Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 12 | [Illegible] County Coal to Develop Mine

RON COUNTY COAL 1 ! TO DEVELOP MINE i ' r I - ith Improved Weather Tram Terminal . . j Will Be Cleared and Other Work : ' v Flit Under Way. ' .President F. W. Webb of the Iron Coun- ' " Coal company and Judge S. R. Thur- J : tan. consulting attorney for the com- : 1 tny, came in yesterday on business con- 1 . heted with the affairs of the new cor- 1 - pratlon, the matter of titles of some of 3 's properties being the chief business of uorney Thurman. 4 .President Webb reports that everything :i moving along satisfactorily, and that a ' : rce of men will very shortly be put to ' ork scraping and blasting out a level I -rmlnal lor the upper end of the tram i id an entrance to the mine. This work ;is thus far been impracticable on ac-" ac-" unt of weather conditions, but will be ;ne as early as possible. Mr. Webb 'ates, however, that it will be necessary j j import laborers to do this work, on ' rcount of the scarcity of men here who ) iv e the training and disposition to go on the mountain at this time of vear : I do it. ! A force of men has been put to work )on the Green residence south of town, j 'i hieh will be squared and fitted up and i g 1 ied for an office and storehouse for the 'mpany. : ';Mr. Vebb announced the placing of an . ;ler for 400,000 feet of lumber with the '; : errill Lumber company of Salt Iake J. 'ty, and In order to meet the traffic - tuation In the handling of this and the . richinery required for the tram, two 1 rge caterpillar tractors have been or-' or-' red. Additional lumber will be pur-j pur-j ,'ased from the local mills, but it was ! " und that they were not in a position j i supply the lumber nearly as quickly as j would be needed, and It was therefore ; cessary to go outside for a large part ; it. Iron County Record.