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Show B 1 THE COAL INDUSTRY OF CARBON G0UNTY HH Written for the Railroad Itcd Hook by R. W. Crockett. IH Carbon county, named for its great deposits of H coal and hydro-enrbons, will by the clone of the B present calendar year (1916) have produced fully H four million tons of coal. And, had it not been H for the great car famine throughout nil this B western country, the amount would go much in HR excess of the figures given. Emery and Grand B county mines, of which there arc two producers, K one nt Mohrland nnd tho other nt Ncslcn, tapped R by the Denver and Rio Grande system, will add Hp to this on an average of six hundred tons n day H for the twelve months, mnking a grand total for K Eastern Utah of close to 4,200,000 tons. At two M dollars n ton, which is n fnir average net to the B producers at the mines, it will be seen that B around $8,-100,000 is close to con company earn- K2 Heading the list is Utah Fuel company with Bf properties at Winter Quarters, Clear Creek, Utah children locally in advnnced studies, though nil of these coal camps have schools up to nnd including in-cluding the eighth grade, and none better exist nnywhere. This has been n year of more than the ordinary ordin-ary for surface improvements nt the thirteen producing camps of Carbon nnd Emery courttlcs, where large sums of money have been spent for dwellings, nmuscment halls and the like for the comfort nnd enjoyment of employes, it bclnsr' found that these considerations attract n much better class of labor than where such conveniences conveni-ences nre not considered. Every camp in the county hns progressed along these lines, and it Is estimated tlutt $260,000 has been thus expended. expend-ed. The miners' homes, as a general rule, are of better construction nnd more comfortable than nre those of the nvcrago dweller in the smaller cities and towns. Close attention hns also been HTj given to better sanitary Hgju y.7rt I conditions, nnd in every Kl y ' ' pmm ncw cnmP' nn sn na pp H MPWHVt r NfeSi" y&&Sm neRrnCinrt,Svc Helper and Hjffl Black Hawk Tipple not far from Stnndnrdvillc, LiBjVHi is the "hnbv" enmn of thin HBV Mine, Castle Gala nnd Sunnysldc, which outputs VUgf half of the commercial and steam coal of the dls- RHfl trict, while the United States Fuel company, HK9j with properties nt Dlnck Hawk, Hiawatha and Ef Panther Canyon, is second. Then follow Spring ffR Canyon Coal company nt Cameron, Standard HSj Coal company nt Standard, and the Carbon Fuel H ' company nt Rains in production in the order H named. Much of the coal in fact, nearly nil of B it nt Sunnysldc goes into coke for the Utah H I rtmcltorn and those of Montana nnd Nevada. The H Kclchum Coal compnny is n new concern that in H just starting in at Castle Gate with a present H I output of around fivo railroad cars n day. H , , The Kctchum company and tho Carbon Fuel year, but with the output increasing mother twelve months ns it has tho past four or five, will Boon emerge from its swnddling clothes. Crystal Conl company, on Ogdcn concern with tho Drownings nt its head, was to have opened this year on n large scale, but will do nothing now until next spring. Its properties nre reached reach-ed by the Denver nnd Rio Grnndc, a short distance dis-tance west of Helper, nnd comprises some six hundred acres. When work begins something like $1,000,000 will be spent before anything is sent to mnrkct. The conl is of the same excellent quality as that sent out from Castle Gate, Storm, Cameron, Standardvlllc and Rains. The "wagon haul" mines that supply a large portion of the hb i company hi uains arc new, . B i Is indeed most satisfactory. HSM-'- - asWreai i ietm sa.CXSiaaai Hjfl' -At several of the camps Mack Hawk 1 wages of lute have been in- H creased voluntarily by the operators, where 11 H was seen that worklngmcn were entitled to H consideration. Labor troubles in consequence H are nn unthought of thing. The percentage H jf English-speaking miners nnd others employed Hl in Carbon county nnd foreigners is about half H Figures show that around $375,000 is pnid out Hj each month nt the mines for labor, not including H top men nnd clerical nnd other forces. This H money is, for the greater pnrt, spent right here xcoal to Price and nearby settlements have done well the past year. In tho hydro-carbon field the mines of the Uintah Bnsin are sending in their usual consignments consign-ments of clnteritc, gilsonitc, asphaltum and other "wax" products. Utah Ozokerite company at Colton has been working n Inrgo forco of men, nnd, owing to tho European war, finds a splendid mnrkct in New York for everything produced. L. V. Shearer is at the head of this proposition. Between Soldier Summit and Colton big things HJ9 are soon looked for in the oil fT- '.T " , wTS i. ' " S W?P$ffiH& refinery business from the ' ' Ql Vft8 deposits of shales there. ? ' jTj A Salt Lake City compnny has f ' ten thousnnd ncres nnd is soon S3 ' WQfL ' ' Mw!swrv - i t Put 'n refinery for work- H !!ft3? SrSiiiSiiHES ,nK theso dcposlta a,ul curnB- H Portion of the 750 Coke Ovens nt Sunnysldc asphaltum land seven miles Ht it home, which makes no better market any(- Hj where West for the products of the farm, dairy Hj -tnd ranch than cxl&la in Price River Valley. H' Peddlers nnd others find it profitable to haul B their surplus to these camps for a ready cash (market nt tho best prices. Price, being the center cen-ter of this great industry of mining, derives a , great and ever increasing trade from these J; camps. Many miners have also bought property H here at the county seat and are schooling their - 4ifet aft um .ffVBk tSHIHMBRmV' jhhhhbhhhhhhhhhhhbhhhhhhhhb !KiNF.:ffir9'&n8&tfflEKxi ''EIkiiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiiiaiaiaiaiaiaiaia3BiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaB uct goes into paving at Salt Lake City and other j cities west. The company is now patenting several sev-eral hundred ncres of ground. They have mountains moun-tains of the very finest kind of paving mnterlal. Altogether great are Carbon and Emery counties, coun-ties, ns .well as all of Eastern Utah. The year 1917 will break all previous records in coal and .oke production and in the hydro-carbon fields. A good place to live. |