Show OF carbon county beats bents all its previous ions records A AND COKE FIGURES interesting RESTING state coal mine aine inspector pettit f in annual import to governor i cutler goes into details J As s to f carbon and AM emery counties output men aen employed etc q the tie annual report of state coal all ma inspector J E pettit wae wn filed vath ith governor cutler last saturday pettit introduces his i aport with the A statement that the year just eaddee has been the moet most in in thu the jot operation of hydrocarbon hydro carbon mines W i t the history of coal mining in utah pettit Petti wae appointed to succeed goner gomer thomas as inspector may 1 IM 1907 and hie his report covers the tire year bearup up to November 1 because increased of dein demands ands for coal sad the byproducts it hae has been 4 I 1 for the minee mines to work to fi their limit of capacity in every diar the average number of day days walked cpr the rhae en been there haa been iven b because ti ost of the increased demand admi an r ease of approximately 20 percent per cent in the bost of coal on the market th thie ner haa has been accompanied wco by an art at in agg griffes es to th 1 miners of from 10 to 20 per cent in this connection am the inspectors tors report eltes that the east of living livin fi hae has kept pace with In 1 armes es in other lines t DOMESTIC RELIEF the closing of copper a minee mines in montana arl and aw the con fa beque seque sequent nt reduction in smelter oper I 1 tiona dons being accompanied by a cor responding reduction in the d mand i for coal and coke resulted in divert mcf to the coni mercia markets thousands of tone tons of coal and of re lieving coal shortage at a time when the needs of the ci tie w were wat T g a f wae was being felt fek to a reater degree then during the ite preview previous period of comparatively aramm w weather ea t he r T during the year there ha im been boen only one occasion in ahk awra leb troubles tiou bles threatened to abee awra 4 down a mine that wee was in amit iv county and air amica le tie a asree beemen re raen emen was reached after four dayd of ago listion tia ti tion ahe trouble wae was settled with satisfaction both to employer and employed LANDS FILED 02 ON 4 during the past year filing ha hag been meda upon approximately eight thousand acres of c coal oal lands the gr greater ea t e r portion v bein being C in egnew t colety among companies the which have been organized during the I 1 are the fhe independent coal ano and f coke comply kenilworth peoples coal and coke company hales art coel coke heiek s re adeo jj gram creek coal com company peny nd md utah steam coel coal ti mud creek mines have been reopen ik ed tho ile fedil coal catapa nyland the crystal coal and coke compan t a both of carbon munty and the consolidated soli dated fuel company of jemery emery j A county have filed article articles of ot indoor horation po ration len with the secretary oc of state d the year v YEARS FARS production A habyl td d showing of production eed on n fact a 5 BEST or concluded Coad adeil I 1 ruri rura pace ai 1 of adro carbons for the year is given in the following gilsonite Gus onite in tons b e IDO As asphaltum pal tu m erite 1665 1565 coal apice in the above there is an increase ce in in the production f coal over that of 1906 of tois tors and of coke tons in mine operations for the year there byo bap ba P bt cn en used pounds of black bowd r aad 11 A P pounds of giant po powder der there have been beeh 2687 men employed in the s states ta t e s mines an increase of wen fo for r t the he year over the average production of coal in tons per man arp for r the year has been tons NINETY ACCIDENTS in the yew there have bave been ninety accidents to miners eight have been fatal eleven serious and ti te e other non nn serious four wives have been widowed as the result af the fatalities and sixteen children have been left fatherless production BY COUNTIES the production of coal by counties hasteen has been carbon in tons summit sanpete emery lery 2662 morgan other small mines total I 1 1721 gain over 1906 production there arc are nineteen large mines operating within the state and a larga large number of smaller minea mines nationality OF MINERS an inte investing estina table in n the ra port allows hows the nationalities and num numbers ers of each working in in the coal minea of the state this information Is 1 as follows americans 1032 gre greka aka italians austrians Aust rians r finns germans 48 french 20 belgians 11 swedes 23 negroes 8 japanese 56 chinese 1 making a total of 2778 the report con concludes cledes with the recommendations of pf the inspector pettit strongly a approves pad r oves of his predecessors recommend recommendation rec ommen aaion that the mining in laws ba amended to prohibit miners to be in the mines at th the e time blasting is going on dormit permitting t ing only the men necessary to fire the th e shots to be underground pettit also alo calls attention to the fact that the ap appropriation ro pria tion for 1908 will not permit tim him to comply Fly with every requirement of tho law aa respecting his Ms position |