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Show MIOt'MI Till: ()li MINIMS i'Khson.m, am otiu:uim; HtandanhfUy und Itulns am miounl up also. Colorado's cnul woilm Hon for tho ar just dosed l M.HT.o: tons, nn Increase of 1,731, fly otr last )nar Kenlluorth Is mixing Its troubles along with thn ollwr i-nmps of Carbon ount, whli h urn nf nbout the same nuturn 'cteu In tlruiiil ioiiiit Is said to In working ever) da) Hume of this tnal goes to Colorado points around Oraml Junction Disgusted nt thn link of emplii) mint txtuuso of thn shortngu of railroad rail-road cars, many miners urn quitting tho propcrtli s of Carbon county to go nlsdw hi rr, 1'. N. Camiron of Halt ltkn Clt, manugir of thn I'anthir Coal torn-pan) torn-pan) operating near Castle (lain, hus returned from n short visit to Us Angeles, An-geles, Cala. 1'nllcd Htutes I'm lompaii) minis huve not worked since thn Inav) fall of thn ' Ixuutlfut ' lust week. Port)-four Port)-four tars wern rmlved Wcdnemln) lust, about a half n dio's work for thn miners at thi tin en tamps W'oril i nines down from Ktorrs b) telephone that thn tamp Is bloikid with snow und hus In en for snverul iln)s Vir) little coal has bem going out In lonsiqiieuin from thn Spring Can) on iiilniH Oak Crnk, Coin, noal npirutorti urn bous'tlng ihut thn Molfut mud now oftm iKiuplrai onl from sixteen to eighteen hours In transporting a train-loud train-loud of iouI from thn m lints to Denver Den-ver This Is hi tier than tin uvenike time in a iln b) i utile trains und beats mull) nf thn pussengei trains In order to prevent n shutdown nf thn I.nhl sugar factor) lust week, the Orem eileitrlr roud operated u special train with W)omlng coal for tho factor), fac-tor), inabllng the futtor) to keep Its slxtinn-mlle pipeline In operation and to prtvent the souring of man) hundreds of gallops nf luet Juice coming from thn slicing stations Olflilals nf thn I) liver and Ida Grande so.) that onl) about 10 pr cent of thu tnal handled ovr Its line Is destined to Salt l-uke fit), the balance bal-ance being eonslgned to other Utah and Idaho towns with a hiwiv) tonnage ton-nage for thn Industrial plants I'our coal train of a hundred und fifty curs of forty tons each or six thousand tons were delivered In Halt Lake Clt Wedneda from the Utah mines, but unfortunate!) for consumers consum-ers there only nine hundred tons was billed for that point. Tho United States l'uel company had two hundred and six cars loaded at Its mines Sat- U--1 1 i X S 1.1 UU -LJl -i-JB. urdaj. They nrn now In transit north, and ns thn miners am now back to work nnd thn weather Is moderating, steady Improvement Is likely to Im thn order of thn day. All of the Carbon count) mini s am working better toda) (Friday) nbout SO per cent cnpnilt) Prom December 2 4 tit to December 30th, Inclusive, n period or sivm days nil or thn mines combined on the Denver nnd Itlo flrnndn loaded but wiven hundred nnd fort) -one cars. Including two htindnst and snvent)-twn from Utah l'uel com-pnti)'s com-pnti)'s mines, Wlntir Quarters Is working full time beiitusn of orders for railroad coal At thn Clear Creek mines of Utah l'uel compati) four ln)s wire put In by thn miners last week They nlso worked last Monday Custln (late Is going about three dn)s it week at c-eial. At thn Clear Crei k mines of meed from snow becalm- nf Castle (Into being on n main linn nf rnllroud Utile nf thn coal that Is mined nt Kemmerer, Dlamondvllln and other Vomlng towns finds Its wn) rust That which Is not shipped to western points Is used by thn Union Pudflo for operating purposes.) It Is said that thn Union I'aclflo uses ten thousand tons of V)omlng eoal dully on Its engines, and that It hus n contract fur n hundred hun-dred thousand tons of Illinois coal to tin delivered ut Uinuha for ure on Its western divisions. Thn Moffat Coal eompitn) ut Oak Creek, Colo , has offered u bonus of B r.er cent additional pay to nil employes who do not miss morn than one working work-ing da In each half month. Thn step IM taken to mi urn Increased efficient)' Mid to mukn thn output nf thn mine is large ns possible, now that there s a demand for morn eeial than run tin pioduced. Thn Hear Itlvir Coal ompnny at Hear Itlvnr, Colo reirnt-1) reirnt-1) adopted n similar plan With thn Denver and Itlo (Imndi operating ut almost normal during thn past two das, dim to vvurmir weuihir nnd with thn transportation of eoal trains being given preference over "red Ixill" freight, thn con I situation situa-tion was miiti rlull) Impruvid ester-da) ester-da) und toda) nnd mini) points In Utah nnd Kouthern Idaho nnd Montana, Mon-tana, whlih wern suffering from n fuel famine for ten tin), urn now lining lin-ing suppllid with nnul from thn Carbon Car-bon eolint) mines Actual i mint of iiml lonilid (mm thn Carbon nnd Knur) mints und nn route west along thn linn of thn Dm-ver Dm-ver and Itlo (IrntfUe for Halt Ijike Clt) und points wist If them on Hominy lust shows m4in lit I'lintlur, thlrt)-seven thlrt)-seven ears ut iuslU (lute, eight) -six ut Castln JumtlnnMUtah rniluit)), fort) at Spring Cuu)on, w tilth uImi Includes loads from Standard mine, two luin-drill luin-drill ut llelptr, w tilth Imludes coke nnd red ball freight fort) -nine at Cotton, nnn hundred and one ut Soldier Sol-dier Summit, two at Thistle, tight at Hprlngvllh, foiirtiiu ut I'rovn, tm ut Mldvale or u grand total of five hun-iiml hun-iiml and fl(t)slx wist bound louds betwten I It tin r nnd Hull Ijikn Clt), hit lulling enktt and rid bull (night This situation wus muti rlulh Improved Im-proved Monila) lust Coal and politic huvi nothing In loiiimon, but some of thn Utah pro-timer pro-timer urn putting u tout of white, wiish on cnul shipped In open tar to to nutsldn states su)s Halt Uikns Mining Itevltw This Is to tit (ermine win tin r or not it is bilng stolen Hhlpper know that thn dr)liiK nut prnenss, thn sifting nf (Inn i oul through t tucks, und soforth mukn u vt r) appreciable dlffi renin In thn 'w night nf u loud between Its starting place und destination, but It seems difficult to mukn the rnelpliut until un-til rotund II Notwithstanding the fuit that thu universal shnruge of railroad cars eut down thn production of the coal mine of Itoutt count) Colo , b) from SO to 30 per tent, still thn output for November wus grnater than during any previous month during thn present pres-ent )nnr Thn total was f 1,721 tons but this was 776X tons Ins than In I November. 1916, which was nisei tho I highest of thn first eleven months of tbut )eur Tht production of cnul In thu count) up to Novembir 30, 1916, hud rcuohctd a total of SID, 522 tons, which Is short onl) 36,461 tons of tho output for the entire) eur 1916, and as December promises to bo fully as heavy n November, It Is certain that the )tar 1916 will break all pre vious records for Itoutt county Tt s,1 total for 1916 was 815,903 tons, whi . for thn entire )emr 1914 It was on v I ' ' 666 881 tons ; About fort) residents of Iln)d' I ) ) Colo, and vicinity have organized th 1 ! ' Yarn pa Valley Mutual Coal com par J to purchase the Adair tract of for 1 ) acres nf coal Iflntl on Dr) Creek souti 1 ! west of the town, and operato It on fl ' ' co-operative plan Tho property m estimated ns worth four thousand do lars, nnd vach stockholder taken oi ' hundred dollars In stock The coal t ', said to he of high quallt), and th mine will be put In first-class shnr ' to supply the wagon haul trade, prlr ', ', elpatly of the stockholders, who vtii be supplied with fuel practically ' ) cost , , |