| Show I HUNDREDS OF CARS OF COAL NOW NO LINE RAILROAD TO CASTLE GATE fiA IE An Abundance of Fuel Along the Way Plenty in the Ground I Ir 4 and Mord More Train Loads Being I Mined GOLD COLD FACTS ON THE TilE PARAMOUNT QUESTION J B Between Salt Lake and Price Yesterday There Thero Were at Least I IJ 4 Cars in Transit or Moving Westward J J I I r r. r From Prom a Start Staff Correspondent t Castle tlc Gate Gat Jan 2 26 it It seems hardly hard rg g f ly Iy possible from this point polia that there J js Is a coal ena famine In En Salt aIt Lake If It you u up at it tJi the capital ha haven't hant nt any nm h t coal come down hm horn i and get gel c l warm k t. t h hero To eat nt aL coal oaI coal nl aI 5 j think coal roal sloop Jep on hods of coal oal and 1 J t wallow 1 In Jn in that precious at al all nil flours o of of tho the lu day flint night Its It's gr great groat nt 7 Con Como on lown I f In fl the last Jast month or 01 six lx w woolen cl there 1 l' l have ULVe HI HItH tH boon been n reports at regular Into Intervals I t 4 In Salt Sail Ial Lake o to 10 the tac effect t that hlIn- hlIn I I l ds of or cars car of or coal oal line IIno th the all r iracks acks Rt all II lie tho way vay to Castle a Gate r reports are oro true f There l I Is plenty of coal all the wa way i 4 L till the mines plenty of or coa coal In the lilt fi 1 Amines M and plenty of or coal heln being mined I v l. l Why there isn't an any coal In n Salt J. J k O Ogden Ogdon and other othea UIs elte of or Utah I r. r r that Ihal are aro U suffering from a famine Is IJ 1 T a another I question tinn iOu A I c v IV w The ml J of or the situation In Salt SaiL v e La Lake Lace e lees does not nol all add on nn iota of 3 1 g to the te following following- facts I 1 J MJ At AL n c miles from flom Sail Salt lrI on Friday Jan Jun 5 the there JC W wore were l' l L i thirty cars of oC coal in sight oi omi side side- 1 tracks How much more coal here there was Va 1 in lit the he bo box C cars cirs lS can not be he esti- esti n ted fairly Much tuch of ot th the coal i from the ml mine In mix box cars carsI r- r h I Js sealed IC It 1 tH lr I r. r 1 to t J t n ti r f ot i I t 11 r J l 1 t 1 JI 1 f f. f Jc- Jc i. i r b o 0 1 n Q nt 1 tn lY a 1 t pt l th the Rio Ulo al has hL of If tons Ions of coat coal in R at tt Tucker i i I At elton seven ninety miles nilles front from I ISalt Salt Lake on Friday FriLla Jun Jan there I Ii i were ere Ii lifty h cats cal of or coal in sight Th There rf I Iwer were any number of box cars and andi i empties and sonic some of or the these e box curs cam contained coal Cotton Collon Is s on the main mainline Hn line and from that little place a n branch runs up to the mines nt ut Clear Creek Creel and anti Winter Inter Quarters Today there stood on sidetracks at Tucker rucker lifty cars s of coal A train of fifteen firt cars leaving Castle Gate the day before stood on the he track At Atthe tho the same gamo time there thore were twenty cars car of or coal on a derail switch near Soldier Sol Sol- dier Summit Th There le was no snow under un un- der the train but plenty on top and andall andall all around No o engine wa was In sight A train ala of coal coat was at ot Castilla at 1 o'clock Saturday It Ii was bound for 01 SallI aJ e. e At Spring there were twentythree twenty- twenty three cars of oC coal and at nt Provo Pro there were twenty or 01 more All AH of this goes to show that there I f Is coal on the move between the tite mines and the LC capital of or the state If Ie it doesn't arrive at Its destination it F because It doesn't start Waiting for S Thero There wan vaa hardly hardt a 0 sidetrack between between be be- tween Salt SaI Lake LaIc and nUll Castle Gate that that'S S 'S did not nut contain tons ton and tons of coal stored in cars car and standing In mutt mute patience for COl Ih the helping han hand of or an nn I engine in I At 1 Castle Gate on in Friday Priday January Januar 26 there then wore seventy five e c ears rs o of coal In sight standing taidIng idle Itile I Many any anymore more cars wore were being switched many were e being In loaded bailed from the chute chut loadIng load lead lug Ing from front the thC mine of oC th the Utah Pile Fuel S company and ancl loll loin of coal oal wn being transformed Into cohe at nt the long line of ovens bordering the tho tracks track The rho station a agent t nt at Castle Gate told me inc that there thre have ro been an average of or ofIS I IS live sixty or 01 seventy cars cats In the tho yards for months Castle Gate is a scant HI 11 miles nilles from Salt Halt Lake At Helper l' l lii miles s from Salt Rail Lake there were at al least t fitt fifty earn cars Satur Satur- lay day January 20 r. r That's today A Athe At Atthe the same samo time there re was vas a cry for or fuel fual at Salt It Lake Lako a short jaunt away avay 1 I cant can't vouch ouch for fOl this thiN story Mory V hO however S hut but the mining man mUTI says say he lit knows OWl S At Price 1 2 miles from from- Salt from Salt Sail Lake a hu business I q man makes th the assertion that he counted counte cars of or coal Coll in tho yards That Is probably exaggerated a little for the yards would hardly t accommodate that many Idle hue ears cars with all tho the switching that IH is done clone It Is in safe sare to lo say however that there were wore between Salt Lake and andS S Price Inclusive l c today In coal slack and coke colte either standing on sidetracks sidetracks side side- tracks or in transit at uL least GOO curs cars Officials of the Utah Fuel Ful company say l it was all bound wet vest Cannot Under tand Shortage c. c W. W B. B Williams general genera superintendent auperin- auperin ul of the uhe Utah Fuel company compan I with headquarters at Castle Catle Gate can cun cannot cannot not under understand the tho coal shortage at ut I Salt all Lake hake and other places In Utah Ho lie says the Castle Gate Gat and other i nInes mines nf are aro running Sunday as Uti well Veil an as another thud other days days- to supply the tho demand By running l' seven In days dayS' in the wee week I. I says Mr 11 Williams the tho company does not nOl got get as its good results from the tho mc menas men menas as It 11 would If It th they rc rested on the tho Sab lb bath Tho Tue mine stock lock runs lons down clown the themen men arc tired anti and the company 10 loses cS' cS money every overy Sunday una the mines are ale worked Mr Williams a assorts asserts that only third one of or the customary output output out out- put Is realized on 00 Sunday because only a fraction of dr the men show up on that cIa day He laughs at the charge 1 1 In a n Salt halt Lake paper r t ih the tho men pei are underpaid S More Minor MInes Wanted According 10 to Mr rr tIt thi Utah Fuel s' s are ore now nov oi employing I Hj tOli divided as folI follows fol fol- fol I lows Cn Castle Castlo tI late Gate r- r r Clear reel reek 21 I fl r. Winter Quarters SS Ru nt l I n r. r Total 10 I a I 1 G lIt says he hI could use l' l fifty more men Im menal nt al Castle Gate more mOIl at Clear Creek rC seventy five more mOIO al nl Winter Quarters Quarter ant and more nt Ut nt Superintendent Williams m say rays I there here hereId Is Id a t l shortage of or labor anti and that thai the till of now employed I Is not up lip to 10 tin tho standard lin All J of nf th the these e things thing am urn In ill favor ol of the IhL mine owners O of Cd course iLl lEC Tile Tho tin dally Ily output of or the Ow fifth Fuel I company's fI four foul mines os at present lIt l I Is t n us follows S o. o I Name S Tonnage f Castle II c 1 Gate I 0 lOlO 1000 Winter Inter Quarters 1250 CI Clear nr Crl Creek I. x 1250 2300 Total SOO I I The Tue I tah Fuel 1111 C company lI has con contracted con con- onI on- on I I with the Son San P Pedro Los 1 AnI Angeles An An- I g geles INi Salt Halt Lake roat road to d deliver tons Q of a L week weck The Salt lt It Route Hout sends semis Us Its own ownS cars to th tha- tha her mine ot Nearly the thC of the l' l Quarters is 1 turner 1 O er t il i I J rj 1 6 ru I r th fi t 11 c h U rn l 1 7 tiN t I I I i h 1 t t tt n Mi l t O O 0 J l ind nr t Q c Yal n H w weh Oi so o t J ies U tc the tho jc L nn of tiC i the thC two VB How ilow many T th r th the fuel f company has lon eon MY tIr rl William tines docs not ant M say Standing for rOl a n I On the tracks at nt Castle Ca Onto Gale there then was va a car or 01 two of or slack foi fot the iho Yampa smelter But nUl the Yampo Yampa smelter m shut hut down a week wk ago because j It could COUll not get t fuel le I. I rh The rue station agent said ald that the tho Yampa's fuel h had I I been loaded loade d for a week Other cars oais of coal conI con consigned to Salt Sail Lake Lale and Ogden dealers were WIO held In Inthe inthe Ih the yards nl 1 The railroad 1 officials t deny that the th fuel ful fulaN was aN confiscated It had boon been held up UI for days Q The rhe same am con- con found nt at Castle late Gate W won were r found at other places along the tho Rio Itlo a Grande c. c The fuel company compan consigns most of or ofHie i Hie tiie slack and ami coke to the smelters and anil ancI I large factories I ISia Sia State State- 10 I In n State Stat Coal Mine lInt Inspector Gom Gomer r Thomas Thomas' report shows how that th during I 19 G the Utah Fuel company compan from IU fLu four mines produced o over a million mil mu- I lion and lh a half tons of or coal conI during 1 It If Superintendent e VII Williams Williams' lIa figures 31 are accurate as ai to th the product production t tion on of or coul coal the mines mineR are producing their thell regular output of coal Hence there here being no difference in inthe Inthe the production th the question naturally What becomes of the coal I It Is IN staled h by officials of tile the Illo Itin Grande road load tutu thai thc they y have t hall had hall bad luck with their engines and nil that thal In Inthe IntIle Inthe I the tIle matter of or power lowel they thoy nr are fearfully fearfully fear fear- Ifal fully crippled At tho the Helper shops it II Is IN saul said there ore are a number of engines engines en n gines waiting to tn be he repaired Th jre Ill are I not enough workmen to repair pall them Ihm It is in also said for lh the benefit bellef l of the road oud that the service cl is bl in such shape as aH to make it almost t Impossible 01 bID ble to move the coal that Is hJ being In mined I Ci Consumption Two railroads are credited with con consuming on one fourth of or If the output of or the mines mIne SUI Superintendent Williams says saS ys that about 2000 tons toms a U tIny day or 01 tons a wc week k is bt being turned Into coke The Tho mines mine's outPUt out out- PUt pui Is confined e entirely to 10 co coke coKu Ie I.e. That Thai would Mcm ee m to tn Ie leave l e about tons a u. wc week eek l. l for or commercial purposes counting for fOI coke anti and for tor two railroads I low How much does the tile public get gel of this tons every It Is said by hy of or the th Utah Iou Fuel 1 that thai no more coal conI Is 19 being shipped by that company nn to California Califor CalIfor- lIla nia and amI that thai all ull the product of or the mines Is being confined to o Utah N Q- Q vuda and Idaho Nevada Ne Is paying a good price for fuel uel a far fancier price than Utah is payl paying ng There is no doubt that there thero Is plenty of coal If the iho mines are arc turning turn turn- In lag ing out fuel at nt the tho rate of a million an an 1 a half haIr tons annually Ih there l e really I should be he no shortage That would supply all of Utah Ulah anti and all of or some j other othel states counting tho Ow coat coal a I that thatis is sold to us from other r mines s not owned b by the lit Utah Fuel compan company There ate are other mines In Utah bu but only tons annually IH Is turned out alit by them so It II appears that tho the Utah Fuel company produce practically all of the Utah fuel f lie Not more than thun tons tolls a n month or 01 HO SO 80 is sent out of Utah and against this tItle there conies comps into tho state stat each month about toni tom Of the tho rail mil lion and ancI a half hate tons tolis of coal produced Continued on Ill Ia page lago o two luo j 4 t. PLENTY OF COAL ON RAILROAD TRACKS Continued from Crom rote p o 1 in Utah In 1906 nearly a quarter of or a million tons of Utah coal oal were vt-re sold In Salt ilL Ja Lake kp Plenty In Iii Ih hr SI Siale Il There Thore can h be no doubt In the minds minh of the llan public that there is Js plenty of eoal oal in Utah Tho mines are art hu busy with th their lr regular product and ami there II Is only one argument nl against t the th r regular regu regu- gular gu lar Jar Influx o of coal to the cities cUlls of or the tho state stale lal That I is the fact that th the Union Pacific Coal oal company ha has shut shinE about four fiur ur of or Us its mines aunts Is not lIot sending into inlo ill the state Ial a as much mlle muchas as nl usual There lIre tan can he be no In the mind of or the public that there RI are arc lilt plent o of ears rR with which to lo transport MIl coal If Ie th the Rio Itlo Grande Grand railroad Is up tip against It Il for for power pots It can not be laid haiti to lo tHo ho lie great and anti unprecedented prosperity prosperity pros pro of the countr The country alleged shortage of or equipment Is due to o wr wrecks and had bad luck When hen tho the Rio Grande put on tho the big engines la last t fall Call It was not nol expected that they hey would pIa play havoc with Hh tho the track bill bitt Ih they y dl dm used ed a 11 Rr sore sore-ad- dIng d- d Ing fog of or rail tin many places have split spilt rails rails rails-In In 10 others At Kuno Friday ay night a freight train containing precious burdens burden of coal went into Imo the ditch The rhe traffic was a paralyzed all night At a little station tatIon on the other side of Grand Junction Friday morning there was a L fearful smash up h am and train after aftel train uain was annulled a combination train being pushed through finally arriving arriving arriving ar ar- ar- ar riving at Salt ait Lake thirty hours hour lat late Hut limit that's getting gelling aw away y from tilt the coal question S Relief Is Promised Gent General Manager Ii II G. G Williams of or tJ the Utah Ulah Fuel company said ald tocla ioda today thi l a shipment of or coal coni had from Cp Castle Castlo Gate Cate and that the situation situa situa- Lion tion would probably bo be relieved relle slightly slight ly next w week k S Q On F Friday hay and Saturday Satin I saw aw several soy sev eral coal tr trains start fl frOm m Castle Gale Gate westward bound The rho station agent and also W. W B. B Williams told me pie th there re had been tn an average of or two or three trains a n. cia lay day all th the week leaving Castic Castle Cas- Cas tle tic Gate S se trains are usually JJ n n. lay day or two on 1 the road oad From the r reports ports of Salt Salt Sal Lake coal dealers they do o not r reich ch th tho u coal bins hinH In Salt Lake houses Ot Other I Investigations n cot S t In Iii order to lm Investigate the stories that there nrc aro hUI hundreds of ot cars eRrs on the sidetracks I between n Salt SnIt I Lake ake and anti Castle Cas Cas- tIe tle Gate th the Tribune and Herald have hae Interviewed w l General l' l Manager Ian ser Williams Wil JI liams hams of or the Utah lh u l Fudi 1 company and anti A. A E. E RIdgeway general jeneral manager nt ot jho iho Rio Grande Grande Western N t rn The rhe Tribune Investigation In r resulted l In tho the follow follow- denial ing-denial to a sor stor story that appeared In Inthe the tho X News 1 Mr Ir Williams I have Just returned from a visit to to tho the mines today a and ll thy the statement is rih absolutely In Incorrect t. t I- I t. t IThe The mine J Is at Cn Gate Castle tle Gate and only such ch cars car a ns as were In process o of nt being lo loaded d d With coal were t |
