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Show COAL IANDS SALE THE LARGEST OF RECORD IN WEST H SEAL INVOLVING CLOSE TO j HUNDRED THOUSAND. H General Manager Tonkin of Indcpen fl dent Coal and Coke and Charles W. H Buokley, Ohloago Capitalist, Pur- H chcrs Some Costing Three Hun H ilred Dollars the Aerc M Jobn II. Tonkin of Salt Uke Pity H and Cfenrtai W. itaekley of Oiicajro H kw Jmt acquired through p-i-hns H lrnw the Untied Htalea governinMl H tbrw hundred mid twenty arret of B mmI Iambi In See. 0, Twp 1.1 South, H Humm in limit, Curium count, the H omtahtenition (wing 101,900, the lauds H Iwing Mtnleil Mt two hundred ami H MTenty-fire and at lliree hundred H kllra an acre. Patents to the ground H vere receiv-ed li. Oould It Illskelev. M register of the Rait Lake City land H offlet, wn Octolier 10th. However, H Ik Male wm ajiprnved hv the interior H hwmrtnwiit last September 'iUth. H While Tonkin in the general man- H rajer of the Independent Cool mid H Coke phhmii owmtlnc up at k'iul- m -worth, It was said at the general of. H flee of the roniwny Inst lndiij Hint H tho transaction is n private one in H -wbleh the Indeendeiit is not in nny M -way Interested. This is quito the H Inrtfost trMtiMeliou in coal lands nindc H at any one time in the history of M Utah or of the Went for that matter. H Tb other bic Mle which until now H jjnvti Wyoming the lead was consum- M jnatml lost mr through the HvniM- j ton, Wyo, land office when a hun' H lrcd and sixty nores brought seventj- H three thousand dollar, the higheat H total purchase price made up to that H lime. H Of course this Tonkin and Huckley H lenl in wins Inter on another producer H in Cnrlxm count). There in too much H money tied up for n mora investment. M 'Jhe Sun cxKel to hoc the Iiidopon- H 1ent spread out. H JOINT RAIL RATE ANSWER M TILED BY A. R. BALDWIN H A. It. ltfllduin, the revolver for the M Denver and Itio Grande, Inst Monday M filed with the puhlio utilities comtnls- H itlon of Utah answer to the allegations H aiiaitc hy the Dnmherger Kleetrio in H its eAtw filed wotuc time ago with the H .oonmilsaion twalnst the Utah Hallway H 9omrwny and othoro, in vvhloh it H ouht to have a joint rate twtahllah. H wl bet wem railroad linen delivering m m at OftdeH. It w-aa alleged hy the H tJnltitlff iiwiiy tlwt lieeanoo of tlM H j4Ihh'hw of a Joint rate, a del) of H from one to five ilsys wm ineiirrnl in H Din. deliver) of eoal in Ogden yards, H liv rMHin of transfer. Italdvrin in Ills antwer dnlea that there is any idiyairal eonnoetion Iwtweon the Hum- Hr liM either at Salt Uktt City H ir Ojftkn and the Denver and llw M Oranl. M Ilaldwin admit that (hero la ivo M Joint or through rale (ver th liua M of either th deiendant or plaintiff H owiwuIen, and atrtH that there U M mt nuetmily for tlw ntHl)Hhmiit of H rate other than are ikiw provided. H Wlille ho i not in form! eoHotniing H -4ht) iiiantily of etml Jilppl ovur tka H Hint of pwifie route referred to in H tlw ooniulaiut of the plaintiff imt. H iwny, h denloii that tho twtalillah- H intuit of luggtmted rate in the amend- H -4n (oraplaint would aave from on to H five day in the tratmiHJilatkm of H ol haulel hy any of tha line eon. H -rned in the ea instituted hy lU H lkinUrj(M-. B He further denle that puWie ooti- H TtnleiKH) or ueMity d (una ml the m- H tahllliwent of through or itlnt rate. M jnd mk tliat the etahlihmut of M wh would not Ih fair aud rwwonabi H frm the atandiMiint of the defen- H lant. lie aak ilismnuwl of the H )ty the utilitiea ctmiuiiMion H JJINIUft INDUSTRY TEBDINO H RAILROADS LAROE TONNAGE H Aeeortling to a very reoent rejwirtof H tle inleratatH iHmimoree eommntMon, H xlMiut half ol all the revenue fi wight H ftarnetl on all the railmail of the M United htates during' the lintt three H iiuintlw yf thia ear waa denvel from m the miuiiig industry, the total lioinj; H AS.Ul.ObO ton eurriel in 5,123,101 H oar. Agneulture iu'ountwl tor 00,- B 000,000 tons, ammnl products for 11,- H (100,000 tons, forest product for 60,. H 000,000 tons, iimnufHcturlng mid mis- 1 ellaneou for 116,000,000 tons, and H Jnercilmnclise in lees than carload lot H for 32,000,000 ton or n grand total H arn4l of 611,000,601 loin. H Clawifying the freight movement H of mine products, we f d npjMirt toned H to hituminous con), 3,100,10-1 car- H lood; anthraiitc, 030,804; ilny, grav- H el, "and und stone, 181,661, toko, H 301, IC, oio nnd oonccntrHtes, 16'J.- B 410; iron ore, 130,000; cuido petrol- H Atiin, 80,700 ; shale, 67,087 , asphultum, H 38,6S'I; huso hullion and matte, 10,- H 018, niid other vtinnus produots, 80,- H 110. As to loontiou ot origination, H 11,201,010 car ciuno trom Hnsteni; 1,- ii-18,017 onra from Wostorn, 600,208 H from Soutliorn, and 322,809 ear fiom HH roojilioiitns distnota. B About n deoado ugo K. II. Ilarrunun Bb iistonlshcd the country hy aajing Hint 40 per cent of all freight carried hy United States railrondu originated irom mines of all kinds. Tho recent Hi Tiport of tho intorstato commorco ooinmigslnn show that tho industry is holding it own, in spito of n period of depression tlnit happily has scon no coiintorpnrt in recont year. Mining Min-ing i the haste industry. llmlronds ciinnot ho operated without with-out it mid tho world itself could not long he run BROKEN CONTRACTS GET THESE MINERS NOWHERE Tho Hiithrnoite coal minors who nro members of tho inino workors union profoss to behove in collective bargaining. bar-gaining. Often thov hnvo soundly do-nouncid do-nouncid and nghtlj coal operators refusing to nrbitrnto labor domnuds. 'i hoy hnvo beon unanimous in protost vvhou an operator failed to hvo up to tho oxaot word of n contract signed by operators and labor union of fioinU, comments Snlt Lake City's Telegram editorially. Now thousand of thoso samo minors nro striking. A striko is u strike ovtn though it bo disguised na n "vacation." It is an outlaw strike. It isn't a fair striko. Tho minora, through their labor chosen officials, mado certain demands for vvugo in-oreasos. in-oreasos. Tho scale commit teo of tho miners nnd operators got together, and both pledged themselves to abido hv tho federal commission's nwnrd. Tho minors, through representatives of their own selection, ngrccd.to accept ac-cept the findings of thnt commission. Naturally this carried with it tho acceptance ac-ceptance of tho award by tho majority ma-jority of thnt commission, for this Ii tho laud where majorities rule, -v. Tho majority report nwnrded wngo InoroMoa of from 17 per cent to 20 er cent. Tho minority report contained con-tained larger Incrcnscs. I'rmiiknt Wilson, to whom tho rejwrta were to-forred, to-forred, accepted the majority report .Si did them! aamo union officials They signed it. It then liccnmo it contract nrnved at by collective bargaining, tho von thing labor has mi long fought lor. Hut thousands of miners took n "vacation." Ibor of America oRiinot Mieeecd along these lines. Neither labor nor humnesa cnit stand iixm broken contrails, nor can either expect the other, or the public, to suiMMiit the right of collective bnr-gaining bnr-gaining if the given word is mero nation, na-tion, nnd tho signing of an agreement agree-ment nwro subterfuge to collect some dollar one wouldn't otherwnM got. The right of toilet live bargaining is the very breath of life to labor unionism. Without it labor unionism union-ism would bo nothing. Willi it labor eoiumamh nil pqnal footing with napitnl. Ity the outlaw strike nnd the broken word labor phcts nn mar widening gulf between it and public sympathy nnd publio support, without which labor can mako but little or no headway. AROUND THE COAL CAMPS; PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE Coal sunken made bv umpeetors of the New York ut health detriment laal weak show a supply of lew than a tenth of the normal amount which the people there should luive nt this time of tho year. Independent Coal and Coke com-M)iiy, com-M)iiy, operating up at Rendu orth, has Hied with the setretary of statu its mounded articles of ineorwirfltlon increasing in-creasing its capital stock trom $1,-150,000 $1,-150,000 to 00,000 in shares of ono dollar each. King Georgo has sot an exnmplo for householders throughout his country in the saving of ooal oy ordering that tho fires In tho rojnl palaeo shall bo lightid only when aWolutoly necessary, neces-sary, liven then thoj art to 00 kept as small as xssible Following the example of tho coal miners 111 LnglHiul, the IV noli minerd hnvo mado 11 demand for an immedi-ato immedi-ato moronic, in wnges of fivo irancs n day. Tho demand for the rniso in pay is accompanied by the threat that unloM tho demand is touipliid with at an early dato n striko will cusuo. Whllo jicers and landed proprietors proprie-tors nro soiling their proporty tho miners of England are earning so much thnt they can afford to demand tho bust of ever) thing, tvtn nt present pres-ent day pi icon. "Tho miners," it is doclnred, "don't euro how much thoy pay for tho host, ns long ns thoy get it. Tho men mako 110 secret of their wealth, 'lhey tnko hniidfulls of notes from their pockets just as the professional profes-sional man producos coppers." Somo colliers can show pa) sheets showing, (Continued On Page Eight.) COAL LANDS SALE IS LARGEST ' ON RECORD. ' (Concluded Trom Tago Blr.) nftir nil deductions, thnt they hnvo cnrnid over sixtj-fivo dollars n , week." Tho I'riidcuizcd Coal company-now ' orgnniiingnt Salt Lake, City, is befure tho stnto securities commission with nn application for pcnmsslon to sell thirty-fivo thousand shares of stock of tho par vnluo of ten dollars a ' share. Tho oompany has control of a patonteil process for firing furnaces , for heating and industrial plants with finely iiowdered coal, thereby cllnil- " uatiiig smoke. Moro applications for relittanugs in -the ikh)Iii1 oitutract cases hut recently , decldeil by the public utilities com-iiiIkJoii com-iiiIkJoii of Utah after n lengthy in- ' esligation of tho agreements between tho Utah Power nnd Light company nnd iltty-fivo of its largest patrons were filid with tho publio utilities commission Inst IVidnj. Among tho npplionnta is the United Mates l"uel i oomimnj, n largo user of power nnd lights at its coal eamits in Kastem Utnh. V.. M. Fuller, tho general superiutcn dent of the Mutual Coal company ujt in Sjtring Cannon, was in Pnte Tuesday Tues-day last. Ho tolls The bun his com-jmnj com-jmnj will bo shipping out toal somo time noxt month . 'Danny" Collins, who until lntoly s had n garage nnd repairing business at Price, la-to bo master iiaclianio for the Mutual Coal companv soon to bo- gin shiimeuts from Spring Cannon Ho has been in Colorado since lent ing Price. All coal comH)nios in Indiana wero last Saturdaj ordered by the coal und food supply commitsioii to offer for ' sale oaeli week within that stato suf- tioiout eon! to meet all dt mestio ton- 4 sumption The commission sptoifios how much oaeli conitau) shall provido weekly. Frosh disorders broke out in tho Williumsou strike ncoiie of W'ost Vir- 4 ginin last 1'ridny nnd Saturday. Ono : 1111110 superintendent has hetn um- biuhed nnd k lied. 1 tdcral troops uro on the ground. |
