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Show THE BUN, PRICE, FAGS TWO FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1928 FRIDAY UTAH-EVE- RY WHOLE COUNTRY SHOWS FALLING OFF IN OUTPUT OF BITUMINOUS Everything In Hardware and Building Material, The Sun Bpeeiul Service. RIVAL OF SUNNY8IDE IS NOW WASHINGTON, I). (!., March 15. BEING DEVELOPED with During tin seven day ending March Oth including lignite and coal Has the Gordon I 'reck district cokcoked at the mines the production of ing coal? What is declared to be one of the most interesting developments bituminous the country over is now of late years is the opening recently estimated at 19,509,9110 net tons. This of a deposit in that section of Carbon ghows a decrease compared with that comity, which gives promise says in the preceding week of .'190,000 or Salt Lake's Tribune of Sunday last of yielding an excellent quality. Tin 3.6 per cent. However, it. is greater by product comes from the property now 12 ier cent than in the rorresKmding being opened up and almost ready for week of hint year. The point reached 'hipmeuts of the Sweet interests. I'ru-ribl- c retort, laboratory anil rrude oven on March litli lies between and close have given the same result, tests 1922-3-4- . in In both these and analloven to those test now being conducted years the industry still felt the stimu- by the Chicago Byproducts Coke comlation following the great strike of pany of Chicago, Ills, Action of the ion home furnace is re1922. Production of soft during the coal in a sponsible for a sample being forwarded present eoal year to Mareh Oth ap- to State Chemist Herman Harms for proximately two hundred and eight determination. The result indicated days is now 505,092,000 tons. that it was of a coking character. Fur That for Utah for the week ending on ther tests from samples taken from faces in the mine were made l.y Febniarv27th is now estimated at the bureau of mines with similar re- 13,200 tons, For the same jieriod in suits. 'Then a sample was forwarded 1925 it wuh 12,0(10 and for the name to the Koppers laboratory, Pittsburg, time a year previous 12,700. Utah ami Pa., and former determinations were thus ronfirmed. The Washington combined are credit ed contains this comment:Koppers report with four thousand tons of coke for Box Coke Teit the seven days ending with Fehruarv coal exhibited definite coking This 27th. properties in the laboratory test, hut is of such an unusual quality and the Briquets More Popular in the volatile matter is so much higher than Quite an increase occurred the extreme range for coking coals manufacture of fuel briquets during llhat Wl. wollK, Phone 111 or 26 Price, Utah IMjt fl.c, justiic(1 in 1925. Production amounted to 839.370 muking a definite prediction on coktons, an increase over 1924 of 258,900 ing behavior from the laboratory test. would recommend that a sample or 45 per rent. This is the highest for We he forwarded to the Chicago Byprodthe industry in this rnuiitry, indicat- ucts Coke company for a box coke ing not only suhsl initial progress in test. The byproducts were very satisthe eajmeity of the rating plants, factory, the ash, sulphur and phosbut the Missibilities in times of coal phorus contents being remarkably low. The coal is of coking type, Imt a box shortage. Fuel briquet manufacturing coke test is desirable to determine the in 1925 received its great iiuHtus structural quality of the roke." The determination as made hy the is badly off. But not to the extent it almut six miles, at a cost of $1,225,-OOfrom the susMiision of the production of antliraejte, which began September Koppers laboratory, which developed would he had the emergency rurc been the byproducts process used hy the refused. On the other hand voting the 1st and continued through the end of Columbia These improvements call for more. Steel rnroration at Iron-to- subsidy only postponed a settlement the year. For the period of January- To take care of the large infulx of as well as the test made liv State of definite in a the industry's problem the Chemist Herman the Independent Coal and shows 1925, this Harms, laborers, lines. And average production August, way on purely economic carbon. there lias attached an aggravated situ- - Coke company will erect fifty new tier mouth was 48,729 tuns as against analysis of the roke: as i. 8.2; volatile matter, ation owing to the increase in taxes dwellings this summer. The building tu'r 34,859 in the enrrsjKinding period in ?L3 1.5 per cent; sulphur, 971. and plios the subsidy has brought about. It' un of the town has been just as marr, Scptrmbcr-Dcecnibe1924. During pliorus, 0.005. This approximates very still has some of its life to run. velous as has the mine. In the begin1925, however, when no domestic sizes rlosrly the analysis of the celebrated The royal commission has recomthis was a tent villiage. Now of anthracite were lieing produced, Birmingham coke, which is used ex- mended state ownership of the mines ning all of the houses are mod'Tactically the West. tensively throughout the with private direction of industry. ern with beautiful lawns and briquets ht month averaged 112,789 gardens It spoke emphatically against nationErect Oven At Mine tons. Some of this was due, obviously the:m. de- - HOUR mGON to real insurance tscrvice Paints, Varnishes, Glass, and complete protccti Electrical Supplies, Plumbing Supplies, Sporting Goods y-a- ix HITCH strom companies In otner words Insure your car 'with Equitable Real Estate and Investment Company Second Floor Silvagni Bldg. PRICE, UTAH C. H. STEVENSON LUMBER COMPANY ONE PIECE OR A CARLOAD 0c Corner Main and 10th St. z: K. Frank Gentry. In July the Liberty Fuel company was organized by F. X. Cameron and associates. Prosjecting had proven that two guod workable Since beds of roal were available. that time all work has been under the dirertion of George A. Schultz, superintendent for the company. Active construction work was commenced in September, 1917. Sam C. Slierrell uf Salt Lake City built the first twenty houses and the tipple. A Mr. Morris of Price did the grading for the railroad yards. The mine was opened upon the side of the hill and reached by a steep tramway. On account of the tremendous demand for eoal brought about by war conditions, it was soon discovered that housing facilities and mine eqnipmnt were inadequate. Therefore, during the next few years new dwellings were increased to eighty-seveOne of the finest offices in the county was constructed U. n, to the increased fall and winter demand, hut during the same four months in 1924 the average monthly production was only 77,995 tons. The inrrease for 1925 wns general in the of the rotin-trthree grand It was greatest in the Eastern States, where the tonnage was more than double that for 1924, 37 per cent in the Central States and 8 per cent in the Pacific Coast States, The total quantity of raw eoal used was 844,590 net tons, an increase over 1924 of 291,225 or 45 per cent. Of the total 46 tier eent was anthracite and 40 per rent e slack, roke and reanil and 14 sidue. During the year one plant in , which had been idle Pennsj-lvnniawent out nf busiof all 1924, during ness. There were added, however, during 1925 five others lueated in the five states uf California, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Anthracite and Coke. sub-divisio- Supplementing this scientific research, C. N. Sweet, president of the Sweet Coal Company, erected a small behive oven at the mine and during the past wrrk has been conducting some tests of a practical character. Samples of coke made in the test were taken to Salt Lake City last Saturday and further confirm the opinions regarding the coking properties. Deposits of coking coal are rare in the West. Only two have been developed n ln Utah, one by the Utah buel pany at Sunnyside and the other by the Columbia Strel corporation at Columbia, both in Carbon county. Be- cause of the rarity of coking coal the development of Utah's iron resources was delayed a number of years. The extent of the deposit of probable coking coal in the Gordon Creek district is as yet undetermined. Development of the property was undertaken only a few months ago. just prior to the completion of the National Coal railway. which is to serve the Sweet mine and other properties along Gordon Creek. Good Neighborhood, This Keorts indicate that there arc three vrins or scams of roal in the district. The lowest, which is being worked by the Sweet rompany. is approximately ninc and a half feet thick. The next above shows a thickness of about nine fret at the outcropping, and the top one is about fourteen. .Vo tests to determine the coking qualities of the other scams, nor of the roal obtained in the lowest seam in adjoining prop- rrties. have hecn made, The (iordon I'reek district is approximately eighteen miles from Price and surrounded on three sides by districts which have been under devrlop- - y. inn-rase- ua semi-rok- nil-gn- alizatbn and termed subsidies as fcuselrss. There is talk of the government's continuing the subsidies in the form of loans. The miners are not pleased with the tenor of the report. The owners are not yet in accord with the state ownership, privately operated recommendation. The government wonders where the 100,000,000 pounds it will require to purchase the royalties of the (nines wili come front. The miners are taking the attitude that the whole ques- rests with the owner and the government. That Fremier Baldwin recognizes the importance of the issue is in his railing together representatives of the owners and of the miners for a frank discussion of the commission's report, asking that both sides give it serious consideration in a dispassionate wav. In the meantime the cabinet is to have the Question put squarely before it as one that must he if any advance is to be made in bringing about a state of peace and prosperity in the kingdom. eom-'tio- u Continuing the decline' which early in February and gained momentum with the resumption of anthracite mining the production of beehive coke during the week ended on March 9th amounted to 295, 990 net tons. Compared with that during the preceding week this shows a loss of 55,900 tons or almut 17 per eent, practically all of which was within the state of lViin- ,ylv.ni. The retort ta , ..f to March Gth is during the year now 3,049,090 tons. Compared with output during the cnrreionding per- - 011 bc south iotl in 1925 the present year shows amounts received over and .,J,nalc gain of 621,000 tons or almut 26 per al,ove thf actlia cost of the insuranrei rent. so long as the insured remains in the Production of anthracite during the fund. The Spring Canyon company. week elided March 9th is estimated at McShanc says, was for a time insured in the fund and then became a 0 1,787,900 net tons, an increase of it had already left or 11 per eent over. the revised the fund, Although the company participated in figure for the preceding week. This is ,rertuii distributions by the commisto an aggregate sum of thousands practically the same output recorded sion of dollars. is week the 2 and last iu June, but for 1 have always been of the opinion." per cent less than the average for the declares' McShanc, "that this money weeks iu the present coal was given back without legal sanctwenty-twtion. Now that it lias made an issue year preceding the susviisi m. Com- of the matter, in all probability the pared with the rurmqioiiiliiig week in commission will authorize the institu1925 the gain is 132,000 tons or nlMiut tion of a counter claim against it for 8 Hr rent. the return of the money paid to it after it had ceased insuring in the SUIT MAY SERVE TO TEST THE fund. This will serve to test the law both ways. OTHER SIDE, TOO - rSi'S j self-insur- 178,-00- o BRITAIN HAS BIG PROBLEM ON Spring Canyon Coal rompany asks HANDS AT PRESENT an accounting of its premiums paid in and insurance paid out of the state insurance fund during the year July 1, With the release this week of the 1917. to June .U). PH 8, in a suit filed royal commission's report to Premier against the state industrial ronmtission Baldwin and the cabinet on the situain the Third Ihstrirt court at Salt tion confronting England over its coal I.ake City last Saturday. It is claimed industry thrre has arisen more than a that it paid into the fund more than spector of trouble, says last Saturday's enough to meet all obligations to em- Salt Lake Tribune editorially. It will ployes and their dependents, in addi- be reinemhrred that this rommission tion to administration costs, and that wns given its task at the time the. a large surplus was created. O. K. government created a tremendous subMcShanc, chairman of the commis- sidy to present a shutdown of the ension, says that it is his understanding tire mining industry, a course admitted that the case will test a feature nf the at the time as forced, and accented a industrial art relative to the distribu- it was put forth in lieu of industrial tion to policyholders in the state fund chaos which surely would have followed the cessation of production. At of any surplus that mav accrue. time Britain was badly off from It is the commission's unilrrstaitd- - 'that : ing of the law that such refunds are its unemployment problem. It still Footwear For Spring surrounding In 1997 the big Kenilworth Mercantile store was built and in 1911 the auditorium was erected, which served as the place of amusements until on February 22d of this year, when it was burned down. This building will be replaced this summer by a new one more modern and better adapted to the needs of the community. Kenilworth was so named because there are three high cliffs immediate- also. ly above the town that resemble the rock tunnel was In 1920 a 2200-fothree towers of Kenilworth Castle in driven from the into the coal tipple Scotland. seam for the nurpose of lessening the and increasing production. In EXPERIMENT WITH ROCK DUST grade 1921 a large and powerful electric MOST SATISFACTORY with other equipment was added to the mine. The coal all lies Engineers of the bureau of mines at to the rise. Advantage is taken of Washington, D. G. last Friday in lowered trips to the cussing before the committee on mines this, so that the tipple generate electricity. This is a anj nijn;nK a bin to establish addition-ett!c- d distinctive feature. The eycle of opa, reacue gtationg in the coal mining regions, stated that what appeared to eration is such that as the main inbe an absolute prevention of explo- side hoist lowers its eleven car trip a sions had been developed, and was distance of fifty-eighundred feet WOODHEAD TELLS OF being gradually introduced in this the first one is pulling up its four JACK country. Experiments by the bureau, thousand foot trip and consuming the THE EARLY DOINGS as well as actual tests in properties of and vice versa. Kenilworth is located under the France and in England have demon- power mine has a solid rock top and is if The strated dust that rock ordinary northern rim of the high plateau wall over mine floors, ex- bottom. The width of the seam is befreely ,!,at partly ..aria. Car. .T,k to dust will not occur. In tween eight and nine feet. The coal MiMidhead in plosions wriles young Jark France dust is now universally used is very conveniently handled on a 7 the March Kith edition ot the ( arhon ;,i all mines, ami explosions are un- I'ominnnii-atorPrice school newspn- - known. In Britain the use is com- - per cent grade leading to the different rooms right and left, thus affording per. It is almut six hundred miles west pulsory under the law. The bureau of The of Denver, Polo., a hundred and thirty- - mines has hecn experimenting with excellent working conditions. mine is sprinkled daily with roekdust. fjVl, w,th and east of Suit Lake City. American mines, and has found dust The Edison safety lamp is used by all Coal mining is its chief industry. On to he an absolute preventive, have been tcst that miners. The property is electrically ari'urate ',s a wnnn July day in 1994, William in workings where dust was used in lighted and all firing is done by elecH. I jiw ley, Ilclier J. . Uwcll, Henry but not throughout the tricity only, when everyone is out of gome ade atul Arthur A. Sweet left 1 rice ,ninCi piarcgiwhere anj explosions occurred the mine. This mine has the best roof for this vicinity in search of null and jn the passages the cxplo-whihave been checked when they condition of any in the state and is they found in Coal Gulch. considered one of the safest. mediately these men formed the Aber- - reached the dusted areas. In one in The original store, which was built deeu Coal eninpauv (later called the Illinois, it was testified, eleven Coil company) and jjred miners' lives recently were saved by S. X, Marehetti, is now used for s 'hcn an l,sc ' rc.h garage. In 1918 the present mercanbought three quarter sections from the ity tile house, bv the same owner, ji as es13 bl.T'K.d! S" h rhis company sold to J. A. Sweet .The bureau is convinced that neither tablished. One corner of this structure is the jmstoffirc, which wns esn consideration of ventilation nor water will Co.,, in 1995 prevent ex- $89,099. Ventilation particularly is tablished in 1929, with Mrs. K. M. plosions. Tliev liegan development work. An ineffective, as tests have shown that Rottino as the first postmistress. Beincline up the mountainside fora dis- T5'!?'0'0"? occur only when the dust fore this event mail was brought to mot.on and the ventilating fans Lntuda by residents of the ramp and lance of about three hundred yards to add to rather than dimmish distributed by the store clerk. The the coal seam was constructed to eon- - therefore the danger. company furnished the first two yey the product to a tipple. A railroad Following the explosion in the us the Kenilworth and Helper Hie Cate No. 2 mine of the Utah Fuel sehnolhnuses which were commandeerwas built from the main line of the company, two years ago. the industrial ed by Miss Kuby Ktewart, now Mrs. Denver and ltio lirande, a distance of commission of Utah adopted rcgula-abo- Donnelly and wife of General Superthree miles. This was cuinplet- - !tion making use of dust rompulsory intendent Donnelly of the Carbon Fuel conipnny. These buildings were ed in the MI of 1995 and coal was'n i1' state, soon outgrown. In 1921 a large, mod& out the market. for Strevell shipped HISTORY OF SPRfflQ CANYON S ern, four-rooschool house made of Patterson of Salt Iaiko City native stone taken from the nearby LATUDA PROPERTY interested and later on were the chief mountainside, was built hy the Carbon owners. The company was then known hoard of education. and CW .Win,.,, A modern change room and bath uown hs sue . ss (previously sustained roalheds the Ln- this management ,tuda is largely the result of accident, house for employes wns built in 1923. run ,1,ni until 1919 when J. II. Tonkin took;snvs Carbon Communicator school In 1924 a new resereening plant was added to the Every departoyer the general management. Since pa'per-- in its issue of last Wednesday, ment bead who tipple. asaiidcd in opening up then he has made many substantial March Kith. A branch of the Denver and organizing the camp and permanent iinproycnienls. The'ad Ki (Mnde Western railroad the projK-rtis still with the company. During tlu new rock tunnel on a level with the passed it bv for vears, pople panic tipple was made to intercept the eoalB,i went, noting 'onl y croppings of immediate future this mine is to have installed a loading machine of vein two miles from the surfuee at a, what was apparently just burned over const ruction and later in the speciala cost of close to a half million dollurs. year scnjiis of once ruluahlc coal. In 1917, second one will be put in. These maImprovements hnve not ceased, hut just after this country entered the chines will no doubt revolutionize the rather just begun. Shortly this war, Frank Lntud.i-f- ter pany will erect a new tipple on the whom our eomniunitv wns named, and coni industry in this camp. The production has increased to 148,000 tons east side winch will practically double j who is the president of the Liberty in 1925. This is a the output of eoal. INork is now un-- . Fuel gain of 10 cent, pompniiy appreciating the whereas most mines in the jht district way whereby the Denver and 11 io nmnd for more eoal, instituted prelim-(irniudecreased ill output. Western will construct a newjinarv ting. This was done The future of the camp seems quite line from Spring Canyon June- - tween prosier April and July of that year by tion up to Keniworth, a distance of'J. B. Forrester, Charles Leger anil (Continued On rage Four) n. Spring footwear isnt an item yon can delay purchasing until late in the season. It is essential to start with the new. And, being in immediate need, our stores offer the latest fashions for every member of the family in a number of new designs. Street shoes and afternoon slippers, sport shoes and evening slippers all are new styles and lasts and are of high grade leather. The prices are very moderate. Carbon-Emer- y Stores Co. Hiawatha, Heiner and West Hiawatha GEORGE McDERMAID Superintendent ot rd Spring Canyon Coal Co. sub-stati- ht 'J r,.,y. , j non-dust- ed Miners and Shippers of the Celebrated Spring Canyon Coal Mines at SPRING CANTON, UTAH General Offices, 817 Newhoose Building. Salt Lake City, Utah ch s j .. ! rj fcrS' ! Cas-kno- United States Fuel Go. Largest Producers of Domestic Coal In Utah." Producing the Famous KING BLACK HAWK HIAWATHA and PANTHER ut m e 0,l COALS .d . com-(wor- ld ( de-d- cr lc L Highest effirlency. Government equivalent 2104 lbs. rneqnatled for storage. Will not stark. The beat for eteamlng and heating qnalltiea. INDEPENDENT COAL COKE COMPANY A at Kenilworth. Utah. Gen-arOffices Walker Bank Unilding Mines al SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ch H libber stamps to order. The Sun. |