| Show e h f a k COAL J TD UP r rJ f f ii fUll FUEL fOR SALT Al T LAKE lAKY I IS DELAYED IN YARDS tAROS MORE THAN 2 EES T Tons o s Sufficient to Last Ci City Over Over Month I I Is Awaiting Consumers Investigation Shows Show I Trainmen Disgusted ted Tonnage Is I. I Demanded Say Workers on Railway Line 0 V on sidings in in railroad and mine mine yards S t S STANDING Lake and Helper Utah are 2127 carloads of coal On an a average of fort forty tons of coal t car there is at th tho present time 0 tons of 01 coal awaiting the consumers umers- umers a supply sufficient to last Salt Lake more than a month Much lUnch of this coal fully coal fully 50 per cent has cent has been standing on tha fohs sidings and an in the mine yards ards for more than two weeks Some o oit ol of olit it longer I IThe The gondola carloads are covered with a mantel of snow more mor than a foot dee and the wheels arc frozen to the thc tracks The sri sn snow V jv covering the thc tracks also indicates that the cars have not been moved I since SinCe last Monday when the tile heavy storm was ended No Jo To snow has 0 fallen in the mine district since I. I o l f r A trip through the coal mining re region r gion glon of southern Utah to the mine yards and a watchful eye ec on tho the sid sid- i Salt Sal Lake and Helper would cause Oi fe l to wonder why there sho should l lf Be c even n f or of a coal hortage f In n Helper Is mn miles from rin- rin S SaIt I Passenger trains trains the tho slow kind kindI kind kind- I I 1 make the trip in six siC hours Tern miles I an nn hour for tor a fast freight train would make it less than twelve hours' hours trip for tOl the coal trains Even at five mUM miles I an hour the trains could roll Into Salt Lako Lake Inside of or twenty four hours I I MILE STRING OF CARS Heros Hero's what an Investigation alion of or the tho I coal situation revealed Sunday In the United States Fuel yards ards just out of or Help Helper r there Is a a. a string of cars extending more than a mile In length from the tho tunnel leading leadin to the mines to the end of oC the yards ard Down farther in iii tho the yards the loaded loade cars with their blanket o of snow arid and the snow covered tracks stand In row of or three In aUthere all aU there were approximately 25 carloads In the yards yards' Sunday In the yards of oC the Spring Sprin Canyon Canon Coal company a short hort distance this side of the 1 U U. S S. S Fuel yards ar s there were with ith Spring close to OO cars loaded Canyon coal These too too about about CO riO per percent cent cent were were burled deep under a 11 shelter of ot snow which b by the wa way fell more than a week ago In the yards of or the Standard mines ot nt the tho j junction there were were another carloads I LOADS DELAYED I In the time Helper yards ard there I were close to HO loads much of this j I however was coke headed from rom Sunnyside Sun- Sun n to Anaconda This Is the pro prod proc of or the Utah Fuel company which company which Is Is' owned b by the Denver Rio Bio Grande Grando railroad railroad and and was made up In lri trains train with fth the red markers of oC the lie red ball bail ballI freight on its sides rea ready to be e moved I out outS These cars were not snow mow covered and had been loaded since the storm stenn A talk with the tho railroad men at Helper brought to li light ht the Information that tho the coke trains between Sunnyside and Anaconda smelters Hers were kept moving At Carbon the first station this side of Helper where the Panther coal comes comes to to the main line there was another another another an an- other carloads of coal At Castle Gate and l sidings in that lint immediate territory th there re were an anI another another an- an other othor carloads I CARRY LITTLE COAL Another freight train was wa passe passed at atI Prove 0 la last t night but these two I I th the only ones passed along ulon the line hue Three Three- cn engines were at work in tho the United States Fuel yards s making up a atrain a atrain train when the lie he afternoon pa passenger pulled out The Thit two tio trains passed en route carri carried but Jut little UtU coal the coal the carS cans with steel rails were loaded mostly I Iiron iron pipe and ordinary commodities At the office of or tho the assistant g general Rio Grande manager mana r of ot the hue Denver Dent I this morning the Information was given ven out that four tour freight trains carrying I IGO carloads of or coal came into Salt SaltI I I I Lake ake yesterday Tho rho Information also was In there were reply to a question that lint probably carloads c. standing on track at the mine yards ards awaiting awaiting- shipment ship ship- ment The VCr answer to the Iho whole situation Is I that the Denver cl Rio Hlo Grando o has not lot the motive moti power to handlo the business busi busi- I ne ness hess s' s offered ed Trainmen working In the coal cOll le region I I have all nIl but hut thrown up th their il hands In I A talk talt with and andI I at Helper revealed rc this situation situa situa- I I Hon tion The Tho motive power available has been heen taxed to UK its capacity o and aud is worn out that the tho supplies are It nut hut on hand I and will not be he furnished with which to rep repair 1 h t the hp locomotives When n an n I j engine l la 15 brought into the tho shop for tor i 10 re-i re J J I pairs pairs pairs-a. a. a part broken broken engine will Ill be robbed tp tu put the theno one no Just tjust brought brough in to in t r run run s n.- n. ThiR I thing keeps up with one engine after another 1 y I It wa was learned that the thet operating n nI he heads ds h 1 y fonn I engine and as a a. result the l gift cannot get Iet ov over r th the hilt hill loads and In almost every c case down ow In the attempt I ono Ninety carloads were counted at Colton Cotton and the sidings close to that UtI litle little lit Ut- I tle le hilltop town I On the top of ot Soldier Summit there 0 are close to carloads of ot freight about tOO of or It coal coal and and there ther it Iia S reposed un undisturbed for tor more moro than two weeks week A trainman returning to Salt Lake L. last Jast night to rest t up after the tho harde hardest t tour of or duty In lit his life gave e a lip Ii the secret about the coal on top of ot th oT hill lull It itt has been frozen In for weeks and no effort has been made to turn a wheel wheel thus the effort would be fu tu futile tu tile ho said because the locomotives are in no condition to put forth a any 1 great grea amount of ot energy BLANKETED BY SNOW Between the tile Summit and Thistle the time the I count totaled one forty-one carloads In Inthe the Thistle yards ards there were about fifteen carloads Provo Prove American Fork and Midvale yards yards' another carloads while the Church Farms Farms' of ot the local yards yards right right at the gates ates retail yards yards held held an additional 20 til I carloads cm loads This In tho the tho Salt r kI k I yards also aiM Is down deep beneath A il snow mow pack the thc the beautiful lines laid out by b- na nature ture In placing the snow there are are re I unbroken which unbroken which I incidentally meant mean that tho the cars have not moved since Tuesday One or two bumps Lumps from a n switch engine always nIwa's serve to breakup break breakup up tho the sno snow blanket and while it m may v not fall off ocr the cracks will be shown There arc aie no cracks in these blankets blankets- On smaller sidings sWings alon along the tIme ro route t tr r repose pose about bout firt fifty carloads bringing th the total number numb r of oC ca cars ready re-ady for tor th the people people people-It if they could get et it to it-to to 2127 2121 on out nn an an average of ot fort forty tons ton to the the- thear car ar tons About noon Sunday a red rell ball bail freight train which had be been n standing In the Helper yards for tor two weeks was m started over the hill Tho The stu stub passenger lr train which left Helper Halper at nt I. I 1110 10 passed the rod cl ball bail on the tho Summit Sum Sum- mit tit and a n little later the fast tat freight was seen win winding Ju Its wo way down th tho long grade rado this side of or the top This train tarried two fifty car cars r Trains ar are being sent out of mit Helper This is Ios with an average n ern average c of or 2600 tons tong th time the ordinary summer summer haul The sidings at the Summit are loaded a and cars cannot cannot can can- cap cap- not nol be cut out The trains puff put nn and steam and yank and haul and arid on th lh reaching average a consume tort forty hours Thistle n a distance of ot four fifty mn miles o say ur that with 1500 tons th the h trains can make it up the hill on pan pan- Continued on cn pa page 2 |
