Show coal notes and personals the utah fuel company is making many improvements to its coal mining equipment in addition to the building of the battery of coke ovens mentioned in a recent issue of the mining review the peerless coal company of salt lake with holdings in carbon county utah has its yards more than half completed and a force of fifty men are at work in the construction st of the surface tramway all of the building material and equipment for the new tipple and surface improvements is on the ground the company expects to be in position to begin regular coal shipments by the latter part of next january according to advices advises from provo utah work is being rushed in the construction of the utah coal road terminal at that place it being the intention of the coal road and the salt lake route to use the terminal jointly on the first of december in order to facilitate coal shipments two big locomotives and 1200 1200 cars have been secured and are in waiting for service and four more locomotives and more cars will be delivered at provo before the end of november the wattis coal company is building two miles of standard railroad to connect with the main line and work is progressing favorably in the construction of the surface tramway the company has already purchased general electric locomotives and mine cars the tipple will not be built until the branch railroad has been completed to the tipple site the company expects to be shipping by the first of march the property of the company is located in carbon county utah L F rains is manager the cameron coal company of salt lake operating near castle gate utah has recently completed several buildings for the use of employees besides making improvements calculated to facilitate working conditions this winter among other installations made of late the company has put in a manierre box car loader besides a number of roller bearing mine cars the mine is equipped with one large outside and two smaller inside mine hoists operated by general electric and westinghouse motors E S is manager for the company the united states fuel company has ordered three new shoveling machines for its carbon county utah mines one of these is of myers whaley company make of chattanooga tennessee while the other two are dalbys manufactured by the lake shore engine works it is claimed that these coal shoveling machines which shovel direct from quantities of broken coal in the mine into mine car will handle tons per shift of eight hours in addition to the shoveling machines the company has recently purchased a general electric locomotive standard make make R M magraw of hiawatha utah is general superintendent for the company the standard coal company of standard ville utah has recently made several important additions to its mine equipment inc a straight face mining machine two short wall mining machines and a haulage locomotive furnished by the goodman manufacturing company of chicago other equipment consists of a motor generator set supplied by the westinghouse electric manufacturing fac turing company of east pittsburgh the standard company has just completed twenty one brick dwellings for its employees the addition of this new equipment will in crease the productive capacity of the com banys mine from 1500 to 2000 tons of coal daily H E lewis is manager the spring canyon coal company operating at storrs utah has completed the installation stal lation of its big general electric mine hoist which will increase the tonnage capacity of its mine by tons per day this hoist will handle sixty two tons of coal per trip and will make the trip in six minutes during the winter the company will put in a surface tram connecting the portal of the main mine entry with the old tipple as well as with the new tipple which will soon be built the yard capacity at the tipple is also being enlarged these improvements when completed will more than double the productive capacity of the mine J will knight of provo utah is manager for the company the liberty fuel has already expended over in the equipment of its new coal enterprise in carbon county utah under the direction of contractor sam C sherrill the buildings and store at the mine are now about completed and work is progressing on the tipple and surface tramway the machinery for the mine and tipple is arriving and will be installed so that regular coal shipments can probably begin by the first of the year at the present time the company is hauling about tons of coal daily by wagon from the mine to the railroad loading station frank N cameron president and manager of the company who recently visited the mine is much pleased with the progress being made the independent coal coke company operating in carbon county utah recently sold its KW K W steam turbine generator to the utah power light company the plant being shipped to montrose colorado the coal company is now receiving its electric power from the utah company the coal company recently purchased two sullivan short wall coal cutters making eight of this type now in use in its mine in addition a myers whaley coal has been installed in the use of this machine a test run of four hours resulted in the handling of tons of coal by laying double tracks with the on one of them and mine cars on the other it is believed the machine will handle tons in eight hours george A murphy is general superintendent for the company |