Show COAL COMPANY improvements additional coke ovens new chutes and crushing machinery the pleasant valley coal cc company pany lias has lately been making important Import important aTt improvements prove ments at hoth both its mine centers scofield and castle gate at castle gralke iaac the situation la ila somewhat hat peculiar because of tile location in fit a bairow nai ron canyon with nith but little space for the necessary town for a coal carlip camp and tor for masle the latter biffl culty cully however Is largely in converting the black into cole tile nio grande grandc western runs through tills this canyon with its main line lite and lalla while much crai cramped nned for space r for or elde tracks etc Is in prepared to handle ha all the products of the mine tile the mine Is located about feet alin aboin the rall railroad i and has its screening and to ailing plant over lit tilt tracks the vein oc cc coal ranges in from five to eight feet and has a pitch upward from the opening of front from ten tell to feet lit in each cach hundred feet this makes it easy caay to run coal ou tard by means of drums governed by friction brakes to let doi don n loaded cats cais while the empties are hauled up by electric hoists of alch there is one outside and four inside the mine A large houe fitted alth ith a debt of 0 live five immense boilers and a horse power pomer engine besides other I 1 machinery furnishes power to operate the several hoist the crushers elevators etc requisite in mining and liand handling ling the coal and preparing the slack elack tor for tile the coke ovens there Is also I 1 an engine propelling a 0 twenty foot fan an for drawing out gases from the mine by which through their perfect syi tein of ventilation the miners are furnished good air in the mine the just completed are important and add greally to the facilities lor for increased production MORE COKE OVENS NIS birst rii st taine caine the addition ot of coke ovens until there la 13 now ovens in operation these ovens are taking lakins what would be waste art and converting it into coke for aich which the demands of the etc take all they can call produce these ovens convert about I 1 tons of 0 what hat would otherwise be waste black into coke the converting of 0 this waste into an article of at HO 0 much h commercial value dailue instead of ali up P the canyon mith it la Is in itself an important I m ant feature even lit in the item or of gailing rid ot of vhal list otherwise would have ewen a source of 0 muth trouble and cost this coke business ches employment to forty men at tile the ovens the cost of adding twenty ovens lately put in was a as about tj OtiO NEW appliances but the most important impo ilant changes chances lust just I 1 made to lo the plant was aws about the chute where new screens leadin loading g chutes crushing ina machinery chinery conveyer and storage chute for crushed coal etc have been added at a cost of t two new trucks were put lit in so 0 that now they have tour four two for lump coal one tor for nut coal and one lor for slack lump nut and slack black coal aro are shipped while the inet finest slack black and dust Is run through the it i ushers ashers and reduced to dust then carried liy by a drag conveyer up an incline teet leet and dropped into a storage liln hin with a capacity C for tons and having hop bop im lors I 1 5 from chich alch this pulped gulped oat oal Is drawn into cars and run to and dumped into the ovens with these late improvements prove ments this plant la Is one of thai th must perfect found anywhere for handling coal cand ani producing coke the mine employs outside of the coke I 1 department about 40 met men of w leoin fifty are outside the iho mine and the llie others other work inside tills this makes ill all of 1 men employed by this one company ioury along with the f fv few v railroad men feces bary tor for the local tills this makes of the town toun of castle gate gale a home for these men their heir families and it a few outside business busl nees men it a pretty thickly populated town bean hemmed nied in ili as it Is in so no small a canyon ishille the at fallara of tile company Is far ipach JAC inc in its lt sales balea of coal ant and coke its it aureba purchases es of supplies among chich its Is lumber and mine props which alone 0 gives employment to many men in that bared ih red regions res iiona getting out timber for these tile the present output of the ml 0 over tons of comme iclal cy p sy Y aid n about one ton of ir I 1 I 1 6 V i prave ments by the com I 1 I 1 fatch tl tl quarters mines r mention t of t c h was as made lit the tribune a tave days Y ago aeo cost and greatly increased their capacity at that place the busy buoy season for coal mining minine la Is only just beginning A little later when real winter sits sets in there will VIII bo be deiy lively times nt at hoth ot of these districts the center ot of oper allona of the pleasant valley company |