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Show TEX IVV. PRIOR, r PBXD1T, VTAX-XVE- KT I BID AT, PECEMBEg tt. hk BILLIONS OF TONS Borrowing the thought from H. H. Calvin, an authority on Utah coal, who recently reported to the mining committee of the Salt LakeChamber of Commerce and Commercial club, it is a pity railroad cars in the world, that we cant assemble in Utah all the to over send them coal and Europe to bury the Ruhr load them with set up a new bitumiand the difficulty settle reparations district, and on throne three black minthe nous dynasty with King Coal article in the Desof a writer the special strels to make merry, says men to more of edition. Instead sendingAny Christmas News eret make the world safe for democrats and republicans let s fill all the from the ships from the seven seas with coal and give each persontons of it. Ura thousand river a to the Ireland of coast stormy That will keep them warm during lifetime and will help much if he needs warming in the hereafter. Our authority brought out the over the storied thought that it is a pity Europe should be disturbed Ruhr district when all the coal the Ruhr district ever had or ever can mine could be taken from one county in Utah and its absence would hardly be noted. He said in effect that it is a sad commenthat more men might be asked to tary on our vaunted civilization commercial more supremacy over a district give up their lives for be set down in this state could notice create if it scarce would that We riches. our of wealth might add on our own the present among account that if the Ruhr difficulty cannot be settled without fightand pleasant for all concerned to coning it would be entirely niceout to Utah to make coke and iron and tract the Ruhr inhabitants steel We will furnish them enough raw material totokeep them years and have plenty take care busy for the next three hundred much beside the point is this light However, trade. our of regular and frivolous observation. It is nevertheless meant to give some faint idea of the vastness of the Utah coal reserves which will doubtless never cause a war, but which will be of vast moment in the battle of commercial supremacy in Western United States and the Orient for the next five hundred years. It conveys little to the average reader to say that Utah has almost seventeen thousand square miles, or an estimated total of nearly 200,000,000,000 short tons. Two hundred billion tons is a lot of cold, as anyone will admit, and yet that is what the United States geological survey has estimated the vast beds which are largely gathered in Central Utah, but which are found in scattered localities in seventeen counties of the state. It ,1s enough to give every man, woman and child in the United States a legacy of two thousand tonB to be burned during lifetime and handed down to nkable riches of coal the next kin.' . In addition to all .tin ions of tons lying in state the within entirely it which will some the great Uintah Basin, day be mined tation. !ef TheatVT Friday, Dec. 28th to Saturday Jan. 5th SUITS 12 OFF On e Half Off 12 i MEN'S SUITS 42.50 Suits 30.50 Suits 29.00 Suits 2550 Suits t--3 Sale Sale Sale Sale with the com-re- s may remain un-- One-Thir- 4250, Sale 2850 $8.98 Suite-S- ale 35.00, Sale 23:00 27.00, Sale 18.00 12.49 Suits-S- ale 4.., 4k $6.00 9.00 YOUTHS' SUITS Age 3 to 5 Years . $5.49 Suits Sale $3.90 OFF 13 Off. Sheep Lined Coats and Vests and Boys Extra Trousers OneThird Off. - One-Thi- rd fAMens Off d Age 8 to 16 Years . $45.00t Sale $30.00 ONE-THIR- D ..j of raw material going down to the Pacific CHtehnage will and only add to Utahs glory as a future iron theEast, and coal supply for the great Pacifle.markets. Inferring to the Uintah Basin, it might be well to tell of some of the other which go to make up the stupendous total of Utahs Off. One-Thir- d 21.25 15.25 14.50 12.75 MeajSVelour Dress Hats ", BOYS' SUJTS OVERCOATS See What You Save $56.00 Suits Sale $28.00 52.50 Suits Sale 2655 OFF One-Thi- rd Off. ' tid Infants Swelters Misses Sweaters Mens Sweaters Ope-Thb- 4p Boys StiersOne-ThijdjPf- One-ThiOne-Thi- rd rd Off. Off. f wealth. MOST VALUABLE ASSETS. : All of Eastern Utah is thought to be potentially rich in free petroleum and known to be immensely well endowed with oil shale which will some day be the basis of the oil industry when wells begin to slacken in their production. Furthermore, Jn Northwestern RUGS OneThird B Off $ 5.69 Rugs Utah there are great veins of gilsonite or uintaite with smaller deposits of elaterite and ozocerite, all belonging to the hydro-carbofamily of which coal is the chief item. Here again we are met with staggering figures which convey little to an intelligent understanding of the situation. For instance, the gilsonite veins of Utah and extending across the line into Colorado vary from a few inches to thirty feet and can be traced for miles across the hills. This mineral is a highly valuable ingredient for paints and varnishes and is now being shipped out at the rate of thirty thousand tons a year. In Utah alone the estimates of the ultimate supply vary from fifty million to a hundred and fifty million tons. Elaterite and ozocerite are much more limited, but will probably be found in sufficient quantity to build up a considerable industry. , ; The eludes of U1 two billion barrels of oil and half a million tons o: phate. Across the line in Colorado and in the same basin are shales bil-- ; ; said to have a further potential production of another twenty sul-: lion barrels of oil and three hundred million tons of ammonium phate, the latter being a valuable fertilizing product In another recent report to the mining committee of the chamber of commerce, J. B. Jensen, shale specialist sounds aVaming to Utahns in regard lands by in-- to the acquisition of these great tracts of hydro-carbteres ts far removed from Utah. These lands are being located and bought by the acre by men of far vision who sense the early approach of the time when shale oil extraction processes will be per- fected to a degree of economy that will make this source of oil a rival bf the petroleum wells. When that time comes we will be severely criticised, in the opinion of Jenson, by the younger and the coming generations for having disposed of Utahs wealth so wholly 10.25 Rugs n 9.98 Rugs Sale Price $3.75 Sale Price 6.75 Sale Price 7.00 QUILTS $17.00 12.95 Eider Down Sale Price $11.40 Quilts Sale Price 5.75 Quilts Sale Price i ; 8.75 3.75 $ 4.98 Blankets 6.49 Blankets 10.49 Blankets Sale Sale Price 455 Sale Price 755 SUIT CASES AND BAGS $12.49 Suit Cases and Bags Sale Price $855 859 Suit Cases and Bags Sale Price 5.75 159 Suit Case Sale Price ; . ... .... 1.15 f i (200) Two Hundred Pairs of Ladies Pumps, Shoes and Oxfords. Your Choice for only . .vr98c Another Lot Three Hundred (300) Pairs At One Third Off. 41 . on 1-- ht Er it-w- as infWfpjat MENS WOOL SHIRTS Off THE SAME GUARANTEE GOES DURING THIS SALE IS IT IS AT ANY OTHER TIME and so cheaply. EARLY WORK HERE IN UTAH. Returning to coal mining in Utah, it is found that no adequate records of production were kept prior to 1870, although coal was mined from outcrops in a desultory manner even from the early fifties. In those early days the farmers hauled the coal away from unappropriated deposits to their homes, and the tint supplies for domestic use in Ogden and Salt Lake City are said to have come down from Grass Creek in Weber Canyon, somewhere around 1855. Even before this, there is record of attempts to coke Colob coal taken from above Cedar City and with which it was hoped to smelt the the iron ore in the fields of Iron county which now becomes rec1870 Since the newest source of supply for Utahs industry. ords show that there has been mined in this state approximately million short tons, worth over $150,000,000.00. It is seventy-eigout of a total figured that for every two tons mined one is lost, or in fifty-thre- e taken tons we have billion of nearly two hundred of 1 fifty-seve- n thousandths about tons or 117,000,000 years only tons of million five cent. The annual production has averaged or conditions and the figures years. Taking 1922, for example, will not be materially changed for 1923, the production amounted to 4,982,657 tons valued at $16,879,666.00. Approximately half of thin was shipped to Nevada, California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Montana. About 7 per cent of the year's production was made into coke for use in the smelters of Utah and adjacent states. The remaining 43 per cent was consumed in domestic, smelting, industrial and railroad uses. In regard to the coking coals of Utah there have been some wonderful discoveries and developments. As has already been said, the first attempts to coke the Colob coal of Iron county in 1851 and for some time thereafter were failures. Apparently nothing more coke ovens were was done in this line until 1878 when ten eight-foo- t built at Connellsville in Emery county and a very1 poor. quality of coke was hauled by team a hundred and forty miles to the early smelters of the Balt Lake Valley: In 1869 the Pleasant Valley Coal company began operations in the Castle Gate district,' following the next year with eighty beehive ovens which up to 190Q was of mT twp.haadwStill the coke accidental discovery the atid only irporten ,r nfenitto, ;wu of 6EH, coal ft the Sofmyside district of Carbon coiinty thjtf 4 Price Trading PRICE, UTAH BIG DEPARTMENT STORE PHONE 6 ride eight hundred and nineteen beehive ovens of twelve and thirte- Knight Coal and the Mutual Fuel companies. The fields are broadsize, constituting the largest single beehive plant in the ly designated as the Book Cliff coal fields, the Pleasant Valley field, United States. the Iron county field, the Coalville field, the Black Tail (Tabby) Mountain field, Wasatch county, Deep Creek district, Vernal field, COLUMBIA, NEWEST OF TOWNS. Uintah county, Henry Fork's field, and Lost Creek field, Morgan At the new coal town of Columbia, not far from Sunnyside, was county. The greatest lie in Carbon and Emery counties, found what engineers had long been looking for in this state a although there are saiddeposits be vast measures in the Uintah Basin to suitable coal for the reduction of the iron ores of Utah, and which that have not. yet been " prospected. was necessary successfully to launch the iron industry here. The CLEAN AND MODERN VILLAGES. result has been the erection of the big $5,000,000.00 blast furnace The at coal Ironton. Steel Columbia near and Provo, corporation mining centers of Utah are not camps in the accepted plant of the where the coals from Columbia will be coked in byproduct ovens sense of the clusters of struggling, dirty hovels with which the inand used at the same plant to make pigiron. In time the saving of dustry has come to be associated in the old mining districts of the East Instead, they are dean, modem villages, laid out along sanibyproducts will doubtless become so important as to revolutionize inin There are Utah. $40,000,000.00 perhaps tary lines, with comfortable bungalows, fine schools, theaters, all coking operations vested in the coal mines of Utah and the annual payroll is a trifle churches, community recreation halls and gymnasiums. The minover $8,000,000.00, with an estimated annual expenditure for ma- ers themselves are made up of the better class of the foreign born terial and supplies of $1,295,086.00. Taxes paid by Utah coal com- with a large percentage of them being men with families being The number of men reg- brought up to the best standards of American life. This has come panies amounted last year to $418,977.00. e forty-fivis hundred. It can be about through the natural prodigality of the West, together with ularly employed in the industry are coal better miners Utah paid and housed than the established conviction among employers of labor on a large scale safdy sald that in world. coals are generally that a contented workman, living m Utah the district other in perhaps any pleasant surroundings, wuj ahd are highly prized for their burning and steaming ual- - deliver a greater percentage of manpower, do his work better ana in less time. It works out in coal mining as well as other industry. itfes jad their absence of waste. ition to a number of small properties operated in differIn spite of these conditions which. were only attainable ai the state under community ent for local use, heavy initial outlay, and in spite of a general average of new the finest mines of the state are now being operated by the United wages, coals in Utah have on a general average maintained lower same StateyYuri company, the Utah Fuel, Independent Coal and Coke, price levels than the average in other fields producing themeans direct a Greater of are markets qpal. for Utah coal grade of bringing greater prosperity. Will the railroads make it possible . - en-foot L |