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Show uu OGDEN MEN 01 COIL PROPERTIES Price, April 20 That the coal and coke trade of Carbon county is stead-1 ily iproving is evidenced by the fact that at this time 600 ovens are goins at full blast at Sunnyslde, while the reserve coke stored at that point, and j amounting to several thousands of tons, is now exhausted The market for the product of the Sunnyside ovens, ov-ens, of which there are more than 700. is found at the smelters of Salt I.akc valley and at Anaconda and Butte, Mont. Considerable coal for railroad use on the east end of the Denver & Rio Grande is also coming out of Sunny-side, Sunny-side, while something like a dozen cars a day of the Sunnyslde product of coal goes to the gas and commercial coke plants of Salt Lake City Last Saturday w as the semi-monthly payday at Sunnyside. when $50,000 was paid out to employees there, after all de ductions for the store company, rents I and the like were made. f it is safe to say with the outlook I before the Utah Fuel company thes-Sunnyside thes-Sunnyside mines and coke ovens will be kept going pretty steadily all through the summer months. The U men are working five days a week nt p this time, with the prospects of soon M getting seven With the methods in force however, five working da: a fj weekly now means as much in prod- m uct to the company as did six day3 formerly Labor conditions are most I satisfactory at this camp and of the j 1.500 to 2,000 dwellings for employees 1 but few are unoccupied. At the Winterquarters, Clear Creek J I I and Tastlegate mines of the Utah Fuel j j company the miners are given on an H average of three days a week work. f . These coals go to the commercial and I railroad trade. The production of I each of the three is around 1,500 tons j dailv each The Independent Coal & L Coke company at Kenllworth is work- f ing three days a week on the average, j as is Jesse Knight's property at I Storrs and the Standard foal com pany at StandHrdviHe, the latter known as the Sweet proposition. Cam- I eron Coal company, now controlled i I by the Pingrecs of Ogden and situat-i situat-i ed in Price canyon just above Castle- gate, is getting out about 400 tons J daily and working five days a week on the average The Brownings of 1 Ogden have some valuable adjacent f property to the Cameron and next i year will see some larger develop- ment here, it is said The American f Fuel company at Neslen Is going alone; l with a small output, but Intends to I make some needed improvements and development before doing much to- f ward pushing Its product on the mar- |