Show COAL l lU U MINING IN WYOMING Output During 1908 Was Over Tons Less Than Thanin in Ln 1907 surveys report repert oa 01 the theof The of coal COI co in Wyoming to In MOs MOsE b by E K W iv Parker tows a tou tota total of or fc l hoit tons tou hay haT haya value alue Of a d dIC mt IC a sp spot lt ty v of t f short abort tons toft or Ii r Quant and in val of or M U MP P pt Edition rent addition to the decline m In business In financial demon coal d b by the th in Wyoming as in the ii Mate of ot Montana suffered from fromn froman jiang of fuel mined during the tins an n n and nd early eTly tall fall ot of um when be I r If C repeated warnings of a fuel f l UI companies b br th transportation e awine laid in of ot fuel In iJa or of the expert avoid oid a repetition bier tr to ot of the thi preceding winter when the thet o peeP nee suffered greatly from the scarcity t cOIl kl All of ot this coal was on hand of C the panic ank of ll 7 closed down a athe at areE when wilen many o of the mining and m reE t S in n Washington Idaho and ana a Many of these plants planta had bad not d operations at the close of i III and nearly an n had In their Dins bIDS large It if of coal coa which hd bI been put pur during the preceding year yr The Thein in proportion between the de devalue derea deres in value alue and the decrease in pro rea e res n as 3 due to two of r P rate of ot wages when hen prosperity was Wall at its tta height the tact fact that the market t for steam lid nd could coul be bei J screenings 01 i where here stack slack r i waS M aB cut off so that the theoal theoal oal marketed of a larger lar r pro coal which command commanda J of screens price higher of employed The ll r e number men ar an increase from 6 In 1 to toW W HJ la n 1908 but the average number of off V worked decreased from IB m to t f made with Li L a result of the th agreement tile b United Mine lIne Workers nearly all the theota ota In Wyoming have been placed on thour basis basil 6 69 80 men employed in 40 t il ii mines out of a total of work n eight Ight hours a day during IHM UiO If the labor troubles In the coal cost mines ml of tv WyomIng oming during 1908 were the result of ofIn m In attempt to reduce wages on the ter termination of the wa escale agreement September 1 1 The suspension of opera Ions norn affected effected the larger mining concerns Iu n mines mine employing 4 58 mon men a ittle more mole than of or the total number of mine workers In the stale state idleness on account of or strikes The average number of days Idle kilo was twenty one per man and the total mount of ot time lost was t i per cent of abs Aile h total tota time made There were machines In use In Wyoming during IMS 1101 an Increase of three over 1907 1901 The ma product decreased however from short tons tOM In to 1071 1871 rill ci 1 tons tona in In 1 and the percentage of the tonnage to the total de tie teased from ILIf o 19 1954 54 Of or the total umber lumber of machines machine In use In 1808 1008 forty fort even ven were of th the pick or puncher type furty forty were wen t and one was a machIn On March Karch 8 ZI one ont of the th worst wont ot disasters disaster n 0 the state of Wyoming occurred occur at atHenna Hanna Henna No o 1 mine mini of the th Union Pacific Pacifico o ol oal l company compan when wh r two explosions lou lO re resulted in the death of eighteen elg taen men mea meather menther ther loue lou of life were caused eau by ZeUs falls f rock rok arid anti coal many masy of ot Which might Il mightY Y been avoided according to the mine I tor bj by proper |