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Show AROUND THti LOCAL CAMPS: PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE Mutual Coal companuy lias promised promi-sed its stockholders shipments to the markets this month . American lucl company at Sego is working full six days a week witli a good Northwest demand for its coal. Henry I Ward of Myton was the other da offered a lucrative position with the I nion Pacific Coal company at Rock Spmgs, Wyo. He has declined de-clined it. MchI of the Carbon county properties prop-erties arc working five days a week. However, some of the smaller ones arc going six. There is an increased demand for coal from many quarters. quar-ters. G. W. l.mdscy and Deputy Sheriff East were in I'rice on 'I uesday last from Castle (iate. The mines tilers, they reiit, ar working six days a wick and the other properties M the Ulfcli l'uel company going five and six da)f. William I.ittlejohn, general superintendent super-intendent of the Utah fuel company, was in Price the foreiMrt of the week- It may be a mouth or longer, he states, bclore Mine No. I at Sun-nyside Sun-nyside gets back to its output of before be-fore the fire. John II Tonkin, general manager of the Independent Coal and Coke comMMiy, had business at Price last Friday after an Inflection of the properties at Kcnilworth. They are working around five days a week with an increased demand for coal. UtsJi concerns that retain the privilege priv-ilege of insuring their own employes will be compelled to put up a band for twenty-five thousand dollars with the stnto Industrial commission after February I, 1921. according to a resolution reso-lution passed by that body. Another resolution adopted changes the discount dis-count allowed for medical exclusion on coal mining rates of industrial insurance in-surance from 12 to 15 per cent. This applies alio to lelf-lnsuring companies. J. 1- Finney, who left Mton some time ago to accept a position with the Union Pacific Coal company at Rock Springs, Wyo., has been promoted to traveling auditor. Himself and family do not expect to be gone from the rintali ltatiii permanently. In a recent re-cent letter he says: "Having been in the Its sin during the pioneering period. I also wish to lie with it when it comes into its own. It is my aim to own land near Mytou before the great boom comes." One ititlon for compensation wa granted by the state industrial commission com-mission last Friday when an award of sixteen dolls rs a week for a hundred hun-dred and fifty-seven weeks and eighteen eigh-teen dollars for one week was made to Mrs. Nellie Lorlmer, whose son, Itcmif, was killed while at work for the Liberty Fuel company at l.a-ttida, l.a-ttida, February 16, 1920. The mother was shown to be a partial dependent. A hundred and fifty dollars was also ordered paid the Liberty Fuel company com-pany by the insurance carrier, for funeral expenses advanced. II. Foster Ilain, recently announced as the new director for the United States bureau of mines, was formerly an operator in Coloiadn, and was well known among mining men in the Kocky Mountain region. He was manager of a gold ami silver properly proper-ly at Idaho Springs from 1900 to 1905, and as such contributed special articles arti-cles to mining journals. Subsequently Subsequent-ly he went to San Francisco, where for several years he was editor of the Mining and Scientific Press. Of late yearn be has been connected in various vari-ous rapacities with the United States bureau of mines In Washington, I). C. As one of his last acts as state auditor, Joseph Ririe last Monday tent a letter to the state land board, explaining that he had caused the coal lands report, filed as a part of the governor's "hundred to one shot." to be compiled as a separate report. Ririe explains that the coal survey and report was made by E. T. Olson, formerly of Price, under the personal supervision of himself as state auditor, and that he did not want it confused or submerged by the other report. He also criticizes the fact that the report was printed at considerable expense vvhcii a few copies would have sufficed. |