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Show THE SUN, PRICE, PAGE TWO EXPENSIVE OIL ON THE COAST TO HAKE WAY FOR THE GOOD COAL OF UTAH By Nobla Warrum, Jr. So much has been written and said about tbe vast eual resources of Utah that to dwell on them at any length would be mere reietition of statements that have been made heretofore in a much more interesting and authoritative manner, it is a well known fact that we have almost more coal in the state than we know what to do with. Local operators even hint at such dire aspects of the situation as PTAH-EVB- BT payroll despite the great liability of the Cattle Gate dioaeter, according to the Computations of this organization. The industrial commission. following the Castle Gate disaster, turned over data to the national rouurii to determine what' if any adjustment should lie made to of fset the greatly PBIDAT. In Cta inter Styles hazard ao caus- stored stocks of ietroleuin increased experience eouncil will in California increased 4,741,460 bar- ed. Findings of this the commisfollowed doubtless be by rels or 5.1 ter rent Luring the same the pure eouncil that The found sion. will Cas. 1923 period of they increased by in Pmm present indications several for the years premium barrels or 8.8 jier cent. That as has been the decline in oil production is not a which the eumjiensatiun law le fiate and Clear Creek will still f to $1.13 amounted in here force per thing of the moment is shown by fig- $100 of heavy payroll for serious injuries enced buyers have found out ures on the coal reserves of the councover cents to fail sixty try eomjtared with oil reserves. The and an additional black materials are of excellent injuries. An liability from United States geological survey effect. rents was allowshow that teere are approxi- additional fifty-fou- r to produce the desired warm this medical ed for the premium, pure oil barrels of left mately 8,599,000,(100 exjierienee rating overproduction. Admitting for a mo- available under present methods of amount being the ment that there is an overproduction extraction, and to date this country for money sjieiit in medical attention. For loading exjienses the council in Utah at the present time and that has produced about 6 ,250,000,IKK). This the scepticism of coalmen has a foun- is to say we have already used about computed $1,515 should lie allowed dation here are indications that this 42 )er cent of our original supply. On jar Moo of jmvn.Il or ulmut 34 cr condition will change and what today the other hand we have used up about cent for acquisition, 2.5 per cent lor looks like a glutted market may 1 ier cent of the available coal supply taxes, 7.5 tor payroll audits, 8 for handling claims and 4 per cent for change over night to a condition of and there are approximately services. Based on fifteen tons of bituminous left in acute underproduction. Suppose the Pacific Coast market should suddenly the ground. In other words, at the years exjierieure in the nation the e demand more than thirty times the present rate of consumption, we have council allowed another thus for hazard, rents catastrophe tonnage now used. True, this is now enough oil left in known deposit a mere supoeition, but certain eco- to last about twelve years. In the bringing the total rate at only seven supply of coal nomic Torres are at Work which may state of Utah alone there is enough cents almve the present rates. This your Ordering committee mine coal led the regional change this from a mere supposition coal to last the entire United States of the wou will get fresh, clean coal at to a poignant reality, Railroad, two hundred and fifty years on the of the council to recommend no ateamahi)s and industries are the basis of the present rate of consump- change. yau entire year a money-savin- g tion. follows and that users fuel it great of. Gone "Cement take Bought advantage should immediately Oil Quite Wasteful. seaports, rail terminals and industrial lias National company Equipment centers are natural fuel markets. The The statistics are given Mold the past month course, to Pacific Coast has all these. Its sea- in orderforegoing And when we say CLEAN coal we to show that oil is a fuel is tentativelycementduring and machinery complete gun ports are growing with the coastal both wasteful and cxjiensive. With oil which from rock Castle Gate and Clear Creek, trade, Panama canal connect iuus with production falling off prices are equipment to the Columbia Steel Coal and to mines the Canyon orSpring removed Seaboard and of the Atlantic Europe bound to rise. With the increased use and slate has been carefully the Americas, and an increasing Ori- of the internal combustion eugine in company to be used in laying down lime dust through eueh concerns is weighed. ental trade, its rail euds are growing automobiles, boats, tractors, airplanes mines to counteract the effects of with increased exporting and import- and other machinery, the use of gasofree-burnin- g, Coals Creek Clear and ing as well as with a steady growth line is so necessary, the use of oil accumulating dust and thus ward off Gate Castle of population. Along with both of simply as a heat producing material explosions. Says Salt Lake Mining is evidence fuels. long-burnin- g, intense heat-givin- g the foregoing and directly related to is wasteful. The result of this con- Review in its issue of a few days ago: is rement the "While gun primarily them is a rapid industrial develop- dition will he of excellent judgment to insist higher prices for oilmen. what its name implies a machine ment of that section. But this is not all. With higher prices with which to line tunnels, shafts, Market Most Ideal. for fuel oil its users will begin east- mine workings, buildings and sol'ortli, These three factors make the ing about for rlieuier fuel. As a mat- with coatings of cement it is claimed Coast an ideal fuel market ter of faet they are doing this today the machines are ASK YOUR just as effieient in (Note that the word fuel is used, with an eye to the future. Much crushed materials as spreading dry work is being done on which does nut necessarily mean eual). are of wet cement. It is underIn faet the California oil fields have heating machinery which will allow they stood that a representative is out furnished most of the fuel for the the use of imwdrred eonl mixed with from the companys factory to demPacifia Coast market to date. There air or oxygen, and will replace with onstrate the rlaiins made for the maalterations the oil burning chines and then to are several potent factors which are slight SALT LAKE CITY, equip the mines of Judge Building working toward the elimination of machinery already in use. The enor- the emnitanies mentioned and any fuel oil and the consequent replace- mous saving in money which will al- others that need them. ment of it by a cheaer and more eco- low the nse of slack and mine run in nomical one. There has been n steady place of fuel oil is the great incentive Dusting Expert Visits. decrease in the production of crude in this experimental work which reSHINGLE BOBS NOT BARBERING, the court merely ruled the rase benil in the country for some time and ports state has already reached a in "Interesting talks have been made fore him, in doing so he decided that disCarbon of the mining carajw RULES THIS JUDGE this is particularly true in the Cal- marked degree of practicability. hair is not barbering. A. Jones, week bobbing J. trict the by past ifornia fields. Oilmen are feeling more Some New Processes. Hence the decision is taken to esbarber Ben not Coal Old the for are shop. ahojM engineer Beauty At the same time oilmen have been safety optimistic about prices as a result of not barteri- tablish the right of beauty shops to is which has women's of hair Ills., Franklin, company Bobbing The Boston News tala decrease. reducing fuel produrtion hy new daily output of more than fifty ng. These two essential point are carry on their work without taking N. L. Amster of Boston, cracking processes which they found thousand tons per day, says Salt established under a decision a few out barber licenses. who made has sura . recently necessary to carry the increased bur- Lake's Tribnne of last Friday. Jones, days ago by Judge Noel S. Pratt of vey of the oil fields of Texas and den of demand for gasoline. In re- who is regarded aa the best informed Salt Lake City, when he found Edna Among the three hundred thousand Oklahoma, as saying: "The real oil viewing the petroleum industry for rockdust- Houtx, beauty shop manager and wid- voluntary crop reports scattered on of the question engineer is in United States the ituation very the past ten yeara the Standard Oil ing in mines in the United States, has ow of the late Attorney Dan B. throughout the country to assist the maeh stronger than appears on the company of New Jersey says that been loaned to the state industrial Iloutz, not guilty on a charge of prac- United States department of agriculAnnounces that Its new link is oil Surface. to referring (lie without the development of these new commission of Utah for a month in ticing listate without a the in Star Theater hnUdiai bur ture out conthe bartering on algetting reports prices). "The eruda production, processes recently there would not be order that he might visit the collieries cense. Barbers at Zion contended that ditions there are open. Patrons will fiad ha many men who have though apparently showing an in- sufficient gasoline to run the internal and deliver lectures on rockdusting, a the bobbing of hair and other work been sending them in for a the best in Gandies and Oaf crease of about a hundred thousand combustion engines of the country. new very long which becomes oper- done in the various shops of the city term of regulation Leonidas Link of tioni, nnd the nervies it m barrels a day over what it was the All this has a great deal to do with yean. in the coal mines of the state on constituted the practice of barbering, Ruxhville, IrnL, has been a Fountain will bo kept ti lb reporter fint of the year, is nevertheless near- the fuel situation in the West The Pa- ative July 1st. On his tour of the camps in hence employee in such places should for fifty-fou- r highest standard to bs fradh yean. Next in the ly three hundred thousand barrels be- cific Coast is now using approximate- Carbon he was accompanied by Engin- be examined and licensed just as barthis city. is W. list T. Richardson seniority low the peak of last year. of lie a oil barrels of fuel ly 130,000,000 eer II. I. Smith and B. W. Dyer, chief bers. Clarksville, Tenn., whose record lacks by saying: "But with the year, which is equivalent to 23, INK), 000 mine iiuqiector for the commission To tfair contention they had only one year of equaling that of steady increase in the use of both gas- tons of coal, Figuring that four bar- ami the government Engineer Jones a test prove ease brought by having J. T. Link. Other veterans oline and fuel oil and with the failure rels of oil have the heating capacity among these Theater patrons win find will lie in this state for a short while Hammond, the secretary of the state volunteen are M. W. Williamson of to discover any new important pools, of one ton of enaL That means that convenient and effldta piece board of registration, swear to a com- Newmarket, nngcr. BO matter how good the extraction when the retrenchment in the use of Vs., and Martin Hoag-lan- d Mrs. Iloutz, charging against of Hutchinson, Kan., who have may be, they will not get the required oil for fuel sets in a market for twenty-t- ABOUT THE CAMPS OF THE BIG plaint her with practicing barbering without e million tons of coal a year quota of gasoline and fuel oil. It is hree CARBON DISTRICT yean each to their credit; a license. The rase was submitted up- Adam NIGRO Davenport of Cookeville, Ga., my firm eonvirtion that both crude will he opened up in the West. It on briefs filed by attorney represent- served and refined products will sell much is estimated that the Pacific Coast F. C. Hill, mine superintendent at F. W. Houck, both sides. Propr. Madison, Minn., forty-sihigher next year than they are at this now uses about seven hundred and Mohrland, iqient lust Saturday even- ing and J. M. Pratt rendered his decision, Ficle of Lake City, Is., forty-fiv- e Judge most time. Price. and of That at thousand tons of coni a year, ing Sunday fifty Pools Being Drained. most of which is from Utah, because ramp is working at lire sent but one finding Mrs. Iloutz not guilty. While yean. Wedding announcement! Tbs j Tbe same publication recently stat- of the nearness of the fields and the and two days a week. Justice of the Peace Emigholtz of ed: "Production today is lew than a grade found here. In other words, if year ago. In the last twelve months the prediction of a fuel oil shortage Sunnysiile was a Sunday visitor in there has been a tremendous outpour- comes true, the coast will call for Price and lleljxr. The cuke ovens st ing of oil, due to five of the country s more that thirty times as much coal thul ramp, he told The Sun, are going greatest pools reaching peak produc- as it uses at present, anil for almost six days a week and the mines five. tion during that period. Production six times the total mined yearly in Dean D. Holdaway of Peerless was last year was obtained under condi- Utah at the present time. in lriee Sunday last The mine there tions that, it ean be predicted, will Coke Oven Demand. is working two days a week on an never prevail again. Oil is coming out are other indications of the average. The market is Zion. He is There of storage at present and the amount advent of an increased market for manager of the company store and withdrawn will increase for several Utah coal. Utah is going for coke says business is good. Better than for months. At height of demand it can ovens at the 1 ronton plant and we sre some time. be expected that stocks will be drawn Coast markets to Pacific George A. Storrs was in Iriee last on four to five hundred thousand bar- shipping made coke. Saturday from Salt Like City looking that using pigiron hy The same publication With the rels a day. growth of the iron anil steel for men nnd teams to work ou the states in another issue that the total in the West will come the National Fuel coinjmny railroad that industry domestic production shows a decrease of a eual market The expan- will connect five priqierties in the of more than 15 ;ier cent from last growth sion of the railroads in the West will big Gordon Creek distriet of Curium in producyear with a large decline Anil county with the Utah railway. The niqnn increased coal tonnage. tion in California fields. In another even looking into the future, to the F. A. Sweet interests have large holdfeait "One significant place says: era, one may predict fur- ings there. Grading of the road is ture of the present oil situation is su;eriNiwer use for eonl at large power gen- expected to le completed by the first ther For those in the that there are only seventeen thousstations. Utah will get the of Ncptemlier. erating in oil California a barrels of and day share of the Western market, argest outfit great outdoors get shut in. A year ago there were three because Germany is buying American mules it i the nearest to the const hundred thousand. Notwithstanding mid because it is of better and fishing supplies reagrade than to replace oxen in agricultural work, us. reopening of hundreds of wells, Cal- that which might compete with it nqKirts the United States department ifornia is producing If. oil today from son we carry such a the t:inlnint of facility of of agriculture. A shipment of sixty-foof fish' than a year ago, the Mai for the state lrausNirtntion. Missouri mules from five to six coal is known as Utah being six hundred and forty thousand good tornge coal, ns it keeps well in ypnrs old and of good conformation ing supplies for Before you barrels a day against seven hundred hiti and in the holds of vessels. It was recently sent to Hamburg on conon means that has low thousand a year ago. This your prepared. content, which obvi- tract. This was the second of the you the statn is producing all the oil it ate tbe sulphur kind this year. of We danger have in and decline a further produccan, fishing and it does not tend to slack tion will have a divided hearing ou when stored. It Buildings will go up as prices come favorcompares very down. the oil market of the country generPoles, Baskets. Flies, Lines, Spin-ner- s, ably with other competing ones as to ally. aland heat value, mining costs will Wells Produce Less. Sinkers, Reels, Hooks, Sallow Utah an added advantage. Further evidence of the decline in And will Utah be able to supply mon Eggs, Fly Line and Leader oil production is shown by the Month- this enormous demand when it does Conditions as Business Books Camp Stoves, Reel ly Review of cone? Then are within the boundBoxes, given out in April by John lernn, aries of the stale 190.458,000,000 tons chairman of the board of the federal of known reserve coal enough to That this is the time of year to fix .Wli .also V out in reserve hank of San Francisco, w hich supply the present fuel demand of think about installing that heatconsecuin sixth the "For license. ic fishing if tbe lu i'oaf for eight thousand says part: ing plant? The heating matertive month production of petroleum five l. iudrcd mid forty-onial is lowecst in summer time? years. in California during March was s That yon can let the contract FISHING TACKLE THAT'S than in the preceding month, and the COMPENSATION RATES now and have the work done HELD TO EE SUFFICIENT when convenient? average daily flow of oil from producThick this F1T FOR over and let ns estimate on the ing wells in the slate on April 1st was CoHiiiTMi'-32.1 per cint below the peak of Sepg of rate? for jcb. tember, 1923. Consumption of cil las v. ri f i i njit'r'n in' mine we durindicated by shipment) oitnmcnlc t'i the! at o rrei niiinn at K..!( Reed Plumbing ing the month hy an amount approxHealing imately equal to the decline in pro- Lake City lul lVilay by t!i National 1 Feiin in ns t. C'innensatirtn IS Nor'li r.lctnh Street Cut:'il rife. duction, and stored lock, Plione g'lil ruary, showed a relatively !i;;M j Expericnee in U.:::i ?3.9 From January 1st to March nance of the rato r . MM of 121, 1924, be no changes. be in vogue experi. that both of these quality and never there non-Kerim- is re-(si- rts UTAHS j Favorite 1,510,-000,090,0- 00 FUELS fifly-tlire- now means that the lowest prices opportunity that winters refer, of the dirt, BEFORE your der are It upon getting them. Ia-eif- io DEALER UTAH FUEL COMPANY UTAH STAR Bu-quot-ea Sweet Shop con-olnd- es forty-nin- FRANK forty-eigh- t; x, Going Fishing or Camping? ur start nun-buMio- n. enjoyable days of sport your camping of Thats the complete line your needs. want to be trip tackle galore. i Do You Know? vl j e le.-- j e FISHING exi-lir- s ET dei-lmc- d l ; in-- c.intin-creas- .-! j- - e. arj G H' ISSfON" LUMBER Price, Utah. CO. |