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Show FRIDAY. OCTOBER PAGE SIX H impeding the work of rescue parties. Two bodies brought out acre so badly burned identification was not possible. Fire at Escanaba, Mich., at the AUGUST, LAST diwks of the Kciss Coal eunntauy did five million dollars in damage last Fridav. One life was lost. .During Augut the fatalities in the C. N. (Buck) Orr, the mine supereual mines of the United Stales aggre- - fireboss marks off a working place as men, being gassy, yet some miner with an intendent of tbe United States Fuel gated a hundred and sixty-si- x according to information given out by oien light takes no notice and goes in comyiany at Hiawatha, was a Monday visitor in Price. The four ramps of the United States bureau of mines.Ntvith the only possible result, an or an explosion. Again, a that concern, he says, are working fatality rate for the month, bas-iiitied on an output of 41,831,000 tuns, fna ket of gas may have collected and around three dAys a week. was 3.79 per million tons and is 27 per j is marked by the fireboss, lie may Mure than a thousand men will be cent lower than the rate of 5.46 i?r attempt to remove it, warning the men thrown out of employment back in the million tons for August, 1923. For nut to approach with open lights, yet Hocking Valley thia week, Pittsburg, the first eight months pf the current occasionally someone dues so, result-yePa., oieratora announced last Satura thousand six hundred and iug in an iguition or explosion. " One day. The companies claim they canhave been killed by acci- fairly frequent cause of morning ex- not operate at any profit under the twenty-eigdent as compared with a thousand sev- plosions ia the leaving of ventilating present wage scale. en hundred and ninety-thre- e during doors ajar during the night The air to The Sun from Official the corresponding months of 1923. current ia short circuited thereby and Washington,figures D. C., this week give the The eight months fatality rate for some workings will get no fresh air, total production of coal in Utah for this year has been 4.58 per million consequently gas will collect and the last year as 4,720,000 net tons. By tons as compared with 4.12 in 1923. first man with an open light sets it months, January, 478.000; February, The increased rate is due to the dis- off. Thia ia not an uncommon 382,000; March, 306.000; April, 282.-00but luckily, the accumulated aster at Castle Rate on March 8th, May, 323,000; June, 358,000; last, and the increase for the current gas is not always ignited. 365,000; Sep363,000; July, inbituminous in the is In the afternoon and evening there tember, 417,000;August, entirely year October, 546,000; are many explosions. It is noticable dustry. . 458,000, and December, 415,-00- 0 An analysis of the causes of acci- that the nundier drops at 4 oclock. tons. net dents in 1924 to the end of August Am a rule the day shifts go out of the Itockil listing is being h&oteued in with those for the Corresponding er-io-d mine at 3:30 to 4 oclock. In mines Canyon district in an effort ftpring increased show rate 1923 an do in where the men their own firing or to as much of the work is complete for gas and dust explosions in 1924, where it ia done by shotfiring foremen before the heavy winter depossible in rates the material no one the at shot a clinnge shift, during time, mand for fuel makes bq) necessary enAa no accidents. the firing would he completed at that for other causes of O. Mcfthane, the larged single accident during August caused time, but in mines where the firing ia chairmanoerations, rom- industrial state of the record for the deaths five as done by shotfirera when all other men as many rethe current year to August 31t are out of the mine it begins shortly (Continued On Page Eight.) mains at seven major disasters caus- after 4 o'clock or if the mine haa had deaths a short day a run it may begin earlier. Three truckloads of scrub dairy cating two hundred aiul fifty-fou- r during the corresponding months of The dangers of rapid shotfiring by tle owned by negro farmers of Coosa last year. such geeial shotfirera is fully reflect- and Elmore eouuties, Ala., were reThe fatality rate per million tone, ed in the uumlier of explosions that cently sent to be exchanged as butchbased exclusively on the nuinlier of take place between 5 and 6 oclock. At er slock for heifers and young bulls lives lost in aeeidenls killing five or 6:30 there ia a drop, and then at 7 of good dairy type by the Tuskegee more persons during the first eight the number again runs up. These Normal and Industrial Institute of mouths of 1924. was 1.15 as compared may result from gas, litierat-e- d Alabama, in accordance with an offer with 0.58 in 1923. by the shotfiring, or accumulations of that institution. Interest in family from other reasons, being ignited by cows of better quality has been stimuPROGRAM OF SAFETY IN MINES tlie night shift when it rearhes the lated by tlie work of tlie local agriculOF WYOMING BEGUN fuce. Frequently the roaleutting ia tural extension agent, through whose done on night shift. efforts the negro farmers in different HOOK SPRINGS, WyoH Oct. 27.- of the two counties have acquiruriug the ast week the first active ROCKEFELLER BUMPS GOULDS pnrts ed animals of better t.viie and dairy atep towards the inauguration of the ON FUEL AND IRON are demonstrating to their neiglilairs Union Pacific Coal company sjfigati-ti- o of using imthe economic NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Edwin proved stork. advantage safety program was taken when and two Nine heifers the shale dust pulveriser was installed Gould, testifying today in the eight.v-tw- o bulls of excellent obwere tve dairy and pluced in working order. Thia million dollars accounting suit of tained in the recent accordexchange, machine will pulverise and reduce the the estate of liis father, Jay Gould, debhale to dust ao fine that more than admitted under questioning that seven ing to reports to the United States of partment agriculture. 9U ier cent of it will puss through a and a half millions of the trust money screen containing two hundred meshes was duuijH-- into the Colorado Fuel There has lieen a decided improveto the square inch. The dust is prae-tieal- and Iron cnmany to aid John 1). ment in the grasshopper situation in free of ailiea and is said by the Rockefeller in the rehabilitation and tlie Northwestern States, according to United States bureau of miuea to be reorganization of that enterprise. the hurrau of entomology of the Unitof no menace to the miners lungs. Gould is an executor and trustee of ed States department of agriculture. The federal bureau does not ermit the estate. It was necessary, he ad- The loss during tbe past season haa the use of shale dust containing more mitted, for the Gould estate to sell a been much leu than that of the year than 25 er cent ailiea, and this haa large nundier of its best bonds and 1922 and 1923. Splendid results have leas than 10 per rent. securities it held to enter the deal and also been obtained by the entomoloConifwny offieiala of the Union la-eif- at the present time the only thing the gists of the Billings (Mont.) laboraaay that the dust will be applied state has to show for the seven and a tory in the control of the Mormon at the rate of two pounds to one foot half millions is the bonds of the Colo- cricket with the poisoned bran mash of entry or more than five tona to the rado Industrial company and the com- and by the entomologists of the Salt mile. This will give a faint idea of the mon stock of the Colorado Fuel and Lake City in the control of laboratory vast amount of rock dost that will be Iron company. I saw great advan- the alfalfa weevil with arsenical dust. necessary to carry ont the program in tage to the Oould railroad lines and I ' the seventeen mines of the company thought the investment no more hazWedding announcements. Tbe Sun. in Southern Wyoming, some of which ardous than any other business, he have !een in operation for many replied to questions. Gould also was years. Entries in all of the mines of questioned in regard to a twenty-fiv- e Co. the eouiany except those at Cumber- million dollars bond iasue in which he land will be thnnmglily dusted, underwrote nine millions. lie said that at he a of the portioned $6.400,0(M) among his that place only the danger zones will friends. The tmst estate paid $751,-11- 0. be dusted and standard sixteen-troug- h Mines and ahips from the He admitted that he received barriers placed at all intersections. famous Union Pacific bituminronimiosion. $(5,000 At a meeting of the Hock Springs ous vein of Pleasant Valley in chapter of the Rocky Mountain Coal the Carbon district None betUnduly Prejudicial. Mining institute at Winton recently ter for store, range, grate, furit was explained that the bureau of WASHINGTON, 1). C., Oct. 24. nace or manufacturing plant cifel Hates from mines on bituminous mines had reported the coal dust in The equal of any and superior the liock Springs field to be of a very in Southern Illinois, the Danville, to many for storage. Once triand Oentralia Murphysboro, Duquoin explosive imtnre and that the Union ed always insisted upon. Get Pacific wax installing elcctria limits districts to Omaha and South Omaha, from tho general offices prices and. inaugurating the rockdusting Xeh., and Council Bluffs, Ia., are held and sales agency, Walker Bank commiscommerce the interstate campaign so aa to do away with the by Bnilding. but not possibility of an explosion as much as sion to be unduly prejudicial, discriminaunreasonable or unjustly it ia in human power to do so. tory. The commission ordered the removed. The commission's EXPLOSION RISK IS TIMED BY prejudice decision in the case made on June 30, BUREAU EXPERTS OF 1923, held to lie unjust the iraetire of railroad in assigning private ears for WASHINGTON, D. C Oct. 20. Aa the result of a study of two hun- railway fuel to bituminous mines in coal mine explo- execss of the ratable share distributed dred and fifty-si- x sions made by interior deimrtment en- to the latter upon their lines which gineers on the staff of the bureau of do not receive assigned ears.' After mines it has been discovered that the issuance of the first order the there are two critical times of day case was reheard. While the comwhen auch explosions are most likely mission made no explanation of toto occur. The period in the morning day's order it was indicated that it ranges between 6 and 9 o'clock, with was postponed pending a decision on a peak at 7 :30, indicating an einplia-i- d the rehearing. hazard from gas ignition in these Will Inspect Holdings. hours. The one in the afternoon 7 3 o'clock with between a and RICHFIELD, Oct. 28. Tlie Rich ranges Commercial club began its weekfield the at 6, upon practice hinging peak of stotfiring in the evening. Between ly luncheons yesterday by partaking these morning and evening critical of an excellent duck dinner at JohnsFor your house, business, auperiods is one which might lie called ton Hotel. Fifty members were in at11 tendance and jmrtook of the dinner, the noon eriod that is, from tomobile, household goods, barn oclock to 1 of the afternoon, associat- which had been provided by some of or garage. Fire will take them ed with the practice of shotfiring at the clubs sportsmen, under the direction of F. X. Carron. C. J. Sumner, noon. The two hundred and fifty-si- x without paying yon a cent if mine explosions studied by the bureau, president of the Sevier Valley Coal ranged over a period of fifteen years, company, was the principal sieaker yon are not insured. We write killed four thousand fmir hundred and and told of the work now being done all kinds of insurance in relithirteen men and injured five hundred on the properties in Salina Canyon. and seventy others. As a result of its The nicnilicrs were invited to lie the able companies that pay losses findings the bureau urges that extra guests of the company at the holdings vigilanre should he exercised in op- next Sunday. It was voted to accept promptly. Every kind for the erations at these critical jeriods, par- the invitation of Sumner so as to beautomobile ar tho lowest posticularly in the mornings when many come conversant with tlie conditions of the worst have taken place, largely at Utahs newest coni camp. sible rates for good protection due to the haznrd of accumulation of OF BIO THE CAMPS THE ABOUT the night. gas during against fire, theft, damage and CARBON DISTRICT While fire bosses generally try to liability. .examine for gas before the men enter Lump coal from Columbia is being the mine in the morning, sometimes, put in tbe bin at Price for $5.50 the owing to there being too many work- ton. ing places to inspect or to taking a Sam Woodhead was in Price from Equitable Real Estate chance, some is neglected with the result that miners entering therein with Kenilworth Tuesday last. The propthere are going four days a open lights ignite an accumulation of erties and Investment Go. week on the average. between the gag. The period lapsing Three shotfirera were instantly killtime of inspection and men entering Representing Strong workings is often too long, and, al- ed while working in the Black Hawk COMPANIES FriAMERICAN exlast when mine clear Terre near be Ind., Haute, a may though place followed a reA causes dust other day. may explosion Price, Utah amined, a fall or sult in an accumulation of gas which windy shot and set fin to the ia accidentally ignited. Sometimes a projierty. The mine id still burning, wyvvywwwwuuwvwvvvyvv HUNDRED AND MEN KILLED IN COAL iJNES'DURING f. T ig-T- he on ; Wre waiting for you to t . this station and try onr high gasolins and motor oils. ItwinI yen no mors to do so than elasww, and ws belisyo yon will findomj ar ; ht hap-turnin- g, Do You Wmt Balloon Tires On Your Car? 0; You can put them on now at less than you have been pacing for hard, high-pressu- re tires. our Why not save your car, yourself andofy the and tear wear passengers from the roads? More durable too. Goodyear Balloons are built of a new, exclusively Goodyear invention Supertii ist a cord material that yields and stretches instead of breaking under impact. It gives you double insurance against blowouts and gives longer mileage. Get our new money saving ua ly ie . lie-cau- se Kinney Coal ducUao.Tipioryou will be to drive ont of your way if Purity Service Statin Corner Main and Eighth 8tWe1 PRICE, UTAH STANDARD COAL Mined In Carbon County Shipped Everywhere. and Properties At Standarduille, Utah Price Rubber Works Alger Auto Company No Dust , No Ashes, No Clinkers . Unexcelled For Storage Purposes. If acicutinta arc to lie believed the human race in not having no much hniine!M that they are losing their long faces, but on tlie other hand they actually growing longer. The face ia now half an inch longer than ancea-trpliysiiigouiy, according to Sir Arthur Keith. Prof. Charles Gray of New York University maintains that the art of laughing is fast dying out PRICE STANDARD AGENCY COMPANY al CO. Geo. E. Nelms SALT LAKE CITY UTAH General Offices Ninth Floor Kearns Bldgi Manager 312 Electric Building Price, Utah Insurance Seiice That Serves . Coyotes in the virinity of Modena are plentiful and are causing considerable trouble to live stock men, according to advirea received from R. O. Bruce by the state department of agriculture last Tuesday. The department supplied a quantity of strych nine. Halls Catarrh COAL Spring Canyon Coal Co. Accounting and Medicine will do what we claim for it rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. SoU ty Jnuutfi brertr 40 yttn Auditing Real Estate F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio One friend Miners and Shippers of the Celebrated Spring Canyon Coal thatwiUnever Minee J at STORIIS, UTAH General Offices, 17 Newborns Building. Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah. FLOUR For your family Md nnn VJ9JJJ AC Valley made right here at W and as good as the best Feedte at to yonr animals. Both these coat We deliver. if you die from ' natural causes $10,000 if you die from accident Fanners in case of permanent total disability the company will 1 . Waive il I premium Payments 2. Pay you 5 per week for one year; and in addition 3. Pay you JO per month for life; and 4- - Pv is noo tii when die your 5. If disability involves loss of limbs oryou sight as a result ot accident die company ill pay yOU $5.000 in cash, mms diattly. in addition to all other benefits. In case of temporary dij.ibiiiq ts a result of either sickness K CO!ni :i' W 25 per week for a limiy of 52 weeks Mill and Elevator Company BURNHAM j. ynrnrn Manager. bmi-fiiiar- ABERDEEN COAL EFFICIENCY. mGIIEKT 1 Government equlval nt wu Unequalled for aloniee. -- team alack. The best of heating quallUefc A Service 7 hal Emftires home office-ja- 1 ) Ml c i: , i; t ah Bank Agent Lire Insurance CoT u'ESTff Mines at Kenilworth. UtjJ in Jhe Genera) Offices BuiWhnS-Bal- t fiunciscq L. A. H ILLS, Special i Cool Coke Co. Independent COMPANY m Lake City. (133) JOHNSTONS G Ji'ii fcSr.! Ca mm fegsgS v' I DRAY Does All Kinds of HanlW . rtrrrl Goes Anywhere, Any Rrrrii Call Phone No. nrUST ONE - . . Ysest Coast Life INSURANCE n- Ti1 9L Every time an airplane nosedive or a spin or reminded of what are we up the eaft thing it is to have feet & II |