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Show "" 'irSTAME AND RIX stwresud 4 An Associated Press dispatch on la&t Sunday from Denver, Colo., brings the information that the Denver and Kio Grande Western ia to build its Salina Canyon railroad or rather rebuild it at a cost of about a million dollars. Plana call for a construction program extending over altout five The branch is to leave the years. Sauete Valley line at Salina. Yearly to eijienditures of from seventy-fiv- e a huudrd thousand dollars are railed for. President Pyeatt says: "We have outlined and adopted a program for construction of the branch. This was originally built up the canyon out from Salina thirty years ago. Immediately afterwards it was washed out by the breaking of a reservoir higher up, flooding the ranyuu and tearing out the entire system. Last year we spent much money in getting it in shajte. This summer we are sjiending about 975,000 and will spend from 975,000 to 9100.000 every year tor the next five years. "The state of Utah has constructed a road up the canyon, and preempted our right of way in places and using our old fills. We have negotiated on this and the highway is being reconstructed where necessary. Up to the present time we have completed the grading for about twelve miles in the canyon. There are two new mines up at the upiier end of the canyon, 'which ia rich in coal and mineral resources. These are being opened up gradually, waiting for transportation. By the time the new branch is ready these will be. "The prugram need not be rushed, because coal prices are down at the resent time. By the time the new E rsneh is ojiened up or even before the prices probably will be higher We sre building all standard guage. When completed the best service possible will be started over it. It will be the same as that aeeorded main line patrons. The properties to be tapped are the Sevier Valley Coal and the holdings of the Lund estate at Salt Lake City. The latter consists of about thirty-fiv- e thousand acres of immense veins. Of this some twentyfive thousand are patented and the remainder held under learn and royaltv from the government. California interests are said to be behind the Lund development five-ye- ar and promotion. ( WORLDS FUEL SUPPLY XS XV VERY RAD CONDITION NEW YORK, July 11. As a result of simultaneous labor difficulties in different parts of tjie world nearly 75 per cent of its eoal supply is in jeopardy. Production in the United States, Groat Britain and Canada is menaced just at a time when early winter fuel ia being lifted from the pits. Reports received by the commerce department from agents in all parts of the world indicate that should the threatened general walkout occur in these fields an accute universal fuel crisis cannot be avoided. The United States furnishes on an average between 45 and 55 per rent of the annual world production. The United Kingdom mines abou 25. Germany furnishes about 15 and the remainder ia scattered. lint of 1,350,000,000 tons burned ia 1024 the United States furnished 438,- 420.000 tons and England and Ireland 273.453.000 tons and Canada 11,000,-90- 0 tons. In Oreat Britain the miners contract expired July 1st, hut will be carried, automatically another month in the hope that a solution will be reached. If no agreement ia concluded before August 1st a general strika is threatened. The situation there is somewhat like that in the anthracite fields of the United States. Miners want a wage increase and also shorter hours. Operators want longer hours and shorter wages. In Canada the Nova Scotia fields have been producing no eoal for practically six months. The only miners ojierating Canadian fields around Ediuondton are expected to be called out .within a week. Here in the United States anthra cites miners and operators are meeting for negotiations of a new wage scale. It ia expected that after a few days, in which demands of both aides are presented, the conference may break up with the prospects that a hard eoal strike may be called for August. Additional reports have been received that Indiana bituminous opera-to- ri are opening up their closed union scheme with a mines on a lower wage scale then the union contract permits. Pennsylvania operators are leasing their properties for private Operation at other that the union scaled. ; EFFICIENCY XN WNE BUREAU WORK XS SOUGHT annual rejxrt of Secretary Hoover to the president, under date of November 24th, in which the secretary said: " The dejurtment was lo foster, promote and develop dome-li- e and foreign couimeree, mining, manuindusfacture, shipping and tries and the transiortatiun lacililics. "Excluding all the gcnii-.j- 'j lirial functions in the government re-these matters, and excluding tm -hipping Imard, there are still i urge number of function- - of the k'ml ct forth in the organic act which arc e the department. They lie in seven different departments and indeieiidcnt purpov as the war and navy. There is inevitable overlap, duplication and lack of concentration of purpose. "In the interest of economy, efficiency of administration and better service to the public all of the functions of the government of the rhararter enumerated in the organic act should lie at once concentrated in three differ ent groups (a) industry, (b) lrudj and (e) navigation. Each should Ik under an assistant secretary. "The problem of the secretary of commerce and hia advisers in the reorganization of the bureau of mines and in planning its activities is to avoid overlaps and duplications of effort, to fill existing gaps to increase efficiency with the thought beyond all use of greater service to the industries cre-t'er- fi-hi- t Your CraM Youmight as well roc while you wait V J binder HAIL DEPARTMENT mokane. " 'gpokane, Wash., July 13, 1925 part, Co. Equitable Real Estate & Inv. Price. Utah. issued thru Dear Sir: 0f Rain claims on policies issued in pajment drafts find Enclosed please given below. your agency, as per statement assureds. to the Please deliver drafts ng pe -- Wewillanveyouhom,. money by welding you and broken machinery out-id- involved. "As the work of the bureau of mines is concerned in great measure with eoal this industry is most vitally interested in the questions involved. Whether the bureau of mines is to continue to function as a purely technical and scientific body, as proposed y some or whether the commercial, ndustrial research or economic problems of the industry are to be injected into thia work, is of less immediate concern to the eoal industry than the of the questions of the work of the various bureaus of the reorganized department of commerce having to do with eoal, oils, minerals, iron and steel, chemicals and aoforth. "The work of the bureau of standards of the department of commerce and of the bureau of mines heretofore with the interior have both been strictly technical and acientifie iu character, except for the administrative service, studies in safety and mining experiment stations and operation of government fuel yards. ACCIDENTS AT THE MINES IN MAY OF THIS YEAR Accidents aQcoatmines in the United States in May last resulted in the loss of one hundred eighty-on- e lives, according to reports made by the various state mine inspectors to the United States bureau of mines of the department of commerce. The death-rat- e for the month wee 4.15 per million tons of eoal produced as compared with 3.33 for May, 1924. The increased fatality was due mainly to an explosion at Sanford, N. CL, on May e 27th and in which lives were sacrificed, and to still another at Piper, Ala., on May 31st that killed six men. Without these two disasters the rata for the month would have been 2.80 per million tons of eoal pro- AT duced. For bituminous mines alone the ree ports showed one hundred and fatalities, including the two explosions mentioned. At the production of bituminous in May was tons, the fatality rate was 4.03 as compared with 2.08 for May, 1924, and 3.29 for the month of May For during the ten years anthracite mines alone the deathrate from accidents in May was 4.67 per million tons, based on a production of 8,134,000 compared with a death-rat- e of 4.78 tor May last year and a ten year average rate of 5.555. Records compiled by the bureau for the first five months of 1925 show that nine hundred and thirty men lost their lives in accidents at the mines. The total production of eoal during the period was 234,978,000 tons, Linking the fatality rate 3.96 per million. For the corresponding months of last year the rate wee 4.82. The five months rate for bituminous alone was 3.59 in 1925 and 4.73 in 1924, while for anthracite alone it was 5.90 as compared with 5.29 in 1924. Production records show an output of 37,259,000 tons of anthraeite and 197,719,000 of bituminous the first five months of the present y ear. Six major disasters with a total loss of one hundred and fifty-fou- r lives oeeured during the first five months of the present year as compared with five and a loea of three hundred and eighty-fou- r lives for the correspond ing months of 1924 A "major disaster ia defined as an accident causing five or more deaths. The fatality rate per million tons baaed exclusively on major disasters was 0.66 for the months of January to Mav, 1925, and L59 for the same period last year. An examination of the cause of that have occurred thus far in 1925 shows a substantial reduction in the deathrate per million tons eaused bv explosions of gas or eoal dust, a slight increase in haulage accidents anil no material change for those due to explosives, electricity and falls of forty-thre- 1915-192- 4. An T,. uL B.uS Th. lloy Scouts and .h,PrillataU LlyXXSTf 01 IGtK. paying in full th. amount of th. polk July'nVh W.Shtta 'QuItABLE ' OMCKl oxy-acetyle- ne is as good as new. wtLto PRICE WELDING Yi REAL ESTATE & INVESTMENT CO. Second Floor Silvagni Building, Price, Utah the interior at Washington, D C. The first one comprises eighteen hundred acres in the Book Cliffs about eleren miles south of Sunnyaide. The govern- ment will collect royalty of 12 cents a ton fur eoal mined and a minimum investment in ojieratioii of 975,000 during the firat three years and a production of fifty thousand tons a year beginning with the fourth year of the lease must be made. The second tract includes eight hundred seres in Pleasant Valley district of the Wasatch plateau field, about three miles west of Clear Creek. Lease for thia is at the rate of ten cents per ton for that mined, a minimum investment of 900,000 the first three yean and a production of fifty thousand tons annually, beginning with the fourth year lease. The sale of the two leases will be made through the land office in Salt Lake City. The official notice from the department appear elsewhere in this impression of The Sun. Here is tiie Kind, of protection every man should have Are the shoes of While other washers exert to wash a tub of themselves clothes in fifteen minutes the Maytag, without effort, does it in three to seven minutes twice as fast. How Joe s It do it? through the marvelous Gyra-foaPrinciple the most efficient washing principle ever m cWashev Cyrafoam cwm cast sum mu tv m Truth May tog wmsh with tL Ceil iu and ut will bring one to your home. There' no obligation. FOR FREE DEMONSTRATION PHONE MAYTAG SHOP TSB East Mala street. Pries Utah Tslepheae 434 Oaa el a chala af latsrawaataia Stares aelllM Martas Washers aad Ireasre axdaaivsly. Satiefactiea Guraatesd. martuea of say peads ia line msses 1 eorroctaesa of disability the company will dition. 5. tbs tiny tots and tbs hqu aad firla too shots h Pay $5,000 to your beneficiary when you dio If disability involves loss of limbo or sight as n result of accident, the. company wOl pay you $5,000 in cash, immiiiaielj, in addition to all other benefits. voariag tnalittss m CtrbM-EmetjStir- I. e!' iaerisiY West Coast Life retha. INSURANCE COMPANY Hwae Office-H- aa Frsacfare n Coal Hl-He- al la Bte VknMalM AMERICAS STRONGEST COMPAnTbT Tui-leti- j Dwted SALT LAKE BRANCH OFFICE PIFTH FLOOR FELT BUILDING Dist Mgr, Price, Utnh. Otto C. Reichert, Dist. Mgr, Helper. Utah and the very large reserves estimated to lie contained in them are dscribed in a report entitled "Oenlugv and Coal Resources of the Axial and Monument Butte Quadrangles, Moffat, Colo., which has just been issued hv the department of the interior as 757 of the geological survey. In addition to a discussion of the genial ad glected. Ia csss af Maparaiv disability ss a resuk af iMg skknra ar sod dan t, as caayaay will pay yea $31 m pak fsc a link of S3 waste or footuwr. mar frocks. Wt hsm ttn 3. Pay you $50 per month for 1&; and 4m Del you win find lowly Asr foctly styled, to xceoapm 1. Waive. all premium payments 2. Pay you $23 per week for one year; aad In ad- ONE does it do it? 7 if yoadU from natural eanaea If yon die front accident Ia caw of permanent total $5,000 10,000 Tory Valuable Bads. The approaching completion of the Moffat tunnel and the possible extenfrom sion of the "Moffat railroad Craig, Colo., to Provo in Utah, lends direct interest to the Yampa River. The beds in this area contain fuel chiefly of bituminous rank. They occur in the Mesaverde geologie formation and are in the main similar to those now being mined along the Moffat line between Craig and Oak Creek, Culo. Extensive exploitation of this area will depend upon the further extension of railroad facilities and Uon the ability of new mines to compete with those already established in the eastern part of the Yampa field. Many thick veins are present in the area and the details of their distribution fifty-thre- WASHINGTON. D. C., July 11. is not likely that the name of the department of commerce ia to be dumped to the department of mines and industry, seconding to an authoritative source today. Recent reports concerning the nature of the plan of reorganisation within the department of commerce of the activities of the bureau of mines and the mineral resources section of the United States geological survey, resulting from tbs transfer of those bodies to the department of commerce, were set it rest in this unofficial statement: "The pro- roof. position to place the work of mines Two Tracts For Least. and industry under an assistant secreTwo leases of eoal lands were but retary in the department of commerce had perhaps its inception in the last cently authorized by the secretary of It Would You AMERICA COMPANY OF NORTH i siuqiended for a brief ierind, but I do not exiect serious consequences, ha says. George E. Forrester, several yean Minas At Rains, Cartel Utah. Minars and Lump, Nut, Slack and Sixes of past acting treasurer of the United States Fuel cnnitanv with offices at Salt Lake City, is leaving there thia week to make his home in California lands withdrawn by geology and sedimentary formations exiNMcd, the rejmrt also shows il.e general land office in Garfield and structure contours the slos of .he IVaync counties have been ordered recoal hearing rocks. stored to public entry because the of the geological survey has Union Endorses Action. classified them as l, according fINDON', Jiih' II. General coun- to announcement received by Eli F. sel for the Trade Union congress is- Tavlor. register of the Salt Lake City sued a manifesto endorsing refusal of land office, last Friday. the miners federation to meet proThe Pittsburg and Midway Coal posals railin' for lower wages and a Mining company has purchased rights workin longer day is withdrawn. The on approximately three thousand aix eonvre-- s pledged assistance to miners acres of lands in the vicinity of Parin every way. This virtually ends the sons, Kan. efforts toward mediation conducted sand dollarsAbout two hundred thouwas aid. It is underbv the government. Inquiry into the stood that the eoal to be mined will be whole dispute is expected. The mani- useil by the Missouri, Kansas and Texfesto blames the owners for the as and that the road will he indirectly ent crisis in the eoal industry. preslptertfittd in the mining company Tests have revealed highgrede down ABOUT THE CAMPS OF THE BIO about eight hundred feet. The vein in CARBON DISTRICT sixty-foinches thick. The soft eoal industry faces a ser-loMines in Sullivan countv, Ind., due to decrease in demand crisis, of them closed down since many nd the increased coats of are gradually resuming work andApril operation. the prisqieets are bright for increased ac- Nearly eleven and a half billion dol-E,There are fifteen tivity in the field. The Verdigris River Coal companT. and fifty thousand miners. Few of the controlled by Eastern cspital, has ob- properties are making tained options on but approximately thirty-- many are losing and aany money, one thousand one hundred acres of laige number II ' estimated that lands about four miles southwest of the productive of the minea rapacity Kan. The eoal is down Indepdence, opened double the requirements e,ght hundred feet and the vein ofjhe country. The is said to le thick and of oil. and good qUal-itdi-ret- or Of tha Vary Highte W Beat Tor Furnaces and All Other Urns. OM flees, Cliff Buildis& W City. non-coa- L. F. RAINS Franidsnt and Oensnl ' Hl-He- at Coal Where ur la Bed C" us n! '" y- H Continued What i, considered a new worlds won! in production was made at IhTntL" Zfe?lih.VNewv0nrnt last Saturday min the t? T' ,,f tv-si- x hun-ihl- frontage by lrod fourteen and a half f latent In hnn-a- d y V tons was held by at Vallier, Ills twenty-fiv- e R- - M,n,nt Iralions mav be W. CROCKETT Price, Utah rvire that la el jamt (tare re da tto reJTjg ta tort thaa tha aad aaaKary lag hwJJ3 hw5 hacked hjr ow IM aa flsare tiiaf am EfDPUlHEiCI? IS North rRI& $0" UA fta A4iol, Daria Auto company on tha South Main Tenu may be arranged. JjSkSi JJJS I p,gg Kiht) LOT FOR SALE hundred and Jil,l,nin,)u, that filled a hundred and fourteen railroad rare. dredlnT Qn Your Problti number, of alleged turned during and afW eept those in which tbert ' able ehanee of eonvietw dropped by the men accused were alre vice, while others bad cm, j, tional guard unite beW" are dead J |