Show t b r Tr y7 COAL COMPANYS MINES r > r I PLEASANT VALLEY A L < I + c I 1 I The greatest coil producers of UUh 1 arc undoubtedly the Utah Fuel rom i pany or as it Is helter known to business busi-ness men and consumers thf Pleasant Valley Coal company which operates the Sunnyside Castle Gnrc the Clear I Creek airl Winter Quarter I mInes In I thir State i I Tho Pleasant r IleyOal company be an operation in i Cm Ion county In I Juno 1SS2 No hlaie ojC tiumpels an i nounrod Its entry into the field of coal prothiftion Asa rnUM of fAct In busl mms nod financial nicies in this clly but Itiil attention was paid to this en terpiis whIch shire thefti 1m assumed siuh mammoth proportions and 1 which II Is now amieeary to thc material Interests In-terests 01 our fair f State as well is to this Western country at large 1 Now however from a small beginning J the I company hhs giown until today It Is recognized as one of the mo it important I Industries if of thr State Year by year It 0has 1 l hicicaMed Its puyioSl until now Us I disbursements In wages hi mhw operation opera-tion for improvement t nndfer mine nnulmiery and supplies amount to a prmrely fortune in itself i the greater portion of lIe money < so spent being ic talno1 at home lIdthlsln itself Is a strong plea In I favor 01 patipniing home industries I It being l selfevident that but for the supply of coaf Cur nishcd by the company for local consumption con-sumption these hundreds of thousands spent by l our people for fuel would drift through othqr cannels Into other sections on index of the amount spent by the company In operating its mines for and during the month of October of this year 118000 was expended for labor alone Since the company began operations in 1SS2 some idea of its Increased ouL put may be acciulicd l by a comparison of the production of different years and It will be noted that the gain has I been steady as well as large Beginning Begin-ning with 1SS3 the record IK as follows Tons Th lEss lS ss i iU Tnn mi j > iliii 100J IfTfl 1Oi20fJ 1230000 i The cokmi branch of the companys 1 I business has also assumed splendid proportions and from being accounted a small factor in the enterprise is now looked Upon as an Important source of revenue and profit Beginning with a small output in 1SS9 the plant has been Jncreased and Jmpioved until now the production amounts of 55000 tons annually an-nually and it is estimated if present orders keep l up that the latter figure will be reached by the end of December aor this year A comparison of the output for several years past will lillus trate the substantial and rapid growth of the companys coke industry as follows fol-lows Tons 1 S9 to 7GO 1s1 1 1CCOO 1300 352CO I 15ll estimated 55000 The Sunnyside mine1 1 is located In Whitmore canyon and more than 230 miners are employed The property produces more than 1000 tons of coal a day and It Is expected that within a short time about 2000 toils will be produced pro-duced 1 The Castlp Gate mine is located at the noted Castle Hate In Price canyon i on the line of the Kin Grande Western I railway Five hundred and twenty men arc operating this mine and the com jiinvs coke oven The dally output of the Cattle Gat mine Is aoout 15000 tons of coal The Pleasant Valley Coal company has 201 coke ovens jJocated here which arc educing about 000 tons of coke a month Thic coke Is I cvtensively marketed In Salt Lake val lov tile smelters being the largest consumer con-sumer yet much of It Ieaches i the markers outside of Utah Thc coke ovens are supplied with slack from the Sunnyside mines The Clear Crook pi opertyls located a ff w miles from Scofleld up Clear creek flhis is i a comparatively new I mine There sue 2fiO men on the payroll I Time output of coal Is about 1200 tons a I dayThe The AVinter Quarters mines are situated sit-uated ill the Winter Quarters canyon a milt and a half above Scoflnld and I pr spntr1 a scent ot wonderful artKM ty when vIsited by i a leprosentative of lh Tribune the first of the present month At this point the Pleasant Valley Val-ley foal company has tin PC coal mines designated is Nos J 5 and1 I Nos 1 and 1 are pioluclnsr while No 5 Js being be-ing opened so as to be listed with the othir producers owned and operated by the company No 1 has a recorded output of about 1200 tons ot excellent I coal dally while No 1 is producing In 1 the neighborhood of 100 tone every twentyfour hours the company having I 57C men on Its payroll and distributing in the near neighborhood of 32000 In wages monthly I In No1 mine the main xintry Is GOOO feet In length with a parallel entry of I equal length whIch Is used as a return I alnvny in addition to which there are many miles of cross entries levels and I rooms The vein of coal In this mine ranges from ten to fourteen feet In thickness being larger east of the main entry than It is to the west No 1 mIne was first YOked twentytwo years ago but was not vigorously operated Until five or six years ngo since which time the overage early output of coal has bcin about 50000 tons In the Interior operation of the mint two electric Jholsts and one electric elec-tric locomotive are employed the alec I trlfc hoist dropping the loaded cam down the main I slope to the bridge or tipple Thirty horses are used In hauling haul-ing the loaded ears from the different 3JiJ > ftBS o tli2Fide entries The main I I entilj > h l praeflilly level from the headof what is callednhc Rock Tunnel Tun-nel which is 1500ieet in from the r f i > frJ W V3 Vtei rl5 J vVVttt iwVB iA s C J K t k J C p Ir t f li 1ft 1 SrI 1r iiVvMSEMBsfc of r I l f h I jW h 7f r CD 7 44L 41 Pleasant Valley CcalCosPrbpsrtles 1 I mouth of the entry to the head of Rock Tunnel being six degrees oran or-an upraise or pitch The dip of the vein is 7 per cent from southeast 10 northwest There are twenty miles of track in the mnr Since the disaster at the Winter Quarters mine two yeais ago the company com-pany has gone to great expense both in plant and maintenance to care fur the safety of its employees The water pipe system has been established in the mines reaching to every portion of the underground workings and a number of men are constantly employed whose duty it Is to thoroughly water the mines In order to keep the dust in a constantly wet state To make assurance assur-ance double sure steam Jets arc likewise like-wise introduced into the air currents In order that such outoftheway corners cor-ners and cievlces and the abandoned working not readily reached by the water system may receive rnois tare from this unfailing source in addition to which the mines have their fan ventilators ven-tilators By this twofold protection moietmolstuie is introduced into the mines ihan safely actually requires and for the reason that the law exacts ex-acts from coal companies powerful air currents and strong ventilation through all coal mines In its passage through time main entries and rooms the air naturally absorbs a glea PI J1orllon of the moisture introduced In wetting down the dust On this account a much sri eater amount of wiiter than is nccessar for sprinkling purposes must be usod While every modern device for the safety of the men is used The Working power l in the mines is principally electricity whi h is used for hoisting purposes Jw R Sharp is the superintendent of tHeSunnyslk mlnesFN Cameron superintends the Castle Gate David prDII the Upprl n l nI1 t at the Clear Creek and T J Parmley superintendent r superintend-ent at the Winter Quarters t1 I I The ccmrmys payroll Is nbout 110 000 a month The main bdlce of thf Pleasant Valley Coal company Ift I located Mn tle Dooly block In this city W F tolton Is president and tre ts urer of the association associa-tion W G Sharp spnoralTnanaser II G Williams Is generalsuperintend ent E A Greenwoftd auditor and 15 L Caipenter Is general sales agent j The local retail business of the Pleasant Plea-sant Valley Coal company In Salt Lako CIty Is manager by i D I Sharp at No 73 Main tree I J Kys < r S IP Sft < 1 r p 1 < t d 4 q j I c u f c t Mouth ofTurino1 P V Coal Mine Pl ° asnBt Valley Ccnl Cos Properties |