amount of timbering had to be done and over eight a this Plumbing Manager, of material each were cars containing sixty cubic-fe- et thousand rbona HS, We Deliver The law of sanitation requires loaded and transported out of the mine. Over 10,500 Bafety apPrice, Utah. that prompt attention ba given to each to were of four hours accomplish necessary paratus periods all defective plumbing. It prevents tha spread of alckneas and this work and of the over a hundred men who worked in oxygen The law of breathing apparatus in the deadly underground atmosphere, heat disease. requires that you employ a firm and under the dangerous roof of the mine, not one life was lost. works that quickly, accurately without excessive charge. Wa Utah, and Carbon county, especially, takes justifiable pride in and new Install plumbing repair the success of the Kenilworth team of mine rescue and safety first anything In that whichandis defecIflGHEST EFFICIENCY. tive. Bend for ua as a measure of men at the international meet of the United States bureau of mines Government equivalent 1104 lb a safety and economy. in St. Louis. This, it will be remembered, is the second time such Unequalled for storage. Will not Fuel Carbon a rescue for come to Utah have honors lack. The beat of steaming and county, high Baddley Plumbing & HeatThe investment in operating coal mines in excess of keeping team took first honors in the national mine rescue contests at the heating qualities. in advance of the probable market is an uneconomical bur- international meet during the Panama-Pacifi- c World exposition in ing Co. Independent Coal & slightly den for the coal industry to carry and it is also unjust to the public San Francisco, Cala., in 1915. Eighth and Main Sts., Xhone Coke Co. and the industries served as the excess investment is sure to be ISO, Price, Utah. coal Mines at Kenilworth, Utah reflected in higher prices for coal. The excess development of General Offices in the Walker mines in any coal field in advance of the market only tends to creBank Building. ate dissatisfaction on the part of coal mine employes on account Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, who Salt Lake City. Will the Big Lone Star State Ever Split of short working time, when if the mines were developed in excess has climbed many of the difficult of market just sufficiently to meet the demands of normal growth, Himalayan Mountains, is Itself Into Five States? Eaks inasthe the operating mines could give their men more steady work anc the queen of women hold the cost of the coal down to a more reasonable basis on account S. decreased costs following regular working time. Beet Japanese Merchandise of By W. W. BELEN, of El Paso, Texas. The lack of industrial activity in territory served by Utah Every Deecrlptlon coal mines, together with the loss of steam coal (modified mine Catering to tho trade of the resiTexas has thousands upon thousands of fertile acre of land that are run) business on the Pacific Coast, and decreased consumption of dent! of tho local coal camps modified run by transportation lines has created an extremely and surrounding territory. untouched by the plow, and the state could easily support a populaGET OUR QUOTATIONS slack coal with the result that slack is being sole yet for market soft Concrete Building, South Ninth and yet the census figures just announced show for less than half of its cost of production and in addition thereto tion of 50,000,000 people, Street, Price. Utah. d of the population of Texas to that it has only 4,661,027 people. large tonnages of slack are being stored or wasted at mines due lives in 17 counties, yet the state has 253 counties. The population runs no market at any price. Slack coal which costs just as much to mine as lump and nut, all the way from 37 in the county of Crane, away out in west Texas, to of the total coal graded, and the loss represents about one-thiin Dallas county. Ten Texas counties showed a gain of more CENTRAL POOL HALL of earnings on this slack tonnage must be offset by higher prices 210,000 cent in the last decade. i for lump and nut, the purely household or domestic sizes, in orderd than 100 per the Union, had came into when it coal that remembered be must total Texas, the for realization Basement Sllvagnl Building It fair a mines average to give the QUirifitmaa PRICE, UTAH in its annexation treaty a .clause providing that any time it so desired it a domestic sizes of coal, for the mine senators ten United States states scud prices and The five high itself into divide present Soft Drinks, Cigars, Tobacco costs is making the cos might high freight rates and high distribution without any action on the part of congress being necessary. so high that in many o to Washington of coal delivered in the consumers bins M. ZUPAN. Mgr. HIS year more peobe It will many years before Texas divides, but eventually such action the farming communities the people are just now hauling wpoc ple than ever will two divide believe will more into not do it than low will be ken, though I decide on the Photograph rather than buy coal, as they contend that with the present coal at the state. Even now the interests of west Texas and east Texaa are entirely as a happy token to give prices for farm products they cannot afford to bum to those whose friendhigh dissimilar. existing prices. SUNSHINE TEA ROOM All of these adverse conditions are very depressing to the coal ship they wish to hold in the and cherish. industry and the prospects for any material improvement fellow Breakfast The who be to claim o'clock 7 to doesnt the next war A dozen photographs win not bright It is hoped that freight rates willNow we are told thatsoldiers Luncheon It to 1 o'clock immediate future areand and ci- good and yet ia not really bad is enbe waged against solve a dozen puzzling gift rewith is SPECIALS ALL DAY. this accomplished, together if will soon be reduced, vilians alike, and that the husband in titled to some distinction. He ia so problems. Mika an appointI'vening and Afternoon Parties in the selling prices of coal at the mines, it should grad- the trenches will be safer than the very few. ment today. duction Ilmne Cooking "I Arrangement. coal. of increased sale and the industrial to activity stimulate That kitchen. wife the in ought ually and Surroundings. A. HOFF'S STUDIO 1'Jgiith and Main Streets, the stimulate masculine patriotism when Many Paris surgeons are accumulatThe mining, smelting and industrial situation should gradually reMllibarn llomei Price, Utah. this and breaks. anticipated with storm the early PRICK, UTAH spring, improve, commencing ing fortunes by performing a new opSunday 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. eration on women with figures too devival should have far reaching beneficial results on the genera situation: Never mind why you did veloped for the straightcut dresses of idle or operating a not do it. Theexplaining are and smelters mines metal Utah fact The that you didn't is today. There a reason why wise people of the present low price of lead. If con- all sufficient account on ebb low ,re not averse to Retaking largely of their Don't waste your sympathy on yourof leads on tariff foreign law the enact will into proposed n fault. It knocks the Sue The announcements. self. The other fellow expects it props from gress substanfollowed a Wedding by tadtr their critics. 2 8 cents per pound, it will immediately be 0RR1N ELMER Flavo Flour Farmers . ABERDEEN COAL limited demand divided among too many producers, no mine gets enough business to keep working full time, consequently the expenses must be pruned to the limit and operators can mine and ship only such coal as will give a working margin of profit. As a consequence, much coal is irrevocably lost, and that which is mined under such conditions must bear all the burden of the full investment. Increasing the number of coal mines naturally increases the number of employes, but with the reduced working time the general welfare of the employes is less than if a smaller number were given more steady employment and the total purchasing power for the increased number will not be greater. Fewer mines and full working time makes a more satisfied and prosperoufecommunity. In order that the increased number or employes jfnay earn at least a bare living, their wages for the limited time they work must necessarily be high, much higher than a normal wage for the number of employes who with steady work could get out enough coal to Bupply all demands. Thus the price of coal to the consumer is kept high following slack working time. This overdevelopment has another detrimental result which will be felt when industry gets back to its normal condition. The good workmen among the coal mine employes will become dissatisfied with the inadequate earnings of continued part time development and will drift out to other lines of endeavor which give them full time employment at possibly less per diem return, but more per annum. Their places must be filled with inexperienced and less competent men of whom it will take more to produce the same result and the cost of production must necessarily rise proportionately. The baleful effects will be shown in increase of accidents, the expense of which the industry and ultimately the coal consuming public must bear. t The living and working conditions of the miners and their families in Utah have for many years past been the subject of careful thought and liberal endeavor on the part of the coal operators until at the present time at all the important mining operations than most they compare favorably with the best and are better other operations in the country. High standards of mining,, comfortable homes, good drinking water, bathhouses, recreation halls and schools, which are a credit to any community are to be found. This has all been accomplished at great expense, but if half workpoint as the ing time and profits are to be cut to the diminishing the of order become the and day, this result of over development more or less become must work welfare naturally splendid STEP ON ER on Purity Service Station Defective self-intere- st neg-loete- di KUSANO -- One-thir- rd pro-ducc- Ermrittliranmi 3-- |