Show COAL OUTPUT Is SATISFACTORY Slight Decrease Shown Owing OVER MINERS AT WORK 4 s PRODUCT AMOUNTS TO TONS of coal In 4 Number of miners eni Average payroll 4 4 1 Utah 10 tobe the Penn of the west declared the late George 1 Kramer then vice 01 tie Utah Fuel company Utah He coal deposits of value The time Is not far distant when with proper labor and the Increased that are to come will be supplying Coal to all the Western states and the Orient The coal Is here In quantities that cannot be further than that we now generations will not exhaust it Gomer Thomas the state coal mine In one of his reports coin with Kramers opinion the size of the coal deposits of the state Mr Thomas says there Is enough copl in sight now to supply and the west for generations to come The chief coal deposits of the state extend In almost unbroken line from Grand Junction Cob westward and nearly miles ending near the Arizona border All through the mountains in the coal belt are found workable veins in width front four feet to more titan twenty Coal deposits of minor value are found else where in the state In Summit Utu tali Sanpete and other counties but veins are located bon and Emery countIeS Four work veins have already been opened has revealed the cx stence of othes Product Less Than in 1903 The state produced in 1904 about 1 tons or bituminous coal This a slight failing off from the previous for two reasons both the Utah Fuel company which mines the bulk of the coat in the tata The Carbon county coat strike start ing late in and running over Into dIsturbed the operation of tIme mines for several months and greatly the output early In the year Later in the season when the mines wore In good running order with full once the HarrIman roads adopted a traffic arrangement whIch chat the ij l company out of tle north and northwest Montana Idaho and other states in that section were large consumers of Utah coal so that the rule had the effect of cutting 11 a large market of the Utah Fuel COmpany While the bulk of the corn product is in Utah The lose of the northern field had Its effect The eol mines of Utah give employ employment ment to about 2500 mIners with an average monthly payroll of about ceo The Utah Fuel company operates live mines in the state all in Carbon county There are two at one at Winter Quarters one at Clear Creek and one at Castle Gate In sue operation The company also burns coke ovens 00 at and At Gate Most of the coke Is taken by the smelters of the Salt Lake valley although Montana Idaho Nevada and California ver good before the prohibitive raIlroad rule went Into effect The company operates a mine at Somerset Cob during the year has made preliminary at WIllow in Carbon county Utah with witha a view to eventually a there Small The Grass Creek mine as the Church nine north of Summit coun county ty about tons durin the year The product of thIs mine with that or the mine miles east of supplies the 1 cat market at Park CIty which Im reached from the mInes by the t railroad The Wasatch tons during 1904 The Coal Coke 3 at Sterling Sanpete county pro produced about tons durIng the year It supplies local markets and the San SanPete Pete Valley Among the smaller mines of the stat i iare are the Wales mine In Sanpete i berdeen In Carbon the Cedar Creel C Cin in Emery Rich mine In all operated for local trade The state imported about toni 5 of coal during 1904 all from Wyoming except of For some purposes coal Is un It Is superior to any coal li the west for storage purposes The coal produces more heat units than any coal yet discovered in inthe the Wasatch either In Wyoming er and the Sunnyside coke Is of exceptional quality The of Utah coal was awarded a silver at the St IuIs A block of coal three feet square the Utah Fuel company wag used as the base for a column of oel much attention and anddrew drew forth letters from coal of the country Well known coed men of Pennsylvania asid Virginia highly the as the cleanest and best coal at the fair State Thomas pronounces the ceal of Utah the safest in inthe the west and says they can be made the safest In America through which he hopes enacted at atthe the coming session of the The greatest present source of danger In the mines is which Is kept well under control Te workings are not yet sufficiently deep to render the gases so dangerous as In the older mines of the country Improved ventilation and in creased safety appliances have been p ut Into use which with rigid t on kept the coal mine accidents of th e year down to a remarkably low n umber |