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Show THE SUN. PRICE. UTAH EVER fAGE SIX HIM ID SKIM HIS HEN DID IN COAL cent lower than the rate of 5.4(1 Mr million tons for August, 1023. For the first eight months (if the current and year a thousand six hundred accihave been killed by twenty-eigdent as compared with a thousand sevduring en hundred and ninety-thre- e the corresponding months of 1923. The eight months fatality rate for this year has been 4.58 iier million tons as compared with 4.12 in 1923. The increased rate is due to the disaster at Castle Gate on March 8th, last, and the increase for the current year is entirely in the bituminous industry. An analysis of the causes of accidents in 1924 to the end of August with those for the corresponding per iod in 1923 shows an increased rnte for gas and dust explosions in 1924, but no material change in the rates for other causes of accidents. As no single accident during August caused as inuny as five deaths the record for the current year to August 31st remains at seven mn.jor disasters causdcatns ing two hundred and fifty-fou- r during the corresponding months of last year. The fatality rate ier million tons, hosed exclusively on the number of lives lost in accidents killing five or more persons during the first eight months of 1924, was 1.15 as compared with 0.58 in 1923. ht 31, 1924 FRIDAY, OCTOBER FRIDAY. of rescue iiarties. bodies brought out were so badly burned identification was not inqiediiig the work Two tob-hijil- e. He IGUST, UST During Augiint tho fatalities in the coni mines of the United Slates aggremen, gated a hundred and sixty-si- x accordin'; to information given out by the United Staten bureau of mines. The fatality rute for the month, based on an output of 41,851,000 tons, was 3.70 per million tons and is 27 per Y Fire at Escanaha, Mich., at the docka of the Reiss Coal company did five million dollars in damuge lust Friday. One life was lost. fireboss murks off a working pluee aa gasy, vet some miner with an oS'ii light takes no notice and goes in with the only possible result, an ignition or an explosion. Again, a IHickct of gas may have collected and is marked hy the fireboss, lie may attempt to remove it, warning the men not to approach with nien lights, yet occasionally someone does so, resulting in an ignition or explosion. One fairly frequent cause of morning explosions is the leaving of ventilating doors ajar during the night. The air current ia short circuited thereby and some workings will get no fresh air, consequently gas will collect and the first man with an oen light sets it off. This is not an uncommon hut luckily, the accumulated gas is not always ignited. In the afternoon and evening there are ninny explosions. It is noticahle that the number drops at 4 o'clock. As a rule (lie day shifts go out of the mine at 3:30 to 4 oclock. In mines being the men do their own firing or it is done hy sliotfiring foremen during the shift, one shot at a time, the firing would he completed at that time, but in mines where the tiring is where where done hy almlfirers when all other men are out of the mine it begins shortly after 4 o'clock or if the mine has had a short days run it n ay liegin earlier. The dangers of rapid shot firing by such special sliotfirers is fully reflected in the number of explosions that take place lietwecn 5 ni.d 6 o'clock. At 6:30 there is a drop, end then at 7 the number ngnin runs vp. These explosions inny result from gas, liberated hy the sliotfiring, or accumulations from other reasons, being ignited by C. N. (Ruck) Orr, the mine superintendent of the United States Fuel ciuniuny at Hiawaiha, was a Monday visitor in Price. The four cumps of that concern, he Buys, Are working around three days a week. More than a thousand men will he thrown out of employment bark in the Hocking Valley this week, Pittsburg, la., ofierators announced last Saturday. The companies claim they ran' not oerate at any profit under the present wage scale. Offirial figures to The Sun from Washington, 1). C., this week give the total production of coal in Utah for lust year ns 4,720,000 net tons. Ry months, January, 478,000; February, 382,001); March, 300,000; April, Mav, 323,000; June, 358,000; July, 363,0(H); August, 305,000; September, 417,000; October, 546,000; No0 vember, 458,000, and December, net tons. Rnekdiisting is I wing hastened in Rpring Canyon district in an effort to complete as inueh of the work as isissilile before the heavy winter demand for fuel makes necessary enlarged uiierntions, (). F. MeSlmne, the rhairninu of tho state industrial rom- 282,-00- Do You Want Balloon Tires On Your Car? 0; Comer Main and Eighth Streets PRICE, UTAH high-pressu- re STANDARD roads? More durable too. Goodyear Balloons are built of a new, exclusively Goodyear invention Supertuista cord material that yields and stretches instead of breaking under impact. It gives you double insurance against blow outs and gives longer mileage. Get our new money saving proposition today. (Contlnueil On Page Eight) cat- tle owned hy negro funnels of Coosa and Elmore counties, Ain., were recently sent to be exchanged as butcher stock for heifers and young bulls of good dairy type by the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alnhnnin, in accordance with an offer of that institution. Interest in family raws of better quality has been stimulated by the work of the local agricultural extension agent, through whose efforts the negro fanners in different imrts of the two rounties have acquired dairy animals of letter type and are demonstrating to their neighlsirs the economic advantage of using improved stock. Nine heifers and two bulls of excellent dairy type were obtained in the recent exchange, according to reMirtx to the United States If seientistsare to be believed the of sgriculture. human rare is not having bo much There has lieen a decided improve- liuppiness that they are losing their ment in the grasshopper situation in lung faces, but on the other hand they the Northwestern States, according to actually growing longer. The face is the bureau of entomology of the Unit- now half an inch longer than ancesed States department of agriculture. tral physiogomy, according to Sir ArThe loss during the past season has thur Keith. Prof. Charles Gray of lieen much less than that of the year New York University maintains that 1922 and 1923. Splendid results have the art of laughing ia fast d'ing out also lieen obtained by the entomoloof Modena Coyotes in the gists of the Billings (Mont.) labora- are plentiful and vicinity are causing considtory in the control of the Mormon erable trouble to live stock men, accricket with the poisoned bran mash to advices received from R. and by the entomologists of the Salt cording O. Bruce by the state department of Lake City laboratory in the control of last Tuesday. The departthe alfalfa weevil with arsenical dust. agriculture ment supplied a quantity of strychWedding anAouncementa. The Sun. nine. PROGRAM OF SAFETY IN MINES the night shift when it reaches the OF WYOMING BEGUN face. Frequently the conlcutting is done on night shift. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 27. During the pust week the first active ROCKEFELLER BUMPS GOULDS step towards the inauguration of the ON FUEL AND IRON Union Pacific Coal companys gigantic safely program, was taken when NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Edwin the sliule dust pulverizer was installed Gould, testifying today in the eighty-tw- o and pluced in working order. This million dollars necounting suit of machine will pulverize and reduce the thp estate of his father, Jay Gould, ahule to dust ho fine that more than admitted under questioning that seven 90 tier cent of it will push through a and n half millions of the trust money screen containing two hundred meshes was duniied into the Colorado Fuel to the square inch. The dust is and Iron company to aid John D, free of silica and is said hy the Rockefeller in the rehabilitation and United States bureau of mines to be reorganization of that enterprise. of no menace to the miners lungs. Gould is an executor and trustee of The federal bureau does not iermit the estate. It was necessary, he nd the use of shale dust containing more mitlcd, for the Gonld estate to sell a than 25 per cent silica, and this has large number of its liest bonds and less than 10 )er cent. securities it held to enter the deal and Company officials of the Union at the present time the only thing the any that the dust will he applied slate has to show for the seven and a at the rate of two pounds to oue foot half millions is the bonds of the Coloof entry or more than five tons to the rado Industrial company and the com mile. This will give a faint idea of the mon stock of the Colorado Fuel and vast amount of rock dust that will be Iron company. I saw great advannecessary to carry out the program in tage to the Gould railroad lines and I the seventeen mines of the company thought the investment no more hazin Southern Wyoming, some of which ardous than any other business, he have been in operation for many replied to questions. Gould also was years. Entries in all of the mines of questioned in regard to a twenty-fiv- e the company except those at Cumber- million dollars bond issue in which he land will he thoroughly dusted. underwrote nine millions. He said that rifiralion at lie apportioned $6,400, (TOO among his of the that place only the danger zones will friends. The trust estate irnid $751,-11he dusted and standard sixteen-troug- h Mines and ships from the He admitted that he received harriers placed at all intersections. famous Union Pacific bitumin$65,000 commission. At n meeting of the Rock Springs ous veins of Pleasant Valley in chapter (if tlie Rocky Mountain Coul Carbon district None betthe Unduly Prejudicial Mining institute at Winloii recently ter for store, range, grate, furWASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 24. it was explained that the bureau of nace or manufacturing plant mines had reported the cool dust in Rates on bituminous coal from mines The of any and superior equal the Rock Springs field to lie of a very in . Southern Illinois, the Danville, to many for storage. Once triand Ccntrnliu Diiquoiii explosive nature- and that the Union Murpliyshoro. ed always insisted upon. Get Pacific was installing electric lamps districts to Omulin and South Omaha, from the general offices prices Council held are Rluffs, Ia., and inaugurating the rockdusting Neb., and sales and agency, Walker Bank commiscampaign so ns to do away with the hy the interstate commerce Building. not sion to lie unduly prejudicial, hut possibility of an explosion as much as unreasonable or unjustly discriminait ia in human power to do so. tory. The commission ordered the removed. The commissions EXPLOSION RISK IS TIMED BY prejudice decision in the case made on June 30, EXPERTS OF BUREAU 1923, held to lie unjust the practice of railroad in assigning private ears for WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20. As the result of a study of two hun- railway fuel to bituminous mines in coal mine explo- excess of the ratable share distributed dred and fifty-si- x sions ninde by interior department en to the latter upon their lines which do not receive assigned cars. After gineers on the staff of the bureau of mines it has been discovered that the issuance of the first order the there are two critical times of day case was reheard. While the comwhen such explosions are most likely mission made no explanation of toto occur. The period in the morning days order it was indicated that it decision on ranges between (1 and 9 oclock, with was postponed tending a tiie rehearing. emphaa peak at 7 :30, indicating sized hazard frura gas ignition in these Will Inspect Holdings. hours. The one in the afternoon Oct. 28. The Rich 7 3 a with and oclock between RICHFIELD, ranges peak at G. hinging iqion the practice field Commercial club began its weekof stotfiring in the evening. Between ly luncheons yesterday by partaking these morning and evening rriticnl of an excellent duck dinner at JohnsFor your house, business, auperiods is one which might be called ton Hotel. Fifty members were in atthe noon period that is, from 11 tendance and partook of the dinner, tomobile, household goods, barn oclock to 1 of the afternoon, associat- which hail lieen provided hy some of or garage. Fire will take them ed with the practice of sliotfiring at the clnh'M sportsmen, under the direction of F. X. Cumin. C. J. Sumner, noon. The two hundred anil fifty-si- x without paying yon a cent if mine explosions studied hy the bureau, president of the Sevier Valley Coul was the principal fqteakcr ranged over a jieriod of fifteen years, eoinpnny, you are sot insured. We write killed four thousand four hundred mid mid told of the work now being done all kinds of insurance in relithirteen men and injured five hundred on the proierties in Salina Canyon. and seventy others. As n result of its Tim members were invited to he the able companies that pay losses findings the bureau urges that extra guests of the enmpiiny at the holdings wns It to voted next should lie in excrrUcd nceept opSunday. vigilance promptly. Every kind for the erations nl these critical ieriodst par- the invitation of Simmer so as to beautomobile at the lowest pcs--. ticularly in the mornings when ninny come conversant with the conditions of the word have taken place, hugely nl Utah's newest coni rami. Bible rates for good protection due to the hazard of accumulation of ABOUT TIIE CAMPS OF THE BIG gus during the night. against firo, theft, damage and CARBON DISTRICT While fire bosses generally try to liability. examine for gas before the men enter I, limp coal from Columbia is being the mine in the morning, sometimes, put in the bin at Trice for $5.50 the owing to there being ton many work- ton. ing places to inspect or to taking a Sain Woodlicad wns in lrice from rhnripc, some is neglected with the reEquitable Real Estate sult that miners entering therein with Kenilworth Tuesday lust. The propopen lights ignite nn accumulation of erties there are going four days a and Investment Go. gas. The period 1nsing between the week on the average. time of inspection and men entering Three sliotfirers were instantly killRepresenting Strong workings is often too long, and, al- ed while working in the Rinrk Hawk AMERICAN COMPANIES though a place may he rlenr when ex- mine nenr Terre Haute, Ind., Inst Friamined, a fall or other causes may re- day. A dust explosion followed a Price, Utah sult in an accumulation of gas which "windy shot and set fire to the ia accidentally ignited. Sometimes a proiwrty. The mine is still burning, rfWYYWVWWVWWYWWAVV Parity Service Station You can put them on now at less than you have been paying for hard, tires. Why Dot save your car, yourself and your .passengers from the wear and tear of the 415,-00- Three truckloads of scrub dairy Were waiting for yon to stop at this station and try our high grada gasoline and motor oils. 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