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Show f.J i- THE SUE, FKXOEi UTAH EVEXT FRIDAY. PAGE SIX 7B1DAT, JAXUAEY IS. in K . f I HINES HERE IN CARBON COUNTY WORK CLOSE TO ;nl - PER CENT THIRTY-TW- O The Bun SpM'lal Service made in the inrolred area which I WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9. The year a as one of prostration furl seemed to isolate the flames for many the toal and eoke industries. The fig-- 1 years, but eventually the fire traveled u res of tonnage sound like those of an past this into the coal areas beyond. I The past year was one of prosliaiioUi Many efforts were made to check the for the coal and eoke industries. The flames but to no avail until about figures of tonnage sound like those of 1910, when a concrete and clay barrier, I an earher day. To mutch the four bun-- 1 about twelve feet thick, a hundred I hon tons of cuke lie must go back sev- and seventy feet deep and seven bun-- 1 enteen years. Hut those tonnuge com- -, dred feet long, was built.. The Tire Nirisoiis are not enough for they ig- traveled so rapidly that it pressed nore the normal increase from year to closely uNn the location of the new year. To match the completeness of barrier before the work was eoinplet-- 1 the depression of 1921 one must go led and the heat became so intense that hack to 1913. Anthracite alone stands men could work oidy in twenty minute an exception to this statement. Until relays. The barrier eventually check-- 1 late last Novemlier the hard coal mines ed the progress of the fire. In order continued in active and the to insure against a further spread the total output for 1921 fell not far be- - coiiiuny has been stripping the over- hind the two years just preceding. burden from the coal west uf the bar1'roduction of bituminous coal in the rier. This ojeration has been in proglast week of the year is difficult to in-- 1 ress nine years and when completed terpret been use of the Christmas holi- the rouiMiiy officials hojie the fire day. The total output, including Jig- - will lie rertain to lie under control. The I nile and coal coked, is placed ut SjHio,-- 1 cost of the stripping oicration, iuvolv-- j Odd nettons as against 7,IMi3,(HMt tons ling the removal of three and a half I and 7,450,000 tons, the revised figures I million cubic yards of material, it is fur the weeks of December 17th and estimated, will approximate $2,700,-- 1 The average pro- - 000. It is not known to the present 24th, resM-tivel- . durtion jier working day 1,192, IHM) generation of mining men how the fire tons gave no evidence of a recovery I started. in the deinamL lreliminary telegraphic The nineteen years old fire ia in the reports indicate that Monday, Janu- - abandoned workings of the Sioux mine ary 1st, was widely observed as a hoi- - of the Lehigh Valley company near idav, and as but four thousund a liun-- l Mt. Carmel. It originated when hot dred and twenty-si- x ears were loaded, ashes were dumped into a mine breach against almut 25,000 on recent Mon- - and ignited a vein of coal Every elof I fort to aulidue the flamea baa proved ds), it counted for only h a working day. On Tuesdu.v, January I unsuccessful. thousand and eighty! 3d, twenty-aeve- n cars were loaded. This ia the highest WAGES ARE REDUCED IN FREMONT COUNTY, COLO. record for any one day since Xovein-- 1 her 231. For the week ending with DKNVK11, Colo., Jan. 7. Wages December 24th the mines of Utah produced 31.9 ier cent of fulltime caiiaci-t.- were reduced 30 jier cent yesterday in Total losses from all causes were the Fremont county mines of the Col- el and, rompany to 68.1; laisir shortage, 0.3; mine dis- 2.7, and no market losses, 65.1 furm to the scale in effect in the eom-pcent. During the same time the V,lorado proiertiea. Colorado proierties produced 34.2 per ,The handful of day men who have I .ur eent of full! ini raiwnty. No market , EnierIwiuont and losses totaled 5T.9 MTe cent. In Utahl'v?1' ape since they were closed eighteen mines with a total rapacity t hous--1 W he ayuijiathetie strike in Ndveui-- 1 of a hundred and seventy-fiv- e strikers, accepted the I and tone reported. For the year ending "er and ,al without discussion. I with Novemlier 30th, last, Utah pro- - "?w w.aR a jwaaibility one of the four duced a total of 3,631,000 Ions of hi- tuminous coal. The mine rciorts for n,nea ,ua.V be reopened the latter part I week, giving employment only I the week ended December 24lh allow a lia--1 JJwd slight improvement. Running time in-- 1 creased on the average from 39.2 to ,d " elhorn of the Colorado Fuel II nnounced yesterday that as 41.3 cent. The increase the eoun- - ,nd jut was I a conference held in Canon resu' most was and over widespread try at the request of the City IlliThursday Pocunhontoa marked in the and nois fields. In Northern Ohio, Pitts- striking miners, the registration of the burg, Somerset and Kunawha on the striking miiieni is under way at each other linnd material decreases were of the four mines. The purisms is to ascertain the age, length of service in reported. The final week of 1921 witnessed a the eomiany a employ, nundier of dedecline in the production of beehive pendents of each miner and soforth: The company will lie unable to eoke caused by the occurrence of the I Christmas holiday. ' The total output give work to half the men, President elborn said. This registration willl REPORT MADE TO THE BANK COMMISSIONED OP THE STATE is estimated at a hundred and four OF UTAH OK THE CONDITION of THE thousand net tons, against a hundred ,low which are most in need of work. thoa From will we employ as muny and seventeen thouaand iu the week FRANDSEN BRICK 'iwrate one mine. Whenl preceding. The daily rate of produc- - ".we c"n Located at in the of Price, will denot has of Carton. State boon County Utah. oen nne at the of Close tion increased slightlv. The total out-pBusiness on "' im- , put in .the year 192L it ia estimated, Jww,a weather con-- 1 COMPANY tenda through the teiri-rjM- B ?ld was 5,507,6tM) tons. Compared withiB mnA whieh tl.e serves SnTbUtoof' the 20,980,000 tons recorded in 192otry ctin.pany not 1290,164.04 Tarda adjoining the Denver and this was a decrease of 74 per cent. The roh wt B1By he ahlc t tart up in a overdraft 986.29 I I . bonds Mocks, and etc Rio Gganda Railroad tracks on aecuritlea, 899.00 years production was but a seventh of General Manager Weitsel represent- 2,270.09 the south, three blocks east of that of 1916, when the beehive coke I 4,900.00 tha conference, Office at the yard. Esdepot. industry reached the high point of e4.tJie H,mlan-v- . from federal rHrvebankZ 14,397.71 its prosjicrity. Indeed to find a year which waa attended by approximately Hus from other banks. timate given and prices quoted 29,949.03 when production waa as at present the I our hundred miners, representing all hrks on other hanks in asms town on application. Pootoffiee Box 2,079.12 Item 142.19 92. Telephone 72M. HmnfM. to 1885. In hlia fanijis. The normal force at lulvain inquirer must go baek i.'mof 442.90 that year 5,107,000 tons were produc--1 our mines before the strike was seven Biiier tnrer of 1,102.10 There was Currency ed. Even including byproduct, the hundred and sixty-seve12,029.00 10,092.09 12.09 shrinkage in coke manufacture which no discussion of the wage revision, the deral tock 8,300.00 has marked 1921, is very great. The mra. Peep ting that aa a foregone con- The real purpose of the meet total output of both beehive and by- TOTAL. 2348,992.88 PRICE, UTAH product ovens is not yet known defin-- 1 nB 'aa to discuss , the resumption of . LIABILITIES wora how could he mines but have can it many exceeded reuiistock Capital itely, hardly paid in $100,000.00 million tons. This means pned nd when. twenty-si- x 10,000.00 that eoke production has dropjwd Imck 2,072.12 'to cheek IJepoiilts subject S Coal Vein, This. to the level of 1994 and 1!M)8. !o check. ,l'5a The year 1921 eame to a rhisc with Jan. 10. What j!,tal demand deposit. . SYDNEY, N. H. DR. & M. JONES 192.299.90 9 23.911.82 many anthraeite collieries shut downlis declared to be the thiekest seam f Physician and Burgeon 90,420.92 and with thousands of miners idle. The black coal discovered in the world is Total time deposit, 74,294.39 Obstetric- - and Diseases of Children, slackening of demand evident in lute how being exploited at Hlair Athol Office Bilvagnl Block, Price, Utah. TOTAL Novemlier had grown steadily more (Queensland). The maximum thick-- 1 9249,992.12 noticeable as December advanced. In ness ia ninety-thre- e DR. J. A. JUDY CONTINGENT LIABILITIES feet and the seam 0,ea and rediscounted with federal reserve bank Christmas week approximately eight i entirely free from any clav bands, and Burgeon Physician 20,200.00 hundred and sixty-tw- o 19,000.00 thousand net lrof. Sir Edgeworth David, just re-- 1 ote and k1- - rediscounted other than with federal reserve bank Telephone 19IW tons or barely half of that iu Christ-- 1 turned front Hlair Athol, says that tm- 9 29,800.00 Office Price Commercial and Savings mas week a year ago. leadings, ac- - dor the present method of working it Bank Bldg., Price. Utah. 8tate of Utah, County of Carbon- - . O. 1. M. Blersach, being first duly i. cording to the nine anthracite carriers, only jhisniIiIc to exploit a tlurtl of sworn according to law, deposes and says that he Is cashier of the above named DR. G. W. GREEN the coal in the field, an amount esti- bank; that the above and foreaulnK report contains a full, true and correct statement of the condition of the said hank at the close of business on the 31st Physician and Burgeon mated at eighty-si- x million tons, and day of Decern tier. 1921. u. P. M. BIEKHACH, Cashier. 1 lint a hundred SOME SIXTY-TWYEARS and seventy-thre- e mil- Office, the New Redd Building. Subscribed and sworn to before me this th day of January, 1922. My comlion tons mission BERN lie PRICE, UTAH FIRE would RAGING HAS wasted. The chief expires August 20, 1323. CLAUDE J, EMPEY (Price, Utah), Notary Public. Correct Attest: difficulty in mining and L S. EVANS D. IIEUGEKA. PIIILADELPIIIA. Pj. . J.n. 7tw fuctllul 11, i. P. O. SI LV ACINI, (Beall Dentist U f hummit II, "kinii I, ml rig,ly lnu u,e lir., FRANK GROSSO, Directors. 3J, all mine fires, is still burning, but it port. The coal is Office, Room 10, Bilvagnl Building State of Utah, Office of Bank Commissioner I. Seth Plxton. bank com very suitable lor is well nnder control, according to mlssiouer of the state of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, raising steam on land and sea. true and correct copy of the statement of the shove named company, filed In my PRICE, UTAH recent announcement by the Lehigh office this 9th day of January', 1922. SETH PIXTON, Bank Commissioner. Coal and Navigation coinjiany and on Reached. Agreement DR. H. B. GOETZMAN whose projierly flames have been eatobtained an agreement with Dentist Having tons of anthraeite the Denver and Rio Grande ing up millions of discontinuing the benefit because the ahiiunenta to Canada and Mexico, inWestern Work and Extraction. coal for the last sixty-tw- o Price years. And relative to a rate on eoal from Wattis Kansas strikers no lunger need Illinois creased by 100 per cent as compared Commercial Bank Bldg., Price, Utah. aid. However, Farriiigton announced with 1913, according to a statement while this one has been brought under to the Ogden, Ramlierger Electric last voting by the rank and file of Illinois issued tonight by the commerce decontrol, another mine fire, which hai Monday moved the dismissal liefore DR. SANFORD BALLINGER been burning nineteen years near Mt. the state utilities commission of its miners on the authority of the district partment. Much of this increase, the Dentist convention anthe will to levy assessment Carniie, Ta., in the heart of the Work and Extraction. department laid, was due doubtless to action against the Utah railway and be continued. Hallots will be counted the British coal strike. Exjwrts of biOffice, the New Redd Building. thracite fields, is still trying to spread. the Salt Lake and Ttah (Orem Line) at the stuke PRICE, UTAH A third fire, which has lieen raging for a on here tuminous Jan headquarters coal, to including shipments joint through rate. Application 16 th. for three years, in the Red Ash vein will lie Canada and uary were Mexico, 7 to said lie STEWART. ALEXANDER made to the PRATT of the Red Ash Coal compauy on the sion at once for a utilities commisper cent greater in 1921 than in 1913, Attorneys At Law joint rate through Wilkcsbarre Mountains, has made it from Wattis via the Utah the figures being approximately Tests Kansu Law. to Provo, Office Second Floor Bilvagnl tons for 1921 against 17,987, necessary to close the old Giants Des- the Denver and Rio Grande KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 10. John Western Building to s 000 autuinohil-isttons road known 1913. for many T. Clarkson of Albia, la., a legal repto Salt Like City and the pair PRICE, UTAH Dandierger liecause of the hillelimhing con- to its WorkUnited Mine temiinul, on which the resentative of the GEORGE CHRISTENSEN tests that have Wen held uikiii it. The electric Ogden road will git the division it ers of America, announced at the opNeariug Date Fixed. Summit Hill fire in the Panther Creek Attorney At Law ; session here The the of The interstate commerce commission today reguwnglu. yards of the Lion Coal ening Valley between Lansford and Conl-dalowning the mine at Wattis. lar biennial convention of District 25, has set the hearing on the application Office, the Bilvagnl Building, Formerwas discovered in February, 1859. conjiianv, United Mine Workers of America, that ly Occupied by Judge F. E. Woods. are on the Piambergerline in Ogden. in an abandoned gangway. The hard Telephone 180, Price, Utah. he had drawn a petition seeking an in- of the Utah railway to take over the coal dips from twenty degrees to about Benefits Cut Off. junction against Richard J. Hopkins, operation of the Utah Terminal railL. A. McGEE seventy and is almut fifty feet thick. SPRING FIELD, Ills., Jan.7. Pits-ide- attorney general of Kansas, and the way, a short line up Spring Canyon in At Law Attorney The area involved is one mile long by Frank Fan-ingtoof the Illinois judges of the Kansds industrial court Carbon county for oj in interfifteen hundred feet wide. Ilow many United Mine S Rooms and 9. Bilvagnl Bldg. orkers has announced to compel them to test the constitu- state commerce, for January 30th, at millions of tons of eoal have been con- that the PRICE, UTAH of the said Kansas industrial Salt Lake City. Examiner Gault will tionality assessment for the monthly sumed has never been accurately as- lienefit of Kansas he in charge. The federal eommiasion strikers has lieen court law. FERDINAND ERICK8EN certained, hut it has cost the rnmiany discontinued. has denied the right of the Utah TerThis action is in line Attorney At Law more than $3,000,000 to Tight the long with orders of minal to operate independently in inInternational President Out. Export Figures fire. 717 burning John I Lewis several weeks ago, but WASHINGTON, D. Judge Building trastate commerce, though it is alreadv jiorls C., Jan. In the early sixties an oien cut wns 1 arringtou said the Illinois city. utah. miners are of American coal, excluding (Continued on page 2.) Don t borrow The Bun. Subscribe, 1 J will Brothers Ipodge on February 1, 1922, a substantial reduction in the prices of their cars, ef-fetive from January 1, 1922. I oK-rutio- an-noun- ce a B I one-sixt- FRANDSEN AUTO CO. I East Side North Ninth Street, I Fronting West v. eon-abilit- y, i 7? PRICE, UTAH er ?"' ,d,n "e CARBON COUNTY RANK C-- OUTER K. CLAY Attorney At Law Office hi . HENRY RUGGERI Attorney At Law Office at the County Courthouse. PRICE, UTAH. OLIVER 0. DALBY Attorney At Law Office, the New Redd Building. PRICE. UTAH. B. W. DALTON Attorney At Law Office Eko Theater Building. PRICE, UTAH n. rrv Brick of All Kinds PROFESSIONAL O 1 .- ,i, t,; hVid fm X-R- ay X-R- e, nt 10.-Ex- salt lake Room 9, Bilvagnl Building. PRICE, UTAH. I J A. KOPFS STUDIO nigh Grade Portraits and Second Floor Price Commercial and Barings Bank PRICE, UTAH. J. E. FLYNN Licensed Undertaker and Kmbalmcr Telephone 29. PRICE, UTAH. DR. J. B. HENDERSON Chiropractor. AJ rirat Door West of The Bun, 16 to 12 noon 2 till 4 p. m. At Helover per. Helper State Bank. till 8 P. m., except Sundays. Other hours at home. Calls by appointment. BEN BEAN General Painting Contractor ??! First-Cla- Work. All Estimates ss Free Phone 198M. PRICE, UTAH. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Price Lodge No. 22. Meets every sec ond, third and fourth Tuesday in Masonic Hall Visiting members always welcome. P- E. Trim, C. C.; Fred B. - Wheat K. R. EL a PRICE LODGE No. 52 L O. F. PRICE, UTAH Meets each at o clock. W. Wednesday F. Myers, N.evening Q.; W. E. Hampton, V. o.; L A. Hills, Becy. INGER for bast results and EWING MACIHNES mean Kit VICE, not now, but many years. J. EL Jameson will sea that your machine to token car of. Corner Fifth and J streets. Phone 119-- SJ ! J. . W. HAMMOND, LICENSED ABSTRACTER OF TITLES Abstracts of tillea furnished to any piece or tract in Eastern Utah. Fire insurance written In the best companies. Real estate, bonds, etc, Second floor Bilvagnl Bldg., Price, Utah. Waterworks will be built in fifteen cities by the Uruguayan government and sewers in most of them. Your good spender may die in in the noorhoune or in jail, but he doesn't often die in despair. ti |
