OCR Text |
Show I i, NEW MINES MAY BE OPENED UP , , I Thomas B. Keeley, Chicago Capitalist, Fig- ' uring to Start Big Coking Plant I ! ( 4 Close to Sunnyside. i' ' . H Thomas I). Keeley of Chicago, owner of two thousand or more BB , ' ncrcs of coking conl Inndiv in Horso Canyon immediately south of Sunnyside and nho great beds of iron ore in Iron county, this state, H t was in Utah this week looking over his holdings with n view of H i developing them on a large scale. His engineers from the East Wl joined him here. Plans include n steel plant on the shores of Utah f Lake or if not there close to Midvalo. HI Since coming West, Keeley has had a conference with Archie M Milncr, representing the Milncr interests with coal lands to the I ' north of Price and Iron holdings also in the southern portion of the j state. What was talked with Milncr at these conferences neither H gentleman concerned will state. Mnrk Hopkins, geologist and 1 civil engineer of Salt Lnku City, has for a considerable time been I in charge of Kccley's Utah holdings. Hj ' i j Near Sunnyside largo sums of money ware spent last year and H i previously in opening up the coal measures there. The property is M ' in Emery county. Tests for coking at the Sunnyside ovens show Hj the coal to bo of excellent quality for coking and especially in the R 'I treatment of iron ores. Many thousands of dollars in experiment . Jng have been spent. M ( Through representatives of the Chicago man, The Sun has for H moro than a year been in possession of the fnct that it is the in- B ' tention of Keeley and associates to erect big steel works in Utah 1 most likely at somo point on Utah Lake, where water is plentiful m ' . and lands for plant and dwellings for employes and others are 1 reasonable in price. Also thcro is the consideration of tuxes and u other matters of concern to such an industrial enterprise as is 1 projwfled. H In the beginning it is intended to manufacture steel rails for H, ; ; mines, hardware and the like, later on if the first proposition is n M ' , ,( success, to turn out the heavier stuff. Tho promoters arc certain j i these articles may bo produced here in the West as cheaply, if not H ' fit a lesser price, than East. MM , H ; i-atciiino up iirri:ui:Nt't H OP COIOHAIIO CM) All MINIUM H . DKNVKIt, Colo., July H. Officials B ' of th o United Mlno Workers (f Amcr- HJ I' lea tonight announced postponement HJ S .of th referendum vole, rholulP(l for HB' tomorrow on strike of nil miners Ht' mplocd I))' the Colorado Fuel ami Hf -, ; i Jron company, effective August int. Bc It w Mid officials of the company H ; ' had agreed to n conference Notice 1 i , 'f the Intention to strike recently was t , filed with the state Industrial mm- H mission. H( Differences between the Colorado K fuel and Iron company and tho mln H j ' era will he taken up ut a conference n f . I: to bo hold In lener, July 14th. be Hv M, tween representatives of District li. H ?,. United Mine Worker of America, and LLTri .1 tt 1 J- '' Wtllmrn, president of tho com.. LHl ' ' '4l ? Iny, It I said. Tho Industrial com- H ;, ' E miction of tho htate liaa been asked '' fi : to ha prrnent. It Is atateil 1 i JB Difficulties between th.' milium W ' J B JB '"' rnnl,y center. It l stated, Ht ) H principally around tiie socnllcd Hock- H i t Ml efcller plan. ', H J'lltNT COAIi .MINK IN - i UTAH AtlAIN TO WtiltK I J ' fl. . ' H i V The flrnl cat mine discovered In H ,, ' W Utah U Iwlnic npeuvit up nisir Walea ft B' In Haiipota county and Mill lie workeil It, , B wm largo aeale. The Itock HprliiR l k W J'url company of Halt Uiko City. U f t W- purehiuird the "coal bed" of Henry It. I S Thomaa, who hun ovrnetl tho mine X ilnrlim tho pant few eam, and ival i, 9 Vroduetlon will he ptmhed with a leal SH t' n,lJ determlnutlon to upply the de- H T ' V 'M mand a much u powlhle from tho Hii I 4 fH ",J hUtorlc mlnea on the nt side of Bil i i tho nlley. Ha Mt. Pleumint'a Prn- (' J V I mid of tho 13th. H' ' T ill 1 "Already twvlvo mlnera h4o been . T f ! I put to work iIIkuImk coal and openlnu ' I D 'l1' "10 rooln- ' "",t moro men oau BJ. ,1 bo employed In tho mine. A large, BJl ' M ihtpment of mUilmr machinery la be-Bt be-Bt ' i ;ft Ina; delivered aa faat aa potwlble. A ' fa ,1 big boiler la being taken up Coal Can-BJ. Can-BJ. M on. whero a romprruor will he put BJr HIV Ul 'ar un 'n rtlnll'l,K ,,IC roal vut iB 14 ,1 SI 3 Ung machlnea In tho mlno. Plpeflt. ,,i R trra aro bui lalng pipe Into the W, 4 main tunnel and It will only tw a fj f . ff week or ten daa until lwent.flo or i! 1 I aV more mlnera will bo ongaged In dig. I ' 'j King roal. A pumping plunt nnd Nil holut will be built In Peto'a Cunyon, j " ? whura Oov. Blnion llumU'rger onco j Ek mined coal In the early dua of l'tah. j J JD Hero the eoal U about flvo feet ten Ua I H Inclua thick and of n very good quail. ?iin t H ,nKI ,"lV0 "cver l,oen driven Into the ttff 4 I am mountain moro than fifteen hundred mS J u feet at tho greutcat depth It la ex- Bi j '( H ptoWd that the coal will be much iH ' IS better when tho working aro oxtend. BJ . '1 ' H -ed another thmunml or more feel In-BJmjwI In-BJmjwI '' O to the mountain. Mill fl " v Annl- Keneral manager of PS B "l0 vonipany, atatrd In nn Interview III B with a repromfiitatlvti of the I'yrumld Bb'S 90 tM wcck- ,,ml K woul'l he only a B r.?H ' U vfry imurt "l,IB u"1" t,,H' M()hl be. B T II t M tllRglng fram t hundred to two him-1 B ( v ' w "llrei1 ton of coul a l'"5' T,K' pom I ' J .la pany hun a contract to furnlnh a ''ilk i W jimeltlnK company with fuel, but will 4 j ('Iq -ul0 furnlah coal to the local trade Mil M i) T ! Ourlng the next alxty du. The road 9 It I ' lo (nB "1,n0 '" '" BHHl "hnpe. In fact, IE. iff f ' ,l ,a on,y " fry "nort dtitaiu-o from B I'M 'ft ,no tow" ot Watea to the mln on. The I Mm I I ml1"' '" C,ml t'ai,yon ' olll' nlMiut lil U f two ntllea dltaut from the tounlte. I BC p I At preaont a team could easily freight lEt ' I two Inns, from the mint and In a I BJpf I I very abort time when the roada eon Tgi if j ba put In tho best of ahupe a team Cii M could eaally freight three tonn from I L fl the mlno. Tho quality of thU coal Is 111' JfcH rxuvlleitt for heating purpoaea. It laV)i tlnll burns easily and holds n lasting fire. 15' JT4I Thomaa saya It la tjomo of the best H J if if 2 ' toal for ,hls !url0(' If Mil "There Is an Interesting story ton-M.W ton-M.W It lM nectod with thla mine. About alxty IB i f St years ago an old Indian told Ulshop Mri A ml John I!. Iteese of Ephralm and John MWn. tf-Jf! Price of Mantt that there was some-Wdb some-Wdb IMfll thing up tho canyon that would burn, lift ntima Theo two gentlemen were experlen''-' WvXt mwj 2d coal miners In Wales before they Hurl StTal rams tu Aipwrlcn and persuaded the mwMAbm old Indian to lead them to the place. When the party arrived at the mouth of the canyon tho Indian sulked and slipped nway from tho gentlemen. It was thought that bo hnd changed his mind nnd had decided not to show them after all. The two men contln-' contln-' ucd up the canyon and found the old Indian sitting above tho coal bed on the rix-kx, having takwt n round Jnbout way to get there. I "lllihop Itresn and Prlco opened 'up the lcd ot coal oImiuI 1IS7 nnd ishlpped It to BoJt ImUo City by ox I team., Tho present railroad on tho west ildo of the valley was built on account of thla mine. At ono tlmo the Hanpcte Valley rultroad got all thrlf coal from these mines. It was hauled by tram to Chrstcr Illnhop Orlando Hradtey nnd other prominent men of Moroni did the freighting. The mine changod hands several times since It waa discovered. At one time an lingllah compuny owned IL Thn present owners, tho Itock Springs 1'uvl (ompauy, uro the first to attempt to work the mine on u largo scale They uro putting In modern machinery machin-ery as fast as possible nnd Annls Informs In-forms us that his rompany will have at least thirty-five mlnera at work In a very short time. 'Thla will relieve thn coal shortage condition In thla valley aa well as helping In supply the demand at Halt 1-nke City." MANY NIIW CAIIK CO Ml NO POII THU ITAII ItAII.WAY New aleel vara for tho l'tah radium, which will operate on Its own hook after tho first of November next between be-tween Mehrliuid In Itmery county nnd Provo, aro now striving from the Kant nt tho rato of twenty rura n day. Utah mllwu) promises soon lo become be-come the greatest fuel urtery west of the Mississippi rlvir. The total order, which has been placed fur some time, culls for two thousand coal cars. All are to be delivered by the middle of November. Tho cost Is four minimis of dollars. The cumpnii) already has flvo hundred of Its uwn cars In commission. com-mission. In anticipation of early activity, I. II. I.ukc, general manager of the road, has upened offices on the sixth floor of the Judge building at Salt Lake City. Vurlous departments of the railroad are being organised nnd It Is said thut by September 1st tho overhead over-head maohlner) of tho line will be In full operation. Yard ArraugCil Por. Tho main jards or the Utah railway, rail-way, situated along tho tracks of the Itenver nnd lllo CI ran tie at Provo, ure half completed, which means that approximately ap-proximately a hundred thousand dollars dol-lars nlread) has Iteen expended. The yards will Include a mammoth roundhouse, round-house, mid shops. Owing to tlio Importance of eitab-lllshlng eitab-lllshlng on efficient artery from the 'eoal fields In Carbon and Ilmury .counties, whera nu nutlet may ho'had either by way of the Denver nnd lllo tlrnndo or tho Salt I.uko Itouto, nut 'only the coal gondolas aru being rushed on advice from tho wur com-inhMlcna com-inhMlcna at Washington, but six great Santa I type locomotives soon will be In the jards of the road at Provo. Officials say that the equipment will be th most complete und up to date .of any coul road In the United State. To Treble Output. The line of the Utah railway from Provo Into tho coal Holds In Carbon nnd liniery counties Is the second truck of the Denver and lllo Qrando. It Is leased to tho Denver and lllo Orunde, but tho leaso expires November Novem-ber 1st, when the nevv road enters the field with the express purposo of more than trebling tho coal output. The road will devoto Its entire attention atten-tion to tho hauling of coal. COAI, CONSKUVATION IS UllflKI) IN IDAHO POCATEU.O, Ida., July 17. Former For-mer Ouvernor Gooding, chairman of thn coul committee of the national' defense council of the state of Mali", has Issued a public statement to the governor nnd people of the state, in which he points out the seriousness of the coal scarcity and urges the utmost ut-most conservation In Its use. The washout of several miles of track on the Denver and lllo flrande has complicated tho situation, aa all coal from the Utah mlnea bound for Idaho polnta mint pass over this line, nhd most of tho mines wcro Idle for more thnti two weeks. It la stated that the only hope of averting the threatened cqal famine Is through the Womlng coal fields, which now require re-quire a thousand additional miners and loaders. It Is recommended that the people of Idaho, wherever possible, should provide wood for winter fuel nnd that all thieshlng machines now using conl should b fitted up with straw burners. burn-ers. The question of ear shortage ha now lieen overcome, nnd If sufficient labor could be provided to work the Wyoming mlnea to their rapacity the situation would be greatly re'llned .MANY POI.KS KTOHi: COAIj roit tiii: comino wintisu Tlint many persons In Utah cities and towns stored coal In their bins this spring In order lo bo prepared ngalnat the threatened fuel famine ot next winter was made apparent with the filing with the public utilities lotnmlsslon by the Denver nnd Itlo Ornnde of n record of conl moved In April, Ma) and June. In the same months of ltlf, tho Denver and lllo Or.tndo shipped 1 113 tons of conl to polnta between Provo nnd Halt I-ako City. In April. May and June of this year the company moved I3C7 tons, nn Inrienao of 296 tons. Warm weather shipments were encouraged en-couraged this year by tho reduction of freight ratrs on roal from $1.80 to f 1.36 a ton. This special rate, wns In effect up until June 30th, but the old tariff la now effective. fOAIi ON MAIN mm: OP OP AUM(AN ItAIMtOAD HBWA11D, July It. A four-fool seam of roal, eight feet below the surface, sur-face, and onl) thirty feet from the main line of the United Htatea railroad, rail-road, has been discovered nt Mile 17S sixteen miles nearer Heward than the deposit which Is being developed nt Chlckcloon. The discovery waa made by a contractor driving a tap tunnel lo obtain rock tor n fill. Thla Is the first coal discovered on the railway main line. The brunch line to Unit 12 In the coal fields which Is being developed by the Alaska Engineering commission, commis-sion, will be completed and In operation opera-tion In twenty days. Work to connect tho northern and southern sections of the Him along Turnagaln Arm, la being be-ing prensrd with alt possible dispatch. ami: ki iit'ii.i) spuhs roit hiiiPPiNo or co Aii OODHN. July 1 1 Arrangements for the louslrurtlon of about fifteen mites of spur tinea which wilt facilitate facili-tate the handling of coal from the Wumlng mines were completed yea terduy by the Union Paclflo railroad and the Utah Construction rompany. Th local company Is In start work at once on the grading. On o( the spur lines will rover u distance of about eight miles to the llellanro mine and the other line' will connect thn Superior Super-ior Hook Springs mine-with the main Hue of the Union Pacific. iiimio coai, mini: to in; Mio.v i)i:vi:i.()ii;i) POCATKI.I.O. Ida. July It Tho Teton Valley Coal company, which Is operating the only shipping coal mine In this state, loomed near Drlggs In Teton county, has succeeded In raising rais-ing funds for the purposo of sinking a now shaft und Installing n hoisting Plant, which will greatly Increnso tho capacity of tho mlno. It Is Intended by the company to so develop tho property within the next few months as to produce sufficient col to supply the entire Teton Valley, Val-ley, as It la believed that there aro four million tons within five hundred feet of the surface. Cowl IjiiiiI Ia'IimiI. HOCK HPHINOS, Wyo, July It. (I. W. Megeuth, u former superintendent superintend-ent of tho Union Paclflo Coal compuny com-puny with headquarters at Omaha, Neb., II. A Van Putton of Omaha and John Park of this city have leased two sections of rich coal land from A. (Continued on page eight ) NEW MINES MAY ! I BE OPENER SOON I iConimmil fiom pB' six) K Young of thl d The land U ab'iut six mile north of llellnn.e The lompan) ha dread) started to 1 haul luml-er and supplies preperatorv , I to opening the mine II to MPf'P five hundntl thousand doltarx will iw Isint In getting the mine Into work ilng condition iMIOItr I.IXH ASKS Idlt ' tii(iiii:it I'ltmiiiiT itTi I tlaslng Us action on aulhorltv le lietilly granted by the Interstate om-Imerce om-Imerce commission wrmlttlng the car tier to advance their rate for hauling cjh-,1 nnd coke fifteen cents ler ton, hawed on the record made by them the Oregon Hhorl Mne h filed tetltlon wllh the stale piihll. nttlllb-s commUaHon asking lhat nil line operating op-erating In Utah I allowed to make a stmllnr advance on carload lots It Is further requested that the rate mav I be advanced on five day' not lei. sus-landing sus-landing the usual thirl) das r. .qiilremcnt. It I stated In the ietlleun that the I normal sliimge rate on lump coal 'from Utah mine lo Halt lke Cltv and Ogden hHN ton. Thl rate Is now $1 It n ton. reduction of twenty-five cent er ton. and 111-lower 111-lower rate will expire July Jlst Aug 11st 1st the rate will nulomalleall) be restored lo normal. The Oregon Hhort I Mne nsk iHrmlscMon to advance thl irate to II 7t. with n similar udvnnce ,011 other grade of coal. Where no storage rate are effective, n point north of Ogden. tennllon I asked fur nuthorlt) to advance the rale fifteen fif-teen cent 11 ton July 25th. The petition will Imi henrd nt the next meeting of the commission. I'nt tjncnlc) In Town. I'. J. Qnenley of Keiniiicrcr, V)o, accompanied by ndward IMward of Kdw-nnUv Ille. K . were, registered nt the Havoy In Price thl week, going to nnd coming from Huntington Can-)on. Can-)on. where tho former ha for )enr had large holding of coal land. While Quenlc) was non-committal on hi business here. It la believed hi visit hu to do with tho opening up of n new ronl proposition in that section sec-tion of Kmery count). Itecentl) Huntington Hun-tington resident have located morn tbnn n thousand uera of land In Huntington Can) on that I sooner or later sure to be wauled b) someone other than the present owner. hlrlkct At t'nal llarnii-. t'IIIOA(lt). July t7. Hovernor I o. Mtwdeii of Illinois appeared before the state council of defense thl after-Iiihjii after-Iiihjii und, lisselllllg lhat coal prices are loo high, staled that If ucceiuuir) to correct the situation he would cull II spcclul session of the leRlllure to empower the council to take nn) action ac-tion needed. The coiuu II nneplcd the reMirl of ll advisory committee on coal In re Itimmend lhat the federal govvrniuenl curb the profit of retailers of cool. I "Culled On the CnriH-t." WAHIIINUTON. D. C. July !. To work out n Just npporllonmeiit of the government's linmedlnte cl roiulre-tuent roiulre-tuent umong producers, the ojieratnrs of cm eh ccmI stnte have tieen requested 141 send it committee of seven to confer con-fer with official here next Wednesday. Wednes-day. The government needs about eight million ton of c-oal. AUOI'.ND TIIK COAL CAMI'ht I'HHSO.V.Mi AND Orill'llWIhi: Amerh-HH Puel v"inNiny IhuuIs, druwlng i per cent interest, arc being offered b Halt ltke City broker nt sixty-two tent. Carltonndo, Wnsh . oal- op rat or are ndvcrtlslug In I'tah fori miners. Wukjs nre 11.19 n day of eight hours. Three hundred lire wanted. Tlie camps are union. "Johnny" Welch of tho storrkeop-er'a storrkeop-er'a department ut lllack Hawk visited visit-ed I'rlce Tuesday. It looked thou us If Hiawatha and lllack Hawk would 1 null work six da) thl week. lister D. l'reed of Zlyii I back from un extended trip Ksst, presumably presum-ably to Interest capital In hi Huntington Hunting-ton Can) on coal laud. He hn nothing no-thing to give out on the subject. Hcofleld Coal company, which re- lenllv k 11 b.iso on th' I nlon !' in nifb .it H-ofleld has a capacity of twelve hundred inns u da) and will be sending nut that tonnage with tlie ichuluhiig dr the rallrottd recently washed away, J. Il 1'orroslvr has Ix-on made chief engineer at the threo camiw of the United Htale Puol comiiany with headuuarlei nt Itbtek Hawk Tile appointment beonme effective the first of Jul) Hi family la to movo there from Halt Lake City. A T. Miller, nt one time chief cIN-imteher cIN-imteher for tho Denver and Hlu (Irnnde cm lis I'tnh lines, I manager of the Hanpltch Coal coniHiiiy not fur from Ml. 1'leasnnt. A four-foot vein I being worked, out of which Miller manages 10 get wage. It I said. Churl) Ug.r, the civil snglneer, is Just now giving mol of hi time to the l-utudii ti I'ueco coal properties up Hprlug Cun)on. He und J. II. I'or-reiter I'or-reiter may close their offices nt Prlco the first of Agut. Knelt ha till the work he can no without soliciting uny more. Complete, delivery of seventeen hundred hun-dred voal cur for the Salt Lake Itoute will bo made by the first of Heptem-her, Heptem-her, the first lot arriving last week. They nro for use exolulvoly In tho Carbon county trado nnd will bo placed ut the disposal pro rata of tho Utah railway and the Denver nnd Itlo Urande. J. Cameron Hi luilli wu Ul Tuesday to attend n mtctitftl county school lioard He Ms Hun that on Monday but Ik en m pa of lllaik Jlnwk an It eut out fi-rty-tw hunJrtJ iiinl. one of tho l.irgeit oalprtit single clay In a long lime. W cars arc mure plentiful tku were. Klfleon offn tal - f iho I'rJWI Workers of Aniirinc, rcpifsi tho Wyoming innl produdrfM met lit CheycniK last IVIdsy 'rnngo a I'onfcrcn with il loolilpg to an iiiirc" In r njierntors auy the in r IwvtfcM' wago Increases In clii. lulls r The intuiting follow il a Ibrt crct colifercncc of r. presf ! nil thu W)omlng I tali ft lk l-'or the purpose of ",Pnj. coal properties of the t'i ' company, nenr Csal.lll'. ' Creek Fuel compnny has l Ued with a cnpllallialloil l Tho InmriMrulor are J. - Prank Plngrcc nnd Kmm " Coalville, J. II ItoberU f Creek, W. A Shcphrrd of W" City, D. II. Pnpo of OgJcntsi Kvnn of Park Clt) |