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Show v EXMliilGE SUM IIIHEHTS Independent Coal & Coke Company Extending Its Kenilworth Property. Anticipating a hoavy increase in tho demand" for Aberdeen coal, with the expansion ot' tho market incident to tho industrial development and readjustment re-adjustment following tho war, tho independent in-dependent Coal & Coke company has expended very large sums of money in making improvements on its Kenilworth property during the last eighteen months. Not only has a large amount of machinery of tlie most modern typo been added to the equipment of the property, but an entirely new mine lias been one tied up on the Aberdeen vein and a largo sum has boon expended in providing new and commodious quarters quar-ters for the increased force of mine employees. Tho need for greater production fa-cilitics fa-cilitics became clearly apparent about t wo years ago, when, by working up r to capacity, it was found that the out put would not nearly meet tho demand. The market broadened steadily in 11)17 and 1918 and during tho past two winters win-ters tho need for a greatly increased production has been little short of , acute. Scarcely had tho seriousness of tho S situation become apparent, however, v when the management of the Indepeu- dent Coal & Coke company began to formulate plans for extensivo improve- : ments contemplated to care not only ' for current needs, but ample to care for a steadily increasing demand for , many years to come. One of the first things determined was that a new ; mine should be opened in tho Bull Hollow Hol-low tract, on which was located the original Aberdeen mine. For about twenty years coal was mined from the old Aberdeen opening and hauled in wagons to Price and the adjacent ter- j ritory. The name Aberdeen was given j to the mine by the early owners and "because the product was so well and favorably .known locally tho Jndepen- : dent Coal & Coke company, upon ac- : quiring the property, decided to mar- 1 ket all coal from that particular vein I as Aberdeen. j Plans for the work to be undertaken , were completed early in the summer : of 1017; all surveys had been made and much of the new equipment had been ordered when the big dam on the headwaters head-waters nf . the Price river above Sco-field Sco-field gave way in June and the flood swept away the tracks of the Denver j & Rio Grande railroad through Price j River canyon. Because of the inter- j rupted transportation facilities, it was impossible to market coal in any , amount from the Carbon county fields ' for several weeks and the Independent j Coal & Coke company at once decided j to make use of the men made idle by i the washouts to construct the surface tram necessary to the opening of the ; Bull Hollow mine. At the same time work was started on the mine opening. Within a year from the time the work was begun 7700 feet of surface tramway tram-way had been built and was ready for service. Of this tramway, 4700 feet is for the operation of a Shay engine and Nhas an average grade of 4 per cent's cent-'s the remaining 3000 feet is an incline V tram, with a grade running from 10 I to 1 per cent, and extending to the ! portal of the new mine. Tho latter is operated by electricity. Both trams are laid with 2-pound rail. Much of the construction work was of an unusually heavy character. The seven bridges ! were made amply strong to bear the j strain of carrying a heaw railroad j train. The opening of the new mine was pushed night and day and by September Septem-ber 1, this year, a large tonnage was being delivered daily from the second mine. With the improvements made, the Kenilworth property of the J nde-pendent nde-pendent Coal & Coke company ranks among the most modern coal mines in the western country. It is one of the few mines in the state- operated exclusively ex-clusively by electricity; the coal is mined by electric undercutting machines; ma-chines; shots aro fired by electricity; coal is loaded by an electric machine with a capacity of a ton a minute; the loaded mine cars are gathered by an electric locomotive, hoisted out of the mine and lowered over a 3000-foot tram by electricity. At the foot of the surface tram the Shay engine is brought into service and hauls a train of thirty cars at a1 time to the new steel tij; pie. Before starting work on the Bull Hollow mine a new steel tipple with a capacity of 3000 tons iu eight hours was erected. All these improvements, looking to an increased production, called for further fur-ther expenditures at the camp of Kenilworth Kenil-worth to provide accommodations for a larger force. Even before the camp improvements were made, Kenilworth was not uncommonly known as the model coal camp of the state. The new work has not marred that reputation. reputa-tion. During the past few months eighteen four- and six-room cottages, equipped with bathrooms, electric lights and steam heat in many instances, have been erected. A large addition to Kenilworth Inn has been constructed, as well as a hotel annex, which, however, how-ever, is not quite finished. Work on the latter structure is being pushed with all possible haste and when completed com-pleted it will furnish first-class accommodations, accom-modations, including shower bath, for seventy-five men. The size of the Kenilworth hospital, maintained for employees of the company, com-pany, has been increased and the accommodations ac-commodations for the resident h--sician are reported to be tho best in Carbon county. Included in the list of improvements, also, are a new material ma-terial house andyard and an enlargement enlarge-ment to the Kenilworth Mercantile , company's building, the institution now assuming the appearance and iinnor-tance iinnor-tance of a young department store. Ever interested in the welfare of its employees, the Independent Coal & Coke company was the first coal company com-pany in the state to provide an amusement amuse-ment hall for their entertainment, it is said. The handsome and commodious structure at Kenilworth has an English half-basement in , which aro bowling alleys and pool tables, while on the upper up-per floor is a completely equipped theater, scenery, motion picture apparatus ap-paratus and all. Just now the population of Kenilworth Kenil-worth is estimated at about 800, including includ-ing about 200 children. Of the chil- ! dren. about 140 attend the public school ! at Kenilworth, where four teachers are employed. With the natural growth of the camp incidont to the increased production pro-duction facilities, it is believed that the population, will soon reach the 1000 mark. Happy and prosperous, and ensacrpd ! in an occupation essential to the win- ! ning of the war, the residents of Kenil- , worth did not permit their patriotism ! to halt there. Thev responded liberally lib-erally to every call for funds for patriotic patri-otic purposes; every Liberty loan allotment al-lotment was oversubscribed and the thrift stamp counters were liberally patronized. In the fourth Liberty loan the allotment allot-ment of the camp amounted to $15,000; the subscriptions totaled $31,000, to which the company added $5000, in addition ad-dition to the $10,000 it, subscribed at Salt Lake. |