Show production OF UTAH COAL MINES although the monetary disturbances in the last three months of 1907 ore are clearly reflected by the statistics of the coal mining industry in in utah tho the record made in the mines of the state during the first afine ame months of the year was sufficient to more than balance the effects of the depression when the coal production of 1537 is compared with that of pre ceding years during 1906 which up to last year held the record as the most prosperous in the coal min ing industry of the stale state the production of a coal amount d to short tons valued at i in 1907 the output reached a of short tons having a spot value of the increase in in last year amounted therefore to per cent and the increase in value to 2289 per cent these statistics indicate that until the effects of tho the panic began to be felt in the latter part of the year the demand for utah coal had been somewhat in excess of the supply nd was accompanied by the big higher er rices natural under such conditions the A e busl business was also most satisfactory to the operators in other ways for the product of the nines mines was as handler bandied by the railroads in a gratifying manner and e N were ere but few complaints of shortage of car supply the coal mines bunea of atall utah gave em it U in 1907 to 2203 men P who W worked an average of days t the he average in jn 1906 having been bee n days da a for 1672 1572 men the record for 1907 shows a distinct loss in the average ef efficiency I clency of the mine workers the production per man having decre from tons in 1906 to tons in 1907 in 19 1905 the average production per man was toni tho average daily production per man in utah in m 1907 was tons against tons in 1906 and 2 ag tons in 1905 labor disturbances in the coal lineas of utah have been few during the last three years in 1907 nere was only one strike and this one which affected men laef lasted ed but four das daub in and 19 1906 06 there were practically all no labor jabor disturb ances |