Show SPRING CANYON MINES t They Arc to Be Opened Up the Ensuing En-suing Summer Price Utah Dec 19A gentleman holding a high and responsible position with the Pleasant Val y Coal company com-pany who was here today says the company ha decided to open UP the SprIng canyon mines during the com Ifng summer These properties are located lo-cated several miles up the gulch and I north and west of the town of Helper where there I a twelvefool vein of coking coal as good If J not better than Castle Gate Across country the camp is sOl twelve miles from Castle Gate and is on the same vein To redch these mines of Spring canyon I can-yon a branch line of the Rio Grande Western will be built from Helper the terminal point of both divisions Work your informant says will very likely begin In the early spring when the frost is well out of the ground The opening I up of these mines will give t Carbon L i county another good town and an increased in-creased taxable wealth of several thousands thou-sands of dollar Wherever the coal company goes the Wasatch Store company com-pany follows with iVmmtch folows ls large mercantile Interests and again no less than 100 to 500 miners will be eventually employed The opening up of this new camp may I I restrict the coal production to some ex I tent at Castle Cute by reason of ita being on the same vein but this Is as yet largely problematical For a long time there has been talk that the cost I of production of coal at Castle Gate was too great the haul out of the mines by coal car being over two miles and how to avert this bus long been I a problem it Is said with the company engineers I may be that the product 1 I wH be taken out from the Spring can I yon end of the vein Or again the I Castle Gate mines might be worked by I entrance from the other side of the hill or a shaft sunk oJ The recent Improvements at Castle Casto Gate where a hundred new coke ovens have just been contplcted would not I Indicate that thecamp Is to be aan doned Other surface improvements ImPovemcuts there run un into the thousands of dol i I lars It is said by I some that this new I piece of road may make a chance in I the main line of the Rio Grande West I ern railway doing away with the tor tuou climb over Soldier Summit to1 I c t Camas Gold Belt I I Capt Tames Black formerly of Salt Lake and now of Hailcy Ida Is down from tho north fapL Pluck is opera ting mining properties In the Carnas I gold bolt with which ho hUH boon Iden titled for a numlKr of years and whore j luhn Q Packard has he I famous Tln I top mine apl Bbuk bays develop ment there has been with 1 leclop rc unIts during the year and over 100 BUimpa will bedropping In the district during Jflfll Considerable Salt LalS talent IK remoscnted in the CDICSCllcd district al I r ready and It I I dlsllct Id mulcrxioofl t Arth l Arthur Brown of Salt ILCl SaltLake1Vlll will S1t Lal I soon start I work on the Red Elephant which was acquired by him last scaHon |