Show GRADING UNDER WAY ON MILLER CREEK ROAD coal mine about ready for pro quality good I 1 last week s progress contained a write up of the pre work to the establishment of a coil camp on the mid die fork of creek by the consoli dated fuel co and of what was being done at the sawmill under the mana gement of E L terry in monday s des eret news is found a leport stating that graders are now on the ground and commencing work on the 20 mile rail road to be built between price and the property 20 miles south and v est of price gangs of workmen have been mobilized at the mine end of the line and because of the season s lateness work is to be rushed at the further end of the survey the property lies about a mile and a half above the mouth of the middle fork canyon in the miller creek district and to have as much work done through this canyon pos sible before winter sets in all energy will be directed towards work there the officers of the fuel company are J II 11 R franklin president F baafi vice president J R shied secretary F W francis treasurer A A sweet manager and robt howard all are prominent salt lake business men they that the railroad to be bu it will be as good a pe as would be built by a large rail road company the 1 ne will be stand ard gauge and la d with bo pound steel A shay engine may be used in the can yon for a mile at the most but the route is attractive and the grade even and easy the fuel will be crammed from the mine to a loading station just below the railroad could have been built right up tp the mine but tram offered a simpler and more eco comical method of hauling the output development in the company s prop eity nas reached a tunnel depth of feet and many hundred of feet of cross cutting making a fan necessary now until this machinery is installed de will proceed slowly the veins lie level tunnels and drifts will be the only mining methods necessary and this will make operations cheap for this reason the company says it will be able to supply utah markets with fuel at a lower rate than po sible from any other company the fuel is bituminous and as the consol dated property lies just over the hills from helper is greatly similar to the castle gate product |