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Show es and community centers. About $1,200,000 is paid out annually for taxes, insurance and power services. The Utah coal industry represents repre-sents an investment of approximately approxi-mately $40,000,000. The annual production value is in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of from $12,500,000 to $14,000,000, according to the market mar-ket price for the mined product. The Utah Coal Operators association as-sociation deserves the wholehearted whole-hearted support of every resident resi-dent of the state. This association associa-tion has for years devoted its efforts to improving the coal industry in-dustry and bettering conditions of all those depending upon it for a livelihood. O COAL MINING IN UTAH IS LEADING INDUSTRY The great importance of Utah's ! coal industry to the state at large, business in general and the people peo-ple is seen in the fact that nearly 18,000 Utahns are directly dependent de-pendent upon it for a livelihood. Over the period from 1919 to 1936, inclusive, operators of a score of company properties paid to miners for labor alone approx- imately six and one half million dollars annually. During the same 18 years over $3,000,000 was paid each year to Utah railroads for coal transportation labor. And $460,000 was paid annually in Salt Lake City alone for unloading, unload-ing, yard labor and trucking coal. Over this period Utah's coal industry through sales of coal in other states, has brought outside out-side money to the state in an average annual amount of $5,-500,000. $5,-500,000. Tax Bill Heavy Through the payment of a goodly portion of-taxes the coal companies and the coal hauling railroads have given to the state and its people fine, modern towns and railroad lines, maintained main-tained payrolls, schools, church- |