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Show TUCKER COAL MINE in Cedar Canyon loading equipment and truck were ruined received extensive damage from landslide as evidenced by picture, late Saturday evening. Mine entrance, Landslide in Cedar Canyon Raises Havoc at Tucker Coal Mine Entrance l Damage estimated to range from $35,000 to $50,000 at Tucker Coal Mine in Cedar Canyon resulted re-sulted last Saturday evening when a landslide tore out loading load-ing chutes, tipple and trucks at the mine entrance. The slide which brought tons of rock over the mine entrance and loading equipment and stopped stop-ped traffic on Utah Highway 14 for several hours, raised havoc with the Tucker mining operation. opera-tion. No Mine Damage Acording to Grant Tucker, manager, It will necessitate approximately ap-proximately three weeks to put the mine back into operation. He pointed out, however, that for slight damage in the mine entrance, en-trance, no further damage in the mining cavity was detected. Interior In-terior of the mine was undamaged undam-aged and .will be operationed again as soon as loading- equipment equip-ment can be taken out and new equipment put In. its place. Tons of rock broke loose from a cliff above the mine and highway high-way and cleared., a . path . from the breaking point on the cliffs to Coal Creek in the bottom of the canyon. Highway was completely complete-ly closed, temporarily.. However, lt was put back 1 to use within everal hours and equipment of the state road commission spent Sunday clearing away the debris deb-ris from the highway proper. Tucker mine employees began the work of digging out Monday. All equipment was loaded at the time of the slide and several thousand dollars will be lost in coal alone. Only eight or nine tos will be salvaged, Tucker said. The mine In Cedar Canyon Is uiic in tWu uie Cuiiipaiijr valerates valer-ates and Is used to supply approximately ap-proximately one-third of the coal used by California-Pacific Utilities Utili-ties In Its plant In the mouth of Cedar Canyon. The other Tucker Mine and the Webster Coal Mine In Right Hand Canyon, Can-yon, supply the other two-thirds of the coal for this plant Supplies Power Plant . In addition the Cedar Canyon mine supplies much of the coal for local consumption and to fill contracts with the Iron County schools, he said , The actual losses cannot be estimated, es-timated, Tucker said. In addition to the equipment loss, there Is to be considered loss of broduo-I broduo-I tion and other factors. t |