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Show I CARBON COUNTY COAL WEALTH li Supply Sufficient For Fifty Thousand Years. M According ti tin Christina trillion M if thn Item ret Kvnnlng Ni n a new H word In oml production In Utah haa H phi set In 1910, a year which him Hj icen marked nlso b) nevirat notable HI entiim In tli conl mining Industry H ' niotig those have been the lutrorim HI Ion f iUetrlclt) Uit powir purHire Hi it the mine, mi Increase In wage tit B hr turn nil Increase In the price M barged fur mil nl mime of the mine, Hj mil the entrv tif tun now mint BBB quipped for k cotislrii ruble iroilu BHJ Ion Into the (li til U the iIihh if BBB lie year nls came threat of it flu I BHJ amine throiikhotit territory scrvtri hy HH Ituh mine, though thin In In Ik- lit ributed rather In the latk nf uns- Mittntlim fiullltle tlmn to nil) In HH iblllty to produce the iiNtl reqnlrni HH While r turn from nil the mini HH if the ntntc hnvi not renchi.il Ihe of- HH I lie of thn Mate mint) Inspector, J HH ' K. 1'itlll, he estimate thnt pruritic- HH Ion thl )enr will run nliout 3 60) 0)n HH on. The largest prevlou prritii- HH ilon In mi) one year wa 3,29, 501 HH on In 1913 Thin wa valued nt ttie HH mine, m cording to uno nuthorlt, nl HI &.6BR.llbH. or f I 69 tit the ton In the H nnl field, howevtr, It In nrKiieil thnt Hb ha nvirnKe prim In II 91 n ton Fig- BBB , irril on thn loner tinnln, the vnlun iI BBB ihn rnnl production In Utah In the twelve month ending November 30, HI 191, will run In 16,915,000 nnd on Hi j the higher basin tit $6,185,000 A pro- HB lucllon tubln for Utah. figured on the former basis, whkh wn thnt nrioptcit HB ! 'ty the Mate commission! r of stnllntli k I ihown these flgun for 1916, being f BBfl courie, eiitlmnteit Hi HtllllllK Ton HB ' I'roiluctil At Mini H i70 5,noo t n,xm BH 1 1175 .. . 13,912 61,131 H 1810 .. 336 100 3IH.C17 HH I MS . .. 213,130 319,0X0 1190 .. 230.061 366X72 HH IR96 .. 473.96K CCI.lll HH 1(00 .. 1.233,97 1,119,071 HH I 1906 . 1.602.62 2,099,301 HH 1910 . . 2.626,093 1,(30,002 1911 . .. 3.601,171 1,801.624 HBf 1913 3,0X11,366 6,219,322 1913 3.2X9,266 6,56X,X6X HB 1914 . 3,149,191 3,164,136 H 1916 3.0X3 67H 6 211,413 Hfe 1916 3,600,000 6,916 000 Hflf) Men directly Inti n slid In thn mal H,l limine In Halt Ljtke Cll) u) that for HMj ho cnlemlnr mr the prodtittlnn f lic- Hl irr for Uliih lll run rlowi tit four Bfl million tonn. t)n the fl 91 liimlH til In HI .i)uM menu tin output worth ithout 17,640,000 Due to mtltlty In the HBH iictal inlnliiK lnduntr, thn coke pro. luctlon for the )uir will run 160,000 HHH tonii or uer. Tha ntnte mine Innpti'- HB orn fUurrn for 1916 were 367,673 Hjl onn of coke produced Klirurtf toni- HHH illfd by thn ntnti) iiimnilMlotii r of ntn HBIH lUtkM nhow thnt tha revtnue from He cokn nt the iiveni ranitri around 14 69 HKjH t ton, mnklnn Ihn nlun of the 1916 HHH iiroduttlon 11,611 101, Mild thnt for HJ 1916 around 13,066,600, I'oke pro- HHH luctlon In 1X96 hhii 23,617 ton worth HHH 1101,677. It hnn nhiiwn un nlniOHt Hjl oontlnuoun )enrl Inert ana ulnce HHH Durlni? 1916 I'tnh Tower unri l.lRht Hjl eompnn) put In up rntlun u lilh ten HUH lon powrrllun from I'rovit to HprlitK HHH lien nnd to lllntk llnwk, furnlnhlnir HJH United HtntPK I'm I compnn) with nil HWH ha eniTKy n quired for four milieu. HHH rha Mtennt powir plnntii of thine HMH mlnra hne tin n dlnmnnlleil HjH Whkdi of I'uiplojiM InimiMtl. II Effective In Heptunliir, Ihn om m. HbHJ 'ora In lltiili oluntnrl irrnntiil u HbHJ tanrrnl lneriiiM In wnKeii tit the inln- HBJH tru, neniiclnK 7(i to 10 p( r nut HbH tlherwlmt worklnK cnnilltloim ut the HbH mlnrM Imve nmnlmd ithout the mum HbHJ i In the prexlouii er The niruRi HHH lumlier of men implnjnl thin jiiir HHH) honed it hIIrIH ill inane, mnl In i. HJH nnted hy I'eltlt to 1 under four HHHj hotmnnd In 1916 the ueruKi wn HJH our thoiiHund fort) four, width wiih HbH telf u decrenne ul thn p hundrtd unri HWHj Ik lit mm from 1914 thn iliniiiud HKHj .or nun In the inetul nilnlnn field. HHH vhern wiikm were Krm nlt Increaxed, HHHJ nanlKUtd it onu risiMon for Ihe re- HHHJ ludlon of the workltiR forte In the HH mlms. HjBj There were twent-oue fatal itttl HHHJj linU In 1916, tnmt) helnK In I'arbou HHHJ ounty and the other In Hummlt HHHJ rhrro of the mm wirn killed on thn HHHJ urfnre. KulU of mm I wire rmpoii HHHJ llila for nine ileiithn movement of HHHJ itn for five, nnd uxplimlon for oiu HHHJ lettrlilt) for one nnd mlm i lliwimiiM HHHJ nuke for the "Ihi r. Thin totnl iiun- HHHJ are with i In ven dintlm h nreldi nt HHHJ n 1915 und twtnt) In 1911 HI AvtniKv la)M of WnrkliiK, HH Thn nviniKe numlur of worklnK HHH hi) at the milieu Pultlt etliimtiw ul HHHJ I Ihi ut u hundred nnd irixt), whlth Hh neutiH that the mlnen wire ruimliiK HH ilNiut 60 pir tent of the time thin HH eur The fm I nhortiiu of latt No- HB emliar and Dettmilwr In uttrlliuteil HI irKl to the ilirfnultv in kettlnK HH urn. I'allure on the wrt of dialer HH nd eunmimerti In Mure un Hdimte HB mount of iiml In the eiimmir whn a HH ontrlhutoD eauw lVltlt I of the H pinion that the MlmrtuKe will rmult Hh , mom ciil lieltiK xtored nixt enr Hh iiid hu iiuiKe the awerllon that, oi- Hb iik to It ftriutiiriil maiwIvenuHM I'tuli HH out hold up will In tnuiult and In Hb toruRH and enn lie kept ull summer Hfl villi little deterlorHtloii The car HI iltuntlori Iihh lmprvd the HtiKar fae- H orlea wil KMiii tsimplvte their maon, Hh i nd I't ttlt pxpremMNi tin opinion that, HH ilileM a ntorin Nhnuld hlmk railroad Ha raffle there will lie little further In- Hb imvenlenee or mffirlnt: from link Hff if fuel AV Kuw tMimimnle to start produtlnK H n 1916 uru tliti Carliou Kuel, which HR Inie It entered tlio fluid In Teliruur) Hjl lUd had a total output of itlxt) -three. HB tioiiwuid ton fiom Itb mliin nt Haiti HB mil thn Ketthum Coal compnn), ulno HB n Carliou iHiunty The latter tom HK lany tins licen untuKud In lltlifutlon, H mil It output thin year will not ho HH The market for Utah coal extendi HJ rorn the coal flold westward to the HHHHHMHHMHHMJMIHHBHM orenn nnd from Montana to Hnuthern Callfornlfl llfflV) ctiAtomer nre tin metnl mine nnd nmeltcr of Montana lilnho, t tali nnd Nevnda, nnd nli the InrRp nugnr fnilnrle nnd Rn work Ittnli eiml find u rivnl In tin t tnh market in Wyoming con I npproxl mntely mi i low to Northern Utah M)lnt an the I rue proiluclnR field of Utah The titnte mine lnpectorB re port for 1916 contain thn following tnlrie Indlrntlve of the dhtrlhutlon of wml oiitnldn of thnt lined In the form of inke I'rotn Utah Mlnee. Ton. Hhlpped tit Hlt Irfikn City 21X,X3 Itnllrimd 462.IOX Other Utah point X60.967 nilur ntdt.w 6X2.2IS l'ipil at mlneM nnd loeal enlmi 12X.666 Dupt wanted 1,1 21 HtornKP 11.10X I nun Ujomlni; Mine. Hhlpp'nl tit-Halt tit-Halt Ijikp Oil) 10.399 Itnllroad In Utah 113,167 Otlur Utah point 146,829 Indiiotrlnl pronperlty reeultlnK In I part from tin Itiiropwin wnr and nl link of nlilpplntc fmltltle on tin I'll-1 tlfla due lit the mime i-iiinw, necount' for much of the lntreaed iiroduitlon of 1916 l)ometli consumption In-rnnne In-rnnne npproxlmnti I) In direct ratio with the population On the other hnnd, thn metnl Imluntry of the Vet I working neiir inpaclt), with a r Mtiltnul Increaiu In ioiiumitloii of conL Hiveral m w NiiR-iir faitotle wire iipetud till year and tin re wn n lleuvll) lutreflMil iiinnRi of lit it I'artlculnrl) lu.vliw of the n dm lion In tlii tariff on mat npiiroxlmnteli fort-"iine itMtta a ton ha the war ill) of iriilpplmt tonnriKP on the Pacini Pa-cini Connt freiuentl mo d Walt or AUMlrallnn conl for liiilliiMt llrltlnh t'oliimlilu tnlne wire formtrly Rtronir competitor In tin mnl market of Ihe coirt Henri lt of nhlppltiR loumiRe tin l.iri l mini id tln-ee form of co in pi tltlon Ijlto In the )ear eomi of the eoul rompnnli liureiind their prlie at tin mini, tin InireuiM lielmt rov ernnl hv luillvldual rnndltlou Home of the compaiile limili a flat Ihi rcaiio tit nil their trade Other i hlefl) Ihe larmt Individual proiliiier of eon I Utah I'm I, Hindi no ImreiiHe at all Htlll otlur miiile no Iniream to thn Halt Uike City traili, Imt ralind thilr prill to iiutnldi' point. The fonnnr prlct which hnvn prevailed lnit No vimlier, I9I0, ami rtlll nre In fone at ome of Ihe mlm. are Tor coal loaded on the ml ut the mini lump, 12 10 a ton, nut. 12 16 a Ion, mnen lnik, II 00 a ton, mine lntk, m vi nt)-five nt)-five iint a ion The nu Noale nrinptril li mime of tin tompitult I 13 ou n ton for lump. 12 76 for rtuvt, 12 SO for nut und egg, mid $2 HO for ' mine run " The prei ut Mute mine lnn i tor, who ixpeit tn ntlre with the pn ml elate iiriinlnlNtriitlnn, plan to make only two ricommnmlutlon In hi lilrmiliil report. Onn that the Uw nliilliiK to dutli of the of (lie he nuirii to liuluJe ruli nnd riRulatlon governing Ihn uw- of tliclrlc inergy In thn opi rutlun nf mine. The other thnt Ihe priMtit wiliir) of two thou-nnd thou-nnd ilollnrn a year he Increased. The ordinary mine Htipttlntendint kit $2400 to 12700, nnd home a mm h it 13(00 n iiiir WntliiR Niitloii'H iiillli .SotwIthiilnndlnR III llmllid rnoiii. tin ndiltlon. I'i ttlt think mimn unw Iih nre niednl In Ihe conl f li Id and that ilther fi ileral or Mule govern-mint govern-mint nlimilil lake uitliiu T" mi thud th-ud of mining enmmnnlv um , ne a, nre wuMlng the millon' resource. In t tali, ut priKint. di vilopment I milium, mi-lium, if iver, Marled ou any eam le1 than four feit In ihltkntM. Oicn-nIoiiiII) Oicn-nIoiiiII) ii MiNim narrow down a the! mlnn pemtruti faither iiurii rurouud It ha hun common that huiIi u mum would he uhiindoneil I't ttlt t-onttniU, that nil the toal In mitli a mum should he mined while II Is still iiueorible Waste also ouurs. In sa. when com-panlr com-panlr titkn down thn pillar on large seams, and thu prevent pnssllilllt) of mining other sium within thirl) lit a hundred feet aliove Coal ha titin lost through poor method of work Ing nnd linplinxarri mining I nt liesl vostt). Ilomvtr, nt presmt In most of the hlr Utah producera a high a 94 or 95 per lent of the coal In the iteuin worked Is extracted t lull' nt IHkm.Ik. A the trnvelir entir Utah on thn Pmwr und lllo (Irande. truvellng west, thi most Important landscape fenturn tit thu right It Hook Cliff, In wlili li und In tin Ir continuation along tin i astern file of Ihe Wniuitih Mountain Moun-tain miiir the outcrop of the most hlghl) ilevt loped coal fit Id of the state A ilwmirlptlou of thetw Hook Cliff I glviu l) tin United Htute geologleul iturvi) Thn Hook Cliff outip) it lielt from onn to ten tulle wide unri rise aliuvn the adlatent low bind from twit thniis-and thniis-and to six thousand feet In plans the rise I abrupt In one or two sharp precipice Khuwhert It I aotoinp llshid h) n serli of tllff nnd Intir-vtuliig Intir-vtuliig bi m he The roik intnprU-lag intnprU-lag the i m apt mi nt are ulti mating Puis of sandstone und shale, dipping sllghtl) nolthwarri, and the strati premt the up pea ran re of In IvUta of u liook ljlng flat lleiite the i um ' The region ha un arid illmate, with n certain amount of tlmher In the uplands up-lands thnt might he available for mln ing purposes The menu unuuiil I m-pi m-pi ruture leKtround fifty-three dekrre und w hero Irrigation ha tietn Intro-diieiri Intro-diieiri the alli) hu provnl lit tw most fertile Conieriilng tlm prosento of toal In the Hook Cliffs, thu goo-loi,lciil goo-loi,lciil Htirve) writer, a II Itklmrd-sou, Itklmrd-sou, sa again ' Coal of tomtmrilal Importnnie oooun In thu lower part of the Mw Verde formation nt arloui horUona from thirty-five to seven hundred feet above ita base, In somo localltk several lieil are present, while In otlur only on or two hnvn been found but no alngle Imd ha been traced continuously for more than n few mile Ho little prospecting ha been done that nn tin liinllfled state mint inn not be made hut no far a known one or more workable bed an present throughout the field here i tn slriereri The thltkneM of the ton) ran gen from n maximum nf twmtv one feel (Thl I In referema to the astirn jmrt of the field in I tah In1 tin r lion count) and elsewhere thhkcr bed have been developed or dH ov end) down lit tin re film of carb n menu matlur The but nutirop In) I tin fact of the liook Cliff commonl . humlred feet or morn nlMiVe Iti Ita and at dlstantea from the Den ver and Itlo (Irunrie which nr) from i Utn prnxlmlt) to a maximum ul itlHiut firtien mile The din I at n low angle tn the northwest nnd the coal tinriftrllc an Immense nrca north of Ihe cliff The conl I of good J iptnllt) nnd compare fnvorahly wlthj that of Ihe Itocky Mountain toal, (kids Tin Mince, t Nflcn. I Trom the Colorndo to the Carbon iiiunt) Ihn only on- producing mine I listed In the report of the state mine Inspector thnt of the American I'm I comiHin) at Ncricn n few mile north of tlm railroad In (Irnnd county. Follow Ing up the l'rlte rlvtr In Carbon Car-bon i mint), hnwivir the railroad enter en-ter a bowl like dcprcs-ilon, open mil) on Ihi east The othi r thru slrit are book illffH nnd here are virtually all tin mlm of I tah that niter to mon than tin most local nf trnrii. It Is a rutin r itirlou geologlial fail that tin 'Mil bids on all thre side of the dipnsslon slupt genii) downward down-ward awii) from the outcrop In thn slid or the bowl Appnnntl) tht toal ImiI, slme llnlr formation man) age ago, stitfiriri un nphnival of whli li the ridge lira eomewhire near tin line of the I'rlee rlvir I'or sonje reason the ridge wn worn aw a) and a vnlle) exist In It plan Thnsi familiar with Ihe geoliiglial strm lure of tin n glon a) that at n vii) lousi rvatlve istlmali about two Ion of toal have gone down Ihe val-It val-It nf Un 1'rlit and posslbl) n far us the 1'iiilfli Ocean through the Colorado rlvir for ever) ton thai n main Hnwivir II ha also been in-tlmateil in-tlmateil Hint tin re I imin workable i mil nmalning In Carbon inunt) alum than tin re I In the whole stati of Pennsylvania Ho thnl the nmount thai ha bun erodid will not be si rl-oiikI) rl-oiikI) mlsiHil for se viral thousand yi-ar arhou Count) Mine. Hiirrouiidliig thl howlllku dnprr-alnn dnprr-alnn are Ihe mine of Carlton count), which produtn 90 per rent of thn annual an-nual output of the Htnlt, nnd those of Kimry loutii), whlth prodmo most of the rimalndir In Carbon county lire the Wlnti r Quarters, Clrnr Creek, I'tuli Mini, Castle tlate, Hunn)sldn and Willow Cirtk propertlt of the Utah Puil company, togithrr with the scviti liundn d and odd coke oven nt Hunn)lile the Kinllwnrth nnd Ah-unleen Ah-unleen mine of the Imlependmt Conl and Coke lompnn), the lllawatlm, Hlaik llnwk and Carbon mlnm of the fulfill Htate luel lompany, thn Htorr mlm of ihe Hprlng Cnnon Cijal tumpaii). thn Canuron mine nf thn Catmron onl tompnn), the Hnln mine of tin Cnrlnin Km compan), the Ketthum mine of thn Kelt hum Conl compnn) and tlm Htamlard mini of thi Htandairi Coal uimpaii) I'utlhir south, still along Ihe rim of the bowl, are the produilng mini of I. men uiunl) These Inclittln the Mohrland mini or thi United Htate I'm I minium), und the mine opr- latiri h) tin lllntk Diamond Coal torn pan), the OllplmntN, A M. Johnson, I Axil Audirsou and thn Dei r Crick mine of whlth tl W Millvr I suptr-Intmilent suptr-Intmilent I'urlher south anil west 'in the ixtenslou of till fit Id along Ihe Wasatch Mountain are the conl mine of Hanpetn uiunt). Hire nre thn mini nt Wales, the first to he developed In Ihn stiiU, and now uperulid li) the Wist Mountain Coal iompan). thn .New ark mlnn of the Utuh Kuul com-puny com-puny mar Kulrvlew, the mlnn of the Ml. 1'lensant Conl compnn) nnd that opt rated b) Jnsiph Ji nsm of Hter-ling Hter-ling I Intali llaslii Mcosuntt. Oixiliiglst have Indicated that Ihn Hook Cliffs field extend northwurd under the Uintah llasln. nnd, Indued, Ulntnh coal rtglon Ih thu nnmo most ginerall) upplied b) giologlst to thu urea Thu geologlial survn) ha ix-nmlned ix-nmlned outoropplng of toal in uirre-spondlng uirre-spondlng geological formations In thu iriml ciml field In Uintah count) und In the Hlacktall Mountain fMri In Do-thesne Do-thesne i omit) when C T l.upton haa estlmatul neurl) two thousand million ton of toal incur lu workable work-able seam within time thousand feet or the Mtrfaie In Dmhesne count) The itouomlt luiH)rtume of tin lat-tir lat-tir fit Id lie In the fait thnt II I ilose th propostd railroad lima Into und through the Uintah Ita sin The field incurs In a wooilid terrltor) HiMrsel) n tiled und ut present far from u railroad rail-road Tin wood I found tasltr to prom re fur ilomestlc fuel locall) nnd the result I ttmt so far the field hu siarcel) even lieen prospettml l'rom thn Vernal field mon coal Iiiim hem taken for total ioiiiimitlon and mine are operuted In I intuh count) b) tleorge (Ira), J 1' lllth, Hack A Alton, A C Mriri and Hurton llrother |