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Show 1 FAGS TWO THE SUN PRICE, UTA H E VERY FRIDAY Friday, Everything In Hardware and Building Material, . The Sun Special RIVAL Or SUNNTSIDE 18 NOW 3 WASHINGTON,, D.(, March 15. BEING DEVELOPED the davft ncwii During ending with ft March fith including lignite and coal Has the Gordon Creek district cok? i coal hat is declared to he oiu coked at I lie mines the production of ing of the most interesting developments bituminous the cuuntry ocr in now of late years is the opening recently estimated at net tun,. This of a deposit in that section of Carhon shows a ilecreae com mred with that county, which gives promise says in the preceding week of 31MI.WHI or Salt Lakes i'rihunr of Sunday last 3.6 jxr cent. However, it is greater hy of yielding an excellent quality. The 12 th. last year. The jaunt naehed j shipments of the Sweet interests. Cru- .. on March (itli lies between and close cilile retort, laboratory and crude oven to those in 1922-3-In both these tests all have given the same result, and an o vc n test now being conducted years the industry still felt the stimu- by the byproducts Coke comlation iidlowing the great strike of pany ofChicago Chicago, Ills. Action of the 1922. Production of soft during the coal in a Zion home furnace is responsible for a sample being forwarded present coal year to March tit h ap- to State Chemist Herman Harms for proximately two hundred and eighty-si- x determination. The result indicated is now 000 505,092, tons. that it was of a coking character. Furdays That Ibr Utah for the week ending on ther tests from samples taken from at , ref art ,n the mine were made by February 27th is now ilh li.lrni,ar 13,200 tons. For the same period in t?" a ,ni,,rs, sa,V!,p wa forwarded i ttn 12.000 and for (he same to the U Koppers laboratory, Pittsburg, time 'car pTerbois 12,700. Utah and l a., and former determinations were tniix confirmed. The Koppers report rffditr! contains Washington this comment: with four thousand tons of fl,r Box Coke Teat thp seven days ending with February -coal exhibited definite coking Tm. tfth. the laboratory test, hut smr, Briquets Mora Popular A volatile matter is so miu liihrr tlisu Quite an increase occurred in the the coals range for cokn. Phone 111 or 26 Price. Utah manufacture of fuel briquets during that extreme Corner Main and 10th St. we Mould not feel justified .. 11125. Production amounted to 8,19,3.9 .making a definite predicition on cok- tons, an incmise over 1924 of 25H,9in) inn behavior from the laboratory test. or 45 per rent. This is the highest for be e would recommend that a sample to the Chicago byprodthe industry in this country, indicat- uctsforwarded Coke company for a box coke in not substantial test. Theby products were very satis- only ing progress the rapacity of the nxrating plants, factory, the ash, sulphur aim pliorus contents being re- --a- . r p,low. lut tlie Nissihilitics in times of coal The bly . coal is of cnl Fuel .vpr. ,,H, a ,?x briquet manufacturing coke test is shortage. . . uesirable to determine the in 1925 received its great iinjctns slril(.. .,ural quality of the cuke. from the xii'Miixinn of the products" The determination as made hy the is badly off. but not to the extent it about 8ix miles, at a coat of $1,225,- - Frank Gentry. In July the Liberty of anthracite, which lxga bomber Koppcr. laboratory, which developed would be had the emergency cure been 090. Fuel eumpany waa organized by F. N. llie 1st and rontino byproducts process used hy the refused. On the other hand voting the j1(, ,,ll(j f Columbia Cameron and associates. Prospecting Iron-toThese more. for Steel call iiuirovements rorioration at the only postponed a settlement To as well as the test made hv Slate ofuhsidy year. For the i xriod of January- had proven that two good workable take of the of eare infulx the industrys problem in a definite large t Herman liariiis. shows this Since August, 1925, the average production on purely economic lines. And litfmrers, the IndeHideiit Coal and beds of eoal were available. way 'ixed carbon, there has attached an aggravated situ- Coke ar month mu 4S,72t! Ions as against ;mdysi of tlie coke: volatile company will erect fifty new that time all work has been under the matter, ation owing to trie increase in taxes dwellings this summer. The building direction of George A. Schultz, and phos- - the subsidy has brought about. It un of the town has been just as marfor the company. 1924. During Scptemher-Dcreiiihephnrus, 0.00?, This approximates very still has some of its life to run. Active construction work was comvelous ns hus the mine. In the begin-inin- g 1925, however, when no domestic sixes closely the analysis of the celebrated The royal commission has recom-o- f this was a tent rilliage. Now menced in September, 1917. Sam C. coke, which is used ex- - minded slate the mines juf authriieite wer lnMiijf produced, birmiiigbam ownership the house are mod Kherrell of Salt Lake City built the civ throughout the West, iw .11 with private direction of the industry. r molt til averaged 112,780 briquets with n beautiful lawns and gardens first twenty houses and the tipple. nation-It j against Oven Erect spoke cinpl.atically At Mine tons. Some of this was due, obviously A Mr. Morris of Price did the grading them deJ as subsidies and alization termed umninumg to the increased fall and winter dethis scientific reSupplementing for the railroad yards. The mine was 1907 MercanKenilworth tlie In big mand, hut during the same four search, C. N. Sweet, president of the tile store was built and in 1911 the opened npon the side of the hill and mniitlia in 1924 the average monthly Sweet Coal Conqiany, erected a small bchive oven at the mine and during auditorium was erected, which served reached, by a steep tramway. On acproduction was only 77,905 tons. Tim of amusements until on count of the tremendous demand for me owners are as the plaee i co"ductjnK tenor ot tne report, increase for 1925 was general in the a 22d of this year, when it eoal brought about by war eonditiona, p'jac?,ca, cJ,actcr- not yet in accord with the state owner- - February three grand of the cun- - Simp' was This building will it was soon discovered that housing . burned down. recommenda-tryprivately operated w;re.ship, Jjt)e!nl',nlthe. ,ast. $atur,ay tion. The government wonders where be replaced this summer by a new one facilities and mine equipmnt were inIt wax greatest in the Kh stern V1 ", ! ?.,?!.,?n,wre'ithe 100.000,0(X) pounds h will require mure modern and better adapted to adequate. Therefore, during the next States, where the toimsge was more Mrdinc-- 1 few years new dwelling were increasproperties. De- - to purchase the royalties of the mines the needs of the community. than double that for 11)24, inn-ease:! route from. The miners are takposits ot coking coal are rare in the will One of the finest Kenilworth was so named because ed to eighty-seve37 per rent in the Central States and West. Only two have been developed ing the attitude that the whole ques- - there the offices in was constructed in I'tai, rtn- - i.J T. i!..i b i county are three high eliffe immediate8 per rent in the l'arifie Coast States. also. above town "y the ly the that resemble WmI V f W government. rock tunnel was In 1920 a 2200-foThat Premier Baldwin recognizes three towers of Kenilworth Castle iA driven an increase over Columbia, both in Carbon from the tipple into the eoal county. of is Scotland. issue the the importance of 201,225 or 45 jier rent. Of the 'cause of the rarity of coking coal the aeam for the purpose of lessening the in his calling togethrr repre- total 40 ier cent was anthracite and development of Utahs iron resources smtativrs of the owners and of the EXPERIMENT WITH BOCK DUST grade and increasing production. In 1921 a large and powerful electric 0VTi? L 40 jier cent senii-h- in,incr for a I extent M0ST SATISFACTORY . deposit of probable cok- with other equipment was tummou Mack, mke and aemi-eok- e inn coal in the Gordon Creek distri ct I V added to the mine. The eoal all lice and 14 re-- is a yet undetermined. Development rfinLss!onaV and oil-g- a KnKineer the of of bureau mines at wav to the rise. Advantage ia taken of sidne. During the year one plant Prp",jr was undertaken only j thePcai,inrt t0 j,'avp ,j,e m.stion nut VVashington, D. C, last Friday in this, so that the lowered trips to the which had idli tipple generate electricity. This is a during all of 1924, went out of lui n r wisis i, distinctive feature. The eyele of opdur-lannnw. There d added, however, other regions, stated that what appeared to eration is such that as the main in he an absolute prevention of explo- side hoist lowers its eleven car ing 1925 five othem located in the five j t reck, trip a sions had been developed, and was distance of fifty-eigGood Neighborhood, This at at ex of ('ulif.iniia. M.irvhiiii!. N'ew hundred feet "JACK" WOODHEAD TELLS OF being gradually introduced in this the first one is its four Jerxey, I'ennsylvunia and Went VirReports indicate that there are three pulling up THE the DOINGS bureau, EARLY country. Experiments by vein or seams of roa! in the district. ginia. as well as actual tests in properties of thousand foot trip and consuming the The lowest, which is being worked by France and in England have demon- - power and vice versa. Kenilworth is located under tlie Anthracite and Coke. the Sweet company, is approximately that if ordinary rock dust is The mine has a solid rock top and the ?traJtfd of wall high plateau be.Mn nine and a half feet thick. The next Continuing the decline whii-lfreclv snrinkled over mine floors, n- - bottom. Tha width of the seam 1nelnxes ia beCarl above shows a thickness of about nine early in February Hinl gained tween nine and feet. eoal The fret eight at the oiitrnipping. and the top .vVl,,,K France dust is now universally used is tnin wifb the resumption of '""'V'''Cone is about , No tests to j the March llilli very conveniently handled on a 7 mining the production of beehive coke dclcrini,u"ihc eoki'ng" qualities of the rVinimunicator" Price 'sehool' newspa" known. u'emn-inbieent grade leading to the different i per n Mar. ii fith jpther scams, nor of , the coal obtained during the ncek It is alxiut six hundred miles wext pnlsory under the law. The bureau of rooms right and left, thns affording . jrxr. mutinied to 2m.HM) net tons, ('uni- - Ill ?,u lowest 5CHIT1 in adjoining prop-- j Ihf Dnver, Colo., a hundred and thirty- - mi'ntT$ has been experimenting with excellent working conditions. The hecnr ,nad five south and east of Suit Lake City. 'American mines, and has found dust mine is sprinkled daily with rockdust. will) tlust during tin . pured . district is ap- - Coal mining is its chief indiistrv. ()n to be an absolute preventive, The Edison safety lamp is used by all WMK tills shows a lo-- s Ilf 5n,IMl(i tons riicbteen miles from Price pnixiinatcly So g. warm Julv Iav in HH44. VVilliam . ajcurate have been its tests that miners. The property is electrically r about 17 jxr cent, practically all of land surrounded on three sides by dust was used in lighted and all worVnSs firing is done by elecwas within the xlnte of Penn- - j ,rilts which have lieen under develop- - H. Ijiwlev. ileher J. Stowell, Henry ,,iro,,phm,t th' tricity only, when everyone is out of Wade and A. Arthur Sweet for Price left , some years. Spring Canyon , nient . where cxiilosions occurred mine, and ,!, Gordon C reek. tlle Hon -- dusted passages the explo-- the mine. This mine has the best roof ,r,tVJn- - S7n w"f,T f"1, - Im- - sions have been checked the north and the hu h tluy m when they condition of any in the state and is now J.94o.'MI tunx. ( oinpnred with Mnhrland and Black Hawk district is these men formed the Aber- - reached the dusted areas. In one in considered one ef the safest mediately the south output during tlie corrcsmndinir tier-10,- 1 dcn Coal company (later called the Illinois, it was testified, eleven The original store, which was built " iod in 1923 the present year shows a . Coal company) and dred miners' lives recently were saved by S. N. Marchctti, is now used for a received an,OH" over and nLadr .f roc.k dust when an three quarter sections from the, 7 l.I,c usc gain of ti21,fi(M) tons or about 20 per above In 1918 the present mercanthe actual cost of the insurance. bought occurred in a small .section of garage. p t twentv dollars at 'pos,on. an acre tile house, bv the same owner, ax esthe" as !so bng the insured remains in had dl,sted.nof Jbr,rn 1 nMuctiiui of anthracite company sold to F. A. Sweet & iTI,c T,,,e ,h?t during the j fund. The Spring Canyon rompany, This in is convinced that neither tablished. One corner of this strucl'MITi' for ,n.i,inni .. f ventilation nor week ended March fith is estimated at MrShane says, was for a time insured Co iniHi water will prevent cx- - ture is the postoffice, which wax esand then became a self- lf entilalioii particularly is tablished in 1920, with Mrs. K. M. l,78i JHlO net tons an increase of 178,-i-- 1 iplosions. They hgan development work. An ineffective, as tests have shown that Bottino as the first postmistress. Bei r-y'- r saLiis incline up the mountainside for a dis- - 'explosions occur only when the dust fore this event mail was brought to week. T!i.s figure is certain distributions by the commis-practicalpreceding of about three hundred lance .nio,,on and the ventilating fans Latuda by residents of tlie ennip anil to the same output recorded j 'nn to aggregate sum of thousands the coal seam was constructed yards add to rather than diminish distributed to conby the store clerk. The r..,i. last week in June, and is but 2 of dollars. vcv the A to I have a furnished the first two product, railroad company tipple. been of Followin'., the always the opinion," Casin cent less the than the average fur the declares McShane. explosion per "that this money known ax the Kenilworth and llcliwr tic Gate No 2 mine of the Utah Fuel schonhouex which were commandeertwentv-tw- o scecks in the present coal wa Rhfn back without legal sanc- - was built from the main line of the company, two years ago. the industrial ed by Miss Kuby Stewart, now Mrs. year preceding the snsjii.si .n. Com- tion. Now that it has made an issue Ucnvor and Iiio Grande, a distance of commission of Utah adopted rrgula-abo- Donnelly and wife of General Superthree miles. This was eomplet- - t'onx making use of dust compulsory intendent Donnelly of the Carbon pared with the corresponding week in f the matter, in all probability the I92o the gain ix 132, (MiO tons or about commission will authorize the instit'.t ed in the fall of 1905 and emil wax .'n this state, Fuel company. These buildings were tion of a ronnter claim against if for ' out for 8 per cent. market. St soon A re shipped veil thp outgrown. In 1921 a large, modthe return of the tnniwy paid to it schoolhousr made of after it bad ceased insuring in the I'uttervon of Salt Lake City bernine HISTORY OT SPRING CANYON'S ern, four-rooSUIT MAY SERVE TO TEST THE fund. This will serve LATUDA PROPERTY native stone taken from the nearby to test the law interested and later on werethe chief' ! owners. The eomjiany wax then known OTHER SIDE, TOO both wavs." waa built by the Carbon most eatnps have been organ- - mountainside, as the Indeiwndent Coal and Coke and . board of education. Ized under the rinal knowledge of Spring Canyt-i- i Coal company asks! BRITAIN HAS BIG PROBLEM ON ix still known ax such. A modem change room and bath an accounting oi its pmnimnx paid in j previouxly snstained eoalbeils the La- - house HANDS AT PRESENT It was built in 1923. is whenJ tm,a and insurance p;id out of the state in- -j thp "f accident, In 1924fora employes unt 1 119 J new rescrcening plant was Cnmnmnieator-xieho- oi CarlM,n ar July L.: With the release this week of the over the general "as ' !SJ5n"to f.nnd ,V.l.ri"ir..!,'r ; added to the tipple. Every departll !!!!!:. fLcd I!";1 report toPremicr then he hu made many xubtan'tS ETiVdh '" 'v ment head who assisted in aai,s. i he co,nn,,slon l;hlv hi and the cabinet on the situa- - and 1,16 up he iMTiuanent improvements. D?V,T the proxrty and organizingopening The the camp its over coal fronting lai !,0,n ern England I ake new n.ek f tunnel on a level with the is still with the company. Claimed industry there has arisen more than a VnJo hd ; J t During the that it l1!,nd. ,nor? than immediate future this mine is to have of trouble. avs lat Saturday's peetor lt enough to meet all oMmations to I.ake Tribune editrriallv It will installed a loading machine of special ployes and their dependents, in addi- - 1,. remembered Us construction and later in the year a tion to administration costs, and that! was given its that atthi theeonin rime ihe second one will Ik? put in. These maa large surplus was created. O. F.! toven nient rre-ii. chines will no douht revolutionize the McShane, chairman of the rommis-- i ri.lv to nrevrt ! i Vnu coal industry in this camp. The prosion, says that it is his understanding' tire teH that the ease will test a feature of the at 1" duction has increased to 148,0i)fl tons ;,rv. ,," , diMrib,,-!:- , in 1925. This is a pain of 10 r rent, j, f ,axe 1 w whereas most mines in the district wnercoy the Uenver a .nre1v would have fol- - "Pr . i nf ! r Paints, Varnishes, Glass, ES,c,tl;'ri tosxr i,i Electrical Supplies, Plumbing Supplies, 4. h Jftrr your to real' lnsurur.ee servv and comPct'. protect) m C02lnv 8P0!p In other Insure yourc vh h Sporting Goods JfO Oi X Investment Cnq Second Floor Silnmg PRICE UTAH coii1 C. H. STEVENSON LUMBER COMPANY r:ir "ONE PIECE OR CARLOAD R n, Clu-inis- r, ..-.- .h, i 'a ii d n. 'strrr coion Thtrr;, Spring footwear isnt k( yon can delay purchaiinf late in the aeason. It tial to start with the being in immediate Wj&lx hi a8 tores offer the latest ligPr for every member of the in a number of new Street shoe and aftenwtl0 sport shoe pera, and nvip slippers all are new last and are of highradeaV; The prices are ate, ft Carbon-Emer- Storof y and ft Hiawatha, Heiher Hiawatha GEORGE McDEBXi Superintendent ot Be-19- ed iSS. tStAoth armi-antlirari- i Spring Canyoij Coal Co. sub-stati- 'v Thrtmntiine' inf,,ie U-e- e ht i ... "''lBrSiirthrus" j h.c, I 'h"e d!s-whi- . Miners and Shippers Celebrated it Spring Canyofcv Coal Mine at SPRING CANTON. IT General Offices, 817 N Building Salt Lake CStj, Utl w United States Fielb'l - j j ly !,rorc I ut Producing tha I? KING BLACK HATTJ2 HIAWATHA N. & and PANTHER f COALS : r"""ions .Tir'i? f W& d "L? -- em-'Sa- e -- ' k' '" ntk u-- h nS,'sJs n 'sllrt decreased in output. The future of the camp seems quite (Continued On ran Four) JJJ raw twill m ! , . "Largest Producers of Coal In Utah." Highest efficiency. equivalent Slot lbs. riNBrh storage. Will net slack. lor steaming and heating INDEPENDENT COAl COKE COMPANY I at Kenilworth. Itsk rsl Offices Walker Bank Mines SALT LAKE CITY, P rfr Rubber stamps to order. P NO ard M B1 Ml L |