Show Ne New Coal Preparation Plant 4 4 Rk J I h i hY rt r t t tP it if ift i t 1 t 11 it j if i. i I j F 1 q a e l Helping Utah to hold bold Itt Its position as u an au Important coal producing tate state and also abo to meet the demand for tor many different sizes Ilus of ot clean coal the United States Statu Fuel Com Com- Company Company pany has adopted the best beet practices tides tices of the eastern and mid central coal Held fields In lu the preparation of ot Its Hs coal Its new preparation plant nt at Hiawatha just Hiawatha Just completed late In 1938 and the only one of ot Its Ile kind kindla la in the th Utah Is 18 field U pictured above and contains the very ery latest In coal preparation equipment An Interesting feature In this pew new plant Is that all of or the coal which will pass pan through a 5 inch I 1 round opening Is actually washed I with water which enables these t waste waite products to be removed not only from the large sizes bu but t also from the small sizes The Th e facilities provided for separating it the washed product Into a number numbe r of ot sites for tor drying for waxing t to n eliminate dust and for g any aDY ny or all of or the sizes enable th the e I Company to produce all of ot lh the e size lIes ot or coal desired both by InI Industrial In In- I and domestic users Nature in lu one of or Its more generous gener oat ous moods endowed large areas In Ix Edit East Central Utah with beds o of t tI I coal estimated to contain tuna tons These beds In general gener gene r t k f al aJ are horizontal or nearly so so an are e from a few Inches to up twenty o oi or r i more feet In thickness and land are un nn and covered with layers o of ot t 11 X The sandstone an and aud d t i other material covering these beds bed s 1 I I t. t a i Is from n a few hundred up to 2000 or feet reet In thickness In Its struggle for continued ez- ez ex e and lud against the Inroads of or competitive fuels feels the coal Industry has haa fount found It necessary to adopt the latest developments In machinery for tor mining and preparing this coal for tor the ultimate consumers Large cutting machines literally saw the coal Into large blocks These are then drilled and blasted Huge loading machines are next moved Into the rooms and by means of ot them the coal Is U loaded Into mine cars and hauled to the surface by powerful e electric l I e o c t r l I c locomotives Crews Crewe ot or skilled workmen are required required re re- in these operations Gone beyond all recognition are the trees and vegetal matter that were the origin of these coal beds bells but still sUIl recognizable are the streets of or what hat millions of ot years yearl ago ao were layers of or clay and slit silt la Is this vegetal matter bet bit which through the ages have been compacted com patted and aud now are called partIngs partIngs part Ings lags and bony These Thele partings and bony are waste products In tit that they have little fuel tuel value For many years coal was wu sold as II asrun asrun run ot or mine or separated Into a few sizes Izel by screening the partIngs part part- Ings logs and bony being removed only from the larger sizes sites to such each extent ex ex- tent teat as was possible by hand pick lag InK This progressive step augurs well wll for the future of Utah's coal Indus Indu try and the United States State Fuel Company is fa to be complimented on OD its foresight and initiative |