Show C OA L T 10 INA herease noted by reports just issued TROUBLES TO RE TARD PROGRESS anas artas of coal deposits ale ke very widely distributed in the state of utah the ne coil production pf utah which had shown a decreasing tendency in 1901 and 1905 felt as did the other koday mountain baates the stimulating influence of the shortage created by the swe suspension pension of work during the spring of 1906 in the states 0 of the mississippi valley says the salt luke tribune output increased from I 1 wa av short tons valued at in 1905 to short tons valued at in 1906 a gain of tons or 83 per cent in quantity and of or 34 3 per cent idalue in value alue th percentage of increase in utah vas as larger than in all the coal producing state states there was no material change in price the average for 1906 being 38 per ton against in the number of men employ emp Toy in the coal minei mine ir in utah itah in 1906 wae wu 1572 against 1371 in 1905 and 1734 in 1901 the average working time in 1 was daa against in 1905 and ana in 1904 utah enjoys another distinction in coal mining besides the largest percentage of increase for the year ye ar and an d that thatis is in having the highest average production for each man employed in 1906 the average production per man in utah was tons the nearest approach to which was tons the abt average rage made in W oming om ing in 1905 average production per man inan was against tons for wyoming the average daily pro dalition for each man in utah in was 3 92 against 3 96 in in 1906 the coal mining industry of utah wa a not affected by the labor troubles in the spring of 1906 ebore having been no strikes or suspensions at it MY of the mines mine in th state Accor according daig to the statistics of gonier goiner thomas state mine inspector there ther eAas was a of twenty eight accidents in the mines utah in 1906 of 0 f these lle t ll e seven resulted fatally of anon the non fatal accidents fifteen f were NN ere seri serious and nix si were of a minor character acter explosions of gas caused four of the deaths and falls of roof inthe i the meng chambers the other three seventeen oc or the injured en were hurt by falls of roo feight 11 1 I rooms and nine in gangways gangwaY sand and enerie q like ike the other coal producing artates of the rocky roky mountain region ul coal areas of utah are widey widely dl the largeant field fiell and tie most important in lp to thickness abid 02 01 the L so far aa as known is that of the bok cliffs known formerly as the wasatch fiel field d this field is situated in the book bok cliffs extending fim um rhe dorado colorado line westward to 1 cas tle gate the center of the state and thence nee southward south ard in the eastern en of the was dea plateau 0 w o eastern sevier county its length ath in T the sta is about one ho hundred undred sixty milcy only the western estern haa been surveyed but the to area win proximate appt y w about 1600 square miles next in importance as regards known occurrence and development of coal is the Co coalville alville or weber river field situated in summit county ott the eastern flank of shewa the wasatch mountains this field has an area of a few square miles of available coal the protracted faul faulting and lind tilting of the strata including the coal beds are obstacles to the extensive development of the coal ville coals other known coal am areas as are on Iten rys fork and ashley creek in the northeastern part of the state on calob pl plat bat au u in the southwestern est part and in the henry mountains strict wor workable able coal beds arc are reported tn occur at a number of places in the northern part of the uintah rebe ration and in uintah county but little is known of the extent and quality of the coals in the thee e areas according to re coming from the calob and uintah fields it is 13 po isible that their combined ai adeas aas may equal that of the book cliffis field all of the really large mining milling properties are in the western part of the book cliffs field at sunnyside Sunny side castle gate winter quarters and clear creek in in carbon county which produces ninety five per cent of the coal mined in n the state these coals with that at coalville Co alville are bituminous in charach et and of fair grade some of them make good coke over tons of the total production in 1906 having beer been thus consumed during the united states geological ev made an investigation of the e eastern astern part of the I 1 book cliffs held field from grand river colo t to 0 connecting nf at that point with the th work which had been done during tho die previous ear I 1 and parties now in the field are tending ng the work |