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Show i Pare Thcradty, January THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE. DRAGERTON, UTAH the Cool Mining Progress Keeps Industry Pace Reviews Advance of Bituminous Endeavor During First Half of 20ih Century-1901-1- 950 MCA Giving a capsule summary of what took place in the bituminous coal industry during the first half of the 20th century, Ralph H. Knode of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, president of National Coal association, said, Progress in the mining and marketing of coal has kept pace with progress in The other fields of endeavor bituminous coal mine of modern practice has the characteristics of a mass production factory underground and abpveground, and the mechanical efficiency of U. S. bituminous coal mining is outstanding among the coal producing nations of the world." U. S. production more than doubled from 225 million tons in 1901 to over 500 million tons in 1950, and almost tripled in some intervening years. In this same period, the industry became a business. It was comparatively small in 1901, when that years production was valu, bil-lion-do- llar to be The railroads have had to put back into service hundreds of locomotives. The utilities are being pressed for more power, and this means more coal. Natural gas in some areas is failing to meet its obligations, and industrial plants are having to return to coal. The war effort will require more-coand more oil, and there is some doubt that oil will be as plentiful as predicted. Coal will fill in these gaps. The weather is causing a much larger utilization of coal in quarter 'of -- cars as recently as 1935, but 6-p- lus 1951 promising busy. coal-burni- ng al present. From the of the early century, taeThdustry progressed to - the mechanized mining Which isro prevalent toof underground day. About 83 output was hand loaded into mine jick-and-shoveJd- ays V. tional and . international markets whero foreign ores, produced with cheap labor, 1 Zrir. keep the prices down." urrwt MKHiCss dnUdDFisa production, 14,551,000 highest tons for the week ended Decem- OJA1AM1R $2,136,-870,57- Unquestionably, here are the most thrilling apparel savings in recent years. We offer unprecedented reductions on all remaining fall and winter stocks. Don't miss this chance to rejuvenate your winter wardrobe at decided savings. Come early to make your selections! ) - ur I ALL f. FINAL SALES ... NO EXCHANGES Coats Suits 5 8- - Hats Jfer & Sweaters ll Skirts a - V o- (J . r I Dresses Blouses c- - - . - Handbags 2 2 8 ear j Price 2 UMpeF IFmmDQnitinm STORES IN PRICE AND HELPER ILORII h MRS. BELVA u n, Dnp9s ANNUAL JANUARY WirMamj ber 4, 1926. Fourteen million ed at about $236,000,000, but 50 ton weeks also were achieved in years later the value of its pro- 1947, 1948, and 1949. 1, duct at the mines was As the industry enters the secmore than nine times its worth at the beginning of the ond half of the century, it looks back on a constantly improved century. The production had reached safety record. The years 1949-5- 0 more than 497 million tons were the safest in the industrys through December 23, 1950, in- history. Extraordinary productidicating a yearly output in excess vity is now a badge of the indu.of 5D0. million, tons yet,7ihe Na- stry.. Since 1935- the -l- ong-run has tional Coal association reports, trend of output per man-howinter has just begun. Demand been upward, all due to the and production are expected to spread of mechanization and inpick up rapidly, with the first creased surface mining. Today K (Continued on Page Sixteen) "In mmiyindustries, if taxes and supplies go up, companies can pass the Increase along to the customer by raising prices. Our Utah mines can't do that. They must sell their metal at a figure set in na- practically 11 areas. The first half of the century "witnessed the peak production year of 1947, whenmore than 630 million tonadf bituminous coal were mined from underground and surface operations. peMidway during, the J901-195- 0 of the week its had riod, industry . to- - 50 ' , ' industry averages tons per man-da- y, a productivity five times that of the British miner. Much of coals progress was recorded in the latter third of the 1901-19period. In 1935, there were only 132 mines in the United States capable of producing a half million tons of bituminous coal annually, but by 1949, this number had more than doubled to 265 mines having a yearly capacity of more than 500.000 tons each. The total number of mines increased greatly in this short period, too, with some 6.000 in operation in 1935 and more than 9,000 producing coal at EVANS 4, 195 ... NO REFUNDS |