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Show THE SUNS RATES CHICAGO HOTEL RATES ARE TO BE 110.00 A NIGHT Ha Sunv display advertising rates are forty (40) ceiiU au inuh ier issue or LS0 aa Inch by tlie month four (4) to local advertisers. Trauainit, fifty (BO) eeau an inch per issue. Position la 25 per cent additional. No display advertising accepted for the first (front) (25) pays. Page 1 readers twenty-fir- e cents per line an issue. Printing that good kind one in not Volume 14, Number 13 The Sun, Price, Utah. AN N ashamed of. CHICAGO, Ills., Aug. 11. It is going to cost $10.00 a night for either one or two ersonn to occupy hotel rooms in Chicago for tho Dempaey-Tumir- y heavyweight championship fight on September 22d. Hotel managers said today that tho rooms must bo tuken for two days aud all reservaWeek Ending August 12, 1927 tions must bo made in advance. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER CM THE GUIDING HAND Production of Bitanrc5 Highest IE In Months Is Report ORDINANCES FIXED AT EXTRA The Sun Special Service. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8. Total production of bitumin-- , ous coal during the week ended July 30th including lignite and that coked at the mines is estimated at 8,590,000 net tons. This is the highest figure recorded for any week since April 1st. Compared with the output in the preceding week an increase of 331,000 tons or 4 per cent is shown. Production of soft in Utah for the seven days ended July 23d amounted to 80,000 tons, a gain of three thousand over the preceding week. That of Colorado was 153,000 tons, Wyoming 85,000 and New Mexico 41,000. The total production of soft in the month of July is estimated at 33,563,000 net tons, as against 36,627,000 in June. The average daily rate for July was 1,343,000 tons, a decrease of 4.7 per cent from the rate maintained in June. The total quantity of soft produced during the calendar year 1927 to July 30th (approximately a hundred and seventy-eigworking days) amounts to 310,279,000 net tons. The reused figures for the country as a whole during the week ended July 23d show' a production of 8,259,000 net tons. Compared with the output in the preceding seven days this is an increase of 14,000 tons or .2 per cent. The trend of beehive coke production continues to show little change. The total output during the final week in July is estimated at 106,000 net tons. Cumulative production from January 1st to July 30th amounts to 4,887,000 tons, a decrease of 33.6 per cent when compared with the corresponding period of 1926. The estimated output of beehive for the week ended July 30th in Utah and Washington (combined) amounts to 3000 net tons, a gain of a thousand over the preceding seven days. Production, in Colorado and New Mexico was 3000, a loss of a thousand. -s ht fix-oi- The total production of anthracite during the week ended July 30th is estimated at 1,356,000 net tons. Compared with the output in the preceding week this shows a gain of 17,000 tons or 1.3 per cent. Anthracite output in the month of July amounted to in net tons and in June 7,257,000. The average daily rate 26.9 per cent lower than that in June 204,000 tons as was July against 297,000. LISBON DOME Price city council held a special meeting last Monday evening to pass on an ordinance relative to the city cemetery and took up a few matters . concerning the hospital. They later went into executive scsMiui, the busi-ne.of which was not divulged. The improvements brought out by rhe ordinance will make the cemetery one of the lies! ylid inij'f beautiful of any in the slate of its si.c. The adoption of this plan is the result of much research and controversy since the new ndinmisirntion went into office. It rails for the establishment of the southeast corner of the cemetery to be known as Ensllawri. Lots will be sold tinder provisions for ieretual care. Another item in the ordinance is the abolition of further erertion or iiiaintcnanees of fences, corner msLs, copings or other boumlries uum lots in tlie cemetery. Several sections of the old law are amended. Thu sexton is einNiwered to sell lots at prices lby the council, provided that they ure sold for not less than stated amounts. Duties of the sexton are outlined in detail by ihe new' provisions. All stones must be of granite, set in a rrinrnt Inundation, it is provided. Money from the Rule of the hits is to he turned over to the. city treasurer and invested by him ami the interest therefrom to lie used to Maintain all lots in the ual cere sec; ions and to clean and weed all lot nld under tin provisions of the orditiMicc. A motion hv Elmir Bernard! that Price City Hospital lake nn optional lease for two years on the present (uiilding, which was seconded by Councilman J. E. Alley, was passed by the council unanimously. A new Chamber of Commerce Band to Give rate schedule prcKennd by SuperinConcert Next Sunday. tendent Daphne Dalton was favorably anted upon aud is herewith given. -Sunday afternoon, next, raYT room first the Price Chamber of Commerce band '"ironf to a $6.00 ; day. will rive a concert at City Park, which Ojwrating room fees from a $12.50 will be free to the citizens of Price and the people of Carbon county. blanket ebatgr to a rotating tdiargo follows: Special effort has been put forth for according to the ease as this occasion, and the best talent ob- Out eases (tonsils, ete.) tainable has been enlisted, with G. D. Single eases Reese directing. Reese, as well as all 10.00 Ordinary fbdoininal eases memliers of the band has been workeases, (goit.ir, surgical Big ing baril arranging music and rehears. . $15.00 stomach, etc ) ing in onler to pnt over a concert worth while. Price citizens and the icople of Curium county in general are cordially invited to turn out. Show the boys you are for them by Scofield Business Man Dies From An Unusual Accident putting in an appearance. The hand will be assisted by the Price male Large and impressive funeral serquartette, under the leadership of Roland Lundquist. Following is the pro- vices were held at Scofield Sunday afternoon last for John Turnbull, logram fur the concert: Cliainliera cal business man who died at St. March, "Houstraiisers" King Marks Hospital in Salt Luke City on Overture, Iron Cornet Kolo. ( Selected) Wednesday of last week following an John Harmon unusual accident a few hours prevChambera Mnrch, "Northwind ious. Turnbull met his death in a Me "Kiss .......Herbert Again" Wultr, manner. Wednesday evening etT ) ..... Do ...... I ....... pot peculiar Quartette, Price Male Quartette of last week he was the coil Lee and Novelette, "Simplicity the carbonated tank in charging King the Simmons Overture, Encore ......... confectionery store at INTERMISSION. . Scofield, when the tank exploded, Fnnetla pprts of which severed one leg and March,. "Italian Songa" .Keler-BelOverture. "Lnstspiel inflicted other injuries. He was rushJEamenick Walts. "Kisses" ed to the hospital at Salt Lake City, Quartette, (Selected) hut lived only a few minutes after arPrice Male Quartette riving there. Descriptive, A Iay In the Cut (onfield Deceased was 23 years of age, the Hall March, "New Colonial son of John IL Turnbull and Mary Laurens Overture. "May Flowers" He was highly respected and ... Pary. Christian Soldiers, Onward March, r an ambitious young man, having studied mechanical engineering in Kansas BMT.T.T.EP THE FLOOD IN TIME City, Mo. lie was recently married to Miss Agnes Staley, daughter of Mr. TO PREVENT WRECK and Mrs. John Staley of Scofield, and With the cloudburst season here was also a member of the Knights of again, the story of how Passenger Lo- Pythias lodge of that place, lies id os comotive Engineer George W. Cutting his wife and parents he is survived bv prevented a wreck west of here onthe one brother, John Mitchell Turnbull desert sometime ago, is interesting, of Scofield, and a sister, Mrs. Lizzie says the Grand Junction Sentinel. Dougherty, of Slandardville. Bishop George Ruff was in charge Cutting had been on the run west of here for a long time and was familiar of the funeral. The openiw hnd closwith the situation there. He was ing prayers were offered by William handling the aeeond engine in a double Bell and Claude Anderson. Appropheader uirisenger train, and the en- riate music was furnished by the wal gineer of the head engine was new to elmir, Mrs. Charles Anderson and Mrs. the division. There had been no rain Alfred Newren. The speakers . were on the desert, but Cutting knew that Bishop J. T. Parmlcy, Alfred Xewrea it was possible for rain to fall many and Bishop Ruff.' Interment was in miles away and yet cause very serious the Scofield cemetery, Alfred Newren floods in the big washes. As they dedicating the grave. sped over the desert, Cutting thought he smelled a flood. It is said 'that , those who have lived on the desert ean smell these floods for miles. The 444444444441 1 1 I odoc became strong as the train proNewspaper advertising Is not a gressed, until the enginher became donation. It's not a gilt and it's not alarmed. He whistled for the head a speculation. Its an investment. engineer to slow down. A little furmore important than the alien Its flood the of ther on and the odor over the door or the window display 4 so strong that he whistled for a 4 because it reurhea hundreds of peo- - 4- pie who otherwise would never pass ssniigir train was hIoj. When the No business ran thrive Hie store. ii truinm-went the to a stop, brought for n Ionic period without it. It's a 4 found rods ahead and within a few short cut tu success. the trnek undermined by water from a wash. ix-rp- III BUMS NEAR MOAG IN: TOOLS JAM IN CASING ; Union.. Oil. TO-BetHpjjanya well on tho E hC&owifig may Lisbon structure, forty mile south- straetirklly,'-AVhilthe blowouts in be merelv to east of Mo&b, struck its second show- prove they certainlv indicate that oil ing of oil and gait within the past two in-:ault, quaiuit exists somewhere in the weeks last Tuesday, when the tools Carbon county for many yean has local oil moil state. If.it structure, were blown three hundred feet up the distinction of being one enjoyed thousand another for! should continue the hole lodging them around the cae the of without largest producers of ble . The showing was encountered at :eet the Union company will, Missouri west of coal tho lituminous drill a and location its niove a depth of 2693 feet, a hundred and a doubt, and it now appears that the feet below the showing en- second well, it is declared by those river, twenty-si- x is receiving considerable attencounty with the who are familiar. operating countered on July 29th. In pulling account of its large deposit of on tion the tools to the top of the well the policies of the company.silica rock asphalt. Over near Sunny-sid-e cable broke within two hundred and in this county is what is thought BETTER AT BOTH THE fiftv feet of the top and it may be LOOKING be to the largest deposit of rock asWELLS LOCALLY necessary to unscrew and pull the in the United States, which is phalt easing to this depth in order to rePrice .Kiver. Petroleum well in the controlled by A. B. Christy, W A. lease them. northeast portion of this city had Luce and other capitalists of ColoNo estimate as to the strength of reached a depth of 2315 feet this rado Springs, Colo., aud J. B. flnlsli-inso- n the flow can be made until the tools (Friday) morning and is drilling evof Denver. Messers. Luce arid are out. Considerable importance is ery day. - The bit is going through a Hutchinson were in Price this week attached to this showing due to the red shale and a loose shale with gas making arrangements for tho prelimtheory that this sand may be the one still coming strong. The McGee and inary work tending toward producfeeding the thin layer passed through Holmes test well four miles southeast tion. Thursday they left here in comrecently which gave an unusual dem- of Price is coming along fine an.l is pany with Engineer II. IL Jones, who nice will have charge of the work for the onstration. now at a depth of 1842 feet. t As soon as the hole is cleared a core showing of gas was struck at a depth company. barrel will be run to ascertain the for- of 1785 feet in a layfcr of sand and Siliea rock asphalt in appearance is mation at the bottom. It is thought continued, for some ten feet. The gas a sandstone which has been saturated possible that an oil sand has been tap- was coming in stronger this morning with asphalt, but under analysis, it consists of about 90 per cent of pure ped. In the last bailings brought out and driller Iluey is watching the with a great deal of interest. before the well blew, some sand was siliea with a matrix of bumitc which discovered with lime, which gave hope belongs to the asphalt group, and of that a porus formation had been ensuch a grade that when ground and countered. The hole is making conput under pressure, immediately siderable gas and it is known that to practically its original hardD. Mooney Ground to Death By John there is some fluid, probaiily oil, ness. This, when ground and rolled Train Last Saturdayr on a road base, defies all the rules of standing in the hole below the tools. be oil eannet the flow in its The extent of - John D. Mooney, 41 years of age, the road. It is laid on the base determined until the tools are pulled. met Satur- natnral state after crushing, no mixlast death instantaneous and it docs not At a depth of 2565 feet (he well made and no evening about 6 oclock when he ing rut or heating, and the road is a good showing of oil aud gas which day bleed, run, cars two fell between moving freight came from a stratum of shale from traffia withfor light atready near the Texaco oil station. lie The one to three feet thick. Two hundred "detour. usual the out sign, to cars the between to climb feet of oil in the hole tempted .and fifty-bin- e this content of silica gives product on the north side of the tracks was hailed out and no more oil came get quality under wet the train the road a he as was and midway just in. All the gas pressure had subsided. ahead throwing him to the or dry conditions that out wears any After leaving the horizon at 2565 fret jerked The wheels of one ear and the other material and all fov less money the drill has been penetrating unit, rails. square yard. trucks of another passed over per first with numerous lime and shale breaks. his This material is also impervious lo him. A cordecapctatmg body There has been a continuous flow o oners moisture and will not freeze or truck jury, composed of A. W, Mack, under the severest weather conditions. gas. Royal Frandsen and Mack Olson, hch with the siliea base has On Tuesday the driV. had been cut- an inquest, returning the verdict tha Rork asphalt sudwell the in many of the Eastern out when tried been lime shell, ting a Mooney met his death by being run denly came in with a high pressure over by a Denver and Rio Grande and Southern states and after many flow of gas. The showing is the most Western train, said train passing over interesting yet encountered in the his chest, and neck and causing ap- TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK UTAH WENT DRY. well, as the oil and gas appear to parent instantaneous death. come from a formation that is porus Mooney was a partial cripple for And may prove to be a true oil Kami, many years and earned his living as Ten years ago Utah chased old and, while the extent of the showing janitor here for some four years past. John Barleycorn out of the state. cannot be determined until the hole He is survived b his wife, who is in More than a hundred and twenty now plugged with the tools is cleared, a Salt Lake City hospital, and five saloons on the Tuesday night p the situation is exlremelv encourag- children, Joseph, Claude, Martha, Idly Wednesday, August 1. 1017, closed their doom in Salt lathe City, ing. and Fern. The body was taken to th were put while some twelve in E. IL Spiker, field superintendent Wallace A Harmon mortuary am out of business. Newspapers an- of the Union company, is on the site shipped to Spanish Fork where buria noiinred at the time that a "general and is making arrangements to pul in the First- Ward ehapl in that e'ty celebration was staged : "that the the easing and recover the tools. took place Monday. Services were heli police have little to do," and that While be is not unduly enthusiastic with Bishop W. C. Beckstrom in 4 "residences are well stocked" The 4 state prohibition taw was born at over Jatest developments at the well, charge. the twelfth session of the Utah leg- is least at he thinks that the showing isluture, and Chap. 1. Laws of rtan. A longlegged sheep in the Himalaya was the "dsm" which hns officially very encouraging. The very intereststopped the liquor traffic in the ing showing already encountered in mountains is able to run forty miles state ever since. Nationwide pro- this well has proved the oil character an hour. That's the kind of lamb it hihition followed in IH2D. indiwonld take to keep up with Mtry in of the formation and likewise . cates that Lisbon dome is favorable ARE e high-grad- . - : pio-gre- ss MAN IS KILLED es non-sli- p . -- I'j-ie- these-days- AT CITY PARK ASPHALT DEPOSITS NEAR SUNNYSIDE OPENED UP - floor-5.-0- 0 1 years of service it has proven satisfactory. There are many uses for silica rock asphalt as found in Carbon county, other than a road building material. Messrs. Christy and Luce returned y o their home at Colorado Springs (Friday). It m expected t have lie pnqierty working within sixty lays, a market for the product having men secured and work will be pushed to its fullest capacity. ...7.00 to-la- JOHN TURNBULL Oldtimer Passes Away At Castle Gate John Stagg, Sr., 59 years of age, fanhouse engineer and the oldest employe of the Utah Fuel company at Castle Gate, passed away in that town last Friday, following a long illness. Stagg has resided in that camp for the past thirty-fou-r years holding the same position. Just last Christmas he was presented a suit of clothes by the company in appreciation of his long service. lie was bom in England August 1, 1868, the son of Richard and Eliza Drown Stagg. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ward Stagg and nine children, Mrs. Webster, San Diego, Cala., Mrs. Emily Morrison of Salt Lake City; Mrs. II. II. Jacobs-hageHelper; John Stagg, Jr., Albert, Jesse, Frank, Bernice and Cleon, all of Castle Gate. The Imdy was sent to Provo where funeral services were held last Monday with interment at Provo City cemetery. n, SISTER OF HARRY WORLD DIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT Mrs. Minnie Rager of Salt Lake City, aged 70 years, ine her death last Saturday evening when an automobile she was riding in went through the guard rail at the west approach to a bridge over a rknal seventeen miles east of Twin Falls, Ida. She with other ocrupants of the ear were plunged into nearly ten feet of water. The other persons escaped or were rescued after the ear entered the water. Mrs. Rager, in company with her son, William, and her sister, Mrs. Alice Leavitt, and daughter, Mrs. Pace, leftSalt Lake City two weeks ago on a trip to the Pacific Northwest. They were on the return trip at the time of the Mrs. Rager, a widow, lived at her sons home and formerly lived at the home of her daughter, Mrs R. E. L. Collier, at Salt Lake City. The remains were taken to Salt Lnke City Tuesday for burial. Harty J. World of Price is a brother of Mrs. Rager and he went into the city the first of the week to attend the funeral services. aeei-dent- 1 a Smith-Znbli- n Machle-Boye- - SHORT CUT, THIS - bc-ea- |