Show MUCH ACTIVITY IT AT SEVIER VALLEY TO COAL CO MINE company works toward shipping coal by january next company works toward shipping coal by january next SALINA utah october 15 1929 special to the richfield reaper activity at the sevier valley coal c companas comp ompa anys nys mine in salina canyon is getting livelier and work is being hurried up so the company will vi ill be ready to ship coal by the time the new railroad branch line is completed last year the mine closed down until the conflict over the right of way was settled but now work is going on full speed and it is expected that the company will be shipping coal by january at the present time like during the last surn summer mer the company employed thirty men watering unwavering Un the shaft which is feet deep was started this week and the cementing of the hole through which the coal will be hoisted will be completed in the near future machine shops blacksmith blask smith shops modern modem engines for the heavier tonnage a new boiler house storage houses and a modern modem boarding house are improvements arranged by the vice president and general manager H E lewis the water supply is is ample for the needs of the camp and a huge gallon redwood tank is being built to supply water for the boilers mine plant and culinary purposes one small byproduct by product vein has now been opened to almost feet with an average width of four feet and contains some of the best grade coal in the state it is extremely valuable testing an average of seventeen per cent copal resin gums seventy two carloads of cemen cement tand and sand were used in the walls of the shaft which is feet deep seventeen feet wide and twenty four feet long the huge shaft has three compartments one for pipes cables and a stairway for emergency use and two for hoisting coal A steel frame head will be set on the walls of the shaft and will contain around sixty tons of structural steel at the entrance of the ward a ninety foot bridge is to be built across salina creek sixty feet to be of steel girders grading and approaches to the bridge have been furnished and the railroad men will cooperate with the mine workers in in setting the girders at the west end of the bridge large heavy duty railroad scales will be estatio stationed n A pit seventy feet long iong eleven feet wide and nine feet deep will be necessary for them the cars will enter the tipple yards after crossing the bridge and heie six tracks will be laid directly next the tipple and will extend a half mile up and down the canyon tite the grading and loading of the coal will be automatic for those suffering from a pessimistic view of salinas future a trip to t the he mine property pio perty would be an excellent cure for it has a future and a big one |