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Show i THE SUV, PRICE, UTAH PAGE SIX (Cuuiinu(4 From Page Omi $33.01)11,0(8), net tons a gain of or 2.0 per rent over the output of The table below Christuia-- i Week. shows in detail the amount of coal produced by the several stales durii: the week ended January 1st and wi the preceding week. to 10,711, i hmJ 225,-IH- is profits pr Jiulily TfoeMosi Iforsaiile Americsm if and if the lo.--s of Hiible included the industry was between $15,001,000 EVERT fRIDAY and $5n,uiNl.iNHi to the bad as compared with what it would have been had the prnerlics remained urlive. The losses t the business interests in the region of anthra- w re enormous, consumer Estimated Weekly Production of Soft Coal By States (Net Tons). By ELMO 8COTT WATSON RECENT (a) vised, (e) This group is not strictly eonqwrable in the several years. Some Figures On Coke. Java Although there were thirty-on- e in December, the output of byproduct eoke in that month fell from a total of 3,743,000 tons in November to a decrease of 37,000 or 1 per eent. The daily rate declined from 124,783 tons to 119,555, a loss of 4.2 per rent per day. There were seventy-active plants, the same number six aa in November and October, and rite were seriously inconvenienced I and forced to the adoption of substitutes for their customary and preferred fuel, the families of the workers suffered many privations, and the men gained nothing as the result of the strike. They returned to work at the previously existing wage scales and under an agreement extending to MINING OPERATIONS ON HUGE SCALE ARE PLANNED SAUNA, Jan. 15. The Salina Coal company situated some fifteen miles up the canyon from this town is now coming to the front as another leader in Sevier count v. Since its incorpor- ation in the early art of December the concern has been doing some heavy development work and is now pulling nut several tons of coal each day. The work is under direction of S: A. Tarbet, superintendent, with the assistance of S. F. Johnson and George Ivory, the former owner of the mine. ,At the present time the company is developing the uper or middle vein. It is being worked as a tunnel proposition, there being very little overhead expense. It is the company's intention to mine the eoal and sell it locally. In the early spring "when weather conditions become more favorable it will start a tunnel lower down with the view of opening up the large? 'Vein. This is between seven and nine feet in thiekness and it will take about twelve hundred feet of work to reaeh it Power, rails and machinery are being shipped from 'the EsSt daily and when operations :are begun in the spring the property 'will be fully equipped so there will be nothing to retard work. The eoal now taken from the mine is proving to be cne of the highest grade bituminous products found in the United States. ' Huge Sums An Gone. been estimated that during hat It the five and a half months the anthracite mines were idle in the record 6 the loss to the trike of mine workers in wages was not !? than and probably exceeded $150,000,-00The out of pocket expense to the operators in the maintenance of the properties was approximately 1925-192- 0. HIGH PEAK IN MINING IS THE GOVERNMENT'S REPORT I g semi-skille- ABOUT THE CAMPS OF THE BIG CARBON DISTRICT Uintah Basin people buy nut coal at the Rich mine at $2.50 the ton. Some of it is hauled as far as twenty miles. Three or four organizers for the United Mine Workers of Ameriea are reported as being in the several camps of the Carbon district during the last two weeks. C. J. Roberts, chief elerk at Columbia, was in Price last Sunday. He told The Sun that eamp it working six week with prospects of fulldays time ahead for months to come. Most all of the miners employed in the Panama property of the Ben Franklin Coal company near Mound-villW. Va., have returned to work at 20 per cent reduction in wages. Deputy Coal Mine Inspector Taylor tells The Sun that the properties of the Carbon district as a whole are working at this time better than for some months past. Numerous ones are going at full capacity. Union operators of the Pittsburg, Pa., district have decided to send rep- e, (Continued On Pace Eight) and bleak beliefs he was mirthful. learned, tolgenerous, and because he erant, humor-lovinwas the first American man of the world In the sense that he was the first American woridman." Although this biographer does not add to this lot of characteristics the word "versatile" It is that quality in this "first civilised American" which strikes yon must forcibly as you read the story of his life. Franklin, as the first outstanding printer nnd newspaper publisher, has come to be regarded as a sort of "patron saint" of the art preservative in this country, and January 17, his birthday. Is a day in the calendar of all printers and publishers. This year it is being observed all over the country as "Newspaper Day" and the week of January 15 to 22 aa "Thrift Week," because It was Franklin who, even long before Americans became noted for their spendthrift ways, began to preach the gospel of the penny naved." However much printers and publishers may claim Franklin for their own, they must share him with other professions In whose activities this many-side- d man took pnrt Besides being s printer and publisher, Franklin whs an Inventor, philosopher, scientist, writer of literature, diplomat, politician, military expert aud business man. Taken aa an Individual In any one of these roles, Franklin Is interesting, for he could not only do many things, but he could do many things well. Consider him In all of them, and he lieeoiues not only "the first civilized Anierlenn" and the "most versatile American" but one sf the really great men of all time. Franklins life story, as revealed In his autobiography, which Is rated as real "literature, " Is fninll-In- r In Its general outlines to nearly all Americans. Bat not all Americans know about the Innumerable little liuinun lnerest" Incidents of his career which, taken together, make him such a fascinating figure as he emerges from the shudows of b'geiid and tradition of two hundred years ago and becomes a living, breathing personality. Through his autobiography we learn of his early history how he la apprenticed at the age of twelve to Ms brother James, a printer In Boston; how he becomes a newspaper writer by slipping his anonymously-signe- d contributions under the Joor of his brothers printshop and enjoying with serret delight the praise of his works; how, nt the age of seventeen lie becomes a publisher when his brother fulls under the displeasure of the authorities and upon him devolves the duty of Issuing the New England Courant and how he makes that newsiiaper such a lively and rendnhle one, because Its young editor is such a free thinker and foe of intolerance, that it la constantly In trouble with the powera-thnt-bThen v follows Itcnjaiuin's quarrel with his brother, his migration to Flillndelphla. there, as I he story-lwKi- k tale goes, to walk down the street with the huge roll of bread under Ills arm and to be laughed at by pretty Ieborah Read who is later to become his wife. After various vicissitudes of e fortune. Including a chaw to England, the young printer becomes foreman In the printing plant of one Snuiuel Keimer, who appears to have hern a shiftless sort of person. There is a sad lack of new type In the shop and young Franklin casts It the first made in America. Next we find him starting "on his own" by Issuing the Pennsylvania Gazette from the printing plant In which he and Hugh Meredith are partners. As publisher of the Gazette we discover Franklin as the shrewd editor who knows how to build reader Interest In his paper (and circulation). He originates the practice of writing letters to the editor and engaging In disputes with himself In order to get his readers to "write In to the paper" and then buy giany. copies of the paper In which tlielr names were printed. But thew are only a few of the historical "firsts in Journalism which can be credited to Ben Franklin. When his competitor, Bradford, the public iwinter, does a sloppy Job of printing a legislative address, Ben reprints It carefully and tends a copy to each legislator. This subtle bit of advertising has the desired effect Franklins firm Is the first to take the legal printing away from a competitor, for the legislature transfers the work from Bradford to Franklin and Meredith. Then Franklin buys out his partner and becomes role owner of the business. He Is the first to put newspaper work on a business basis and not content with running a paper In hla own city, he aets up publishers In other colonies under a arrangement, from all of which he profits. At about this lima, too, begins Franklin's career g, With eoal mining at a high peak industrial plants, particularly the ones manufacturing steel and iron and food products, operating at eapacity and metal mines normally, the labor situation throughout Utah generally is reported as steady by the employment service of the United States department of labor in spite of the fact that outdoor work has decreased somewhat on account of winter weather. The report, which covers the intermountain district, shows fair employment conditions also in Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. Advene weather in sections of these states, however, are causing curtailments of outdoor activity. Details of employment conditions are given as follows: Industrial activities and employment of an indoor character, steady. Outdoor work has decreased to winter proHrlio!iM. Many seasonal agricultural workers are wintering in the cities until seasonal work opens up during March and April. Producing metal mines are retried normally. New metal mine construction and development work will be somewhat curtailed for the next ninety days, due to weather conditions. Metal mine laltor of all classes, ample. Coal mining is at a high peak with a slight incrcnsp in its employment reported. Considerable oil field development work is under way. Labor in connection, ample. The volume of building nnd general ronstrurtinn has decreased considerably on account of winter weather conditions. Industrial plants, particularly those manufacturing steel and iron and food products, arc operating at rapacit. The licet sugar factories ended their seasonal runs during December with resultant release of several hundred skilled and d workers. All highway construction will be considerably curtailed during the next sixty days. Force in railroad shop and train service departments have been reduced to a winter basis. oja-ratin- of Benjamin open-minde- August 31, 1930. these produced about 88 per eent of their eapacity. The production of eoke pigiron for the thirty-on- e days in December waa 3,091,060 gross tona or 99,712 per day aa eomared with or 107,890 tona per day for the thirty days in November. The output of coke pigiron for 1926 was 39.070.470 tons, which compares with 36.403.470 in 1925 and with 40,059,-30- 8 in 1923, the record year. Production of beehive eoke in December continued to decline, the total being estimated at 780,000 tons, a decrease of 9 per eent when compared with November. Output of all coke amounted to 4.486.000 tons and of which byproduct plants contributed 83 per cent and the beehive plants 17. Indications are that the total production of byproduct during the calendar year 1926 amounted to 44,500,000 net tons, and that of beehive to 11300,000. The total amount of coal consumed at eoke plants in December was 6,555, 000 tuns and of which 5,325,000 were consumed in byproduct ovens and 1 ,230,000 in beehive. Of the total production of bynroduct coke during December 3,- 432.000 tons or 81.8 per rent was wade in plants associated with iron furnaces, and 674,000 tons or 18.2 per cent was made at merchant or other plants. Total production of beehive coke in the week ended January 8th is estimated from reports of railroad slrp ments at 168,000 net tons. biographer Frauklln has characterized him as "the first civilised American" because "at an American period eminent for narrowness, superstition red-lett- er e. wild-goos- part-aersli- ip jrXAimzjirZFRnW SHOP as a philosopher in his Poor Richard's klinshac (first Issued iu 1731!) und in his formation of the Junto, s duh at which Ben and his fellows discuss all manner of philosophical questions. Next he enters public life, gets himself elected clerk of the member of 1L So he assembly and ufterwards becomes the first publisher to dip Into politics. Scleifl-uext attracts this Individual, for It Is an easy transfer of Interest from the abstract questions of human conduct, talked over at the Junto, to the concrete questions of natural phenomena. He In fascinated by the Leyden Jars. So he makes a kite of a silk handkerchief, sends It up in a rainstorm and a charge of electricity travels down the twine to the key tied on It and a spark leaps off to his hand. He has not "discovered" electricity, hut he has dramatized It and many-side- d when he writes monographs on his experiments, Eurojie begins to take notice of this American colonial. A dlslii.e for the open fireplace which hakes his free and allows Ms back to freeze leads , to the Invention of. the Franklin stove which baa been called "one of the first contrivances to banish barbarism from the American home and give It a civilizing comfort marveled at by the world." At the age of forty-twFranklin sells his printing bus in ess and resolves to devote himself to science and invention. But he decides as suddenly to return to politics and becomes postmaster general of the colonies. Here, It seems, ha overlooks a chance to become the originator of a convenience, for he neglected the opportunity to Invent the postage stamp. In those days the receiver, not the sender, paid the postage upon receipt of the letter. In 1754 Franklin Is urging the formation of an American congress to consider means of protection against the French and Indiana, using the device of the snake cut Into 13 pieces, representing the Thirteen Colonies, and the celebrated motto of "Join or Die." Wben the congress does convene at Albany, Franklin lays before It his plan for the union of the colonies. Even though It Is turned down, the germ of the Idea of unity In purpose, so necessary for tbt Revolutionary struggle which la to follow, has been planted In the minds of Americans.' When Braddock sets forth upon his unhappy expedition it is Franklin who raises the army of wagoners necessary to haul Braddocka supplies and Franklin and young George Washington are tbs only two men In the colonies for whom the haughty general has much respect, even though he does disregard the advice of both about the dangers of falling Into an ambuscade. It Is during this war that Franklin has hla first and only taste of military life. He becomes General Franklin and leads an expedition against the Indians. But after two months of this life be retiree from It and returns to Philadelphia. He needs no military laurels to add to his fame for he soon embarks upon his career aa a diplomat which brings him hla greatest renown. He goes to England and appears at a hearing before the d house of commons on the stamp muck-dispute- iux act and there wins hla first diplomatic vie tories. For ton years he works for Ihe Interest! of (lie colonies In the mother country and then returns to America on the eve of thf Revolution, lie Is among the signers of the Declaration ol t Independence and helps found the new republic. Then arises the necessity for some one to go to France to secure aid for the rebellious colonies is delegated to go Franklin, now past seventy-onHe lands in France, wearing the quaint fur cap I which lie chipped, on Ms bead whenever he had to gratify public curiosity in France and show himself a real American pioneer." In tbus dramatising himself he catches the public fancy (tbs women of the gay French court begin dresfdng their hair, a la Franklin, In Imitation of tho fur cap) and wins sympathy (and the necessary aid) for Ms country's cause. As one writer has put It, one of the really great figures of the Revolution Is "our grandfather Franklin, who trotted through a perfectly cold nnd selfishly contemptuous French court, aged, alert, cheerful to the end" and mads himself the best-love- d American, even to this day, In France. In fact, over In the Farls of today (on December (1. 1926), the sesqulcentennlal anniversary of Franklin's arrival In France, observed at the annual dinner of the ol Press Association of Paris, was a love-feathree nations, honoring tbe first and most famous American newspaper man and "Paris correspondent" Benjamin Franklin. When the Revolutionary struggle ends I'rsnVIlS la still In France and has a band In tbe preliminary negotiations for signing the peace treaty. Then, after eight years in France, he begins to long for home. So Thomas Jefferson Is sent to felleve him. When Jefferson Is presented to Count de Tergennes, the French foreign minister, the Frenchman asks, "Is It you, monsieur, who replaces Dr. Franklin?" "I am only hla successor, air, replies Jefferson. "No one can replace him." Work still awaits Franklin upon his return home. He participates In the constitutional convention In Philadelphia and much of Ms wisdom He Is sleeted la written Into our Constitution. governor of Pennsylvania for the third time. Then he retires finally from public life. On April 17, 1790, "the most versatile American" dies In his sleep. Scientist, diplomat, philosopher, world fig ure when the end approached his thoughts turned to his first love the printing art 8o this was the epitaph which he wrote for himself: e, u -- Anglo-America- n st Tha body of B. Fraoklia Priatar Lika tka covar of aa aid Its coBtaHts torn out . kaek And stript of its lottariag and gildiag Lias kora, food foe warns. Bat tka work skall aot ka wholly laat Far it will, aa ka baliavad, appaar oaca la a aow aad moro parfaat aditioa Carractad and an By tka author. |