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Show CHOOSES UTAH II SS VICE-PRESIDENT W. B. Williams of Zion Honored Hon-ored by Rocky Mountain Coal Mining- Institute. COVERS FOUR STATES Next Meeting of Operators Will Be Held in Salt Lake, June, 1913. W. 13. Willis) ms, general manapcr of the Utah Fuel company, was olectud vice president of the Kocky rouiilain Uoal INUnin institute when its organization organ-ization was completed at a meeting held in Denver this week. P. X. Cameron, Cam-eron, general manager of the Castle Valley Coal company, and J. .E, Pet-tit, Pet-tit, stale coal mine inspector in Utah, were named members of the executive committee of the institute. The charter char-ter inomlbcndiip, rnprsentnipr overy coal jnine operator in Tjlali, Colorado, Wyominjr and Is'ow Mexico, consists con-sists of 2,j0 prominent coal mi no owners. own-ers. The object of the institute will bo the exchange of ideas in regard to coal mining and (be decreasing of accidentia. ac-cidentia. Will Meet in Zion. The next meeting of lhe institute will be held in Salt Lake next .June. Provision is made 111 tbo constitution for meetings in June and November of each year. The meeting in Doovc wait held in the Colorado state eapitoi. The November meeting next year is scheduled for Albuquerque, X. Al., and the dune meeting in J.91-1 will be bold in Chcyonuc. AVyo. Fu November, .15)11. another session will be held in Bon-ver, Bon-ver, giVing each of the four states represented rep-resented in the organisation a meeting every two years. K )L "Wcitxell, manager of the fuel department of the Colorado T'ucl & Iron company of Pudblo, was the unanimous unan-imous choice for the offieo of president. pres-ident. Four vice presidents, one from each state, were elected. Thev aro: Utah, w. B. Williams, general manager of the JJtah Fuel com pa 03: Colorado. AV. J. IvTurra. vieo president of the "ietor-Anierican Fuel companv of Denver; Den-ver; New rexico. T. II. O'Brien, gon-eraJ gon-eraJ manager of tlie Stag Canyon Puel company' of Dawson; Wyoming, Frank A. 3Lanlcy, general mn uager of the Union Pacific Conl company of Omaha, Committee Members. In addition to tho president and vice presidents, who will be members ex-ofi'ieio, ex-ofi'ieio, the following were elected members of lhe executive committee: Utah, ' X. Comcrori, Salt Lake, and .T. 33. 3'cttit. Coalville; Colorado. John P. Thomas. Glenwood, and 0. AV. Bab-cock Bab-cock Denver; New Mexico, D. If, Sum-nierville. Sum-nierville. Gibson, and Alan French, Katon; Wj'oming, J', J. Queal.v. Kcm-merer, Kcm-merer, and 17. C. Campbell. Rock Spriugs. 1 Y. Whitesides of Denver was named as secretary-treasurer. Dues wore fixed at $2 per year. .lames Dalrymple Colorado state coal mine inspector, produced statistics to show that only two states in (he mion have as high a death rate from mine accidents as any one state in the now organisation. From" 3905 to 15)13, inclusive, he said., there have been ool deaths in Colorado coal mines from falling of rock and 302 deaths in gas and dust explosions. The rate is twen-tv twen-tv deaths for every million tons of coal mined. |