Show COAL NOTES AND PERSONALS the liberty fuel company will soon install two boxcar box car loaders at its carbon county property the united states fuel company has completed the installation of a new tipple scale at its mohrland mine in carbon county utah the summit fuel company of coalville Co alville utah T W blake president is about ready to begin a production of tons of coal daily thomas T lamph of rains utah has resigned as superintendent of the carbon fuel company and has been succeeded by W N dake roy cook of salt lake sales manager for the independent coal coke company has returned from idaho where he has been on company business the coal mining companies of utah are working a little better than half time it is reported there is no scarcity of labor and that cars for hauling the mine product to market are being furnished by the railroads in sufficient number to avoid delays in shipments it is reported that the pacific steamship ap company of california has purchased the coal mines of the american fuel company at sego grand county utah the mine has a daily output capacity of tons but it is stated that this capacity is to be doubled in the near future the utah fuel company of salt lake through its manager A H cowie has subscribed for victory bonds of which are to be credited to the four coal mining camps of the company in carbon county utah the balance is credited to the salt lake office on the first of may salt lake retailers made a reduction of forty cents a ton in the price of coal in the effort to stimulate the market so as to give an increased volume of employment at the producing coal mines the re reduction is on lump jump egg and nut but was not extended to slack john H tonkin of salt lake general manager for the independent coal coke company returned the first of the month from stockton california where he attended the meeting of the california retail dealers association L R weber of salt lake secretary of the liberty fuel company was wag also in attendance at the meeting both gentlemen report having had a most enjay oble time carbon county utah coal companies have reported to the state board of equalization for taxation purposes durpos es as follows carbon fuel company gives its real estate as worth and machinery and improvements prove ments of the morton coal company reports real estate as worth and improvements of the union pacific C coal oal company values its real estate at and its buildings at while the pack allen alien coal company reports real estate as worth and buildings as 1200 A press dispatch from lincoln nebraska says that the nebraska state board of control has announced that it had received a letter from the united states fuel administration holding that the vic tor american fuel company of denver must refund to the state of nebraska a alleged overcharges over charges for coal furnished the state it developed during the legislative investigation vesti gation that the board of control had bad contracted for coal from the company at a ton at the mines when the govern ment fixed price was from to a ton the fuel administration says the difference must be refunded the sun of price utah states that the state board of and assessment has decided that no land north of coal creek in iron county shall be considered coal land for assessment purposes the decision was made after state geologist william G peterson reported that the coal vein in that section was too thin to be mined successfully down in sanpete county near wales where the veins are not in excess of four feet it was decided to assess the coal lands at fifty dollars per acre summit county has eight feet six inches of clean coal and the other two feet seven inches and on these lands it has been determined to place a value of 75 to an acre in emery county professor peterson reports the best coal lands are located some sixty miles away from a railroad and the board decided to assess these lands at from twenty to a hundreds dollars an acre while coal is found in commercial quantities in uintah county it can only be used in view that it is so far from a railroad for local purposes hence the board decided to assess this property at the rate of one half cent per ton for the actual amount of coal in place |