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Show COSTS OF PRODUCTION OF COAL GIVEN THE PUBLIC M RAISE I'OR PAST TWO YEARS M IS riFTY-TWO CENTS. H InoroMo to Labor For tho Period Is H Thirty Per Cent and For Produotion H At the Mines Twenty-Five Welch H Choirlster Comes to the Defense of H the Miners Overseas. fl WASHINGTON, I) C, Dr 6 H Out of mi metreae of fi fly-two cent H n Urn In the cost of producing coal at H the mines since 1P18 the probable in- H ore 4n to wag advance ha avir- H aged forty-five cents, according to n H repwt issntett tonight by the federal H trade commission on the coal of pro- H dneinr hitnminoiM eoal during the H aeerotd quarter of this jear Tim re- H ort jmls the increase to labor for H the perior nt .10 per rent and the to- H tilt Jnereas for production nt the H mine nt iff ir cent. The report cov- M era the average Mien realisations nnd H re!s(l cost of fie hundred and aiv- H ty operator prodiieing 10 per cent of H the total IdtumimiiM coal mined .Snip H realizations of those operators, the H oommMon says, averaged .fJIil er H tnn during the second quarter of ltrJO H nnd their revised coat of j reduction H at the mine was $2.00 per ton. Of this H cost 2.(H represented labor, tho re- 1 port continues, thirty cents supplies H and thirty-two centa gonoral expense. The difference or "margin "could not B lie considered profit, tho commasion H oxpbhned, because of the necessity of H including figure for taxes, selling ex- m lentNM and other items. B GOTHAM PUBLICATION ERRS M DECLARES DAVIS, WELOHMAN M ThAt the average dwly earning ot H the eoal millers in South Wale is Icim M than five dollars a day and that the H demand that led to the recent trike H for an increase of only half a dollar a M day and a reliieiion of the jince on M IioihcIhiM eotninoditiea is the atnte- H in wit of Thoma I)ais, manager of M the Mountain Aali Welsh male choir, H which has just finished up a tour of H Utah at Pnee laat Monday and is mm M In Colorado. "A recent artiele which M appeared in the'Uterary Digest stated M that the South Wale eoal miuera H ranted eighty dollar n week and there fl were cmmm where minora took three lny to siwnd what hud been earned In four imya. This, wr.ter aald the H itilnars apeut ther money freoly iikhi M nutomHil moui(; pieturoa and on M icweln," annul U l)ais "Now, this B' ix-rfodWl U read ery axtivlely in BkvM tho United Stale, and in falniem H -J tothewiiHiniof Wnlaa may I say an HtM -erreiHNHs impi-MMlon ha liean artai- m all Theavemp'eariiiiiirsor the .South M "Walw aoal m.iiar is I him titan five B -tMlan a day, and prior to the strike H liia iWmamU were an immediate nil- H mnee of half a doMar er day and a M jrelutUHi of pnea to the MiiiMiiner H for iKrtiwfliold eonumxlifjNi This, they M ilaimel, nould lie well affordetl by B the (rovernmcnt, vshirli alloHel the M w govern fourteen sliillinK and two H rjieneo jmr Um profita over and alaivo H lite pre-war date of profita. IJovd m (leorfe arjruwl that tliti demand of H two khilliiiKa iwr day sltould he con- H cedd, promtiiiK thia iuerease was H 'bftwsl M)ii a produotion oIhush, tho H 1ii(irea to wmm tlm moment produe- H tion fell under a certain mark. He H furthor niyued that, in order to aolvo B tliu prol;lwii of hi;lt prteea tho imhm1- B 1 hk up of production was uMentially HBm meeaaiHiry an that the aupjily would be Bb in weei of tho demiiud. Tho llntntli B cminera are thoroughly organised and HHJ -are quite familar with eeonomiea." B GREATER DEMAND TOR THE J COALS Or CARBON COUNTY HHJ How miMioiM of tout of Utah coal HHJ will he arl aupplied to l'aeifio HHJ 'GflMt steamer waa related at Salt HHJ Irftke City lat Monday by l'red A. HHJ Sweet and I 11. Curtis, preatdent HHJ and vie 'president, reieetivul, of HHJ. tlw Standard Coal ooHiimn.v of Car- HHJ Imw eounty Hweot ami Curtis have HHJ JW returned from a trip to Uaklaud, HHJ Cala . where th went to iimjieet the HHJ wtfctpletion of the iriirantie coal liunk- HHJ era and other equiiuneut, wlueh lathe HHK Urtet eoal supplying plant on the HHB l'awfie Coat and by whieh the big HHB 'tmwa-l'aeifie ateamera eau l sup- HHH )i)l with Utah iuel with no losa of HHJP--' tun and with eouseipjeiit saving of HHJ money. The hunkers are supplement- HHJ 4 by two uleetne latrgea and a fleet HHJ of tugs, eaeu Itarge with a eaiwoity HHJ of a tnouaand tout of eoal These HHJ MKwater veakdla ean auehor aiongaide HHJ n steamer at a wharf, diseharging its HHJ flfwyu and without loss of time eau HHJ afeatneally unload Utah anal into the HHh aWp's whole without the exiuse of HHHk wanjwwer. HHHE Another nvalern jneee of wiuipment HHHM ' is a large bridge to wlueh wiiw ean HHHJ& Naaw The hrdge eau then lie low- HHV mwl and a stream of eoal allot into HHJ tli'i abip in a very short time These HHJ Improvements, wiiieh the Standard HHJ ofrieials inspeetod, were found to be HHJ ranstrueted in the moat modern m"u- HHJ J liar at a eoat to tho company of morb "' Hum 1000,000. and they will he finish- HHJ 'i oil in about three imire weeks Itotli HHJ Kentivtaati went delighted with tlie HHJ g prDM of mioli nn outlet for Utah HVJ I 'fQaL, Cyrils rulatttd ltow Uo l'njtiah HH Vflsiy! i(l Itaamed into Portland, HHJ- I. fliu, tlmrtly aftst tlie war ami the HWHu'i li cnptnms nuked for Ltnli oonl. which was ffivon hun, nlthough it depleted tho stock thoro considernblv. Tl e now tidewater wjuiiimont of the Utah conl producers has necessitated necessi-tated n Cnlifornlii incororatiou thul is to bo known as tho Standard Conl company of California. It is the first great effort of Utah coal mine owners own-ers to furnish Pncififo Coaat steamers steam-ers with Utah coal nnd for which stendv demand haa sprung up During Dur-ing tho war, Utah coal received a most thorough trial ns a steam producer, pro-ducer, and was found to be of such a qualitv that the demand haa very greatly inoreascd. Xot only havo tho stonmen begun demanding Utah coal reccntlv, but many of tho coast oitioa which have branehed out into big mniiiifnttiinnp renters, liave found that whin I hey need n splendid, steammaking coat the Utah product is scoond to none. ELECTRICAL HEAT PLANNED FROM THE CARBON SECTION Plans for general ng energy nt the eoat mines of Carbon county nnd transmitting it to Salt Lake City and elsewhere in the state, thus savMigtho exjienee of freight charges un coal, is being considered by Hnstcrn capitalists, capital-ists, according to a communication received re-ceived by II. II. Qreen, city commissioner commis-sioner nt Ziou, Inst Monday. Whether Wheth-er the purtHMw is to supply light, heat or ower, nnd whether tho energy is in tho form of gas or electricity was not stated. Tho writer of tho letter took pnrhcular caro to withhold details de-tails that might furnish nn idea to others. It was stated that those promoting pro-moting tho movement had definite plans in view, nnd information concerning con-cerning tho procedure in securing a city frnnchiso was requested. The letter was signed by Qcorgo O. linker, consulting engineer of New York City, lie referred to others in Qothnm who arc interested in tho movement. The matter wns referred to tho city commissioner at tho regular meeting meet-ing Inst Monday night. Mnyor XmIcii said that the city would encourage any movement for cheaper fuel. City Attorney Holland was asked to communicate com-municate with the pnrtie regarding procedure in granting city franchises It was stated hit thu letter to Commissioner Com-missioner Oreou that energy equivalent equiva-lent to that produced by a ton of coal could be supplied by the now plan at a eoal coniiariug to pre-war coal prices. The engineer said that the men behind tho project had been looking for n suitable alto for putting their plant into operation for some tune and that Salt Lake City had been deelded iikiii. Commistioner Oretn is of tho opinion opin-ion that the men plan to oeralo at tho mines in Curiam county. Tina would neeewitnto transmitting energy n distnnro of a hundred and twenty miles. It waa brought out in tho dis-ctiwloii dis-ctiwloii of tho (Hiininlsaionera that if the scheme is practical it might nid materially In solving .ion's snvoko problem. Power From Own Plant. "The statement in Salt Uke City (iewspaeni that the Utah Fuel eom-Miiy eom-Miiy la one of the power litem concerned con-cerned in the contract ease recent I) decided in fnvor of the Utah Power and Light onianv by (he public utilities util-ities commisaion is erroneous," aavs A. II. Covvie, vice jirtMideiit of the Halt Fuel oonimny. "Our company lias never used jawer furnished by the Utah Power and Light commuy, because wo generate! nil our own Miwer in conl buniing steam plants for all our mines. Wo find that to be the most efficient and economical for our iurMHie. Wo could not, therefore, there-fore, bo n party to the controvuisy involving in-volving tho jKiwer company anil its euntnmerH." As had nruvimialy been prominently prominent-ly noted, tlio United States Fuel, nnd not tho Utah Fuel, was eoupkd with the United State Smelting company in petitioning tho supremo court for a writ of certiorari in tho power contract con-tract case. The Uriited Status Fuel and the United States Smelting nro understood in be owned largely by tho same finaueinl interests, and are represented rep-resented before the supreme court by the same firm of attorneys. AROUND THE LOCAL CAMPS: PERSONAL AND OTHERWIBE George A. Murphy, general superintendent super-intendent at Storrs, has gone Kind on I hi tin bus and pleasure and will bn absent ab-sent until after the holidays It. M. Magraw, general superintendent superinten-dent of the five properties of tho United States Fuel company in Car-lam Car-lam and I'merv counties, and George II, MeDeriiu.d, the stores aueriutcii-dent, aueriutcii-dent, were in Price from Iliuwathann Saturday last The former siys the luniaa are working the beat for keveral mouths, whte the latter deelares business busi-ness was never better. Mor than a hundred thousand dollar dol-lar ha lieeu spent up to date by the Mutual Coal oouqiany in the develop, uieut of its projierres in the Spring Cannon seetiou. Shipments are ex-ieeted ex-ieeted to be made the coming mouth Standard Coal company is opening up a fine vein of eoal on the v D. MaoLean property in Burnt Tree Can-on. Can-on. It Will mako uso of the Mutiml'n tipple to get the juniduot out. '1 he Hull Mountain eoal field up in Musselshell eount, Mont, noeording to nn eattmato made by the United States geological survey, oontaius nearly five bTltion tons of ooal. A small part of this immense reserve haa already been mined, but by oom-pattisQii oom-pattisQii with the total in the ground the quantity takuu out w praeQeally iiBgligllilo. This umiI field 1 dasenb- (Continued on I'age Utb'lit) COSTS OF PRODUCTION OF COAL GIN THE PUBLIC H (Concluded From Pago Six) H od in Bulletin Xo. 0-10 of ihe geologi- B caI swrvey. n copy of whioh mny ho obtained fre of charge on nppllca- H hm to the director of tlio survey nt M Washington, D. C. H The Denver nml Itio Grande lint H jenr handled four million, six liund- H red and twenty-nine thousand tons of H owl front the Cnrlmn county mines. B WIk'ii it to.k uter the old Id l.-ittde BB Western in 1001 the conl traffic that H yu.i :ttnlti luit n million, three hund- H red and eighty-two tliotnwiid tons. H W. X. Wetzel, superintendent of f th Carbon Fuel eomimny mines at R Mains, wm in I'riee iluriiifc the week. H Production nt thin projierty, he says, H U goingnronnd twelve hundred totM Hj ihMly. There is some scarcity of rail- H iinhI Mm with nil the properties of B that Uatrlet. H A. It. Ilahtwin, the receiver for the Dettrtr nml Itio 0 ramie, testified le- fere tk HtlUe utilities commission Nt M Stftt Luke City last Monday DuU the H Weetvrn Pacific nnd his line Imve H Dome seven hundred to n thousand B gtmd!a ears for the coal turtle of the 1 Cnrlmn county mined. They are to he along in February next at the rate B of fifteen n day, B Former Sheriff George Collingham m In Price this week ns n uitnoM in Bj n murder cane from the coal enuii in H district oourt. Ho sajs it is exacted B by Chief Knginecr Watt, mm on the H gnmnd nnd where ho ha been for H aoVeral week, that Mino Xo. 2 will ho H oiioued ami at work again about the B first of the year. After the fire thcro recently tome seventy-five men were 1 thrown out of work nnd pcrhnpa B twenty-five of these left the camp. Tho other were for the iihm( mrt put on eitnmny work. H Federal Judge A. K. Anderson nt B. Imllanaiioll, Ind., last Monday in- H st meted it grand jury wl-ich coucned H to reniKn tho investigation of the coat 1 cniMpfraey rase against u hundred B, nml twenty-five operator-- nnd minora B in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio nnd Western B Pennsylvania withn viewof dotermln- B lug whether other ahould he made do- H fwnknta in the caw. The mmounre- H merit wah made by government offi- H olols that a xtionement, icnding B completion of tbn grand jury inquiry B would he naked in the trials of the B coal ease now net to begin next .Innu- B Holding that agendo are responsi- H Vie to Men fur wihiiu they ougage to B find emiAoyment, the atnte IndiiMrinl K oemmlwrioti ban ordered the Dilllon H1 lwibjrment nfiiwy up At Salt Ino H Okv to re(trn to twveulHm men their H railroad fnre from Zlim to Kemnuror H and return, and the emiriouneiit fee. H vhen the ICetmtiererer Coal eompany H rnfHd to tmmloy them. The agency H otainw that tm1 coal eoiiimny gave H ordetK for hiring a hundred men and m the evHtem were the firut ohtaiueil. H If the agetiey ran altow gix'l fmth it M -will he able to recover from tho nml H 1Rle. M The government Iwo won ita nnti- m tnt Milt avaintt the Lehigh Valley B rallitid nml affiliated eorK)ratioui. M The Unitwl KtatM mipreuiu court ut H W-oWngion, 1). C, lt Monday in n M lw4im read by Aa-toHnte .Justice B Clary mwtHbied uhargea of monojxily 1 and viidation of tbu Hhennau nnti- H tniftt law. The court held Unit (ihiirgeo m f violation of the rominoditioii clninto H In (be fonnation of 4he Ichigh Conl H fiaUt eoHiwny had been jirovtxl. I!e- H lltrilmtioii of atoek of the Luhigh 1 imUi) railnmi' uitked hy tho goorn- B mwit waa orderwl hy the eourt imi H the government' eontentiiin that the H coMNMW stock ownemliip hy offieeni H ami iHreelom eontitiitel nwtraiut of H trade pFoliibitwl hy the Kliernmn net. UTAH TERMINAL RAILROAD M OA8E IS UP ro IIEARINO H. Ik of adfMiimte ear aerv tee for the B Spring Canyon eottl mine dutrict of BB Carbon eomit.s b the Denver nnd Itio B OraiHi wiu elutrgea lat Monday hy BB K. A. Hweet, piea-dent of the Stand- B artl Cual i-ompany of Utah, who with BH 'Mktr witMeai,iHeludtng Will Knight t Spnng Canjou Coal eomiwny, BB attewiried to.ahow Iwfore the public BB Htiliti eommiMiioii that the Utah B"f Tamlnal railroad m the outgrowth of BT -neManlty. Sweet told how tho larger B mJihm in that dwtnet, the I'eerlHM, B Mamknl ami the Sprug Canyon, had B ! eramjHMl for faoilltiea when de- tl '"'J." wl' u'wn tlie nnvr ami B ilUt Omnde and finally liad built the i, Utah Tarmuial three and gix-tentlw l , MllM, to eoiiueet their mines with the B' Utah railroad. B To thia morment he Raid the Den- BB er ami Itio Grande objected iimm the BBj gnmmW that the etwe, being one on BB railroad eonstruotlon, aliould be heard Bfji by tlm intentate eommeree oommia- f I uh, but the Utah publie utilities uom- I wiuBiw ihwided that sinee the rnllad I Jiw wholly within Utah the Jutisdie- I tkm ia entirely in the hmuU of the B J Utau owmlasioii, so n deeision was fll waiIb. The deeision, earrjing the iter- ll wiitlo-i to iMinstnict the railroad, was Bil (jlniniel by the Denver mid Itio BM Qramla to htwe jurisdiction only over Lll jliijittMint within the state of Utah, H, IiBiieo thout a dettuion from the 11 Jnttgrtt() (JtwimenMi aommlaaiuii uny IT mw mlinwd oan liaudle no enl thai 1 U dmilnxl outside Utah. Tho Utah Tonnlnal mauugemeiit therefore went to tho instcrslntc CQinmcrre commission commis-sion for permission to hnmllo outside shipments also over its line nnd the inlerstnto body requested the Utah utilities oommiftftinn to hear tho oose and transmit tho evidence with rceom-mendntiotis. rceom-mendntiotis. Tho case before the state commission, commis-sion, for the intimitntc commission o-ieiied Monday, Sweet boiiig tho first witneas for the Utah Terminal. Ho said the ear service of the Denver nnd llio Grande averaged 06 jer cent, while the Utah railway hnd furnished n 100 )er cent car supply. On no-count no-count of n Inek of enrs supplied tho Standard hnd been sued for noii-dc-livery nnd hnd been eoniHllcd to -my dnmagea. TERMINAL RAILWAY SPUR IIEARINO IS CONCLUDED Tho henring being conducted hy tho public utilities commission for tho Intcrstnto commerce, commission nt tho stnto enpitnl ended yesterday, nnd the enso will go to Washington, D. C, with whnt reronnncndnfiiiis tho Utah comnnsslon may enro to mnkc. The njipliention oonies from tho Utnh Terminal Ter-minal ltnilwny company for punnis-sion punnis-sion to construct nnd cngnga in inlerstnto inler-stnto commerce, n lino three nnd one- half miles from Stnndnnlvilie, to connect con-nect with tho Utnh railway. Witnesses for tho Denver nnd llio Grande, which is protesting tho application, appli-cation, wore I. It. Like, general superintendent sup-erintendent of the Utah llnM, nnd C. A. Stotlur, trainmaster up nt lloliier, both of whom testified Hint their road, if it had the oars and motive IHiwer, could handle three hundred cars n day up tho Spring Cnuvon branch ns n switching proposition. Thero are no telegraph stations nor agents on the present six miles of lino. l'rcd A. Swintt of tho Ktnndnrd Conl eoinimny, nml J. Will Knight Df tho Spring Cnnou Coal compmiy, were on tho atnnd in br.cf rebuttal, nfter which the case was submitted. |