| Show NEW MINES CAN I 1 OUTPUT this year s christinas edition of the deseret news issued last saturday is unquestionably the best of any ever gotten out by that journal consider able space is devoted to carbon and emery counties coal and coke industry in the last th years says the news article the mines have produced 24 tons of coal with the eddit on of two larga producers the consol dated fuel company and the castle valley coal company the output next year can be i ic eased 50 pr cent and the surplus exported thes great coat fields which have been opened and called the coal house of the west afford plenty of coal for manufacturing purposes in the last tn years the production of coal has been doubled to the south of price some eighteen miles a new railroad known as the southern utah railroad has been con plated during the present year having connection with the rio grande west ern at price for the purpose of deliver ing coal from two mining camps have sprung into existence exi during tha present bedi hiawatha is the town consisting of an lip ati date hotel substantial amne buildings a bartly completed store some ten lumber houses numerous tents with a situated in what is known as miller creek canyon carbon county from this point the consolidated fuel company will be shipping a high grade of commercial coal for domestic and steam purposes its mines are developed so far that when its train road is completed comple teJ and machinery installed i ship for th month five hundred tons per day which amount can be increased dail the castle valley coal company has been organized during the past vear with strong financial backing the center of its territory is some six m les to th south of hiawatha m beday creek canyon this company avns one half interest m the southern utah railroad and is an eight mile spur from the bouthern utah at H awatha to cedar creek canyon A large force of men is em aloyed houses tramways tipple and other mine build to put coal on mar ket before spring the product of the cattle coal company is s m lar to that of the fuel con co n pany and will find a ready like the castlegate Cast legate clear creek and sunny side coal it has no peer in the west for hardness heat unites and from rock the extent of the output of this new mine will be governed by the demand of trade as at both properties mines can be opened to supply thousands of tons per day |
