6 10 352 https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/83086ad18cc47ba1bb75668e7aa944fe.pdf 9199124530e3859613a2fd25fa345565 PDF Text Text .,-,---------- ------ NOTE: Special ~ile No. 284 !. , , _ _ -, I ... .. - - - - - -·--- ~ .rrespondence ui th / ✓ Alex Hunter, Urumhell er, Alborta, ~anada C. S. Donaldson Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada ✓ Major J. B. Mavor Scotland / C. Augustus Carlou. Scotland .William Reid Scotland ( K. H. McNeill Scotland ! - Wm. F. Ma~terton . Scotla nd - China · , J ; --- ......... ✓ ') v· 11 Yr , . 1 1' f'._,;f? .... ,( I ..I - I �!5l•o •l'?.o Ci.~tmfo:>d • Pl ann:i.ns Do1'Drt~~~0 The Fif'o Coal C◊:J)~q (Lir.1.ited ) Gty:-,'!lenbca~h, Fii'oGlri-..cD St:otland Deur lli" o Cro.nford n Rcferrinc; to yours of Janunry 12th: I r.as very much astonished th~t you ho.d not 1•ecoivod ey coIJOU11ication of :'Jecod)cr 13,, 19h30 I ar.1 soncli.'lg a duplicate copy of it. ' I see no objection to the plan of r1orlcin3 you su.:;.::;ont nhich r1as attached to your lottcro f,s you knov1, \JC hc.ve n very high \';age scale for oine ,·;orkero in the United St !).to8, and uhilo \·10 have at times attempted to institute nn incentive scale, 'i.'JG have not been successful and discontinued this some yrors 2J;Oo l!ot being ·familiar r1ith your wnge sc;;J.e6 an incentive mic;ht bo of benefit. I run nttachinc hero;'rith a statcrJCnt shmlin3 our \·1.ig o s cale. • • "i'e have not been getting onougb coal r;ith cix days a week and recently rosumcd tho r,i,r~ of ono shirt on Sunday f or 1:1hich we l!lllst pey double tirao, this increasing very ooch the mino i.orkers• cnrnines. I nm sending copy of this lotter by regular mail and copy by nir mail, ey l etter t.o you under dnte of D;:e~..:,cr 131 1943 havin£! been oant nir 1ml. I shall be vary pleased indeed to hear from.you from time to time with what progress you arc m kin!; with the shald.nt; conveyor and Duckbill. Sincei"ely yours, Enc. �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY HEAO OFFICE , LEVE N, FIFE. TELEGRAMS "CARLOW, PHONE, LEVEN." "FIFCOL," COWOEN8EATH . TELEPHONE Nos 16 \ 8: \ 62 LEVEN No, 3\81 TO 3185 COWOEN8EATH, ,,,/r,) 4.1. ...........~/u .......~ ..• YOUR REF. ··························· Dr. George B. Pryd e , The 'Jniou Pacific Coa l Coy., P.ock Springs , -·:YC'"Il:G, U. S. A . Dea r :Dr . ?ryde , As no e.cla1c>'."1ledge1ae rrt l:.o.s been reoci ve il t o my l ett er of the 20/10/43, I presume it }19s not been delivered . I s.m sendins you h e :i·ewith , by regu k.1· ,r.n. il, a co!_)~' of !!\~• l et ter of October, 1943 together ·:!ith t he prints refc rreci to . I ar:, a l so sending you e. dup licnt e l ett e r s.:i.d pri 21'~s 1:-y ni r 11n i l , r:.n d trust one or the other will reach you. -:-iith r ei-a r d ·t;o :..etho<l of po.yment , do r ou p ;.•s ..:'0 1· t o :?er a d efini t e shi "t r ate or a shif't rote plus bonus on output or yr.rck.go , c- s o.n i nc ent ive to . better perronaanoe2. .'lishing you .i 11 the best in 1944. 1 Sinccrel;r yours, �/ '· .-COPY •. '.l PIAID!l'.1-JG DEPART}'iii:1'11' , ... Dro George B. Prtrde m ·111 . , l ne Union Pacific Coal Co~pany, 20th October , 1943 0 r Poc1 ., r ings, • • ,, K .::.p_ 1~yom.ing ,- U ., S • A . r -. • • - -' J. ..., . Dear Dr o Pryde, P l ease e::.<:cuse d e l ay i n; ·a1"?.s,·1ering your wel come and informati ve l etter of July 24th le.st. It \,·:.-.s exc00di=lgly kind of you to send th0 duplicate letter and prints, of methods of worki ng in your mines, by regular and air mai ls. About ·the t~u:e you sent your f'ir-st let·cer - l Qth Febrµe.r-,1 .., ·sinkings were numerous o.nd no d:o-_fot that ree,son a cccur;:ts for 11011 d~li;rery. In July v,e -;;ere told definitely by the r:.inis try of Fuel o.nd Power we would htive delivery of l..m'3:l'ico.?1 plant 01t an ea i:ly do.te for our Comrie Co lli3ry, a:ni -;£ thought I ,.~i,uld deln.y raplying to you ·until ,;;a hs.d the m9.chinery at work .and I v;otild t1,en be :'..n n position to info.rm you of r osults in the i.nHie. l ::;te.ges of i~s pra cti~al applieatlon. ·:ie got de li very u.bout -end : of August of 7 Goodrr-..:111 shaker -conveyo r s r 1lt}1 duckbills and 3 Goodman shorb·."all coa 1-cutte rs. r J. . Later )fr. 'She.rp of the Good..-r..e.n Company and i.lr. Deu:os of the ·Sullivnn Company arri·ved from America 0.11d have t1-o.ined s evorel ·teams in Ghe c ffici en-ii operat i on of these machines. The machi nes a.re o. very fin e bi·t of eng;i nea riug and ..,•.,e a re delighted with pe:rfor nr:111ce·. :n;r. Sharp ls still with us but hlr. Deans has go1;e to i?:1s cal Sullivt.rl. coal-~utters nov1 delivered et a: colliery in ·the Fi d le.ncls. (' I11 the change over period frml l ong-:.:all , e.s gene 1·ll.1ly pr!'.ct~_scu b e!'O ~ to the iuriericari shortwall_ method, "we e.n!;icipa ted some teethin6 troubles until the men gdt accustomed to the work, ~nd a ll oper~tions in the cyc l e ~ supp lies , etc . p roperly orga11ised • . Furth~r, we did -not · knoi:, how the rnen \';ere goin~ to rea ct to e,n intensification of mechanisation as no doub-l; the~/ had the impression t h!i t i -b mig}rl; involve a displaceinent of miners ::-r..d that y,-u, s a n aspect of t be problem that had to be carefu lly watched. 0 I.: e.m pleo.sed to be able . to say troub l es u.re grarlua lly being ov-ei•come and we are nov, fee ling a&-surad that the method of mecha:.-i ise<l mini ng no\'1 9eing introduced , is, so f ar , acceptable to thfi l s,bour· side of the indust_ry a s they see init the elimina'cion of some of tho hard laborious v,ork of the mi?1ex·. ;_. As the de.JS go by we :are feeling more and more confident, from personal observa:'c;ion in the vrorkings, we a.re ~oing to make e. success of the nerr methods ancl t'hereby increo.se the outpu'c per m.anshif·I.;, ·which is the measure of efficiency o~ an.¥ co~~1eey under'cakin~- I I <lo ~ot think vre can adop{; the method generally because there are • conditions in the Fife Coalfield vrhich differ radically from these in your country, i?J. depth, g radient, spontaneous combu:.·tion, heavy sandstone roofs and soft floors • etc•, but v:e have several sea.ms in which I confidently believe a change over from l ong..-.~11 to mechanised room ooid pillar would be very a dvantageous and especially ~nan it appears a proper spirit of co-operation is being developed between the manageit.ent and the vrorkers in the o.doption of the new methods. In/ • I' �• I11' d.r:1. ving the rooms 300 f't. x 12 to 14 ft. wide , we get 3 cuts seven feet deep per shift vtith a crew of three meu and we are now experiment:rng vii th • pille~r d~wing ,by· method as shown in fig. 1 on treeing enclosed h ei owith • V'Te n.re , however, experiehcing some difficulty due to grade and , involving more handshovelling nnd prepara·cion work than we anticipated, the cuts being set off o.t various angles with room - 35, 40, 45 and 50 degr~es - to re due~ hnnd-shovo lling to a minimum. We use two 30 degree swivels. 4 I, '\ :re have IlO\'.' decided to experin:en~ by driving •the room,s 300 feet X 20 feet ,,id.e and retrsati::lg ·;;ith o. 7 fJ.;. slo.b a s· shovm in f i g o 2 and I .hope . to have t~e g~"Rg{1gR~tYo't0 ~i~i,.i~£He 1fi~gl1i"o'sUdp8&s ~111~ t~tf~¥t11:ffiiC&.acl: 5e~Bflo~~ tr,~sUl~tY?d ' Bfrom sae:ri11.c1ng rive ree·c s":;:rips ·,'18 should be able to rea ch 85 to 9Ujo ex ... ractiong '(•;hich \'.rill compnrs with our k:st longua.11 methodso II .I note your olls er-1te.ti ons re ho.nd filling on to chain conveyors and the rea~er the _c~mrayor dis c;w. 1·gi ~g on to the s hh king conv0yoro Your opin ion a s t o thi~ :nethod being u ,ro.ste of ·tm:: and -ef~or·c ·_ strengthons nrj ovin. opi n i on. The point you make a s to puttil1g in charge of the wo:.•':...; <:.. young , energetic wm ,nth a d.ate"'' !iination to mn.ke .a succes s of the ma chine ry n ppea ls to us o.s being mos~ l ~~portr>ut o.dvice, upo~ ·Nhich we o.re In vi.:;,·1 cf :·1· 0 ~:'i!trp , t ho Goodman demorlstrs:tor, leaving on un eet rly df te ·to i ntroduce t he machinery at other collieries in th:i:s country :I' ,·:a o.re pr.ese-.n.tly traiuin~ si:R V:.3l"Y good 'meri &s ·aemonst-r ai:;or&, ".';; 10 ;•.ii ll sub sequently move around the fourteen OfGl'"tlt ing colli e1·'.i~S of ·th.is Company to i ristal and t?8.in m.en in the proper manipulation of the respective machines. ::e ho.ve n.t present : 30 projects plo.nne d to go on p:coduction,es soon ':'H i .:-\mefioD-n plant delivered. • i· F.ego.rding the dirty b ond in the T(lidd le of the seam, this is vcriable in 1 thickness. .'1/here it is thick we put on piokez·s a long t he pan line and stow it o ·,:Je invar~ably ~ut ·~ext the floor of the senm~ In c l osi:ig I should just; like to sa.y how much ·we appreci at e y our kindness in giving _u s the bene~it of your wide experienc e with Duckbills . The ~xtent :to ,vhicli niecnanis'ation is ncv1 p1·oc:eedbg ond. the further fact that it has in the Bri-clsh Coalfields a f e irly Yd.de npplica tion, all leo.d to the concl usion the.t' we stand on the tnreshold o;,"' revol ution!;..ry cha.r..ges of coul :n1ining in this c·ountry. • I :believe; it is only by highly ~scr.e.nised methods and "officien·t -rrcirkmen: ,we will be abl e -t0 hold our own and gua.ra11tee tr...e socia l standi ng of our work people in the :~os~ ~~r ye:,.rs. I conveyed -your desir-e to be remembered 'to Dr. P..eid~ his fathe r e.nd l'.'r. Carl ow, You ma.y have heul'd t;hG.t Dr. Reid's f a ther ha s been appointed Chief Production Director at headquarters of the 'Mi n istry of · Fuel and Po,7er. in London. ~e is s we ll quaiii'ied to undertake this difficult t~sli:o man A ll send kind regards oncl trust you keep well o Yours sincerel y , PLronnNG A �C 0 ·-u J., 0 ]. .L ')( ILi . Ao' ' ~ C 0 J., "f J,. )( hJ ' -~ .-t.. N QO - -- - . . . L . . .- -- - ~ - F,a. l. --L- - -- �t- 7 f(lcz.t- 2Q f'4.a.t , Ouc.kb ill. -- vn "" r" ....e. r'li A I M A s "'' Ill) n ,._.Joc.k Pr ops/ d V '9 ~ i-- .n •0 -:, ..,_~ d a: ,' ~ . ~ I s: 1. () 0 ~ J,. ..,_ i.. () ~ ::> u .L d -0 ,n . P«nduluM Jack r .:, - ~ ·L () 0 2 \ Swiv«I 7ft- 7f.t- rn ( I . I Sft- t.l. 0 ..x CJ a ..... "" C f/1 C aJ E rf. \9 ::> 0 u T1 f l I n I I Wood o r a~c.41 pr-or5 ·~':t. q> __ .., --.....: "" -~ o * ~ \O'C'\r "•~- -· _1 :n ·.'x a.. A.. 0 ~ Ill> \ - I I F',c:. 2. METHOD OF A0vAN c1,-.a AND A io Fl: ThlPOAAtty .. t5 . �( II .,.~·~{1{, :· !_1·~· • •... ~-, ""- · •., -:~ ~ . .~ .. .' . :n .: -- ~! ·, / A 0 p... g (.J d ~ ... t:} --d :ll . 0 • .-4 ~ . if) 0 lJ • - ;j ~ .a f-4 .r pO Jr g a .'"' g1 ~ :j 9 ~. v d ~ ~ 0 0 ~ J.4 Fi} , ~ ~ ~ I i j II I I �December lJ D 1943 Mr. R. Crawf'ord, Planning Aacnt The Fite Coal Company, - Ltdo CO\'ldenbeath, FifeshiroD Scotland Dear Ur. Crawford: I ac greatly i.r..dcbted to you for your fine letter of Octob0r 20th. It contained ouch th.it I nas interested in lmomng, regarding your experiments n:l.th tho shnking conveyors equipped with Duckbills. I am glad to learn that the r.ork is proceeding with no undue dislocation. In attempting oomathing of this kind, it is often dil'.ficult to .forecast what \'llll happen. There are the usual objections from members of the supervisory forces to radical innovations, coupled ,dth the more vocal objections of the rank and file of the underground forces. With the great shortage of mine labor and a consequent coal shortage in the British Isles, the presep.t would seem a propitiouo time to make the ct,.anges outlined- in your letter. It r:ould be difficult in periods such as the le.st war, r,hen there nere a great mp.ny idle n::en in all industries· in Great Britain, to make such a definite cho.ngG in your mining methods, with a probable displacement of mine labor. T'tds condition mq again occur at the end of the present connict, so you t7ill have less opposition now in making changes which may ba fai-raaching. There is' a very definite need of more production from the British coal mines, and this can best be accomplished by obtaining a greater output per man shift. I am sure you are on the right track, and mq I SB.)" you will find the ~rican made machinery highly dependable. Training the younger man as supervisors and demonstrators t1il1 insure you results. The younger men are more adaptable and susceptible to new ideas. I reaJ1ze the limitations ot attempting to apply shaking conve;yors to all o! your norldng seams. You, on the groum, know what 70U can do best, and sometimes you can determine what to do only after experiment with a mimber or systems. A famous American labor leader aade a remuk which has been trl.del.y quoted, "No backward step. 11 \11th mechanical load1 ng, when we find out we are pursuing a system which is �undesirable, then 'tte must have the courage to back up and try so.irething else. . \wherever you can use the aha.king conveyor with the Duckbill by increasing your production per man shift and eliminating the costly brushing and building of paclmalla 9 necessary in longwall system of mining, you will be. surprised at the improvement in your costs, comparing the former i:nethod rdth the longr;all systemo I am not. sure t hat, the wider room and the narro\1er pilla.r will ..work out acceptab4'o There is a gravo danger that, if the pillar is not strong enough to support the stratal> tho rreight ~ ride over and lose coal and equipnent; ·on the othex> hand9 you on the ground know best nhat to do, as you aro faraili.a.r rtlth x>oof conditions, nnd you may decide on some adaptation of the system you have suggested. I shall be interested in knowing how it works outo I It looks as though 't7El vdll soon have a National Wage Agreement for the American coal mines o Negotiations have been dragging along since last March. The enclosed. folder rdl.l give you an i dea of the wages we mu.st J>81', increasing after the fourth d~, ,tlth double time for Sundsyo Our new stansbury lline will be-producing about 1,500 tons per d~ of two shifts about the first of January- if enough men can be securedo The shortage of men and the high percentaa"'8 of absenteeism seriouszy impair production. I should be obliged to you if you ,muld convey ll\V best wishes to the staff ot The Fife Coal Compa.n_y for tlhich I have great admiration on account of the forward-looking potlcy of its officials. Particularly remember me to lfr. Carlow and Dr. VliJl:fam Reid and his father. 1dq I al.so extend to you ll\V sincere good m.shes. Sincerely yours, Original Signed: GEORGE B. PRYDE �ALL COMMUNICATION HEAO O F F I CE- L EVEN, S TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY ~~;If~ c u ! ~ ~ FI ~ E. "ELEGRANS "CARLOW, PHONE, L EVEN." PWTNING DEPARTMENT , "FtFCOL," COWDEN'BEA- . TELEPHONE Nos 1 61 & 162 L EVEN Nos 3 l 8 1 TO 31 85 COWDENBEATH. YOUR Ri,i, 2oth Qctobe_!, ......................... ouR Ri:.,RC/li~o • ........ Dr. George B. Pryde, The Union Pacific Coal Compsr.y, Rook Springs, Wyoming, U.S.A. Dear Dr. Pryde, Please exouoe delay in answa:riDg your welcome and informative l ette r of July 24th last. It mi.s exoee~ngly kind of you to send the duplicate letter and prints. of methods of working/yohr mines, by regular and a ir mails~ About the tme you sent your first letter - l oth February - sinkings were numerous and no doubt that reason accounts for non delivery. In July we were told definitely by the Ministry of Fuel and Pouer wa would have delivery of American plant on an earl y date fo'Z' our Comrie Colliery, and I t hought I r.ould delay r epl ying to you until we had the machinery at work and ,.-ould then be in position inform you of results initial stages of its practical application. I a t o i n t h e We got delivery about end of August of 7 Goodman shaker oonv~yors with duckbills and 3 Goodman shorn.all coal-cutter s. J 7 ID.ter :Mr. Sharp of the Goodman Company and Mr. Deans of the Sullivan Company arrived from America and have trained several teans in the efficient operation of these machines. The machines are a very fine bi"t of engineering and we are delighted with performance. Mr. Sharp is still with us but Mr. Deans has gone to instal Sullivan oosl-cutters nol7 delivered at a colliery in the Midlands. In the change over period from longt;all , as generally practised here, to the American short1rall method, ,·re anticipated some teething troubles unti l the men got accustomed to the work, and all operations in the cycle, supplies, etc. properly organised. Further, we did not knovr hov, the men ware going to react to an intensification of mechanisation as no doubt they had the impression that it might involve a displacement of miners and that 'C\'"3.S an aspect of the problem that had to be carefully v.atohed. I am pleased to be able to say troubles are ~rs.dually being ove rcome and "W9 • e.-re now feel.1.ng e.aaured tba.t t'he method 0£ meo'he.n'-••d m1.n1.ng now bei.ng 1nt-ro6.uced 1.a • ao fa.r • a.coepta.'\:>1.e to the '.le.'bour •'-de of the 1.nductry aa they aee ~ 1.t t'he e'l.\:&ua.t~c,n of: e c:nn.e of: tne 'ha.rd l..a.bori.oua work or t'he -~or. As the days go by we are i'eeling more and more confident, from personal observat:J.on iD the workings, we are going to make a sueoess of the new methods and thereby incrES.se the output per manshi.f't, ,mioh is the measure of efficiency of' any oolliezy undertaking. I do not think we can adopt the method generally because there are conditions in the Fife Coalfield 'Which differ radically from those in your country, in depth gradient, spontaneous combustion, heavy sandstone roof's and ■oft floors, etc. but we have several seams in which I confidently believe a change over from longwall to mechanised room and pillar would be very adwntageoue and eapeoiall7 when it appears • proper apirit ot co-operation 1• beblg developed/ �a._U<,............................................................................................................................................................. . ~ffe .............~.................................... developed bet-ween the managemen'c and t he ,,_,.o rkars in the adoption of the new methods• In driving the rooms 300 rt. ;< 12 to 14 rt. wide, we get 3 cuts seven f eet d aep per shift with o. orevr of three men and wa are now experimenting with pi lla r dra.,dng by method as shown in fig: o l on tra cing enclosed herewith . Vle are howeve r, exp.erienoing some difficulty due to grade and involving more hand shove lling and preparation work tl-o.n we nntioi pa ted ~ ·the cut s being set off at- various angles wi t h room - 35, 40, 45 end 50 deg r ~es - to r aduce hand shovelling t o a mi nimum. We use ~ 30 degree swivels. We have nou decided t o experiment by driving the rooms 300 feet x 20 feet wide and retreating 7.'i th a 7 .f't. s h b as shown i n fig. 2 and I hope t o have t he opportunity to write you l ater and be ~blo t o say which i s the batter met hod , from experience of getting the hip:hes'ii possi bl e extraction a nd economic r esults. By sacrificing .five feet strips we :.houl d be able to r each 85 t o 90% extracti on, which -r.rill com.pa.re with our best lon~,-all methods o I note your observations ire hand filling on to chain conveyors and ther e ~ after the conveyor discharg ing on ~o the shaking conveyor. Your opinion as t o t his method being a v.aste of time and e ffo rt sti-eng'l:;hens my ol'm opinion. The point you tll!lke as to putting in cha r ge of the work, a yo ung enel'get i c :man '\"Tith a detannination to make a succe s s of tho machiner y appea ls to us a s being most important advice, upon which we are a cting . In view of Mr. Sharp, the Goodman demonstrator, lea ving on an early date to introduoe the machinery at other collieries in this country, vre a.re present l¥ training six very good men es demonstrators, mo will subsequently move a round the fourteen operat i ng collieries of this Company to insta l e.nd trai n men in tho pr oper manipulation of the respectiv~ ma.chine s . TI'e hav e at present 30 proj ect s planned to go on production as soon as American plant delivered. Regarding the dirty band in the middle of the s eam:, t his is variab l e in thickness. Yi'here it is thick we put on pickers along the pan line nnd sto,;; it . f!e b variably cut next the floor of the seo.m. I n closing I should just like to say how muoh "!\re a ppreciate your kindness :ui giving us the benefit of your ,tlde experience with Duckbills . The extent to which mechanisation is now proceeding and the further f a ct that it has in the British Coalfie lds a fairly vtlde applica tion , all l ead to the conclusion that we stand on the thre shold of revolutionary changes of. ooa. l ruining I believe it is only by highly mechanised methods and efficien~ .~orkmen we will be able to hold our own and guarantee the social standing of our 1~ork people in the post ·.mr years• in this country. r conveyed your desire to be remembered to Dr. Reid, his father and Mr. Carlow. You may ha va heard that Dr. Reid's father has been appointed Chief Productic:f! Director at headquarters o'f the Ministry of Fuel and Powe r in London. He is a man well qus.1if'ied to undertake this diff'icult :task. Al l send kind regards o.nd trust you keep well. Again many thanka • Yours sincerely, �\ r, ·,. ;,. ~. 'Ii ·- •• ,:, , ) ·I I I I ·r I ;t 'l 'i UI i "= I i' I i I 11 ~. �/\\ - , / / 1/ . \ )TELEGRAMS "FI FCOL, COWDENBEATH." /- .,. TELEPHONE Nos 181 TO 185 COWDENBEATH . -· r¾~~d~~ P W T I NG DEPAFTi~r~T , ~ ~ .........1..~l;).....A~_g~~.~.,........ ··············: -/ .2.....':1.~.. .. $7 Dr . George B. Pryde, Vice Presiden t, Union Pacific Company, Fock Snrin~s , ''lYO!.:ING, U .S .A. Dear Dr. Pryde, The writer, on his return from holiday, r e c ei veci y ou r ca.bieg re..lJl dated 14/7/43 and looks for,,ard with plea sure to r e c e i pt of your observations (duplicate) on duck- bill loa d ing . Thank you very much for the trouble y ou a re takinF,: t o gi ve us the benefit of y our experience in mechanical loP.ai nr, . 11e a re informed several duck- b ill e quipments a re n ow delivered in Tugl and and we shall very soon ha ve at lea st f ive in commission at our Comrie Colliery . GEPT. �i3 f July 24, 191/J ., l:r. R. Cra.\"iford, Planning Agent, The Fife Coal Co!:!.pany, Ltd. Co,::dcnb3nth, f'ii'0shil"e Scotland Dear llr. Crnwford: I vra.s oorry to learn from your lettcr of June 28th thut my reply, tlated Pobruar:r 10th; to yours of January 11th, h.'ld ncwr reuchcd you. I understand you have a tmn f'ro!n the Goodlr..un L'anufncturin.:; Corapan,y viith you novi. • I am sendinz you herewith, by re6'1lla.r mail. a. copy or my letto1• of I'cbrunry 10th, und the p1•ints referred -to t herein. I cr,t also sondin~ a copy of ' thi3 n.o.terial by airmoil, in the ,ho~ th~t :30ffie of it v,1.ll rench you, with l"cduccd photor.:;tatic copies of the prints o.tta.chcd to the ai:email lcttc1·. 1 Sinccrol:,r yours, �, .... July 24, 1943 :.:r. R. Cl,&iforo, Pl anning A6')u'i:. The Fife Cool Co.::ipai.w' Ltd. co-ado.nbeilth, fif eshil"a 3cot.lend I wo.s sorry to learn .from your lotter of June 28th that rr,y :reply, dated February 10th, to yours of Jar.ua.ry 11th, h!!.tl novoi- roached you. I undc~stund J~ou l~ ve a nrul .from the Gootlrr.:an i.'.u nufucturing Co:-.ipany uith you noi-;. I at1 sendine you hero~·iith, by reGUlo.r mail, a copy of cy lotter oi 1"cbr•uary loth, ~1.ml the prints ~fel~rcd to the1'E:!ln. I ar,1 clao sondin{s u copy of thi:-; ootoriru. by w ~.::ail, in tho hopo t.ho.t so::.c of i t uill x-co.ch you, 11ith reduced photooto.tic copies of the prlnts attached to the a ~ lotter. Sinccroly yotu,.B, �/ \ ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE AD0RESSE0 TO THE COMPANY HEA0 OFFICE: LEVEN, C<!JZ,@!if;{~~~ FIFE. TELEGRAMS "CARLOW, PHONE. LEVEN."" Fum· ING DEPAF.Ti ·g "T J "FIFCOL,"' COWOENBEATH . TELEPHONE Nos 161 8: 162 LEVEN Nos 3181 TO 3185 COW DENBEATH. YOUR REF.......................... .. Geor ge 5. Pryde , Ths 'Uni on Pa cific Co!3. l Coy., ~ ro T-ock Springs , ·::r0: ·I:-:G , :J . S .A. De:i r D:-. Pryde , As n o r.ckn0\71 edgement ht>s been rec eive<l t o ray J.e,cter of t;he 20/10/4:3 , _ presvl!;e it ha.s net peen del h er1:;d. . I nm sendi ng you hifrew·lth , hy regn l~r 11\!.l. ill> e. cor :r cf 1,r.1 l et te r of C'cto"ce!· , 1S43 -:::ogethei· d.th the prints r eferi·ec: to . I am a J so sen di ng you n dupl icate lett er En d p rints c y e.ir 1,'. '.:l.ll , 1.u 1d -eruct c.ne or tre o~.her ·::ill rer,ch ~,ou • ..iith re 6a:r<l to metbod of po.yment, co y ou p refe r to rs.y ::.-. defiu i te s;· if'·t rate or 9. shift re.ta p l us b onus on out put or y e. rc1o.ge , a s an incentiv~ to 1-ctter ~erfo r D£rn.oe 'l. :'fish i ng y.ou o.11 the best i n 1£'44 . You rs s incerelr, : :r~c 1. �PIANNmG DEPARTMENT , 20th Ootober, 1943. Dr. George B. Pryde, The Union l>o.oifio Coo.1 Compo.ey 0 Rook Sprini s, Wyoming, U. S. A. Dear Dr. Pryde 1 Please exouso dolny in BIHl't',"0ring your ,reloome and infomo.tive latter of July 24th last. It \70.0 exocsdingl y kind of you to send the duplionte lette r and prints, of methods of working in your mines, by regular ond nir mails. About the time you sent your first l otte r • 10th Febrµary - ainkings 't'rer e nume rous o.nd no doubt th.nt reason aooounts fo r non delivery. In July we woro told definitely by the Ministry of Fuel and Power we V10uld have delivery of Amerioo.n plant on an early dnte for our Comrie Colliery• and I thought I u,uld delay replying to you until '78 had the maohinery o.t work o.nd I 't7ould then t,e .L'i,. a position to inform you of results in the initial sto.ges of its prnotionl appliontion. . .. 17e got delivery about end of August ot 7 Goodnon ahnkar conveyors with duckbills and 3 Goodman shortT/9.11 ooa 1-outters. Later Mr. Sho.rp of the Ooodno.n Company and M:r. Deo.ns of t he Sulliw.n Corapnny arrived from America and have troined severo.l teo.ms in the ottic ient operation ot these ma.chines• The maohineo nre a. very fine bit of engineering nnd r.c are delighted with perfornnnoe. Mr. Sharp is still with us but Mr. Deans has gone· to inatal Sullivnn ooal-cutters now delivered at a oollieiy in the Midlands. In the ohange over period from longrnill, us generally practised here, to the .American shortooll method, T.-o anticipa ted some toothing troubles until the men got aooustomed to the \\'Ork, and all operations in the oyole, supplies,eto properly orgnnised. Further, we did not lmw how the men 't78re going to react to an intensification of mechanisation as no doubt they bad the impression that it might inwlve a displaoemElll.t of miners and that .m.s. on aspect ot the problem that had to be carefully watched. I am pleased to be able to sny troubles are gradually being overoom.e enc we are nw feeling assured that the method of mechanised mining novr being introduced- is, so far, acoeptable to the labour side of the industry as they see init ·l:h0 elimination of some of the hard laborious work of the m~r. Aa the days go by we are tee ling more and more confident, from personal obaerw.tion in the wor'ld.nga, we are r,oing to make a ,suoo.eas of the new methods a.n4 thereby inoree.ae the output per manehif't, whioh ia the measure ot etf'ioienoy o~ wm.y oo l.l.1.e-ry unclerta'ldng. "S. 6o • • ~"'-'-k -.. ow.:a. eAo~ ~ - ~ - g-re.1.1.y 'beoe.uae 'bbere are . . . . . , ~ , ' - - "- ~ - . ~ . o-">.~'>.6. -...n.~b. 6.~tr.r rail-.lly tro• the•• ~ :,-ov.r ooullltr 1n deJJ'.'h., g-ra6 1.ent, apOD'taneoue oombust1.on, hee.-vy sandstone roora and aot't f'loor• etc., but we have s~vernl B8!111ls in Vlhioh I oo.nfidently believe a change over from longt,':l:1 to meohanised room end pillar '170Uld be very advnntageous and espaoially men i-c appears I proper spirit of oo-opemtion is being developed batwoen the managemont and the workers in the adoption of the new methods. In/ �, In .d J'iving the rooms 300 !'to x 12 to 14 f'to ·wide, we get 3 outs seven feet deep per : $hif't ,tith a Ci'en of ·three man ll?ld we a.re now experimen~ing with • pill~r d.ra:wing -by method as sho,m in figo 1 on tro.oing enclosed herewith. We o.re • however, experienoing some difficulty due to grade e.nd invol ving ~more hnnd• shovelling and preparation work them we o.ntioip::itad, the cute being eat off a.t 'Various angles with room - 35, 40D ~6 and 50 degrees - to raduoa ho.nd-shovelling to a minimum.. We use ·tuo 30 deg:ree sm.vel Bo \ l're hn.ve now decided ·t o o,cperimen:t by dr:tving :thi rooms 300 feat x 20 £'Get wide and retreating 't'1ith a 7 :f'to slo.b as shown in figo i and I hope to ho.ve the p~or:tuntty j;o w.r.ite yo,u lt;i.t;~ nnd be o.bJe to so.v which :\.a the better method, f:.•0:..1 "'aa er r~eE ! e ol'•ig;_e ..1;..lr..g; ·c.l}e: .r..:i.g, c~ rchpo'-"· ~:i.L: I e e~t 1~ ot 1011 e.ntl econo,, up r£su I ·c..,.. Bv•. l: ·11:10 ng ve i-ee 1, si;r :t.ps ne s ou1 u be ao .Le -co r0non ts 6 -co ~\Jlo exvrnot1 on , '°mic will compare with our best longcm.11 mathoda. • • I note your observations r0 bond filling on to oh.a.in conveyors and there• a:f:'ter the conveyor discharging on to i:M s'hs.k::l.ng conveyor. · Your opinion as to th~ method being a 'WllGte of tillle and effort strengthens my O'i,.n opinion. The point you· make e.s to putting in charge of the .-:ork, a. young, energetic man mth a detezmine.tion to m9.ke a ·auooess of the maohinery nppenls to us as bei:qg most ~port~t o.dvioe~ upon. whioh we a.re ooting. In view of Mr. Sharp, the Goodman demonst1·.1tor., leaving on o.n early date to introduce the maohinery at other collieries in this country., y;~ o.re pres Eritly training six very good · men e. s •demonstratorc., -.·m.o \7i 11 subsequently move around the fourteen opero.ting oollierj;es of.this Coopncy to instnl nnd trnin men in ·the proper manipulation of the respec·cive machines . r.e have o.t present 30 projects planned to go on produotio~ ns soon as ' Aliwrica.n pl an·!; delive:redo Regarding the dirty band in the middle of the seam.,, this is vc rinble in thickness. Where it is thick we put on pickers o.long the po.n line and stow ito We invariably 13'1lt next the fioor of the seam~ In closing I should just like to say how· much· .-:e o.ppreoio.te your kindness in giving us the- benefit of' yo':1r mde experianoe with Duokbilla • . The· extent. to which meoho.nisation is no,,, proooeding. and--the: further faot that it has in the British Conlfielda n fairly m.de o.pplioation, o.11 lood to the conclusion that we stand on the threshold of' revolutS,onary ohanges of ooo.l mining in this oountry. 1· believe it i.s only by highly ineohanised riethods nnd eff~cient workmen we will be able to hold our ow.n and guarantee the sooinl standing or our work people in the post lVar years . , I convoyed your desire to be remembered to Dr. Reid, his father nnd ~-~rl~ • You may have heard that Dr. Reid's father has been appointed Chief Production Director at headquarters of the Ministry- or· ·F uel end Power in London. He is a Jll!l?1 well quo.lii'ied to underta.ke this ·difficult ~sk. . • All send kind regards nnd trust you keep well. . ' . Again many tho.nks • Yours -sinoerely, ~ ~ PLANNING AGENr • �. ~ .. C 0 ·.,&.. d a 1. J,.. )( l,&J ~ ti .. 0 '° -75·5 °fo ExrracJion. �I 7-fuci~ ,- . 20fed· ',- D.uckbill - ... I ~ I'll "" 0 ( s A 1!11 DI 6 A ...., u .l a '\Jo.ck Props/ du ~ ~ 1-,.. ..D ~ ~ 0 d l. .l. d IX • u I - l. ...~ 0 l,. 0 ..&. ~ .r: " I,, d Pa.nduluM Jock "O' C :::> 1/) .. 7-H ~ I IIJ I l tY C i ~ Swiv4f 7ft, I u - • 5f~ ,R ~ u a C ,," al ,E ·O ~ u 0 Wood or 5hr.c.l J u I pl"Op6 CJ) ) i \ 1 u, Fu~. 2. SM&WING -I ' ,, Q. I METHOD L ::n ·•i \ '9 - t - - """'·- - " · - \nl:.. ,._ .J,; 4- OF' A ovANC:itt·c •• A 20-=-.- ., HltADINQ �1 •3D•t,000 THE UNION PACIFIC CO.AL COMP.ANY GEORGE B. PRYDE 'V1CE l"llmlJDXXT, OPZkA.TJOX ROCK SPRINGS, 'WYOllllNG, li'0 b1~ual"JT 10, 194.3 !2r. 1. Cra1•1ford, Planniw; ',!;~n'.:. Tho Fi fe Coal Co~pany, Ltd. Co,rdenbeath, Fife&tlre Scotl and Dear H!". Crawford: Reference i s made to your letter of Jnnuary 11th, 19l.,3, thi s letter reachinz my- desk during the v;eel~. I ao very glad to have your letter, and your inquiry, and I o.ssure you of nzy- desire to be helpful t o you in ~•:.hat I shall sa:; in ans.:er to your inquiry. I understand that in the Pittsburgh fiel d, in Pennsylvania, ::;o:::c such method has been used i7ith Duckbills in the recovery of pillo.rs as sug;estcd by Ur . i"Jheeler, but I YJ10\"1 of no western mines t1hich have cuch a system. It \·rould, as you say, very sorioualy reduce the production, und, in nw opinion, is wmecessary, introducing a second piece of imchiner-.r, \·:here a shaking conveyor \7ith Duckbill can do the work properly. To put in a small conveyor, and shovel onto this conveyor., thereafter the conveyor discharging onto the shaking conveyor i s, in my opinion, a wast o of time and effort. I am attaching herortith sorr.c prints shm-iin[; the method of i:--or king in our mines. Print 11A11 shows the r'.lethod of driving entries. You mey or .!:la.Y' not be interested in this, but I run sending it to you· as a matter of in.forooti on, a.a i t shons the method of drivinc crosscuts ilith two swivels and the Duckbill. ~,e no longer use the right-angle side drive aa shcr.-m, us for this purpose r;e use a curve pan furnished by the Goodman t.:anufact uring Co1!1pany. This pan is anchored "i:.itt~ metal props, and serves tho purpose atlnirably for driving the second place as shown. Print '1Bn shotm a method of drawin_g pillars such a.s you sugsest , ;;ith the use of the Duckbill and tv;o s:·Jiv0ls, ,·;hereby ue tap the block of coal , going through ao indicated by the broken lines, then fan out as much of the triangulu.r piece to the right as possible, leaving the m:tall trlan.:;"Ul..'.lr pieces as indicated for tho support of the roof, and also leavinc the triangular piece to the left, us indi cated. You nay nlso have to l eave a ~mall t.ri~Milar piece next to the gob as sho,-m. 7hcse nre in tho nature of sacrifice pillars, and their size ,:ould have to be <letomined by your roof conditions . 13>lt I think this print shoi•;s �very clearly 't,he nethod of reco\'"'3rin...:; pill:J.rs t1ith a Duckbill and shaking conve:ror, a."'?.d also the tiober in.,;. I thin:: one diff iculty \·:ith t he plans you sent n~ is that you cndoc.vor to 1'.'C'..:Over the pillars with one s.-1ivel on a right an:;lc, ,:,hercas I f cu.l i~ •..LU uo nccesa:1r y for you t o :;o to t·..'O s ui.vels ~ shm·m. :'rint. 11C11 sho:·1s m1o·L:.:c:"' ..1.cthod of recovering pillar s tilth one s:::ivel, ta!:in:3 out tho p·i1 J ,~? 2~ :). lor..~ ~1,::le. 'i'lri.s , also , has ·.:orbm verJ uel.l. It, too, sho-.:3 ,.r.e:.'O ·,.e 1.1sc a dr a3 conveyor, y;ith tr.r,;:e or i'our r:.1.chincs di s cimY\:..:.n:; c;1t o one ~1•a2: conveyor, this makinJ possible the uso of one loading head. Tl~1.t i a the only rr.et hod where we use 6 atherin~ conve.70;:-s, as sho:~11, but ·.;e c.o not us e thel!l at t he f ace . I ar:i ::.e:7cl,v s endin; those printn to _s.ro·.i as 2. r:iatter of inf ormation . Pri !lt •10 1! sho,;s a :n:::thod of :!rivil1e rooi1$ •.."i.th sha ld.ng conv.ayors , anli recc#e?""'lnJ the pillars. I think, :Jr. Crawford, i t 1·:oulci be advisabl e for you t.o use the r:.~t.hod oho·.-m on Print 11B11 for !)illru· r ecovery , um.n6 t-;·:o ~r:rivcl s as indicated. .I am suro you. r;ill have no diff iculty i n :l.oin~ t hic . .i th regard to your inqu:i.riJ re~ardi.ng the r:.ot hotl t;horm on your :::_.'i$Ur~ l, th3 cool. to be hand filled on t he chnin conveyor, I :.;ould not institute such a systc..~ for t he reasons ns heretof ore civcn. I liJte your Fi~ . 2 better than Fig. 3. I<'r oo the prints I have ~ttnchcd, you n:zy be able to i":ork out some .:iodificat ion or this ~:,st em. The syoter.'.ls us<::d are in the Hock Sprint:ts district, i·rl th r;hi.ch Dr. Reid is ver-J i'o.r.tll.iar. I hope that you may be successful in your installation of the shaking conveyors end Duckbills to increase your production, because I lmo,1 ho~·1 badly coal is neede-l in the !Jritioh Isles t oday, 31ci nny I:1Cthod by -.,hich thin cru1 bo sccompli~hed nhould be organized I!lost carefully• .;, You •.-:ill i'ind objections .:w1onz so::;;e r_.g::ilicrs of your staff against the .~--.erican c.ichincry, ju::;t a::; ·:10 in fu.:arica find objections · a."!lon:3 the cdcrs of our staffe rc~urdir.,3 Sritish r.iachin~ry. 'f ont i::; inevitable. In other r:ords, tho American pcoi)lc thinfr their ruaehinerJr is the last ·.-;ord, in efficiency, ~d design, the British poople thinhinl; t.he same of their .c:.achiner.1, and ri;htfully so. Both typas of machincr,J, after long cxporicr.ce, ha.ve b~on udapt.ed to the diffel'ent minine conditions .met in both countries. I am not c-..entioni.11~ this in a critic:-J. sense, but as ~cr.ieth.i.n.:; t!:a.t, of courcc, ycu c.r.d ! kno·:; alroady. So, in installin.3 this r.c.chinccy, I think it .-:ould be very helpful if you could get at least a demonstrator fro::i the ~oo::.:T.nn ~~nuf::.cturinz Co:1p:!ny, \:ho i:J fa:tl.linr \~ith installations of thio kind in tho United ~k.tcs. I w:i ::;urc he can be vcr:, helpful to you. Ho r:ould. �.3 be especially helpful in tr~ri. .ir,; o. nu:-.1ber of your men to t ake over thiG -.-.-o rk. It r;ould be better if they could s0nd j,•ou several men, but this probc.bly r:ould not be ~dvi~ablc at. this time on account of the shortage of labor in this count;."Y. cy r0ccrnr.1c11dation •.:ould be ·00 put in cha r ee of this r:ork, the t t.c r cc, onsibility ol' putt:tr,-G the )ro:;r~m over, a young n:an \';hose i deas are nexi.ble, ~ d ,·;ho ·::ould be :c;~_l:!_i..'1~ to throv1 overboard o.ny preconceived id~ao he m5,.v have ·.-.-1th rc:.;e.::tl -co !7:~cha.nicc.l minin.:; OjX:l"ctions , c..nd go in rdth a determruation t hat ho :lo .;oing to m.~.ke a success of th,i s .r:u:chinery. The plan you sent i o pract ically n r eplica of' om" r.1 nc ,.orkinJ s at Reli ance, i r. t he ~oc~.: .Sprin3s f i eld, ll.ild there i s n't any r.:::.::.son t:hy you should not, r;ith the a id o:f Duckbill:, and s hald..n.g convey ors, sho\·; a large increase l n !Jroduction, .b y c.:it.hcr- the pl an 3}10;•,r. en , i ·.int "DH or on adaptation. The nain thin.; , cf course, .is to decide on a ~:rst€m, and ~hen ever;rone get behind it end. put the prc.;1 '3.m over. But do not agree, upon any consideration, to putting a conveyor i n the pillar, hand shoveline , and di3charging from -the second conveyor ont.o t he D~ckoill. That, to rae, is not the answer to your problem. 1 One thing that I have boen r:ondering about i G ho1 1 you ~ire going to g et rid of the dirty bund in the middle of the coal. ~robabl y you r;ilJ. undercut the botto!,1 seam, ::;hooting i.;~c,.t, do:m, shootin.: tho b.1.nd do,m cind thro~1ing it back into the gob, and, i.f ~rou arc ·,n-1.tin.1 me sor.:e ti.Ge, I should be Jl3d to be advised about t his . I ;;ii.sh you wculd rem2.::!ber rae to Dr. Reid, his fat her, rmd :~. Carlor,, and ple2.se feel free at any time to ~-.· rite to r::o, ..ind i f the::>o is any point I have not made clear, I shill b0 glad to ~ive you the benefit of any information that we mizy- h.:ivc. iie, as you lmo;·i, ro11·e had a ereat deal ot experience rdth shaking conveyors equipped ·,·I i.th Ducl:b.Uls. I rcgr 0tted e reatly t o kno;-; of I:::-:.:-. ~cr;eill Is passin1, as I admired hir:1 g;_"'oatly, b..t.,tl hoped to JJ.eet hin a~a.in aftoi." ~hls ;·:ar tins over. I on. sure your company lost a fine offici::u. ·:.-hen t"r. 7,!ctJeill pa:;scd away; his experience and judgment nt this tim:) i;ould hn.ve been invt'.l.111.!ble t o you. Very sincerely yours, copy �~ ;;, (. 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TELEGRAMS "CARlOW, PHONE, LEVEN." PLA1TNING DEPARTMENT, "FIFCOl," COWDENBEATH. •ELEPHONE Nos 161 & 162 LEVEN Nos 3181 TO 3185 COWOENBEATH. YOUR REF............................ ouR REF.RC/M Kc .• ....._. Dr. George B. Pryde, Vice President, Union Pacific Company, Rook Springs• vryoming, tT . S .A. Dear Dr. Pryde, As we have had no acknowledgement to our letter of 11/1/43, we presume it has not reached you - despa tch of letters overseas is so uncertain these days and ,:e are therefore en.closing herewith copy together with relative pla.n s. The American plant which the Hinistry of Fuel and Power expected to be deli-vered in February le.st, is not yet to hand but in a let:ter dated 22/6/43 the J,iinistry s tate we may expect 5 Goodman Shakers with duck bills and 3 Shortvmll Coe.loutters next month and be.le.nee in September, delivered e.t our Comrre Colliery. Your observations on duck bill loading gained by wide experience, will be much appreciated. Thanking you in anticipation. Yours faithfully, .A:G.EMT . Enol. �COPY PIANY,rING DEPARTYENT , 11th January., 1943 . Dr.• George B. Pryde, Vice President, Union Pacific Company, Pock- Springs·, WYOMI NG. U .S . A. Dear Dr. Pryde, Mr. H. Wheeler, a mining expert from Pittsburg, arrived recently in t his country to advise the Ministry of Fuel and Power on American methods of operation and typed of machinery which could be adopted here to increase production. At our Comrie Collieey, an area in an 8 ft. seam pitching at 11½0 ( 1 in 5 ). is laid out on the room and pillar system as sho'lllil. on tracing enclosed herewi t h . We shall drive the rooms to the rise, a distance of 300 f't., by shaker conveyors fitted with duck-bill loading heads. Weare advised that when extracting the pillars, power-loading by duck-bill should be discontinued and a short chain conveyor installed to discharge on to shaker conveyor as shown in Fig. 1, the coal to be hand filled on to chain conveyor. This set-up involves additional labour in hand filling the coa l and transfer of plant, as compared with operating the duck-bill ,with swivels to load out the cuts as shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. • We knO\v you have a wide experience in power loading with duck-bills and we v.ould appreciate a reply as to your opinion of the tvro methods - chain or duok-bill - also which of the t wo methods of extraction with duck-bill (2 and 3) you prefer. The inunediate roof metals of the seam are strong and brittle and are known to cave well in neighbouring collieries. The over-roof or more distant roof metals do not contain anything of a massive character likely to cause area crushing. A section of the roof and floor metals is shovm in the bore sections. accompanying The/ I . �-- 2. The f::inistry of Fuel and Power a re expecting delivery from Ameri~a , ea rly in Februe.ry of this yeaT, of short wall coa l-cutters and Goodman Shake rs wi th duck-bills and on del i very part of the consignment will be fo r warded t o our Comrie Colliery for imnediate app lica tion. Dr. Feid has ask ed me to say that he sends his best ~1shes to you an d trusts you are 1•:ell. You would b e sorry to hea r of Mr. Mcl:eill's_ sudden and tra.g ic-- passing . Just two weeks prior to his death I spent a weekend with hiJ!t in I;ondon and i n conversation Ame rican and British mining methodsv~re ,discussed.· He r e ferred to his visit to the mines of ~he Un ion Pacific Company and made pleasing reference to me.king the aquairrtance of yourself and rlfr. McAuliffe. Yours f a ithfully, '• AGIDlT• F.nc l. .- '.. r • tJ ,. • .. ~-i: . • l .. �.,.. ( ... July 3, 1943 Dr. Wm. Reid c/o The Fife Coal Co ., Ltd. Co,.rdenbeath, Fifeshire Scotland Dear Dr. Reici: In February, I sent to !'.r. R. Crawford, your Pl anning Agent , corr.oents on plans he submitted to me for mechanical loading at your Comrie Colliery, in connection uith the installation of Goodm.an shaking conveyors and Duckbills. I sent th.is f ile to hin by airmail on February 10th, and the envelope nas returned to me from New York, the postal &uthorities refusing to accept it on account of t he wei_eht. I then sent it by reeu].ar mail. Among other reco1nmondations I r.iade to ~ir. Crar.ford. I odvised hin that he should ask for a de.~onstrator f r om the Goodman L'.anufacturine Corapany to train your men. I have heard nothing fron llr. Crard'ord regarding the r eceipt of the papers, but I understand from the Goodr.ian people that a n-.an is being sent to England and to your ~mpany to 2saist in the installation of the shaking conveyors antl !Jnckbills, ..;hich have no doubt arrived by this time. I m.11 be interested in hearins fron you ,·1hat success you have \•;ith the installation. I run sure you can increase your production per man visibl.y uith the shaking conveyors and Duckbills, aft.or everyone is converted to the new syste~. The coal situation in America hns been rather confused on account of three shut-do\'ms in sorae parts of the country, t wo uith us, r;e losing a total of nine days on account of the mine 1::o rkors and operator s fail.in: to reach an a~reement. This is settled for the time being, until October 31st of the present year, n rather unsatisfactory arrangement. \ie are mining a lot of coal, and expect to produce 6,600,000 tons this year. 1:;e would hD.ve mnod noro than that had \le had enou~h labor. L'.ine labor is vary scarce, and some of it quit e inefficient. Our new .:itansbtlr'J mine, 10 mil.cs north of aock Sprincs, is making ~ood headway. The tunnel will soon intercept the first seaJn of coal at 2,300 feet . ·.,'o arc buildinc houses, store rooP.1S, etc .; part of the railroad tracks have been in for some time, and we are shipping about 200 tons of coal per day . "t'/e expect to ship 1,009 tons per day this .tall. The new tipple will be started a.bout Au~at 1 st, and will be completed nbout tho 1irst or October. J.\.M. I · lA-tJ i UN h!..I:..::::.,.__. '" fl . .3 -;, �2 - r:e have been "..;o rldns seven days psr neek, two 'seven- hour shifts daily, since the first of IJove;:iber, 1942, and the nail.road still needs additional coal. Give my regards t o your father and ~. Carlow. to \7rite Hr. Carlow a little l ater on. lfy best uishes to yoU!'Self and family . . Sincerely, I shaJJ. try �•(\_ GOODMAN ~({J'flJ.filNG-COMPANY ~ ELECTRIC MINING MACHINERY HALSTED STREET AND -48"!':' PLACE CH I CAGO, I LL. July 8., 19430 Mr. George B. Pryde, V. Po The Union Pacific Coal Coo Rock Springs, \~yoming. JJe ar . 1ur. .'ryde : I have your letter of' J uly 1 together with a copy of your letter of February 10 to Jl r. Art Crawford, and a copy of Mr. Crawford's letter tiO you of January 11. '.i'his corres pondence arrived at an opportune moment, as our l1~r.Ralph Sharps is leaving probably today for England. Many thanks for your thoughtfulness in send:ing me tihis information. It will be of great help to us. V'l ith kindest personal regards., I am Yours sincerely, ACG Sl.Ji,. . ~c-~~ Vice .President. �July l, 1943 :~r. A. C. Creen, Vice President Goodman t:a.nui'acturing Company Hol:;te<l ~trcet ancl 48th Place Chicago, Illinois Dear r!r. Green : In lookin~ through r-;w files, I had thoucht - I ho.d sent you u copy of my letter to ·::.r. H.. Cranfortl, Planninc Agent, The Fife Coal ComPl!.!1Y.1 Ltd. , Co~·;dcn.beath, F~i'e_:;hire, .Scotl.and, and am nttaching hera ,:ith a copy of his letter to me dat ed Jnnuury 11th, and r;w reply of Fe bruary 10th. l understand that y-ou have a dm,1onstrato1~ going over t o as:;i :;t them 1:,ith t.he installation of this machinery, and you will be interested in the recom endation alone; this line that I made t o Er. Cra\tl'Ord on the second 1>3ge of my letter to him. Sine eral y yours, �February 10, 1943 llr. R. Cra:.-1ford , Pl nurinJ !.;-;cnt The Fife Coal Corapany, Ltd. Co.:denbeat.h, Fifer.hir e Scotland Dear z.:r. Crai7i'oi"d; Reference is .:2ade to your l etter of' January 11th, 194.3, this letter reaching~ desk during the week. I a.':l ver.r glad to have your letter, and your inquiry , and I assure you of ny desire to be helpful to you in ur..:.t I Dhnll saj- in arumer to your inqu.il-y . . I understand. thnt in tha Pittsbu.r3h field, in Pennsyl vanic . so:ne such method has been used with Duckbills in the recovery of pillars as suggested by llr.. r;heeler, but I kno,1 of no ,;astern nines \,hich have such a syst.eo. It would, as you say, very seriously reduce t he p.Poduction, and, 1n m:, opinion, is unnecessary, introducing a sacond piece of machinery, whera a shaking conve,JOr ·:,i.th Duckbill can do tho ,;ork properly. To put in a sonD. conveyor, and shovel onto this conveyor, thereafter the conveyor. discharains onto the srukin:; conveyor is, in my opinion, a -rraste of tiDe and effort. I an attacbinz here,~ith sov..e prL--its sho-.ling the .method of workiiu in our Dines. Print 1:A11 sho71s tl:-,.e ,:lethod of driving entries. You way- or may not be interested in this, but I an sendin,; it to you as a natter of ini'ormtion, as it oho,;s t he ncthod of a.rivin3 crosscuts ,ii.th t,ro swi:ntls and the Duckbill. 1:e no longer use3 tho right-angle side drive as sho-:m, as for this purpo;;o we use a curve p3D furnished by the Good..7an l.:snufa.cturins Company. This pnn is anchored trl.th metal props, and serves the purpose adm.rably for drivin.3 the second pl.ace as shoim. Print 11B" sho,·1s a oethod of cira.,rln3 pillars such as you s~gest, with the use ot the Duckbill an<i tuo swivels, whereby we tap the block ot coal, .:;oinJ throu_ch as indicated by the broken lines, then tan out as· much of the triangular piece to the right as possible, l eaving t he small triangular pieces as indicated for the support of the root, and also lea"ling the trian...,'7Ul.a.r piece to the lert, as indicated. You .mq also have to l eave a Sl!18l.l trianeuJ..ar piece next to the go_b as shown. These are in the nature ot sacrifice p:S JJ are, and their size would have to be determined py your root conditions. But I think this print shows �- 2 - very cleurl y t he r::c t hod. of rccoverin5 pillars wi th a Duckbill nnd oha.lcL11~ c onveyor., end a.l::.o the t.ii:;bori na ~ I thi nk one difficulty r,itll the pl .:i.no you sent me i s t h~t y cu cnclenvor t o recover the pillars -;-:i th one sr1i vcl on a r ight an:;le, ·.ri10.;."'ec !:: I feel it wi ll be ne cessaI"J for you to go to t.T,o s,d.vels as s hc::n. Print 11 C" :::ic:-rs another method of recoverin3 pill ars rd.th one 6\7ivel , trucing out the p•:11c\.r at a l ong .'.lllJ le. 'i'his , cl.so, has ~,-or ked very ,7ell. It, too, shc::o \the~e ue use a drag conveyor, vii.th t hree or four ma.chine~ discha r ein~ onto ono drag conveyor, t his maki ng possible the use of one loading heed . That i s t he only method r1here i·:c use gathering conveyors, as shorm, but we do not use thco at t he f ace. I am merely 3ending these prints .to you as n natter of infomation. Print 11 0 11 sho-;;s a .method of driving rooms nith shaking conveyors, and recovering the pilla rs . I think, Ur. Crawford, it nould be advisable for you to use t he I:let hod shom1 on Print "B" £or pilla r r ecover-J , using t uo snivels as indicated. I om sure you uill have no difficulty in doin3 this . \'Jith regai•d to your i nquiry regarding th0 o~t h cd oho\':n on your Figure 1, the cool. to be hand f illed on t he chain convey-or, I t:ould not institute such a syst e:.i for t he r easons es heretofore ~i vcn . I like your Fi g . 2 better t han Pig . J . Fron t he pri nts I have att ached, you r:i;q be able to ,-;ork out s ome modification of t his ~Jstem. T'ne syst eras used ar e in the Hock Springs district, · ~-.:1th i·;iiic h Dr. [{eid is very .familiar. I hope t h at you nay be succe ssful i n your installati on of t he shaking conveyors and Duckbills t o increase your product ion, because I lmon how bndly coal i s needed in t he !3ritish I sl es t oday, and an,y n.et hod by which this can be a ccom!)lished should bo organized c.ost coreful.ly. You will f ind objections ru;:;on5 sor:e .c:.e!cl>ors o£ your st:lf'f a~ninst the Aoerican machinery, j ust as r.e in J'ir:'.erico. find obj e ctions araone the li:eClbers of our s t affs :-ci ~dil'l3 British .cachiner,J . That is inevitable . In other ,10rd.s, the ,'l!r.erican people t hink their machinery i s the last word, in et.ticiency, and design, the British people thinkine the s ame or their machinery, and ri~ ttully so. Both t ypes of machinery , after long experience, have been a.dapted to tho differ ent Dining conditions met in both countries . I m:i not mentioning this in a critical sense, but as something t hat, or course, yo~ und I knou already. So, in instal..lln3 this cachinery, I think it .:ould be very helpful 1.f 7 011 could get at least a demonstrator .1.'ror.i the Goodman l.!anutact.urine Company, mio is taml.iar with installations of this kind in the United St.ates. I 8J:1 sure he can be very helpful to you. He V4-ould �3 be espocially helpful in t :-::iini.ne a nUIJber of your !?ten ·i;o take over • this uork . It :·~ould he better if they cou;Ld send you several ~en, but this probably nould 11.ot be c1.<lvisuble ut this time on account . of the shortage o.f lG.bor in :.b.i:3 com,try. I:y reco~encL.'\tion iI0uld be to put in charge of this work, with the responsibility oi put·~in:;; the !)rograru Qver, a ;young man whose ideas ere nexible, ru:d d10 :,.-;(;tld be riil.ling t~ ·l;hrorr overbcard any preconceived ideas he may h2.ve ::;it,h r-ct3ard to mschanical nrl.nins operations, and go in nith a detemin:\tion tl'.at hG is goi~ to mn.kc a. success of this machinery. The plan you sent is pl'lectically a. replica or our mine rrorlcings at Reliance, in the Rock Sprinzs field, wd there isn't. any reason \"itlY you· should not, rd.th the aid o:? Duckbills and sheld.ng conve~ro1•s, shou a large increase in production, by either the plan shmm on Print ''B 11 oz:- an adaptation. 'i'he main thin.s, of course, is to decide on a syst,em, and then everyone get behind it and put the pro6 ram overr But do not. ag,.-ee, upon any coilsidei'ation, to put.tine a convayor in the pillar, hand shovelin!!, and discharging from the second conveyor onto the Duckbill . That, to me,. is not the ansr;er to your proble:a. • One thing that I have been 1:·o nderin_; about is hon you are goinz to get rid of the dirty band in the niddle of the coal. Probably you ,·,ill undercut the botton sea..rn, shooting that do~m, shooti~ the band down and throm.ng it back into the gob, and, if you are nritin,:: ;;ie some time, I should be glad to be ndviseu. about this. I wi sh you ~·:ouJ.cl rem.E!l!ber nc to Dr. Reid, his :?a~her, and r.lr. , Carlow, and plea.se feel free at any tir.J.e to ,;rite to ne, o.."'ld if there is any point I have not made clear, I shell be glad to give you the benefit of any infol'!Z!.ation that ue nay have. :e, as you knoTT, have had a great deal of e:,c:..lerier.ce ·;;ith shaking conveyors ec:uippad ·.1ith Duckbills. I reJrot ted ereo.tl.7 to l!llo:-, of f.:Z•. .tc1'!eill Is passiJu, as I admired hitl 0 rcatly., and hoped to meet ltlm a~ain after this \7.U- ~·,o.s over. I e sure your coop!Uly lost a fine official r:hen !.ii·. ~crJcill passed ar1ay; bis experience und jud~ nt at this tjr.e ·.:ou1d hsve been invnlue.ble to 7011. Very sincerely yours, �!.u.•. ~. C1~un.ror<l, l'l<lt1!'.inJ _;;cnt The Fife Cool 00.::1:1~...:l, Ltd~ Co:·.ueni.'.lcuth, r ifeohir-c Scotlru:d nefercncc is r:i.aue to your iet.t.cr of Janui:l!'y 11th, 1943, this let t.or reaching o;:r desk during the ,-;ea.~. I a"J very gl ad to ~....-we your l otter.,. t.ntl ~,.our inquiry, ~nd I ascurc you of oy desire to be holvful -to yo.i in ,.~::;.t I oh:'lll on;;· in Qlffi,er to your inquiry. I understand tht-.t in the Pittsburl;h ficld, in :"'en.."2oylvanin. co~o ouch net.hod has been U3ed ,1ith Juc!tbillo in the roccvcry of pillars o.o OUGGCstcd by :Jr. '. ,hecl.er, but I kno~-, of no \,crrl.cr'.:1 ninon nhieb r.:1ve such a s:,ate-.:i.. It would, as you sn:,, very ocl'iousl y rcciuce tho protluction, and, in cy opinion , i.!J, unneccsca17, introduein,1 a occontl piqce or r.l!lChinery, vhero o. shokin.; convc:µ,r ·;,ith Duel.bill can do the ~.ork properly. 'i'o put in a sinll. convcyo1•, antl shovel ont.o tltlo conveyor, thereafter the conve3'or diach:lr.:1?15 onto the ni:akin,,:: eomreyol" is, in r:r:, opi,nion, a ~;n,eto or tir.Jo rul'i cf.fort.. I ru.1 attnchin3 hero;;! ·th so::io T,Jrint::; ::.r.owing the cnt.hotl of . \.Orki.lu in our oineo. Print 111V' ohor;o tl:c c-cthod or ud.".rior; cnt.r-1.cs. You :::1ay Oi' ~not.be interested in thio, but I en :.cndin.::; it to you .is n mtter or ir.formtion, ~s it sho;:o the nothod or <lrivin,:; crosscuts \:i.th ti10 revels uno the Ouckblll. :e no lon:;er uso tho risht-anclc si<lo drive ws oho-:m, (ill for thio {)'...rpooo uo uae n curvo pon furnished by the Goodmw,. t:anuf't.1.cturinz ~ ,mv. Thio pru1 ia anchored -.11th metal props, end !jcrveo the purpose ad:riirably !or drivlnc the second pl.oco ~ shoon. ?rint "Brr mio-.;o a l.'".etbod o! drmdnz plllnrs ouch o.s you .su:;- gest, with the u se of the :>uckbill ard t'rlo swivel.a, rm8l"eby rro tap tho bl.ock ot coal, c oin3 throUc;h :is indica.ted by tho broken llnos, then tan out aa much of t ho triangular piece to the rl;:?ht. as possible, leavine tba ...U triane.'Ular pieces as indicated for tho support ot the root, and aho le&Ying the t~'Y\llnr piece to the left, Qfl indicated. You u.y also have to leave a small triant.-ular piece next to the aob as shown. The•• are in t.he nature ot aacl"U'ice p11Jar-., and thoir size would haw to be determined b:, your root cond1tiona. But I think this print sher.rs �- 2 - very clearly t!.o :::::.c~>c:i o:: rccovcriri._,; pillors .r,Hh .'.l Ducki:>ill a.'1d ohnkin3 conveyor, £In.cl ~~,:, til-: -L:....:;c_•lrj_: . I thinlr one difficult:· :,it!l the pll".no ;rou cc:it l'!.lC i o ·!:,~..:..t. :·.:u C!! ·.._;;;.·10!' to 1-ecovor the p i l la:.."'B :,1th o..e Si'livol on n ri::ht o.nJ,lo 1 ::~::!~~.::..1,; I i'Gol it i,·il1 be necessary ior ycu to go to two srli.volo C.G !ih:,-,.,:1. ?rint ·ic• 1 c,~~ ,n nncthor Bothotl of rccoverin:; pil.L ~~ •.7ith enc onivcl , tcldn~ out t!:c r,i11 ::r ~t c. lon~ i"'l3le. 'ihis, cl.oo, h~::i :;orltcd ver:, mul. !t, 'to.:>, s'...c.,::; ·,.::::;r~ \iC u::.;c a dras convoyor, .-1ith thr-ce or !'our ~chl.nec d~clnl'cin..: onto 0110 drar, conveyol:', this !I'.:?.!'5.t\11 poosiblo tnc use or one loudin:3 hcc.d . Th:it i s the only cethotl nher.:i ·.-.~ uso f}:.:lthorinJ conveyor□ , 2-0 cho.·m, but no do not use then at t~1e fccc. I ~ mral.y scmttin3 these print3 to you ns o- rr:tto!' or infom:ition. P.rint nry1 s~10.1s u .ccthod of <l:riv~ roo~ t,ith 3l~ki.t1.:; conveyors, c.nd recoverinJ tho pill:~r!J. I . t!tl.n!t, !.!t•. Cre:aford, it ..ould bo c.dvio:ililc fo.:- you to u:io the cothod aho,:n on ?rint •1B11 for pillc..Y- rocove~7, us.:u:i1 t,,o md.velo ao indicated. I n.r:i suro ycu rlll !u:.ve no dif.f'icult:, -ln c.oin3 thlo. ,],.t.'1. rczord to your int!uil"IJ ro:ar<lin3 t.'1e ~tb.od cho::n o:i your ?isurc 1, t ho co31 to bo hnncl filled on t~e ch::d n conveyor, I -r:ould not institute ouch a syotc.:i £or the r co.s:onG c::; heretofore .c:ivcn. I lilce your Pi[;. 2 bettor then Fie. 3. Pron t.hc print::; I h:ivo o.tta.che1, ;,ou t:'J;f bo ~blc to :·.-:ir~.. out co::.c :.::o1ii'i.c3tion of t hi.c ~,~t.CJ. The syste.!:.a used aro in tlle nock Sprin.3c cJioti.'lct, ·:.1th rihich Or. :foid io vory f a..--:tl.llar. I hopo t.!1at you ru:; bo :;uccc~ci'ul in yo'Xt' ir'.stcl.!.ation of t ho shnldn~ conveyors .md ~ ckbillc to incrcc.so your p~o<luction, because I kna.1 ha.: bru:lly coal io nocdc.! i n th€ :.ritioh I :.:l c:, to~r, .::ntl ~ \7' rethcd by uhich thiG cc.n be acco~,Uchcd ohoultl be o.:-Janizod ~ :~, carefully. You \'li l l find objcctio~ ns:::or.,:; so::-tJ r:c::bci•a of your st:u'f u:;o.ir'.st the /iPer1ca."l !'.'.D.C:1ir.or-.1, just :.io t;C3 in ,'_-.,::•ico. fin:l objcotlo:u n.--:on~~ tr:.o ~C::ro{10~ , o~~fo.::d~~\i~ ~~~t!~:~~r~~~~?~s1:!i~ie. 0 word, in et.ficiency, cm.l desi_en. the Drltich people thinldn3 the ::,a::r.c or their r:::::.chincr:,•, ~.!l<l r:.,:.:h tf'Ully so. Both t;-~s of ~ chine?"7, n.ftr.....r lon~ experlenco, have been t.i.dapt.od to tho dif.f'e1-ont cl.niJl.1 conditions mt 1n both countries. I Q.;J. not n~'ltiocin.3 this- in a criticcl sense, but· as :J0!:1eth~ that, of courso, :,ou rand. I kno:7 nl.rcady. So, 1n inst.nl.lln3 thi.B .r:nchinery. I think it ·. :ould uc very helpful 1.t you could cet at lcflfJt. a. d0t1onstro.t.or i'ro:?1 the C--ood:'tlml 1'snutact.unnc Com.oaey-, ,mo is fooiJfor \d.th installations or this kind in the Unit.od :t.Gtes. 1 c.t1 cure ho con be ver-.r helpful to you·. Uo ,10ul.d �'.3 be cspocially !:olpful i n t::-oinine a. nunber of :,rour ~en to take ov0r· this ·1,or lt. It ·.:mud t,o bd,t~c," 5.f the7 could send \~ou sovorul nc.~, '!-.Jut this probubly :.oi!ld r:o·;,, !.,o rnlvino.ble 'at this tiruo ~n uccount of the shortuge of lcbo~ i;i t!::i..J coun-0:.'"Y• f'.y rccoc:::.s:1.tle:i~ion Hould be to put in ch:ir'J C of thi o t:v.rk, \':it.b tho rosponr.ii\yiiity oi' put:i;in2 the P'-"<>O..run over, a. youne L:::t."l rrhoso i deao are naitlblo, ru,_tl , 1110 ,;:-ould bo l::i.llin5 to throw ovc.i."board any prcoonceivcd ideas ho my htwo :'lith 1"Cgnr<l to :::;.echonical miain,g oporo.tions) and go i n ,,ith ~ d0t.er:;tln2tion tim.t ho ic goi n.3 to nuke c sucoesn of this TJachinery. '.i'ho plan you oont is practically o. roplicn of our ru ne r;or!dn30 sut !lolinncc, in tho ifoct 3prin;:;s ficl<l, end there ion 1 t any reason \'/hy you should not, , r.1.th the aid of .Duckbills o.ntl shclci.ne convcyox•n , oho~1 o. larze increase in production, bl" c.lthm." tho plon shoim on ~I'int ..B11 or on adaptation. Tho mcin thing, of course, iG t.o deci de on a system, nnd then cveriJono get behind it Mel put ·the pro-6rnm ovm~. 3ut <lo not agree, upon an.,v considero.t:i.on, to putt~ a convoyor in the pillaI·, ho.r.d' shovolln_:, c.nd dizchartJins fror.1 the second corti/cyor onto the Duckbill. Tlut, to L:O, io not tho MS'.101' to your problc:1. One thin,e tho.t 1 hn.vo been \·,t>ndorin.::; about is ho:;; :;"Ou ere 5oin~ to cot rid of tho dirty bnnd in t.ho cicldle of V.tc co:il.. ?robobl y you r.d.ll unuercut the botto:::i scan, shootin: th.:i.t dorm, shooi;in~ the band c:o:m and thro,rln~ it back into tho r;ob, :2nd, if you arc nritin_; ·ce ::::or.:o ti.~ , I should be Glad t ·o bo advised ohcui.. this. I ,;inh you :·; ould I"C:iober r.o to Dr . Reid, his father, and t~. Carl ow, und please feel free at ar>-7 tm.e "~o r:rite to no, and ii' there is any r.oint I hnvo not r.n<!e clear, ! ob::lll be G].ad to eivc you the bone.fi t of any inforno.tion thc.t ,JC ,:ny bcvo. •·:o, as you kno~1, have had a croat deal or cx!)Oricr..cc 1:ith nhnkin~ convGyors e~uippod ·.,ith Duckbilln. I rc~retted crc:itl.v to l:no.: of L'.r . t:c:!cill.' n ·p:issln.::;, as I ne.-:nred lrln e,r<mtly, or.d hopccl to ucct. lli m QGoin art.or this tlD.I" nas over. I C!:l :::ure :,our coo;XU1.7 loot. ,. f'ino o.f.i'ieinl ,.hen Ur. !.:cr:cill. passed o.t;ey; b1:l experience and jud,J2Cnt at thi:J tir..o ,-roul.tl rove been invn.luable to you. Vor-3 sincoroly youro, �- .... ....... { ~ �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY HEAD O F FICE, LEVEN, FIFE. ELEGRAMS "CARLOW, PHONE. L EVEN." ~ "FIFCOL," COWOENBEATH. "ELEPHONE Nos I 6 1 & 162 LEVEN Nos 31 8 l TO 3 185 COWDEN BEATH. YOUR REF............................ REGEiVED Dr. Geo r p:e B • ? r;vde , -rice 'President, Union "?e.cific Company , Fock Springs, "\YC:~H!G , D\ S .A. f I / I V!CC:: PRE::.iPC:,·l.,-, or-1.. :.,,,,~.-..·t0."1 . . - -- - I :)eer Si r , : ·r . '<Z . ..iheeler , a. mi n 1r!f. expert from .Pittsbur!?·, e rriv.sd recent l y in this country to e.dvise the ; ·inistry of Fuel and Pov,er on AT'!eric:a!' ir.et h od s of oper ation an c: types of r.iachine:r.r ,:,hich could be E'. dopt ed here to i ncrease production. our Comrie Collie ry , sn itrea i n r r S f t. se~n pit ching s.t 11-?;0 (1 i..'1 5) is laid out on the room and pillE'. r system E\S shown qn treeing enclosed he r enith. e shall drive the rooms ~o the rise, a <listari ce of 300 ft ., by sr.e.ker conveyors fitted ,·rith duck- bill locdb.f heads. ",t ··,-e e.re advised tnat -,·:hen extracting t h e pilla rs , po•::er- loading by ~vck- bill shoula ' be discontinued 'ilnd e short cha.in convey or i..'1.stalled to dische.rge on to sh1:1 ker conveyor a s shown in Fif. 1, the coal to be he.nd f illed on to che in conveyor. This set - up involves additione 1 li:bour in h end rilling the coal and tran sfer of pla nt• a s ccmuared ,.,,ith operi>tinf the duck- bill with swivels to load out tr.e cuts f.!.S shown i n Fi p: . 2 and Fi p.: . 3 . ·,•e know you hs"Ve e. wide experience in pmrer lo edi.11 , Yrith duck- bills and ,·:e ,.,·ould e.rmrecie.te n rep l y "s t o ;vour opinion of the tv;o methods - chain or ci; c1:- b ill - also r:hich of t he 't'llo Methods of e yt ntction v.'1.t h duck - bill (2 ~ 3) you p refer . 'fhe i.--r.:""e<liat0 roof r-:e'cals of the seam are strong and brittle er..d e r e ~-'.l'l o·,m to c ~·,e ,.-,e ll i n r-eir.'hbourL>J."' collieri es . The over- roof or more distant r c of ''!etA.ls do n ot c on'cain e-=i~rtr.ir.r,· of 1:1 mas sive chf.' Tf:l.cter l i kely to ca.use free. cr·.1shin'" • A/ i:~. M. F:::lJ 1 ~ , :1· :l �- ---, 2. A section of ·;,he roof r.nd f loor mete ls is sho-m in the o.ccomp11nyinf b ore sections . !'he iniutr,11 o:: 'r'uel r.,r,d Powe r ere ex•)ectinf del i ver~, frc-m CJ!reric-::, earl~.r i n ::-e '.-rt:ar_v- of this yenr, oft short v1all coa l - cutters anfJ r.ooc1!!:al1 She 1:e r s y;ith duc!-:- bills ".rd Ol" de liver;v/E~ tho consirnments ,vill be ·o r:'l'rded to our Cou,ri e Collier· for i r;r:edi at e app lication . l)r. :- ei-1 1'!!' s e.s1-:od TIIO t o sey that he serds 11i s best cishes to :-ou ~nd trust y o\1 a r c ·: ·ell . You Y.ould be s orr.v t o hee. r of -·r. : cl~ei 11 ' s sudden end tra r'. i C pass inf • Just t,::o ,.-reeks u rior to his death I s pent e ~.-eel"0nd d:th h i m b Lendon e.r.d in c onv ersation A.--:iericm l'!1d and !lritish r.iini n: methods wer o d iscus sod . •·e refe rred to his ..,,isit to the mi nes of the 'Jnion Pacific Compen)' era IrEde p l ee.si:nf refe rence to l'!'.aki:!if the e. quaint1>n ce of yourself crcl ; r . " c.".uliffe. Yours fait hfully , T-'or TEE F:IFE COAL COi'PPXY , LP"ITFD , .. ' •. �THE FIFE COAL COLlP,\!JY (Li.tnH.ed) Pl anning Dapar 'i:.ment Head Office Leven, Fife. Co:1dc!'lbeath, Fi fe ., 11th January, 1943. Our Ref. UC/ ;"_:e . Di-. GcoTGe 3. ?ly<lo, Vice President , Union Pa cific Comrn:.ny , Rock Springs, 1 .','YOm:I!G, U.S.A. Dear Sir, llr. H. Wheeler, a mining expert f ro:n ?ittsburg , nrrived recently in this country to advise the Ministry of Fuel 2nd Po:·,cr on Americari methods of operation and types of machinery ,!ttlch could be adopted here to increase production. At our Comrie Collier y , an area in an a ft. seam pitching o.t 11.½0 (l in 5) is laid out on the rooin and piller sys tem as shorm on tracing enclo3ecl hcre·,1ith. ;,1e shall drive th~ r oom!, to t!1e rise, e. distance of 300 ft., by shaker conveyors fit t ed ,;ith duck-bill loadin5 heads. ~·;e are advised that nhen extra ct ing the pillars , po,:er-loading by duck-bill should be discontinued and a short. chai.l;. conveyor installed to discharge on to shaker conveyor as shot1n in Fi_g. 1, the coal to be hand filled on to chain conveyor. This set-up involves additional labour in hand filling the coal and transfer of plant, as compared with operating the ducJc- blli ,·dth :.mivols to load out the cuts a s sho;·m in Fii . 2 and Fig • .3. We know you have a \'lide experience in pov1or loading with duckbills and we would appreciate n reply as to your opinion of the t ~·,o methods - chain o:- duck-bill - also \·1hich of t.he two met hods of extraction \dth duck-bill (2 or .3) you prefer. Tiw irnmodiatc roof metals of the seam are strong and brittle and are kno;rn to co.ve -.·; ell in ncighbourine collieries. The over-roof or more distant roof metals do not contain anything of a massive cht.racter likely to cause area crushing . .'I. section of the roof and floor metals is shown in the accompan,yini bore sections . �2. The !5..nistry of li'uel and Power are e:ll..--pecting delivery from America, ear~y in i?ebruary of this year, of short vrall coal-cutters and Goodman Shakers ;;ith duck-bills and on deliversJ part of the consignment nill be fornnrded to our Comrie Colliery for i.rnoediate application. Dr. Reid has asked. r.ic to say that he sends his best wishes to you and trust you a re uell. You \;ould be sorry to hear of Y.r. ~c~!eill' s sudden and ·tragic passing. Just t·r;o r,eeks prio1· to his death I spent a r;cekend \':ith him in London and in conversation American and British mining methods ;·;ere discussed. He ref.erred to his vlsit to the :ni..~es of the Union Pacific Company a.I'.d made plec.sing refer0nce to making the aquaintence of yourself and Ur. l!cAuliffe. Yours faithfully, For THE FIFE COAL COtiPfSJY, LIL'ITED , (soi) .a. Crawford PLANN:UrG AGEtiT . copy �\ ) ) Rock Springs - August 3, 1942 Mr. I. N. Bayless: Herewith letter nhich I have received from V/illiam Reid, of The Fife Coal Company, Cowdenbeath, Fife., Scotland, together with the interesting little booklet which he enclosed. in reading these . You may be interested �---A.LL COMMUNICATIONS TO B E ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. T ELEGR-s "CARLOW, PHONE, LEVEN!' " F1Fcoc; C OWDE NBEATH. T e.L EP HON I. N\'~ 161 & 162 " GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE LEVEN ~ IBI TO 185 COWOltHllltATH. 42 . YOUR REF............................ ''' 'R/..TiP OUR REF......11. . ....w. ........... ?,:r . Geore:e B . Pryde , The Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Spring s , HYCI\·: I1~G . Dear 1.:r . Pr yde, I enclose a copy of t h e brochur e \7hich v,e is sued a t the op ening of' the p i the a d baths a t our nen Comr ie Co llie ry . ·.ie have tried t o set a nevr s tandard in mininr.; practice here, and undoubtedly the place is a picture . I have no doubt y ou vrill be very busy these d a y s , as we are , in doine; the best y ou can to r a ise the necessary outpu t . i.;y father is \'!ell and sends his k indest ree ar d s to y ou . ~.Jith best ,•,ishes to r.1rs . Pr yde and yourself' . Yours s i ncerely , r--- - - --- RECflV E[ (\ '- .,_ I.. ..... ,,. ,J I~ __j :Snc l . ��A Brochure issued with the complimen t s of THE FIFE COAL COMPANY LTD. descriptive of che Comrie Colliery, situated near Dunfer mline, in the County of Fife �··- , .. ,; ub"i· "-l I • I:'. l· n tia1 M br I $. _If ' fJ Im , :,Ii ~ . ' J 1 • •• • .m•I j ·1 ... . .I _I I ' I I t �COMRIE COLLIERY rfT is recorded that mining operations in the <S:J neighbourhood were carried out over 100 years ago when coal and ironstone were exploited on the Blair Estate to the east of Comrie Colliery. During the intervening years to the present date, coal was worked intermittently in the shallow part of this coalfield, there remaining a virgin area of some twenty square miles. This area has been proved by bores from the surface to contain seven workable seams varying in thickness from three to seven feet and for the exploitation of which this colliery has been laid down. 1- In June 1936 the sinking of two shafts was commenced. By the opening of the Pithead Baths (considerably delayed due to the war situation) the surface equipment is completed,. The Surface The equipment of Comrie Colliery is designed to produce and prepare for the ' I,I The Pithttd Baths. A mine ar ~nd .surface DicseJ locomotive are seen In the foreground. �\ : ,. •, . .. .. ' .· . I ' �market upwards of 4,000 tons per day, or 400 tons per hour. The coal is raised from a depth of 427 yards by a skip winder of 1,250 h.p. with 10k ton capacity skips in a 20' diameter reinforced concrete lined upcast shaft. A second similar shaft 22' in diameter serving as a downcast shaft has a winder of 600 h.p. suited to handle materials and men only. Dynamic braking, interlocked signalling and rope guides are special features of the winding systems. Water for the winder liquidstarter controllers is supplied from a tank in the roof of the skip winder house, cooled after use in the spray fountain and pumped back to the tank for re-use. A forcing fan of the propeller type situated at the man-winding shaft is designed to provide 250,000 cubic feet of air per minute against a maximum resistance equivalent to 4½" water gauge. The special partitioned rectangular casing on the man-winding shaft in conjunction with false bottoms on the cages provides the airlock. The r.ecessary electric power 1s generated at The m•nshalt with •idock, fanhousc. winder house, ;ind focomotl•• shed. Side-tipping bo1les used (or stoncmlnlng can be seen Jn the foreground. �1d \ \ ' .,__ ~ ,: ' ,(/.-.,,, �the Company's Central Station at Kelty, some twelve miles distant, and transmitted at 22,000 volts to a sub-station located in the man-winder house. The preparation plant has an overload capacity of ·H·O tons per hour with proYision for breaking all the large coal down to below 6 inches. The washing plant, of the Baum type, designed to treat 6" minus and with special water treatment features, is capable of mechanically cleani11g the total Middlings are crushed and reoutput. washed. Pit and preparation plant debris is removed by an aerial ropcway of 180 tons per hour capacity some 950 yards to waste ground outside the colliery site. T he Pithead Baths consist of two floors with a special drying room, a canteen, first-aid room, and private baths for officials. Lockers, !!tc., for r ,008 men are fitted now. T he necessary offices, lamp room, and mechanical and electrical engineering workshops, etc., are provided. At the underground tippler. The 1-ut car of a traln can be seen empty In the clpplcr. On centre p3gcs:- The skip sh,ft ,nd orcpuatlon plant. ���An underground conduit system accommodates all cables and pipes. The surface buildings are flat roofed and the layout is on modern symmetrical lines, designed with the collaboration of the Architectural Department of the Miners' Welfare Commission. Underground Equipment No bunkers for storage are installed either underground or on the surface. A hinged flap acts as a false bottom in the skip to avoid breakage. There are two measuring chutes, one to each skip of 10½ tons capacity equal to three car loads 3½ tons each and fitted with anti-breaking devices. The mine cars are 12' long, 4' 6" high, and 4' 4" wide, with tapered roller bearings and special swivel couplings, such that the cars can be emptied in the undergrou.nd tippler without being uncoupled one from another r in the train. The tippler capacity is 140 cars per hour. Cars are handled mechanically through the tippler, the whole opera- ,l . j At a Junct.lon nur the s,Jt bottom. I .! ��tion of car handling, tipping, skip loading and despatching being controlled by one operator. The pit bottom is designed so that the main haulage levels form main intakes. The pit bottom is free from any ventilation doors and the roads in general arc laid with single tracks. The pit bottom includes a pump house, power distribution station and office, and a locomotive station is yet to be made. Diesel locomotives of 25 to 50 h.p. and weighing 4½ to 7½ tons are in use with trains of 6 to 12 cars. The gauge is 2' s• with 60 Jhs. per yard rails forming the track. The seams to be worked include the Jersey and Five Feet series of coals. The method of working adopted is that of Jongwall retreating with complete extraction. A main loading station will be made for each area and adjacent seams will be tapped by short cross-cut mines and the coal conveyed by belt conveyor to the loading station. Coal to the dip will be raised by direct rope At a fo~dln&nation: 1,.rn.n,csd to loid 1200 tons F•' shift by one open.don. The spedal fttdln& device C1J1 be seen In batkiround, �r SURFACE EQUI PME NT Pithead Fmmcs Winding Engines l\•Iechanical Equipment Electrical Equipment Prepamtion Plant Electrical Equipment Lamproom Equipment Main Linc Locomotive Weighbridges Aerial Ropcwa)' 5-Ton Travelling Crane Main Fan (l05" Diam.) Sub-Station Equipment Surface Railway Equipment i\lnrkham & Co., Ltd . i'vlarkham & Co. Ltd. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. Nortons (Tividale) Ltd. i\lctropolitnn-Vickcrs Elcctricnl Co., Ltd . Concordia Electric Safety Lamp Co .. L td. A. Barclay, Sons & Co., Ltd. , K ilmcr1ock H. Pooley & Sons, Ltd. R. White & Sons, Widnes, Lanes. T . Smith & Co., Ltd. Thcrmotank Ltd. A. Reyrollc Co., Ltd. and Bruce Pt hies & Co., L td. The Clydeside Constrnctional Co., Lu.I. SHAFT EQUIPMENT No. I SHAFT Dcmag. A. G . and Qualter, 1-b ll & Co., Barnsley Skips Automatic landing and discharge plant Rotary Tippler, Bunker, Measuring device, creepers and Airlock Keps Auxiliary Guides Signalling and Interlocks Winding and Balance Ropes Guide Ropes Dcmag. A. G. G ~~ehoffnungshuttc Redpath, Brown & Co., L td. Metropolitnn-Vickcrs Electric:11 Co., Ltd. Whitecross Co., L td. Wrights' Ropes, Ltd. No 2. SHAFT Cages, Airlock, Kcps and auxiliary guides Winding Ropes Balance Ropl'S Guide Ropes 30 Tons Cappels 30 Tons Ormerod Detaching hooks Shaft Cables Gutehoffnungshuttc British Ropes Ltd. British Ropes Ltd. R. Hood, H aggic & Sons, L td. Barker, Davies & Co. William Nimmo Ritchie The Edison Swan Electric Co., Ltd. UNDERGROUND EQUIPMENT Pumps Mather & Platt Ltd. Drysdale & Co., Ltd. Compressors Ingersoll Rand Co., Ltd. Auxiliary Blower Fans (25" dia.) Davidson & Co., Ltd., Belfast Electric Drills Hugh Wood & Co., Ltd . Compressed Air Hammer Drills Climax Eng. Co., Ltd. Conveyors-Shaker Mining Eng. Co., Ltd. Do. -Belt M. & C., Ltd., Hugh Wood & Co., Ltd. Coalcutting machines Anderson, Boyes & Co., Ltd. Electric Switchgear M. & C. Switchgear, Ltd., and A. Reyrolle & Co., Ltd. Diesel Locomotives (25 & 50 h.p.) The Hunslet Engine Co., L td . (40 & 48 h.p.) Ruston & Hornsby, Ltd. ~ me Cars (3~ tons capacity} R. Hudson Ltd., Leeds. 50-Ton Hydraulic Press John Mills & Co. (L lanidloes) Ltd. Telephones Automatic Telephone & Electric Co., Ltd. and Heyes & Co., Ltd., Wigan. Shaft Sinking The Cementntion Co., Ltd. �VISIT OF IC . H. Mclqeill, Agent 'i'HE FIFF co~ COMPANY LIH!TED OCTO].~ ,, . 1935 And . SUBSEQU.Er~T OQ~SPOND'.ilNCE �/ ; I' I Mr. George E. Pryde, Vice President, Union Pacific Coal Co., Rock Springs, Yyoming, -U.S.A. Innesforth Hous e , NEWMILLS , Fife. 6th April, 1938 . l \ \ \ Dear Nil'. Pryde, As promised in my last letter to youg I Report on our Accident Position for last year. From this you will see that we continue slowly to improve. We have still a long way yo go to reach anywhere near your position, but we are keeping on trying. am enclosing herewith copy of I hope this letter f ind s you and ,,irs • Pryde in good health, and trust that your ne~ ~ Ve-t~~ is still proceeding ins atisfactory manner. I have now removed my home to the Western part of Fife, as you \·1ill see from the above address. I am now concentrating the whole of my time between the New fitting at Comrie, and the refitting and devel oping at Valley.field Colliery. Are you thinking of coming through to the Gl asgow Empire Exhibition? If so I shall be very gl ad to know, so that I may be able to put you up. The Coal Trade in Britain is very prosperous at the moment, although there is an indication of a slight reaction. Wars and rumours 02 Wars are causing tremendous activity in the Armament direction, with the result this Country is on the peak of a wave of prosperity. With kind regards to illrs . Pryde and yoµrself; •• I remain, Very a incerely yours, K. /.f. '1!,o v(Q.. .. ? �. •· r ~ - - v- .1 ,\ / j \· SUMMARY OF ACCID rNT S ATISTICS FOR THE THIRTEEN OPERATING _ COLLIERIES OF THE FIF COAL COMPANY DURING THE PAST FIVE -~~ s_: ___ ; Yearo Total Man-hours Worked. 1933. 1 6,417,680 . 13 1,396 17,917,125 11 • ·- - 1,347 16 Increase Man- hours/ Accident since 19330 in Frequency since 1933 0 11,761 ---1934. %Decrease Man-hours per Accident. Total Compensable Accidents. Underground Fatalities . 13 , 302 ·- 3.5 0 -- I ·· I +13.l ~---- - - --·-.- ----·- ·-- 1935. 18,987,563 10 1,240 15 ,313 -11.2 ~ 1936, 19,795,275 12 21,946 902 I 1937, 20,517,353 . 5 802· - - 25,583 -· -. - ~~-~ ~ Saf'ety & Education Dept . COWDENBEATH . 7/3/38. "';• l?· o .?. • ~ ~ - - -- - 35. 4 +86 .6 - 42 .6 +117.5 - - - - - - ·- I +30.2 -·- ·I i �\FIFE COAL CO.'s SAFETY CAMPAIGN. ,Hr Miller, in his reply, sni1f liow much H1e:v :it No. 7 had appreciated all that bnd been doon for thPm by Mr Wm. Ileiil. 'l'hoir ,·i~itors that evening were possihly curious to how they Imel secured the results they ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR No. 7 know hnrl, espel'inlly during tJ1oso last tltreo ye_nrs. He :i~sure<l them thero woe nothin~ mystor1011.g COLLIERY. :ihnnt it. but thl'lso results woro ntt:i.inc<l bv !:<'tlins- tho goodwill or thPiT men. (Hear. hear.) Mr \\"111. ltciil hnd tbo ha.nnv knntk Triuntcs to locuJ miners nnJ collier:, officials of doini: thnt from tho humble.s t worker to the for the pnrt lhry :ire plnrin:; it1 the Fife Cool most important mun in tho colliery. At No. 7 Contpnn~·•s ~nrr.t y c:im p11ii;11 were pnid at a. thM• thoni;ht of him not so much ns an complimer.t:ny diuocr i;i,·-,11 by the Compnny nfficinl hut itio 60meone for ,;hon,. they lin,1 n , per,oonol reg-an), nod !hey would surport him in tho Ceutr.Jl ,rork>'ltnps Canteen on Snturnnythiog ho 8ct. his heart on. He spoko <loy c,·cuiog to 1·e1·o;;niso iho achic\'ement of I ,inf the mrn n~ po~scssiug tho finest ohnrncter:Ko. 'i Colliery in !1,t\;ing t he lowest accident ib!irs. and of their rcspoul'e to th<'it' offort~ rc1·ortl for t·hc lnst three years. to hare nn acri,lcnt-free collfory. He would n~surc th<'m, h(lwc,·cr, . th(J.t thl' 'll"OrkorR nt Tho principal guests were tho membors or :1'". 7 ('n)licrv • ,rero not sol<'ly intcrcstod in 1 tho No. 7 Safety Committee, anti an1oog others {ho iuonthl.,· i;.~(cfy prizes ·,nnirrlctl, becouso if present were 1·epresent:1ti\'CS f rom thu Snfoty thr.v Imel contributed snmcU1ini:: to geneml Committees of tho Con1pany's Ynrious surety-if nm·lhing that had heer1 tried coul<l be npp1ic,J elsewhere-then tJ1cy felt amply collieries. r cw:ir,lc,I. (Applause.) They hnrl henn l n 01:DT TO mt -;\ M. REI.I>. lot about lhc kce-p-fit mo,·ement, but Mr Roid, .. ?.11· Kirk,;oou H. i1cKcill, ogeut, who prehe con.siclN"ccl, c1ml<l ~ar ho wai. earlier tlu1n sided O\'er a comvnuy of se\"eUI.)'., npolog1se<l lh.o Clo,·l'rnment; bcrau~o he was "nt them" to fur the absenco of Mr (;. C. Ro1d, nnd conk<'~p-/it lnni: befn1·0 tho Gn,·ernm<'nt t:ilk.c<l ,·<'ycu to \he gnthering tho best wishe$, of the abnnt it. Jn conclu~ion, 110 <'Xt>re~sed, 0 11 .general . works munai;or. 'l'hat 0CCO$ton, he bohnll' of ti•<' worker~ and officials, · their conti:oucd, wos on iml)ortnnt ooo for the apnret·inlinn of the kincllr sentiments expressed Company. 'l'he &afetY campaign wns onterud 'Mtb b~· tho Chairman nn,l llr Rohl. ;,ml into a number of you111 ngo-i;o1uo peol)le snid n<sttre•l them thnt No. 7 ,.-ould e:irry ou the soo10 thirty renra ago-Uut duriug the Inst goucl work. (.\pplnuse.) three years th~y hnd made a 1·eully keen ef!ort r n?:s1:Sl'ATIO!>" OF ntrLO~IA. to i.tir op the thoughts of thei'r worke1-s in regar<l to their own sn.!'oty. lo that connec'rhc Chairman snhl thn.t ; i t ynrious collieries tion they owed a g1·ent deal to Mr Wm. Reid, tbry fo11nil Jiplomas hno.;ing in tho offices. ,;Ito lh-e or s.i:i: years ogo went to amorico. on tint nt 1\o. 7 th~J ijceme<I t o collect them. He cerh1in business. Whilo thE>ro ho recei'red a thou~ht that if .Ko. 7 wns iu tho fortnnal'l cnble frou1 Scotland asking if he ,;ouM S!'nre pp,ibou ;,t tho ('Od of the present }"car of time to make -so.mo in.-cstigation9 regarding e:;nin <?htaining the dipl_omo, it ought t'? be safoty methods in the State~. 'l'but time ,rns somctluni; moro substnnt1a l, probnblv 11 ~1lvor spent very much to their ndrnntago iu collect,. ~hiel,l. • iog many ideas, and when their cnmpnign ~h· Ueid therc.~ftcr banded OYcr tho diploma, 8tarted, ho wus the mninsprin1, or it. M.uny w hidt w,,s reccivell, on behalf of the ,;orkers things "·et·o commenced ·,nth plenty of nncl ollicmls, l>t Mr \\"111. l•:,dng, who e:1:presscd onthusinsm nod 'll"cro ultimately ullo,~od to ple11~•1N nt being i1witcd to accept tho drop, hnt in tho present instance, if t hcv cliplnnin. Ile odtled that it h;,d bcC'n 'll"0n were inclinetl to he lockodoisical, Mr Roi~ 011 a dif!crcot hnsis froru tho two pr~\'ious was tho mun who kept. them going. They of ~n~<'e•~c~. n~ Ko. 7 ' colliorv hnd been on u the Corupnuy. nnd all fho workmen, were hamliro11 ha,is with the ofher 1:ollierie•. lt more in<lcbted to Mr Uctd thnn to anybody nm.tic their la~k u II thCI 1m, ro difficult bnt nt elso in the cnmpaign, nnd No. 7 Colliery tho S1m_o time, the honour was :i.ll th~ grctter. pnrticnlnl"ly hnd holll'fited n great dcnl from In <·losmg. ho referred to tho pioneer ,'rork his close association wifh it. ln cooclnsion, ~f tho cnlliHy ii!, tnkiug J?llrt 1i:i a_pog~nut Mr J,IoNeill expressed tho hope that No. 7 fot• tho Dnnformhne anti West Fifo llospitnl. Colliory would continue to show nn uoroplo, (A ppln n~c.) and that the fine 1<pirit between tho of!ic1als .M 1· W. E. S. Peach, "l'rhn "·as rcrc11tly ancl the mon would continue to be fostered. appointe,l a::ent nt N(I. 7 Colliery, spoke iu cooi;r:itn!:i!ory terms of the rccor,I set up. (k\pplnuse.) :,nd h(!,·rni; e~pre,:scd the ho[)e that it ,rould A GREAT l'tlTUR&. be. mnmtninetl, n,ti!cd thnt 1ttr Reid nnd :\[r J,Ir Wm. :Roid, in proposing tho toast of ~[,Iler ltnd Ect sul.'h n \"t'l"Y high stanclnr<l " No. 7 Colliery," said ho was very pleased dm·111~ the Inst llwee ,·enrs thnt it was goin" to that No. 7 hnd again tD.ken top place. Some ho ,liflicult to maintnfo rt. '! 'here was a Fn1et; pits were Ketting nearer and nearer to No. 7, t·nmpn ign nt No, 7 Colliery TI"l1c,n Mr Jam rs nnd the closer they were getting the happier Crawford 1rns mannger. an,J wheu. he (:\lr ho wns, be?use it would mean o. _considorahlo l't'at•h) succccdctl l\£r Crnwforcl n~ mnnnger reduction 1n the number of ncc1dents. Re he had kept it s:ning_ until Mr Miller tonk recalled the early duys of the camp,~igu, how onr. When he ()Ir Pcnt'h) '!"s mnooger, tlto tho General llfnnagor of tho Cotnpllny, at a ac1·ulcnt__mte wns 3000 lllllnsl11fts per accident, JOeoting of the Central Safety Committee, bnt tlJe1r lnte•t rt'cord wns fi.-e time~ better monngers, and offioinls had np11enled to even·thnn thnt, nn,I. elovoo times hPtter than the body to put their shoulder to the wheel; and :i.1•prag_e> .for Bntoln. (Apnlnusc:.) how, 11·be11 so.rcnFm wos being met with from , Dr W1Jl1~m•im, Snfrty Engineer, s.~icl tl,nt both offlci:ils and men-among them severnl No. 7 C~•l]1cry s record ]i:111 greatly inlercstcll ~cnior ofBcinl11 who ongbt to have known better many . Yrstlo1:s lo the Fife Co.~! Compnm· -Ur 1\fcNeill was of tremei:idous hel_p to him. in.,Ju,hn,::- eminent minitig 111cn. An important He paid tribute to Mr Miller, aod the fioo fn<'to1· nf tl10 Fllr.l'E'S~ "l'rlts tlrnt ~ouic,thing ltn,l lt'OI' his oxnmple had bcrn Collo,;ed· nt No. 7, 1:il'rn y,lnnlctl tbcl'f) Fernrnl ~·l'nrs ngo. Tbnt a .-:oniery whose rccorrl waq talked about even b.'l<l . hccn <'llrt'fnlly n111 •e<I nn,I firtnh' 011tsido of Scotfand, nn~ t_hey !Jo.cl hnd many cFt11hl1~l,ctl nninrly, ~atcty consciousnc,s. penrle writing for stat16hcs of the prognss. (Anplunse.) 111adc. There wero mnn:r safety campaigns . lllr C. ~camnn Fpnkl' on !•ehnl_f of tlte ,·i~it-· in Eoglnu,l, pnrticulorly in the M.idlamls, 10,r JlllCsfc, nml !\Ir W. r:,rin:r, m rcph-ing on ,.-hero nil the big co.mponics hnd lhc,ir safoty belrnlf. of t!JP No. i ('0011niltce, cipre~se,1 dl!partmcnt. Resnltll, however, be pointed ont, :1pprrc1nlion lo tho gcoeml, mnnni:cr 111111 ('()Uld not be got in a month or two, and som, ,hrcrtor11 of flu, Company for tho hospitality of them were rather disaP.pointed beca1uo the~ ucror<lecl fo thllm w<'re not i;ottlng the re,;u)ts e:spocted. Condi A nrn~iml prn:rrammr wpq pro,·i,le,l h'r tin11s there were mueb better t.hnn tho&O ir. )les•rs ,T. l'ntrnmn. A. Morri~, .T. Thri,l~nn Fife, 110,l tho resulfs 11houl,l. be hotter. BE D. l'. ('nmplK'II , Cl. ll:t\'i1l~n11. J. 'llillrt•. <1'. conzralulate<l the ?ir011~beo.th men who, &ince Ros~. J. J)non, .T. Pnhh, R. ,vil•nn, 11. OnthriP the umalgnmntion of tho collierie111• had lnllen F. li:innrll, 'I'. Wr•lwnotl. R. Oilmnnr, .T'. ,1uirkly into the way11 of No. 7 Couier:,. Thot Mc('lcllnntl, nn,l W. R S. l'rnrh. Cnrnmunih• tnllirr_y w11'1 t'> him aometbiug personnl. M:nre Hinuiug w,.,. l1•1l hv ]\fr 1), lllnir. • ,,fficinls frlt t hat wa:v th•u 1nooy of the men Yofrq or I)111111<• u·er<' ,,rn11o•r•I hy ;\fr ~knew, un,t uny occident nt Nil, 7 wa~, he P11trr•n11. )l1•• f'ouli~ pniJ ~Inf! of lho c:•"'PrD ,•onqideretl nn accident against himself. No. 7 ll'l'l"0 J"e~ponHihln fnl· tl1e rnh•ring. l1nd a grPAt 1-ecord and a great tutun. In a fow- week~ they were tn Jose their manager, ,ind whoorcr lflll, Mr llillcr-'s surce1&0hr w ould, • he honed, put hlll ebouldPr t.o tha ff' P.e1 and , , ,li. _ -· -- , .. +1,,.,,_ ,,.c,_ _.,_ , A nnlouse.\ 0 I �'Otbe munfetmHne t01res1, t-:iAl'ClU>AY, J.\.Xl".inr :!It, rnas . "UTOPIA." ~ ::irrcst iug lighu on coutlitions in Sonct Russia is ~lied by n book cntit.Jcd '.' AssiglUUent in Utopi:1." Eugcuo Lyons 1s tho ::iuthor of tho book, which is published by Rn.rrnp. A r o,icwer in tho " British We~ld~" (1"hieh is usually free from preJUdico on m::ittcrs r clatinrr to Itussia) t:> says tht«· . a Judg<acl by nny sbndard, thi:; Look is one of tho most conYiocinrr nod ' enlightc_ning :u·counts of the derelo;ment 1 of ~onet ltussin which h:is yet been published. ~t has :in authenticity which 1 ~annot ho denied." What gi1·c.s tbo bool; its ,nluo ns n relinblc sur,ey of the results • of n prnctic.il cxpcrioient in Comn1unisni is tho fact that, when the author went to llussia, ~ had no bias ngainst that political , system. His bias, indeed, wns :ill tho other way. . Wo nr'.l told 1 bat "be grc1V up on the East Side , of Now York with • Radicalism nnd IloYolt nurtured in his Yery. bones." I:Io becnme n journalist worlong for tho Communist Party in tho U.S.A., and was Inter conn<acit>d with an official Soviet newsagency in New York. "'hen h.3 n·as i,cnt to Moscow he folt that 110 hnd ·br.eu nssignrd to Utopia. Uo saw ltussia through the Ffre Yenr Plan nml np to tha commencement of the s=ud Plnn. At the out.set J1c fullr expected thnt his dre::ims n-?~ld .come truo in thnt liappy land. Dis11lus1onmcnt followed disillusionment until there Wnli nothing le(t but I disgust for Stalinism null nl\ its works. 'l'ho author snys that nt the, end of tho .l!'ivo Yeor Pinn " tho proletnrinn's role had been reduceu to silent, obedience, with starmtion us tho only nH,,rnatiT-e." When ·.Mr Lyons lc:ft Russin he Juul the sensa of Jen,·ing a 1111tinr, trupprtl•,. '1'1·.ippo<l ph~·sicall.l", with hloodhnuu,ls :in,) muchiue-g11118 mu) d1•1tl h ri('ntcn<'C'S gua1·cling tl'.c fron~icr~ lo tm'1·rnl !><'or,lc fron1 l•~ ·u111ng, wath n p.1.~~rort .s,,:,.lc•u1 in,;i.Sc tho frnnlirr•, with C'n<llr-~ uku>i'S 11n•l tlneat,,t,, rC';:ul,1•c l hoir rxislcn,•r. ·• '.l'ra ppr<l i11tPllrrt11ally 1.-j1J1 M·rr1· 1 tl,r,,!ght J>I rfcrihc1) amt 1nri1(al curiu•il ~ punhhetl a:1 h••rr~y. 'l'l'llPP1'1l s1,irituall~· . . • • r,n,) prncli~in:; h.,·111,c ri,~- n.- tl11, /ir~·t i law c,f sun·i,·:,1." I II is f<J11<•lu'lio11 011 Su,·i,•l rnl<', aft<-r ' C'sprrir11<'<•, i~ d<"I rill(<) iu lln•sr won!~: '' ,\ nw1·h1111i5tic d1•hurnaui~••I !.1H'i11li~111 l,a,,,.',I 1111 di,•111 tor~hip, ~y:.tr n1ntil' Lr utnlity, rcg11ue11l<:tl r11hots working for an [l('l'SOJ>a) IBRl\ILINE PRESSt Iimperson:il • Stnto ndministercd l1y a c:iste of bureaucrn ts." So this is what tho ::idmirers of l\Josco11· ' call the rule of tho proletnrint ! l l is i11 fact ono of tho worsL forms oi t~·rnnny the world has o,·cr witn<'sscd. Probably the inoictment :ig:iinst Slalinisru woul<l h:wc boon st-ronger slil\ ii it bnd lx·iin brought ! thoroughly up to date hy the inclusion of I rct'ords of the- lnles l wholcsalo exccutioni; I i11 Rus.,ia. In :h ·nsl'h·cs theso j11clidnl n1urU<!rs a ~ ;11,l t~i l ;r vidC'nre ng:.1,inst lhe SoYiet, for, 111 cou1 .-,•, if all is ,~an in Russia, ns out own l3obhi1as arc constantly n.ssuring us, thcra could be nothing but pcrpct11nl pc-nee nnd bl<'sselluess there. To thoso in West Fife who h:i,·o thoir spiritunl homo in ~[oscow w6 conune'lld a. peruso.l of 1\Ir L'l'ons' book. It n1ny open ,their eyes as effectually ns his own were opened throngh his actual cs:pericnce in " Utopia." I prfrileged 1 1• .. 1 , 0 �COLLIERY FIRES. LECTURE BY MR KIRKLAND H. McNEILL. At tho ninth lccturo in lbo practical course for mining men which is boing hel<l al tho .lloruy lnstituto, Kelty, llt K. IL Mc.Nctll, ticnio1· agc11t of tho l:'tfo Coal Co., Ltd., wa<:1tho lcclurcr. Ilis subject w.as "Underi;round l•'irc5." Mr John lu·ch.ibuld, ma1111{;cr, Aitken Colliery, p1-,:,sidod. • 1''c1; ci.i~umstruiccs arising in minins :u:c fraught witu i;1·cawr potcutiul dan:;crs and u.:cui:;100 mo1-o ruwcty to a miue-ma.nu:;cr tlia11 1 tho o~ur1·once or tut undergl'Ouud lire. Al• thong-ii lo;s or l.ifo lroln this causo ha<l foi:llwi1tcly not been rolu.tively grl).(lt, the possibility of u. largo disaster must always be borno 111 mind, ond every outbreak regu.nl~d us likely to 11;11"0 i;criou:; nucl fu1~reaching cuect... .Hr Mcol"foill dealt witu his subJcct from two~ uspoctij, . 1•i:t., ·superficial fi~·e.-i :111d ijP?n.tnne_ous' combu~t1on. In nu rumlys1s of supeJiie1al tires td1icb l1:id occuri-ecl iu Hritish mines over a pcdod oi. seven ,curs, it )\'as e,·idcnt t.hut the 0 rcatest swi,:lo !'actor caus1n:; underground fires was nnke<l lights, nutl th:it noxt in or<ier came the use of electricity, whilo friction of baulai;a machiD&rY camo tlurd.. 'fhose three cnuses wcro tog{!thcr rcspQnsil,lo for more than t,1) 11et cent. 01 fire~ in mizws other thau those due to ~pontnnoous rombu:;tion. From his own experience Mr )k~'-'.,ill cited many examn}cs ! wherein fires J,:ul bct:n stw·tecl throui;h onre1 lessne:s.s with nuked lights and matches. He \\'as ol' the opinion that the day l\'us not for ,!ishint when le:;islatiou would, prohibit tho ul'l! 1 of naked lir;h ts aiul smoking iu all pits. Too • much cautiou. coulcl not be c:11ercise<l in prevcntin& the introduction of oontr.:i.band articles, cspccinlly matches, into a safety.lamp pit. ,I.Dy roan who wilting\:, atlcmpted to b1'eak the regulations in this regard merited tho most se,·cro punishment which the law of the land ' \ could ilnposo. Again, whetc djscipline was lnx I tbero wns always a tendency for nccmnulations of re:iclily inflamm.ible material, such us paper, oily wa&t.o, lo occur in ce1 t.ain dangerous &itub.tions, espcciollv in places where u11m nte . their food and in tl1e lleiihbourhood of ~n:;ine t·oom$, Ju mnny pits men were forl,id<ll'n ' to lu.ko food nndcrgrouud which was wrnpped in paper. 'l'his rule should1 bo made gencrol. . Fu·rs nttributnble to the misnso of clech;city 't might :ll'i$o from a vorioty or caui;es, the chief of which were (a) o,·erheating or fusing of. cubics; (h) dumn.\i:O to c.'lbles by foils of roof, runaway tubs, coal-cutter picks, etc.; (c) short circuits arising from ..-aricms causes: and (dl defects in sw·itcb J\!al:, especially qil-immersed ,::car. Mr McNc11l nguin cited examples of electrical fires "R"hioh had originated by each of the abo,·e c.'luses. While it w119 tho colliery electrician's duty to en~uro that proper nttl'n• I ion was gfrcn to tho design, Joy-out. instnl!:i,. tion and working of cloctricnl apparntus, uc,·orthclr~s th~ro were many points \\'hich concc.>rncd, mining mon in thi$ <'onnt>ction. Spooio.l core sl1ould alwoss bo cfrcn to ll'niling j cables so :is lo a.void conb<'t with coal-cutter vicks, or conyc_;o~. and their c:tposuro to the , rffccts of shot-firing. Scrupulous cleanliness sho111<1 also be observed near nny t ype of c:il"ctrical :i.p11arahis. Tho more e-:i:tcnsi'<'o Ufie of mnchincr:v hnd increased ih!' potential danj:!lrs of fire <1ao to friction or mn,·ins pnrta. Uncler certain circumstanc-es, sucl1 . friction might ~cneratc!-;,11fficicnt heat to g1\'e l'iso to tho ignition or rc:-ulily inilzw,mo hie DUl.tcrial. 'l'ho- rooEt cnnunon <:nUet><i of l!Uch sources of miOG !in~~ W('rc :-(a) Fric~on of hnuloge pullo;,-s, (iJ) m•crhr.·11.ed bear111gs and friction nf brr.kes on b,rnI:1;,;e i::oars, (e) friction of bclu,, (11) friction or i1:;ging COD'<'eyor-paJJa when rubbing n::-ninst props oc chocks. Common b('ll~.c bltoul<l ohvinle any such dangers. • 'l'h<' 11otenti:il cl::n~crs of ~hot-firing. such M ,,,·erchnrgil•g and iosuflicient stemming, nnJ • •' • ' "· .. • _,._ .,..rro al,,o dralt IIOllr "Olpi:t1f 'Plioa: ~ t j ~ VO pa,t °'qµo,ir. [l!.ll -9tr!p.lv:>UTI1 ' P,:oU l[O,L 11:1 81:al'll dn~tmq ' •R .Llvnuv,t 'l{~!I no ·1rd·u1 O& .Sn!poooxa pa,iils 11 UP!II ,11(.1 ,l~Om • lllllA!-lp JO oau..,,•.,., uo l""l;llAl '\J 1s VII.& eq uaqAL &3' llllll1J w.11. :.<'.p(llO:i,:nx •iiJo. '\JIIJ a1111vqang H 'JVIIIJp ,tOlOUI 'u091!,M ·suwo-q: q.ll![ 'l811UJ}{ !)UU "II oqa -.llaN u.iJA4"'1 PIXIJ 01u uo Ltvnuur "ltB ao . .:,;,y .1c,iom 'V .IIUJ~fP U.lq.1,1,,...!.~. <l!l·!Pllq v DI ¼I' I l �xxxxxxx Operation J anuary 18, 1938 Ur. K. H. Il~Teill l!oraybanlc House Kelty , Fife Seo tland • Dear l:.ir. llctJ ei 11 : It \'/E.\S a p leasure to hear from you again , and am glad to knou thnt your ney1 mine i s mQkine prot,ress . I read ,·Jith a great dea1 of interest the items in the Colliery Guardi an and also the Fi fe :vapers , 't'7hich give c e;reat deal of info rmation regarding your Safe t y program, ,-mich, I am sure , i s making good progress. I am attaching heretJi th a copy of o.n C?.dverti semen t ,1e published in the local papers, the.nkin ~ our employe s for the splendid coopera tion they gave uo curing; the yee;r , Tihen ue made a record of 9 2,680 mon hours ,;;orlced per o.cci den t. 'l'his ie a very aood record, und ,7e are proud of it. Our D. O . Cl ark mine is moving along qui tc nell . \'le expect to ste.rt putting in the concrete foundations in the l a tter part of 1'.Iarch , for both the tipple and the co11veyo:r, the entire Job to be f ini shed in t he early part of August of this year. 'i7e ha.v e had a. remarkably open uin ter, that i s, ,·,e have had no v ery cold t1eather, 1 beloY1 zero i s about as cold as it has been this \";i nter, and ue have very little enot1. V Le.et yeur ·,:as a very t;,ood one for us. He mined 3,315,000 tone of coal. °lie are starting out the Heu Year rather elovi, bueinoss in this country beinc more or l ees in a reoo1D1on, continual defies put up by the President and his asai etan ts not hell)ing the si tUZl.tion. 'll>.ey talk abou t bus iness go int; along ,·,i th them, but ,-,hen thin gs seem to be starting out all ric;ht, then they have another 11 dreaxn 11 a.go.in. I think the President i a li s tenin g to too many theories of government and is not gettin g very f'ar, but they ,71 11 r;e t i t a ll out of their system after a while and ue , till be able to go ahead again a.a ·.,e should. I see by the papers t hat you have had severe gal es along the Atlantic coast, and a o,od deal of damage has been clone. �'\. 2 - Our P:residen t ls no\1 starting to tal k rearmament, which \JG n ill n ecess arily have to do as a matter of self~ preservation. r::us~o lini 's enterprise in Ethi opia, the continual demand oi Ge:i.n any for the retum of colonies, and the Japanese invasion of China, all sho\'1 very forcibly that, if a nation is not p~·otccted by a navy and armaments, it will come under the doain o.ti on of the stronger nations. PJn g lad you liked the photograph; I thought it nas a very good likenesEi. I ho 1>e, some time a:f ter our D. O. Clark Yin e i s l"tmning at superior, that you may be abl e to come '."fest again . \'ie still have our Kiltie Bnnd1 v1hich is go ing stron g , nnd i·,e -r1ill be able to give you a royal Helcome . 'Ihank you very much far the cablegram. I ,, v,as c ertainly vel:IJ n ice ond thoughtful of you to do this. Atain may I extend to you and your a s sociates my best ui shes f o r a Happy and P rosperous rl e'l.7 Year. Very sincerely yours, Ori!rinal Signed: GEO::GE B. PRYDF. �MORAYBANK HOUSE, KELTY, FIFE, SCOTLAND . 4th January, 1938. George B. Pryde, Es q. , Rook Springs, \Jl!YOMING, U.S.A. Dear Mr. Pryde , I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 17th ult. for which I thank you. I again take the opportunJ.ty of wishing you and Mrs. Pryde and your family all the best in 1938 and hope that it will be a happy year for. you. I am glad to note the great progress you are making witn your D. O. Clark Mine, and I would certainly like to have the opportunity of seeing it once you are in full production. uur project at Comrie goes on apace. ~e expect to have the shafts down to the coal by the end of February, but it will take us the whole of this year to erect the screening and washing plant. We have had much difficulty in the sinking, having had to pass through very heavy water-bearing strata. Our safety campaign is going on very well and our results for 1937, while not yet completed, indicate a very considerable improvement on any previous years. I will send you a copy of the completed figures when they are available . Last year was a boom year in the heavy industries in Scotland, particularly the coal trade, and indications are that this year will be even much better . uur workmen's wages are steadily being increased with the new agreement, and prices are away up. I am sorry th.at the same state of affairs does not apparently prevail in .America, which appears to be passing through a period of very grave uncertainty and bitterness between Roosevelt's administration and big business. Rearmament in Europe appears to have much to do with tne present prosperity and I am afraid America will require to commence some similar project, particularly when onA thinks of the menace of Japan to American interests . I was very glad indeed to have your photograph which I shall have it hung in a prominent position so that it may be a continuous reminder of the very nappy time I spent with you at Rock Springs. jl I 1 is a most wonderful likeness. I/ , 1 �George H. Pryde, Esq. Rock Springs. 4/1/38. -2- I observe that the whole of your undergrouna conveying system is being supplied by the Link ~elt Company, Chicago, and that Messrs . Allen & Garcia Company have designed your preparation plant. You certainly are in good hands. soon. I will be looking forward to hearing from you a gain ishing you al l the best. ~1 Yours very faithfully, __,..;..---===-zz;;........."" �Dec emb er 17, 19j7 i.tr . IC . JI . :.:c_Tei 11 :..ior ay bank I{ouse !?"el ty, Fi feal1ire Scotl and Deal" tl1· . I1cn eill : I hu-,re not hear d fro m you f or qui t e a \"J.hi le, but I !)resume the o pe r a tions a t your n en mi ne a j_'e going alon g gM i te r api dly no v, . lir . Cu:rloi.'/ t o l u l!le about your purch ase of a i1ashine; ..!}lant . I am sure the i mproved p rep aration \7ill justi .i.'y t he e:x11ense, a l though, on a ccoun t of t he h i gh pr i ces of s t eel and other materi cl a today, con s t r uc tion costs r..re exces sive . I read t he Ol d Country pavcrs anu note t i1e \".'o rk yo ur compuny i s do i nb in Saf'ety, i,a:i.'t.ic ul. al'l y ti:'J.e l e e t u re e &.i ven by Dr. A{eici. I think that is the only ouxe way to succe ss i n Safet y i::ork, th~t i s , to keep evei·l as t ine].y afte r i t . A gr eat deal o f mi s ai on nry vm rk h2,s to b e do n e , r.;n d men y,1ill no t, o f thei r oun volition , a ccep t a Safe t y 1,rograra r:ho l ellca r t edl y , -:1i t l10 u t o. c r ee. t deal o i' u rgi nt., . Our ~3ui 'ety uork go e s well, a lthough not a s wel 1 a s -.:1e \'1oul d l i k e, but b y and l arge \,e ar e moving ohettd en d I think \"le shoul d accomp l i sh resul ta . The 9 relimina r.r \1orl-: a t our D. O. Cl a rk lii ne i s p retty well compl e t ed ancl, v.-i thin t he next ui x t y d ays r,e shoul d start mi n i ng some coal there . The contr a ct f or our under ground conveying system has b een l e t t o the Link- Bel t Comp ony, Chi cago, Illinoi s , nnd that for t he p r e1,a r a tio n pl ant to the Allen & Ga rcia Company , al ED of Chic ago . These job s a r e t o be f i ni shed by Augu e t, 1938 . Our o ther con structi o n proj e cts f o r the y ear a r e prett y \1ell compl e t ed . und we c annot do much cons truc t io n work i n r eal col d weath er i n thi s 1mrt o f the coun t ry . I am e m ding you , und er sepa r a t e cover today, a pho to gr a!'il o f mysel f , which you no doubt would like t o hav e . llay I t:1. eh f or you, your f eraily and your s t af'f' , a mo s t Ila:1lPY pnd l ' ro aperou s lTew Year. Very Si nc erel y yours, Or l,rlDal S12"Df'il: G£vi1uC: 8, PAYO f �-- ( ---- ,, ,... ' , - ' u Jvne 2G , 1937 llr . K. R . nc:- •i 11 lioraybt?.nk Eouu,_ ICel ·~y, : 1ife Scotland lly dea.1~ Ill'• H c:i.T ~i l l ! It ,ms indeed a. .:!l easuxe ·to have your l e tter of June 3:rd, o.nd t o be the s:ecipi en t on Saturday of your c a bleBl'c.U1ls to both _.:.!· . r.::c!.uli:t.'fe und myself' 011 the oc-co.sion of ow· Ol d 'i'i□crs' !.teetii1!-~ • ·:e h~d the 11;.X!_;est aud n o :::it ei1thus i[1 :Jtic ca thcrinc; YJe have ever had, l>o t.11 in J?oin-;;, of 1Tv.r:1oe:;,~,:; 011C:: cv.ccese o :f the meetini..,. Fo:r "i;hii~teen years ,·ie h.a.v e ~ud cxcelle:n·t ,-,eat he:r, 2.nd t.lJ.ut io o. fine record. It 1;;o uld seem ti-1.::.t even the uea ther m~n ls ,; i th us . I t uas very thouehtful 01' you to cabl e ,:1e on i..hc... t date . ~i'hen ,·1e roud your rneaoage:3 at tlle bc:.ll'1qu<.!·~, ~hey ::.·ec c ived a illO st enthusiastic :i.:eca1;,tion. i ~-uu t.,lad to :knO\·: ubo ut you.1· ne·.-1 :i_):coj ec ·~. 'I-he coul p r eparat i on p l aut muf.:li; be a very e:r.tensivc.:: one. liine·i;y thou::.mnd l'()unds is a lot o:r mo ney . You \·1ill cci··tclnly have a. nice p l o.n t \"JJlen you ee't Lo int,; . \,i ~in skij.> ,·:lnciinc, l aI\..,e g i t c u~s , t.nd the fine prei.>ara.tion 1Jlmi't;, Y<.>U \:ill surely make som e of tu.ose enl). n eers and other operat:1.nt, co!t1puuie13 s i t u1, and t::..kc no ti c e . ile llave founu thu·i; 'i:.he lU.'t,0 p i t ca.I"s h .;.vc clone n uch t o reduc e our J.>rou.uc tion co13·co . ·.·. nat you a.re doing in ~cotlund, in your nev; 1>l ant, is revo l ution2:cy, but that is the .!.1ath by v.hi ch p1--oc;reos is made , by br<3akina m'l~ :from the l>eaten t:r.·ack . I am ou 1•a tllat , befoz·e you did so, you f i e:,1.1.red ev01·ytnil1c; out i.,ro perly, ~nd ,,hen your _Jl unt is runni ng, you w.l.11 nuke e. remar kabl e oho, .'i.1c,. It \Ji;>.a Vc'I::i nice oi' you t-J vi s i t 1'ly sis t er , u.nd I apprecia t e v ery i!lUcll your doiu:.., that. :,1tl l e \.e C..il..LJcct t o r,line {;;.Oout tluec w1d o '.half mill ion tons thi :d your , o.r (;ourse, busine ss i;.; still bo.d iu spa to . i.1e ho.ve a t rel!lendouo lot of l o.bor t roubl e here. Hone in :.'_yo1nin&, , of cour se , but ln many part s of the Jni tcd. .:..tc:.t es , p,:.u:tlcul c.I·l y in th.e eteel a nd a u to.no bile i ndu c t ri ea , a tremendously bo.d l abor oi tuo.tion c.xi ~te . Th;,.i.t, o f cource , ~,ill ·\'Jork i t oelf' out in t i me . �2 Our Yio~·:r is Goin[.; alo n g uith the ne,1 cine at s up cl ior. ne are a.o\7n a bo1.1.·~ 1 /7u0 f.eet ui·th tl,.c mai r1 elOliC , und about 7 50 feet 1:1ore tc t..,O . •. ;c \Jill be pl'e·t t y v;e ll alon;; by t:hc mi dd.l e of .3e) tcr.1t>:::.·. o :' cou:·oc: there \'Ii 1 1 be much 1i!O re '1.701·1: to do ta:ft0:i.· tl:i :: ie, co~·..plcted, bu t ue are making .vrocreso. ·.,e o.:::c :i:lal<i n G L:oo(. .!.:-·oL·::cc;.1 ·:1i ·ih t he plano for ou1· prer,u:cat:lon ·nl r.n t, u1d ~1ill ,_;"·•d i t ou t foi· bi ds i n aiJout a n onth. ~/e axe movinG t..lonG ·:. it!. Le :_11.:..n t, a.ncl ,-:•ill t:;e t i t compl et ed some tir:ie n e:.d; yea:.· . 4 At,aill i.1uy I tl:.unl: you l"o:r your con d der,i:~ion 111 sendinc; 1.1c the c :.i.i:>le;:_;rw. I ,-;rill send yo u the mq;a.zin c t:hen i t i s puolishe~. so i.h~..-c you 1·:i l l c;ct the r:ho l e stu:;.•y then . \li th hcut z~gurds, I 2m Ve1•y eince:rely yours, �I\Ioraybank House, KELTY, Fife. Scotland, 3r.d June, 1937. Mr . George B . Pryde , Vi cP,-PresidAnt, Union Pacific Coa l Co., Ruck Springs, t .ryOiviING , U.S.A. Dear Mr. Pryde, You will, I am sure, be thinking that I have forgotten auuut you. This is far from being the case, a s t her9 is not a ~eek passes that your name and organisation is not d i scussed in connection with our safety work . You will, I am sure, for~ive me being so long in writ ing you, but this year so far has been extraordinarily busy and I had a month of a very bad cold, and have also beGn worried considerably with an underground fire in one=: of our pits. I took the opportunity the other Sunday of running along to the East of Pifq and calling on your sister, who appeared to be very well and happy, and seems to be quite sett lect down after her marriage. She was talking about going to leave her present home and getting a house nearer her husband 's work. How are you getting on with your new project? I understand from Mr. McAuliffe that your drift is now down 1,200 feet. It would be very interesting to ha Vfl details of your progress, as I expect your rate of developnent will be something we never dream of here. ~~!e are still v~ry busy with our new project, the shafts nov: being down about 900 feet and we ~ve just placed the order for our coal preparation plant, which is costing us over £90,000. 1'/e are hoping to have the shafts pretty well finished oy the beginning of the year. I have sent you under separate cover a Scotch magazine which will give you some reflection on the Coronation. Britain had a wonderful time during May . Never in history has such a wave of loyalty been so demonstrated. I am certain that the foreign visitors to this country during this period must have bean amazed. • Great ~ritain at the present time, is on ~he peak of a pr•osperity boom. Every industry is working 100%, and wages are rising in most industries, particularly the beavy industries. Nearly 2/od per shift has been added to the miners' earnings. ~nfortunately this boom is more artificial more than anything else/ �"""' c%__···········.hlr..•.._G..•.B.•.....P.r.y..d.9. 11.. .s..is......-.......3./.o/3.7..•...............:......... 1 __ .. else, due to the \,:ar - like pr epa rations. Sympathy in this country is pretty equally bala nced betwe 13n the t \'JO sid P.s in Spa in, and I would say that European nat ions are balanced in t:i,,., S!O.l'!'~ way, and the re is a very grave risk that unlesr. tbe c i vii war in Spain is soon brought to an end, it will be the means of causin g a serious blow- up in Europe . Fortunately, Great ~ritain is now in a position to mur~ or l e ss aictate in Europe, and we hope that by her holding this pos 1tion, a serious war may be av~rt ed. l\! ear.t irne, a regular orgy o f spending is g oing on a 11 ovpr the country. Fortunes are bein8 mad9 and lost daily on the Stock Exchange, and it is very difficult to realise w},at ihe rea ct ion on the whole thing \,ill be in the mattP.r o f o year or two v.hen the V;ar-t1me boom collapses. You appear to be hav i ng y our troubles in ~~ ~r i cn , plenty of industrial strif"l Y,hich must be having i ts rflaction un busi ness as a whole. I am always ke e nly interested in wha t i s happen ing in your country und I read you r ma gazine v,ith in tPrest . health. I hope this letter finds you and Mrs. Pryde in g ood Please let me hear from y ou soon. ~-:'1th kindest rega rds Pnd best v1ishes. Yours faithfully, �J Dec.:: 3r. uc::;ci 11 ! r i ·nc.s r: . ,.:.... !!-~~:>e t o 11.-.v o your l c ·it.cz- under d.2. te of l)ec e1b er l•- i'.:.l : .o 1.:~·10 1· \:i"t;ki you r card c.r1d. uC:b lcg :ra:.:1 . It ua~ very '."..;:i t'l<l of ::rcu : iurl2ca ~ to !'CTICID.i.>er i:rn l n t i::.i s - \7£..3 , t a c._. .:.1 i.:~ , ·i';o no to ·cl.c i iU.!)2'0 "le1·.1e.n t y oi..1 2k'c :-J.c.~.i nc i n ...,:,_A·u ..;,y l:~z.~::.: . You c:.ze coh!G :::. ~-eo.1 job . r :. Gad i n t !_o Calli ~:.·y (',::::-·u.::c.~1 Cl1d O t he1~ J}Q!}C!'G c f your 1,m cre;::G , ....n c2 ! t .ni n:. your Co:a1>nny i c doin 0 ou·~~ ~ _,1ciin g ~or l : i n ti.:i.c 13::•i ticJ.i I cl?.G \·tl'th r eba::u t::, E,:.:-..:fc ~:," \ :o:cl::. I rj]_ a otoun tlc~ ui ·the e tti tm:c c f LO:::lc o :;: -~hn oe \,l10 r:!.p !) ear bci'o rC' t h e ltoyol Con:ni ooi c:, of ...:l n e::;, v i ,; i.n~ fuGi r v i c~.78 on •.>P f G'Q,' t.:iHl O :'al8A' a·· ·:;·~~r:. . 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'(..; C!'C i G O'.!G -~:.i ::e:; ccr tci.n , ':78 m10':1, , !i t?.1 ow.· c:~1.ic:.i c,l!c ! ~nd ! :.:....1 m:::-o ;·ou ;210 \7 fro;.1 ~-ou:r o·.:n c:~'.H: :ri 2:i1 ~e , . :~~:. ::. :. t '.l:1·:; l.~e :: C.l!:!tinui ?: .:; ! r-tCCl"cr- s:1..vc 1n.'n£;=:IT1 t n :ct :::c~ulto~ ·n u ev en t hen -r:e f c.21 C:.Or.n f r o:! ti::1e t c tirac. ! t hinL you :.r r,l o.n o:l lu: i:L'![; ~t:· c!:i nc :•t;,;··mo::-u. do,Ju tia:J , e i c . , ·GclL t.o tno ·:iea on t2e ,.;;ci'8ty J l 'OiJl c-:ic n-th t hei r r;o:-:1: i~J P. v,~ry :t i.Tl~ i L CD.: unc! :.mot , cvcm t uall;y- , sho·.: r c ~ul t c. ·::e fini uhcd ..~ ret:.c::- :_cc tic y c nx , bucy ED st of ti.c t i me • .'\0 I tolt. y o·.1. bc: o .."; , \ . 2 l.:J°t ot::.• ucv; IJO•.1e:r .!,,lr:.n t r unninu i n 1J:r.c cllc:1t c' --:...,c , t:.3 -;;,~11 u s ou1· nev ti,ppl c a t .r:elicncc. :_r.vo !lo·. • .: ,:i.:09ri Lted one dllion dollaro for the n e\·1 cine t..t ~... ,..:ri o r, -~:hi ch ·.:ill ':)c o. iooo-ton e-1)er-cC4Y min e , tu.:. t i . > f o:r tt:o seven - hon::: ::ii1if k ;. ✓ • e clll 1.;;o t o a f ou J'-ton cal: • . ~:: nuc.."'1 ~dem nining equipment. : e v.r e nakine, ar1·n- , r·1cnt a to let t he contract now . and expect to g e t o t .u: t el: on the _ock r:o r;t by ::'ebruary 1 of t he preoc11 t yeai· . :.e ellould h av e t he twm el ::; uui. t h e i..i r oliai't c compl ct'3d cl.o n£., in J uly. e c ttint; r..0:-10 coal f r o.o deTelopment. wor~ ,uri nv the fc.11 01· the 1,re Gen t year. ·:;e ;plan , too , to 1,urcbase cons iderable loo.l-ini.; machinery c.u rin..., t he p r esent year to auonent the aacl u.neo we he.Te ~l ready in operation . �2 You ::il:. :J_ :.:c l10 m'.:.J·G._Jc0 i n putting i,1 the 1::.:.xGe mine c ars e:~ ;;c·..:1- :~•.:,·.-:- -:.'G:i.'ati o:-1. '.t'lle nefJ i'o...a:.•-·i:.on 0:!-7.'S instulleu 1:.->.ct fc1.2. L~ .cli.a.11ce c:i..7ld Ranna. shot1eti. a.<1 ia..lec.it..to QEC £._:, ,::.i~ :.1....:1 i ncX"eace in the tmrn ~.:er :'1an chift, tihi c-u i& ·uwif .... ra-cii'y-.1.n[:,. '.. e ilaei a. yee.;s; of ouite high l)Z'Oduction, 3 , 286,000 i-ons. t}la hlc:her.;t ;:;ince 1918 . :...·'he l)Ol:l·~iC;ai. :!:,.;v...1·.;:1.1.m ilc:;;e is st:111 ..~t·,i.te Ho one .2:nouz jusi ,,.hut ,:ill ~1a~.>pe;1 . J..,1."!0 .D~;.oc::i.•ato h ave c. l e.l'[;C wajorJ.·cy 1n 1Joti1 houseo of ·ti2..e ~-£:-~ionsJ. :i. eci slatui~c. o utldlecl . One o:r ·tt.e \°iOl~ Gt d 'Gll3..tion ::i Ite:re nor.' i s the cor.ti uued labor trouble . Ilra1y tr.i.0uocriclc; ~0 out i n tlle u:. tot:.oloil e i nciuet1.--ieo. the nnri ti:.1e stti.l:G :i:c.'1::..ri'--' cmi- tinu ec. fe1· r:leny ue0tr.:, £?Hl shC\'.18 1:.0 E~i U!Z of c0·~·d20n ·~ . ~li.a evcntu.allyp of course , -::ill cl:?ect tb.e buoi!!ess ~i tuation . I nn e lc.d . to ha.vc youx o:oinion r-- i.lcu. t th0 . i n_s. 7':u t i s exactly hot' I ·ru1 t ··e ; ,.. o. vc··:r.c ,,.,,... ···o -,. · 'V°" "'"" ~~h has beei, c1on~; ~r..d e:};G.:t.';!{iiy Li G., }_;ci ·n~--~;e;~1~- L~tic'n or hiz duties as~ inc , ttez- ·:Jw :~::.>o..fi.1:?.cmr. t:n-otmni:::L> the Til.rone. I run ouro }l·i o b:i.."o ti:c:i' -.:ill ::-1:...ke a t,;006.. Linc .. I t iG e. rencr1:c.olc t :un: ~!::>.t :.,-., c1·tc!.1 of -s;L.:-_·;., !:ind ccuJ.<l :uave b een pao0ec.. by G:i:ca:c Bri t('_in in such .,_ cfD.i et nonne1~ . !iari. it oeen ~ny otl.i.cz· nution, I en .:.c·.1re tllQt · ::,1 00 <.h .0.cu. and ch&.o s ~oulc.. hG.ve rerul tee.. '!"r'.; a i o a t:ri bv. te to ):b= JJri tish .[.lCOf>lC • ::..oy I aL,ci.n o:-.jros:::: :fo:i.' ~ou. ny ve·;;/'.l occ.;t wishes f'or L :tf...:X1.) Y u16: rco_:.Jr0·.10 :ic1.1 Yea:;:-. Ur ii!lm,I l::i llta..t:<l: GEOHGE 8. PRYDt !Cr . K. H. Uc.!i eill )(oraybank liouae Y.elf¥, Fite , Sco tl and �,, Moraybank House, Ke 1 ty, F I F E, SCOTLAND. 14th December 1936. Mr. George B. Pryde, Rock Springs, \VYOMING, U.S.A. Dear Mr. Pryde: I received your very welcome letter of the 23rd November and was glad indeed to hear that you ana 111rs . Pryde are keeping we 11. I will certainly take t he first opportunity of calling upon your sister. You certainly do not allow the grass to grow under your feet in connection with your various mining projects. r think your progress has been phenominal during the year. I enclose a copy of our Safety position for the mvnth of November. From this you will see that at one of our largest collieries we have had a month without a lust-time accident. This is phenominal and I wish we cuula keep it up. I am sure you would be much disappointed at the result of your Presidential Election, but so long as Mr. Roosevelt can artificially or otherwise keep the prosperity buom going, the country as a whole will be for h-tm. All things today in Britain, which normally keeps everyuudy alert, have been completely side-tracked. The disastrous come down of the late King and his associatiun with Mrs. Simpson and her like, is the chief topic of conversation. I have no doubt it will be difficult for the American point of view to understand the psychology of the British people at a time like this, but I think the outlook of our nation can be briefly summed up in their steadfast/ �-2- steadfast conservatism and their extreme belief in the monarchist system . The general feeling is that the late King Edward has not played the game. Therefore, he is not f i t to hold the high posit l on of King. The Archbishop of Canterbury sums up the position very clearly in a statement made over the wireless last night, a copy of which I enclose herewith. I have no doubt that in the course of a very few days, in the normal routine of life in this country, King Edwaru will be forgotten, and al_l the best wishes of everyoody will ue for the success of King George and his Scotch wife whvm we in Scotland feel will have the necessary steadying infiuence on the activities of her husband. Business on the whole bas been good, while prices in the coal trade have risen to a remarkably high level and the prospects for the coming year are quite good. Please convey to your staff whom I met and tu your wife and family my sincerest good wishes for a happy and prusperous new year. Very faithfully yours, Enc l s: �# I~lONTRLY .t\CCrD-ENT :: r l • For Hove1T1b<3r r J..IJO o • lfo., 1936., ~ 11/1&,n- • I : : I FREQUENCY .._...,.,.,..,.._.,._._.. 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For Ye?..r 0 1936 0 l ~, cf ; of :shi fts l of ~eeid?-l(n,nl per I Aooid~ent s~ ,.Jshift~o!,Aoca.n ~lio l, :entso .. - I ~ -21'12 4. 40~ .1;, :53 o 94755 r/ 6995 1692 1203 1',1: 300 /..i_~,; 400 350 1 ~34 . - 33% 2002 ~ -~BJ§_____❖ 4L-~~- j ~ 9( 1 ~.}~~8~7,9) ¼ :~90 ~ 109( ~ - .~0 274 i �lTovembez- 23, 1936 ll~ . h . .H. .r::c:.T<:i::!..1 lloraybunk lhur.o :<.el ty, 1i'i :?0t.:hl.t>,. s cot1and I t t:o..c o. nl e e :m~e tn have y cur v '3!'J" i n«• t erei::;tiu<=; l e·i;i;c2: of ·Uie 1,~ 'l~L oi' Octo ';J e~ , 2nd X £1u:•Je :f ou eijoy eci. y ou:i: hol i c.cy ,; eatly. ~,. .:; ~ tex is no-:--i li v i n,s i!.! the olt! hooe ..:t ?eat Iml ~L i c e cy i 'e.fue:e ~s ciea-ifu. :t i' yo u a ~~e 2.·t :Pco.t 1nn c t 2.ny ti131e , ynu n-7 (.: ht l o~l: hex- u~~ , ~ f:1 ! en cure she \~uld ~e 0 1ad t o sec you ~ Our lJO •:rn:o..· 1)lan•;; i s c..oi u 6 al ont., 'lle1•;y ·,:e ll~ sid our cc:reenina :t:lc.nt 2-t ~:el iar..ce i :::: •·:3r!tin:; o·:;, r emarkaul y Y:ell . ~'he l a:t:·ge;- pi t earn t h e 1·0 a.1·c :lni:.;l•€~cinc; our v =ouw ti o n cml door.ea zi!!L t he ('Ge<:; , .. :i.. th ~ ;__,i , ··i 2.r :: ci tua i;ion at :Ienne. , \7hcre y; e put in tile :i.r.:.:i;>{;el' cc.:.~c a l co . One hP.. S a l t rcy D 8 l . i i'f i cul t ·cir:lc cc t ii n.:.. old. colliei-~1 os to r,i-oCuco Lcc.7ily ::?t e r they lmvo been in low l'>rodu ction f'oI' sei!cra..l ycw~o . i"llat i s t l!o l!is'i:01.,y of coa l Dini n~ in ev c:"1-.- cour.~~J . I prc~u:::ic t h e i.-c~-::1Ulllcn t p1-oera!!l ie: ooaminb m e coal Lild al.li e a lnc.usii-l GG. I read \·iith o. c:i:cai oecl of i ntcre~t tl:.c ea:fe~ n cu e 1.:l.J.ct.. c.o;::.eo 'i.c u e rc...,arGi e:.., y nEI' 02::'et., , or!;: .... t tho u ifie r eu t (· i ut.tic t s . id o~tion hH.G couc t::11u LonG i u ·i,;hl:: country and, uhile tile ~•€~Jublicc.t1 s uc:-o b1.40.ly de:::e:-- tee: . "t!:in 0 :: are not ao be.d fo l: t h at :;»1r ty c-o i t \;oul<., oeehl . A. 9 crt;, which ~o lle d o'Vei- ci.xtecn nlll i on vo teu i ':1 not. !;'.. • ::.::.1 c. dead »art;,v . ?here are a t;;.rea ·i; r.~ey reason ti fol: Ul~ cmcc ena of' t !1.e De!!!Ocra. ti c . 1.!arty • \'i rEt i ~ the e.."'ttre::c . ·c gu-~ lari ty of !.Ir . noo seTe lt. '7.uen ther ~ ~re the l cr3e ol!Llo 0£ money which h a.Ye b e en 2pc nt on r~li ef c.nd tho ::1£ 11,Y people on t}:c J,JUblic pey roll . Th e :Uc:!Ocrnt E: arc C.lt::-~c!!.ed very e t ronc:t;y, r.nd it ·, ms t l!.e f ear o 1· ~n;;.r on r c!i ef that. thi e , oulr... !!e cu t off . I thin~ ~ Lo•.;ever, e ic:.t it will b" neceo::&ry £or :.::r. f cocevel t. to retrench qui to stronc l.y ciurinc ld e next e tl.-nini otrE.ti o n , !:'.nd , ~-1 th t h e election out of the Y'S:,' , I t h 1W- h e ,1111 c.o thi e . ~·o country c an ~o &lon L c1,cnci1n£ aore mon ey t l-nn i t tr ~".e G i r., year after year, anc. that i e true oi' the United ~~to.te e . �:t -_•;_ . . ~:.~ J -~ -~o fj _;JQ fu e c i vil y_rn z, in ~ l-131. t1. Thn t i ~ ~ o.. c::/ !.r::- :..~b.::.,_ •.ti. ·:..u~y;;ion, k l ?.li !l f..; anci. w~i!lti. u~ it:)usa.l1ci,:: o::· :.i·1::_,l 8, c.: ::: ..:L c;fi n p ma.t2y }:IJ. o t;c1•ic b ui16. i n 0 s . ro wa·~te:r '.-:l:i ch r 2.C.z ·.-.S.r, c , ·n ~ey r::lll Iose, l>ec.au se the coun t:l'2,.,. ;·!i.1!. ._ ) 2:: ,:>~-:: .::i1:~.9~ s'ina:1 ci a l l;;l, evG.n i f -:-;az'"' =~"'"t,1"' cto·J v,c-· ·,.,..,.., "-'. \.:i J..: _........., _ _ , ) •• . ~' , , ...,a •:•.' '-'-- - 1 -,.,. """--6, - ,..-1,... ; ·L r ~c..... •~ ?m-u l ,~ •:, •-> ~ -:f'o-.. ._, ~ 1,.,,_ , C:.ytJ' 'iJ ... - ceve:ral yea:i." v . hc:7e ~ c.U a. ":JG'i."Y GXCell cn t Ye::.X ' ;; p J;{) e, ~' CO.Uh 3 , 2:)0 , 0 0 0 t(HlS b;;r the end. cf the ~"eP..:r, c:xrn t c. no~Y.10.l lr car :..'o!' u e . Da ai n ec0 h:!.'3 bce:1 1>ieki:!_. ti.:.> in -~he Uni tGtl. S'GD.:i:.es, b ut j11::t h.cn nueh is cue tn t l: e he2.l t hy :tt1cl"ea :::e i~ b u si nes s one hO i:'J ouch is due to L;ove:mment si,endi nc:: = i s deba'-Gabl e . •. C duc ·tio :'.'l :, E.flu. y::Lil :i_:.1"'1~C:.'bl ;;: I lu.ve no'i:i hea1'd f~'on JJ ~ • . '.!~e ic'. i.'o :£: a. l oa& t ine. I pre:Xl!1e he i s buoy. I :.' ss..C: i n tLo l.K. .:?s:?c 3ocu "t t.x·1e verJ spl euciu. se.i."e'i.-y \'!Ol'k y o;1 a1•c c.o:i..r:.t:, . _,.s you c.,e i oJ.onc tJi th yolll' nen ~1ork~ I -ooulcI be _pl e a ccC. to lcrn:>~; ~-hit t yro grcso you are ::iakin!,;• 7'.a.e al.1-abco:S?hillG to!l:i. c 2t t.:te ll1:e .:-:en t t h1et of course, i o the f:r:tenrlshi:p o f t l .10 :\!.:Grl cnn , ·, -1.•s . ;:;i r2pson , ',.i th ;:1nc .:i:du ard. 1'r::mkly , the hin!.. ll~ l:3 lost n hOOo. tleal of his PO.:..>ulo...rj. t y in tho lfai ted St n.·tes . A cuotl ::2al1!" ! -~op le say it ie The fil.ic:-;'s o\:i'~ business, b u ·i;. I ca.;1110i (!uite 8-..;,'7ee ::: ith that, bocc.tu:;a ·i;.! :e:re ::~Tc c c:::·tc.in c on"1c:1tirmo c,.nu tralii Uono tl-:.at i ncdvitlua.ls, ~d !lnrticulai.'ly t h.e Royal I'amily, uuct ob c.crvc . ; T~ r I i.71 8b. you~ yn:u-- s taff w"'l<: ~ om.· f2.::al:r a vecy llai'.PY ant. J:1·oop0:..'0uo He\, Y\.,a..:..·. Very ciuce~cly you,·c~ �• ., Moray bank K 14th October, 1936. George B . Pr yde, Esq . , Vice-Pr Asident, Union Paci f i c Coa 1 Company, Rock Springs , ~ YO MI N G, U. S . A. My dear Mr. Pryde : I hope this letter fin ds you and 11lrs. Pryde enjoying the best of health and that your family are also all keeping well. You will forg1 ve me, I am sure, for bei ng so -long in writing you but during July, August, and most of September we had a very tryi ng time h~re. A fire in one of our principa l cvll i eries caused un no end of worry and anxiety. Since the middle of September I have been on holiday and have only just returned. It came as a great shock to me when ! heard of the death of your father, as 1 was looking forward to taking him out during the sunrner. So far .i. have been unable to lmok up your s i ster since his death, but I am sure Peat Inn and the district generally are much poorer with his passing, and his whole family P~ve much to be thankful for in having such a background. Please accept my sincere thanks for your kinaness in sending copies of the Employees' Magazine and the Rock ~prings Daily Rocket. It is most interesting tu read in these publications the doing in your wonderful country. It makes one feel proud to be associated with pe~pie like yourself and Mr. McAuliffe , who are doing so much in the interests of safety, apart altogether frum thP- able way in which you are running the Union Pacific Coal Company. I send you congratulations on your achievment at Superior. You certainly must have had a very ousy time at Hock bprings in laying down your new Power ~tation ana it is hardly conceivable that so much could be dune in so short a time. We/ ---- �- 2 l!!e are ha ving a very worrying time ~ust now and i n a great many of the olde r collieries we have been exper iencing much difficul ty in maintaini n g our output. This is most ap.noy· ng v.r hen the market posit i on is such that prices have a ppreciated by n early 2/-d per ton ana we ar e nothing like able to look a t the ma rket demand f er coal. There is an extraordinary boom on at t he moment 1n all Brit i sh industry, particularly in coal, ste e l works, and a lliea industry, the armament prograillll'.!.e ta king mos t of the steel production, and engineering and other alliea conc erns are 7 5 per cent . on the same type of work. Just huw l ong this will conti nue , it is diff icult to -s ay. \".le have the feeling that our prosperity is entire l y art ificia l, be ing built up on re-armament . The labour situa tion in this country at the moment i s fairly easy so far as dispute s with workmen are concerned, out a great many of the staple industries throughout tne various districts are now making re latively high pr ufit s, and I am afraid that in t he near future unless something is done to see that the workmen get a better share, we wi ll be in for a considerable amount of labour trouble. I suppose you will be up to the ne ck in politics just now. The struggle between Roosevelt and Langhton appears likely to be much closer than was first thuught. You people appear to t ake presidential election 1n America much more seriously than we take our politics at h\Alle , \'!1 th kindest regards to both you and w.rs. Pryae rnd hoping to write you more fully next time, I remain, Yours very sincerely, �" Jul y 28, 1936 li:.-- . K . R. :.'fc11ei11 :.toi·,i~rbanlc Eouo0 Kel t y , 1'ii'e Sco t l ,md It rms inci..ecu. a ·i.>l en.s ure ·~o ha.ve yours of the 2i"ld i n s t an t , and 1:20 t.lc.'2 -:-i;lm:i:; you -~ook eo i.::nwb. i nt ere s t i n our Ol a '.rimer □ c1~lebr.c.tion t o c nbl c ne . It . .-: ac ::::. ;rnr y p l eas2.n t e1;1,cr i m1:;e , ~n tl. y;;e r ee.O. y our c 2.'!)le a t i;he banquet . You ~Y b e a!..!sured ·r;e t horoush l y ap1_n.·ecia ted y our t l10u c)lt fu.li:1css . ?h ere "';7 ~, s a l u r ge cr or;d :9::-osont ~ncl each y eal' ec e::10 to ~et .:-~ li ttle b e tte:;.•. '.i'he en.9l oy c s f:re ab£:ol ately [:ol d on t l 1 e Ol d 5~i mei..e U! r:oci r-.t i o~ , c:,:'lc t h e only t llf ng non i t.'. -~c hol d it clO\":fi t o T CQOCn::,bl c r-un ..,_e .,." '!'l,.,.. t ·i .::: J -nco·-nl '"" \.t.A.,/<. -!·o '"'e, t ....,. •1 ·~c.f'o ..,.,:, ···· 1, ,..··)r J:i.~:i,.,,, ~ .... '-:i "' b , v v ... -'";' t..· """•· the r equi site t n crnty y e arc . They m~y h::.vc ci~htcen er ni neteen y en1·r: , t~nc: t1., y to cr asn :i.n . I t lo:,J~E i.-e::-2• --:ucl1 , J. -..., • ~ • - - c,(,," - -.. O .... ....... .,?,,, n t: tho-.ic)1 \7C -_-!ill h:~ve to i n c1.~e::?.se ·1;.1.:ie si ze o:f Ot' r Ol cl Tinero .3ui l d i n {£ • The p o l i tic~:! t:i t u~ tion i s s -;;~.11 ~c. thm..~ c'.!.o-..Hicd in :ruro9e . I t hink that , even °t'2.ally~ 3:ri "'Gm n ,::ill hr.:.ve t o ·€0 i n ui th Germany, ae t h e peopl e of t r..& t coun t -:s:y a.re a much mo r e s t <bl c cl ass t.llc.r1 t h e :rr ench . V i.i c.s zo1·r.v t o ace c.bou.t t he o:ttempt on the ld.ll{; ' o life , t'.:.'ltl I t hink he r1i ll ll::,v e to !:af ca,ua:cd bi:::rnel f :r.iore , becnu 2e :Le i o not t h e ..:-·:i:'ince of '7el es cny mo1'e , bu t t h e Li 11G of t l~e Briti sh li..'mpi re, end , c o cuch, or1e~ mi oiJli e:ntion t o ·i:,he .:nt:,l i sh peop le t o l!l.'O tect hl.ticelf . Gl ad tCl knor: t ~r1t you!' ner,- prot r c:.u i E GoinG al one , but coni::t1·u.ction !)rojeuto ~re n ecen!:;o.:s:ily elo'.7, CS..JCCi a l ly ncu ·.:ork. •,c e.:-~ e c t to have s team on o ne of our ·ooi lers bet ;:,een noY..' .::nd tl:rn 5th of ..!-UGuct , .:nu the .1.J0\1Cr ..!!l o.nt u ill oo r u.nnin..; i n :'..JJout tllirty mo r a d ays. /,s I a o.v1 sed you uc~:o r e , ·cc have had oore or l oco clelnys on a c c.:vunt o r t h e s l o1,,7 recei _o t o.f P.Ult eri f:!1, but : :e have a vo-r-"-.; :L'i n c joi> t·nd \7il l h f:'_ve f i ne j_)or1er house equi l.lrllent ·,,hen the j o b i o coo.)l c t ed. Tile Rel ianc e t i :Jpl e 1 1.:3 Loinc clone c J.o..-1ly, and hao al~ been ·c.,-ci tine, on s t eel" ·1e rall be on vaco.tion there for the next t en days or t \1 0 \'/eeks , rnd 'Gill otax t up ~;ith our n cu cqui ,Pr!len t. .@verythin[!; i.., c oine alone a c cord i nG t o a ch etlulc , e.zoept th!l..t ·r:e ~ ve been dcl eyed ,.-:ct tinG ::.·o r ma t e r iel. . �1 rculi ~G i t i r.: clifficul t .::or you ·co t_;et off .mc. go i o ~c::,.t Iun 1:o see ray father, but 0.ny tir.1e you ca.n co, I lmor: J~C .::.11 :Je !.>leased to see you. • He t11·i .,~cs :.::1c eve:r,r td.n :... i:-.. f ine , 2....11 d he. enjoys n orldng in his garden. '.fue ·poli t i ccl :go ·i; i o b oilinw here, nno. ',:112.t the ou:tcona r:i'il 0e > uo o ~"!C k.?10,·1s . '..i t h klnG. _)cr con~l :regards to you, !l.ntl ho.:_;i nc t1e l.:lt::Jr h:::a:s.· f r o:-: y ou c.r;ro.n befoX'e l one , I ai:'1 Jincerely you.rs, �2nd July, 19 36. ~r. C~orgA B. ?ryde , Vice Presid ,mt and G -neral J.:an a g er, u nion ?acific Coa l Gornpa ny, '10 ck S pr i n g s, yYOi !!!"C}, l l . S . A. Dear I'.i r . Pryde : I rec8 l ve d your letter dated the 8 th ult imo enclosi n g co pies of t t,e pro gram,ne dea l ing w~ t h t he J.r nua 1 Celebrat i on of y ou r Old Ti me r s ' ,\s socia ti on . You certainly ma i ntain an a t mosphe r e whic h makes a ll thP. differen ce. The intimate cor.nE'l ct i on wM.c ri y ou maintain with your work people has much to d o v, ith tr.e success of your operation . "'hen I rec~ i v e d y our le t t e r and not i ced the date of your celebration, I thought the idea of a co ble arriving on the day of the event would b e a p 1)rec iat e d, and I ,,.as pleased to have your prompt r ~ ply. I wa s tryt n g that day to visualise the whole scene and I t hin ¥ I managed to get some of the atmosphe re. I had a note from !1r. ~ICilUliffe en clos ; ng t wo valuable copies of t h e new rules a n d r 1:i~lat i ons for t he goverrun~nt of all your employees. It is c e rtain l y a most interesting book and is another examµle of the t:roroughness v,ith whi ch you do t hings . "'e are be·~:r,g kept pretty busy here , what v,:!.th our nev: coll i ery and ot h~r projects whi ch ,.e have in hand, and have little time for a nything but ~ork. You will obser v e from the ne\~·s 9a p"1 rs that thA ~en~ral situat;on in Europe does not tend to improve . 'l'hl3r'3 are so r.1any factors at the League of l'a tions at the moraent which make it co1:1pletely impossible for a general agreement to be arrived at . ···e have on thP- one hand, :3olshevik Russia r;ho arfl i.ntAnsely antagonistic tovmrds CTP-rmany, the reason being that Hitler has so thoroushly clearn~d up all cor.imunism in Germany. •·•e have on t h P othAr hand, molshevik Russia I s a ,;parent friendship v,i th .t<'rance a countrv which she h opes will soon also be Bolshevik - and she is now strP.tch·' ng out her hand in fellowship towards Britain as she thinks she has many Bolshevik sympathisers in/ �2/7/36. - 2 - in t r ~ s count ry. li'ran c0 hB s no real \'Jill of r..e r own and seems to be pr ep~ red to g o wherever she thinks she can ge t tr-e most help. I t a ly, a t the momAnt, is cock of the walk, and Br.i tish Foreign Policy a p9ears to be very unstable. l'.nat thA result of it all wi 11 be is difficult to s a y . :M?.antime, tbe warmon gers in Britain are r,orking ove rtime and the armament factor i es are springing up in every direction. ~rP profitee r s are havin 0 a bean feast . I bav ~ n ot yet had time to tak e a run a long to east of F:.fe and I hope your father and sisters aro k e 0 ping we ll. Give my kindest regar ds to i·.rs . Pryde . I remaJ.n, Yours very s i ncArA ly, \ "1<. l~ ~~- ~ > ~ �7 X : ·cod. --:r: t. YJiXs n rJs t i n t e:re-: t i::ic; 1 0t~~r o f .Ua;y 6th~ ::.:nd I ,.::;jirJr y~n: ·1i.~z0c. y orz vo cnt;.-:m . ~ '3 yo-:.1. Gllo ..tl d hn"f0. 'br-c:Y2 ~- ne,npe:;_,er s.::.:::1c.cc;.- . You. covcz-ed the ,g;i.· ou.nd. ot ~o 1::cvc :r.n:. ~~bJect,:.: !·ou :1.:~0-Go !:.2 ~'!.:;out ri~ ot a,Q!.:iz:~0 1~7 5 c~n,:1 I c.1:1 1.11d ocd gl2..d to h:2v0 ·i;h:; info me i ion . • I 1n:.ve fcl t :?or come ti~.:3 -t11:a .. t t he Eri t i ci:l ~ er e ~\-,-:~~ti n"',; ·tth~i~' t!.~.:C 0 11 : ;'~~ C 0 . ,.~:C..ilo f- ....~ .:~.ny iur C c. ~~~1 ~,ul e:? a t t.he -:?re sen i -'Gi1:1'.:l, t:1c Gcr-~m2 :_)eo}.")1 '2 ..re ft!:1d:::-·::.~n t :-..1:!.:r so:.;~c1. ['.!ltl c. rmc::i l)ct tc:r clt''..:J 1 of p ~c:.):1 :-~ t i1.c.1: ~..:~.0 P::.:.;~~:~::1. 'Tt:.e l~?e:wh :::ee..1 t'.:l be i!'l a ~exy de::_)lo :;:o.blc ci i..ll.::i.·~i:m e1 t t~:•~ :?!'JC~!!t t :l.m:: on acco1:!!lt of t ~·~e r.e,, ~'JCia.lisi ~ ~ C!2:~oe :1t th:;--..t ~1: 2 bee,~ ~P. t up . I dc u.bt very ii:nch if i t ;:Ji l l l e.at lone . !he :i!!l y t r:ro !'la.tior~::: to d v.y t.h:-t :'<::3!:l to :n.::u tr..e:1:.:- h a ~(~c1 u::-c ,..::(;u'· Br:.. ·L :.:1 and th: Uni t eci Statcc, ~.nd u 1nr- t ::.e.L, I t:J.n::, dC'1:.m d-:; t11c nafet:• a..11 <1 11l'oc rec:::i ol o u..J· ci vilimitio n. I "tto □ r.mc:: ir..tore~tct i :i 1~3~t. l ?!t; youz- l "?ttc1~ :-e~ !_:ardin[; your e":;c?:"1.r;nc ~~ in tbc yt-,J!.:x- c':>::-..1 :'.:'i ol c.;; , ,;;i ~.:i ro- [..&.rci a to t l ::.: r ct~., c.iin.:; couve:;o:-?s . "he i ncrca~e i n l un:; coel uid t}1e diI:linutio!! of du. ct a:i.:c v :::.r;,· i ~:l:?Ol't:::.i."'lt factors. ~11:? iJ1•.sinccG concli tion s ii-~ Grco. t I3xi ta.in nre vex:,; encou:aeint; at ti!e 1,rcaent time . It io a deplorable thing tlia t :.U- . •T'noraas, u}.~ hatl ri ~en i'ro □ n very hv.!abl e o r!c i n to such a h1t,ll .f.JOSition in t :he n a tion: had to have hio career encied so tra~1.cvJ.:J.y . ~/hilc ! 0.:::1 n ot verJ clo nel y ascoc-iatei y;i th t h e 1J011 ti cal , itua tion i n Great Britain, I ru!l not so rure t hat ·•r . Bclc.>:;in i c. mddnc; the b~st of !!rime Hiniaters . It i s a etronE.,e thine; . the come-back of Sir Samuel Hoare. His dismi a aal, oi' r:nuree , l'!ae not j ustified, co aubsec,uen t evente haTe ellown tho. t he wu.a right. Instead oi' o.llo-oi ne llu seolini part of Et hio:pia, Uussolini hao nol'1 taken it o.11. Our 1,011 tical si ttiation is vcr;; I:luddled. ·,,hom. the Re!)ublicana will nomin a te, I do not 1:n o\· . '.lhc JJemocrata, of course, \iill no!llinate llr . Roo sevelt. ..bi l e Ur . Roo sevelt is �2 Uo ~:s.-~ l:i:>i~, 1.lur~c.~ -,;Lt!J -;,;~.<' i rap:i.:·o·ve.11ents . A l,ood deal or the steel is up for the Reliance 'tip1)l e . The !)Ormr hoU.&;8 job 1~ y1·n-·~'i:-::,' 1-.~:!.l 1o!_lon .:.,t ln1i r•e are lJ.c.,vi.1'l,'.S c.:U'.'fi culty· in t,;ett.in c delivc:::y o:i D1Q,tc:ri el G. A e,reat many skill ed men ,.,e:1 t ou.~t.i of ot.~• ::.: !' ·cci·;:::Lia <~·u:1.>'.i.tl~ the dcp~·~~sf::ion, '."lt• yo'l1.1'!.Gst· men ha:ving been tr~i:in0d ttP?ine; that !)Cl'iod, and nov1 the. t busi tH:130 has p :l c:;ec. u!.1, ·!, t 2. c 1i J,::'fi cv.l t to obtrd.u <1...~1:1.ve:::"ji' of i'ab:rico.tec.l □a.terial. Fox- sevcs-i:•..l yco.:ts \Je have b0en tx-yin g 'to obtain ner,r r:,1 t Cal's ::'or H~.!.·.rnr,, o."!d -..:1 0 :s.~cc or:t.ly racei -vod i.i.u t :1o r-l. ~cy for 350 four-to n ce.1·s, 'i:he □ Cl:le r-~s t he Winton cars . \7e o:rdc~ed t l!.cu the i'i z:-ot of tl1e m:mth~ cHlo. ":'"iil l 112..70 thmz :tn c•}.)Brati o n by Auc;ust 1 ot. T;.1i f.J t,ril l lnvolvc so-:10 clw.ngea i.n lH\~:' tip1Jl0, but ti•~ ::·eel it •Ji!.1 be 2:c..:dy by t.h1t ~d.mc . ~f.'b.c ir~ s to.ll t'..t.iorr o -: thzsc CC.::PJ ~.7i l l 0::1.ve ·_-;.,~ nbnnt ~~!!:O .ooo !}CT YCL.''J: in J.;hc cleo.nin3 of tr;:.c!:, th~ udcii tl.onn.l tc-nno.,:_·~ '-7~ crin o b·kdn iJ.',)iE our loadinf; nn.cltlnoc i l zt~) no.int8:1a.1Qc e on y:i. t ca~o, nnri tb.0 '-~,;;.c:::ee.sc i n b.r:?.ulat..,c cost s t.i:l.:l'lc:h \ J O fe1:1. -:ill 2.u.;1·ccnte t,hn. t amount . The inveiJtment \Jill he e.bo:.:i. t ('l CO ,000 . T£:.Gl1 'ITO l1.c:7C 0. l ,:.:J?e;o die'ri!:)11d drllli nc :..1ro~rC!Ll 8.. 'G l:ll?_)CZ:-io:r~ ,...-:!3.ich h ,~: d:.ov;u t:.p v ecy T.ell. 0u::- Su:r~rior 11 -sa ulld 11 B 11 ~.'.:ln•,!S c.:r-0 (:;Oi nc o-:it v·~'!:Y f ~G 'G: l:l~'!d <,'ie \1Cl°8 <.'.i'lL(:}l"' the neooooi t y of loold.nc; :.::o:r ncu re0erve12 . Ay!)nrcnt l;y ,-:0 ?l~vc located thcr.1 8.bout t-.-o m:.\lcz ~i,n··~~,,.~·cst o:? t?2.~ t r, ·.m of ~,t11)•.~>.- ior. In one tlrill hol e :-10 found ·i;l'l..ree t.:,r:b.:.b10 ...H?XTI□, cue 11 f'cet , one 6 feet 3 :\":'::'!'?'~S i ~nd ono 7 fE;~t S inches . ·,-:c y ln~1: t1..u:::. -ing the pre □ en t year> t o d~ivc a 3,600-foot rock t.unn0l a?ld o:9e::-L up a l al·ge ~.n(?, }.).!'Obc.b'.'..y c.l oo bu.:l l d ins p. r..teel ti_._JJle , ::o ,.,111 Il1"0Dably c~o thi s nc:.-_t yoaY:, ns ,·..e :i:'ounrl I t :-1c c 00st:.:!"J to :i.·ehal>ili t ate our rrl.nco on aC'oouut o::' t :!.1.e c,l d :J.inos be:l.n"" .. 0r~erl out. At that miuer alco. '.':e \Ji l l 1:>ut '.i.n 4-ton pit cc.x--o , a~d widen t he tr[','3k t._o.u :,:e ~ no th~: t \'ie al'e s ·, c·1do..rdi zi il~ on tl1e l a:::-cer car evorywhcre. Thie year uo \·1111 vro bnbl y ni11e ~ AOO ,000 tons of ccal, an i ncr ease of o~er 600,COO tons o7e~ l aot year. Cur Old Timf1ro' ccleb::e.tion i s due 2, ;;;3e!r fz-om ne:~t na. turd~, on June 20 tli. ru1d I •.Ii sh c:rcatly j.rou coulci be p:..•cacn t on that o ccao1on . I t d, ves on 0 c. rc~.1 thri 11 tn oee t h.e ol d. timers (?athcring toc.,ethcr and 01lo\1ing ao t1uch good feeling. we -aill haTe betwcon eicht and nine hu.111dred o t the hanf'!uot Saturday, our Ji'irct Aid '.i?ield Day occurring tho day previous . . I am eendine , under eeparate cover , four copiee of th~ ::,)roer am . I wiah Jou •:;oul d ~i.vo one to Dx·. ;,e::.u, ou e to i.h:. c. c. ~L-teid, eno one to :•r. Carlow, ond r~tain one for yoursP.lf . You \'Till �3 s ee \'!hat t.re urc t l'yinc ·to do to obta in a b ct·,er r el a t ion b e t trnen Oill' ofi'ici a l u c.tlll tllc m:!.i)l.oyc o. ---- . ;:l.'.L!..-~ j.:. :ie: •.:,_,:cd .L1..:.- ~ lt; ::.· 0<;~ 1-<1 o:r you:,.: ac ui Jcnte , Uld I ~ 'cl ~) .a...'.. i.-J t!O b .. -~....(J i~l tvHDi ve (;t.llc.i_Ja:l.an j uU U!'G }.JU '(,'~in{.:, r. ~Gr.aoy t a2.:e a. l i t ·tl e tiri:.c, but i t uiJ.1 ev en tuall ;y- \ .u:.:: · .. ,.;..·;,; :·. u t... ,._ .: :..2ll::.pc . \.Jc a :s:e uo-..:.r ·p~inc mon t llly cash :prizc o f'c:-r au~.1.tr~. 1.rn::t cn9, of ·;.:he au t omobi! e o u."ld o °thoJ'.' 'fu..in t;;u ,~ : _ v .; ,., _ w:. _:·.-,;-:.. J. .!lb l l::.U.1 ;:: . \; C !la":7::' i '.) U !lC. t l1i F.: s u :J~Ga:'..u .:. ::.ir'-.,.::.. ... ,:-:. 1.: -.10 }1a·v-o ob'Gn.ined m very l a.r t:;o ~: etl.u c t.ion in acc:i. tl.en t G:..c,~ -~ • ~:!,-, ~ :-. ~ eu.r i s t ou l o ne -~c, ·.·c.s. t f oi· c. chc.-;..'.i...:.:.: oi' o a> :;.. •• P:.:.n.. -.:-. _>1•;:_ ~~o o f .m r.u:~:Jmobi1 e . So;..i~t-hin g o:-. ·'-,:- r cdu oc :,,,cc~.dc:-. ❖ ri . ·J~., L1 ;_ ~:c:ncialc ,11:,;;y· , ;;.:.:,;i m.:m,,y , ,_: ...~em~ t o al.)pee.l t o O't.!' ,c. , !. :.o"'.J:: l1J.y 0 ·1 .:...ccvlli'l i; of t :ie 1at~i'1 t (;a:Jb li~l~ i n nt i n ot ·(.:..t: ·i :i. u _:.::_-~::.:~1-,...; L J ~ 11 o f ·i10 . Y1ll:l.c!... come.:; i1·2:1 ·~>1 .~, . Ii:, i :-.. i .:::.:,,. ,:/ ~ i:J,l o f y ot:. t,v u v vc~ r e._-(;!10:: . _ 0~1·.. :.:l~'J r.q f a tb.c :: c 1!J. i;;;l~ t : x .~ u.9y:.' eci ate :}.·;; . 1 -.·: oul d li k e vel'Y :i:.::.u.;~:i to b o :...cl\Jt1.., tu i.:.:.e; i.,lc. <:01.1.n·~:.-~· u ....~:.i:.. , ~i.:-~ ·i:JJ.c n cz·~ ~ c {; :;e:-:..:;:c ~e01:1 a ~ i f t : wy -. u:2l('i. be vc:~·y bus:, oiH:. ~ . ~-~ ~) "J -~~::.·, ·1.,l t h t i d _ l are,e ..::o:wtrv.otion lJ::.'ot,;l '~... \'!!UCh \ J~ :..c.-. e l :.:m.: "i.'h o :! GC<.:l,. t.i ·i,~• of c ott i nc ov.·t Mc_~m1ua v ~odu cti c.,i:1, rm o .'c .:i.11 ,:c -:--ry :. ~u ~· . '1'e l l D:.:.-• .G0l d I 2-fil e:::·~x snc~ i n l:0 .1' .)S'<-,: : in tL ~ o::..foty v:i.·0 ..,-·2.1 y0u a:<.· .! :_..u'i.:t.i-.1:., on , r,!nt1. :... ..:~ u ~n "i..:. -.! ~0:.:.li e:.·..,· -~L.: ~ . t.,J v.nd t Lo :;,"if c shl.i·o :,_,KJ...->C::.?O a. c;-::.·<.n~t cca l ~b~u.-l: i ·t. • unc; ~:-i t l:. : ~:;. n,l !,e:rs onc.l :,.:c.,c.:-?.::.•c.10 ::'X'O:::l c.11 o::' i::.\;- :l'D.LJ..i. ly , o i'::':.i. L:i.cl ,:i . :t ,..r:1 Tl1G Union J .-1 \;L .'i c, Co c-..1 Cot::llt!UY �0 Omaha, May 22, 1936. Mr. G. B. Pr,a.e : I am returning h e rewith Mr. McNeill' s latter of ?f.ay fifth• which I have read with marked interest. �Tel.No.? Moraybank House, Kelty, FIFESHIRE, Scotland. 5 May, 1936. Mr. George B. Pryde, Vice ?resident, Union Pacific Coa l Company, Rock Springs, ~YO MING, U.S. A. Dear Mr . Pryde : I was delighted to have your letter dated 6th ultimo on my return from Germany . I have been spendlng some time on the Ruhr Coalfield vii th a view to seeing the latest progress in skip \\'inding , the use of Diesel locomotives underground, a nd control of coal on steep grades, and while making t hi s visit I .found a great deal of other matter which was full of interest. At two mining equipments which I visited, they were dealing with over 4,000 metric tons per day from two conv~yor faces. Their mining conditions v:ere not too good. The grades were steep ~nd the roofs bad. At one colliery I visited, which was a skip winding equipment, the coal was conveyed on the gate road direct to the skip. They were retreating with two faces, each 600 yards long, and considering the physical condit ions, the results which wereooing obtained were remarkable. The latest type of retarding conveyor operating on steep ground ~as seen handling 1,000 tons a day. It was 200 yards long and operating on a face 32°, the seam being 6 ft . thick and a very bad roof. I have introduced one of these conveyors into one of our Collieries here, where we were 'v'vorking with chute pans. Before the introduction of the conveyor it was im~ussible to see at the coal face for dust and the percentage of round ooal was very small. Since its introduction, the dust has oe P.n completely eliminated and the percentage of round coal has increased by 9%. The/ �- 2 - The German mining engineers appear to be much further ahead in the~r skip winding practice than America. The various gadgets introduced in the chute in the pjt bottom, and in the skip itself, go a great distance to eliminate degradation. vne colliery I visited handled their ~ntire output by Diesel locomotives, and their workings extended t\'~o miles inbye from the shaft bottom. The depth of t he workings was only 800 yards. There was no obnoxious smell in the atmosphere due to the exhaust. The locomotives were 60 h.p . and appeared to be equally as sp.rvi ceable as the overhead electric type. They are guaranteed against c~using obnoxious gases, and, ofcourse, there is no open sparking. 1 t!e have had a long winter here. In fact, we are not clear of winter yet . To -day is like a day in the middle of December - a think, cold east hoar blowing steadily. We had a fine day on Sunday, although cold. I was along at East of Fife :i.n the afternoon and took the pleasure of calling in to see your father, who, you will be quite pleased to hear, is 9S lively and active as ever. He spent lftst week getting his garden all dug and has now got everything in, r-nd hP. was very happy and ·cheery. I also met your two sisters at the same time and they were both we ll and looking very well indeed. I propose going along some time when I have time and taking the old man for a run. I observe from your lett8r that you also heve had a heavy winter, although I can imagine your winters are not the cold~ damp, miserable state of affairs we have, as it will be very invigorating at Rock Springs even in your coldest weather. You will now be beginning to feel the wnrmth of spring and i t must be a great privilege to live at the altitude and in the country where you are situated, We are moving ahead with our new colliery at Comrie. have got one of the surface equipments completed and have got the sinkers in the pit bottom. 1 ~Je You will have noticed from the Coal & Iron 'i'rades Review that young Reid has been telling the National Association of Colliery Managers all about our Safety Campaign, and while WA are making certain progress in the right direction, we are a long, long way from being at your standard. However, we will keep on trying and hoi:e that our efforts will be rewarded. It is/ �- 3 is very interesting to read of your new system re garding safety. Yihile WA are doing a little in the way of a bonus to our firAmen, we are so conservative that v1e are not PrP.pared to spend very much money on any other body. I sent Mr. Mcl\.uliffe some details of our accident position up to date, \ll.h:.ch, I have no doubt, he will be talking to you about . You will be right in the midst of your improvements now at RAliance 8nd your new power plant at Feck Springs. You appear to get these t~ings done much quicker than v:e do in thA old country. ~e had a big celebration in this area last week . i.'l r. Rei' d only dau gbter was married in Dunfermline to a local clergyman r;nd the marriage went off \, i th a bang. 1~ .'e are living in very troublesome times in Europe. The latest news from Abyssinia is that the British Gove rnment have taken the Emperor jn a cruiser to Palestine, and it would appear as if the League Counci l was r.ow burst. Mussolini will simply nov., annex Abyssinia and bring it under Italian rule, wr,ich, in the long la st, may be the best thing that could have happened. I found, while on the continent, that the German people had little use for either the French or Italians, but were kf! en to. develop friendship with Urea t 9ri tain, an:i tlle general opinion of the man on the street in th~s country is that the British politicians would be well advised to drop Prance overboard, and, with both hands, seize the opportunity to fix up a permanent alliance with Germany. The f ee ling here is that neither l<'rance nor Italy can be trusted. My own personal feeling is that Great Br:!.tain, dur1.ng the past number· of years, has simply been made the cat's-paw of France. .,. ThP, coal trade in this country at the moment is quite busy. A sPries of meetings are being held betweAn thP, Coal Owners of the various Districts y,ri th a view to getting selling agencies set up and operating by the 1st July, the GovP,rnm~nt having threatened that if this is not done voluntarily by that time, they v.-ill intr~duce legislation to enforce it. Mos t of the mining companies are doing quite well and do not wish to be fetterP,d in any way by legislation. The price of coal has been artificially raised at the end of the year due to the tr.reatened strike, and nov.: the proposed selling agencies have also boosted the price. It v,ould. seem that this year we will be getting nearly 2/-d per ton more for our outp.1t, 9n~ while the/ /.fetl �- 4 - ;g<lthe miners received a voluntary increase of 9d per shift at the oeginning of th3 year, I do not see them sitting qui et with the increased selling price bei:i.ng got. All other i ndustry in this country is booming Hundred of companies who have paid no return for years are all showing dividends - some of them very substantial. 1~ .'e }'lavi:> h ad f reedom from labour troub les siI'!c e t he d~pression, but indications are that labour will not c ont inue accepting the s ame ~ages and allow large ~rofits to be made in industry. I shnll be g lad to hear from you soon . 1·~1 th ki nd re gards and b 0 st wishes. to .Mrs . Pryd e and yourself., I remain , Yours very truly, K. R. Uci\ eill. �i:.~ . K . H. :.:c:1~i2 l t:o :r2yb~n~.: :Co :.1:.:-~ !:el ty , :-.' i :?~:::.d. ~?~ . 2 c o t l a.r~Ll I t ·u~ ..! n : ,1 oacu:..~e ·co have yo ur letter o f l fr:'.~~ch l~th . I t 17e.s a mos t en tcJ.?to.i r1i n1:., ond i nstruc-~ive l ot ter , a nd 1 e~1 j oy Gd c1·e2.tly 1.~ec.ci nc.. i t . I t c ave me a l:,1'ea t f ea.l of i nf o l'na t ion on thin33 I d esi red to k no·.7, o..ncl I i:1ao p l e ase d to ru:.ve your o pi n io n about t h e ~oli t i cal an gl e s , r egardiuc G:r:ee:.t :ari tain i:.nd GcriJ.£'..ny . I :rather (.,O t t h G o~ne i I:J.p :;;•c -~; icm frow. i·cad i nE t h e l'.mer i can p :ro Gia . I hG.ve never er en.t l y cc2r ec1 for t h e ::l ren ch, o.s 1 '~hi nk they are c. "VC!:'j' u.ng r a °i:Gful 1,1 eoI•l c , ofter all thn t ims clone ±'or them duri n:::; t he •.-;2? . !. think ·i;!1ey c a.:.-:1e o'l.. t of t he Yl a :?: b et t e:r thru'l r:!!yo::1e . '1'h.e3 y oung k i !'lr; , I tr.J.nk , ,:;i11 :'.:1::::.1:e e;o~d . Ee i s a vel:'Y l ik£'..ble ch a::'.l , ~nd ha□ h n.d ~ r:idc e J-.:.' 0 r i e i.2cc- -~:;::~ct:C:l'. trr,..vel G.n<.1 cou t a c t i nG p eopl e of di ffer~n t iH.: .ti cn~s . 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I n Ycllo.. .-istone :.Po.rk, about t 'l.":o h rmd.recl Dile s north of h ere , tha :=llOYt i n dz-ii'"Go is 50 t o 60 fe0t deer> , cmd on t h e l e v el, 10 i'e ~d; i n c.e.'.., th . :i: n :Hock SJ.)::.' ini::;::; , ·.:c hc.~ c had 4 to 8 inches 2. c;oot~ deo.l o f ~o t i ne , :-..n d vcx·y c ol <l ueathcr . .But tho t.;i:m: v;ill b e Q t l c ;:;:=- i t:~ , ~o ".':"C hc:ve h t.cl ...~ c,::c c. :.'~.r~:,· 1.?1y years , nna the :::no·:i n ill })rovi a.c r:c, t or in t!le ::nmr.1cr-ti!:lc :i:'.or i rri (.,u"i:ion .:.1u:r-.i,:o ~·~-u , co::1e t.1.i ~\ _; ·.::-J. c.""! , a,..., ;/on 1:i:oY: , n c a.re £,;reatl~r i n nP,eC/. o f in t l!.~ SUI!l!:101" eeaoon. I cm (J.nd to knot: th~ t you u.re ooving t1he u<.1. u i t h. your _ roj ec teL n 0,..,. opening, ~ :-:c. ! u r-1 ::,"":re y cu '..'i l l mclrc r,, m:c cesn of it. :r reac,. t h e .l:-'eo;pl.es Journa l .mcl the Dunfemline press, very clo :.:;ely , they handed t o r.ic by f c llou ,cote , and I am greatly interested in y our Safety program, '..: i th \'lbich you 1;..r e evi den t l y c.ccor.i~.•11 :._~:.i.~G ri. t,:. cLt. c.. cvl., t l-,o com:.K:.:d:::on of �2 yom: filanc/h.if t.s .J,,j:!.' a ccicl.cm i in 193b O!Hl 193G th.oi.tlnc u v017:1 1· uma:r:{abl 0 i nc·::."'Zmoc . ·,:c .. :..•c• ·G:?~-:L nt c. nerr syot ~.n thi ~ ycui·. In::;-tcad of L=i~i !!t; -the 12.1.:·c<,LLiJ::.lco ~nd the t~".:n,rel:.ng y~:izo o, r m u:;:-0 o f fcr i ne non .J:(!.J, _ :-:.'l ~H;m i'o'.!.~ t he a i s trJ. cts nhich .::;o t hrough the Don·c~1 uithcu·::. ~~ :~o:.,i-t:l.ue:: a cci d~n t . 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JJ'o? .Tanu.c.:ry 2,ll 6i st~::lct u but Eo ck S.9ri i:1 6 r.,; :j..,, . ,::, : ,::m1-t tllrouol ; fo:?: I'ebz-uary , al l c1i s t rict c: b1At !To . 31 l::0 0~ ..._?:.·i.t:t.,rJ; a1J.d :?or I.:.(x.~roh, ..;:.11 (i :;t1:ictr., b-;rt ) e 1Lv ·v0 u:~·zo:~~c.:l ·c.o double ihe monthly _:J ~1:i z e s :l.f all cllst:ric ·i;v ·,:2.11 i_.0 :;~2~\:>i'-1.)1 a raontl1 \1itlwu·i; u lo st-time a c o:tc.l ent . -.. e OA_J1.,W 'G 'Gu :..,uCvL,Jli wh -~b_u·;; m.tri i'!b the filOi:'l t h of Apri l • :..;i i1 ·~0:1 . i-i. lo ·i; or tho equl :,?men "i:, i'o:t oul' im.y:i.•ovelllen ts a t 1,el:l.ance a nd t!_e 11e,.: :i_;Onu1· ::_;ln.:.lt ...::ii Bock G1•1.inu:; i z· coning in, aud 'the po,m:i: j l mrii i i.. novi n~ o.l on 6 o·i:;eadily. \'!e have no -t backed v.v on t ho coa...Jl~·Uon l l::.~t c , ~ m:i ex1}cc t t o h ave the .!.;l nnt :running by AUBtlGi l s'l;, T'.ao Queen Dery i :,:; a wonderful vesc;ol ; I :.:hou.l d like very much t o □ cc it . ! t has cei•·i;ainly &;o ·c -~li.c Cld Cou n ii-y peopl e pc1,pGd u 1J , ei'lc.1, of coui·se, i -r. }.)~'U ·~o udve~·~i oc . I am -ver y vl eaoed , in6.eed , ·i;o he:...,_~, t h2: ~ :-.:£r . 2.:0iC: h a ~ c.. f ine b oy , w1d tl1a i LJJ.1 u.re doing ·,iGll, Di ll i ncluuecL Our _;oli t i eel s i 'GUt:', tio1.1 i:..; ... o uadly r:.1udc~l ed ao eve:r . ~;i t h a Ii~ t iunal Gleu tion no-~ ~.:...u1y .uaritiJ.t' m,..~ : no ono lmour:; 'l.·:ha.t i r.:> going to hav1>en , but ~2r, .i.,oo :::o.,.rcl·c; hnr:; lo::r~ u t:;:reo.t d eal of po1ml ari ·i,;y -r:i th the Lu,.:inc ~s r:nd 1.>ro:i:'C.''..1C .:ionc_l !.1en . Of COUl'GC, i t i L Gi fi'icul t ·co fintl lill":..Jl.1 opl),H;it:l.on GJl!Ong a ce1·taiu cl aos oi ih'Oi>le, \1l10 \1~::·G l·e<;i,)i -:~'! ·i:. fJ o f t~hc f our billion c~ollaZ' r~li or ±'unc1 1.ihi ch !lC :::.mui ni GtCl'Cti , i,)Gi'El0i'la11y . In other 'r1orc.l s , he i :;:i a. t,). ,,_lfted f:1Puto.. Cl aua . ':le h:;.ve had t oo much ex_pcrimenti nc , follo ·:Iin, the t z,3.i l vh:i.ch t h e .LJ:;.:l ti GlJ. _peop l e bluze<l !;)O?JC :>;-c.:.z-:., c:..go, m1G. i"e:m:.o. 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I l:o uo r, o~...,ec t to fiO t o the ,_:i.nh !(; Co no·cDs L1 ... eti l'lv ti.t Cincinnati thi l3 y eur, a s there a r e muny o ther thiu u.z t o kee,t> up uuay , ~.nu ,.o '\.lil: h2.vn t.U v,1. ~<.:l. t:..u cou tri.:ructiou _,lan t1 Tery clo sely in t he next f ew rnontho , i.:o E1 8 t o c et rendy f or. next wintol • s :. roc..uc t ion. �3 At;12ii.1, I cu;y· , I nao mo re than pleased to have your 1 et ter. "\Jl·ittor2 co \..,:r'Gc:t:i:;aiJ~K±,;Y, rmd Giv:l.nG oo much infonnation of gcuc~ul conditions, something \·1hich I c annot f ind in the n ev1s.l..Ja4J~rs . I l:o:>c ;rou lJ::lY :ind -~ine -~u \"/ri tc me u.CTain bl.t your c :.,:-c•a:l. ..:'li.1CO, a.J !. n.t1 al vJays pleao~d. t o · heo.:i.· from you . tint :;:-e:..,..:- :.t.~ c.f ::.~:.:s . :Pi·yde und nyscl f t o you i.!l'ld yom:- fm;.iily . Vo'!:y s ince1·0ly yom·o , OrlJllnnl Sl~n~: GfORGr 8. PRY!)l A. M.O. APR 7 1936 �·--.....,. "' H_'EAD OFFICE: LE.VEN, FtFE. 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Scotlc.nd ! ~ rrc.~ ~ :~c:..l vlcaot.!!'." e to ?le.Ve yov.~· let·r.cl" end other l'G.:iCEO;:'<.:!lloco .. t C~i ot!nno tir:1c. :t ~ rmo very :t·im:1 of :;ou t0 -'C..'.!on:3~ u~, one! \7e 2.11p:..:cciuto yom• Zdildneao Cl"er1:t!y . • . :-i ccnno·i; :fi.nd r.::ro.'do to o::~_1l'oas ·:;o you tho pleo.sui·e i·t cr:..ve uo Co blou th.t'..i yon !l:;l.U iic-1..m~ t::.o ·~:~~o, alone r.i th your \"Ji:?o cu1d duu[:;!1.tc.z· to CP o..nd 111 o.i.1.; :..t / :fa.th.er . I cc.n :l.m0nc uaa·i; c. fine I:lC:}tir ,: :1. t ~,:;oclC. :.>c ~ '..'l!nt pl camu-e it -::;ou.lu ci ve hi?:1 t o li ::;ten to ye~'\ -~ -~D. or "JO".J!: vi1d t ·i;:.> .F..oo!t Gpl:'iuGe encl :;01.1.:.· :.:c.1o;~ia~; \.l ~~.!. uc end 'DJ i'aaily here . It uoo c~tru.nly :er:.:) l."iuc cl' ;;,on c-.nd I nc_;uin daoii•e to e=::11.l'cos r;rg sincc:·o ·1;.:i;:.1L:s tc you . ~;e lu.ve hna c. l ot ,e:: rron rr.y i'e.tr!.c:: :;~nee yot::- -v•i 02. 'i;, t e ll.inc.; ::a t7ha'i; n. coocl ·Uw.o he h!:.L. , i 't:11 you , c~:1<1 ·tolling -.~c that the cont \,~i3 o. ·,·m~:c.l o~f't:1 one . Wo a,1•0 ho.VitlC c:'"t.t' C!.'.Cly ~old "..'7Ca·iJle:: 1:~~o now, p:.:-o.ctico.lly io11~·cuc;hout t.:.ie 'G.1:.. t.cc. Sk:k:S t •.. o bvc had one or the moat Gevcre ,;in ·tc1:o r:~~ r.cv0 hnd i"or eo:..10 yecro. 'l 'hore i c t.. .:_:;,o~t Uecl o:::· ::mo\'1 ru1<.:. tfil,l!>Cz-.. aturea ctre yery low, but t!O t.,till cr;ntinuo to !1c.~~c the wonderful. ounahine, j)~;..•tie11lu:::l;,r here in t>G ·.-: eat, co :-:e do not mind tll.o cclu. t:uc.thGl" co ou.cl: . j I \:e hacl a VG~✓ fine :, Gal.', c.r:d mined n ~i.•:cy • three mil lion tona o~: coal . Durint; the Jreaent ycc..-:: tie e;..!.J~ot to be ttcr th:~ t . ,:c r'.Ze t;oinc t1.2lct.d , Ji th our 1m.t,roYe.':lento a.t ·:o!iunco, ui th the now t:lP!>lo , tl:.o lnrgu car and 1·,lder ·trc.ck L.;tl'UCC, o.nd bava Just let a contrnot for tk.'3 1,1urohooe o:r t-v;o 1 ,000 ir.~, . ~,'.;.°Qc.:-;,cl: ·..t1 l oox lao1lcra for 450 l.1ounds steu l,>l'aost.U"c, toccthor with a 6 , 000 K. w. turbinc--conerator i"or the Enue vroeav.re , thaee latter im1>roTe1&onta to be r.1ade at Rook S,tlritl{;a. we haTe the aw1 tchboard n11d condenucr, u.s 1,;ell c.s the water sotteaer still t o A&rcht!DEh but thio \rill be done wl 'tbln the next f'n ~ a , and we are t1ork1ng i's.et on the•• 1mproTcmen ta ae we desire to h£tve the i_1lant :running 1V AU&U■t 1 of the preaent year. so I ruit1oil,late a r ather atreauou■ 7ear, bu.t I :r&.the:r like to be bu av . we are alac, openi DG a nn mine at Rel ionce , nh1ah i s maldag good head.wq . �~;:no noli \"iOt.!.1 t:ji tuat:1. on i u ~athej:' mu.dclled hc:."o . TI<S co U {.l t coc-- '·"' c::r~ VCJ:✓ fr..::-, and '\Ji th e,11 t !lo 0 3.Y!s• d.idtit 0a c}o:i:iJ.nc uv i'o::.' claet:~on this fcl.1 u it r10ulci tiom:i1 to b e c. cli i'i':. ctQ. 'ii one ··:o fo x-cceet. 1l'lle Guf :i:'o y Bill, \1bich ~r o:liccc ~o : ..~c•i :;:'o::: uo ~ :ls b0ine; a tiuoked on every oido , t~::::l m.11. 1cob~bl.y be declared unconst:! tut$.onaL Li k e all the nec.~;u.:-co r:.o.do iu Washing~n by thccz>i mto : 1 t l c::i.vco nuch to be dcoi.:ee:l.. • • 1 z::.l ;;;;; ~i;~~:!..nt; hC:l:C\7i th o. cli21pinG S':t>O!:l 'GhO Sa.turdoy .:CVe:?iUG .. oot , t:1hic!i io nitloly ~em.:. :! n ·~110 coun try, CJho•G int.:, t he ro:>ti □-~ r o i eea. o:? a r.ocl Seo -~'iii ch IJruid. You uill pl'o"!)u)ly rococ.n.:lze ~:.11 o±' these o..!J Cabinet Ofi'i co~e, oz· oroi-Oe.b1nct Of.i'ico~ □ • 0 !.fa.c 11\"/::i.11a.ce looke l iko a ?:eeJ. Col t , and Big J:l,.i1 1;i'.:ncu1i,tiX'lO.Y l ook:3 like a c cn i al m d;llc.ndor . I e!:l t;l n.d to hoo~ o:f you:i: pl .:no fo J:' :ifoC} ,1c,1 n ina. ! h oe.rd. f rom !1l: . Wi l lirua R0icl utH.l fl'Cfil hie i·o t11er, nnd o.l r;io fl-om ~'i1•. Ce.=,;,lo,·., . c.nd chn.11 tll'i to t,he:::1 nho11 I llo.ve e 11 ttle t10 re ti:ie . i'.'c ho.vo hnd ocny confe:e0n c oo on the po'l.;o~ vlont, a nd I think I lcno t, a. ec o (i. dec.1 1...:.0 ~0 c.boui t!O t}C;::?:! ,i.)()t1er p l cn t operati on thra1 I eve?' d:1.cl bcfo:;:,c. ! shall b e cl ad. to hcQ!' f:.:-on y ou o. t y ow.· convenience and ehnl l be cl a d ·t.o lmvr~ yoll. c.dvi co rac who. t !.} D>c rcaa you o.ro 1a.1al<i nc on ·the n c:m cilai't u. Ua.u v ery l!JOrry to hem:· nuou•i. ·;:.11.e d~2.th of Y.ing r-eorge . Ee ,,n e l ovco. tllrouL,llou t -t.h0 civilized world , and. 1n /'J'r,cz-ico., uhcz-e ,1e have a Helul>l :i. c , the e~1,reDeions ot sorrow uere uni versn.1. . One ep~cr , c.t a eeni co I a t tendee. , f:ltatcd Kina Georee would not b e remmbered tor being a great r u.l.er, but f or beins e. great Kine. I think t but is true . ! li s tened i n to the eerrloeu over the radio, r.lli ch n ere broac5.c aat by the Columbia Broadce.et ing System. ! hcer d tl1e fc1'11licr wail o f t h e :pi yeEJ e.s they p l ayed t he li:7:owere o -Z the Forest" and u ~ e Lend o' The Leal. . n llay I thank you c.cein fo r all of you r tindnese &nci express t he hop e tl!llt the ITew Year mcy be a :pl"Osperouo one tor you and tJ.111.t you and your family may have the lteat oi' heal th . Ver., sincere]3 yours, OP1rln•1 !!Ii.tel: il~ftGE 8. PRYDl A. .M. 0. f'EI 8 1936 �: !l·• lL :C. _.:c....c~11 t t. ~.1t.. ':.:;1c r2.r a f;oc.1 0o • . 1:·~t:". J" c l \~y , );:1.. £cc-;:~.i r,. 8e;o·~lcr.d •1• - ... ~ , "· - "'nc 1_ ,,~~ l"r•J ~.C.V, - . --.•,',.>'•\l'"J.. . •'w ' ..·"> ❖~ •o o ....i." -}l~~ T}'' ,...•... ~,,.. .., l:... ._,, -• .. , .. -.•:;,,s,._ - --..J ~--1-1{"• -.I . , JJ U ~~ t t:.!.:c.-1 by 1j=.:> . lltr:::-r~f > °' : ,:loll i nol t;f1o J::r. :3~-yl c:J:J encl ::(Yccli' . I ho1,o yov. \Ji lJ. 2tct":n t.~~cJ nG , 1ome~tooo oS yen~ vloi.·i:. to Roca s.:;,:.,J.n..:c • ·t ) :1 '7l3l'C vC'S'!";.'/ :;:incl , ind~cd: to :mad mo -~'•v:i 1.:,? lf b~1.lo . )'. h~.vc bcc.1 out :.~J.;i.:>CQciy ::.4(1 : o.c:. c. c~c ·:ii th -~~1cm. ~;c ..•lt::-.':c. l :-.•,.ro co~c o:l t~.:i. bccu·c.t:... :.: 1 ::m1t1'>1lt-!•.:, 0 "1~1 t ~LOU{)J. 1 t i i., • .'i ct•a~· t:l.:lG . I pl ~:ycd ·'[!.~.uz-.· ...:. ~m: ycoterday . :r d i d l'l O'C. r'o C;) (;.,''OOdo lrJ.t :.:<" •__1l e t el1. :..:c t!J.e • 1"1 I st 1.-wenty :recu:o c.:r.~ t h~ uo::-s t.. I r,c.e Cln.d to t--cor.l v~ you""' 1 eit ·~o~ 1.·~·c-.1 c; 1 C.!.'.:Y)J , out I cm. ~:i~ro.idyou ::'('_u.:,1c. ctrr.o n;:.:i~"l:.:~,,r t:-"Jo.~ c:- ,. •J.l:-:~.. hcf:1c , C B ::!'bout th e. t t i4!C t i'.!c~~ -::2~0 C;)EC vo-:_•-.; ~ 3VC:!:'0 ..;·'.;:, ::.Yi!U on t ee . ,.urtc:-n 3c..~br,e ::-d . I lmo•.i :rou -::111 21::>.V'1 a ~ ~os o:i.' :nte:-i a l U i.:~.t u ::.J.1- e o :t' hel::..> ·to y c.,1..1 i n !:l ~mnine :tau::: no:, 1:'o:L': : . c.:ul :t ~ cure thn.t t h o :i: e:inia:ie~ of your -~~:.r. r~i i to tho Eo.ot c::n fart of t11e lln i tod ;.:t u too UCO 1. 0 1 G'JS 2,JlC,J.C,jl'G ~"!fl t.'1-J.n.·~ 1u the :.:cotarn :9:.1.i·t . It ·uill ~ee.:.> y o-..i bucy fc ;: a long time ana.lyziuc ·i;.1~0 :ln·:"ol: -:ut:lou yov. cot, bu·~ jroa no doubt had oonc time t o do t.:ili.J on tJ1c bo~t . Again, l et ::tw ocy 1 t \':c.G o. p l caruz-c t" b::v c you w1 th ue, and lilt.\Y ! \::'.. ah :for you u:.d your f :.:."'!ily a. He.~PY .md l'l"0 ..;9orouo :rc1.·, Ycur . !~' t here io t':lzy t:.Unc you oTerl ooked ,mile yon uer o C>U'L bore , uo no ·i; hcGi t Ltc to w1°i te L'l8 • 1 1-y c incorely yours, •1 �Rock Sprlnl1EJ - !!Jo veml.>ex 20 o 1935 li~=ray tcok p~::lo:· ·c:) '.:.lie lcayint, hc~e . I J It is very light, c..ud w -.:·:onclc:r::'.:.!-:;; i~• :.1..-~ -.:ou.ld .reproduce in the :.:agc.z:i.ne. �::::.~ • .u.. ~i . ...::c~fo:l:!.lo Agent, oi' the l~i:f0 Cor.11 Cor.1110.ny, e:~ Kel·t y, Pi f'cnlrl.:.-e, .3cotlv..ml, spcn·~ e. \!eek dUl'ine; October vioi"iiing pro::c:.··~icc of TJ.1e Ul:'l~ou Po.ci fi,, Coal Cor.1pony. I.:::- . ::c:Tc:i..11 ~ c co~t3>0.ny, one of tho 1 a2gesi in Seo 'iiland, raining about ~,000,uJO ·;.:ons o.m-1uatly, :1 □ open:i.nc; ~ nei·1 !)l'o.9c:r.~·~~- i n uhich ·i;hcw l)10..t1 -~o uoc yi t ca.rs of S~·-tons cap~ci ·0;·, u i th. \1ind!ng a!.cips ouch ~o used i n the Eaotom coal fiold0 of the United Sto:tes. Both t:ho la:rscr pi "t ce.rs und the ok:l.lJS ni·e oouc- thing ne\'1 in Sco·G12.ml, anc1 :1:r. n cHcill c eoiz-ed ✓~o got fi:rot-hend info mation a mcld.na the lons journey from Seo ·Glf:..nd fox- thl r::i pur!.)o sa. !:Ir. 11o-;.: e:i.11 enjoyed :h.io vio:lt a.t Bocl: S.._Jr].~c,n very ouch, mc'::ltinc forner friends he~:3 rlho had ,ro2:ked ,m-:cs h:l o 0UJ}erviaion in the Soottiah mines . After l eavine, Hock Spnnas. he c:~ ..cc:1dcd tLe D.:3Cting oi' the Amerlcnn In:.-; U t u>.;o of' Ill ninc ~ 1..1,r~allurcicol BnG;inooz-s ut st . Louie, ::.1.~.oou:;:i, late:r syouding sonc ti!;'.10 1.. :i; t.t..c Coo6.!:len. Jeffrey and othe~ ra:.mt~fo.ctt1ri11c plento, oailinB i'or hio home on the s . S , Celccl oni n l!ovcl1lbcr 16tn. llr. I..to!::aill'o vio1t wao nost intereotint: , c.nd hie discussions on British im.ninc; p:i:actica nero G~eatly a.!/:.-iroci a.ted by_ the di:fi'erent l!linin5 1::taf.fa uith i.:hc!:l ho CN·1c in contact. !E:t.· • .lc!Teill ~G greatly ...Jleaeed Y,1. th tho ;;1ido open spaoee o~ the i,lest, cigbifyine a desire to r:?turn v.t c..ono fu ture time . �r;:z., . Cl yde I: . l'Jillia:::IG, IJi::.--ector 3;:;~·itelle • eRoricl 1nsti tute Co lUL1b:.1 s , ◊mo Reforrin{J to yo1u~s of ·~he 12·lli inst.:;:it re(.:&.1':'dinc, i1r . :i.c li. ilcITe:i.11, oi' t ...1e i 'iie Coal Go o ga.ny, Seo ·Uand: il1· . :.TcCeill lef·i; here ai.;out ·i;\: o neekF- a c;o ..:nd 3ail s :f:ol .. G·laseo ~.1 ;~01.10 :,:.:i.:on, 1:: over!:ibe:;;o 16th. Y'ou. can gei i,1 tonch nith ilim l;,y . 'li'Z'i ting to :W.n? c/o l?ife Coal Coi:1112.ny, Cowdeabeat11. Fifee:hixe, Son ·i12nd . ✓ �BATTELLE ME~IORIAL INSTITUTE 1NDUSTRT.A.X. AND SCXE1'"TXFXC REBE.ARCH COLUMBUS, OHIO O...,.ICE: OP" THE. DIRECTOR November 12, 1935 Union Paoifio Coal Company Rook Springs, Wyoming Gentlemeni Mr. K. H. McNeill of the Fi£0 Coal CompaDY .Of Scotland told me some time a.go that he expected to be in your office and that I could send some papers to him there. I should like to get in touch with Mr. MoNeill and would appreciate your advising me of his present address. Very truly yours, .l V ~ Clyde . 1'lilliems • Director CE,WtT �UNION LEAGUE CLUB OF CHICAGO 65 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD Chicago, Illinois, November 5th, 1935. Mr. I. N. Bayless, The Union Pacific Coal Co., Rock Springs , \iyoming. Dear W.ir . Bayless:- I am taking the first opportunity of expressing to you my gratitude for all the trouble that I put you to and for the very kind way in which you met all my requests. It was a pleasure indeed, to meet you and you were able to give me the hang of things at • Rock Springs in such a way that my mind could absorb it. Again thanking you, I remain, Yours very truly, KHMcN:HL -- �October 31, 1935 lb... JC. :C. :C:cJ'0·i:.J. • e/o !..;::r . r ~et'!.~:::--:;.~ l . . ·~a.r::~-;n J:-i:-11 sicr:.i::::1E1Yip Po -..-~.... -=-:,·G!'.°'·::·i -ve Vot,;, Per'""-;.:,/•1-~~·;:~- ·.;.L_.,-,d ~.t..: "- J... • 1 , , - -- - u.... :r et7 Yo rlr Ci i y , :_r .Y . Dca.r :21... llcJ.Te:1:!.J..: I ~in ormd iug ~~ou today o tmde::s.· 8 'J!.}a1.,ut0 c o 7 ·3 l~ , i ni'o?r:1~ tion the t you uJzd; o i7~ t1i th T7~•. s~1D.un . to 0 ethe!' tJi th various foms and o fuer de.ta -i11at you d0s i i•0d. I h2ve checked sarae :::.m.1 I tbink i •i; i ~ substautially iu 1:1.ne \7 1. th th0 i nfo~.ation you ~equeGtcd . Yo u t7ill have l o ts o f •~ime o n t:he boat to sit dorm anc.1 co over it, end I feel the info::.::x_ 'i;io21 ·uill bo • o f service to you. I pre1:n1:.ne you h.2..d a "fl0i:Y fin.e n ce·i;2n0 o:t SL Louis. You t::oulc;. nclrc a cootl :10.ny con trwts ,.-;1··i ch \7ou1' 'j~ of Vl!.lu0 to you, o.nd. I knot1 r'iz•. I.'i:cA.ulif':?c ·:1oul C1 ~c0 ;;~w .. t yo.t: met_ a Great n~ny people. I am su:re fu0.t your vi sits ·;,;'3 ·t he l a:£:gel' wines ~here aki.1J hoictinc is i n operction 1.,(n:l e:. b e inte::-ie:ely interesting to you in vi.0t1 of you:r plm1s fo-:r youl: 01:3 futuz-0 operations. I krlo'.'T thet everyone noi.!l d b o g l 11<1 to give you infor::lation and adv::..ce 811d a ll the :.n·ints the: t you yrobubl y need to .1,>lan youi· o•;m 1.1cl"k. T'nc ti:::1e u ill quickly pass, ax1d 1 t nill be tiae for you to sail again . I V I t :-.as a co ~t r>lcv.:32..nt c-xper-iencc ior :.::&-G. :Px-ytle and me to have you uith us, pa:,.>ti cu.l arly i'o1~ .qvoelZ, t1iti:l llic infor:;:J:;'.tion you brou..)1t oi' the olu. c-:nmt:cy, in ,,bi.ch I ara al:m.:,Yfl greatly interested, ond i t is u. mo t.;'t 11l e;:;_E~":'lt thh1t; to have you tell oi' my father. I ::::1ot ocy ~c..iu t o you e.nd :.:r . Reid that ! tl;.o..,u •you for going to ::ice hio, ooc you1· f'u.rthe:r trip to contact him., l lmou \'Jill be r:10 ot enjoyeole, QUd he vill deriTe a great deal of p loacurc f~n it. I hope you n::;,y find time to c.,ct back to Ro ek S,.irl. ngo again in the a'ln!lar tme,. i-:hcn t:e ccn t2ke you to the northel'n country o.nd sllH'J you the great mountain occnery here. \'le trlll let you pull out one o f thoce l arge trout, tlt.lch biccer th..';ll the Loch LeTen oneo. �... Ace.in lcr::; :..::~ c::.y to yoi; i t ,;ms o. :plea1:)ur0 'to h:'.VG you hc!'c D uucl if ~ yS:>..G:J yet: :'!.'ctu:::u home, you f i nci fu0re i o f:J.'lY furtb.2!' ini'oX"""..:.1r'.:~io~1 y ::-..: c.cciro, I clw.ll be El e.d to furnio11. ~ t t0 you , if ycu ,;•i~J. co t:.dvi ce me . ~r kind 1.:e::-concl 2e6a~d::; to you, c.J!cl c. }?l ee.san t ~cya~c ) a,1d 7. x~-c.ld ~ __;:_,:::eci n:t0 g:cea:Uy you:r Z-e::JlGlI'bering me to 1 1, '.!"IY] -::1,·,·1 d --... (I C ~ p,.,,.; ,, • '""l•1 .:...i'17 ,~ • ,,vn~,,.10..-, .c.·i ...,.,ur, ' ,J-1)..,,-"'} D..- ~ • ,--~ , • .!., - - ~ ......~ - ►'-,;i,~"1- J c..:..c,:;- V \_•;)ny CO!J.l)limer!t O. !'I - - 1) V o t.;U..Lir... i •. J Very sincerely yours~ Original S l:rnell: GEORG E E. PRYDl V-\:;,--.. �... P.ock Sp rlngo - October 30, 1935 .....::: • C. !::a:r:.-..2. t:1 :::1·, _o ....i~cl o·i;b.er c.. n.t c. Z'0L,r?.l'di n& o .i:1enin1.;; ·i..ll.0 F i fe Co 4 Co.:...::2ll· o ?:lii."?.C nca:!' Cot::dG:Jbeath , ::7ifecllirc , Scot l t.:.:C: . �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. u( , r TELEGR"'MS "CARLOW, f'HONE, LEVEN!' "FIFco~: COWDENBEA.TH. TE.LEPWONEN~~ 161 & 162 ., Ll!.YEII tP.? 18110 165 CowoENas"TH YOUR REF. _ OuR REI'. _ _____ _ . KffiVJ.AC..._ w.B. Pryde, ~sq., Vice President, Union Pacific Coa l co ., Rock Springs, WYOMING, U .s.A. Dear Mr. Pryde, With further reference to my visit to you shortly, I am taking the liberty to enclose herewith the following plans of sections so tb.at you may have time to analyse the position before my arriva l. The plane are:General section of the Comrie Coal Field. Longitudinal section, East to Wes t . Cross Section, South to North. Plan showing geographical features likely to be met with in the Loobgelly Splint seam. The Lochgelly Splint Seam is the seam in which we propose to make our main arteries and the seam in which would be our major projections. Showing the projected surface equipment. Is a design of our own of the pit bottom lay-out. Shows the projected main avenues. ~s you are aware, we propose using 3½ ton cars and the projected output to be dealt with is 2000 to 3000 tone in the 7½ hours shift. our main problems are the pit bottom lay-out, dip haulage and transport between conveyor loading in the pit bottom. Looking/ �r ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE A.ODRESSE0 TO TtlE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICE: L EVEN, FIFE. TELEGRAMS "Clt.RLOW. PHONE, LEVEN:' "FtFcol.'.; COWDENBEATH. TEt.EPHONEN'!~ 161 & 162 Ll!.VEM ~ 181 lO 185 COWOEN811AT>1 YOUR REF. - --- OUR REF. - 2 - Looking forward to seeing you and thanking you in anticipa tion. Yours sincerely, For THE FIFE COAL COtlP.AlTY, LIMITED. I �LI ST 0-r,, .:>TtliTTS FUPJ.1I SIIED HR. Hci!lEILL tlinton lio . 1 I!iue! lline mnp. iii·& el0vations on s lopes . Stmda~d tumouts. E eu t:ra!! l'oe:.d. a i ue co..z,. Reli&nce: 1:line lilaIJ , t1ith elevations on s lope . P lan of scraper loading used a t Rock Springs, Re lio.nce e.nd tlinton. Superior "C" iline: !line map ( elev. oi' elop e s:hotm on profile.). Detailed p lan of norking ( 'i\:o p1'ints) . Thia plan of em.king conveyor loecliug to be used et Rock Springs , Reliance, •iint:>n nnd Superior. :Photostat of Hoist located on~ :Panel Slope, 0 0 11 lli.ne . General: Lo cation of mines in P.ock Springe Di s trict. Section oi Ro ck Spr.lngs coal fiel d . Geoloo.v map of F.ock Sprini:;s Coal Field. :.:a.1.> of to't'm of Rock Springs ( liighuay sho\10 i n picrio). Hanna: Hanna Ho . 4 . Develop!llent plan. Details of development p lan. �Uiu•:;otl ~JO~ l :.'.:i:10 : Ui 'a() ~'":::. _'a -~.1. 'ib. oJ.otrc.t.ions ou B.lo11es. ~~ ~~£!:C.~=·i:. -:,--~ ~:otii~: . ii C:1 t::c:-.:::; ~C~t~ . : .j,nc er..~~ ':''ri !Je .:..Z:.l_1 , ·.7ii.::t 0:tovati-on~ on s l ope. 1:lc:.n o :? C::!Z'C.:,>Cl" lorn.li ng U i.JG{l ct Tit\ck Sl :ritli];C:a ~~e l::.tinoG r,ncl ra.n-c,1.m . 1 ~ Ca l.:i :1C : .::1::ie ~;µ ( el ev .. of slo·y e shm.:-r1 on :proi'ila.) .. lictc.il cd pl ~.n o:f.• w:..~ldCG ( i~:-:c !:tints) . 1.ili ~ ;pl m o:f cl't:ilii £2£.·: cm-1,1e;:;oz locilinc to ·iJe u::mcl e..t EocI: 'fy,gz.n 0 0 1 Rclicnco3 ·,;intou LrlC~ ~U7)Cri nl' • .}.?hoto 2t a.t oi Eo:l at l oeuicfr o!l '1 Ea.nc!. 31o~_;<h 1~c 11 ~::Je . Lo cc.'Gicn ~i' o in120 in ·F.ock ff~-1t1c;.s I:-i t:'Gl"i. c i ·. Section o:? r-..o ck U.!.}rl.nL,o c:::io.1 field . Ce-oloQT nr..y of l'.oo1: S.:1t-inwB Coal 1:!'i ol<l. ~ [:_t, oi' ic~;.-11 0£ '.::to e!: :::):i:i11CG ( 3.~ny dm:1:1 i n ,pic::1.c) . IIonnu: !!C'.llr1£. :7o • ~ • ll-ev~'.!c1,~en t plnn . :: o t uilo o:.;' o.evelo_poont yl::-.n . �p. ' I f • I - -- -- - )?tc.;;_,~ )1,/c}.; .YGv-clt'-<. • • ' ) t::~u Jwrr ll.tt I I 4_/I i'C/, ::;_,.,:...,,//4' ,'? C' ~w:_. ~· , t...c.-..,:. ,;.._ C.,, ·-' ..........,..~.,..; ~ /1-e/~-:."~.:. 1 {..-,' :.-G,.I ~t , ••:::, ' I/ ..~-;. ,.- I ,. 1 I I I I • 1 ------ ( �11~~ J..kt.-i,... , . , , - ~ ~ ) 'l.-v LI / /) _.,,rf., }{._t'('! I:;J // ,._../!.. ~.,f..,J /&~ - .:/_7• /' ( ~L -·> f 42--~;1~-f-&~ �QUESTI ONNAIRE FOR MR. MoNEILL 9 S USE. �-) Naine of Mine / • 0 0 0 0 V O O q O O • 0 • IO • 0 • 0 • lit U 9 0 • O O O O • 0 0 0- 0 • • O O Cf O 0 .,. Nam.e of Company • "'• •ooooo • • · • •· · ~. o . j u :• •o~ • • • • Average Daily Output / Cl f ~ L o • \ "' ~,;, o' o • o • '- • I o ._o ;. o ,{, • • • \. . ~. £.. . ooo• 6' • o o t.,:., • 0 0 <) ~ Underground t , 9 o2-C:. o o • o • o o o v o • • • • • " • • o• Persons Employed Aboveground o~ P~f. TOTAL • 01--1.. "t: (1'1wt· f-'~·v /V, ~ I ,,, TYPE OF MINEo ~ C "\ < ill .. • 0 " • 0 Cl o /J \...... ~ : 1· V :.) '- · . fill' / J t,-., ( a) Bri.ft (b) Slope . (b) Length Grade (c) &he.ft Shape r<Q"'v ~ o • • • • ., • • • • • • • " • o '° o Q o o o o o o Q o 0 • o o o o o o g o u u o o "' 0 0 lot • d • 0 0 II) ~ 0 0 IJ ' O ~ ... ,., o u o " O O \,) U II) 0 D 0 Numb&r of t00mpa~tm&ats oooooooooooouoo • • • uo • ooooooouovuoooo ( a) num'ber - o o O 00000..,00 SURFACE PLANT, ETC . ( e.) ';> ,~~ ' ,-,.~-'-> , ~-•' Ho\V driven Overwind device ./,, ., , ooeoooo\,t,oOoouooooo • o oo • o oo. •oca Winding speed Change-over time ( a) Coal ( b) Redd (b)/ • • • • • • • • • • o • • • o e uw .,uo v o o • • • • • • t><, oo oovoo �( b) Pithead. Height of F:t•a.me Hei ght of Dischar ge Leval -0 0 0 I) lo' V O C., -> 0 0 0 0 OU O d O 11 (.o O O Q O O '1 U V U p y V O U (t O U O \) O II V <, <, ()Q O O OU O O o O Sk~p 0 g e O O O OU O O O () 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VO O O O O C, 0 0 0 0 0" 0 toll Q O O Maker 1 s Name O o O o O O O O o O O O .- P O O O O o O O Ou Ob o O O O O 4, 0 U O VO Ou O Type "" O.L 6 O O O O 0 O O O Capacity (a } Coa l ■ ooo ~d o••••••••o ■ ooooo oo• •• ••• ■ oQoooooouooo oo (b} Redd ..>ovooooc, o o o o o c i o o oo<10..,..-,oo,0011voooooo<.1000<1oovv o o Anti•~Bl"ea.kage , Device a ttaohe.:1? u QU 000 o ~◊@ 00 o OOOOOCOOOU -.? U O O O UOO -.)000 0 Maker's Na..>ne {c) TipEle or Cleaning Plant. ()?-~ o-i, CorAstruction 0 0 U o O 10 o o O U O O O O O iJ \l O O -U U V O v \.I \' 0 v (t 'I) 0 0 1J Qo V V ~ \,I o · v O d II \' G .J u •1,, 0 \IC> tJ V U u ' \I t! 0 4' V V \;I 1,, tJ u c,• V Cl "I,) o, 1,) U V 9 PU ,0, \1 1,1 0 O O U O O c> V O 0, Q O U o Type of Screens /_ Siz es of Coal produced {l Dust precaution o O C' t, U O 11 -.:t . v;, .:;, O \:, 6 0 o ,< • (.o O () ..,...... . ... I ,o Q ,;; t,,l' l \! V o l.,.u O C O ~ 0 ~ V O O q V \I ,,. {d) Cage (Manshaft) Type C: O '-' Clo ,.,, O Cl ~ U Bonnet ., ~ °' I) u o " o o " o O \J o o V U O O O o Cf ~ I) Q o o " Be:iss oz, cha.ins a.cross ends O ., "' O "" o O O O O u o " " a " .,, "" o Cl " o o " V Cl U O U ¢ Q o o U C) 0 U O "' o o C, o '1 o O O O ~ 0 \a o ., o C- \I (I O (J O U \' o °' I) o o " " 0 Hand holcl ::i ""' ~ o o o a " o o o o o o o o o o o o o ... o o o o o o o o o o :o v o o o • "o o • o • • . , . , .. ., O o o o"., o " o o o " ~ o <, o u o o co., o ~ o o o o o. _, o o . " o o . . . . . po" e. o o o o q . o . o o o o o o o o o u o Kind of' e;ates provid ed at Surface landing . o • ., • • o .. . , . ~ .. o Maximum number of men allowed on oage • ~ o • • ., " ., • .. "' ( e )/ Q o o ~ • •, " . . . J o . . . o.,.,,, ~ .. ., • o . o . . . ., • o • ., o . . . o . , . Lining 0,0 l'ail and toe boa.rd on guide sides " ....... "., Safety c~.t.ches u \I 0 ... O o . . . . . . . .," o ... ~ 0 • o • u • ., " �{e) Refuse Disposal. Du.mp Cs.?' ~ o o '° o o o o o o o " c. Q c- ..,. o o o o o ~ Lot-ry r.{. OOOOC>OO~OOOOQUuv ~OQ~bO v OI) ' a vtk \ ii/A- --; .,,._,) v • • • • • •~ • • o o o o o o o • o o oooooc 0 Cs.p aei ty V V _,. 0 ~ ■ C ~ , , 0 C <' O ■ 0 0 U o ,> 0-, O O O O O 'J) c; a.tfi'+'- : O tt !i> ~ O O '°~. 0 G Q o u o O O U O O o O O O O, q U OU g, U ■0 uO o e;t ? O • ~ O o o ,o o .., 0 " ,, 0 _, U " DJ s tapd x~:t> om min.e ope.1ings ... ., . ., v., • .,., . v., • ., •••• ,. ....... ., • o •• v •• (g> Type of Si z.e How dri ve n w~teit gari.ge Ki nd Signal device cJi..cA 1 D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 V O &I O ~ 0 '1 b O O O O Q O O I) • 0 <J O O O O O •) 0 0 0 0 0 0 Indepe r~den t Ci~cu.i t Run con t i nuously /'... ('.A..! I 00009~,0-000,UQl)OOU000000,;)0CC;Jli>\,l\)0•'10'UUQOOl)O&IG4t00 (3 ) UNDERGROUND EQUIP?llEWT . l\!f~ thod of coupling and uncoupling Sh ape and s i za of roadway Z r.ee tr.i.niu.lar, c¼rcttlaz• or arehed) •f C,:r.:po.oity ( a) Loads Empties D H 51lO C ~' OGOU0 90 C'OVIJQ �\ l'.ll>OO'-'QvVOOOOl)C,Q(.JOOQ\JVOOUOdl>U•ooo o vvuuo 'Iiype ;[11rune We i ghing deYice Buriker ( ~ ) capacity ., Q • ., • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ., ., 1~J•• ng &: oon ....v:ro 11-~ /L i,,-/ ./ / T·ub prcpe.L :i.11.g dev i c es Y.~ " \,1.-:•• ,./o /~.:...i..-.' ••• C 0 0 " ' I D C ll Q O O ~ 0 0 0 .:; 0 0 O Q 1) C O O O .. 0 .J1 I . .. C, . , ., • u " Cl Me·i;b.od of: coll ecting Redd Redd to eoal in Hoppel' . ... ... .. . ., . ~ ". ~ .... ., ••. " ...... . . ., .•.. ~ . ., {b. Locc:motiv·3s ., i~ ~ 5"0 \ 1 0 0 V O 1,1 4 0 C "' \ 0 I I.) 0 :,ii ,0 ~ • ., • ~ .0 ~ 4:• U '=' Y O O • o u o " V tot o v , o O • 0 • ll Y O O ,., I,) Cl O ~ •ve>•"OO•O~oooc.0•00o.:>uooot101J•OOO•Oo<4.IOOCOV.,JQ.Q C, >!.."·' • Sy3 t-em ~y Y 0 4 o o v • o o u u v - ' f Sfof:n! .......\ 0 .tength of' P-<-r-a-0-w ay II F.ails & Gauge l,f- C).. (' (\A'-'!fi < !> fJ ~ .... Lt <,.,.. type, size, e t c . I 0 C- ' V (I \;,, O ' O , ~ () Q ,. U •• \> C u tr\! , ~ 'P> �Spa ed o O O Q C) (I' 0 l) G ~ n Ill O O ·u Size e.nd Horse Poi:Je1' System of Benc~ing D U O 0 D O V O O O t.; O O O -, 0 U Q \I c,, U U g O 4.1 O II r:t • O • U Q O O (I U U O ;) U Q U O ~J o o U O O O O I) '°' u O t,, 0 I o O <J /-r, (:::,, (__c~ - ·.; 6 o I I t., O O C O b O O V V <, o O U O c,'"> .., 0 0 O O O O O u O o Q O U O 0 Is Make a n:i type 0 / !.~ ec-,"' O 00 \.\ 0 ,•, 000 ( e) ElectrS.ci•!;y Underground .. Illumination of Haulageways Type of Lamps HJ/~ ,., .d.-foHS:~ Spac ,~ng of Lamps •. JI'/:),{. I,} Size of l:3lilpS O O •) O O O c.. '- t, (J O O . ~ . ~ : t o u~d• O O C O a" 0 ~ 0 , ~ ~ ~I o o O I) i .-l .. , ~'1,..,..,.,.,1_.,1, -,~ U d O c:, 0 o 'ii' .. , _1.. t! :t ~ ~ ~ f ~ •.,,.,f{ ?. r;· O 0 do 1::-., ~ .,<;\ ~-~~~~ u 1 • • • O O O O O tJ O O O O O O O D REMARKS, a ~ .. ,• t I ... , ,v O Cl U Q O D '# O O/ ;,;t o 0 u ., ., ., u .. ., • • • U u O O C C O <> I) 0 D • • • ., ., ., • • • ., " 0 0 • U ,, • O <' ., ., o., o o o o u" • o u "o o o o o o o o., " • o o o o O O O O O O O O ti O O O D O O O O V O O U O O ,, 0 0 0 �QUESTIONNAIRE FOR MR. ?JcNEILL'S USE. �J Name ot Mine a o • I . o ,; • ; et I • ~ o Oo o Name· tit Company ooooiooooooooo o o o • • o • o , • o• • • • •• • o ooooooo . , ... -:~~ • ( C: II,, ,I .. A~er age Daily Ou t put 0 0 'V O 0 0 0 0 .,, .Jo-, . . - •0 0 ••• • • •• • 0- 0 • 3 • - • 0 0 . - / '7 r..-r - '..,. 0--~ . . , . • • ••••• C) 0 I Per sons lmlployed O O O O • 4 . 70 • o • O O O • ♦ ,O o 'O O ct O O o 0 4 0 • ••o A! 90 •••o • •o •o••o . \ ,,. 1, , ( l) ( a) Drift .. l k .. TYPE ' OF ~ (.? I ' MINEo • • • • • • o• • • • • • .. • • • .. io • • • C11 o o o l>o ov o o ooao • v•o o o • v o o ut111,, o ov o (b) Slope ... .. ( b ) Length : ' ." ;... _1'- Gr ade • II • V illt • 0 ✓ (o) Shaft - depth •·•·•• ·· ••• • o Size • • v et o001i>vo11vo••ooo11oooooo•voi.."o•oo Shape • • .. • • • · • • • • • • • • • • • • oooowo401Jooooooooo•o•~o•Otooaoooooc, Lini ng ( oonore·t e , l;>ri okwork or wood ) ................ o "o . . . . . . . . . .Gui des •••••• •0 0 ·(a) type 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .,. o o o o o 0 0 • 0 0 0000 • .. · · · • • o o o oo(b) number OO• • ••o uo oo SURFACE PLANT, ETC . (a} Hoisting Equipment. ~ -~~ \-:;' ~~-:::> \• Ty'pe ••• 0 ••••• • • • • ••• • • • How driven . ' 0Verw1nd device .., Speed control • • . ~• •• • e • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •'! • • • ••• • •• e eo • · • \ ~ )! " Winding speed • ♦ • / I. ') • • •• e e • , t f/1 0 , : :I • 0 • V • ee • O •• • o e • • 0 / • • • ., • • I, O O ~ .. 0 ' ♦ 0 0 0 0 • 0 • e e • • ♦ 0 • 0 ffJ O • 0 O O O O 0 Change- over time (a) Coal ••• ~~. -••••••• •• ••• '• • • • ··• · • · •· • ·••.• ··• · · ·" ( b ) Redd .•.. .. . . •. . ....•..•. o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b)/ II �(b) Pithead . Height of Frame • 0 0 0 1 ' d OQ I:' P OOO OOOO O Height of Di s cha~ge Level • o O ., . 000 00-o u Ot.J O OQ1Jo1,1>,oo o q,o • • " c t o o Type of Skip o o 000 00000 ooo o o o oo o o o oo o 0000 0 Maker 1 s Nrune 0 O O 0 0 0 0 Capacity ( 11) Coal t, 0 0 Q O OD O O O • o o u o oo o oo • (b) Redd O O O O O O O O O O O 0 • 'l'O V OOc. . 00 Q qo •Ooo o o o o u-, v o eu o ..,. e,10 11 o~ g oo oo o o o u o o u o u • oo u o oo 1) 0 . 0 0 \) 00, U O O O O O Ct II) 0 0 0 0 0 Q o o o o o o\> oo o o o o o o o • o o o o o o o o o o o c , 0 0 0 0 \.l r100000000000000000 0 0 1,1 0 0 0 0 00 0000000000 0 QOO O OO O Anti- Br e akage Devi ce attached ? 0 9 u o o o • o ooo o • o o o o o o u o o o o c o o o o u o o Maker' s Ne.me (c) Tipple or Cleaning Plant. -.I {d) Cage ( Manshaf t ) . fype o .- " ¥ ,:i .. O o O O • Q a • Bennet • o o .. o d o . "' • ., o . O II g O • o O O O ct .. o •• o • • tJ It O QI .. " O O O <t .". " o ~ 0 V o O O O O \) 0 0 0 V o Cl 9 0 0 0 V .. o ,.,. o o . o o o . (II \) ~ • C, 0 '-' V o •• • a . o . o. o o •• o v" u Lining or rail and toe boar d on gui de sides • o • •• O••· · • · ·· • • o • • Hand h olds o • o o o o o a • o o • o • o o • o " o o o o • o o a o o • o • o . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . o o • Safety c a.t ches . o o o o . o • • • • o • • • • • • • o • • • Q • • • a. o o o •• • • •• • o o o o • • • Do Maximum number of men allowed on cage • • • •• • ••o•• • • • • • •· • •• · •• o {e)/ �3. J, ( e) Refuse Dis;>osal. Du.mp 02.r Aerial t:eam •O•ooooooo•o•O• o Lo:rry ...... ... -..................... . • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • .. • .. ••••••oo Distance of uaste dump froni shaft ••••••• ., •••••• • •••• •• • •• • 0 •• (f' ) ~ Storage Bins . Capacity Distance from mine openings·••· · ·~•····• · •···••···•······•··· (g) Fan and Fanhouse. Water Kind Signal device .. .... ~ ! ... '1 : '. . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . o . o ... Independent Circuit ••••••••• • • •••• •• • o•oo••o••• • •••• • •••••••• Run cont:i.nuously .......-.... •.......... . -J I ( 3) ·crNDERGRO'OND EQUIPMENT . ---------- • I 1'Iethod of coupling and uncoupling Slla'Pe and s i ze of roadr1ay { rec tan~i.1lar I c:il.x:d:iar or c~1paci ·'(,y Erapties / <, ~ - '( • t... ~ t:• t-'\•li.f T:Lppe:r/ • . .... -. - ·. •) 0 " U~· V O O • l.: ' ... ., /, .... C �4. of Tubs Tipper ( b) 'Itype 0 • V O U O O O O 0 b 0 C. C) V o, c, 0 (> \) U O O • \ I O U \f U og • 0 0 • O O 'i> Ct• ' I I • 0 10 g . ' 0 ..>,.. 0 .... W' Vo I,) • lJt· o O 0 It 1" J ''"'" { c) Make:.... 1 s Nrune ~( UQo ~ oo O '-- We:l.ghing de'IYi ee Bun.ker ( a. ) -car:,a.ei"Cy ~ I,) C, 1) 0 0 0 VO O O O • 0 0 ~ 0 0 0 0 _,,. ,0 4 ' -0 O O O ~ 0 0 °0 0 o 0 0 0., 0 d \JO\) 0 0 0 U ~ • 0 -,~ t' "' t) • ,f O • V 'o ~ V O ~ V U o• ~ I Tub propelling & con trolli ng devices 0 0 \: Y O , U 0 Change-over t:tme / 0 O • V • ti; .... .... ) D .;:~ . : ~ ...; 0 • .,. 0 0 0~ 0 ~ U O ti U O O \J ~ 0 , IJ O 'I} 111' V O O O U O V O O 0 t,• ; (b; Locomoti veso r;- Ty1)e c; o0 u~.~ ~ ... u 'o ~., ~ ....... uuoc,00000 Voltage Type of n.ips u sed o e o o "0 0 • 0 0 • C, 0 O O .i I> O \) 0 0 V VO c. ~:Iaulage o -~·~ System c.... i ;;..-; i..o •• ' 0 I.I v .-" : " 9 • " 0 · ~ 0 0 1iJ •·o O O • 0 • 0 0 Cl O O O • •• 0 - -~ t: u"' ~ u o • o • u o o • o o ooo • o o o • o a o " • Grade & length Type of Pails &: Gauge J.. • °' 11 II Y O '1 Hutches •· t ype, size, .1...y·pe O.f F'•. t -,pe, e t CO '11.,, 1J I ,>"' It ; l o ·, - •. .... ...' ., l.. .,t. Q O O I ~ ••• • '"' • ;, • ,t • ' ~• 0 • ., 0 • • ., • • • • y O • c,, ~ C CilJ r �0 0 0 ,_ 0 .O O • Q • • • • o D • O ♦ • • O • .. ' V UOOO•OOu•,()11:tv•o • 0 • 0 • . . . . 4> Is Ma.ke and -~ apa-0i ty of Bogie _, .. .. _,,;.---;..) .:,": : ; q (#- .:J. t ~ ' U / :.- ,/ • : II O '- " ~ <il (, • '-' • • • • t;, • • tf fl • • • • • 0. " • - .,. ' of Safety Dev5.ce attached IlJ.urni nation of Ha.ulagermys "" •, • . •~ • - - .-T .- i,- . .. y --. Size of Lamps Pos:"L·;:;1.o n 1, s1.ze of' Charging Sta.-cion •••~••· o•o••• o• • • • · ••••o .... . u o •• o • • ~ v Ill '-' O u u a o O Ii C) 0. 0 0 0 0 0 O • ~ O o o o O u O O O O 0, O U O U o O O if O • • u u O -, o • • • O o O RE!fl/1.,R:KS • ... .. . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . .. ~>• • ••••• • .. ... .... .. •• ••• ••• .. •• .. • •• • • .. •• "~ • ~• • •• • • �QUESTIONNAmE FOR MR. McNEI LL 1 S USE . �/ , ------ 'c Name of Mine ••• • • • ••••••ooo • o • a • • • o o o o • o • o~ • o • • • o • o -o Name of Company • • •• o o a • • • • • • • -. " • • o ! . .•. . ••• •• •• • ••oo io • Looati 'on of Mine • •• ••• ·• •• • 01"• .. o"'•••O• ~: .... . . . .. .,, . o•o • Av erage Da i ly Qu{·p" ❖•. V 1 -V oo T::,r: J"o • o O o • ♦ o o • • -o o ~ • O '• ' 1,4"' 7 • o"o r • • .•,. o• - -~ o o If • • Q q I Persons Employed Unde:rground .••••• • / .~ ?. . .. . .... .. ., . y :J Ab ov eground J t _, TOTAL (l ) ( a) Drift .... : · ':> ,, TYPE OF , 0 0 t, Q •o 1' f# 0 0 0 • (b) Slope I £- / ,..jµ,'.. _._,. :. .,._. j/" ( c·) Sha£-t ._ de.pth .. . • •• 0 t:> 9 0 U ii 0 0 0. 0 0 0 ... • 41 •• 0 ••• • 0 0 0 ■ 0 I MINE. Ill' 0 V • \} 0 • 9 S i ze 0 . . ( a) Gr ade ••• • •0•0• • " • •~ •••11 ••"•0000 • 0 0 0 17 ,1 0 0 I 0 IJ \ii Iii VO O@ O O . O C • • 0 • (l • 7. I : ,, VO UV Q\> '- 0 0 • • V • V q Ci>-..• O 1,1 0 :- , • o • • ~ . lo • Ii,) . (b} Leng th ' • ~~ Z1.~ r .. V V-'OO • • o • o o o o .., • 0 !, <.,I • • "' 0 . '" ... 0 • 0. Shape Li ning (concr ete , brickwork or wood ) Number of compartme nts oo o ••• • l>O QO \ J 1 1 0 0 0 V O V OOO e . a o o o • o o o • o o o o c , • • •vo • uooovoooovo oo oo Guides ( a) type . . .... . ............. oo {b) number 001;100000000 SURFACE PLANT, ETC . J Speed contr ol .. ..t.~.. .... ... . ...... Winding s peed .. i .S". ~~~.0 ~~ ..... !. . Change-over time (a) Coal !~~.'. .. . ... ./4.,... ........ ... ., ...... . . . .. e- , Le. •.;.;•••••v•o • •• • •• v o•• • •• 111u ) (b)/ (b) Redd•• ·• • • · •• ••• •·••• • •• • • • ••••·••• · ·•••• •• �,,.· (b) Pithead. Height of Frame • • U 0 '100f,)fi!'OOOOOOOOOq,o • Height of Discha:.-ge Le'O·e l Type of Sk ip 0 Makel" ; s :N rune 0 0 0 0 0 QOO\JQU000 0 0 C' '-' I> 0 0 t> 0 0 • " oO olll ooCl'o\t . 0 0 ~ 0 .,, OQ 00000Cl'OOOOOOoo•o o O O O O V O Ooq, • \)'-"VOO(l0U o O II o o ,;t O O O P OoC)OOQOOOquo o O o O U 0 ooo o o Q ooooo oo oooooo o o o o o o o o o o ooo o o p o o o o o o o u o o o o o o o g o o o oo Capaci t y ( a) Coal oooooo o ooo ♦ o o oo oooo o ooooo u o • vooooooooo o uoo oo o (b) Re dd oooo o o q o o o o o o o o o o o 1 J o " " o o o o o \f v o 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Anti- Breakage Device attached? 11ouoO o 0 00 0 0 t,r.110a o o • o o o o o o o o c t o o v o o o ~ o o o Me.ke:r ' s Name ' \ \C J Tipple or 91eaning Plant . Construction 0 0 0 0 0 0 .IY'! ~A 0 u O O O O O Type of Sct'eens •• ~ ~ - . o • • " ll 1' 'i) 0 • •• v ,;ii '-' . • O I ' fype .ii V Bo nn.e t ~ .., O d V- 0 • \"> 0 ,... ~ o v \J O \I •u Y J \I o c U o • \) 0 V O O O O O O O o o o o o &.- .., ., .,, o o o o .., o o o o " o " t, o u o • o " v o o o o o a o • ., • u , O c, \J III V O O o O O 4.1 0 ., y • • • ,, • " ll ' Q .. .. ~ ~ f, U 'lo' y O O O U J> r!.,; o O U O O \I \I O , t> O O " u o v v O O I> .Q V O Iii' V D U V Q ... v o o o ~ > . D • 0 U O O O Bars or chains across ends 0 O V 'I" 0 0 0 0 \I 0- 0 O . V M o .,. o o C, 0 t> (> 0 •v o • o • o o o o o o • • u • • o • • " • • • u • • • • • • o • •uo Lining or rail and toe boar d on guide sides Hand hold s 0 u O '1 V O 5,, ,1 lo' 0 O O o ....... . U G O (I \I d o O U. \1 l.l O O o O O .,; Q ( d ) Uag e ( Mansh aft ) u e; v \) 0 .... .. . . . . . . . Siz es of Coal produced r..· ;' ~ . ·~~ ~ .. o • • • o c • • ~ Dus t pr ecaution o ' .. q O O OV OOOO•oooooooooo o • o o o o o o o o o o o • o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o " o •••• o o " •• • •• o • o • o o. Bridle cl·J.a in s .,. •• o o u o o o o o . o o o . o v . o S afety c:~.. t ches IJ ~ o o o o o o • • " . o . a • o . o o@. o . o o o o o o °' o o o . " ' • • o . o a • • ~ . o . o . .. . u • • o., . o o o . " • • • • o o o o o o . o o u Kind of ga tes pr ov ided at Surface landing · · · •·• •• o••~oo •.. o ••• Ma ximum number of men allowed on cage ................. ......... o • ( e)/ �C' o (t > 0 0 ~ 0 U o ,0 O 0 LO:i!l'Y voooooo<- ou 11~Qo o v o u ooo .,oo u ..,_ ,~ -> 0 o Co O O O O o O Q Trucik 0 1 > a o o o o o : 2 o o o o o u o o u o -..01Jo0Qc c, (' c, O c, Ael":lal 4' 0 n U ' ( f' ) Dj_stance f:t>om mine openings o o o o o ........ o .... ., . . . . . . o o . o . . . . . . . . . . ., .. " .. .. " O O O O <, ( g) Reser"!e Power Aux iliary Falt d / . ~ ·• . . . . . /,/~;,,.,, .. ~··~-1 Wt a &l' gauge (:. ,. . .; • ,: ._. .! .; ,: ♦ u Y.~~---✓-<:-- V/ ~n'1" ,. • n , l~l. Ci J . .L__ S ~gnal dev ice o o O • 0 :,, ,0 0 ,C, 0 0 U C, 0 ! /1-'/ c,., 1 !1U~o (! O 11 4 0 Q O • a O C1 0 O Q O O 0 0 •• 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 O O • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ) - u O • C O g. ., .. 0 0 0 • 0 .. 0 0 a • " " 4 • Q • 0 • 0 0 0 ~ C) u (II O O 0 <O (J U O O U O • '-I • Q O 0: O O O ~ 41 o V UNDERGROUND EQUI PMENT. U I,) O V ~0 • 0 0 U ~ 0 0 0 0 II G: 0 o 0 0 l\fothod of coupling and uncoupling C:aps.ci ty ( a ) 0 0 { a } Pi"t~ _Bottc,ra, .• Sh a pe ancl s i ze ( re o t a.n@.ilar 9 0 ~~ h ,IA,,{ , (/ (3) t) 0 ' / {)_ l o / o - _, · ~ C O O O Q Q 0 Ru n C O il t i nuou s ly p, o O O 0 0 (, 1) 0 I 11d e lJe nd.e l'l. t C i·..,. .... Cu .·t t 0 C) ~ o a o o " • " , o • o o ,. < <> o o o O o u o • o u • o o o .;,r, uo u ' o ~ , . o., • / O ,J .... 0 I _, . . 1 . . ~ () .,,, ~:.,-1,.v~ A . ,1 /o ~:.A-~ o /I o" o o .;-.i-,.'o",l• • o .. o o .. o . d O o �I Tipper (&) No. of Tubs O l ) U O \ l v 1 . 1 v c . c . o c , 0 0 0 ~ 1 > Q f 1 \ ) 0 o u o o o o c, Type w410 0 0 1 t o o u a • • o , , o o o q o o o \ ) o,:,oo ao "' o o'" " ooo ( c ) I;fakex- i s !ii e.me o o o . o o v . . , o o o o o ~ o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o u o u o u oooQ ' 0 ' o ~ ·-> o :,o ' o ... ~~ olk"'o"-•o-' u,~,o ! u ~ o 'c, ""J ,/ilo ;;· o" o- u :.. --'--· • oi>0 0 GO O Q OOO(l"0 -.!. (b } Tub propelli ng & controll i ng devices /I Method 0 1' cclle c t ing Redd . J-~ ~-; -;,J:, ~ ,$<, . "'·.;· ., .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . u •• • ., _ . .... . ; • (b ) • tJc o o u u o o t10 . ' ., I } y\!~ t • l'Oll0(11,g()(>C,\JVOOUlt,CO o,-. • / - UJ ?-!1,;.mbe11'J • · e 3 - Ifs:.z ~ c;i Ct O O O C (.. -· Id O O O O • V ~ ~ ?;- ~ ~ ~ Voltage o o • f&-..,.,,.,~ Jc, u V I.a, .. V O • --, O 1;11 <I V ... . 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Y O O O O O G • 0 0 0 • 0 0 U O \,I C O O O II~ ,_;,_ ✓-,.ri\, .,;i/lJf\J.:.: ~, . . ~ r 7n-u ......... ,,tJ.._-,,_. .c- :; I ) 0 V o• ,, ♦ 0 0 0 0 O O o U v O O • \, \) • .. O 0 o • O v o v u c o c v o t ; , • 9 • q 1 > 0 0 ' 1 o u • v o L1U O 0 u ,o O o c /ec... . r u O Y • r1 • U O U O O ~ 0 • • • Q u • O V ,trr, U O e ; \I \a O " Type Of n i p s used ~' ~ out11"'t.1o u \..-::..J ..,.. ('YI"'] - )i/..:Jiln-'~OU'St'. J - lO ;--=,u~ 3~ .. : 0 0 0 0 Q Q <, 0 O 0 0 Ha 'lA1 a g e o _...,...;;. t,Jy .... m g ve v O CJ O .~~ Iii O C) 0 ll O • .Yp • 0 IJ \,l O \,) 6 \) 0 \I fJ Q 0 • l ♦ , c : ~..l'ci.<J ~ • (> "" ' 0 .., II O U 6-i:, ~: . /I G:-cade & :.i..engt h of :csoadway ...·.-. .. ., ; . ~... :-., ,.,;;~.<d"• ..;.:;;-.<r;qrf.:~-.;I . . . .• ., .,,,.,pe of nr~~ ai • .J • l s &: Gai,ce --c:.> .2 O~·/ ~ i.,_;--y C.. C?, ~ -, • o o (/" o I> o ( ...•~ . '-. -·" o o o., u \I o- o • ... ... -.. .. , \); • I-"o • • . ~ d o, V c, S afe ty d e -v i c es .. ... ~.... .. ,.,'Jo .. ,, .. .... . Q:"~ •. ••"•• • o •• ~• " "• • · ~• .,a (:.., . ",!.~'- .1• ,.__ ' \ . .... C.t"• ~l \ • Hu:cehes ~- t ypa , size, etc . .' .. { . tvt:-:.. . {~., 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 '• 0 • ., .. .. 0 0 • ��Rock Springs - October 25, 1935 l!r o Eugene UcAul.if fe : Yours of October 17th, File 080-3: lli-. Skeen and 1T. Kellogg, of the Ford son Coel Company, spent \"/ednesday and '.Ihursda.y, October 23 and 24, going over our mining operations, visiting at .Superior and Reliance mines. \7e hud a meeting lea~ evening with s everal members of our staff and l!essrs. Skeen, Kellogg end t:cNeil. • llr. ?£cNeil went over his pl~s for his neu Dine ui th us, and ve discussed our own operations, am had a very interesting meeting. !Jr. SkeeD. end Mr. Kellogg left last night for hoce, apparently very we.ll satJ.si£ed u.i.th their visit. �c.s. Form:?191 5--:JJ•tO.CXICIM -U UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM TELEGRAM "" Time t .,-,--,..._ __ __ ~ 3 Gt-. Z, S}} mal1a "-Te'or GBPryde 8 3 .J Am :_t t: R('\Oks_:r i ·::-s ,l'i:r tWn eill a:rri ve :il ·t1' 1;1.:::. :..• ~l !1 .J.cy ev e1J.i. :: • ·1- 67 Eug en e ' .foAu:tiffe-954 A· : �• '!l,Js •·• • tull·ratc'Tclcsro1111,C.blr.sm~ or R•dlosrol)) iinlc" othcrwrsc lndlcolcd by slsn•l rn U.c c:1\'cck or lrrthc •dd,..,. DAV t.e:TTER NIGHT LETTER NIGHT MESSA.Ct! HP NE\'' YORK i GE. 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Jith referen ce to -ir . l\ , H . :lcNeill ' s visit to t h e Uni ted .3tc:..tes : I f h e comes <.. i l'.'e ctly here , h e wi ll y r obc:.bly oe her e some time betv;een th e 2J tn. &no. 2b h o f .Q_£J,.o....,o~~r . ..-,,.t___ I f he c. oe e not c ome he r e until af ter n i s eas tern visit , h e will .t-1ro oc:..oly n o t oe here un til some time in lfovember . It mi f:,ht be a ~oo c.1 iue a to k e ep this in mind, h &vin t:s a n e:xtra mee t in 5 of th e li inin{$ I nsti tute, Eo thc:.t to us. �.I'\ ) K. '.tl~ t:!3Uei11 0 lJ...,~t .. 0 A.sont, Pifo O ).'.l~L Co:?_ :a:y!) t ' .J. oo !to1J.;-yO Fii'o:.fai::>,:) 9 sootlund. llro P.!:~o ft)-73 n~ oop? ot y otw 1 0tt0v 0£ Aug~~t 50th and hia r e !)ly or Sopl.iv-iliJOl~ 1',:h::h., 0:;cprossing your clen!t:.Po t o v i s:2:i:: ni"'lv3 ll~in.g okip ~., :l!:iing, u!!;~h · l wgo c up2.oitJ 9:l.t c~u.,o :, oto o v:e 77ou.ld 1~to vorv !'.:12.cll to h nvo you ooD.;::, t.l.::11"\oJ-7.; -~ o H 001~ sprinv , r:;r~:1ll:::iG, th~I>eo:?tm.., 0 12.I' p0opl0 oD.11 v~, j :~0 -yon (Si'J:J'i} :hito t'.h.e Utah field. t:L'lil ofter th:.tJ ~ i.;119 u oro gc;J..:Wlll Q.ll 3Yw!l!l'ful:;,-t.i.ou ally aoqu:lrcd aoq12.aint~ob y o:a tii l l gat r.1 i:iil ow.., o·i;hc:lc O i ua:i arrnn~o £0!' y::>ta to via.Lt e!tip tiindinc; n:l..-i0:::i :ln. Illin cia O n:.rl pol"'hapn fa?'·ther ;::,oat . an a g~o7:al dil"oot !'>OU.Go h.oi...:I:iuurJ. o I wi11 havo no tE>ot!blo g atc:1ng ~ 012 ini;o ·;;110 1 1:Li .c oia px,o... ·th0 01.mors olo::io aoquum ·tl.l...l:30.J II lm.\i :i: ~1.1.11 l:0quirio 2. littl e !10 to propnro o. oohec1tJ..1o r.:~w :a. 'i,;],11 onD-bl ::i y ou ·to v i o:li; ons·torn skip nind!ng ninoo uithout ·Goo nu.o?.:::. 1 030 of 't:L-:::i c-: y o111., trip. Thio l Cll1 Ul'!U3~tnkmg 't;CYl a.y . •porties If yott ·,1i □h to vioiv bl1e oucrtnr-!i :i:1in00 f l-ro-t ,i, unJ \72.ll o.dviao me of a Nou York o.ddr00 0 nkl.0!'0 I c:::n. ~oo.oh ,rou. uit :.: r.~::;.i 1 I oa.-ri -furn!l.oh you, by tho t9.1:-; oi' -yotn' O.l"z>ivo.l 1!'"1. i:0-:-1 Yo!'k 0 .,_....2_•i;t . a oOl!lplote iti.11.orar:,0 lot-;; crr: of :2.nGz-cx.1.t,c ~!o.n~ o'i.ic • Ch :;lie ochor h arul• if -;;ou dco~e to oom:: \:c:fr f~st 0 z. day opcmt i.'I!. Ch i onf)o woalu provo mo~t intarootmFO mm r. oa.n axirungo _i' o!' yotir onto~ta!nment by· rol)llcoonte:~1vos •oi' tllo Allon & Gc..wcic. Englncor~e O 0-.1pany ltoO orcl.ok Dtdld:i.ng , cw..earo., OJ:) \ ~illio.!l r.. Go~ ., 7.?ico., Pros!dent, Ooodr.an kO.."lt.1.fc.c·tLU'5.ng u o:ip:1'.1y-, 4.-Siih a...""lc1. n c.:r;~:(;.!. &t!'oota , Chioago, th.o OOOct.tlOn O O!!l.pany 1:1.·•..nufc.otlU"'Ol'lO, 01· m.uing !'.L'lOh ~•lE'n o 1000?!lotlves , ~ !11 moc.\hnnioal lo:-..u:lng I!ElOh:lnery. 1 ·wollld a.pprooiZ?.to ~ow ,:r:lti.'lg mo ·Ghat you. Cl"'c co:."':IJ:g d1reotl7 ,;:oat, oitliett tllo Poti.naylvo.nio., the Dal ti!:.lor J & ~1io ~ o::..'i tho lio·\1 York Oontra1 Linea carrying you. i'1•om l'iEr,, ':o=....?: C1:r;;1 •~;o Ohioago, the Ohioago ,~ Ueu>th..1eotorn Ra.il W'J.'f nn:1 mlicn PD.OJj.>ic Sj'O• tea Linea takSng :,ou. .trc:n Obioago to Rook ·Sprlngo , !l'a1no 7 17 or 2'1 the best tra.Sn out of Ohlo~go, shootA ~om our ourron~ ·tim..1 oard enol oeed. �CC: . . �CLASS OF SERVICE DESIRED D OMESTIC ~ CA.91.E. ECRAM FULL RATE DAY LETTER DEFERRED ,_ NIGHT NlG~J,,.ER MESSAGE NIGHT SHIP LETTER RADIOGRAM Patron1 1-bould cbccl. clus of &cr"l'f1:-c dcolttd; olherwac mCDA1:<1 will be - t t e d unfGll·n>lo c:onm:nmlc.tion... X <e@IF'rF @lf ~~~,r]E~JW '[QJ~Il@JW ir~l1J~@~AM llcl1ei l l, Fifcol, Kelty F i feGhi re, ~~otl cnd HAVE YOUR LETT.!.:l.R N:TD Al'.1 ..1.'X'l.'3:lDI MG TO YOU uos·r CORDIAL nrvr TJ~'l'IOH VI SI T OUR YiYOllI!TC ?r.OEERT1ES LETTHR FOL:.o·:1IHG George .rryde l/ �Rock Sp rings - Sevtember 13 , 1935 llr . ~ ene :.lct ..uli f f c: F!erer1i t:t. copy of l et t er from I1r . K. l!. llcli eil l, Agen t of the ? i fe Co al Conyt:.ny , a.t o. group o f the ir c olli eries aroun d Kelty , i n t1estern :i?i feshi re . .!. rathel" i n fer tha t tlr. llcNeill r1ould li ke to come west to see s ome of the elo p e 01>era ·Gions, o ::: 11 ·a ook s 11 a s they a re called in t he old country. I h ave_ t h e feelin g that, 1:1i th yo ur v1i de acqua i ntance \":i th t he o pera tors in I lli nois, t hat uou l d be &. t-;,oo ci pl ac e f or hil!l t o s e e the skip windi ng , which h e is no clou ot in te1·e s ted in . I would be greatl y obl i g ed t o you i :f y ou \7ould y1ri te \ a 1 et t e r t o Ur. MclT ei 11 , su,gg e s tin e; an itinera r y f or hit'!. I f he came di rec tly to Chicac;o , y ou could no doubt £ et i n touch '7i th h i m or pu t hi:m. in tou ch wi th the ri ght peo pl e so t hat he could se e the pro perti e s in which he is i nterested . evioently pl an quite a large opera tion. Orl:rln~I S ll(tled: Gl:Ofl Gf a·. PRYDl T'n ey �• SeJ/~erabex 13, 19 3!3 l •~ ._\ l.. "-· . •c.. ei~!, ...'. 3c;- , ,\Gent ?he i::'e Co:-'!. C.:>::i.!.1 :::1y, .!:im ted ~ : cl ~Y ~ :~.:..rcclli 1 ~ Leo t.lD.:lC~ I ,;-;0:3 very plen.sed to lwvc. your l etter of t he 30th ul ti:::o, c2dvi s ing the. t ~-ou plc."'l to visit thG Uni tea· ~tc.te::;. ~;e Ehall be g l ad , indGeu, to hb.ve you coce to Wyor.iinf; c.:.nci vis1 t uny properties of ·The Union Pacific Coal Coopany. You uill nc ~oubt 00 inte~ccte tl in the· hoi :::tin.g from slopes ( dooko) • so□e bal ??t, as hi ch oe 35 p er cent, usins electric h~ists ent!rcly. ~e will also be glQd to shou you the lczcc pit cars (iuba; which ".7e have in operation in scoe o~ our ·:,yon.in& r.nnes. • / I en t1ri ting to our ..t:-1re:si den t, :.:rr. Euccne UcAuliffe, todoy, ~l:!o res1dea in G~aha . ~dvisio 0 hi □ or your imvenai ng viei t to the Uni t0d Stoteo. o.nd t.s"king ·him to T:ri te you hJCrson~lly. i.:1~ . llc/1.uliffe baa e wide acqu~intunce amnG cool mining □ en in the United stntes, ena I t;D eure he ,,;ould be £ l ta..d to put you in touch r;i th t1eoplc where you twuld fir.cl. the lr.1·ge eki.t,_ r1incine;, in the ~ta.t e or Illinoi s . l>rooa.bly 1 t would be r1e ll for you to co::ie direct~ from IJew York to Chicq:.o, :!aVising :Ir .. McAuliffe ~here your headquarters would be there. &nd he could kee~ in touch u itbyou. I ~~ slll'e i t woulc.1 be a breQ t vl ea OUl.'e • to him to t..1 ve you uny letters of introduction. !Jutting you in touch tii th coal 1>eoi;>le from districts where tt.e shnft mines a re operated, 01· ony otter l;>hnse of minint. you -roulci desire to ~e t in to':lch with while in the ~.:..stern 11urt of the Ct&tes. Or you could co~e a irectly to \iyominb, ue Dr. Reia did . ~ rs. Pryc:ie and· I woula be c]ad to ho.ve you "• our £,Ueat while you are here. You vJ. ll find �2 ~ui te n m:..-~be:r o 'f .3cotch iieople in Ro ck Spr.i ngs r1ho z;orkcd ~or yo~: Cocpany prior to cooinG to the ~tute00 end if you ..J.cu lct i eel ho!'.:le □ick, · i-. :.!cAulu :re has t. ver.i c~·c0ll c:1~ .L.:!.ltic Band c-tc::.tion~:l at ~ock Sy:tin&s , c.nd r,e r:ill get i 'i; out for you. "io~ ~y :i·ast tlasured t ha t i t r1ill be a ·Jery greet ... : ... t...-~ e !'o~· us to 11ave you with u s !:are i n. ·;;yocing. :..:'.:,.. i:!." jOU. dcsil'a tc, visit 0ny·of the Stute u ~dJc:.cen t '.:_, .'.., oIJ.inG, ·ue cti.n arrange for t h~t, al c;o. ·,ihen you hec.r fs.•o~ ~r . !lcAul iffe . as you no cioubt ~;ill, he ,·iill 1n.ooobly liuve oome . EJ~gestion s a s io y our i tit!e t·ary. l u~ extremel y grateful for Dr . Reid and your vis! tin e; ::r.51 -father and s i ster . ~·aiher i s c;ettinb .,ell alone i z1 yee.re non, · ooo a ~! c it fi•on i:oth of you v:ill mccn c. grea t deal to :hi □ . I elm (£1·eutl y ind ebt ed t o you for ·, hie visit. Very Gi ncerely yours , Or!llhU•l Sla{f!od: G r " :.,::-·;; :-:;VD[ �e';Jt,, (:!' J!j,{~if:,nrfan;r /4,re,,{ ~ T£LEGRMIS •CARLOW, PHONE, L EVEN!' "f1Fcol!: COWDEN8EA.TH. T E.L E.PHONE~~ 161 & 162 " ~o,,;, f.nr, st,. /JJ,!Jr, . L avs N N"t 181 TO 185 COWDltllBltATH. 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'b~ 1:~ir. rope hr:it11 $l~0:J . l' e uncle ,,:J t t=md '.l:t t ~1 OH :!r,re ::·1::iuJ o r:e e ,)U i pi::ert i r y ou r d i s tric t tlCRlic~ 1it~ v1r ~ J nr 3e out:u ts on c r ~~es u~ t o l i n 4 or G. I i th r, 1ri e:1 t o ~a1,i,in.:; fir3 t l1omJ 1:n• J.ect.-:;e of the n •1st 1:oder:. cc,:tlition:.,, 1,oth i r, s· -1 ,, :ii r:di n~ r it r.ot t cr: l~y <?u t , r ;1d clonk i: :>t,:t l'G e , the r i ter i ., c nni n,:-; to t l~e E! t r tcs, :; .>.ili r..:; fro,'l Gl e>s ; O·.1 m: r~th , ctri,er ~· ~ . 0uJ tl 'i.1 e ye r ~r i-;~e~sed i f ~: ou :•.i v ;_:; r 9nt t.,h<") ,.~·} c e::::v'r ~· i'::- r:lli t ieo I' m." "is i t inr_; such r 1 ~r:qz t·s :·ou -:"'~- ti, i nl ·., lJ.l ''P. 't;/f i r.~ :i. 01.' :::,rt ·.,e :'r o-ose tloi n s . 0 ~-Le :,ri t ~r iJJi ~, ri P. iu, •.. ~o. : ~' Ou 1·r.o;s , h rd t :L<:: " ) ~~ =n..1-,.q o ..• .;;, r.:".' ' ir.:; t,1-:9 ~fte rno on l Po t f und~~· ·:1i t h ~?our 1·~ -t.,h,1r P ~.d ;J. s t B r . ::-i ,1 • r . 1 • Y 0\,r .i.'t1 U1er "'ml i '5 '7r- jo:ri n[' t,i ,o 1ie::;t, --- rJI: v o; ,,.,3 ?o,.. r.F... i 3 J onh i n~~ rer.r r l Ah l~r :.,el) i11'l < 1. t h . r 8 i t h ..·t\ :i J ~• , ·,: p r.- ,..,...,..r r."·-:T>f 1·"'V , T,I HT'T-;,T", -f{. H, 11\I~, Pc;ent . 7'.v.-, �R£C £IVEtY \JUL 13 1938 ~ HE COLOHY COAL C OMP MINES AT G ENERAL OFF I CE BOSTON BUILDING DENVER DINES & ROCK S PRINGS, S WEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING ROCK SPRI N G S . WYOM ING W . D . B RYSON MANAG ER OF O PERATIONS Jul y 12, 1938. ~.Ir . Geor ge B. Pryde , 1Tice Preside nt T'n e _Un i on Pa c ific Coal Com~an,_v , Rock Sp r in~s , Wy oming . Dea r l~r. Pryde : I am r eturning to y ou h ereY. ith Pres i dentic'l Address o:f ?fr. Charles C. Reid. T'. ais i s a most inter esting l).:)F!' 2nd I t hank y ou for the cpportuni t y t o reed it. Yours v ery truly, LI,$\'l ', 't li\ , t I v \.i._, 13 1v _ _ _ _ _ _Q_ U_ A_L_ I _T_v__ c_o_A _ L_s _ _ _ _ __ [m ___ u_N_ E_x_ c_ E_L_ L _E_c_s _ E_R_V_J_c_E _ __ _ �ALL COMMUNICATI ONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. ~') HEAD OFFICE: • L EVEN, F I FE. ~ I TELEGRAMS °CARLOW. PHONE, LEvrn:· "FtFCOI'.: COWDENBEATH. TELEPHONE N~! 161 & 162 LE.VEN. N~! 181 TD 185 COWDEIIBEATH . Y0UI\ REF•- · - - --· · - __ OUR REF-.--G-GR/.IE. Ivir. George I3 o Pryde., The Union Pacific Coal Company, ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, U. S. A. Dear i',Ir. Pryde, Many thanks for your interesting l etter of June 22ndo If vie have been able to do anything with our Safety Caropa}~n, it is very largely due to your e ood example aru:I~generous manner in i:t..~ich you put your experience at our disposal. I congratulate you upon your record for the first f~ve months of this year, ,1hich to us is s impl y astounding o Yours very sincerelyg �f ~~~~~~ ( Rock Springs - June 22. 1938 . Mr. I. N. Bayless: Herewith Presidential Address of 1.ir. Charles C. Reid, as President of the llining Institute .of Scotland. please send i t to all our superintendents to read , i t to me thereafter. Will you rn �June 22, 1938 ll:r. C. C. Rei d Th e Fif'e Conl Comr>eny, L'/;d. Comienbea th, Fi f 0r:::hir0 Seo tlnnci Dear lir . Reid : I h ave youro of t he 2nd i n s t an t, t.o Ge tlle:r ui. th co1,y of your s'l.'esi <l en tial Address, un d I t han k ~'o u very rt!llch f or this. This i o a very vo.lv.o.b l e repo:r t to huve in n\Y files. I nas 1:?,reat~ interested i n rca tlin n l t, 0 1d you s t ated coae very pe1,tinen•i. facts to the coal indus try , b ri nc1ine them to their a tten tion mo st forcib ly . I ho:oe you u i.11 fin d. .YoUl' t enul"e of off'io e u. lJl casant one, ~nd 1 am su:,;e, \Ji~ch your exi,>erien ce, you wlll oe able to so l v e @any of t he yr•obl em'3 ,·,: hich cor.ie before the Institute. Bu.Gin eos he:rc i o s till v ery qui e t. Con(.7•c ss has adjoumed, b ut le:ft in i t13 rml:e a :r.'lood o f c:invecti cc tion s 0 uhich ui.11 kee.1,-1 the country, ,m d bu.oin eoc 1)8.l.'ticulo.:rl:,7 , i n 2. rather cliffi cult J}O si tion ciur ine; ·t.11 0 en tire summer. 'fuc upump-p;dming 11 pi•o jecto o f 1-':residen t 1'oosevelt will t c.i-.e 0ome t i me to t ultc effect, 1.>u ·1; fe\1 ousineao vcoplc exp ect to obta in rmch benefit from this pro grv.m, merely qiendint, money nhich ,.,o tli.11 o.11 hf1Ve to r,oy at a le tel' dn te. Hut the 1,residen t end the Democratic pvrty in this cov.rd,r y nre u rr;ed b y the imminence of' the ):.loli ti ccl. cunr,aicn this fall to do soacthinz outotandin~ to keeE, themselves in 1,ower, ono., like o.11 politicion o , they are not :varti cularl y in terc s t ed o::r concerned re&a.:;:di nc; the method adopted . l; • e hcd our F irst Ai <i Eiold '.D~ and Ol d 1'imcra' oelebro.tion l c•Lt 1'r·id£J.Y l'.11<.i ;.-;vtur<iuy , \!i th a v ery l ura e crot1d. You may bo int ercst ed to knot'/ that our " Dn lli.ne o.t sur,erlor, \.'J~•oming , ,·:on tlle II sen ti ncl s o f :..iafety" trophy r!hi cl, i o oxmrded uncior t he au opiceo of the Uni tad St r~·tes Bureau of Mines , t ile tro phy don a t ed by TtL0 l!i:t1.1lo oivca I::n&inecz-, the 1>ublico. tion of the Ilercule 0 l 1omlo:.." Com1Jsny . This tro phy is ven ea.ch yenr for t h e ou t stnnclin e Sv.fety reco l 'cl in bituminousconl J!linea in tho Uni t e<i ~t o. too. Our Superior •1n 11 rune \"Jon o. �2 Ur . C. C • R eid June 22 , 193 8 thi s trophy i n 1933 , o.n d SUp 0rio 1· ° C0 1.iin e in 19 34: , an d no w t h e Su.perior 1? 1)11 :i.: i no l as t year . You may be su r e ,;:e :feel v ery h aiJPY ov e:r the a,\:az-d . For the :fi r:<1 t :fi ve months o f 'l.h io y ear , ,ve h nve obtain ed a rec,Jr ct of 118 ,000 man hours p er i n j ury , bu t, of co u1·s0 , u e f ind the re i s a ii l l lots to do on ~afe t y ·na rk . M:,ain, ul lo \·1 me t o t hnnk you f o r your t ho u ghtfuln es s in sen di n e ~e ·i;lle i>nJ.)er, und raay I ex JJrc ss rny c oed ,:Ji cll es to y ou end yo u:.;,• :;;·Ga :i.'! . Very sincer el y yours , Orlgln3.l Slv,ned: GEORGE B. PRYOt �Hl:CfrVtD ALL OMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. JLiNi1 193s VICE PkE:::SlbENT ~~~~ON• ~ HEAD OFFICE: LEVEN, FIFE.. TElEGRAMS "CARlOW. PHONE. LEVEN'.' ~Fll'COL: COWDEN BEATH. TELEPHONE N~! 161 & 162 LEVEN. N~~ 181 TO 185 COWDENBEATH. YOUR REI' OUR RE£ ·------- ··-- --·- CCR/;r:_E • Ilir. George B. Pryde, Rock Springs, \l'/YOMING, U.S.A. Dear Nir. Pryde, Many thanks for your letter of 19th instant o You might like to have a copy of the complete address which was delivered, and this I have pleasure in enclosing. I am afraid that Industry everywhere throughout the world is very unsettled. What prosperity we might all have if we could settle our political troubles.- We were hoping that things would pick up with you in the course of this year, and really I cannot see how we can ever be prosperous unless our friends in America are joining in that prosperity. I should like also to thank you for your good wishes, which I greatly appreciate. With kind regards, Yours very s inc ere ly , Enclo/ --~-------,,.► l �I - - • PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS by Cho.~l os Co R0ido miy I fir•st of o.11 ·chank you for electing me as y our President - an honour Dhich I dee ply appr eciate and which I have e.cc0pt0d n ith som0 diffidenceo As I loo!c through the long list of distinguished Presidents o.f this I nstitute :i I feel I can hardly hope to be an a dequate successor , but such service as I may be able to render during my t 0rm of of£ice t1ill be at your d:lsposo.l.P and I shall do my b est to be i1orthy of your confidance. I am told that the President on such a n occasion as this has am.de choice of subject:i and if for a short time this . afternoon I uander into the realm of mining politics:, ther e is a good excuse:, for surely anything or a fundamental nature affecting the industry must be o f vital importance to us as mining ongineors. The industry has recently been passing through a period of relative prosperity# for which ue are very thankful• but tl:i.is must not blind us to t he fact that the ttcoal Problem" is still unsolved. In pre-\7a.r da,a we were an expanding irulu.s trsJ; develop- :ment in the shape of neu collieries ,·1ent on unceasingly and we found n r eady market 1'or all the coa l vie could produce. vast/ A �2o vas t change has coco 0 ~..,;or the ai tuation s ince the War, and market s a.b rood \:h:1.cr.. r10 l oolred upon as our o\Til have been invad ed by our conp0tito~s, and f or one reason and anot her the t empo of our production has been sloued dormo As is tiell lmo't'1ll, \"le h a.v c o. l rmys b0 en a n i ntensel y individualis t i c ind.us t ry . The very na'i:;uro of our u ork bree ds i ndi vidual i am, and ue are genorally segregated f rom other indu strie s o In the cmnership 'and control of our collieries a. succession from f ather to son haa not been uncommon. under circumstances such a s these, one i s a lmost bound t o d evelop a conserva tive and sectional outlook. Neu times c a llfor neu methods and the troublo is that ue have been endeavouring uith little success t o meet an entirel y ne\7 situation u ith t he old ueapons . I f I might use a s imil e , I \7ould say that before t h e \"Jar uo trere lilte a vigourous army a dvancing over a mdo front, conti nuous l y capt uring f r esh territory. Every offic er of a compo.ny uas a ln~ unt o himse lf. We wer e victorious , but there wae _n o r e sistance . mm f'roiil various diroctions enemi os have appeared to stem our advance. We have been throun ba ck 1n disorder; u e have pr epared no trenches 1n ~hich ne can consolida t e and r ecover J victory uill not again be ours until ther e is a plan of cai:1paign with unity of command and direction. You all know the offorto which have been made since 1921 to solve the problem of our efficient future. Sankey Report/" ~------~~------------- �r So f Sankey Re1:>or•;; o Thero mis the So.nlwy R.0port of 1921 which made a. number of' recommendations, cm10:nf, r;h:lch \70.S the nationalisation of royalties o Some of these ~oco.Lillle:.~dntions uere eventually carried out but nothing emo:i?g0d ·c:i.' lich cl a.:r>ified ·i.he real issueo Samuel Cormrri~sio.B:?. Then 1.1e came to t ho Samuel Co!l'llll:1.ssion of 1926 uhich recommended a policy of voluntur-y amalgamationQ 1u~isin6 out of this Commission co.me the Coal Indus tcy Act o.f 1926 uhich opened up the nay !'or voluntary amalgamations, but the Coo.1 Orme:r:•s made no use of these pouers and the solution of the problem see-.ncd o.s far away as ever. Lenis Committee. Then ue bad the Lema Committee R0 port on Selling ~hich got nearel' to the mart of the subjecto It indicat ed that o!'ganised marketing ~as desirabl0, but went on to say that this could only be carried out if tho industry were ccmsolidated into a smaller number of units by ru:nulgamation. The industry oas clearly not yet prepared to t~rk along co-operative lines, ar.d the Lema Report Committoo;'had therofor0 no d0finite result. The position became more and more acute as the day uent on. Competition between the various companies reduced the p1•ioee to uneconomic levels, and for some years the inaustry in certain districts at least nae working at a loss. The Coal Owners got together 1n en endeavour to do something for themselves. Various schemes were tried throughout the country, but there was no unity or/ �""' of plll'pose and nothing const~uctive seemed possibleo Coal mines Aet,, 19300 Then i'ollcc1ed th0 Coo.1 r.iines Act of 19300 Par·i; I o:f this Act dealt m.th miniY.J.um pt"ices and output quotas, while Part II set up a Re-Oi?ganiso:tlon Commission, lmovm as the Gotrers Commission., upon nhich 't"Jas put tho duty of the re-organisation of the Coal Mining Indus t1"7, and f or tba t pu..rpos 0 to p1""oniot0 and assist ama1gamation uhere such appea~ed to the Oommission to be in the national interesto You all lmou the history of the Selling Sch0I®s from 1931 to 1935; the difficulty of finding common ground and the conflict betueen the various interests. There uas clearly ·a uill on the part 01' the majority for co-operation, but as time r1ent on, it uas recognised that nothing short of compulsion uould have any effect. As one coalmmer said, "There are too many of us to reach agreemant on anything. 11 The result of it all uas four to five years of ineffe~tive:ness during nhich ti1J10 the industry uas languishing. The country uaa prepared to give a ~onsonable price to the Coe.lounera, but the tragedy was they could not collect it. And thon, you remember, e.t the and of 1936,uhen the agitation for an increased uage to the miners became insistent• the Government indicated that v1e must do something o.f en adequate nature or the Board o.f Trade would be compelled to intervene. In/ �7 5o In this fashion tho Cont~olled Selling Schemas, under '7hich tie are no\"; t1oz,~dng 0 ceme in'Go operationo Happily, their institution coinc:ld0d r1ith an upuard movement in t l"ade and because of' t h:la it raizht be fair to say the. t controlled selling hns not yet bo011 properly testedo Many people well qualified to judge do not b0lieve that it trlll stand the test of adverse conditionso It is a halfuay house bett'reen individual selling and central selling and has fer:, o.dvo.ntagesD except that oach Company has command over its coal and retains its Selling Staffo I uonder hou many people seriously believe that controlled selling m.th its Committees and cross currants uill carry the industry through in good d ays and bad. The upuard movement in trade appears for the moment to have ended a nd ~ recession, uhich we all. hope is only teuporary, has set in. There are signs already th.at the edifice t1ill not s tend the strain., and perhaps befora long uo shall be faced with tho necessity for adoptin;; c entral nelling in its raost complete form. It mit~t have been 't7iser if during the last t\"10 and a half years of good trade wo had been putting our house in order and preparing a system of aolling uhich could operate effectively at all times, but this, as I uill try to shou, is no easy task. The colliery companies in Groat Britain number considerably over a thousand. In Scotland alone there are over one hundred; and fifty per cent. of the output is no~ controlled by nine of them. How 1s 1t possible to contemplate a successful selling scheme/ �60 schome in Scot lend r!itl'l. so un,7ield""y o. personnel'l llany of the lending coalotme:rs have said 'i.he s ame thing~ but, VT!lile they adnit the difficulty, they are not prepared to apply tho x,e:nedy !I t1hich is clearly emalgamr;\'l;iono They 00.y, "Voluntary amo.lgo.mation ... yos, but compulsory amalgamation certainly not n :> ond so the Indus tey is allo\"Jed ·co d rift o Uou let m0 say a. t1ord a.bout the Re-organisation Commission. In its early stago~ i·t attempted to promote and assist ar.10.l gam:ations or a voluntary character 11 but mot ,nth no success. Then it was obliged to turn to a policy of compulsion., o.nd aft e r collecting much infornia tion and for-m.ulat:lng a nunber of schemes, it -;;as found that its po,:rnrs were insufficient ·i:;o carry ·cham to conclusion. hlld s o nothing uas don0. At the same time 11 it i s veey inte~0sting to hear ub:l. t the Chairmnn of tho Ro-Organisation Coi:jllnission has to say about the Coal Industry ai'ter having h ad a grsator opportunity of examining it in intimato detail than ony other public man of our time. He says, "'11he :lndust1-:y cannot:, as it soems to me, tmrk out its u:.timate salvation., :ln whatever tra.y that is to be done, \1ithout i'urtha- reducing the nll?ilbor of' independent units of \"1hich 1 t consists. Th.ere ere f ar too many people \7hoso agreement 1s necessary." Tlm COAL BILL 1938. ~e arrive nou at the Coal Bill of 1938, uith its unification of royalties, compulsory ru?1algomation of collier1ea vrith certain safeguards, continuation of selling achemes till 1942, and the setting up of a perz:umont Coal. CoDIZiliss1on. Anyone/ �1 7 0 Anyone nho paid sm:•i ous a t·i;mt ion to the Bill during its passage thl"ough t h 0 Hcrun0 of Cmmons vms bound ·to have noticed certain indica ·i;io:ns \:h i ch might be taken as a guide to the feelings of the eount~y n~ l a rgeo The2e may be sta t ed as fol l w s: There a p p00.re d t o b3 an earnest d0siz,e that 1h i3 Coal problem should be se·i;tl ed '\Tltr..ov.t unnecessary a.als.y., but confidence wes lacking in the ability of the Coalowners to do t his by thems0lveso Further, the :rs seemed t o be a fundamental dislike of the principJ.e of compulsory unification if any other method would serve the purpoBe. In addition, a distrust of the safeguards in connection ~ith the selling schemes was evidenta but there uas a desire to see the scbemes have a fair trial. It uould probably be, r:lght to say that the Coalm7ners of the country are a.gains t compulsory unification in any shape oi~ f'o~mo I need not remind you of the steps \7hich n0r0 x>ightly taken during the paasing of the Bill t;o make ce~J~ain that uny scheme, before it was passed, uould as far as possible give fair play to all the constituent parties. One cannot holp thinking hm-1ovor, that many of the Coalowners are hoping that the safeguards nou Gm.bodied in the Bill will have auch a penal effect upon compulsory amalgEU11!ltion3 that little more will be heard or thom. are wrong. I/ In the interests of the trade I trust they �8 0 I uonder :lf r10 recoGni se uhen the indust1-ay accepted \"1hat amounted to a s olli~ monopoly in our own country, the. t it lost 1.ts :i.ndopendonco o:r ac·i:;iono Tho Government is bound :1.n the interests of the countr-y to malte certain that the industry reaches its hie:..heot ef!?ieiency and the industl"Y cannot eJtpect to bo spscieJ.ly t~eated by Parliament unless it is prepe.red to recognise its contine;ent ~esponsibiliti0so In this conn0ci:ilon the e.ppointment of a per--u10.nent Coo.1 Commission :ts a significant; step in the histor-y of the Co:il Uining Industry of this countl"Y, and &i't0r th0 unif ication o:r the roya1ties is \:!ell under wc.y, \'Je may Empect to heCU' a great deal about roorgonisation f r om tho production sidoo I h9.ve sai d before that the nation is entitled to i nsist that an industry, t o YJh.ich i t gives monopol y solliue po-ae1•s 0 ailould be efi'iciout in th0 highest degrse and capaulu of rendex•ing to the country the groatest nu tional se1,..'ll'ic0. Oen our prenent standard of efficiency be criticised and v.rill unification achieve bottor rosul·i;s? ~ti the distribution of coul as economical as it can be made? Is the Export tracle b3ing f'ostered to tho fullent extent possible and nl'O tho sollin,g arrangemento such as uill onable this to 'tie done? Do not let us forgot that from an employment point of view the Export Trade is vital. Is/ �I I 9o I s the industt"'y boiP..g run in such a fashion th.at thG neu deve1opm0nt s nocos s 0.1..;,,· to roplo.ee collier:l. es going ou"C~ o f action can be pa id fol" ou:i; of o.ccumule:i;ed f u nds, remembax,ing that the neu coll:lo!'ioo of 'i:;h 0 fut ure will cost :fur more to s ink and f it ·i;..h.n..'l'J. ·cho old ones? Is the Industry O1,gs.nised so the;i:; a fai r \"Jo.go con be pa.i d to the uorke~s engaged in it - a vmge t hat shall be in line with othe r trades ·i;h:roughout the cotmtry ? These a r e the questions uhich the n at i on is entit l ed to ask. I uonder ,1bnt t he e.nswers tri ll b e . For many years I have been a believe:v that the unifica t i on of mines would mnke for greater effi ci e ncy on bot h the production and selling sides, and as time goes on, that bel ief i s reinforced. \1hat I have in mind i s the forma tion of l arge compani es on publi c utility lines, each ha.v i ne; a chart er, givin~ i t the s ole r i ght to uork coal in its mm area. Already the advant ages from the sellin& side have been indica.t ed, but if \7e take the long vietr, the economies to b3 found in production are no l ess r eal. For ituJtance, 1n Scotland ne~ development s to replace existing collieries shortly going out of action aro imperative. These developnents will be a t considerable depth, demanding a large capital outlay, .and the solution of s erious housing problems. Few individual companies today have either the capital to spend, without crippling themselves, or an adequate staff to deal with the technical problems necessarily involvod. I have also supported the principle of compulsory amalgamation because I could see no progress/ �200 progross on o.."l.y othGx> l:ln0sQ I do not hov1ev0r beli eve t ha·c it \:-ould be nlso to o.ppl~· :l'c:; i n connection u i th o.ny part icular scheme un1ess ·t o coopol a difficult minor ity o \'Jha t kind o f msnagEiment and con·li~ol could you eJq>ect :ln a grou p where compnnies ~ere all brought together agains t thoir u ill? Perhaps t ho issuo i s e far great er one than mos t of us non contemplate. Is the ehoioo really betuoen t he pr es0nt system of in.dividuol omie~shi p o~ uni fi cat i on s uch as t he Bill pro poses? . Some people mey bo asking if privat e O'l7nershi p in any f orm is· capable or solving t he Cocl p~oblem. In a recent l e tter to "The Times :, Sir Arthur Salt or0 r.! oP o made the follouing comment:"If Governments cannot govern, a mixed sys t em of state enterprise and super vision - tJhich is t he alt ernat ive to the r eplacemen·t of pr iva t e enterpriso, b y s t at o socio.lism - become s indofens ible . Thor a are very many uho if forced to choose b at creen an obviously unjust semi-State system manned by a sta t e ~hich hfla b een ca:pl1I'3d by section- :al interests, a nd a more corupl et e stnt o system, from uhich private enterpris 0 hod been el iminate d, r.ould r e luctantly but u1thout hesitation choos e the latter." Thero are soma uhose objection to unification is that it may be the prelude to national o\7llorsb.ip, but surely this m.11 only come 11' the IndURtry is s.o bankrupt or leo.dership that 1t cannot reco.st private omership to meet modern cond1ttonso Most of .us hate tho very thought of state Offllersh1p from a national point of view. Perhaps/ �110 Perhaps in this veey Coal Bill ·t..ne Mining Industry is getting its las·t chem.co to l"ofox-m itself' and one hopos v1hen the history of om, tinie c omes to be uritten., it nill no·c ho.v0 to put on record t:!:'IJ:J p:t@siri..g of a g-J?eat opportunity a I am convinced that p~lvate enterprise can, with vision and breadth of outlook, give us ove~ a number of years a revitalised indust:!?y which u:1.11 be the pridGl of the nation., but only if that individua l: ism, in uhich ·the Industry is nou entrenched is broken dot1n, and a spirit of co-opare.tion and national service domirui.tes ite policy. I hope that the Industry rrlll d 0cide to co-operate uith the neu Coal Commission ...-,hen it is appointed, examining !li th sympathy and good\·rill the schemes put fortm.rd, thus ma.king its contribution touards the solution of a problem uhich has eluded us f or so long. �I I L'iECHA.NISATION o Turning non ·to tho m1b j 0 ct of t'iech an:tsation.? \70 may find a clue to 01.W p:i..,,05:P0so ii.' v;o 0xamine the pr0t;luctiv0 i~esults over a period of yearso Table rfo o I g:lv oo compar at:'.l.ve i':lgures for Scot lo.nd, Great Brito.in and G-er-mo.ny (Rum.., Di s t;r ict) 0 a nd a close examination of these results enables us ·t.o drav1 certain conclusions o In 1928 the output in hUildl" ed'l.70:lgh·i::s p3r manshifts u orke d for the se countries were:Scotland Great Britain 23066 Gamany (Ruhr District) 21029 23o~4: Scotland Hreat Br-1 ta.in Germany (Ruhr District) 23.96 23.35 and in 1937 :- s2.oo Those figures must, b e d·isturbing to us nll, and I specially call your attention to tho f a ct that Gex=ra.e.ny (R'lllw) v1hos0 productivity aa expressed in cutso per mansh:1.ft t7orlred8 uas on a par V11th ours in 1928 1 h as outsbripped us and by a margin uhich gives her an outstanding a dvantage in the competitive markets. Vie remember tho days i:1hen :tn a spirit of' enthusiasm v,a started conveying on the face \"lith short units, t1ent on to longer units. and then to conveying in the gat es. Vie thought of the wonder~ resulta we would eventually obtain. The conclusions from the output figures 1n Scotland, and my otm experience, convinces ma that our present systems o£_mechanisation have given us all the advantages we may expect from them and sometimes I question if we are not losing ground. Vie could '71th advantage., examine the position in order to find out why the ant1ci'Dated progress has not been made. Perhaps it is that our cycle. in ~vancing longwall is too d1tt1oult to operate. �II Coal strippin::;, b!·ushi ri~, conve yor shiftinG, pacl{i ng and coal cuttin5 cll ]:,..ave to b e completed ni thin t v,enty four hour s ,. !s ·the cyc l e so difficul t tr,.at the e;o tt:i.D.G of it comple t ed is the impoi•tant factor to our manag ement and t he cost of d oins ·che ,,ork e. secondary consi deration? The amount of overtime t-lhi ch is often necessary - particularly on the coa l s tripping shift - seems to point to the fact t hat our worlc !c conducted under strain 11 and strain is al m1ys expensive. One sometimes hears it said, "Let us t ake t h e conveyors out of our Colliel."ie s" o This is a policy of despair, and t hore io no progress that ,;ray o I referred to. the Ruhr District in Geril'.Elny o The Germans hava much to teach us in IilininJ;, al1.d I Broatly admire their organisations bot.h on the su:rf'ace und u.n de1..;_;roun<lo Their Collieries c.re superlu.tively kept and everythi.."'18 about them speaks of vision and breadth of view. Their syster.1 of und0rground tra.11sp or t was developed before the :',ar in such a f'ashlon ths.t t1ben meohnn1es.tion of the face c tune , 1 t oomplet.e d their e quipment • It may be t ha. t our transport has not been modernised in line v,ith our face moob.e.r.isa tion. It 1s 1nterost1Dg to note th.at a number of the newer Ge!9nl8n I11noa a:-o heir13 lajdout on lOll.£!,"Pnl l :retreGtinu methods. The outpu·i; per mensh11't figures expected from these Collieries seem to me quite revolutionary and oo s ha ll aunit the results w.i. t h interest. ·-- �14 .. Uechan:1.sa•tion :lo hcr>o ·i;o stay:> but betterrosul to \7:i.11 not be obtained un•i;il \":c o.c·i:;:lvoly study the r ee.son for our comparative fail.ure. I should li~~ t~ oce n small Committee of the tlining Institute of Scotland appo:1.n·~ed to make an intensive eJtruninnti0n of one or t t10 average mines in Scotland and in Germ!lny r, finding out in both cases ,1aat proportion of the ·ii o-tru. lo.bour was spent on each individual operation. As I see it:> the gr0at est probloc of our timo is to increase tho output por manshift and this demnnds a thor ough invest igation into all the operations from the sh.a.ft bottom to the Coal Face. One for~ard step u ould bo the int1"'0duction of pouor loading at the Coal Face and I em g l ad to lmor, that a g:..-•eat dea l of research 1s now being conducted a long this line . In u year uP t wo the makors may be a ble to ovolve a r.i.achino ~hich ~ill rid the industry of hand londing, porho.ps t..~e most uninteresting operation 1n a mechanised mine. �COtiIPARI SDr1 OF OUTPUT PER l1ANSHIFT WORKED FOR SCOTLAIIDp GREAT BRITAIN and GER1'LANY (RUiffi DISTRI CT) for YEARS 1928 - 19370 ~o SCOTLPND o Ct:ts o GREAT BRITAIN o 1928 23066 21.29 23044 1929 23.74 2lo69 25.02 1930 23.44 21.62 26.64 1931 23.92 2lo61 29.26 1932 24041 , 21.99 31.98 1933 24.87 22.47 32.96 1934 26.22 22.94 35.02 1 936 25.21 23086 · 33.30 1936 24.64 23.5~ 33.-66 1937 23.96 23.36 32 . 02 Cw·ts. TABLE GERf.lfu'\lY ~RUIIR } . Cwts. I. I �:rn ... During recent yea:a:s there has been cqnsi derable controversy as to t"Jh.ethe~ or not coal mining has been As the Collieries under m:s charge have been n0ohe.nised for over fifteen years, I do not »~oposc to enter into this oontroversy other than to exp:ress the opinion tha.t 0 when oarefully planned and ma1ntaine~, mechanised coal-getting is definitely safer than the old hand-getting methods" .Aps..rt from such considerations, bouaver, the accident »roblem at mines presents a serious challenge to all concerned nith mining operations, and within the .past three years i t has had increasing attention focusse~ on it~ As you all .know, the Royal Commission on Safety in Coal Uine$, appointed in 19351 has concluded the taking of evideme 1n public,. end is no~ engaged in the prepara tion of its Report, uhion we a~ait uith interest. !rhere have been other Royal Commissions, and mining history seems to bear out that our accident. statistics have no.t been materially improve4 by ~hair recommendations or by new legislation. The Company to \'J bioh I e.m attached has for many years been interested 1n the problem of reducing accidents, and a few years a.go we decided that a more definite programme would require to be undertaken. Our v18\1 Tiaa re1,nforced as the result of a viait by certain of our officials to the lb:1ited States of America where safet1 campaigns have for a number of 7ear■ been a feature. �Some of' the t,.0sul.to ob·tia.,i,1od by th0 larger companies wero astounding:, ai'l.d ue :'.:'c l'i; 'i;hn·i:; ·cho time uas ripe for o campa:lgn in o~ Collie~ieo on oii111m." lin0so eve-r~ iibat 0 f'ollo·..i:~ 'i.ihG p:r:>octice :1n the Unit;ed Sta:i;es 0 a sepa!'a.te depar'i:imen:c Ev.ot b0 czoeo/cedi, 011.d this ·ue instituted0 appoint~ o. Saf'c'i.iy I::ng:ln0or- for the Company• \:hen ho got; doun. tt:> "C7ork he -recogn.ised th...,t o. Safety Iri..spector in each Colliery '\1as 0ssen'i;ial 0 lie felt that ·che Iil!l?laBelllcnt ere tho Collieries requwed the special help or this official if detailed examination of ·1:;he various f'o.c'i::01>s in.volvcd '1.70.s to be OUr achomo has nou been uork:1.ng i'oz> tho pc.st tm:>0e years uith resu1ts th.o.t are v:cey promisin.g:, and o.i.?O set ou~ in Tublos 2 al'ld 3. In Table 2 it uill be noted that ~0 Acc:ldent ~equonoy Rate has been reduced to loos than half tho z>ate reoo~ded ?o~ the year 19Sl ancl tbo.t the nanohifts per a.ocident figux>e ms bean more than doubled. In Table 3 all oaces o~ industrilll disease have been deducted from the total numbe~ o? compensable accidents shOTill in Tablo 2 so as to conform \71 th the accepted. I.lines Department practice. on analysis \78 find that the reduction in tho serious accidonts is not so great ruJ bad been hoped for but there is considerable improvement. �1_8 o, We believe t hat sufficient ~ork has been done upon the problem t o support our viev1 that in this lcind of campaign, enthusiastically conducted by offi cials and men, lies the real key to acci dent prevention. I have oft en b een asked if, in my opinion, the appointment of a Se.i'ety Inspecto~ in a mine should be enforced by Lau. I am not prepared to go t his length, because so much depends upon the enthusiasm with which the campaign is conducted, and the appointment of a Safe t y Inspector by its elf may produce little result. The idea is growing, and we have indications from time to time that many other Companies are pursuing simi lar safe~y \70rk. We are glad to give them the benefit of our experience. The \7ork we have already accomplished bears out that a considerable diminution in the accide nt rate in our mines is possible. The modern safety campaign depends largely for its results on personal contacts, and I feel it can help to create a spirit of co-operation between employer and employed 1f' honesty of purpose is evidenced in a practical fashion with the full support of the leaders of the Industry. In conclusion, might I appeal to the Council and Members for their support during the coming se~sion. In an Industry such as ours there are many difficulties to be overcome, many problems to be taelded. Working together we may achieve something of value for ~ne Industry which we all have the honour to serve. APRIL, 1938,. �l 9o TABLE II . sm,'IT.'1ARY OF ACC IDEHT STAT I STICS FOR THE '.i.1HIRTEEN OPERJ\TIWG COLLIERIES OF TRTI: 1?I1:.'l3 COAL C0!\1PANY LTD. SINCE 1927 o il"b-tf.KL YF....AR l!lAi.~SHIFTS \"j QRllliD . . I '.!.'ol.1:1tw 1\1'0. u~ COLlPENSABLE f.1!1.llJ.::ilUl''T S PER ACCIDENT. ACCIDEj:JTS I NCJ:lliASE .Lll IJAl\l,.. :SHil'TS PER ACC ID, :ENT SI:NCE 1927. ,., Cl 192'7 286628 ? 1954 146'7 1928 2762430 1951 1416 - 1929 2921884 2374 1231 - 16 1950 265'7244 17~6 1522 + 4 1931 2189024: 1531 1430 ... 3 1932 2235913 1396 1600 + 9 1933 2249362 1309 171B + 17 1934 2374037 1358 1748 + 19 1936 23"12780 1218 1948 1936 2484817 8'77 283S .,. 33 + 93 1957 25'19162 775 3327 +127 3961 +170 . 0 3 .✓ 1938 Jan.-:uar. 629846 159 �2 o. 41 Tt').!3L:U: III o DIS-r.:A.SES) PER .tlOo O:.. -li ~ =-"-•~.uu r li YEAR. AVER..4.GE l.92?. 68 09 62.3 1928. 69 . <!} 64.8 1929. 7lo4 76.l 1.930. 7lo2 60 .l 1931 67o3 QS.S 1932. 64.l 56111 1 9 33. 64.1 51.5 193~. 66.6 51.S 1935. 67.5 ~6.4 l.936. 67.0 31.5 1937. Not Available. 26. 9 do. 22.7 1938. Jen.-~ar. FOR .t:i't 1 00 , 000 1.'!AHSn:CFTS \'iORKEDo AVERAGE F'OR �----·------. VISTI' CF \1 ILLl/J.i RElD (F 'l'HE Fil'E CC.t,.L co. 1 LTD. AND BRM' FURNISHED Hlli CF THE COJPANY'S SAFE'rY WORK - - - -- AND SlJ.BSEQtmNT C0RRESPONDEHC"S �Foulford House, Cowdenbeath, Fife 11th October, 1945. Please note, :.I r. Reid has removed from the above address and is now residing at 11 NOR1!00D", CROSSGATES, Fife. C Q p y �j ~~(__ r Apz,il 18 9 1945 \ Dr. m U 1am Reid The Fire Coal Comparzy-9 I..i.nitcd Co,rdenbeath• Fife, England Dear Dr. Reid: This \'lill aclmo;,1ledgc receipt of your now this mo~ together rdth cow of report of The Technical Advisory Comr.rl.tteo. I am sure that I rdll enjoy reading this very fillleh and find r.mch valuable information. It appears that the ttar ne\7S from t he r:urop33.n ·~heat.re nould indicate that the fighting should be over rri.thin a shoi't tin::,. I k.tc:7 the people in England will .real like having one grand thanksgiving celebration. It \7aS quite a blo,·, to thz paople of the Uni·ted states and. probably al1 of the Allied countries to havl3 our Presi den·~ pass anrw quick:JT. Hoi7evcr• tre have ever:, confidence in Presi dent 'i'rUC!3.I1 and expect to carr., on along the lines o.s laid doun by I?esidcnt Roosevel t at least tor the duration of the ,·1ar, and ,1e are hopaful, of course, of sCll8 organized move.aEnt to p.i.""event future TTa.rS. The Union Pacific Railroad continues to carry a heavy load which requires our operating the mines s E..-van daya par t1eek, and with the miners receiving high wages and articles becor:d.ng scarce, everyone seeu to have plenty of oonoy and gives very little thought to contirming at wDl"k. t;le are having. a rather difficult time in keeping our lllinea pro~l.J' staffed. Ho~1ever, so tar ue are c ~ on in an orderIT ua:,- and hope to be able to contimle until the end of the ~1ar. ;-49 produced our greatest tonnage during the month of January- this year, our production bei.Jlg 612,214.40 tons. \'le are maintaining a monthl.r tonnage ot around 5751 000 tom to 590,000 tons. This appears to just about fuel the Railroad. The matter of recoiving mechanical supplies and building aaterial is beccaizlg quite a chore here, 1n tact. things are tighter than th.,- ewer haw been in this counb7 and equipment is becomng more scarce. �Dr. '!I1)) 1an Reid April lB, 1945 Please e;onvey ow regar-ds t o your staff.. Many of the boyo speak o.f you f'l..nd t he c.~d:i0ra cf your otaff quite often. I a.rn still hopeful that .r~ ,7i1l be ab1o to renet7 acquaintances soma tims in the not too distant futureo Thanks again for the copy of the reporto Very sincerel y yours, DmsABJ ... �TELEGRAMS "FIFCOL, COWDEN8EATH." TELEPHONE Nos 181 TO 185 COW0ENBEATH. I oi\T E•a:rlese:) P:resi d e n t, O The TTn:.l.. on Pi: cific Cos.l Co:-., Rock Spring s, HYOMI1\T0. , uO s O A O Dea.r l'firo Bayles s, A ':1:1echnica.l Com.rn5_ttee has been si t t i n g in t~ is Country d urino: the pas t s :1.x months ; 1mder the Chairmansl:i p of my ":'ather , and t;]:-,e enclosed is a co'!')~r of t he Repor t v, 1-dc.._, ! t r ,, ~t yo,, 1;15.11 find of S " l'!le i n tere st o With kiPd e st reg ards , �- - !.:r. Eugene llcAuliffe: Referring to yours of' October 28th \"Sith copy oi' letter from Dr. \'Jj 11 :i am Reid: The lettc1.' is ve'!.'"J int el'csti.ng and coincides closely \1ith our or~ experience. Ori!llnal Signe~ GEORGE B. PRYD! I ., �~ -r ?~! Omaha - October 28, 1944 Mr. G~ B. Pryde: Herewith copy of letter received from Dr . William Reid under date of October 4, t,.rhich is quite informative. You will note he has a total of 19 Duckbills and two 14 B.U. Joys. �~ -- -~ - C O p y - .-, \ ·' THE FIFE COAL COMPANY, LTD. COWDENBEATH, FI FE, SCOTLAND 4th October , 1944 Mro Eugene McAuli i'f~ - President The Union ·Paciflc Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, ,Nebrask&, U. S.A. Dear Mro McAuiiffe: Many tha.~ks for the Wyoming Labour Journal Article duly received at the end ·of iast week .. Your John Lo Lewi s does not suff Gr fr.om over-modesty although_we in this country from the little we know o f h imp believe· :that we have no mini ng leader to comps.re with him in some respects. Our Unlon discipline just does not exist and our labour troubles are t~nding to multiply with absente eism and local strikes. Our men are making no effort whatsoever to j u stify the relatively -high wages now ·being paid to them and their chances of retaining anything like the present wage standard are very· small indeed on our present· output per manehift . I I not.e the remarks in the Labour J ournal Article regard-- . ing Comrie . They do not represent, the facts in that the mechani sed · side of Comrie Colliery where Duckbills are operating is only giving us unde·r four tons a man. This figure is rising t'leek by week but we have a long way to go before we reach the 5-ton mark. We now have Duckbill schemes at Frances (4 ' Ducks), Aitken (4 Ducks) and Mary (2 Ducks) besides 9 at Comrie, and we are ex- • tending the application of shortwa.11 cutters and Duckbills at other places, as well as introducing shortwall cutters -w:1th hand-loaded scraper chains. We also have two 14 B.U.'s working at Comrie . These last are opening out to the dip. I am plannfng to come over to the United States whenever thi~ war 1s ~ver and I hope t hat t~e time will not be long when I may have the pleasure and privilege of meeting you aga1~. With kindest regards to-you , Yours sincerely, /s/ William Reid ��\ Novollber 14, 1943 Dr. l'!iJ l 1am Reid • The Pite Coal eo., Ltdo Cowdenbeath, Fifeshirc, Scotl;:mcl Dear Mr. Reids I am very much obliged t.o you for sending m:> the book of StQries tram Aberdeen, and we expect to use acme of the otorios in our magazine. It was very thoughttul. of you to send this to me. I shall be interested loter on in having your axperiencos nith the Duckbill and shaker in room and pillar wrk in your rrl.nos. I knot1 Y'OU can increase j,our production per mn shift very p0rceptib~. I am ' not um1ndtul. that you have to watch eubeidenoo•of the ourf'o.co caroi'ully, but at the great dept.ha at which you are mining, I doubt if this ttll.1 bo eeriowl. - I read 1n the Fite papers of the possibility of your f athor•s being appointed to take over the work ot supervising production, particular]T aa it refers to the inatallation ot new machinery &nd net't n::athoda of work. On account of his long ~rience 1n coal mining, I know thnt he 1a particulai-17 titted tor that Job, and I would like to see h1m UBUIIII the post. I am womering if Ur. Crawford ever receivod!W' rather belated recOJIIMl1dationa tor working the room and p11Jar r.ork with Duckbills. We are going along with the developnent of our new Stansbury 1111w wbich w atart.ed to open Januar,y l.at'of this year. ~ the end ot the year, n upect to be loading about 1,SOO tons·or coal per dq. The labor probl-, with abeentee1am, scarcity of labor, and labor turnover, 1a atill a met difficult one. a-nt>"lr ma to llr. Carlow and your father. When this l1Br is · owr, I hope w ~ be permitted to visit each other again. Verr sincerely yours, Origins! Signed: GEOR9E .BC~YDE ' �~~----- ..,. ~ c A i ' . - IO NS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY HEAD OFFICE, LEVEN; FIFE. TELEGRAIIS " CARLOW, PHONE, LEVEN," " FIFCOL," COWDENBEATH. TELEPHONE Nos 161 8: 162 LEVEN Nos 3181 TO 3185 COWOENBEATH, YOUR REF............................ ••,- ,ms OUR REF............ ... ..... :.:.::Y..1 '- 0 Er . George i3. :::1 ryde, Vic e ? resident, Tne 'C'nion Pa c i fic Coal Comp any , Rock Sprinr~s , 'NY OI11I NG- , U oS. A. Dear I.~r • Pryde , I thou~·ht you ,,ould be interested t o :c'l.oH that r:e h u ve novr several Duckbil ls i:JOrkin~ and vre 2.re bu.sv- tr2.in :..:1z; our OU..r'l ::n.chinery Demonstra tcrs for extension of ihe sch er.1e o~ me cha.'rlise stoon and room to f our of our other coll i e rie s . 'l'he Am.erica...'fl p lant is doin ~ very Y!ell j_ndeed and we rrish r10 h ac'i. 1r.or e of it . an I encl ose a little book of Stories f r o:n: Aberdeen n "'ich I t:-1cug ht ~rcu mi ~~h t find us eful iu c onne ction n ith you1• ..i."TI.ployee s 1 _,: ar azine . I:t is priva.te1y p1•ir..tea. and I c ot a c op~r by chan ce . •••• ,, .-.., �-Dr. TTiU 1 am Reid0 C-eutlo 1.1.'.::;o The Fife Cool Conp:1.ey0 ·1Mo CWdenbooth, Fifroltll"C0 s~~lm7.tl Dear Dr. Roid: • I O.!l vor.J Jlloo.o~d inaocu. to 1-"aw your loiter of tho 18th of • , August, as I had not hoorrl fr:o::iyou for SllCh o. long tin:::J. Unf'ortunat.oly, tlle letter I nrote to you OOI"fy this ycnr and t h2 nnpn I sont., :i.~gard:l.Dg your develozxngnt plans for t:nrldn,g rr.I:U1 Shlllcor Ccnvoyora w..d Ollc~lllo., were o~ntly· lost in traooii. I J.nt-:,r cont o oirdla,. l etter cr:.d ma!)s to ?!r. Cranford, ·by both air nnil and regular m:i.:U, w..d I hop:, at, lccnt one of theua has arrivod. I Qlll sur-e, after otuclying tho pl.om cont c by Ur. Cro;li'o:...·d, thnt thio sysi0n or uoing Shokox- Conv-cyo1°S o.nd Duc!tbillo \11ll l'lOrk aucceasful.ly, both in driving l""~om and rocovor-.lng pillnroo The wnr looka much batter, and TIO .:lN, of couroc., (!r<ntly pleaocd over this. I ha.ve t r10 oons-in-lao in the ce!"'\Tice, one in the krr::., and oao in the Nav,y. Alberta and bor t't70 ch:U.dren hnvo been rtlth us for t:ror:nntho and have norr retumed to tho1r hoioo on the ucot const. Om• youngest daughter and her younc son are still with uo. 1'he construction uora· on our nm, stanobury tJino io mov:tna nhoD.d. Ue are getting 300 tons por d!\v, hovo tho tun11ol driven to about 3,000 feet, and expect to haw the add1tional diotonco drivon by tho lot. of Decmmer. ~ Gteel tipple and mine buildin3a are under tto;J. Thoy tdll also be completed about the SOIOO tice. I read about your father• s nctiv-ltios in tho Colllory Gwlrd1an once 1n awhile, but, untortunnto~, have not lwl the tima to m-ito to 111-. Carl.air. I have passed your letter to llr. Beyl eso and your l;Ood m.shos to lira. PrJde and the rest of the £mail¥. I • glad to-know thilt you'tlre making such good pro~as at 70Gr n111r oou s.,.. tor, like Amoricn, SCotland needs on increased output . ot coal deaparate.17. Vf1f7 aincorol;y yours, 01iginol !:i(!n~~ GWRGE B. 1>1'<~2 �Scp-::.ori'oo1.. 25 9 1943 • Dr, 1'111Uam Roid, Gontlo I.le:o • Tho Fife Cool. Co:i~g • x,-:;:10 Co.idonbeath, Pil'osl~D Scotl:mu Dear Dr, Roi.di I an very plcru;ccl indeed to havo your lct.teli" of tho 18th of August, as I had r.ot hcord fl>o:i you for GUeh a long til::3o Unf'ortunnt oly, the lottor I tirote to you oru.~ly this year and the t'.::lpo I ,mnt, rogru.-ding your development plo.no for \'roridng rlith Shaker Convoyo1"0 and Ducld>illo, WCl"e apparently· loot in tranoii. I lo.tor sent a oioilar letter and mapo to lir, Crawford, by both air i:nil . t.md :rogulo.r lll.'.lil, and I hopo ai lonat one of those haD arrived. I ora ouro., afi.or otudying tho plano oont o by Yr. Crani'ord, thnt thio oystom o;;,' uo~ Dholtor Convoyors nnd Duokbillo m.11 \-:Ork auccess£ul.ly, both ~ driving ro~ and rocovor.ins pillarso The war looks much bottor, and ,10 a.re, of couroo, g?eatl y pl oaocd ovor this. I have t\'lo oons-in-l a.w in the scr-1Tice, one in t~o A;rq/ ond one in the Hav. Alberta and hor tr.o children ha.v0 boon ,7ith uo for trroa:mths ond have now rot ume<l to their home on tho west co::ist. Oili" youngest do.~tor and hor young son nre etill vd.th w,. • • Tho construction r.ork- on our n0i7 Stanabury llinc io r::.oving a.head. We are gett ing 300 tons per dey, hove the tur.nol driven to about 3,000 f eet, and upect t o have the adcl1tionnl diat.mco driven by tho let of Decenber. Oar otecl tipplo Md mi.no buildings aro under 'ff41• They nill also be co?Dp1.eted nbout tho oaIOO ti.03. I road o.bo.ut •your f a.thert a llctivitios in tho Colliery Guardinn once 1n awhile, but, unfortunntoly', have not hc.d tho ti.mo to urito to llr. Carlow. I have paz,eed your letter to llr. Boylesa end yo'lll" £:;OOd rdchcB t o 11n. Pryde and the rest of the fomil.y'. I a glad to'knoW tha.t you'nre caking suc_h good progress at 7GUr nw coll.1U7'• tor, like America., Dcotl..o.nc1 needo on iJlcreaoed output ot coal d.Nperatel.T• Very- sincerely roura, Oriei nal Signed! GEORGE B. PRYDE �LL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY ' HEAD OFFICE, LEVEN, FIFE. TELEGRAMS "CARLOW, PHONE. LEVEN." "FIFCOL," COWDENBEATH. TELEPHONE Nos 161 8: 162 LEVEN Nos 3181 TO 3185 COWOENBEATH. • YOUR REF............................ Mr. George B. Pryde, the Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, i.'vYOMING, U oSoAo Dear i11r. Pryde, / It was a pleasure to get y our l etter of July 3rd a nd to write you a..l1d tell you that part of the equipment ha s arrived in this country and is on its way here. We have opened out a considerable area of coal a t . .1ur Comrie Colliery and we are busy in having men allocated to us t o g et on \·.rith the new work. The Goodman people have a demonstrator here now and so have Sullivan and they are all g oing to work t ogether . It is interest:ing for you to learn that 11r. \:Jheeler v1ho is in cha.re;e of the Development work in this country (late of' Joy) is very enthusiastic re g arding the application of Duckbills in circumstances such as ours. Ee has recently been back in America and has seen a number of firstclass Duckbill installations with results much better than he had believed possible. ,[le hope to raise about 1,300 tons a day growing in three months to 2,000 at our new colliery. Like you, of course, \7e find mining laboux very scarce and what is available is very poor in quality. The p atience of our iifana13ement is very much tried due to labour dif'ficulties. Your record of · increased output is wonderful and I wish you every success with your new Stansbury Line. Ifly father sends to you his kind regards and when i,·Ir. Ctilow comes back from h 0 1iday I shall pass on your good wishes to him. Please/ �/Please tell 1::ro Bay l iss tl~a t I wa tch for his Pe.pers in t he .American Institute Transactions and t h at I h ope to see him over here when this v1ar is successfully terminated o Please g ive my good. uis hes to rv,rs o Pryde and. your d aught e r Alberta., and to yourself mi gh t I just say that it is grand hear i ng f'rom you. Yours sin c e rely, �:)1". ~-f illiam ileid c/ o The Fife C.:o=tl Co2_;w ·· , :..·,~. Co:rl.enbeath, f ifeshi 1•c Scotl311d !.lear Dr. :~e ld: I i:as corr:,·, i ndeed, to hear of the death of :~1•. Kcr.nct h !.'.:c ::eill. I valued c::--ootly ny us :;ocint ion r:ith hit:, us :.ith ill the ::ie~ers of your off i chl st aff .,110:::. I have n;;t, ruitl oo.~1c I h:ive not met ei.cept thl'Ol~ correspondence . ~~r. !.:ci:eill r;m; a very Ci~p~bl e official, and his pas.::;ing v:ill bo a e rect lose t o ycu ~t t hi s p:.:.rt i cula r tic;.e . I uish you ;·;ould co!lvcy t o :.:r. ~;ci-:cill r::; i'cci.ly cy condolences. ~ road some ti:.::'..:l r.zo of your pr-o;:iotion , •..hi cll I kna-., i s ·;;ell deserved. It .Ji.11 brin3 :rany problc.:1s to you., ~d I a:i ~urc ~-ou r.ill :::cet the:n and oolve t!1e::1 successfully. Albert.a' s husband is in the Amy, in C3l..ifornia. r:llenor , our youneest daught or •s , husband is in tho rJ.:i;,- y, t akin~ t1,ci.ni.nJ at the present ti.me. So I.Ts. i'ryde nnd I h~.wc thrac ~r .:t.!"\dchildren nith us • .\lbert.a expects to 50 to her husbo.nd t ho l uttc r :).'.ll't of this o ont h . The ,1ar s ituc.t.ion look:, ::ru.ch b ettm· t hc.n i t did so.11c r::onths ns o, nnd I on sure t he United ~:utions hove eot their stride, ~•_.ncl i t m.ll be n. clitforant story i'ro::i no\7 on. The .:'.:;:erican !)eOple, \:ith their ollles, ,," ill use ever-.{ effort to bri.n.:; this r;nr to o. succes3ful conclusion. Our pi'<>duct.ion this year ·,:ill be c.rounc. 5,250 , 080 tons. ..1th ~at l abor turnover, ab~cntccis:i, ~'1c! ~any ether probl e;:.1s, it h~s been a di.rficult Job, end the m.·mpo::cr !h---oblcn 1:rill probably get more acute as tice 3)83 by. I icno:-1 you also a.re runninc; full blast and cettillj n lar;3tl !)rod.uct.ion, althou~h I notice thct. tho 1,roduction of the British 131.es i a c:o~ to be short of t he dcnand . Pleaoo re:::.o::'ber ri:c to your f ~ r , your f.!t!ler, 311.d all the officiols or the Fife Coal Co:?:.mn:7, to \;ho::i I :::end cy very be::;t regnrds. 7er-J sincerely yours, •Jr,•·,..,\<· • (,;;:t . ....': -'• .' �Rock Springs - December 15, 1942 Br. Eugene ~c,\uli.i'fe: :l.efcrrins t o Johnson' s letter of December Llth : I ·•·as V O-r':f eor,-y, indeed, to hear of l 'r. !'ell~ I shall t;ritc to t:r . Rei d ·:.-ithin the next day or so . Original Si::nd: GtOrtut. B. PR'.'DE ~ - -· �b Omaha - December 11, 1942 Mr. G. B. Pryde: For your information, the following letter was rece1ved,dur1ng Mr. McAuliffe's absence in the east, from Mr. William Reid, General Works Manager, The Fife Coal Company, Cowdenbeath, Scotland, dated November 26: "I am very sorry to have to tell you that Mr. McNeill passed away suddenly on Monday, 16th inst., after a short illness. "He was an outstanding personality in the Scottish Coal Mining Industry and he will be missed very much by more than his colleagues in this Company . "I wiil be greatly obliged if you will pass on this news to Mr. Pryde for whom Mr. McNeill had a great regard. 11 . ..... , �• I ., Dr. Tiil l i am Reid, The Fif e Ooe.1 Co□Tany o Lt d o~ Col"Jdenbec.t h, iii f e 0 Scotland. Dear Dr. Rei d: I h£1Ve y o tu•s of !.hl"ch 28th e.nd I sorrotJ V! i t h you i n the l os s o f you1~ f ive yea"!:' old s on . X k n ot1 hon you a~d Mrs . Reid fe el aboui t ho boy ' s pas si ngo ~he memo~y of this chil d o i ll x>e1:ai n <.:-1:J:'Gh you and you~ r:ife f oxo a.ny y e!1r s but ti rae alone u:1.11 sof' t en t he great soz-r ot., you both not1 f e (:l. Lir . Ryan die d. s uddenly i n iilori d a . F.fa \"1~s n fi n e , courageous type of gentleman 9 X can I°eoe.11 wh en be ue.~ e.l~ost the f i rst man enter i ng mines ohich h:~d suffe~ed expl osions in Pennsyl vania and Vi rgini a ~ nerhnp s t hat ~ork shortened hi e life . I r ejoice t ha t y ou and :l? o f:lc:Ue:ll ·r.ex-e a ble to get out from under the prosecution , the evi deilce as X re~d same i n "The Coll i ery Gunr.d1sn 11 i nd.ice.t i n;:; t h9 i youxc.ccident .: i a s a r esult of unforeseen and v.nnredi ct able o1rcume.tanoes. There i s only one saf~ ~ny- i o mine coal ~.nd that is to di scontinue or oduo t ion, our pr oblem t ~.at ot reducing our accident s to the mi nioUEi o 1 \"11th respect to the t1a.r situation ue have gone through e vicious period of munition st~i kes, v1th ver y 11ttle done to control san e by the governmen t ·; of course you h~ve heard of t he coal strike ohich l a sted a month, we who wi shed to worlt in the Rocky :,,ountain r eg ion e.llo-;;ed to cont inue which saved us both trouble and exnense , pr a ot1oally all of t he bituminous mi ne s back at work. Wage rates, however, will oe r a i sed from (A . 00 t o $1..40 ~er day , J oy lood ing op e r ators up to G).o.oo per day and our duckbill oper ~tors $9.60, which is alt ogether t oo high, exoeseive wages , as you know, provoking absenteeism which seems to be a problem in t he British mi nes at the pr esent time , as I r ead 1n "The Col l iery Guardian! ; in f act I abstracted from t be i Baue of April 4th, writing ~ .John L. Lewis quite an extended l e t ter ~• t o the r el a t ion bP.t ween high wages and absenteeism. I don ' t know whether I wr ote you regarding our ne~ �/./~ ·~ , ~2- Greek let~er safety acci8ty . 1n any c a se, X run sending you herevith copy of our coo~let which is om., l a st effort to inv-oke intere st .. Pl e2-s0 -?.xtena. t o .:.ir-a. I=Iei cl and 0.cce-pt fen;" your>sel f the mo st sincere sympa,t b.y of :l~s o UcAul i ffe, Ke:'t~hleen and my - saJ.f and g ive our good ·~ t ::hes to tlr o t1cWeil., keeping in mind tba.t uhi l e t h e Engl .:. ~½. epeaking Dorld is suff ering so21e d ark h • urs, Br>~:i; a:ln and t he fulglo -Cel tic r ~.oe '.1i l l eventually cone out on t op. OrlglDalSJgnoo EUGENE McAULIFFE A. U: ~:. MAY 1(, 19,.. �~ep -tember 14, 19 37 I' f ,I Jj Dr. 'Jm . P.eict The F'if e Co cil Company, Ltd.. Co"t"1denbenth • Fif cshi :re :3cotland Dear Dr. Heid: J: h ave yours o f Au e,u st 3 1.; th, n.ud rm.s glad , indeed, to hour frou you. I am g lad to kno 1;; that you liked t ho !)icture . I thouuit you would like t o h ave i t ss u so uveni r . ;:,:as very 1->l eas0d to kno w of the .PXOBl'ess beinl, made by your sinld.ng Pt ts in Co~ri e. You are r:1akint:; good heo.dvmy. Your visit to ~astbourn~ ~hould be on enjoyable one for you, and I am sure you ,:;ill be hc.p:9y to eet a\'1ay f:t~o!':1 the j ob :foi· a day 0 1· t ,:;o. You are eti 11 k eepin G up your r ecord in Gaf ety r:ork, o.nd I think you a.re to be congrs-,tul a t ed. J I Had ilr . Peter llitchel l :::.t ou1· l a.st Hock Springs Sufety meeting, .::!.net I beli eve he . enjoyed it, particularly the aTmrding of the y rizes. no doubt he Y7ill talk to you abou t i t YJhen h e return o . I plan to t ake him around t o our several mining districts tomorrot1, slll) •:Jin g hli.t nha t -ne are doing, e.nd I look f orv:ard to a pleasant visit nith him. \:/ill be e l ad to know how you find things in Gemany upon your retum . ... ,eceived the reJ:,1ort of the H.ll .Divisional Inspector, for v,hi ch I thank you. ,Ii th beat regards to you both, I arn Very oincorely yours, �11 FIFC01!; COWDENBEATH. TE.LEPHONIE ~~ 161 & 162 LEVEN ~ 1811'0 185 COWDENBEATH. GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE ~~ 30th 1tugust, ~ YOUR REF. ........................... J.VR/IE..... OUR REF••.••. Geo. B. Pryde, Esq., Union Pacific Coal Coo, Rock 8prings, \l'IYOMING, U. S. A. Dear Mr. Pryde, I have just hung your photo, duly framed , in my room. Fev, things have given me greater pleasure, and I must thank you for your kindness in sending me it. It is a very fine likeness indeed, and I may also add, has a very kindly look. Trade is very good here and our Safety Campaign is going on apace. I have arranged with Mr. Williamson, our Safety Engineer, to send you a copy of the H.M. Divisional Inspector's Report for Scotland. You will see from it that we get some little praise for our efforts. The Comrie sinking pits are now down to 900 ft. each. We expect the main pit bottoms will be at 1,200 ft. so we are well on the way. We have ordered a "Norton'i Automatic Washer for 440 tons per hour with ~wo wash9oxes, each having compart:ments to wash from eu to lfst and 1~•• to 0.11 • ~t/e have also ordered a propeller torpedo type f~ . 10511 diameter to do 250 thousand cubic feet per minute at 4~ 1• water gauge I expect to go off on holiday on Friday to my Uncle's · in Eastbourne in the South of England for a week or ten days. By the way, I hope Mr. McAuliffe will have received the manu:scripts I got from the Mining Instmtute Library for him. Mr. McNeill was to send these off last week. Our Valley.field Colliery is working the coal mentioned by Lord Dundonald in his description of Culross, but, of course, at very much greater/ �ffeajt'e.............. ~.~······················ greater depths A The 11 Bowdil 11 cha.in and picks trial at our Aitken Colliery was very successful, and I expect further orders will be placedo I have not been able to get a.way to Germany yet but I hope to go ve ry soon after my return from holidayo Again thanking you very much indeed for the photographo With kindest regards to Mrs. Pryde and yourself and all my friends at Rock Springs. Yours very sincerely, �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. .0 H EAO OFFICE: LEVEN , F1 FE. TELEGRAMS °CARLOW. PHONE, L EVEN:• " Ft Fcoi:: COWDEN BEATH. TELEPHONE N?~ 161 & 162 LEVEN . N'?~ 181 TO 185 COWDEHIIEATH. YOUR REF•-······ \_•ffi_,/~- o OUR REF._ _ Mr. George Bo Pryde., Union ~acific Coal Coo, Rock Springs, WYOMING, U. S. A. Dear Sir, I enclose H.M. Divisional Inspector of I.lines Report for Scotland, as promised by Mr. v1illiam Reido Yours faithfully, For THE FIFE COAL COMPANY LIMITED ~er,,._a.. E/- Z.~e~ "1v --------- - �June 5, 19S7 :Wr . \'kn. Reid The F ife Co al Co . , ~- ~t1 . Co·aden b·e a t h , l'i fe::.l\i~ ("; Scotl and Deu.r Dr. Heid: X Y1us glc.d. ·i:;o aave yo u:r l e t tel'° o f rec ent da te , and to know t h~·c yo u o.~e i.'lon o..s:: i ~•ti ng yo u r :la ther , ,1hich u ill eiv e you a bro ader f i e ld , ro'ld I knorJ yo u \"lil l be hel p :i:'ul to .>-OU l' fat her in h i s J y I ~ r.-10:rk. _ll.Jil gl ad t o kno n tha t the ::::11.9.:f·ts are €:,o i n i:; C::.o i:1n oncl they n ill be l ar&e p:r-o duce1·s uhen you get t'heru. i n 01>erat i on . I no te by yow:· lot·~e:t' aml by the }Jai,~~l'i tll..i t th G coal u l.l.ui n c as is booming in Gz-ea,t Br1. ·tain . ·.!e h uve had ·cuD r.io n t,lrn o f s low 11roducti on o n a.ccoun ·t o:r hu'lli ng to f:ltocl~ co E-.1 p:..~i o ~· ·i;o i:l:.e c :xpi ration o f Olll' i"Jage e.g rC 6i't 1en t , 'J'lla.t i S llCJ\'J Oll'G o i tl:e 1,"I/)Y for the next ·iuo yea:cs, and I a.m s enili ne:;; you t 1:!o co-pi eo of ' the a groe:-nent , on0 f ol· yoursel f ::.'.mi one 'l..hich I •;;i sh ;;rou / -.-1oul d pus □ ,lio ;~.:.·. Cax-loy;; ,.1i ·lli :w.y com1,1l i r.1 en·i;:a . .h!'tl ~l ~o :.:eud ing you tuo copi e f3 oi' oul' Ol d Timers' l"'0:.1t.er, one f or yourGe l f ond one f o r ;.~1·. K . H . l'.Icliei ll . '.'!e h ad a. 1·ath01· pecul !.:::i.· c:.rv e:-d 13nc e y ec:;·~0ruay, .Tune liad a h eavy snor1 s torm al l over the ·::e 3t ern s t a te s , o.nd particuli!I'l y i n t he Gt o.te of ',7yoming . ':i'he sno•iJ a.mounted , in ao~e o f t h e raountcdnc , t o 16 i nches , i n Ro cle Spri n gs to 4 inoheo. I a.s s1.n:e you i t loo ked very nuch l i k e Ck.:i i.i tl!lo.kl t it,1e yes t erday. Being a ·n et ano-:.7, of cours e, i t \-.ri l l be o f i n c alculable b enefit t c the :;r~u ck men and f a!"'!ile:rs. 4 th. I GOt U,l) a t a qua1·ter to t \10 in the mol'uint; [!ll (i l i s t ened t o the Corona t i on cere:aoni cs unt i l time to go ·~o t:oi·k . You may rest t1,:.;:.;ureu. I mjoyed i t i mmensely , n:.:; I C!o ul d f ol l ow the route very cnref u lly, ht'..Ving been i n London i n 1931. The \ 1ork o f op ening our nm1 Lli.n es g, es clone. , anci the n cm pc,v;er y l un t a t Ho ck Sp rl.n es und t he tippl e o.t Re li wi c e are wor ldnc out v e1•y ;-;el l . 'i'he c urs of l a r ger c upaci -cy help our co at e v e r,.1 me. t eri a l ly. �2 - I l eave fo=-t> Sun 3':c:mcisco , Culifornia , tomorror1, to be :present at t Ae 6T2.d UQ ·dcu exer c.i ~cs for ri.zy do. ugh ter, • Bllenox_ a -r1ee1< fro1!1 ?Low . I have n e'1Jer been in Sun Franci sco p and expect to hr,ve r:.. pleasant 'visi ·c. there. Ui th kin6. !'e&;aI·ds "i.io yourself~ yo1u.' father, an<i. al l the ma::ibei--s o f yov.r 3·~2ff, I am Very s incerely yours, �Dear YJi l l iG.:!l.: I au veJ:~; ~_:te2.serl io ha.ve y our L>c.fety ric\7S , tihi ch . conee to :::-..;:? d e!Zlr ~:egula:-t.~l y . I have beZore me the copy fo r ::JGce:20 3::: ; :.:.v36 . w.h.i ch sho-rm you nre r-tking ver-,y' substantial 1>:ro~ess, e.s indicated by Pac e 2 . Safety uorlc i c 2. con tinui :J.:; job, and I lilte tl-!e ua;y you are e.ttn.ck int.; t!lG 111-o'i.)l <;;::i . '.!'he:1:e i s no time 'C".:11en ne feel the t \;e hLVC Co!.1 e ~:;ell enoug1. Jt1s t a s ~oon ::i..:3 ".."Je a rrive .,1,t tha·c; st:?;ic of nine.. , ne a re i::,oing b~:ek-.7erci . ~11.e corir:1~2cial cn c:rators i!.'l t 'h . in di $'.:r~ric•~ h a ve tal:en 2. fornard ste[') c:."t -the request of : --., . ~cJ':a.:.li~fe . 'Z'hey ho.ve ~11poiuted a a afe·cy ~'ngineer , c:nd \Jill pu.t m1 .:. Safety procr an s i~1i.ln:c ·to ·i;hat o f ?he Unio rJ. :Jacific Coal Co:apany. T'm.s ~ng:t:rieer n ill :re::io::'i:. ~Gu .2 1.:io a::i".'C. of three oper~to:.:·s, ;;.'11.o -:;Jill hundle tlle Zc.xe ty :::lc~tter s f o::r the first ye~ , v.nc. uftcr t h ~ t they u ill ;J2 z-o "io."Ged . Toi:a mi ~1t not t>e u bud i dea f or some of ih e s,r ....~11 o:9erators in 3cotlano. -r1l10 feel -:;h0y c2.:mot ate11d the e2rgen se of a Safety J;n L.d n ee:;_, indi vi duull y, bu i ~ by co::1bining , t1~ey mi['ht e::r~l oy one joi\'! tly . 'fie ~.ic.. ve~·y ::-~c od 1:ast yer:.:?, ns you ,;ill noie by the :.:at;ezine n1!ich i n bei n c sent you : but "i.:e f!z>e no·G sati s fi ed . Si :.r io.tP.li tie r.3 i n the no c k Sp~illcSS ritl.tl ec i n c. very ·oad reco~d. ·:10 pu t on en A □~istt21 ·i; su_ 9 exintendcn t at Rock S'p1·irir;~, t.o see if ne _cfo.7mot o_ccom::.Jl i sh somcthl.n(::; , 'Tn.e lllWl ·::110 i s ti.t Ilreoent ~u9ol'in"Gendent hs.s been ,·.-i th us u great flD.DY years, end i n 3ettin 6 l..long i n yeurs . The 1>resent mine □ are oxten ::ive : ..nd entQil quite u yllysicf!.l harci.abiJ;l on tho Lli ne_ :Cu~e:dntendi:m t. You he:.ve no <.:.ou:Vt l'cad fros oi.1.:r :.:asazi n e 2:..rticlea thu·~ i,c con;vleted our pouer pl ant a.nu the i o;provc:.1entu ~ t !telience o.u::ing t h o clo sing cont.hs o:r li136. :.le cl GO ..:.1urchused ti.'1e i'olll'- ton I>i t cars to put in at ll&lln,, . :aie in Gtr1ll ction of the l.:.l'(l;e1· :t.Ji ·t car;;, has been a ver✓ -::ontierful thl.nc , and ~1as increc.sed our yl'Ocluction one.. i·el..uceC:::. our co sto very :perceptibly. \.'e are also r:iovini; ~long on the !)l'Opozed opariing at superior. J..11 the oius for the rock \-:ork o.re in. a.nd ne Y!ill let the contract nnd get sto.rtecl '7itl1in the next ueek or ten daye. and push these slopes on<i. v.ir ohafts through to a conclusion. ·::e think 1 t \"J ill t ake e.bout six non t he before we will be l>l'O wcinc a Lt:1all c.IOOun t of coal. �f/e hcc. ~'- ._ootl ~,reo.1~ iH 1936, t:lining 3,286,159 tonn of co:!21 ~ the lc.rg oi:t. ~)!'Ociuct:i.on ,-.,e hD..ve hud ~ince 1013. ~mi \7e .:.re s ·:·.c.r·::Ci~1G 1937 v!i th PTO spec·ts c,·.f doing very uell. • - 'J.11e l~~Jox- :::it!.10,•;_-,iou in thls count.r~r is not po.rticul a:tJ.y clea:r. '3.10 ~J.:. t.o::mbilo industry, t:hich \'Jt--.s o.oing 1.7el l E11c.l hcl :pec. _,:;:,o~t.1:l de ;::erk f:o:r a great m:my lJCOl)le, is under 01·cc.ni3a'Gicn '":Jy Sohu ..J• Le--..·rls, of the hlne ·.:orkers Union . ..'h~-t succes:; he uill heve, I don ' t k!1or:, but u Good IB..allY man G:::-e out on strike . It i s oi f:ficnlt, o.lso, to say y;he.t t'he attitude . of ·Gb.e C-Qvern:0.en'i; ,;1ill be to-i..-:nzci. a si tue.tion of thi c Li.no.. I tl sh to thank ~rou fol" th e Ch.ti str.1::s c n:rc. . ·:!e bad an enjoyable tiue , c?:.d excellent -::;eethe:r . Ea.tl 0>st of' our fruni l y ,.ri th 1J..s. Since thc.t t:lr.::c, -no hc."Ie had extremely cold ue&ther, tucnty to t~ent-y-five dccTeeo belor1 zero, ':rl th :.;ouetir.1cs hi&h y:indo blo .inc, It ~cf~ us 61lecoint; r:i.any times to kee!.) t:J.e miu es 011c r atin:_;. !;Je hc.d a ver-J busy year 12.st year . I n t he evenings I p layed golf, a:ic.:. enjoyed i t ci:catly . \ie lt.ve a club ,;ii th one hund:red mcrnbers no-r; , \!i th all of our debts paid, anc.. heve very good p:ro s11ects 'fo!· £~ fine yenr during 1937 ,. I hone thc.t your 0!.1crations nere suc cessful t.nu ~,roi'i t c.·Jl e- tturinG 19Su, o.n<i.. H1n.•i; 'i:-lle fu.tv.I'e prospects are u,od. Give ey regc:rdE to !h's. B.eid an<i you1· i'c.tller . Tell bin I shall find ti~c to •1.:1ri te hin come of these days. Very sincerely yo urs, Dr. ~.71111mn Reid c/o lhe Fife Coal Co. Cowdenbeath, !!'i f'eebire Scotland �✓ Di- . tii J.li en Rei a. '&e Fife Coal Com:yany. Ltd . Coudenbeeth, L'i :f .~~::::. r •3 Scotland I received ~cue p21n::.,>hlet on the q,ueen llary, Tihi ch 1.7as very in te1~e :-.:t inc , .,11c1. ! r:.!)1}>J:eci a te ~rour sending it. Al co c1.1:1:prccin te youx· senc.ing your z-ecord of ecci d.cnts , a."ld :nota that y on c1·0 r.1slcinG ::_.>:rogl~ess. I no t e alt.o , by ren.ding the Scotti sh pal)erG, ·that you:r com_pany i s dcing a g1•eat deal t:i til you:r ::af.e ty :,_r:z·ogi·a:n. OHr prot;rEr11 i s -.:: 0:-:-tin,:_; ov:~ V3l'Y ~iell ·ni th non- fn.tali ties, but ....-,o a re not do ing so 12ell 1.·:i th :ta te.liiies . I t seein~ very cEfficult t o contl·cl ·Ghes e ucci-• dents. You m.11 no doubt be sorry to :hear that 1J.Y father di~d. on _the third c f i~u .:;u.;:;t: e...Tlci. V!as bu:dcd. i n r:r•:ic::.•o·.-: •: :..?.ul·ch yard. Hy s.h;ter, I presume, is no\"I livin&; alone at P eat Inn. Our Old 'l'ime:rs \·;as a great success tll:i E' year, @'or1ing in in te!'e ::,t a~1d in n~'bers . '.".1it)1 !:::::• . !.I.::.f\::;.liffe c.:nd l;:!.J f c.r.1ily . I went to the Utah Park s, about i"ive hundred miles ,,est of' Rock Sprinf;s, and. ay ~nt si x ,dsy:::;. '1"11~ ::-o~:1 e::y :l ; v e ry bea.u t:.fttl. I took my moving pic·i:.ure camera ,:ri ·i;h colored fim, and got ~Of.le be&utiful Ji ctures of tte vaTi ec~ted rookow Rave net been ou. t m11e;}1 -c.]}'i. s year, r.:.o -;;1e h~ve hr:d a lnre;e construction p:rogr~.m . Our img1,ove:.1en-ts az:·e r:o :rkinG ve-:.7 -... ell :-1.t ;~3lianc3, _·n::.·t of 'i;l, e ti~vle i11..i t in ol)e:,ation loaclin._, r1m o:f mnc 1.v.[.1..'.c;t ? t!~. Tl.le t i:gple ·,,ill be ci,.ti :cely con.9letec. sa-0;1 c.i''G3~: "i.,L J r i::c~i of :.:/3~')tc:;iber.· . ?:!.lia coIJijlcti on -:.' r.f: t.,Ze~_tly del:,yed Oi:1 a.c<:!lm1•i.: o:i: cul" i nc.uili ty to secure the :.. ·i;:;,;<,:':!, .:·02~ t}:e 'Li p.,)lG , '.!.he lcr.-::;e :,lit Cw:'f.. ~:re uorkiuc; out e:Jwcllently, .:~"lcracinL about 8500 yo undo 1>er car. One ca:r cr:;110 out f1•om ~ s1..ak1nr; convoi'or lo~1de1~ lo.::,ct ·.,eek •.:i th 12000 pom1tls ol' coal, out ,;e \71.11 be :.::~ tisfied if ·n1ey uill hold to the averaie of 8600 :.10unds. \7e £!loo in ct ..;.l lcd sea ·cf the eama typo of co.r at Ranna, thay ave:raon:., ..i."2-uo o.bout 8500 l)ounds 11er car. Thie will greatly icprove our mechanical loading performance besides keeping a r.iuch cleaner r:iine. I ho.Pe, by all r:i.eans, your company �2 \"rl.11 go to t he l az·{;er :pi ·i; car at y our n e-r1 operations. By all me~ s, al so , go to i~e solid - end c e.r, y;i t h a rotary dump , as i t c u ts dol'm i.:1e.i n ·ie::tQ.'i.1ce :lo r cl e ~..nil:le; track s and other haulage u ay s . \!e ~re 60ing to :;.1a-'J'G a very good year . I think \Ie \1i.ll gc o~er "tlu:ee :...ill::.. .... :i t o ~is ·this y ce::r:. Ou:r i }O:., c:: ....l .:.:1 ·L'. c:..clcli tion i s n sD.l."l y co:o.ple ted. 1/e huve had one of -t;~e ~oi:.:..CJ?i:.; 3.'t>.rmi ilb: i'oi• about thi1-,"i:.y clays . Tho turbine ·u i ll :.~ _1.... t :L!to oye:ro.tion bet.neen no n c.nc:i. t ~ 0 -~enth o:f &eiJt~nbei· . 10~ tJe aot 1Jeen tlel :ayecl i n t h e ?ecei pt of t i1-a turbi l1$ , 7; ~ ·.~uld l1:.>..Ye s tr,3:·ted on l:lChed,.xl e , viz., August 1 £t. MJ i i i s , l1"e ai·c ju.st about f ive \,eeks behind, on a.ec oun t of the five t .~elt!:! clel ay in I"eceivinc:; the turbine and. condenser. -;_•; e h t..ve hc.,cl on ext.remely bu oy sUI.E1e1· , but a very int.ei·e::.iti nG one , '.. i th t~u f'.i ne-, const1.'u.e;tion \:or!: , 2J10. I :;~t.v~ enjoyed.it .:?.11 &re.,;Uy • . ·}e e~ect to cut ou:!:' 7os-ts ·:1ith t he ne·r:· ~(lt'..J.:?wE:nt •::(! ..... :1.~{1 j;l .·cc:r.n s i n, .s..nd t..:re ylf! Ui"lJ.EG :L .:>:.i.' 1 .~:..,L._.8'.l' :production. 1 \Je plc:n to open a nen mi ne o.t s uperior, :pi!ttin 6 i n c.i:!"' Ehaf t e , :f~.n:-:; t'...1!<i 0qul:t;r.'.i~11t ·i;ili ~ yo:,:~·1 .rno. c v c.1t1.~::1ll~ :,_"J:i.c..n to have a l)l:'oduct.ion oi' 5,000 tons in t vc 7- hou.:-.: sllii''i;s , &.1 oo 2r:2 t t i nc i n th e lC1.'6 e;;.: cu· th~re ,. i tll ·tl.t-~ 0Z--i nc:1 t;...t.._;3 ~ r11·0 bably b:dnei,i.ng t h e eoal out of tile mine ·.,ith u trm thousanu. i'oot conveyo1· belt i -z12tea<.l o-7 a ho:i. t:t . I -.:az ,.bl .:-.d tc n~; te th~~t t:.h.2 Q,;...een !.:.;1.ry ·b out i;ho liormandie's i·eccrd. across the .;-.·Uun'tic, c..nu thut; you a :i'e a;aine; to build a. ,d st~•i ' l.Jhl1, tD tlle ~ -~aGen -...:.•;.."~'Y il! JL .l cbo i.1 . O,n.: voli ti ct:-1 r.;i ·iua tlon h1::re l c GCttinf] rn t heJ."' lzo -t. Perconally , I hope that Govert101~ Landon uill beat President 1";o oscvelt, iY~':i -~}11::-:. i E:e ct r,robl ~t:1. TI•e :."'rEn:icim1 t , ·r.:ii:;h his ability to spena. the public ElOney and 1:1::1.ke d orrn. tions to cll kimlo of c c.t.u.;01-3 , i i-3 c. 1·ecl s ~:-1·~e Cl cno , end :veo:ple do not vote n Santa Cl ...:uo out oi' ot'i'ice . IJy beat regards to yourself, t o your fat her , t'i:r. I.:c:-:-eill end 1:r. C~~lot1 . :·r1 ·te :ne ....na tell u a o:i'.' ,y our p l E.ns a,t your convenience. Sincerely youro, Ol'!,rlnal Slpe4: GhRGr: 8, PRYOl ~-'\, \~ -11 • fi.\lG zt-; �r. T7a:y 4 1 1036 .:.:U: . ~i:ill:lau ~cici '.i".a.e '.lfi f 0 Co 0J. Co::l_Jany, L ta. . Co~denboc.-'d1., }'i fa:::l::.i:1,,c Seo t l w'"1d. Dcn::i' ......r . Rei cl: I ::ccoiv~d , -;;.-l ·i;l-2. ver~l C--X'co.t p leasure, you.z- l ette:i." oi' . ic.:;,•::.J.1 in ·:;~1., r.:::e: t:f:G i::tcres·~ed in tlle conu.i tions in ~co tland .::s yo~ sot £'ox-th. I na.E p.:-..rticul a:rl::l int-~:re:::icu in :,"Oi:.:i:" Sufet.y ,..,:o:r1: , e 5':.G. I rea.l ·t210 c (j lli Gl"Y G:i.ir J.i t:n, ·;;he l;ev:,?l c • z J'ou:r-au.l c-11u the Di:.n:?0i-TI1in0 ::-cca v e".e'J clo c;cly , &nc'. GLl :muc.h i :1tercGtcd :l.n ·;.:1,13 efi'oxto t h:.1 t you.'."!:' Uo::2:,Jc.:iy i r:, yr tt::..:1- :to:::e :i.n ..,2;ct,y • 0""1~~f !,/'-""-?t•i.... ••.t·1 t;: ,-~?~ ✓;v· -\.:: i .,,..,.~ ....\;f',.. !Ir: ~ro,· . .-.7>1y ❖-•-, e •"?1.:,'t'l~; · · 4-r.J.J L •'--•'Vt,.,"':,, \#l:..._Give. am-. the ot4er c.ectin&G you 1:.~~ lc~::lnt._ r n ::-~10 ~ C.-ID ::m bj C\l\;. .!. .,,, a.\. ... ~ _ t::.i- i;_ _ c; • You do Duch bot ter -;:11::.n '.!C ·.-;i ·::;11 fc. t [_'.'!.i ·::ics . Leot y0ar ne had a pr..1·ticul.:..rl y bo.(4 :reo.S: . o..1c yen"£ nc LOt c.1o\",-a to one :tntc.li~t;J' , t..:ul ~.t.-:: t i s -;;;1,•.:; c 1cst;:.-.:·G 'C~ 1~.f1.VC ,/ evcl" l'CC.;LCV.. t o-.:-u.'.:'d ~.1.C.TI~t.. C. c.1~ :....1 r.l~ ~(; . •:c s t ~~-l; out t~ _o .i'irct ~ :;: :,t.c y e:~;_, °(.~ ·;JI :!:.<1. ~-O_>er:1 of E~iuc i-c a "no i'at""-'"!.1.·1,~-· y-c :i.i:' . :i:'.uiG y u:1· u:.:: .u::.G. u. regl·otta.blc Q.C6i'-ic1·;; :!.r.. •i.~1c c-...:.-ly ~:..::i:·t or -~Lo :rn:l~-. •-c.;---~, l J ,... ....,,.,,1~·~0 ..__t.4... \.•f.ol. "' \,..:.,1, 0 ...,J "- e;, J',0 '1· .(.; '- '~ • £ c " ..J..•,,: 1·1•- .;n·'·o t'.;,.~ \. ~ . : . .'./...._.. ~ ti J .•·,, Uilv -;,,, •.•- ... ,.,. ,~ v . . , ; _ l.t U-..!.. bar, cyin~ t.li.c m::.:.:1c ov c.L:'.n,~ - •. ..'! L i>c t.o i aG ~moll ·uc tte:i: , hoi.7GVC1', \1i lli o~ nou -i·a. ✓.;d i ti8a . ~-£nila. hu.o conG f cn.,..r 11!0ntho ·.7ithrru.·t u lcc..t•-·i.xne ....cciCcnt, anC! t?.rl.s yea? f our L.i ..:: i;:::.c'i:i.:; : ... L".7~ ...,on .... tll:i."OUl.)l C:lO!l,:'!Oll 'C.l:l t":itl::.out a. lo c'i..-t!::.;:; l?.Cciclc:r~ . '.uJ.C 1,cthod o f r.lt. "dr.& U\':e::-do :'.'o:;: 'i~...:t.,:;·;;;y •. O:L°L ic on a dii'~\~ii.."ld; !Ja::.l~. :&:1;, uthc :.: .. u::'uu, ·.JO ....::-..:: n.dor,tint,; your oyi:: t e::! of rmyint_: montL l .: uuc.rdD i'G:r Cai'oty. Wlt.. l t:ui,1k ",,;C a..r·c ue:o tiHL, ~; i ~ 1..,oou :-::uc<.. ,•:.H)B . ·.:c are also clividing the ;ll'i zea i nto 2. n'llr.ilbl1r of SDaller a"r:arda, aud thie aeet1s -to be a LI'~.::.-~ inccut.i.. v.;:;. Ii' n number of workmen can obt...in ten or f if·;;oe:u clollnrs no o. J.JI'ize i'or :..iafety. ,.:nu hu.vu the p:i.·.:. ,llcsc of s::endi nc t hat \·d.thout turnina i t ovo1~ to their mve s , there uoC!!lu to i.>e a '-ootl cleal of ~Z::d. t i n tl.u1t sy5tm:i. A. f.1 �2 JG ~~c very ~noy n ith our conGtru c~ion ~)rot;x-mn, 8]'.)enlii.l .:; c00u JG e nc Dillion doll~~1·n i.b.i o yenx f ol· conc~'.j,·= nctio:: a:id nc:: 1:1c.chi uecy . '.:.he <:n7cr ~· lo..nt. i s coie._. ~-lon5; :;.-e;,i:hU;y, t:.m0. ne Gxpeot to hc:;.ve i t overo.tiur;;, 's:1 l.ngn□t l o·~. ':iG nere del ayed so~e'i1ho. t on the deli very of na·tcri a l for the nen tippl e c1~ i Reliance, n·~1·i.~ ,,c c::!.l Jct to kee.!.} -ve'T'J clo Ee to our schedule cilL .., i:.:;,, t::1,~ t project f i ni she{i al so . I·~ ~.c.:..,::_2'2. ,ery mu.c1-1 as i f you i.7012ltl he.ve a ffG~•i J.e i n Gx-ca:t _::::i ·Gci:1 in t11e mining indus try, bu. t I U:.:. ._).LC. ··.,,: !'!{. t. -~ t!l.2 t 2n ~::.:ii oabl e G.l'!'Z..t!GCi'.!10!1 t ·::e.s ~ de nhuceby ili::i_. s vara avoided o . 3.t:rikes -pcy uu 01'.1(1 t ::..1(. I ·i;:.li:.:,k i -~ 'CTOuld hc..v<3 bean C. c::.lc.8i t y 1-H,;.d a r.t:r:U;:o o t·euz-"..0G. in C:r.·,.k .~, B~i tt..in ;-.'hen you •,7GX'e £,Oil1,.., :.lo~€., SG :liuC:I.j:- . I .. ! L -11 ".:,l : .c: t .o lr~-!cr, tll.it ~_; ,: :fin e: a .. _:.'s2i uecl or 1,lea.:JlJ.Z'G :Lil t:ea:r-inL: ifile ~:i(;c.n o l otheL : ,....1L dh • ·n•1 =n·,,,,";,·i:;,_ S'->c~ : ",..,.... -.-,0 11 ,_.,.,-r,:,; Ju ... !:1--u...":l.~.. 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".!8.c ::,1O:!.i ~j.{~n1 s i tna·i;io:1 i c E;till 1·.::.t:Lo~ :::r·~ i:1 ·G!1G t!!.:_~u a ~, C J i r,:,"t: J:2~ :-.~ .: c-Z 2 Preeiclential electio:'? 1i:!l-i..f. ;yea=-. u1~ ; ~.-,ililc I tlo not belic7u the i., ..:~ublic~;: {;=:.l b!?:-_-t _rc sld0:r::. l:ooscr:-,31t on accom1 i o:r ·t11~ ;~un•i; o?. Llo:1oy :to h"'-G thI?o\:il to the •... i nds, I. tb.i.1k t :1e :.2_,u0li c ec:1s -::-ri11 holtl v. l a::?ge number of vo teo. Pez.,i;:,rw11:-, I ... houi.ci. 1il:o very nu.ch to cee Ule:-.:i :t ei:..u-2!~'~ t o 1) 0-.:(. .r, a•-; tile Ds. . . .o era i;c arc r:-.. rc1dl od . --.~G a opend-tilrift ·ilunch . The ··Hc-.-r :Deal·' keeps ex_9eriaenting. r-nc~ the De~t tl.ir~:: t.t.o;; <lo i u t.o :,quc." lcer money 'i..hen tj_ey u.on ' ·t kno,1 ,-::here it i ::; coniut;, ::::r.:on . In du ctr.,,· ~nu t he iudi vic.'.ci. 1.dll Iu::.-re t o 11as the bill, uhich h-D.D.£,ere l.'ecovery . Tel l Ur. ilclTeill that ,;;e sti ll he.Ve tf_c 01·i£)lt sunsl".ine here: a:id oertrdnly enjoy i ,;; . ..c had n treI!lenclously lu:lrd ::inter, ,::-ith c.. s::cat c.eo.l o"l mow. but springtime i o here and ,.1e are all t.,la.d of it. I r ead the 9a11er you sent ne I. i th a c;reat deal of interest, o.nd I know you are tryiDG tremendouol y �I 3 ha~d tc i~.1._1;1.' 07c yet'\!.' n 1:::ca(:y ..;ood Sufc"ty :recot~d . I t1liuk you c.re 0:1 t.:.~ x.:._;1t tracl~ , an<l , Yihile i t tu.kes f'.. li"i~tle t il.:13 ·j:;3 0~':H. ~·enul·Ga ~ YOU:'£' Com_:.:my uill crJent 1:.Qlly :- Cv 1..,··1""":l.i ,_:1 much in the ma-ttex . .bl.beJ..·-~2 ar.:c he::i:' h1.u,banc. live in Ro ck Spring ia ~u o.. ·:;. w i:'!...1,:; i :.: ce:)ufaig very i' a.st. We -r1ere pleased, ind.cad , tc he2.x o .!.' t:: c::i li...ddi tion to youx· fami l y. and 1101>e to ~:c ·Jc".I. ,:....:.~-l ....-0m0 tirnc . :~0'\.7 , --.:i : ~::._1tl..O~J --~ ~~cGct~ds t.o t:1~ . c . C. c~_rlo~J , yor:..1.,, fo:i;h.er, Lr.·. :__---.:;;'ill~ ru1d your i'q:aily. Ori1tin:1 J l'lt!nJad: GEORG£ 8, PRYDl 'A.. �,., ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. .. ·,HEAD OFFICE: LEVEN, FIFE. TElEGRAMS ::CARLO:, PHONE, LEVEN:· ,. FIFCOL,COWDENBEATH. f • f) G , TELEPHONE N~~ 161 & 162 LEVEN. N~~ 181 1'0 185 COWOENBEATli. YOUR REF._ _ _ __ OUR REF··---· -··-WR/'.AT Mr. Geo. B. Pryde, The Union Pacific Coal Co. , Rock Springs, Wyoming, U. S. A. Dear Mr. Pryde, I was very glad indeed to have your letter and t o know that you are getting on w~ll. Mr. McNeill handed me two ties which he was commissioned to bring to me from you. It was a very kindly thought and I appreciate it very much indeed. I hope he remembered to give you the copy of the 11 Fringes of Fife •; a little book i:rhich is now out of print, but which I thought would be of interest to you. We in the Fife Coal Co., and in the Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans Group in particular, are endeavouring to emulate your example in Safety Work. I am enclosing a copy of a short paper which describes the work we have done, and also copies of our first two issues of the Safety News, which I edited myself for my own group of Collieries . One t h ing regarding your accident rate that I simply cannot understand is yo~r number of fatalities. We employ 9,000 men and we worked six days per week during 1935 and we had 11 fatal accidents. On the other hand we ba.d 1,250 compensable accidents, that is, accidents causing loss of work of more than three days. I continue to enjoy reading your Employees' Magazine and I take the privilege of extracting some of its humour for my little circular. our men, I think, are now settled down again with the increase of 9d per day which they received. No doubt, if our Central Selling arrangements come into definite being , and I think they will, the men will receive another increase. As I write to-day the weather is still very wintry. We have had only/ �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. "'- HEAD OFFICE: LEVEN, Fl FE. TELEGRAMS "CARLOW. PHONE, LEVEN'.' "F, FCOL: COWDEN BEATH. TELEPHONE N~~ 161 & 162 LEVEN. N~~ 181 'tO 185 COWDENBEATH. YOUII REF. _ _ __ OUR REF•. _ _ , _ _ __ - 2 - /only about 5 or 6 real spring days yet. From the newspapers I see that the United States is having a very bad time but no doubt after the melting of the snows, your weather gener a lly will be as fine as I saw it. Trade is definitely improving and working time in all trades is very good indeed, but we have still the unemployed with us, and frankly, there are ma.ny of them in our district here that I can make nothing off. The mental effort of going to work after years of idleness seems too big for some of them. The Comrie Pit plans are progressing favourably and one of the winding engines will be installed within the next month or two and sinking will be begun in real earnest. While this development is not in my group, I am very much interested in it. I still wear the Safety Boots, Breaches and Leather Coat that I purchased in Rock Springs. The coat is known locally as my fur coat and curiously enough it is not the only one, as one of the men at my No. 7. Colliery who has been in the States now appears in bis. Probably he was worried about the looks of the coat but has taken heart seeing me wearing mine. I was glad to hear that Alberta and her family were getting on we~l. We added to our household on the 26th February. Chas. Carlow Reid, Junior, is getting on very well. Sheila and I send our kindest regards to you, Mrs. Pryde and Alberta. Vile trust you are all well. With best wishes to all my friends at Rock Springs. Yours very sincerely, E/- �' Dr . 'Gilli au He~~ ?r!.e P i:l:'e Ccnl Cc::.._:=._~,Z'. '!:..:f ~ !,~d . Co·r:dcr~:.ibect!1) :'-..i, : -3~" ""l.l'C Seo tlcnd. I h::.c. o.. l ct'i.e;1' fro:n yo·v.r fc:llier, nri ttcn i n the e~rly ~)nr·t of J.::.nt.".a.17 . Hecdlci:;s to say , !'. 1:-c.s very gl m~..z:Gtl to ll')C:i: fEorn ltln . I ::u.uaJrn enjoy corze3pondi~1.,; ,.-;i th pZ'CLX'em:,i ve men ·ur.D e.re interested in th0 coal lmsineos, like your e:taff 'ffi -'Gh ·(he :':"'i f'e Coo.l Company. . L thank you i'o:,,.• the Ch:.... is (.:!2.s ca:;;d c.1 1C lettc:c and ell the :i.,cmembre.n cec ue :rec ei vecJ. n-c CLl:i:':!. .:rt1::-:1B tine . I -:--:ae :,;> a..r-ticulu:rly :pleased a·t :.::1:. :.:c::cill ' s nnd hi □ fa:;:d. ly being abl e to vi F.ri t ,:zy fiai:i;llcr: ac I :l'ee.lize -r:ho.t a a rect 1:iee-ting i t !!!V.s t h c..ve b ee:1 o.::: they t a lked e.bout n.o ck S:91.• ings m1d t h e pe-:,l)l c➔ 11Gre. r:e had a. t:re:11.eutlou.sly eol d spel l ~11 oV:)l' tlie United s ·i:-.~:tes, end ·me co::-..1 i·ese:;:-vc:;; had been cleDleted, but the \:Ca 1.;hcl' is n2rrling un c. li ttl c rmd i t -1ooks nuch bettez,. - 'i'.he :poli tic::-.1 :::i tua.tion i fZ ctill ra:thcr clouded . T'ne 1'l:Teu .Deal n is not r1::ildnc :0.uch hee.d.ney, b".1.t busil'!csc i o i nl)z-ovin~ l,egax>dloos of tb.ci::.• experiz::i ents, altlmuch i t i n going I'2.the:c slm.1ly in rrpoto . ·.:e hr.d o. leitci, from Juberta C.urin&.; the \1eek, statins "i.he ·c; t:i:1e -i~verat'll.1"e u t t hei:r hone reached forty c1egreoo bol or, zero , and i t i s di f:r'i cult for them to kecy tra.1--11 in their ho:uc, bu·l; ue h a ve h ad cu.ch of that durine the l ust month. ·1}0 a re GOina .::.h ec.d t:i 1h OUl, .)O't"Je? l"lant 1nr,;Jro7c?t1ente a.t Rock S:::>rl.uss, and , s.s I told. y om.' father today , the Reliance improvemen ta are .i:>rogr~H::sing. r:e 01'dt-Jred 350 3½-ton !)it caro, nude o:.C steal , today, for deli-rery in about ninety days. .All in a ll, I anticipate a rather bu~ year. A. "1- 0. FEB 141936 �/' 2 ! 0::..1 vm.·y i:mch :1.Dt0rc,rted. in rm;i;ching the Old Countz-:-t i1~::'0::.:'D ::.nd tho mininc; pei...lodico.lc ~nd rca.d:i.nc oi' ;your ucc;iv-ltioo in Safe•ty i:ro:., .'l :. I noi:i cccl ni th :y~eo..c;u:.:c ~-o~· :=cccn t lecture on Safet y t10:s:-k y;l:iich co7c•:,".'C(1 • 1•:::· 1 :,,ll.nocc. \'le had e. rathe:i:.· had yeax \Tl th ~· o: tnl:1.. ·i,;·, c£:l s tJ·.;.'C, o..n G:J~CCJ> tionn.lly f,'OOd yeaz- Vli ·i;,h nen-ia t~t :i.njl!:2.".. .; ., . Ou1' aua:rdo r,erc mau.e dni•in,i ·i;he •;;eol;:, t•,70 o:f au:.: c:..::::,1oycn , oii accoun -t of the d:rawi ng, -r1ith u2.ueh you t'..::--o :,:cnllic.r , :t·ccc:i.vinG t,l'le p:d2:cs for 1935. '.!."':b.c rm ·:r.i.11 con:::J:t st oZ ·c,..;o t:ri·,Jr-J to .ti.1 ~H:ika ~i th ::11 0~_W:1 sc::.; )F1:~~, ~ 1.:: }1·j ch w::i. 11 be a. t;r<:a·~,. c~pc:t'i enc e :i.01:' Jt:hesc "G'l.:JO ~~c:1 . .t;;:t. ~•1:G0(3U hUYlt!.3.?ed n<-m !)C.:i.' bJ. O:!.:;?Ut e<l in the drt.i.'\.'rll'lc; . r.i:11:1.D 'GG.S n :1.·e11n.1~k~~)l o roco::d , i ndi1 0 catinc-; r;.2ch c. hiGb yC:\·c~nte.ge o:f our men 1.:ho i::cl'r: eliGi bla on ;1.c~ou:.1 ·t of \70l'k:tng i:,i oection ~ ,-.rn:l.ch r!.-0.d not sus ti;,i ue<l n l o st- i ime e,oc:l dent dn:r5.r1e th 0 y oo::r: 1935. one of uu!':ru.inc.m, Ho . ~. ;1.,uJc Bv:.rincc-, 1-1m.,,11 · b.D.d gono th.iz-teen yeo.:t>o YJi -tl1.0ut. 1:~ :i.'u.t::il:!. -',_:;;y· , h:.t!. r:, :rcc..rettablo a cuid,~n-~ f.ioon o.:?t;cr th~ f:~ ::'□ -~ o:Z' .:.·unui..,:i"Y . J\ maclrltte 2unne'.i"s hclpoi· , holclinc the jG.cii: :..Ji:~c , :;r~urJ.bloc.l und ~ell iu ·c;o 'f-he ';y_i. ·>3, r:1.n:rc,t.."!ini:.1.:; iuj ':l.';:'i r:is :,.::i:ot1 \-:hi.ch he uicd.. r/e hc.vo ~)crsn \-e::N p:;;-o"l_'..d vl' uuza :-:ecoi·d iu thl o :x.i..no , bu·G 1.10 v:i11 lla.vo to ota:r:'i; e:.11 o-vex uea:i.n • le t:.ukell a ccod clocl ~bont you ..,nc1 yolll' '1"1i'e t 1lrl.la oi\::: c?d.lcl1~e:1 •.101~0 hom<n :?o:r Ch~i s·i'i::il?.,B a 1.1-nd v,ondcreo. tiue.t you. -:-:oul<l bo do inc und. h0u you YJould be celebro:c.iug . I "17i1J. h~ c l c.d. i21ue0d ·i.;0 h e:.:.r :2:rom you ct ~ -~ino you find cou-;rcni cu-~ . t/i th kind i-'e~ oo~1[1l ui:re, I z-ecQ~.?do ·c;o you. and your a..'!l You:-n vo::-j' siuce~cly, �fu . C~'le~ C. R-::ltl '11'!.e Fi-Z e lil) 2.l CO:.::l})~Y , L ·6(1 . Co"l:."denben. i:.h, I'i·:.... ,_~....i. ::-0 Scotland. I U::J:i/Z'GCi~·cecl y our. l e t-te:i:.' of t h e 11tl! u l t . vecy 1:ruch, ....m:. -;·:at: "'.IC"i'Y much :plea.sed t o hetu> i'2 oi.1 you . A -r1os-d fi..om tho cc i n t h e old Ro1:1el ::ucl 3l -..7G.y s [,;ives a e n cre~t e0~l of yl c~~u~e . i t ,1~s ~ 11l ea1::u1..e to ha:ve ~1:r. ~7cl:eiJ.l ,:-::L -~h us . Yle g ave h:t-n. ;_·:hatev e:r i nfo11';1a°tion ·m::i h c.d, h e bci i:e equal ly c;enc rouo in -'G el l ine us o:t you:a.> pl ans G.!2(1 tilw condition of t he uoal i nclu~rli:ry (!;enei:n.lly in Jco·i.;18.11,:. Dnd. t h e Bri ·l;i oh I·sl es . I kee1) in as cl o ca touoh D.!!l I can , by 1°euding t h e 11 Col li ery Guardi an·) &r.d o thcr 3:ri t i sh ·,)a.-rJero, bu "I.~ i t i s muoh b ettc~ to ~10..70 o. pcrsone1·· i n i erV'l eu i.7i t h soraeon o f:,;012 /t,;.he Gl d _Coru1 ·i.;:i.·•y s imil a r to ar . 1.!cllcill . liey I r:cy i., e (U',: ; a l z.·a~re &lc.d ·Go h av e y our s t aff ·(rl tl1 us . I think you l :!.3.VG a s-.ol .:u<ii d stuff end ,1e enjoy the i r v i :::,"'i ti □ w1d. hope· they ri1t2.y cone uguiu. i / 1 t:lli1 gl a d -~o 1:no;:-; ·i;hc.·t y ou uc.01,it Gcl llic l ui'GG min e ca1· r1,nd s ki.:.> hoi s tins . ~:hese ti1L2e;s s:;.•e 1·ntl~.'JZ· revolu tionr cy i n Seo i:.land ~ out the· coo.l hu:::iness ~ c c I oee it , n1:1 t on1:r i n Sco·Ucndo !s..:.t i n 1'1:J.m.'1. ca, h &;.e; to do u any revolu tiona r y thi ne □ i :1 order to pv.11 out. I . think doinc ·llie l'evol uti ona:r y ·:;.b:1 n~s i s · our only hope of gett i ng o.nyuhcro c.nu ncco □~licllins xesults . I juot ~urchaoed toC:ey , i'o:.: ou~ CoE:r;;eny, 360 :,it caro of 3·~---;-;oa ct._n~ci'i..-y. i"o:r o..::.r i□J~ovcD-ente at Reliance, 1..yorn ng . Bo t h '.:illian and :Wr. i.lcil eill a.re f anili:::.r 1:i t h thoce ...,mpo::;cd i :.::r_1ravenant::; . • The del1Tery on these ca.ra i o about :Icy 1st. Our uer, ti ppl e rl.11 p rob~bl y be CO!llll e t ad by tll::t t i me , c-,:1d we desire to h~ve eve rythinc; on the erowid c:;o ·Ui~t there ·,'!ill 1Je n o d cleys \:r! itinc; for fil:lt c i-ia.l e::-.:- e(1 uiD- ment of any kind . �2 :i: o..m sure ·i;ha.t you Ot'Jl prevont dec~o.do.tion , a.a '\;.U~:re u:<>c nc~ny uotllodo ·i:;oclay or <loinc ·;Ji! n. I i'eel c. o•eo.t dccJ. of' i~~•:::-oveucnt ho.s b een made in ·i;hc l o.at f<:m ye::.:!fJ iu ·i;l10 };'):::>Cyc ::..·a:i;ion of conl, oome>u:irl.na ve1--y neoeoso:ry. ::::.1 , :::f. ·i;o hCl'..:i.' from yon f:m m timG to ~~i.r:.10 :rce;al'diac ;/ou:. .:lr-..~o. r rc2d the ?cople' s :rou:·,moJ. ~ 7 the Dnn:to:rn1l:lao )?.-·er.,~ (.;n<l many other Ol d Com1·i;1--y ,:::a1Jorr.:; and uatch yom.~ eon tc:ipla tecl i mprovement a. I t i s e. p l ea.mi:;:e t o hc::.1· a.houi them, 0.3 the Old Cou.l'l tr.1 he'..s b e en 1>1::c.lly hl -c in t:10 J_~o·t :f ow y cc.rs , and I n.:n. !;l 2.d to lmo u :i. t i s 001.tlnc he:.ok. Our Coun ~~:i.j, is 1i10 '.l.'e or s:90 tty, come yQr·i;::; o .Z tho com1 "t:i:y doi nG ver y uell, othex-o not oo &ood . less _ Our 0\7'1 sitm:,tion, at Ro ok S~)i.' in £3ao is i m9roving and ne ere do:l.11g vei·y z;ell. ·,"ie u:lucd nearly th.rec million ·~one l a.s·~ ye{11', ~ncl e~~JCct ·i;o do bet·ter dv.::dnG 193G . I look fo::-i.1nrd to u -:10-s::• ~uoy year, ,,i th no hope ·to e;ot b2.ck -~o 3co ·n...nd. ro:? :::ome ti::ic ,;;hen I cm fl'ee , nuc11. o.s I ::houlu cuj o~• vl ::Ii ting· 1:.i th you cJld your ctci'i' . . ey kind :>e:i?conc.1 ~ega::ds end hor>c ·6h~:i; tile p lane you hc.ve :?o:.· t11·i o y oc:r rlf!Y !'each full fruition. Ve:cy ::lincercly your□, �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICE: LEVEN, FIFE. TELEGR"HS "CARLOW. PHONE, LEVEN ?' "F1Fcol!: COWDENBEATH. TEl.l!.PHoNd'l~~ 161 & 162 " Le;vi.w ~ 181 'l'O 185 COWOl!.HB ■ATtf YouR REF. - - --- ·-··-· _ Mr. George Bo Pryda p Vice President, union Pacific Coal Co o Ltd., Rock Springs, WYOMING, U • S • A. Dea.r Mr. Pryde, I duly received your Cb.ristma.s Greeting . was very good of you to remember me. It I want to thank you for all your kindne ss to Mr. McNeill during his visit and for a.11 the help you were able to give himo i'h.e new colliery we are in the course of sinking is breaking new ground so far as this country is concerned. Mr. McNeill assures me that, after visiting your plants, he has no doubt whatever that we should be able to adopt successfully the large mine car and we have already decided on skip winding. The only disadvantage of moment with skip winding is the possible degradation of the coal, but we are assured that if we adopt all the precautions necessary in our lay-out, the degradation can be reduced to a negligible amount. As we proceed with the development of our new colliery I shall let you know from time to time how we are getting on. There are many points upon which your kindly advice will be of great assistance to us. My Son joins with me in wishing Mrs. Pryde and yourself a very Prosperous 1936, and I can only add how much/ �,, much pleasure it will g ive me personally if you can see your way to visit us hereo Yours very sincerely, �.:....,~ . ·,/illic.1 ~·..uic! '.l.'UO 3i:.'.'o Cool U:, . , 1,;,,d. Oo\:ucnoc~t-h, I'i·.':cr.l.h::.:-c dootl::::.?:e. ! -~ 't':D..:J t:. ::•::.,1·~.....11.Z"c 'i;o h~7e you;r :.:::.· . Ec:·ic:l.11 \Ji ·i;h He I:.~.•.tl c ··10:~ ./!.ecc:.-.l'! ·~ vis:1-'.; ~.rH, :-:cne::otl ol d a.o::;::> ci ~-tion a~ ::.nd -;:,:,l~ctl :.;, 1__:i:cc. t <l eo.l of -~~e ol d o ot,n tey i r:.-.r·i.:1 m,,ll:.?'1Y 'i:hc v:1. Di ·t: you cIH.1 h-n ?~::.\de. to rriy :i.'nt.11.el' [.:..nu aiotez. 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Gc :e~\1 i n the Col l i cl'Y Ctiti:l:'u:i..an , stv.t.L'lt; tll o:t \.'~ -:;; ore r:.ottin 1.., tco ~--1~:c,;v lm1.::; ·.::i. t3J. :.~cf..:.:.:rJ to Cci'et.y cud ·d1.~ :>v0r a tion oi' tllc minco, all oi' which 1.;c pu.lH,c:i:-:t ~o io. s _o l:.rcmt i dea to~ f~(:)ffi"1'3 io h~ t1hen ::c ;-;:v.n i;:rto cl2.i'= :Zicu1 ti o:; t() 1Jr.~o 1 2..u~, -,:;:W.cfu hol pc_ no one, ::inc. :.wr~1y 04cldu to the c r.m:i.'ue:l.ori . i n t.."tm·;; a::.'ti clG. ! h~r-:ct:D.y m1t: o:.:ce c-;r.):A-y·c;i:s:i.c1(., '.:.'ho :;_ l~/C.O i'ma:i.l~l f.lCl1 Ci.G bee(~ r;;i ::1:::1e~ -;_,J t C.·'..l ,~;·rl your vrlf e. cntl l;UW y ou huve o. HtJ.:)~iY at."Hl .• l'O o::;tcl'o11• r;; :rcu Ycc~z-, ·::l'lic?!. io e~ clooo f!.'G h:md . Orl,ch1:i.l S ign~: GEORGE e, PRVOl �Dr. ~illiam Reid The :s'ife Cca.J. CO□.!:' f:l:l.Y p Ltd. Cowden beath , L'ife shi re Scotlancl Dear Dr. :F..eid: I \·m:a glc:.d, indeea, to hear f:rom. you again. I v;&tch closely everything I see in the papers a.bout your ~lane for rix·st Aid and Safety n ork. I lmor; you will meet \•J i th much opposition, cJ.S the Safety movement &.lw2:.ys has, but I know t LID.t even tua lly you · ,r;ill mc;;.ke valua.ble contributions to thl ::J ,1orlc . Our :fi rst Aid Piela. Day and Old ?iocrs eel ebra tion ~,as held last F riday and Sa tu.rday , June 21st and 22nd, with the largest croud ever 1,ll~esent here, ano the ueather was deli15htful. Everyone enjoyed a fine t~me. I am sending you the local pa~ers telling the story. ✓ The coal business is oovin6 a lont::, i.:;lonly, and, of course, the re is 11uch confusion on account of the outlauini::; ol then .R . A. Our yroducti.on \·Jill increase very l)ercepti bly this year. Things throughout this country are improvinb, despite the machinations of the J)oliticians in \/ashington·. Ura. Pryde just retumed from a trip through Yelloustone Park, and she visited ti'ith Alberta, whose home is only a fe\'l miles from there. • I . shall be glad, indeed, to give you al. l the in~orm&tion I m&y on the fossil fish that ue obtained at Kemmerer. • I am sure that my father will be very glad to see you whenever you find an opportunity to visit him•. at Peat Inn. • . Our wage situation is rather muddled yet, but we expect it to ~lear up within the next·few days, am do not e:xl'ect any shut ··down. �2 1 read ni fu a great deal of interest of the 25th Anniversary of the ·Kine:, ana Q,ueen, anc the many celebratio ns held througho ut the country . It is not hard to 'W'.ld.erstand \1hy the :..,oyal fami ly -holds s uch a great part in the affections .of the British people. I should have liked to have been there and seen some of it, but that i s not yossible . ..:rs . J_>~JC.i.e joins me in sending good ·\·iishes . . Sincerely yours, �ALL. COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY• • ;,_Ao, 0FF'IC£: LEVEN, ) FIFE. TELEGRl\1-(S "C ARLOW, PIIOHE, LEVE " '.' "F1Fcol.'.: COW0ENBEA.TH. Tl!.Ll!PHONEN~f 161 & 162 H~~ LEVE"- 181 TO 185 COWD1tt18UTH. YOUR REF. _ __ OuR REF. ___n/.AT Geo. B. Pryde, Esq. 1 Vice President, Union Pacific Coal Co., Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S.A. Dear Mr. Pryde, It seems a long time since I saw you in Rock Springs. We are busier than usual at this time of the year and there is a definite improvement in trade all round. • You will remember the fossil fish, one of which you gave me at Kennnerrer. I took one over to present it to the University of Edinburgh and Dr. Finlay and Professor Jehu were so much taken with this specimen that I gave them the other one I had and they asked me to introduce them to you as they wish to procure further specimens for the University, being, of course, willing to pay for them. Both these gentlemen were very enthusiastic and no doubt you will hear from them, and I can assure you that anything you do for them will be very much appreciated. Now that the good wea~her is with us, I propose going along to Cupar in the near future to take Mr. Pryde, Sr., for a trip 1n my- car. No doubt he would enjoy that. I hope Mrs. Pryde is well and that business is recovering in your part of the world. With kindest regards to all my old .friends and to yourself. �June 10, 1 93b -··· Dr. Uilli~m Reid The F ife Coal Com1:H.!!lY, J, tu. No. 7 Colliel-y Coudenbeath, r1rcshl~e S cotla nd Thank you 1' or your l etter o f Ua.y ir; th, \'iH/J...T . 'i'he book on 11 0il f!'or.l Coa l" has rea ched ae • .... nd I find it mo st intcreetinc , pa rticula :rly the .!,oi nt thtt I ht..ve been in doubt ~bout , a.s to hor; ..iny conQitioning of cool , ouch us oaxboni zation, \-:OUld im~rove a poor qu&li ty of coal. ~lli s ca~no t i>e uone, accorainL to the revort, I uoo aleo interested i n the state:nent that coal com~uniee m~rketin5 commcrci~l co al \'.l:> ulc.1. necessarily have to bet ao;•m to very lo'."1 c..eh content. I think thut 1 0 the co·ndiiion tor1c.r ds whi ch we are a rifting in thi s co un try . ~"'he 1) eo _pl e ccn t:,;et t.as . from \·;hich there is no residue . Coul ,;i th high ash content costs r:tore to t:rtin s_t101~t oa lonL, hauls, such o.e we bllVe in this country, ...im:.i. then there ie the cost o i' ta.kine out the ashes, r.hicc ...ado ~ _"J-7.;'ithe co t:.t 01· the coal. The book i a vcl'y intc:~:ceting t ...nd I wn gla(f to have you send it to me. I •iill get my o.,:..1plication to you· before long for the' Scottii:m :11n1ne Institute. 80 auey thinbe h&ve come up recently, thi:.:. t I lu: ve no t been able t6 give ~ttention to it. I wue r:i. t the Oincinnc-1 ti :'Jee tin,.; of the ,~erican ~ inin~ Conbress ooout a r.ionth t::.t:.P t un<l had u very enJoy11.ble time . The ,t>C..£.lero uere e;ood, ~nu the mochinery uis~laya e7.cellcnt. i met~ young ~inint EDGineer .fro:n Afri ca, uid &.d c.. ve1~y 1nterestinL convereution with him. I lu..ve eent )OU o. copy o~· the proc;rcm so that you may unclerstr..nc. the e,ttent of the !Jupera Oi SCUt:Sed • • / ' \le have a t,oo<.l local MininL:; Inc ti tute here, composed of about seventy-five members. We meet· on the third S&.turday of each month, ...nu huve lH.tpere ref.l.d am then the .v~!J8rs gre. m1meogrn1,1hea &n<.i. ec.:.ch member g iTen a copy. I c:1.m wo nQering if that would not be a good idea i'or you. 01· couree, I know you h~ve the !::tudent .,..asoci&.tiona :..no Aitt.nctt;ers Aecociationa, but I am ~onc-erinL if it woulo not be u 1;.ooa iaca to �have un as so c iuti on co09osed o:r your F i remen a nd uner. er o :ff i.ci .::1 ~. I t .:.B.ve b ee:1 vcl.~y much inter e s t ed i n r eaa i nt in the :Cunferrnli n o ayers , the Peo p l e s Jour na l a nd J,. the Colliery Ou~Z'di an, of t he eff or t s you a r e put ting f orth t o i opro vc yo ur Safety record . I fee l tho se a re ver y colll:!1end&bl e, unti eventually will be t he mean s o f helpi ng your s it 1.13. tion. . I am .vl ea.sed to advi s e you t he t - 1,:1e n on t he Sentinel s oi Safety t ro p~· for t he seconct y ea r , over all oi tuminouB mi ne s i n the Un ited · St a tes . Yo u r1 i ll rectill we ,:on it lost ye.0.r, afic you we re pres en t .:4"!; the party l a:st f all . We pl an t o have a p a1•t;y l a t e r in the f a ll, ao you c an oon sici ex t h i s & iz i£:.nd ing in vi t a t ion t o come. '' C" liine , t,u1J c1•ior. t;on i t U1t o time. You u ill :i.· ccnll t he n ine rrhere \·!e ht...d v e ry b~d roof. s o 1 t ohov10 ~.h at c u n be do ne l.':i th Saf et ;,r. I t a lked . to you nhen yo u ner e !lez-e recurdi t'!f; our Code of S t a ndt.rc~s , ~ nd at th"'t t im~ I di a not he.Ve a copy to e,i v·e you; but sinc e t hc:. t tiT:1c t'!~ ht.we mr c..e up a number for our o taff, a nd 1 am l,j eno. i n B, yo u a copy ~ o hope i t will r ea ch you s af ely . It con t uins ~11 the sketches und i s ~ compl e te c o2>Y of' our Coae of s t ...nc a rcl s. I thout:;ht you woulct. like t o have i t ior your files, ~no if you a esire t o ~ut a h envi e~ binain&· on it , of ~ouroa you- ca n do so . \ie h&d u Ur. Anc! e rson, of J.nc.erson, Boyes & Co., Ltd. , liothe rwell, Sco t land::, vii th us &bout si x weeks £160 a nd huu u very f ine ti'!llc sho t1 i ng hi□ a 1:ound the mines. I!ud a l e tter f ro:n him ~e cen tly , eta ting he enjoyed hi s £ t a;y in t he United 3 t a te s bi"ee:. tly . I kno w you ht:ve much work Gince a ssuming yo\ll' c..uties i.s .,,gent, w1<1 much \'lOrk on your r e tur n fro'!ll America.. I hope i t "fllh.Y. be poasiol e f or you to come ~ga in ~t some future time. - Alberta ht.a been t..ome for t wo weeks. cwne home Sci. tura~y ~rnint:.. from Univera ity. :Bllc~or, Our Old Timers' Cu lebration will be held two weeks from 3~turd~. on June ~2~d, ~nd we e re expectinb ~ l&rbe a ttenaonce. I lim scndinb you a copy of the Old ~imere ~rogram. �The coal buoin eoe io in a state of flux yet, ~nd no doubt oo::iet!.linL, ·::ill t>e norked out fo?' the inc.us try. l.!y !tind xcu:..!'cis to youroelf and v1ifeo and I i:lish you \'1oul o. 1.>i~c :..H?nt ey com.l:'liraon ts to. yo"Ur father ...nd ::.:1 • Co.rlOi.'i. �l ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE AOORESSED TO THE CoMPA~Y --.,. ' .ELEGR"-MS "CA.RLOW. PHONE, LEVEN!' " FtFcol'.: COWDENBEATH. E.~EPHONE N~~ 161 & \62 \.E VEN N"'! \81 ~o 185 CowoE HeEAit1 YouR REF. __ _ - WR/AT OUR REF. Geo. B. Pryde, Esq. , Vice President, Union Pacific Coal Co., Rock Springs, Wyoming, .U.S.A. \ ' Dear Mr. Pryde, I am sending to you under separate cover a copy of the 11 011 from Coal" Conunittee's report of the Scottish National Development Council. It will, no doubt, be of interest to you. I have been trying to find an old copy of Burns to send you just as a reminder of my visit, but I have not been suceess:f'ul in getting what I want, up till now. I hope Mrs. Pryde and yourself are in good health. With kindest regards to you both. Yours faithfully, tt ~~ 4· ' - �MARCH I ~ r-= AP RI L Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa SunMonTueWedThu Fri Sat I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19202 12223 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910111213 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 MAY Su Mo Tu We Th Fr So I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 l920212223 2425 2627 2829 30 31 ,.9S = D•=Y•=P=an = == = = = = - P = atente= d ==""""'=•=- 269 D~ fo C~• = �THE FIFE COJ:,.L .COil:iPAHY, S,-1.FETY LEAFLET LIMITED . - - - - - --·· No. 1. Your Duty for the Safety of Yourself and Others. It is not genera lly lmown that the Coal Mines Act and Gener9 l Re 6rulations reouire a ny person in and about a Mi ne to inform t he Fireman or other official of any source of danger and if it f alls within the scope of his duty, ·the person s ha ll t ake immediate steps to remove the danger . This applies to a ll workmen. A stripper may find a roadhead unsafely secured. A hanger- on may find the terminus wheel incompletely fenced. A bencher may find his blocks, rope or clips unsatisfactory . A machineman may find a cut trailing cable . A drawer may find a road support needing renewed or a manhole requiring redding out. A panshifter may find the pans rubbing on a prop and likely to check a stripper ' s finger. A roudsman rnay find a prop or an old rail lying between the rails just where some one will trip over it. A brusher moy note a bad lipe on his brushing at the end of his shift. A bottomer may find a bad drawbar. A packer may find a bit of bad roof poorly supported . A First Aid man may see a fellow with a cut or bruise uncover'3d and likely to go septic. In every case some one is dopending on you making it s~fe for yourself and hA to work . Can we depend on you to help us make it safer? TRY A SAFETY HAT FOR 1/6d . 7 th i~arch, 1935 . �T_rn j_i·IFJ:!. CvAL SAFETY DO YOU KN OW COMPANY' LEAFLET - LIMITED. No. 2 . THAT Examination of the accident records for 1934 reveals that tl1e largest percentage of accidents to strippers and brushers are in the 2nd and 3rd hours of the shifts? 30% of the accidents at our Collieries last year were to hands and fingers? We are making trials of protective gloves and mitts . 30% of the accidents were caused by falls of roof and sides on the roadways as well as at the face? 6,% of the injuries v,rere head injuries? safety hats will reduce this percentage in 1935 . More 10~£ of the injuries were feet injuries? Safety boots would have reduced this figure . ANNOUNCING A SAFETY SUGGESTION COMPETITION. Safety Suggestio~. Competition open to all workers employed at this Colliery excepting oversmen, supervisors and firemen . During the months of March and April, a suggestion competition will be held each week and two prizes of 2/6d . each will be awarded for the best practical Safety Suggestions . Ru les. ( 1) Suggestions with check numbers should be in the competition box by 10 o ' clock in the morning on Thursdays . ( 2) Names of prize winners will be posted on Fridays at 10 o 1 clock and paid on a separate line by the Cashier along with pay. ( 3) Prize winners will not qualify for the ccmpetitions for two vrecks following their award but their suggestions will be welcomed and extra prizes may be awarded. ( 4) The Agent's decision is final in these competitions. 14th i1arclJ._, 1935 . �THE FIFE COAL SAFETY COMPAN~, LIMITED. LEAFLET No . 2 A. TO ALL OFFICIALS . No safety campaign can be a success, unless every fireman, every oversman and every other official understands that the Coal Mines Act and the Regulations and Orders associated with it are to be obeyed by officials as well as men . It is your duty to shew an example to the men under your charge . Better leadership means greater safety. Some accidents are caused through indefinite instructions. Some are caused by common but bad practices . Some are caused through untidiness . Many are due to sheer thoughtlessness. Your instructions should be simple and clearly understood. Make sure of that. After you have given an instruction, see that it is carried out all the time. A word of explanation often helps . See if the usual way to do a job is the safe way. not be . It malf See that your district is a tidy one . There are more accidents due to low standards of tidiness and cleanliness than you would imagine. Lastly, remember that you, the official, are watched and your example followed by the men in their daily . work, and if you are thoughtless in your every day attitude towards safety , then you cannot expect the men in your charge to regard their safety as important as we are attempting to make it. Many of our officials are now wearing safety hats. They are satisfied with them . Have you got yours? They are light and easy to wear, guaranteed waterproof and will minimise bend injury . Cromwell Hats Cool Caps Order yours at the Office now. 14th March, 1935. 3/5/- for II 1/6d. 3/- �SAFETY SUPPORTS LEAFLET No. TO ALL OFFICIALS. AT THE FACE AND 3A. ROADHEAD. It has been found that stri:p,I>ers, though they may not be ·aware of it, are working from 50% to 75% of their shift under an area of roof outwith the timbering distance . That is a startling fact . In the first place, make sure that there are roof supports at the face early enough in the shift . If you have trouble in your section about this, do not hesitate to speak to your immediate superior, and,if nothing is done , go to the manager about it yourself Make sur0 that each flil.d every face man in your district, ma.chinemen, panshifters, brushers , packers, as well as strippers, know the timbering distances . Will you do this during the coming week? Shew the men,who do not know, how to measure the timbering distance by means of their tools. Then, see thai supports ore erected to comply with the timbering rules during the shift of which you have charge . Start right awa.y; do it every day, not just one day, and your accident record is bound to benefit . You know tha.t more men move under the road.head brushing than under any other pa.rt of the roof at the face . That is why the roa.dhcad must be exceedingly vrnll supported . When you choose a stripper for the roadhead coal , see that he is a first class timber mun. Encourage him to set his props wel l within the distance, and , if you can possibly do it, give him steel channels f or strapping. Remember that the hints given in this and subsequent Safety Leaflets a.re given not as something entir ely new but as reminders and that your manager and agent will give you every possible encouragement in your work for the safety of tho men under your charge. H.'I.VE YOU GOT A HARD HAT YET? GET ONE NOW . �-SAFETY - ----LEAFLET -- -NO-, 3. 110 Al l Workmen . During your working shif't yesterday, did you see anything that could be ~ade safer? Have you put a suggestion in the box yet? Every workman employed in and about a mine will encounter some source of danger daily at his work. Experienced workmen know most of the dangers and safe workmen guard against them, It is the officials' duty to see that safe practices are followed at all times . It is their duty also to see that plant and materials are in order for safe working, but they must rely on the v;orkm.en to use their comrnon sense when they are not there t o give personal directions . Hence the accident record at this Colliery depends on the co- operation of every workman all the time . It has come to our knov1ledge t h at. there is a number of men at this colliery vrho woul0 wear spectacles at their work if the management \·:ould give them encouragement . These men are informed that the wearing of stout spectacles at work is welcomed, as it is felt that by their use some accidents might be avoided by . better sight . HAVE YOU TRIED A SAFETY HAT YET? IT WILL SAVE YOU I\1Ai\1Y HEADACHES , GET 21/3/35 . OHE AT THE OFFICE TC- DAY. �" William Reid, Esq . ~he F ife Coa l Comy &nyr L t d . Cowden~eath, ~ i fe~hire Scotland Dear llr. R<'! id : I &:':! 5l 1:.1d, indeed., to hav e your letter of liarch 27th, 1~36 . ll ei th.er Al berta or v,e received your o the,: letters, · so they evid ently \'Jent amiss, fo l' i7hi c h I ltm very sorry . I wn 6 l a tt tha t you hre gettinr. on to using the American kitchen m&chinc~ry . It -t;;;;ery g ood of you to g o t.:na oee my fu. ther, us I heard from him reearoint> .Your ,1 i Eii t, f:.. r..CI cu1 :i1L.Xu ly believe it i s fo ur years since r;e \·;ere in Scotland l.nc. visited them, but time slips away very rapidlyD &nd I kno w he will be more than delighted to ha v e you go Bf:.c.:i n at some future time. J ttr . l!asterton s a iled from 'tlew York Sa turda.y the 13-th. I h ad a l etter frora him. \'ihil e he rms in Ca:nuuo., u nci he fiL!S extremel y plc"'seo with his vi1;,it to the United &ta tea, und 1,1:'1l't icul brl y to the Rock Springs mines. I think hE- wi l.l oe:rive a t,ooo de~. l of benefit from his v i s it here which ,;ill be helpful to him in his work. I wae pleased, indeed, to have the bull e tins you aen t me. I think you bre on the ri bht t rack Tiith your safety work , ,.; nd the bonus to :Firemen s hould help greatly, but keep in l!lind the ui ving of an J~uetin car. to the £roup of mines nlong the lines we e.warded ouro , I think, mo~c tha n ~ny thing elae, the t ~ o ~utomobilea we or it:irn...lly {.ave, v, 1th the continuation of one c!Utomobile a.nc1 money prizca, he lped more thun c.eything e·lee to put oTer our Sc:c.f'ety program. Thi s ye&.r , a&&in, we heve received three cit~tione from the Jo ae~h A. Holmes Sufety Association, throU£,h the United States Bure~u of ~inee, these cita tions reac11nL as tollowe : • �2 .;-.1'.!. ·u 1 nc ::: - - :1'0 :1: z-educ i nL fata litie s per million ton s of ·cor::i l LJ:roc.. uced from 4. ~.(I. in l';:}2;$ to 1.25 in l~~'¼ und f oi~ rec.u.c i ::'l[.; f o t ti li t i e ~ pe1· thous and r!len el!l.yloyed i'l'O!h 5 . 27 in 1023 io 1. 63 in 1~3 4. .Ma n hours p er fa t~li t y rle r e 3 L.::d . 315 i n l o23 a s curapa red to :;3;, . 561 in l'.i~4 • lfo. 4 :.ii ne -- fo x- op erating with out a fatal i ty from April 17. l .')23 to the end o:f 1934: ; p roe1ucing 3 , 143 ,051 tons of coal in 3,954,3l::l8 marl hours o f ·work by its u1,>pro:xi!llll te 214 employe a . 0 11 lline, Superior - - f or h avinb ope r a t ed without a lost-ti me a ccident i' x·o.ra October 21 , l v0 3 t o the end of l~j 1!; producing 2t 6 , 082 t ons o:r· coa l i n 252 ,636 I!ll.:..n hours of work by its a ,e,1proximate 144 employe e. 11 I was very eorry tha t I we.s no t able t o · be ·r1e h~d & 1140 days und 40 ni~hte 11 leg isla tiv e meet i ng E-t Ch ey enne , • which o.ccurs . every two ye a.rsD a.nc.i it vms n e cessary fo :r either Mr. ~ cAuliffe or me · t o be there a hOOd d ea l o f the time, ...n<i it fell to· my lot t o ~l'en.d most of the ti~e the re . The ni~t of our Safe ty aTiaras , I insisted t h.:. t -:Ur . ::ic.Aulifi'e come to Hook Spring s. h e reachin6 here z.t s e v en o ' cloak anei r eturning at mi dni e.,h·t to Cheyenne, ~o it m.:.s not po s sibl e !'or u s oa th to \ettve ~heyenne at the ~umc time . I do not like thi s yoli t ical ,·:ork very well, but, on t:ae other h.unCl , i f v:e a o uot watch it clo :::ely, we will be- s a adled \'1 ith a 1:,reat dea l of ac.verse 1 egi elation. :;: think I eXt)l c.:.i n ed our 2oli tical oi tua. tion fully to ;you ·:;1hen you \1ere her e . • :present at t.ne &wc::.r<J.in g of our 3afety pr·i~es . I am a urely la>l ao. t ha t y ou b u.V e gon e to the Duckbill, c:1.m shal l be intere3ted i n kno,..-,int, ,;rm t results you uccomplish. becau se I a.1"!1 abs olutely satiefied there is no reason \7by you wioul o not ootm. n ve"J:y fine results in narrow work. 'i'hl:.t i e \,here t he greu t e~vings will be m~ae in your oper~ tions. I rend the Dunfermline F rese a ncl the P eople r:, Journal very clo s ely und luive been greatly interested in the talks Y QU have given ufte rhboin~ back, anu. ti10 enlargementi o~ your oporat 1one w 1ch ~ou contemplate 1n the n ear future, inuic~tine that your coal buaincas is on a ver3 much better ~aeia in Scotland . I shall oe t,lc.~ to kno w how your cut tint.. tin« conveyin,; unit worha out. ., �3 Condi tion 8 i n this country f..l'e st:n l rather confused. 1 think s;e ,J i ll have un extension of the 11.R . A. for ttno th8r t·.,o y e n.r s , nh:l ch •:.iill be proba bly the oest thing unde:i:- i he ci r c Lrno t1:.lnces. Although thi s l a w has had many defect s, it hn.e had much to commend it, and I thinl~ it hue hel ved tbc coal business very much by • maintainiot:; u :rearaon able p rice f o·r the _pro duct . 'rhere are many othe!" b!l l e U~> c fo r e~am:9le o the Guffey bill. which yl ane to n o. l{e coa 1 i_ P ubl ic Utility_, a nd b:rinb i t under strict Governmen t ~:Jpervision . Hone of us a re very keen about ·th:l 2 uill. a s i t places a very heavy bu.rcen on the c oul incmstcy , as coal \"Jould have to pay a very .neavy ta"<J; fo 1· the acim ini stra tion of the bi 11. '1'.hio bill is fost!'!r ed 1 "1.X'gely by the Uni tad I.!:!.ne '!.'.'o .!'ke:rs of Americc.. Then there i e the· sb.:-hour day, o n tJh i ch the Union· is concentrei tint:,, but I doubt i f this \7ill get f a r . The DlJ()nsore of this seem to lose eight o:f ihe f..tc't tha t the six-hour (la.3 ,:ill increase the cost ~~o the· Ope!·c1. to:i:·s E..na u i l l increase the }.>rice of coal so that we \·Ji 11 not be o.i:>le to · com1iete with 1·oreisn trade . Of cou.rseo t h e ei-,onsors hold it· up a s a panacea for a l l the i ll s o f t h e conl innuatry. there is st i l l a tremendously large relief bill t,o 1,1ay, but th1n0 a are pickinb up u l i ttle since you were her e. As I told you. \'le increasea our pxoduction Eat>out fifteen per· cent for the y ec:..r l :}34 , ano for the 1·1rst three month& of this y~ar, •110 u !'e about ·c.r,enty per cent ~head of the firot three months o f 1~34 . '.rhe baa feature. of course. i !? • tru::. t =nuch o f' the i mJirovel!lent in business i a ca used l ::.rgely °bl' the s._iend inb of the Government money , Tihich all the .£unerican peop l e have to puy oome day in t he form of t axation . ram e;lad to knew th,~t thincs -cr~ picking up in the B1•i ti eh Isles. becaus2, col!lin~ fro□ tht:. t co untry. I am eltmys trecendouely intereoted in the ._.,elfare of that nation. J.lberta 1:;; on the r anch up in Cocy, unc1 reyorts P. \7eek l:l.e;o they had twenty inches of snow, but, rcga rrileaa of not ho.vine:; had a ny formor ex.e ei·ience in ranchin&::,, she likes it very muoh, i : nd seeme to eDJoy the work. ~e e~pect to go u~ und oee her before a ~reQt deal or ::mow . long. I shell probably ~o-to the meeting of tho American Mininb Congres~ in Cincinnati in the early p~rt of Kay . I am Ghuirmf.ln of oae c f the forenoon eeaeiona and alao bliTe u .1,1tper to read on Shakine:, Conveyor Loaci.ine:,. �You made m~ny friends here, ~nd they are continually ~skinL me if'! 111...ve_hea:rd from you. !.tr. Christie told me yeF;teruay y ou had met a M.r . Petrie \"-1hoee son works here; t ~ t y ou had been a t a meeting of the ~asonic. orde!' -r/hen you net. I think that is a good step you a.re takinc; , ... no one \'Jhi ch y ou nill no-t rec ret. I huve been a member f or nc~q."ly forty years, u nd that is the only Praternnl or~unizat~on to ~hich I belong . I noulo be obli ~ed. i f J'OU \1ould .remember me to your father a nd Ur. Carlow. I i-,as interested in reauin~ the proceedin6 s of the Scottish Institute in a recent copy of the Colliery Gual'dian. Bo th Mrs. l>rycie and I are g loo to kno\-'J that you have se~tled in your ovm home no\·1. unu rJe both v;ish yo_u r~elf and ~.irs. Reid a great deal of ha1)piuess, u nd hope th&t we 1:my meet you at some time. Hy kindest 1>ersonel regards , Very sincerely yours, �Ro ck ~pringe - A.1.r il 15, l-d 3t llr. Eugene licAuliffe: Had a l etter from Dr . Reid la. st week, and m advises that they have three shaking conveyors with duckbills \'1 0rking in the Fife Coal Comp~ny 9 s o pera tions, one in the group of mines of ~hich he has charg e , a nd two in t~o other g roups of mines. He states they are doing remarkably t1e ll with them, ariving planes. Ile also states the coal business in Scotland is p4rticularly gooa at the present time, and mines are' being reopened tba t have been shut do wn for .CJ. ui te a numbez- of ye&.J:-s . Q,uite a. good deal of the export coa l i e · going 1D Poland and the Scandinavian countries. Otll(itu,l 81~1i.:O, GEORGE B, PrtYOl ✓ �~I.L COMMUHICA.TIONS TO BE A DDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. dl - ,.;::) " HEAD OFFICE: LEVEN, Tm••••• " FIFE. 1 (/lf'). f j ~I :C..Low, PKo..,Lf ••; 1• . FIFCOI!; COWDEN/5EATH. / f&Ll!:PHOHl!:tf.'? 161 & 162 ~ LEVEN. ff.'? 181 'TD 185 CoWD&N■ILATH, YouA REF. _ _ _ __ OUR R11tF. WR/ JF. George B. Pryde, Esq. , Vice President, 'Ihe Union Pacific Coal Company, ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming. Dear Mr. Pryde, I got your letter of March 9th yesterday, and I am very surprised to hear that you have not yet received a letter I wrote you early in February. I wrote Alberta at the same time, and the Jeffrey Company at Columbus, Ohio, and I particularly expected a reply from the Jeffrey people before this. I wrote to you thanking you very much indeed for your very kind present. We had tried to make waffles, but our first attempt was not a great success, but practice has made perfection and Mrs. Reid has become an adept. I had a very happy afternoon with your father, and it is obvious that you, Mrs. Pryde and Alberta are very often in his thoughts at the Peat Inn. I am going to revisit him within the next week or two now that the better weather is with us, and we will take him for a run in the car. Rock Springs. well together. I am very glad Mr. Masterton managed to get to He is a fineyoung fellow and we get on very I note from the Employees' Magazine that you were not at the annual presentation of Safety Awards. I hope you have not been 111. We/ �u....,... u o.........................G.e..orge....B .•......P.ry.de.., .....Es,q........................ ...................................................... We are very busy in the mining industry in Scotland at the present time, trade is good and prices are firmer than they have been at this time of the year for several years past, altogether the outlook is fairly bright. I have one duckbill loader working in my group and it is quite a success. Two of the other agents have one each just installed, and we expect that when the men become accustomed to their use they will be a very definite advantage. They are being used to drive narrow headings at the present time. I am expecting deli very during the next week or t\vo of the first Logan cutting and loading machine; it has three cutting jibs and cuts and loads the coal direct into the conveyor without shot-firing. I will write and let you know how this machine behaves as soon as we have given it a proper trial. I have started a system of Safety Bonuses for our firemen, and these are paid monthly on a no accident basis. I have also got Safety Suggestion Competitions going and prizes are awarded weekly. Each employee in my group of collieries receives a safety leaflet with his pay line every week, and although these have only been given for a week or two we have evidence of accident , reduction already. I enclose copies of the first leaflets. · The Stewarts of Hill of Beath wish to be reminded very kindly to you. One thing that impressed me in the States was the bright colourings in the houses. I am arranging to take one of our houses in August and paint and furnish it and have it open for exhibition for two weeks. In this country we are noticing the introduction of the legislation yap mentioned in your letter. It would seem it is of the vote catching type, much to be deplored, and will cause much uneasiness in the mining industry, and after all it is stability that is needed to bring back the confidence that ensures steady trade and more employment. Our unemployment figures are slowly decreasing, but our country has benefited more than our unemployment figures shew, because employment in industries is much more steady and idle time has been reduced by a tremendous extent. When unemploYJJlent figures are studied this should be borne in mind more than it is. I/ �I' i- ;::J0-.............................A~ 9..~ge......~.~......fr.:yg.~.., ... Exq,,........................................................................ I cannot understand why you have rtot get my previous letter , and I am very sorry that my thanks to you and Mrs. Pryde have been delayed. We are now settled down at Foulford House, and Mrs. Reid joins me in sending our kindest regards to yourself and Mrs. Pryde Trusting you are in good health, Yours very sincerely, Encls. �Rock Si)rin t;,s - Dec. 2-::), 1-::)34 llr. E ubene _: cAuli ff e: You v1ill be interested i n the ~ ttached 1 etter f ror1 :Cr. C. i ,Ui:_,U~ tus Car·lo\! , Dr. 'iii lliam Reid 's uncle. ::Jhile I hc..ve h. Lrd f ro m 1.Ir. Leek t v;ice e ince h is re turn to En fbl and, I h t ·v e ne ver heard from !-ir. Reio . I c.m r a t her unoer the i m1iressiou thc.!. t he h r. s ri ri tten me t.. nd h i s letters bnve gone &. stri:.y e omehou. Orlgiui, l ~ i11 u<>d: GEORGE 8, PRYDt I J ; �) S 476 EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE November, 1934 Two Distinguished Guests V isit The Union Pacific Coal Company's Properties the latter part of September and the speaker while in this v1cm1ty, and he made many properties of The Union Pacific Coal Company, in the persons of Dr. William Reid, of Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire, Scotland, and Mr. I. G. E. Leek, of Birmingham, England. -o r . ' Reid is"a 'graduate of Edinburgh- University, and hol ds..the degi;_e e of. Doctor-of Philosoph.y.. from that institution. He is a sub-Agent of the Fife Coal Company, whose mines are located in Fifeshire. Scotland. The Company with which Dr. Reid is a':-sociated produc< s a b o u t 4.,400,000 short tons of coal per year and employs approximate I y 10, 000 men, all the coal coming from shafts w h i c h are from 1,200 to 2,000 feet in depth. Dr. Reid was the w i n n e r of the Craigie Scholarship, awarded for research work, and elected to take a Dr. William Reid leave of absence from bis d u ti e s with the Fife Coal Company, traveling in the United States looking up mining methods, particula.tly Safety and Mechanical Loading. He went into every phase of operations and was extremely interested. He arrived in the United States the 22nd of August, and spent some time in the Anthracite field, later coming to Rock Springs, where he stayed for a period of nearly three weeks. Dr. Reid was extremely interested in all mining and Safety methods in the United States, his company being one of the most progressive engaged in coal mining in Great Britain. One particularly pleasant experience of his trip was his meeting with many workmen who had been employed by his father, who is General Manager of the company with which Dr . Reid is employed. He felt very much at home in talking over the old times in Scotland with these former employes. Dr . Reid was fortunate also in being present at the dinner and program which was held for the employes of "B" Mine, Superior, when this mine was awarded the National "Sentinels of Safety" trophy, competed for by Bituminous coal mines in the United States, for its outstanding Safety record. The Doctor was also in great demand as a Mr. I. G. E. Leek, a graduate in Mining Engineering from Birmingham University. Birmingham. England, was the winner of the Mavor and Coulson - 'a' . ,.- :·-, •· Seholarship,i,\"•hir h en ti t I e d him to spend a year in re search w o r k in coal mining. The terms of the scholarship, which is a warded by 1\!Javor and Coulson, Ltd., of Glasgow, Scotland. by competiti v e examination among mining students in the British Isles, requires a year in research work, visiting the Mr. I. G. E. leek coal mines on the Continent of Europe, in Great Britain. and in the United States. Mr. Leek came directly from New York City to Rock Springs, spending two weeks in the mines here, with a short trip to a number of the coal mines in Southern Utah. Mr. Leek must present a very voluminous report of his investigations to. the British Institution of Minjng Engineers upon his return to England. He was greatly interested in Safety work and Mechanical Loading, in which he is specializing, and made a very detailed study of these subjects while here. He was asked to speak at quite a number of meetings in Rock Springs by various civic organizations, regarding conditions in the British Isles. Both Dr. Reid and Mr. Leek state that conditions are materially on the up-grade in the coal mining industry in Great Britain, the mines working very steadily through the summer months, and there has been a distinct improvement in employment around the coal mines. They also state that there is a great building boom going on throughout Great Britain. All building materials are in great demand, the buildings being financed largely by private enterprise. Dr. Reid's company has recently opened a large brick works in the vicinity of one of its mines, and find this enterprise a very profitable adjunct to their coal mining operations. Both young men, on their way East, stopped over as the guests of Mr. Eugene McAuliffe in Omaha, who arranged their Eastern URING early part of October, two distinguished young lasting friends while here. In addition he made a D Britons, one Scotch and one English, visited the short trip to Utah coal mines. c/ �November, 1934 Wyoming Section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Meets at Rock Springs B,• J. L. LIBBY, Secretary ITH Dr. William Reid and Mr. I. G. E. Leek, visitors from the British Isles. the Wyoming Section of the A. I. M. E. gathered September 27th at Howard's Cafe, this city, for dinner. with Chair• man F. V. Hicks presiding, thirty-six members and guests being in attendance. The newly appointed officers for the ensuing year are: Chairman, W. T. Nightingale ; Vice-Chairman, G. A. Knox; Secretary-Treasurer, J. L. Libby; Members of the Executive Committee, George B. Pryde and F. V. Hicks. Following the election of officers, Mr. George A. Brown, Mine Superintendent at Superior, gave :m interesting account of his recent visit to England, Scotland and France, including numerous humorous experiences encountered. Mr. Brown stated that an extensive building program is in progress in Great Britain, and business is more than satisfactory. The British dole, according to Mr. Brown, is not charity, being really Industrial Insurance with the employer and employe paying into a fund under Government administration. Following the meal, the meeting convened at the Old Timers' Building, Mr. George B. Pryde presiding, with an attendance of seventy, technical matters being considered at this session. Dr. William Reid, Agent of the Fife Coal Company, Ltd., Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire. Scotland, discussed roof control, methods of mining and steel timbering. The Company with which he is connected produces 4,000.000 long tons of coal annually and employs 10,000 men, and has. he stated, made a very extensive study of roof control and systematic timbering. Dr. Reid explained their methods of long-wall mining, their daily production being 1.6 tons per man, this tonnage from steeply inclined seams varying from 2 to 9 feet in thickness, with very bad roof conditions. the average thickness of the seams worked 3½ to 4 feet. Steel arches are in use on main haulage ways, with stilted legs having a slotted bolting arrangement to allow for settlement when excessive pressures are encountered, thus relieving the concentrated load on the arch. Mild steel sheets bavin~ four-inch corrugations, 1/8 and ¼ inch in thickness, and up to 4, feet in length, have been used successfully for lagging. When steel lagging is used in connection with steel arches, tlte sheets are butted against the arch web, rest between the flangs, and are held in place by tie rods. This construction acts as strutting and reduces the tendency of the arches to buckle. Dr. Reid showed lantern slides illustrating the different kinds of timber in use, and explained W I"" 47S ' EMPLOYES' MAGAZI NE their advantages, stating that apparently high first costs on their permanent haulage ways were actually cheaper over a period of time. • Mr. I. G. E. Leek, B.Sc., a Birmingham University graduate, and winner of the ]\favor and Coul• son Traveling Studentship, awarded through the Royal Technical College of Glasgow, Scotland, ad• dressed the meeting on Safety in the Coal i\line5 of Great Britain. The subject included Management, General Safety, Health, Production, Regulations, Employment, Government Inspection, Legal points and Arbitration. Many points in common with the American Safety program were cited, and numer· ous rigid government regulations were explained. Mr. Leek sta ted that boys had to be 14 years of age before entering the mine, and were generally started at the shaft bottom, and, as they became ac· customed to conditions, they were gradua lly moved to working places farther in. Schools are established leaching safety, and some companies require thirty days instruction in and around the mine before the applicant begins to work. Protective clothing and goggles are a part of their program. but, according to l\Ir. Leek, our manufacturers have better products at a more reasonable cost to the American miner. Hard-toed shoes, he related. meet with favor in the British mines. Williams-Johnson Nuptials Miss Eva Williams, a former clerk and stenographer in the General Offices. for several years past employed at Mt. Vernon, Washington. was married on October 6 at Seattle, to Mr. Carl Johnson. the bridesmaid upon this occasion being Miss Bernice Barrass, also a former employe of the Company here (now resident of Seattle). The couple will make their home at Mount Vernon. She is a daughter of Mr. and l\llrs. R. J. Williams, who lived in this city for many years, but removed to the north Pacific Coast some ten years since. Her many friends in Rock Springs wish the new couple a long life of happiness. Shower to Newly-Weds The Rock Springs Store employes tendered a shower to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dye (nee Anne Silva) at the Community Hall upon tl1eir return from tlteir wedding tour recently. The feature of tlte evening was a mock wedding, Ed. Palanck participating as the groom and Jack Lambert as the bride. Refreshments were served, followed by dancing. Many nice presents were received by the new1yweds. It's easy enough to be pleasant, With a ll of your tires full of air. But the guy worth while, Is the one who can smile, With one going Rat and no spare. �...., November, 1934 EMPLOYES' M.\CAZINE /11r. I. G. E. Leek, le/t, and Dr. William Reid, right. itinerary for them. Both were amazed at the extent of the United States. After a visit through the Eastern mines, Dr. Reid wil] sail for Scotland about the 27th of October, Mr. Leek probably about the 2nd of November. Both will carry with them many fine impressions of their visit to the United States, and the social contacts they enjoyed in this country. Conversely, those who were privileged to meet both of these young gentlemen will remember with pleasure the fine exchange of ideas, which no doubt was mutual!y beneficial. Tir Nan Og H ERE is another Celtic story by "J.P." published in that great English newspaper, The Manchester Guardian Weekly. Those who write the "Guardian" stories, though occasionally attempting to portray the lives of the country people of England, are compelled to turn to the land of the Celt, Irish, Scotch or Welsh, for that intensity of emotion that makes for an interesting story. What a wealth of simple color is contained in these few hundred words. Therein we find reference to the cottagers' peat fire, and we believe that when the smell of burning peat once enters the nostrils of a person, his or her children, their children and children's children, will be quick to recognize that soft, acrid odor that cleans rather than pollutes the air as do other forms of smoke. Note the reference to the idle nets, the cry of the skua gulls, the murrain (an epizootic that afflicts the cattle), to the poverty and the longing for adventure that has scattered the Celtic people all over the wide world. One cannot read these little stories without catching at least a glimpse of the Garden of the Hesperides. When Brian the Blessed was thirty a great restlessness came upon him. His youth had been happy in the main; content enough he had been to sail the summer seas in search of the silvery mackerel, content enough to till 477 with his fellows the deep, red earth of the machair, content enough at the nesting season to test his cragsman's skill upon the stacks of Kell or to gather round the winter peat fire to hear the old strange stories of the folk. But now all these things had lost their savour. Many were the days when his nets hung idle on the wall and some chance herd passing across the headland of the Cailleach where it juts towards the west would find him lying on his face in the short grass with the skua gulls crying round him. The old priest heard these things but kept his own counsel, and one evening Brian came to the beehive cell. "Father, give me your blessing, for I go on a far journey and I do not think I shall return. "I am tired, Father, of Kenalbin and this life of ours where we scratch out our days like the conies in the thin grass by the shore. We are poor, Father, and wretched. Murrain comes and great dearth and we can do naught against them. Nor is it always that holy water can stay the path of the pestilence. "Last night I climbed the face of Ardchatan and in a grassy spot I slept, and in my sleep I dreamed. I do not know whether the country that I saw lies in the past of man or in his future or in some place beyond the stars. But this I know- that in the people of that land our poor lives have been taken and made perfect. They have exchanged our wattle huts for palaces of marble and bronze, our rough skins for silken robes, our darkness for their light. Murrain and pestilence come no more among them, and their children live to make old bones." The old priest smiled. "My son, there is no such country. Even the Roumans, greatest of nations since the Fall, made no such life as that you describe.1' "Father," said Brian, "it was Tir nan Og that I saw in my dream, and since my longing for that place cannot otherwise be quenched, give me your blessing, for I go to find it." Now this is the legend that was famed for many centuries through all the coasts of the West. For when Brian had set forth on that last mad questing into the sunset on which none has gone and lived, after many days he came back to the strand of Kenalbin. His step was firm enough as he stood upon the shore, but his face was lined as that of an old man and his hair was the sheen of spun flax. He said not a word to any man, but passed through the throng till he came to the cell of the priest. The old priest raised his eyes from his missal. "You found what you went to find?" "I learnt, Father, what I had to learn." (Please turn lo page 479) �() 478 No·vember, 19.J4 EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE » » » Ye Old Timers « « « parental roof. He put in 4½ years with the Cot1011wood Coal Company, Lehigh, Montana. and entered Gust Dagres and Henry Walters Gust Dagres and Henry Walters were sn~pped while sitting on the retaining wall in front of the Elks Home during the recent Old Timers Reunion. Mr. Dagres was born in Greece on Christmas Day of 1889, and was naturalized at Kemmerer in 1927. Is a married man with two children. ;?;.> ., ,.;~ t~, \;. ~""' • .....-;_ :> ~ - (Ji ~ I Ii,;. I I'. I' t. I- {! I ii::::::::,=~=-=- - = - - ~ = ] ("" . j Lauri Bergren and wi/e. '11j our service at Rock Springs in 1903 as a Miner, 'fl an~ now occupied as Faceman in "E" Mine, at Su- l=z=:==:=:."':':~~~ ;::'E3::1z=,,=:;;:;:::=~ Gust Dagres (left) and Henry Walters. His first employment with the Company was as a Stone Mason at Reliance in 1913. Later on he removed to Cumberland and worked 12 years at that point, returning to this city, being now engaged as Outside Laborer. Henry Walters is a native of Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania, born there March 19, 1878. Is a married man. Started to work at Rock Springs as Outside Laborer in 1901 and is now engaged as Hoistman, Mine No. 4 here. Lauri Bergren Lauri Bergren first saw the light of day in Finland, December 20, 1885, and became a naturalize<l citizen in 1904 and 1916 at Green River, Wyoming. Is a married man with one son living under the penor. Joseph Sikich To those unacquainted, this is Joseph Sikich. born in Austria January 18, 1875. He began to work for the Company in No. 8, Rock S p r i n g s, as a Min er, February 2, 1904,, and wa,; naturalized at G re en River in 1920. Is a married rn an, four children. He was also employed at Joseph Sikich Superior for :;ix years, returning to this city to enter Mine No. 4, now engaged as a Faceman. �! •r. 1,·;1 l lio..'Jl :~cid :.'i i' e Co .., 1 Cor.:i_•r,n y Co,;:den beu th , : ' if eE:i:i i r e Scotla nd De&.r '.lilliam: I h:...ve ,:·i.Ji tecl to he<-l!' :r1·01Jl you sine e your u1ri v al hone, ,.mt 50 i e r have not received a let ter fro r.1 ycu, the l n s t letter! rece ived be inl.. j u~t J!ri o r to your sai lint::. frot7l He\"1 Yo1k for bo:n: . Yo:i-tz1:.;ve .:.,robc.oly Hrtttcn me, out in t he ruEJh O .t Chti:.,; t :nus bu :,i ne ES, let terc often t..r e !(lir:. l oic: in tn,ni.:i t. I vms yl eased to he&r fror:i your f ~ ther GO iil8 ti me ut:,o. I t. lso hud a co.rd f ra m him, ~uci ni i l \'iri t e him a li ~tl e l ~ter on. HEid · a f ine letter fror!l :Ir. Ca:rlm•; ii fe,·1 d~a ae:o , unci he guve me&. e:: ret.t oeal of ini'o :rmt.. ti on ret,a 1·c.inc; the co,il l:lusi ne ss in Ureu t .3ri ti4n. Alco hnd £( l etter f r o tJ ~:1 • Leek UlC.. he (:.rrived Ci.:.i'el .).i in .C.:11u;l1:;nci. I vre.;u.mc he i c on the r emaina er of hi s reset,i·ch v;ork in the e.xaminution of 3ri t i sh t.r1ti ContinGn"t ... l mi nes . ~.e ht..ve been thinkint., or yo u a t,reat aecil, a nc. t-1a rticulc-.. rly ·<.iurint, the No\"1 Yeur festivities. I tuneci in my ra<iio at E o'clock ~:onc.ay eveninb and heurd Bi & .Ben rint..irl{:, in Loncion. I coulc i maea.:ino the r a ch of 11 f il· ctfootinf,;'1 e ll over the "Jnit2d f;.u1xc ~fter the ,1eelint.., out of midnight. ~ I ,·1u e {:,rct.tly int l?.l'eetea in lleo.ring the Bri ti 6h oroudci..et on Cbri et::1as mo rn in(.. It \'H.1 S lt \·.onc..er.,..'ul t h inr,, Lnti ho1.1 q uicl~ly each one of them cot h i l::l 1:3tation f:! . It 1 ~ notoiff i - · cult to· unaero t t.nc.. why the -:lritisL Ii.oyL.l Pt.1i1ily 11:. l!O t.,re&tl.>1 oelove<i ull thz·o ~ t he .:3ritiah ..i:m1,ire .. ':he fuct t h& t their citizen o, no :llL!ttor ho\:: h urn ole, in f ,. r uv1~:1 !ilt-tcee 01 tl.e eurth, coulo tc.,.11 c. irectly 'to t.heir eovereil.n, \·,ae \'. On<.erf ully iinc , ,.,lticl-1 demonstrc...te<i the t i m11licity . &no t:. inceri ty o i the Yint.... They, more tnun c..ny other t:.L ency 1 n c.. re& t .!3ri tbi n, .k. vo hel_veu to kee.t1 tr.e m1tion 1' ro :!l chi..o ti c. lUi nL the trouble e:ome timee oi the lt.st fe\'1 yetJrG . �,:e ho.uc t b.: t yo u had u mo 1.:Jt Jlu.1h>Y Her1 Your. You ·,:ill be a.eeiJ in .the !Jre l:1ct:r c, t ion c: f or your y;eclainL, ttil. icli. v;i ll occur Sa turci uy . You _m:.y be sure ·:h ·;:ill be thinlcin6 o f y ou tha t d.ay, c1m~ i ma1:_ininL, r10 L r-e ot the wedd i nt;. '<le rie re very vl eased, indeec.., t.o have the invi tc..tion, out .8o·neho,·; ,.;re . _ ;ryue misl a id it ond hi::s been try inL for ::: cm.• t i me to r·e sur rect it so b s to c.1n fn"JeI· . -:.:e h.:d ;;: :,.: ut.her '1,1leke .....nt Chri~ t :rws , ~s Dr . Cl:ll..mi:> ere :..nu '1ti :a familj, , ::rs. Shedcien, .1re. Y.i erle r.nu Jwne s ou1· s)'n. fro m }. i verton, &.nd Bllenor, fro m ;.Ii ll u Colle t::,e, in Culifo !nh,, \·:ere \'1 1th u s for cinnci· . 1:te rnissea. i,l oerta t rea tly. Thi s i s tr~e 1 i r st Chri s tLla s :;he L"' s ever oe en av1ey fl"o !:1 h ome . :.ie c L.l leu t nu t r!l kec.. to her on the ·t el eyhone, r1hich h el rec l:;lome\·ihL t. She secrns to like Cooy very \': el 1, c.r10 \". i;:; e:--ve ci:. her to come home for u v i s it come ti me i n Jt.riu.c..ry . ':Je passed the :!·Tew Ye~ r verJ; ~uieil / . The Par~ Hotel .veo.:_.•le hc.d 01><m hou se yes t crc. r,;y, cna- v,e ,•, ent ma t f:i lkeu to them for c ehol't tit'je . ·:;e te:.lke a ,HJOUt t he old country, u E..>reut 111:my of the olcl co untry rieo !::l e beinL preeent. 'f.he Ci...11c-d i un Let:,ion :r,ud c. 6&?1ce on 'i.he l rz. s t ni ght o f the old yeur, u na tlJen on the etrokc of mi dni~ht they ui~ 1>erued to do their ufi rst--·ootin b · '' •. t.,oo<! !~_ny ,.,eo ,de hi:.ve t.:;;kca m~ c..oo ut ,you rd nce yo u· left here , :,nc.. t.11 :::eemec b rec;,.tly interested to lmo v. tlt~ t yo-.i t.ri ivcc. home sa:fely. The lin~n a were ~euutiful Lnd a r~ . .!.'1·y0e t.na Aloertu \":i l l \·;rite you un<! thunlc yc u. It ·,n-1s vc1-y l' inC4 of yo.J. to remember them in thj.a r:oy. We finit.heu u v the ye ... r Y:i th c...oout WO ,00C t o ne t ll ic u i of li... s t .>·ec:ir, ilC~inG auout 11 vcr cent inczec. ee . The :.:; tci te of \'lyomin'-' us c.. v.hole <..i<i. not ;;,;how mucb of &n increr..se in ,J.Jrot..uc ti on, \·:1th t. li t t l e ov er -2 ,_.1er cent. .3ut us lonL &ewe ELre on the UJ,)t.:,raue, thb.t is :.:ometL.inL to b e t.c~unki\J l 1'or. I r e:t.lly think the yea r· 14'3 t ?,ill s ho w £JD' 1m1Jr ov eme nt in 1na Ulitri~l con~ itions, i:.s & L0 0 t. 1?11.iny oi' our inc.ustrie a lutve ::.it:.,n li'ic a their willingne e c to LO t. lont:, v, i th �tb e Governmen t. For L~e year 1~3L , ~ e ~re t o in t, t o 1m:rcl1c.se 0l even more el1e1kini.:., convey o rs , ~o ml:' mini nt, ;:11....chin2L, locomoti v c ~, e tc . It i s nece sl:)uiy to do tll. i .:; , not only to cut do vm oux' costs , · bu't in ~omt. c""s es to ::llo.! inta in costs. \le c.re t.l so unoer kkin 0 C-1. very l1e&vy aic.imond o.rillin6 i,>Xo 6 r ....u f l t Su!.ee1io1· c..l1Ci Winton . .J:r 2 . :! 1:yo. e ::.i.na I t;:i,,en t t wo da ys in Orrlci.ha in the et:.rl y p.:..rt of December, visitinc; \'l ith li.: . ij,cAuliffe, urm then went on to ChiCbl,O , Y1here I event part of 't·;:u dc:ys tt.llcin L to the GooOWin llarn.u c.:c tux i n 6 Co!ll~UlY' s s t~fi. They h&cl a stuff maetinG, c::.nu I v, ... s very much i nterested in t c.1 lkinb t o them i·e~arc.int:. t he 1 :-..uo:r sitl'. ation ~nd mecht:.nica l louiine, •O.i.)er&tions . i.'ie foun<i it v ery colu the re, as tl. e:re nae i i oliz zard the mornin 0 of our u r1·iv t.l . 1 lo £.t no time on the tri.1:Jt url'ivinh home s ix cic:1ys ~fter l eavin~ here. I Eint ecnciint:, you a copy oi' t.he vr..yer '.'lr.ich I reati· to the stuff. 0 f coui·se , YJe ha d very consia eraol e d i scui: sion \': hi ch i :.:. not reco1 dea in tl1e vi;per. I &m e lao ti.:nc. i nt, yo u a co1>Y o 1' "'!he Unseen .Cm.i:;ire. 11 I thinl~ your f;;. the1· u uo i1r . Ci.rlow YJi 11 ..:. lso be in tereeted in thiu, find I r,oulo. oe ooliLeo i f you -\1o ulc. H~ S EJ it to them for their ,t)Ulucbll. 'j,'hi s i t- a \ ·1on c.icrfilll;y fine re cor<.i 60tten uv by the Ame ric an .J.ininL Cont..reaa, cull i nt,, c.1 tt<mtion to t.11.e f a ct of ho,: little & tt~ntion !l}ininu cine.. mininL, 1.iro <:.ucts t;et in thia country, \'.'hen it il:3 1·ec.illy t: tremcnuouely l &rf::e inouGtry , '.i'hi~' \·,1:1s 'i!ri tten lc..rcely D.Y :.11· . :.:c.1m~if'f e, V1:i10 is the Chi..irrJb. n of the CoL'lflli ttee, the ·.-:ork beinL lc.1·e.el y uone b..,· him, o !'.!lc.n oeina... em1,lo;yea to ti ssembl.:! the l..~ tc.. ·.'ie h ...ve h~a n lot of b DO\"i t..na cold wea the r h ~re; ws \'i l.ll l1uve no chortui::,e oi' moi1;ture 1J~e comi tit- eamme r. I u.1s v ery L lt.o to s e e th0 sno VJ, Eta we n,:ea it t·or tLe ... ulll:ler irribution in the mount&in o t &te e . I ho~e you will p~r~on thi ~ r~ther rcmblint le tter , out I thou.__ht 1 could not we.it �lone...er· to r, :d t..:; ;y-ou ~.nct t, iV e y ou the n ews . I ho ._Je i t fltif) 1J t2en 1,; osei ul0 i'o r yo u , \-: ith the :a.:..ny c.uti e~ you :i.' ov.ud. ,'.'a itint1 :i'o r- yo u on your a1·riv &.l .hom2: . to .! inc/ t i !'1e to t:,,O t o i?e<1 t In n t o e ee 11iy f t.. _ i: h e r. ~ ;dnd \i i slles to you and y our fi c..ncee f o r a mo et Eu ~-v.:.l t.no .P!'Of;J?erous lTev1 Ye~n· . ~ nd ~y the y ears t..u'". t li e ahe a d be fi l l cd Hi th ha_µpi ne ss f ox· Joth oi' y ou . · Qr l:iinal Sit:ned: GEORGE B. PRYDl �/. t Dr. ·:iillfo.m Reid c/o Fife Co a l Con1,a ny Cowdenbeath, F i ieshire , Scotland I u ill yrobably b e hear ing f r om yo u b e f ore l ong , but \'lhile a waitinC:, t h a t l e tter I thought you mi t:,ht be intere s t ed i n hn.vinG a lette r f rom me . I eY.yect to be .in Chicago on t he 11th, 12 th a n d 1;sth of .Deceober to ~ t tend a me eting o f t h e s al e':! sta fr.' of t h e Goocl.man :..!anuf a ctu ring Coml.) c:.ny, c-tl<i t a lk to them on shaki n 5 conveyor13. I am attaching you co py o f a pa_pel' -whi ch I ,,, i ll read a t. tbat ti-:ie, ano., o f course, I an tici1)a te that the d i scussi on u ill pe ve:ry extended, as these s alesmen v:i ll a s k me a t;r eat rr:any questions , but I be+ieve, as a repr e s ent&tive of a Coo pa ny which, auring the present year, loa d ed 1,250 ,000 ton s \·:i t.ri she.king conveyors, I can surely contri bute s o!ilet hi n g beneficial to a discussion of this kind. l!rs . Pryd e u ill e ccompany me. en<i we will probauly return here a bout t h e '15 th of De cemb e rJ getting rea dy for the Chri s tnas a nd !:I e,, Ye a rs hol idays . ..!e a re h avi ng real sno -7s i n the l list ,·rne k. \'le h ave six or ei'c,. ht inches in Rock S9rin(. e , th is v ery g eneral over the \·/estem states. .rhere is ver:y much more in the mountains, · of course, an~ everyone feels v e-ry ha~vY over t ha t, a s i t will replenish uater she ds sadly c. epleted on .acco·u nt o f t h e mild winter last year and the extremely diy summer. 1 The vrork goe s t..lont; about the s ame, our production still picking up, &nci n e will finish the year with about 300,000 tons aheao of h Jst year, ~, hich is encoura1:,ing 1 a s, for a time, it seaned there VJaa no bottom. Ho,, ever, we have evidently reached th.&t ,e1oint now cJtd are on the up-grade. Our tentative ouaeet ·went in yesterd cy. ~ e vl~n . considerable im.l-'rovement s ht HE.nna. if we c .. n ootain appro !Jriations for thi c work, the largest 1 tem- being three hundred .1,Jit care, which ,,ill hc..ve a cti,1,1aci~ level full of about five tons. We feel, with ou;r experience at \°.' inton with a :rour-ton car, that we can very easily go to a five-ton car with the �2 high coal a t Ha nna ~ n i th ve ry g rea t l y r educed co sta. rle a r e ~oi ng to e=--'f)e rimen t to some extent r: i th a long face rii th sluaki nt;, conveyo r s and duckbill a , -~, i t h au:xi li,, ry conveyor s . \'le di6 :.:sorie t m:rlt o f this lcind s ome y ears· ago , ana. were very \"Jell pl ease cl \'Ji th i t. We a re doing a little v.ork at Relia nc e nm; , Y1i1.0:re we ar e 5 etting t v,1enty t o t wen ty -five tons pe r !t1anshift :f or those v1 or kine; 011 t h e conveyor. ·;;e wi ll 9ro b ~bly hav e to t a ke the scl'.'e1.1Je l.'s out of Rock Sv rinb s lfo . 8 i'1i n~, subo tituting shak ing c onv ey ors with duckbills, as the roof co nditions a re such tha t i t i s both difficult a na. e xpens i ve ·co c o ntinue with the sc1·ape:!' ope r a ti ons . We will :proba bly fi ne.. th&_t z1e cc.u use the sc r"'pe ::rs a i s11l a c e<i at either \'. 'inton 01· Relh,nce. I hear from Albe r t a quite frequen t ly, unc. she lik~Hl her ne w home , al though she g e ts home sick some times . I read with a g reat dea l of i nteres t t oti&y the account of the wecidine, of the Duke of Keni . ;;.:-&.ny Ro ck :J~:ri n &s people who belong to both Ene;.land a nd Sco t l and , and hc:tve sbort wave radios, tuned in ruid ootained a boou d ea l oi' the ee1·vi c e . I have Juet v, ri tten to 'irx . Ca rlow to day. send ing him a copy of Ur. l!cAuliffe's orief on t he co mpurati ve cost of a six and seven hour day opera tion . I have a t1 &dd i t ionaJ. copy of thi s brief, und E-m s ending i t t o you . By the time thi-s r eache s y ou. y ou ·i-.-ill b e ma.king preyaratione fo1· the Ile\'1 Year holid cys. ! an tici pc, te tl:!.is will be a rather pleas ant one for you in vie\'; of the i m1,Jor t4nt. appr caching event. in your life tha t ,Jill occur s oon a fter th.at time. tle &.11 join in s ending you i:>es t wishes for ypur ha.1Jpiness. I h&ve had O1:,ny i nquiri es aoout y ou since you left here, ana it seems you have made a grea t many friends while visitint; our propertie·e. I v1oulo. si,,yrecia te your t,i v .ing IJY complime nt:: to your father, &nd my kind re6 ards to yourself, ana. best wishE,e for a. Happy anci P rosp erous New Year. Very s incerely you1·s, �November 9, 1~34 Hr . Chas. C. Reid: G: e~e ral lia.nag er Th e I'if e Coal Cot:i}n,.ny , Lir.:ii ted Co~denbeath, F ifeehire Scctl a nd Dear lir . Reid : It gave me a g reat dea l of pl easure to have your letter of October 12th . \~-illiam ,,ill }1...ave been home seve ral duys noY1, and no doubt has given you some of the h i gh lig;hts of h i s visit to the United stat es. I knov, he ao t a great d eul out of it> oecause he put the utmost enthusiasm into his 1nork, a nc accomplished r.i e:ood de~l - Vfe all ho1,e tht1 t he may b~ &bl e to come ·'-i/est a~ain. I J Conc.itions in your min~s. of course, a r e very much different than in ours. You w to &reat aepth f or ::;G €1l l seH:"i! S of coal , s..nd roof control i s a very live 1-•1·obl.em in your operations, so me thin6 t:e in this countrJ'· hLve bi ven very little a ttention to . I \7as breotl y im:pre :::sed ~'i i th the ve1-y d e tuilBd wa y that 'tlilliam sho•;:ed us ;you ha s tudi e<l roof control. The coal ousi nees bis hac. a li ttlc G1JUrt on c:. c count of anticipation of colacr z:e~ ther, but i:: e are huvi ng n recurrence of l&st yec..rrs very mi ld \7inter. The day~ c.re t·. bcut 60° Fahrenheit, witL. practica lly no frost at nights, s ome thi ng very un usual for t his t ime of the year here. Of cour::;e, this vlill affect the coLl bueiness g rea tly, as we depend l &reely on the seasona ble cold \'leather. • Ou:;:- general e lection has cor:ic c:ind gone. needl ess to say, it was a very g r eat surpr ise to cany of us F..epubli cans who hLd ho;,e<i to &. t l east cu t cov.n the !'er.io cro.tic rw.jority, out it is difficult to ~ et away from the fact thr..t mE.ny !'eople are imbuec. toduy v: ith the ide.:.. thE.. t the Government i a the ir "S~nta Clwa", cind Poll.a tever they ne.ed._,. a 11 they have to do is holler. '!'hi ~ i s not only true of indi vi dU&1e, but munici I>al.i ti es, who &re clamoring for Government r e lief·, a nci a re apparently get tint:, a e,ooC! dea l of 1 t. I feel, however, t!!a t there will oe a ctie tinct g ettinc: ,·wn:,r fror.i ciirect relief in the next few ~onth s by the Prc31dent . It c::nnot !f!O on indefinitely , �2 ' payi ng out money that comes from taxation for the r e li e f of those '7ho do not tJ or k and may have no i n t e ntiop__ of worki ng. 'I'hat is one of the draw-backs of the dole. I ~ i ng probably his i aen will be more t:1t1d more to .1:, ut the money irrt'o· pub li c r el ief Y1ork v,here men 1.7i ll have to g ive a reasonable day's wo r k for the hel}? they obtain. There has been a uistinct lack of confidence in t.he pl a n s of the Governrnen t i n indust ri al circles. ':!.'he reason has been t h at I nclu~t,:c·y is moving ahead very s l owly . "iie hbve hau a r;ood deal of t a lk cl.bout the 11 no profit 11 . era , &nd indut;tr i alists are s l o ':/ to inv est rp.oney in ne w enterprises, not kn owing how heavily they mi{:;ht oe taxed . With an assurance f ro rn the Government that business v,culd be enabl ed to go a lon g in a n orderly y;ay, I believe much of thi s pessi mi sm v,i ll be overcome. Of c ourse , that is what ?re:::,ident RooBevel t de sir es , i s to ~fe t I ndustry going, out this c a n only be a c c ompli shed by a g r ea·ter fe eling of confidence on the part of those \, ho must put up the money for new entexprises. This year ' s uus ine~s h&s s ho •:.n u.n imp1·ovEment over the l a s t two o r three ye~rs, but the increase i s l ~rgely from Government money , not from a ny im).J10 -11eri1en t in i nctust.ri u l c0nd i tions. I think .Probably Williatl hl...$ t clci you cf tlJEt fa ct. The r e i s 2. :r-athe r me rcenazy llO li ticc:J. ~d tu.,,. t ion in this coun t ry in many cases. I am blati to know that business i ::: on the u.p-hrt,d e in Gr eat .Bri tain, o.nd hope it.o.::.;y c ontinut:: , ns no 1mrt of the \':orl d toda~ can Let alon1:., ,,Ji thout tl1e o ·:.he:r i.JLrt:s beinL p rcupero us. I ho pe the nevi machi ne turned out c.. l l right . \','illi am sho VJed me pl.:...ns of it, ~ nd i t looketi to we t..s though i -~ could be e asi ly ap.f,liea to your conditions at a g:reat sc.:.vin 6 in l nbor. P l et..se sa:y- to i'Ji lli&n that I shall write him in .::1 few days, ~nc_ tell h i m aoout the \'7eclciini;. Ui t h kind l}ersona l regt..rcl~, and you may be ::1 sou.red i f I ever iind mysel f in Seo t lc...nd &,L,ai n, I sr1c.. ll not f ai l to c a ll UJ:'On you. i.r ery sincerely you.rs, · Orl"1wl Shcllt!d: GEOR:.it E. PRYOl �., ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSEO TO THE COMPANY. ~•A.? Ome<,'R. Le:v e: N, Ft F E ~ TELEGRAMS "CARLOW. PHONE, LEVEN:' "F1Fcot:! COWDENBEATH . TEt.EPMONE H~~ ,, 161 & 162 t..~ 181 TI> 185 YOUR REF. ·-··- - LEVE M CowoEH&EATl1 • __ • CCR/ I E. OUR REF. - - -- - - - •· - - Idr. George B. Pryde, Rock Springs, W Y O 1,1 I N G, U.S .. A. Dear ru:r. Pryde., I was very glad to get your l ett er of 29th ultimo with regard to the visit which my Son has been paying you . I want to express to you how grat eful I am for a.11 your kindness to him. His letters home are full of the good things he has seen, and I have no doubt that vie will a ll greatly benefit by his visit. I sometimes think that alth ough we may consider ourselves pretty badly off in the mining business here, you have e-ven a greater task as competition ~ppears to me to be keener. You get,; of course, a wonderful output per person, and while you have good conditions., William is full of the fact that you make the very best of them. Machinery never seems to make the difference to us in the long run which we anticipate it would, and v.~ th all our mechanisation our output per person remains miserably low. We hope shortly to have a machine working on a longwall face which will cut the coal on the one shift, and strip it into the conveyors on the follO\"lil).g shift. This will make our face worlc as nearly mechanical as possible. Our men will not load the amount of coal even under the very b~st conditions which your men are prepared to do, and the v,hole tendency of our hand-filling is :for the unit of labour to do less and less. I may say again how delighted I am that Willia.m has had/the opportunity o:f meeting you and your officials. I give to �to you a very he arty invitation to come and s ee us at t h e earliest p ossib l e moment . We will not h a ve much v1hi ch y ou c an copy., but I can assure you of a ve ry real we l c ome . Believe me., r;ith k ind regar ds., Yours ver y sincerely., �October 2~ , 193~ Dr. Villiam h eid c/o Ti' if e Coal Cora.9un y Co,,d e nbea t.'1, ~' i i'e shi::-e Scotlund By the ·c. 1:ne t h i s rec:1che1:1 yo u you vJill m ve a rrived hor.1e . lio uou~ t you 1.1ill be t; l aci to see 3 cot la.na and y our f1'i ends a(::,::i in ai'ter &n a0s ence oi' aoout three montho . I t.m g lud, in<1eed, to hear tl.1£• t. you m.td an oppo1·tuni ty of ·it:lkin c i::i th so many }.Jeo 1)le r, hi le i n the Bast. Mo doubt you oav1 many interesti ng thi ngs . I:r. Ftyan is a v,onoerful fe llo \'t , and I r;a:3 e ure he r.:o uld take i,ood ct-ire of you. The weather here is just like su.---:uner. I read in the local papers that ~7yominb h~s lllid the ,·,~:ane st anci dri est October on record . '.!.' hat is not much consola tion 1o r the coal man. Had e. letter from yoUI" father la t:i t r:eek, una will wri. te him am :I r. Ca rlow l ater on . You will h~ve a great time telling them of ~our ei~eriences in AmerictL, anu i t will t;,,:.kc you com:! time to get around. We ar e ull s till bu~ e.t ho □e, us t he eve!ltful day dra\7G nec.r. I hope that you \"Jill \'1 rite me fro:'.!l time to time, so that I uwy kce.1.1 in touch ~., i th y ou. Very sincerely yours, 1>11,: ... , I :-.h,ue4: GEO RGE B. PRYDt �l llajor John ~~vor 0/ 0 ~vor & Coulson, Ltc.1.. 47 Broad street. Glaegou, S .E. Scotl and Dear 1.1aj or: We lla.vo had a clolir;Mful visit from Dr. Willi.em Roid, of tho Fifo Coal Company, and 1lr . I. G. E. Leak, your Scholarship ,1innor. ilr . Reid s pent o.bout three \,eeks hero, and Ur. Leek just a feu de.ya loss . '!'he \?eather \-1ae bero.ri:.iful and uo n0re onnblcd to get ovor u lo-ii uf territory r1hil0 they uero here. Both of thc.n are hard r1orkere, and ke¢. cont :inuatly on tho move. They took very littlo time off for pleasure, exoept onco in o. nhilo a.roimd tile tea tabl o at night , \'Jhon Dr . Reid diaeoursed . Ho io o. VOi'Y- cxeellont story teller, and t:e enjoyed ·InQlly n hearty laugh • .1.,i t.as indeed a. plaasure to havo both of thc::a nith uo. l particul arly enjoyed Dr. Reid's stay, as he kncms the eountry very intimately close to tthere I uas born and spent my bol'ilooa. I aleo kno:.1, <.,f 01..urs<h of the oloao con·~act his fathor baa lw.d t1ith the oco.l buoincss f or no.ny years . \'ie did not get to s ea all cf tho thinga ,;c shoultl have lihed. I viahecl he miglit; havo gono to Yelloustone Park, bt,t ,,o did tc.o next boat thing and aho::red thecn coving picturot1 of tho park ·token by ono oi our young &lgineers. I lmot1 that you ,,ill be mtorestod in to.lkmg ·.:ith both of the:n \1hm1 they return, as the7 't1ill ooon after thia letter rcaohoa you. I ui■h you uoul d romanber mo to r.:r. Sara ilovor, aa<l toll him I read hia mecoira m tho Emgazine and they aro e;d;rowoly ilrGorosting. Hro. Pryde j om■ JDe in sending our boet regardll to youroolf' o.nd iamily. Vory aincoroly youra. Original Sif}lod: GEORGE B. PR1DE �October 23, 1934 llr. A. ':I. Di c.1<inson The American liinin& Cong ress 1.·iashington, D. C. Dear lir. Dickinson! I v:as sorry, indeed, to knov: that you were unable to st~y over longer in Rock Springs. I hope you may come out a little later on. I Y/~U:! ve-ry glad to kumJ tl.1:., ·::. you vi ::: itcd vith D~EAct , as he is quite a likable fellow, ...nd I enjoyed 'Vi si ti ni; Y: i th him very r1uch . Re comes from a little y,ay from my home, c:nd I hcve knom for years of his grand father ano m1cle nho ho.ve been in the coal business in the County of i!'if e for aoout three quarters o f El century, I unaer stand. He see~ed to enjoy his visit here und I think r;o t a lot of vc.luable info rmation . I adv i sed hir.1 to uo to •:,'ashi!lgton and see the Capital of the United States, because I thout}l t he v1ould be impresaed. I think, in all my travels in the cld country, I never sau a more beEutiful city than ;'!ashington, D. C. • \J \'Ii th kind personal recorc s to tirs. Dickinson and yourself, I um Yours very truly, Orl,clnh1 S\attled: GEORG£ B. PRYDl �'-. I. tl.,IKl,,M s.c.... ..... ,.,..,... ..... DIIICl'OU CUMtON M. c.tAMt, " - 1-t,. I'll. 1, ~ ' 1 1 . M. IIGUlftOW,, la,.-. C.R . f""'"-WUt.,ei-.:t,..,._111,. IOU.n&..,AU.1',~.... ~ L &.. Nn&Aw_ '--~"'4. 0.... 'w,,1, ,l(N;(JJQ, t,. ' - ' u .., A. L. l ueotlAII., 0-Ua t2. 0..D,W:OffA,, ,.:!t l.aQc;;.,,, 1,/'-"' .._ .. ,uw,_.,,__ -.. COM,U,D A , . . ~ ' W.;:.t... t - • C. J.. U.WUUIO, •~ .. CIOMAUI etUJD, c:i,,,.,.•-,_ o.♦ MOWA.10 L. TOWMO, \.I.. t . . , W.. OFAC:W..fTAff A.W. • ~ h . . . , _ LIL COOWMI. "-'.WI•"' .. S.C-.. IJU.dl L IO!mfW....._ u ~ 1,,tr...., WASHINGTON, D. C. October 19, 1934. Mr. Geo. B. Pryde, Vice Pres. & Gen. Mgr., Union Pacific Coal Co. , ~ock Springs, Wyoming. Dear Mr. Pryde: Dr. William Reid of the Fife Coal Company, called yester<Ucy" and I had the pleasure of seeing the photographs and of hearing his accounts of some of the mining practices at the properties under his charge. He slao spoke glowingly of the three weeks l7hich he spent in observation at the \iyoming mines. I particularly regret that the necessity for interviewing a man in New York before he sailed for London cut 11\V visit at Rock Springs on the first of October to a very few hours. I drove oo.t to the ranch and spent less than 24 hours with Wright l7hile he was trailing some lambs to Bitter Creek and then came back into town and caught a train for the East. a good visit. I hope to be ou.t West aga.in and to take time for With kindest personal wishes, I remain Cordially yours, A. �-:----.-1 y ·----- Mr. G. B. Pryde: Yours 15th v1ith resume of safety work prepared for Dr. Reid: I think this is a very good job, and with the in- -=-----formation sent him by Gilbert Davis, he should be in shape to prepare a good report on American safety methodsQ �,, Octo·ber 10, 1934 llr. William Re i d c/o l?ennsylvc.1niu Ro t el Meu York Ci ty , 1:T . Y. Dear 1'.i:r. Reid: The t i me i s c::.bout a vi eek away \'Jhen you \': ill be bidding good-bye to the United State s. ~ e have haa uo th of your l etters, and I woulcl have ,1ri tten you but c..id not know \"mere t o contact you, as I felt yo u \7o uld be mov ing quite ra}:)idly. It was indeed a pleasure to kno \7 that you spen t such a delightful time, as I knew you v10ulci, ,·, ith :Ur . UcAuliffe ;;:nd :Ur. Ryan. &nd & 11 tLose o th.ers vii th 'iihom you c ame i n contact. M.r . llcAuli ff e is afin e ho st and v: ill go out o :f his ,,ay to assist any one . r:e a r e a ll s ti 11 very bus.t &t hom.e not: on account o f the important event cotJin~ up in lio vemb er, and only hope the:.. t y ou could have been he re. · You rnpy b~ •sure our t hol.i.bht 13 will be v, ith you a great d eal on thi: f ' day . : • It i s n eedl ess fo r me to expr-ese the pleasure of myself i:ind family at hti.ving you w i th us. It was a most delight ful visit, c.:nd rnutua lly agreeaole . I enjoyed very much the r eminiscences regardin& the ol d coun try , and you may be s ure that the frienaship ma de Yii ll not be fo r ~otten. \le a ll h ope very sincerely that we may me et at some futu r e time. I kno v: that yo u will c a rry back ,·1 i th you many i,leaeE.int recollections o f your e.xper1.enc es in iimerica . Aoove &11, 1 feel t hut yo u v,i ll c arry back ,;1 th :you the kno wleuge of the very si n cere frie nciship that exists between the peo~le Cl f the United St ates ano those of the Ilritish Isles, v1hose tho ut;hts run in the sume channels, bound t ogether oy a c o!!ltilon l anguage and under ot .. nd.ing . I kn ow that there &re ::i:.ny peoj?l ~ in the old count zy who \'/ill quest ion thi l3 s t.::.t .:ment, but reg&.rdlesa of the mun y mie.t i:,kes thc:tt Ame n.cans make , .:c.m the r ather vola t ile conduct we sometimes dis1)lay, the bonds of friendshii, which exist between the United States and 3ri tairt must continue if our civilization is to s urvive. You will pard on my digression :fo r the moment, because I know the. t you will have �2 obtained much in the -.;,ray o f expe11.ences, not only in the contacts you ru:..ve ma de \, i th rn:i.,nin~ ):Jeo p le l'ega.rdint:. minin t:; methods in this community, but i n the l arge r tien15e the personal friendships you have estnol it,he d -,:hi ch \'J i l l continue . I look f o:~~,7a:!'a wi th a gxeat deal of pl easure to the mee t ing you \'Ji 11 b.nve ·,, i th m y father when you will get time to vi s i t him. :fay I us:;: tha t yo u extend to your father my very great reg ret that I ,1&s not as persistent as I migbt ri..ave been in contacting :1.i r.1 \Jhen I vi s ited the British Isles in 1.931. I ho.Pe tho. t y ou will ke ev in contact vi i th us from time to ti~e, ano. may I s u y again what a very great yl~a sur<~ i t gave us to nave you \'J i th us , and ma y I ex pres s t he hope that the friendshiv thu::i '.!Oacie \'Jill continue. I run extenc:;.ing my kindest J,>ersonal regards, in which Alber.ta lmd. llrs. Pryde join me, and may you have a safe anu p le asant voy age. I ·c an imagine you walking up the pier at "3 roomi e l a w \'ii t l: all your goods ano. chattel s on your back, li ke an old country ,Packman. Very sincerely you1·s, �Rock Springs - 0 cto ber 15, 19::14 M.r. Eugene McAuliffe: Herev1 ith c opy o f b rief of our Safety v, ork \ 1hich I 1 hnve sent today to Di· . R\'.: i d at the Hotel .Pennsylvania, Met, York City. I di cta_t ed thi e, i:.-nd have read it very carefully since completing it , unci h a ·;re c:, lso had Mr . Hu r r a y go over i t. I believe all the sta temen ts a re correct . I found i t d ifficult to find a com..v;.,.rison o f a ll accidents for the five-year period, but in the paper I have 6'"iven him the compensable injuries for which we had a c ompa~ison for that period, and h~ve g iven him a comya rison of a ll injuries since July 1, 1931. With the tables attach ed , I thin k i t ,d.11 give Dr. Reid a good idea of the progress \·1 e have m&de in the reduction of accidents. Dr. Reid has copy of our Lubrication book , ann I be1ve sent him a copy of the July llJ34 llagazine, VJhich s ho ,:s the results of our 1-'irst Aid .Field Day. from which he can obtain further information. �:::,,.. October 1 5, 1934 Ur . William Reid , l >h .l,. c/o Hotel Pennsylvdnia Neu York City, ~ .Y. Dear Dr. R~id: flt the reC'!ueot of llr. llcAuli ffe, I h uve bi·i efed for you our Safety reg ul a tions and t he prog ress \'! hi ch we a re ~ing in Safety, i n orde r that. you llli @:it hav e it f or the Mine Safety a nd Research Boa rd. In pre,fEring this ~per for you. I have ~.one into everythinl,.. in a de t a iled \ ' 7 ~ a nd u hile we told you much of this ~hile you were here,~ will probabl y refresh your T:.emory \'.'hen you co).je to talk on the subject. If the re i s t.nything I have f t. il eci t o i nclude in this , or c.ny other information you desire on thi s :5Ubject , p le use let me know . I ho pe th~ t the p~.i:>er Wld .;.'.iae;azine z;hich I a.m enclosing \'J ill be of serv ice to you. Yours ver y truly, �!~ ..""::;~ ~ .. :.._..:c:::~~ OJ.' 'l's.z t!r!c.1 ,_. z ·re cc..r.. oouv:;1rr r4 71 ae '8inc v ont il ut i on. ·'I-he !Jines L!'O ci viclctl i nto oecti<.mo , \:.t i til n ....-ec ~ic1n ela uorute. bei n._: c. t t endetl by n:!:i'bcro of ~,11 Jeotiono u 1<.. C.€!tr wiTca . ~he t..cciclect s fol: tile _...r-cvi o!..;:; c outh c.rc ti.iLcwood end. c um;ention c c.::.cc f o1• i m~lrov ocmt. 'i".ilu oifici t- l o frc~ t!te Genert.l Of f ice a ttend uid g ive t t,lke en t-hc_ ...~fety cor1:. -:'he ... afety '":n~i n e: er g iTee, u reo\.Cle cf a l l a c cident s r:hlch ll::Ve btil.;,p eneo, f,m .. SU£ee ction!... .for i r:11.1roVL!!!C'n t . 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"·· 1 in. ,) 1'' ,v.;.-:. •-:r...n-:Lo u:r;; t, f e.l:_,o ~t.!l·C to -..n ::. ·1n:t:.1_ e i o rec \. .i; 1.:"" . \ c .r1:.,ur. of t ~.c .. cI·cul ca C.1,lCI' +,i on ··Jo c.:. .;line ccci<.:.ent::· h1 1;133 •. t.::kco., l ,J?, ;3,;j<3 . m ,ll'>'l .. ~ l·eiiou o:: 0 .0~1 ti cn , lta c.. ..•y:, . H �J'olon impro-wed minin.._ pi•cct1. (;ec. , nd. oq.cci(..1ly , 1ec..c.nic, l l o: c.:lnh �:.o .. lwricntion. ere& t cervi <.:C 1?l !Jl 't;:V(..ii t, illL ;.)!°l?Ck.;,.o ·;;u ... o::u 1~ :c:. .lin:.;. .J&l:hi lh:.lJI lt)})erl ';/ • l ~ur i .!~l t ec.. i,.1.,.,tA '-';- .:..v •., ·• • • 0-L• t ,,...,- __ ... -0 •_., ·l ' J Ov-•J �I ! I 64 February, 1934 EMPLOYES' lVIAGAZINE slow, and may be compared to the growth of a tree. The yearly accretions may not be noticeable, but the roots are ever sinking deeper and the branches are ever spreading wider and reaching higher. We are encouraged, therefore, by the indisputable evidence of the past two and one-half years performance that accidents can be stopped. We as a unit have not reached that goal of no lost time accidents for a year, but, keep this fact in mind. that the greatest per cent of all accidents is traceable to unthin'ldng individuals. So for 1934, keep that fact before you, whatever you are doing, concentrate on the job. Suspect danger in everything, and don't start any kind of a job until you have weighed the possibilities of exist• ing danger. Let's reduce the accidents in this or• ganization. If you have no resolution to live up to this year, resolve to practice SAFETY FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS. COivlPENSABLE INJURIES AND MANSHIFTS WORKED BY MINES The statement for December, 1933, for the calendar year, 1933, and the two statements for the five-year period 1928 _to 1932, inclusive, following, are based on compen~able injuries, that is to say, injuries which come under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Law, and which do not bear directly on the records of lost time accidents maintained for the purpose of the safety award contest. DECE)IBER, 1933 Manshifts Place Manshifts Injuries Per Injury Rock Springs No. 4 .. 3,354, 1 3,354 Rock Springs No. 8. . 5,711 0 No Injury Rock Springs Outside 1,703 0 No Injury Reliance No. 1.. . . . . 2,662 Reliance Outside . . . 932 0 0 No Injury No Injury O- l T- -ci' 0 ·.: ::, l========~=====~==I "" Q) M IO 0.. ,_ II) "' 0 C I ,_. Q) >- tJl " = l l i II ~ t ..:..:: ., '0 V> ::, '0 ::, 0 ti ·s; ::: ., Q) ,_ 0 " 0.. .. -C -~ -0 ~ 0 Q. E 0 u (Y) (Y) ...-.No,r-,...u;, ,....,O\'e<N"t:'T' Oo.nl00- 00 ..,;-0·v,"5,...: l"-CNIOt-- .;- ..., X ,n <r. r-- c--: IO ,_ 0 c E- O- T- " OCNU-,t--00 ..., Q) >- Superior "B" ...... . 2,330 Superior "C" . . .... . 2,286 Superior "D" ...... . 30 Suptrior "E" . ..... . 2.378 Superior Outside .. . 1.4-18 0 0 0 0 No Injury No Injury No Injury No Injury No Injury ...D Hanna No. 2.. . . . . . . 565 Hanna No. 4. . . . . . . 2,299 Hanna Outside . . . . . ] ,694 0 0 0 No Injury No Injury No Injury Rock Springs No. 4,.. 29,996 4 Rock Springs No. 8 . .49,916 9 Rock Springs Outside 17,967 0 Reliance No. I. ..... 26,126 8 Reliance Outside. . . . 9,61 I 2 Winton No. l .......41,595 1 Winton Outside..... 10,624 0 (Continued on page 66) I (X) CN No Injury No Injury 1933 7,4,99 5,546 No Injury 3,266 4,806 41,595 No Injury I C 0 0 PERIOD JANUARY ] TO DECEMBER 3), ~ u Winton No. 1.. . . . . . 4,603 Winton Outside .... 1,067 0 c--.. Q) 0 c~ C Q) 0\ V> Q. E t-- r-- "'c..f 0 0 u .. C Q) .... E Q) 0 CJ) / �'\ February, 1934 ! » » 63 EMPLOYES' MACAZINE » Make It Safe December A ccident G raph l~g ggg 1:.... .66:f":iii 100 000 75000 so 000 25 000 .. MAN SHIFTS PER l'A'll\UTY YEAR 193$ Tl£S DURING YEAR 1933 JS TH IS issue of the magazine the safety depart- I ment attempts to give a resume of the safety record for the year ] 933. There have been ups and downs during the past year, yet there was an increase in manshifts per injury over 1932 amounting to 39.34% for all districts. While an increase is shown in manshifts per injury for 1933, the fatality rate increased from one in 1932 to three in 1933, there being one fatal injury in the Reliance District and two in the Hanna District. These fatal injuries marred an otherwis~ excellent safety record. Some of the districts and mines did exceptionally good safety work during the past 12 months, namely, Winton as a district worked 52,219 manshifts with but one serious injury; whereas in 1932 this district trailed all others with 4,030 manshifts per injury. The mine management and employes at Winton are to be congratulated for the splendid spirit of co-operation they have exhibited throughout thl" year in achieving their nearly perfect record. Rock Springs as a district should come in for some appla use because their safety record is good. In the fi rst place, the year 1933, has been the first year since 1925 that this district has gone a calendar year without having from one to four fatal injuries. The Rock Springs district stands third with 7,529 manshifts per injury, yet as a whole, they have done very well, and all concerned are to be congratula ted. T he Superior district held its ground admirably throughout the year, in fact they were able to raise « « « their manshifts per injury from 9,216 in 1932 to 9,956 in 1933, thus placing them second in this classification. The two districts that lost ground during the yea r when compared with their records made in the preceding year are Reliance and Hanna. Reliance dropped from 7,292 manshifts per injury lo 3.57 ~ and Hanna from 5,894, to 5,240 manshjfts per injury. When a comparison of 1933 accident statistics is made with the previous 5 year period 1928 to 1932 inclusive, all districts show a remarkable percentage of increase in manshifts per injury. Titer are as follows: ~ 1inton .............. . 2.382 Per Cent Superior . ........... . 383 Per Cent Rock Springs . ... .... . 287 Per Cent Hanna .............. . 113 Per Cent Reliance ............ . 88 Per Cent This is progress. Two mines, Superior "B" and Winton No. 1, operated the entire year without a single lost time accident. The last accident at " B" Mine occurred on January 8. 1932, and at Winton No. 1 on September 13, 1932. Other mines making exceptionally good records for t11e year are Superior "E" with 3 serious injuries, Rock Springs No. 4 with 4, each having 7,510 and 7,4,99 roanshifts per injury respectively. The outside sections, Rock Springs, with 17,967; Superior with 15,091 and Winton with 10,624 manshifts, operated the entire year without a lost time injury. This again is a remarkable safety record and we wish to thank all of the surface foremen and employes at the above districts who made t11is record possible. From the above, our readers may think that we are crowing about our safety record. Far from it, our record is not that good as yet hut we do want to impress every one of our employes with the fact that the safety movement is growing and that each and every one is an important cog in the wheel of tl1is worth while endeavor, remembering, of course, that when you stop working safely, your safety program stops also. T he growth of the present safety record has been DECEMBER INJURY Cause of Period of Name Nature of I njury Injury Disability District Mine Section - ---------....:..--=---=--- ----"--''------ --.:,._- - - - - - - - -- John Skubic Fracture of small rt. toe Boney rolled Est 4 weeks Rock No. 4 2 off pile and Springs struck foot /' �"'- February, 1934 65 EMPLOYES' M AGAZINE Sta te ment Show ing Manshifts, Compensable Injuries, Manshifts Per Injury Fatalities and Manshifts Per Fatality Years 1928 to 1933, Inclusive 1928 ROCK SPRINGS: Manshifts ........... . 143,271 Injuries ..... . . . .. .. . 79 Manshifts Per Injury . . 1,814 Fatalities ........... . l Manshifts Per Fatality. 143,271 . R ELIANCE: Manshifts .......... . 52,850 Injuries ............ . 28 Manshifts Per Injury . . 1,888 Fatalities ...... . ..... • 0 !\1anshifts Per Fatality. 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 157,09-1, 87 1,806 122,182 48 2,545 4 40,727'"' 95.173 23 4.138 97.879 • 13 7.529 0 52.365 148,382 105 1,413 I 14-8,382 95,173 No Fa tality 61,393 4,2 1,462 l 61 ,393 56,804 35 1,623 l 56,804 45,678 23 1,986 0 36,458 35,737 3 5 10 7,292 0 3.574 l 35.737 63,595 37 1,719 1 63,595 52,386 52.219 • 1 52,219 82,942 9 9,216 0 W INTON : :\fanshifts .. . ........ . Injuries .. . . . .. . .. . . . Manshifts Per Injury .. Fatalities ....... . . . . . Manshifts Per Fatality. 67,202 38 1,768 2 33,601 72.677 • 31 2,3441 72.677 72,385 37 1.956 SUPERIO R: Manshifts .. . . . ... . .. . Injuries ...... . . . ... . Manshifts Per Injury .. Fatalities . .. . ... . ... . :Manshifts Per Fatality. 97,844 85 1,151 2 48,922 113,114 59 l.917 '. 2 120,955 67 1,805 2 60,4-7 8 102,631 31 3,311 • HANNA: Manshifts ........... . Injuries ............ . Manshifts Per Injury .. Fatalities . . ......... . '.\1anshifts Per Fatality. 72,013 39 1,846 2 36,006 71 ,088 31 2.293 70.606 38 ] ,858 2 35,303 62,112 469,132 282 1,663 ,)ALL DISTRICTS: Manshifts ......... . . . 433,180 Injuries . ....... . ... . 269 1,610 i\Janshifts Per Injury .. 7 Fatalities . ... ....... . Manshifts Per Fatality. 61,833 56,5~7 • 4 17,772 475,366 250 l.901 • 11 43,215 ' 1 72,385 7 67.019 1 1 ]3 tl ,030 0 102,631 0 No Fatality 79.65,1, • -a r 9-;956 n s-o 0 No Fatality 3,451 0 58,94-3 10 5,894 0 52,399 10 5,240 2 2,620 396,198 157 2,524 6 79,240X 325,902 60 5,432 1 325.902 317.888 • 42- .., ;J :7~69 ?::J 9:J 3 105,963 18 •- 1•: ~cludlns- Cumberland. • o-ua~i,d on 3 fatalltle,,:-4th man kllled In new air Sha.ft and no manshlfts worked In sh a ft w e r e inclurled In above mo.nshlfts. x-Rase<l ()n 5 fatalities for s ame reason as ..llans hlfts vcr F'nta llty" In Rocle Springs above. �66 Februar,-. 1934 EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE (Continued /rom page 64) Superior " B" ....... 21,174, 0 No Injury Superior "C" .... ... 20,859 5 4,172 Superior " D".. . . . . . 395 O No Injury Superior "E" .... ... 22.530 3 7.5) 0 Superior Outside ... . 14,696 O No Injury Hanna No. 2 .. . .... 7,94.S 2 3.973 Hanna No. 4 ....... 24,4.07 6 4.068 Hanna No. 5x . . . . . 407 0 No Injury Hanna Outside .. .. .. 19,640 2 9,820 x."'l'o. 6 Mlne closed down In Marcil, l93 3. COMPENSABLE INJURIES AND MANSHIFTS BY DISTRICTS D ECEMBER, 1933 Manshi/ts Place Manshi/ts Injuries Per lnj1iry Rock Springs ...... . 10,768 1 10,768 Reliance . . . . . . . . . . . 3,594 0 No Injury Winton . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,670 0 No Injury Superior . . . . . . . . . . 8,442 0 No Injury Hanna . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,558 0 No Injury All Districts . ....... 33,032 All Districts, 1932 . .. 27,742 1 1 33,032 27,742 A Correction In the December, I 933, issue of the Empl oyes' Magazine, under "October Injuries" a brief account was given of the injury to Adam Hordzevich. which read thus : "Adam and his partner, James Henderson, .Machine Runner, had cut across the face of 16-foot scraper way room on about a 14 degree pitch. In pulling the machine out from under the cut. Adam stepped into the cutter chain, which was in operation. Only the quick action and presence of mind of James in releasing the bit clutch and shutting off the controller kept Adam from being much more severely injured or possibly killed." Part of the above is an error and should read as follows: "In pulling the machine out from under the cut. the pulling chain fell off the side sheave. James stopped the machine and Adam stepped alongside of the culler bar to place the chain around the sheave. Before Adam had completed this task. James turned the controller on and the cutter chain struck Adam's foot and leg." From the above. it appears that the Safetr Department did not get the true story of the accident when it happened. PERIOD J ANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1933 Manshi/ts Place Mans/ti/ts Injuries Per Injury Rock Springs . . . . . 97,879 13 7,529 Reliance . . . . . . . . . . 35,737 10 3,574, Winton ........... 52,219 1 52,219 Superior . . . . . . . . . . 79,654 8 9,956 Hanna . . . . . . . . . . . 52,399 10 5,240 All Districts . ...... 317,888 All Districts, 1932.. 325,902 42 60 December Injury 7,569 5.432 Safety is Beginning to be a H abit Since starting the present system of safety awards, several of the unit foremen and their sections have gone the entire period of 2½ years without a lost time injury. Others have gone 2 years, and, in another section of the magazine, will he seen the 21 unit foremen and their sections that completed the year 1933 without a lost time injury. All have done their share in contributing their untiring efforts for better safety. Unit Foreman Track/ayer, Rock Springs No. 4 Mine. Fracture of tbe right small toe. Period of disability estimated- four weeks. John was shoveling loose coal and honey from around the drive of a shaking conveyor unit preparatory to making repairs. Part of the material was being shoveled and thrown on a pile of gob up the pitch from the drive. when a small piece of honey rolled off the pile and struck J ohn's foot, fracturing the small toe. John was wearing protective shoes but with our present type of shoe the small toe is un• protected. However, the shoe probably kept other Loes from being injured. This accident could have been easily avoided had John used a little more precaution in piling the loose material so it would not roll down the pitch. Small things such as the above cause serious injuries and result in a large amount of lost time to the injured workmen. JoaN SKUBIC, Period Mans/ii/ts 2½ Years 2½ Years 2½ Years 2½ Years 16,002 12,592 13,550 8,160 19,433 7,839 13,252 16,239 16,393 Mine Grover Wiseman.. ................Superior "B" Arkle and Hotchkiss ........ . .. ...Superior " B" W. H. Walsh ....................Superior "B" Frank Stortz............... .. ....Superior "C" Thomas Overy ...................Rock Springs No. 4 Andrew Young...................Rock Springs No. 8 Austin Johnson ........... . .. . ...Superior "C" Ben Caine.. .. ................. . .Superior "E" H. T. Wilson ................... .Winton No. 3 2 2 2 2 2 Years Years Years Years Years r �"F-t,, -/ . ,, Ye/>~"~'-".:J ) ~/Jl.'~')I/./I 7 -~ / Io/ ·"; l. . , I ,., ,.-· / \A/' I • ' ~ 7. f, >: I o/ s ..r ) v/ ,,. 7 ,;, I ..;- ) 1Y 72 2.. ? ) 2-- t> <[ C) D 6 ~ ,. I J 0 ..,, .- $/ ~ I' lf ��:1 :JT- /7 3;> I <;I ti ~ ~~~ I ;f ~(j ~ &9@~ · ~ JU},. .., LI , ~ }..;/r.,Cr,> .. ~~ ') J,l. Lf i I 2. ..:; /~tJ ... ···- d- L> ~ • ~~ t /C/c'J ~ Q G' d~ !~ If :31- 33 ~ / / a-~4,! / /ti)£) ~{) �~M- e -'!I",/. ·/?i-tl 6~10 ,;;l'L,,:..:, ���I Form 465 N.S.C. Entry Application \ UNITED ST ATES BUREAU OF MINES CONFIDENTIAL Sco TT TURN ER, D •RECToR FOR GOVERNMENT W ASHINGTON USE ONLY G~i.RM: M~~ To the United States Bureau of Mines , Washington, D. C. SUBJECT: Nat ional Safety Comi;:s,etit~on. 1934 This company desires t o enter the National Safet y Compet i t ion. As provided by the rules governing the competition, a separate and complete report* of each l osttime accident in the calendar year disabling an employee longer than the r emainder of the day of accident will be forwarded to your office. Each accidentreport will show the number of calendar days of disabilit y of t he injured employee, date of employee's return to dut y, cause of accident , and nature of injury. At t he close of each month, the number of employees and time worked will be reported. The identity of the property for which accident reports will be furnished is indicated below. Kind of Plant (underground mine , open-cut mine, or open quarry) ....................... . Name of mine or quarry ........ ................................. .......................... ............................... . Location of plant: .................... .......................... .............................................................. . St ate Count y Nearest town Kind of mineral or stone produced.................... ............. ... ........................................... . Number of men ordinarily employed: Underground. ................. ; In quarry or pit . ................ ; Outside ............................ Address to which correspondence r egarding this Competition s hould be mailed ........ ..... ,.............................................................................................................. . (State) (City) (Street) Very truly yours, ................................................. ...................... Company ..................... ............................................ Signature ............... ................... ......................................... Title Address *Carbon copies of regular forms prescribed by the Compensation Com.mission of tho State may be used in furnishing the accident-data required for the contest; or, if desired, the Bureau will furnish suitable forms. �/ Form 467 N. S. C. Rules UNITED STATES BU REAU OF M I NES ScoTT T URNER, D 1RECT0R WASHINGTON RULES GOVERNING THE AWARD OF TROPHIES IN THE NATIONAL SAFETY COMPETITION FOR 1934 I l. FIVE TROPHIES AWARDED: The bronze trophy 'Sentinels of Safety' will be awarded for the best safety record established in 1934 to the winning plant in each of five groups; 1, Anthracite mines; 2, Bituminous coal mines (includes l i gnite mines); 3, Metal mines; 4, Nonmetalli c mineral mines; 5, Quarries or open-cut mines. This trophy is not awarded outright, but is retained by the winning company for a year and is then transferred to the winner of the next year's contest. Honorable mention is given to plants ranking second, third, fourth, and fifth in each group and to all plants go1ng through the year without a lost-ti me accident. In addition to the trophy awarded to the company, each employee of the winning mine or quarry will receive a certificate of honor issued by the United States Bureau of Mines. 2. ELIGIBILITY: Underground mines employing 25 or more men underground (rule changed from 1932) and quarries or open- out mines employing 25 or more men i n the pit. To maintain eligibility for the trophy the plant must be active at least 150 days; quarries and open- cut mines having worked at least 30,000 man-hours inside the pit and underground mines at least 30,000 man- hours underground. Mines and quarries working 30,000 man-hours are eligible for honorable mention, although they may not be eligible for the trophy because they do not employ 25 men underground or in the pit 150 days. 3. CONTEST PERIOD; January 1 to December 31, 1934. SCOPE OF CONTEST: The contest covers accidents and man-hours worked underground or in the quarry or pit, also at surface shops and yards including crushing and screening plants at the mine or quarry or pit. The contest does NOT cover smelting, ore-dressing, cementmills, l ime-kilns, or stone- dressing. 4. SEPARATE ENROLLMENT OF EACH PLANT: A separate enrollment application should be filed for each mine or quarry. A company may select one or more of its plants for entry in the contest. (For purposes of the contest, an underground anthracite mine is defined as an underground excavation and development - a single operating unit - with shafts, slopes, drifts, or tunnels for the extraction of anthracite coal; it includes all underground and surface operations under the mining company• s control except those at the breaker, power pl ant , and boiler house and employees of independent contractors , not under the control of the local officials of the mining company. An anthracite stripping operation is also defined as above except that the coal is mined from an open excavation instead of underground.) 5. I THE WINNERS: The winner in each of the above five groups will be the mine or quarry havi ng the l owest accident- severity rate, that is, the smallest loss of time from all fatal, permanent , and l ost-time injuries per 1,000 man- hours worked. Should two or more plants have no accidents causing loss of time, the trophy shall be awarded as stated in Rule 9. 7. REPORTS RE4UIRED: a. Accident Repor ts: Competing companies agree to send to the United States Bureau of Mines a separate and ful l report of each l ost- t i me accident. (A l ost- time accident is defined as one that oauses disability beyond the remainde r of the day on which the accident �Form 467 (l occurred. This also covers injuries that do not incapacitate an employee for work until some time in the future; e . g., as the result of infection.) All fractures or permanent injuries should be reported even if no time is lost; also all temporary injuries that prevent an employee from performing his regular duties, even though during convalescence the injured employee returns to lighter work. Companies may use accident report forms supplied by the Bureau of Mines or they may send the Bureau a copy of their reports to the State Commission or their insurance carriers. Each accident report should show date of injury, date that disability begins , date of ability to resume work, and number of calendar days lost. In counting the number of calendar days lost, the day of injury should not be counted. The plant's enrollment or entry number should be shown on each accident report. b. Exoosure Reports: The number of man- hours of employment or exposure should be reported on forms supplied by the Bureau of Mines; this includes man-hours of exposure of service or maintenance-men on days when mine or quarry was not producing. c. Completeness and Accuracy: Company reports to be summarized by the Bureau of Mines at the close of the year and mailed to company, the company to certify same as to completeness and accuracy and return same to the Bureau of Mines. 8. l'IHEN TO SEND REPORTS: Accident reports should be mailed to the Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C., when the injured employee returns to work or when disability ceases. They may, if desired, be mailed to the Bureau at the close of each month. However, all reports should be mailed before January 31. 1935, so that the winners of the contest may be announced early in the year. Company will estimate number of days of disability if disability is expected to continue beyond January 31, 1935. Reports of man- hours worked may be mailed monthly or whenever convenient to the reporting company. 9. METHODS OF RATING: Mines and quarries will be rated according to their accident- severity rates, that is, acoording to number of calendar days of personal disability from injuries per 1,000 man- hours worked by all employees (except office workers) at the mine or quarry and at the surface plant connected with the mine or quarry. Deaths and permanent disabilities are weighted according to the scale shown in Table 1. Temporary disabilities are weighted according to actual calendar days of disability, including Sundays, holidays, and days on which the plant was idle, if the injured employee was physically unable to work on those days. The severity rate is obtained by dividing the total number of days of disability from accidents by the total number of man- hours worked and mul tiplying the quotient by·l,000. If two or more mines or quarries have no lost-time accidents, the award shall go to· the plant having .the largest n111Dber of man- hours of exposure during the year. 10 . COMMITTEE OF AWARD: The winning companies are selected by a Committe f A d d e o war compose of seven members, identified with the mineral industry but not connected with the Bureau of Mines. 11. MISCELLANEOUS: The above rules shall govern the contest during subsequent years may be revised as experience shows to be advisable. 1934. The rules for 12. RECORDS CONFIDENTIAL: Records will not be published in such • identity of an individual plant, unless the plant wins the tro h a way as to reveal the or is awarded honorable mention, in which case the record will be publ ished as a credit PY t th outstanding safety records may be published tor plants operati n °t e company, except th at accidents or with unusually low accident rates. g wo or more years without - 2 - �l 'i'ABLE l.- SCALE OF TI!lE LOSSES FOR WEIGHTING DEATHS AND PERMANENT INJURIES SO AS TO SHOW SEVERITY OF ACCIDENTS I Degree of disability in per cent I Days lost of perma- I nent total I disability I I I Nature of injury I I - - - - - - - - - '- - - - - - - - - - 1 I I I Death .................................................................... .................................................. 1 Permanent total disability ............................................................................ 1 Arm above elbow, dismemberment, or permanent disability of ............ \ Arm at or below elbow, dismemberment, or permanent disability of.. \ Hand, dismemberment, or permanent disability of ................................ .. Thumb, any permanent disability of ............................................................ 1 Any 1 finger, any permanent disability of ....................................... ....... 1 2 fingers, any permanent disability of .................................................... 1 3 fingers, any permanent disability of .................................................... 1 4 fingers, any permanent disability of .................................................... 1 Thumb and 1 finger, any permanent disability of .................................. 1 Thumb and 2 fingers, any permanent disability of ................................ 1 Thumb and 3 fingers, any permanent disability of ................................ 1 Thumb and 4 fingers, any permanent disability of ................................ 1 Leg above knee, dismemberment, or permanent disability of .............. 1 Leg at or below knee, dismemberment, or permanent disability of .. , Foot, dismemberment, or permanent disability of ............................... .. . Great toe, or any 2 or more toes, any permanent disability of ..... . 1 toe, other than great toe, any permanent disability of .............. .. 1 eye, loss of sight ...................................................................................... .. Both eyes, loss of sight ................................................................................ 1 !o!:r:a~::s1:!sh::r~:;r~~~···.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.:·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.:·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.-.·.:·.·.·.·.·.·.·.-.:·.·.·.·.·.·.:·.-.·.:·.·.·.·.:·.::·.:::·.-.·.:::·.: I I 100 100 75 60 50 10 5 12½ 20 30 20 25 3~¼ 40 75 50 40 5 0 30 100 ° 10 50 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 6,000 6,000 4,500 3,600 3,000 600 300 750 1,200 1,800 1,200 1,500 2,000 2,400 4,500 3,000 2,400 300 , ......~ ... ~00...... I I I 6,000 600 3,000 I Temporary disabilities are weighted according to actual calendar days of disability, including Sundays and holidays a~ stated in Rule 9. Hernia is classed as a temporary disability to be charged with the actual number of calendar days during which the employee was unable to work. 13. DEFINITION OF ACCIDENT RATES: Frequency Rate means the number of all injuries (fatal, permanent, and temporary losttime injuries) per million man-hours of exposure. Severity Rate means the number of days of disability resulting from all injuries (fatal, permanent, and temporary lost- time injuries) per thousand man-hours of exposure. �> , "' • 080-3 Omaha - October 3~ 19340 (~i 'Mr. G. B. Pryde: rerI 1/I:. ,Jt{f. Note attached letter to 1~iro Davis date. 7 I I I woul 1dp-1 I ' --- pre'sent preciate your haying I'ir o Murray v,rite an outline of our methods with the sa~ety gains obtained over the past four or five years, outlining the various methods employed, making mention, o.f course, of our Book ot: standards, the minerst handbook, the worlr of the u. s. Bureau of Yl.ines, the awards, particularly those made during the past three years, and the response received from same, also making reference to the Sentinels of Safety trophy received a few days ago, with the basis for the award.a I.f you can get this to Dro Reid at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, by October 25th, such will be in time to be picked up by. Dr. Reid. I wish you would give the manuscript your personal at- tention after preparation, so that any facts set forth will be definite and authoritative. CC: Dr. William Reid. �~.. ~- . 'l"Joi,::, I."\ \.:2.. :: n ,.,.._.""-1 - ,!').._... ..,,.,.. , h .. Ll .....,'\. , h ~ l .. '.j ... l, 1:>n--· r..: r. r..-:'\ • 1-.n"'--\t Mr':\ 'h'.)-.r .:...,.,.-':.,"'>'· -:~ ',) 1·,•11..r, \'·h--: • •- - ... .!.. ~ 1 , .. C . . J , , : . l -' v , ; ) . . , 1 _ .. . , V ~ l : . . . _ i,... '"' - ~ • - . . V - . . . ._, i 03hc·.m.ki'.J. ~,Yvorao t:i?i9to un'i.1oeo. 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Raid io clooix,cil.o of 't)oing ao~inito b h:lo p:i;o□o_-'l.ta.~:lanD i t 1.e 41~to ! r:~ortant, of! oow.r.:o~ i :r:.:it: t ho i'..: :: ~t o u~ 01-3:i!':i.y 00t i'oX>"i~u be.fore bim. llo piokotl up o. l at of oo.~o-i:;'Zi' :tngw~'G~CE ~;,c;::i ov.z, r:t<'ln oo b'J.t I ~ o.oktnc :m-. . ~ycte to c~vo ~ it-~ u c5. u.J..l='..:r, m:)ro r..-;cnorn:.1. ,11•~.,. sgn.tation and 1t io oat of tho c o::fu~o:t 'lnf'o.:.~o:uicn tlmu ho t"Till r,ri4;o hi.:i !'OpOI't::, uhieh., ao i )O:t'.O'l"O ~tr.:-'i.m:::.., "lJ:!.~'l C3C U.p]" Ct ;.1C! 'i:l2UO~t and 1!liportant pl.aoo in :avitioh ~inc c.:mnln. li!.11 yoll not obligo uo bot h ill 'O!tlo m'ti~O:!:p cO!iA.,..)□O~lG DF. Reid at th.3 Hotel rc~ylva:.1i C'.41 ~~ :-, "!'o::·:'. .. : 1:.1!7.-~;10 :l.l'l i:l!:1::, to r•~f!.o'.h u.m thol'e nob later than ootober 25th'$ • �Fot m2191 U NION PACIFIC SYSTEM lme F, "cl _____ __ M J E. ~ Aulii'fe CI:laha. TELEGRAM 0. 8. �./cl.ASS OF SERVICE DESIRED\ DOMlrSTIC CABLi. TECf:\ ~AM FULL MT£ . DEFERRED DAY LETTER NIGHT NIGHT J.IESSAGE LETTER NIGHT WEEK ENO LETTER LETTER Pntrou• bouldcbcckcbs>otsenioo dC31red: ot.bcrwiao m=co will be (b(Q)W>1f (Q)lr ~~~1r1E:~~ IDJ~ll@~ ,r~!k~@~&M tro.n,m,ittc<Jc,anfull•r:ito eommontc:otion. 1934 OCT 3 AM 7 41 Received at ROCK SPRINGS , 'J YOU!i~G KH2 VIA RCA--CD COl:JDEl,TBEATH 32 3/1209 LC WILLI AM REID OF SCOTLAND UNIOI-J ?ACIFIC COAL CO!!PANY--ROCKS?RINGS SAFETY IN MINES RESEARCH BOARD \7ANT YOU 'fO INVESTIGATE PHELTS DODGE CORPORATION SAFETY DEPARTMENT CAN YOU ARRANGE ALL \7ELL HERE-- REID FIFCOl,. COPY �Roc k S),) ring s - Octob e r 1 , 1 ~3 4 ll r. Eugene llcAulif f e: lir ., I:eid c.nd Hr. Leek h ave been s t ay ing a t my h ome , so that there will be 110 e :xpan s e a ttach e d to t hem . We h a ve enjoye d huving them with us , a nd I thi n k they probably fel:t more at home t han t hey would have i n a hotel. They both worked very h a rd, a nci I think they ha ve gotten a Lood d e al of useful informa tion . I am glad to know you had a s uccessful me e t ing , as tke press notices uould indicate a grea t deal of interest in the American ~ ining Congress meeting. �Original fi-70 ~ --284 - Reid 284- Leek 287 - AlME GBP - Personal 225 - UMW of A Rock Springs - Sept. 29, 1 9340 Mr. Eugene 1-ic nulifio: ilir • Reid is eti ll here 1 and will get on Train 18 with you 1'Uesday morning. llr. Leek arrived a ueek a go today, and both of them have been in the mines, and we have given them a grea'i:, deal of information regarding our operations here. I presume hir. Leek ,.,i Ll leave here some t:ime next week, and will probably desire to see you in Ona.ha if convenient, before going on to Chicago and the eastern states. I thimk he would like to have some let'ters from you to visit some of the mines in Illinois and PermY.sylvenie.. l have told him I am sure you VTild be glad i;o do this for him when he sees you . ~ie had a very good meeting of the ';/ycming Section of t he American Institute of Mining and l.ietallurgical Engineers at Ho~rds Gafe on Thursday evt1ning, having dinner at 6 i" .M. ile had election of of iicers, with 1ir. '{i . :r. r..igb-r.ingale being chosen Ghainnan and llir. G. A. Knox as Vice Chairman . Libby \18.S reelected Secretary. Mr. After dinner, ,-,e -;Jent to the Old •.rimer's' Building, where vie had ® open meetiug, r.,r. Reid t alking on general mining work and roof control, and 1ir. Leek giving a. very fine talk on of ti1e Coal liines Act of Great .l:Jritain. the application Both talks were most interaatiug and ~e na.d considerable discussion . i,jr. Leek, llr. Reid ancl. myself are going to Fa·i;her "ii elsh 's men's breakfast at 9 A.ij. tomorrow morning, and the t wo young men will ia.lk about conditions in Great Britain • .Lir. Reid has met quite a number in Rock Springs who ,vorked for his father, and discussing old times in Scotland with these people ,nade the visit more intereeting for him. '\le have not found anyone here from JJr. Leek's part �of the country, except t hat \'18 visit ed at .ift. J.Sridger on returning from Utah, and lllet hlr. Grosh on, tho caretake1· thore , who bad been a visitor in 'M r, Leek ' s hane town. took I 'k1ula them to Southern Utah over last week end, and inspec:ted the new GOodman machine which 1ir . Gibs on has at ;fattis . It seems to be a very good machine, and I believe it is: more ruggedly built than the Joy. Saw the Kenilworth tipple, •at iCenil,1ort.h, Utah 0 vm ich is a tremendously large utruc:ture, and I imagine i:t cost anyahere from ~3008 000 to 0350, 000. eigµt tracks. It loads c oal on We visil:ied ,1ith 1,Ir . i;,'atts a short t ime in Ca stle Gate . The operators I talked with are not en trrely happy with the union in Heitner are they sa·iiisfied with t he Code, workillg 35 hours per week, 7 hours per day. In times past they have worked all kinds of hou rs, Sundays included, to fill their orders, and now that they are sanetihat restrict.ad, t h ey are finding it very difficult to carry on their operations. Original Signed : George B. Pryde �Se_vt ember 2~ , l~M ilr . C. C. Reid, G<;nera l 1.!w,ac er F i i' e Co a l Co~11-,any Cowdenbeat.h, :b'if'eshi :re b cotl and · -----·---·- ..__ Dear U r . heio.; ' ie r..l:lve enjoyeu greatly having your son . \7illi&m, r.-i th us . He has been he re for a little ove r two weeks , &na bas haci &mple opportuni zy to visi t all our pro !)erties, ,~s \·:ell as to bo into our A'.J.i.:.itinG, $to r e operations, anu ,;eneral , .. ccountinb oyute ms . he v1i 11 leave here 'i'ueaday morni ng on f r,i n !To . 18 for Omah&, f,ettin t; on the s c:.me trt.in on v,hicll. ... r. B\lhcn e ;.1chuli ffe, our .t>resi dent , ie trc:1.veling eaet f ro:n the .l>c!ci f ic Coast . Mr. lioAuli ff e \'till tu ke him to O~ru.. for a day, anu then go to \Jhl cai;o \ ? i th hi!!l. :rr. ~c,\u1iff'e hr.s olso civen hio :::0 1Je letters oi' in t rodu ction to some 01· the lare,e operutin g cora.9~nies in Illinoi s ond l>ennsylvfmiu. ! rec.lly thi nk it 'l:&O o. !.:.._,lendid thin e fox \/il lic;im to come to the united Sta tee, a.na . \"1.hi l e our c:ona.i t ionc :ir e r.iuch aif feren t fro:n your opera tinu conc.i ti ons, .sti 11 there are pri nci_yles inv olved , I thi nk, .-,hich may b e Qp,Plied to your o peration~. Conversely. !)rinci ple s which a r e upplied to mi ninf., in Great l3ri tain cun be ayylied to our opcI·utions here very hC.Vent~ceouely. I enjoye<1 my vi sit Y,i th yo ur so n , r:nc I &m cure that the excha nge of i c:ieas VJ i ll be mut ua.ll y beneficial . You, of course, have 1nobl.ems tha t ,;c do no t have, on a c coun t of the gr eater depth of your mi nes , our sewne quit e l u.rge anu rel.D t i vely e lo oe to the nur fa ce. The great es t d epth we are wo rk.i ng, at " C" 1Une, Sur,er i or, i e a oout 1 ,200 feet, the a ver£.t.,e in this fi c l d about 500 fe et. We v,ent o ve r to the Ut ah mi nes lt.. ot \'leek end, with Ur . Leek, 11ho i..rriv cd here a week at,0 , ana ho.d Eln op~rtuni ty of' o bservi ns mining condi ti on e ther e . v.here the co ver i e o oout 1,500 f e e t. William lw. e met quit e a numoe r o f mine worke r s here who us ed to work f or you in the min es under your �Jurisdiction. three of my brothex-s-·in-law and one brother haviUG ·o een <3t1€:;w{;ed in <..i f fe:rent capacities in your mining operations. Y:e lw.o u ve"J;y fine meeting of the \'/yoming Section of the .'., i eri~ t•.!l L _!:ti tutc of 1.ii':1inc £:<na ~.1: etul lurgi.c u l Ent,incers i,..zx•e Thui·sday night, when William <..nc. l1ir . Leek ti,.•_} .;C, ·,iillh.!'1 tu lkine, .:, .JOut roof subsidence an~ :lr . Leek tc.1ll,int; on the Coal llin es Act of ~rec.t Bri t ...::.:1 . ;reedlcas 't{; ::·&y , we .1\:,1e:dcans enjoyed the t&lk G very much. I am sure tha t Wi lliam has picked up a number of idea::3 which he \•Ji 11 ,::a rit to use in your ·airHs v:·hen he comes back, a nd r HU sure he has thoroughly enj oye<i his cont!:l.cts ·,1itlJ. the o!_.i1e r peo1) l e of ti1i:a .._,art oi' t rie country whom he has met, u nd ,..,ill ha ve further op por t unity to study in the eu..::;tern stat es o~::·ore re t ·.J.::::-nint,; home . He will have many thin g s to tell you u oout. hi s visit ·-.:.hen he r etu1·n b c1no l u!n sure r1i l l be k t·.Jt ousy for some time t e llint., of his e.:x.9e1·ienc e e in Arner icet , I reLrette<i very much that I failed to see you. ·,•.<hen I wc:.s .in Great 3:ritain in l'::li51, mj, ti;n e :.t.',~ther limited , ~ nd I founa iil: very difficult to covei' all t~e .:,rounu I e:,1Jected to i n ti'le ~hor t i,l ,n.c at •·ey uis - posal. OGE.:ti!it; However, I hove I mny have the ul easure of yc,u at !:!0!1e futu:i:·~ time . .Please give my !'ee,urda to :1r. Carlo w, t.no. tell him that I wi 11 v1ri te him some a ay, that I ha:ve r a ther ne e::lecte<l fll.Y corr e a_l:lonaenc e fo r some time, v,ith eo iminy other things interveni ne,. Cordially yours, 11r:~i1.:. l :-.i~1,;,I}: GEURGE 8, PRYDl �./cl.ASS OF srnv1cE DESIRED\ DOMESTIC - CABLE TELf"'-'lAM FULL RATE OAYLETTER DEFE:lREO NIGHT MESSAGE NIGHT NIGHT WEEK END LETTER LETTER LETTER Pol:<>,.. ehouldchockcb:aotlOU'<l<:A> (C(O)~'f ©If W1~~irlf.:~~ WJ~Il(Q)~ '1f~l1~@~&JM1 de:iir~: othcrwi::.o mCls31'.:0 'mil be transmitted a.on tall-roto communlc:4tiou. Rock Springo - Sept. 20, 193~ ti . S . !lcClune Exuminer of ~erchunaico 120 P oet Office .Build irie .!-hilt'.delvhi!.i, l>o.. llY L E';2!£:R 1,'0UHTr:~ilTH PLl3AS:ii: S:Jim .SLIDES Q.UICI~Y r·:n .I :1::; rl}U:m SEtiT \~'il lium Reid �./cl.ASS OF SERVICE DESIRED\. DOMESTIC CABLE ~ < ;RAM FULL RATE D-'YLETTER DEFERRED NIGHT MESSAGE NIGHT LETTER NIGHT LElTER WEEKEND LETTER PAtrom abould chock clASsolaenice desired: oth..-..ilo m cssnl?<I ..-Ill be tnuumilttcdABAfall·r.>te eom.muuicotiou.. CC:@IF1f Cglf ~IE:~'lrl:E:~M IDJJNrll(Q)~ Jf~lL~@~AlMI P ennsylv'- ru. .... F..o·~el Ue,; Yorlt Ci .ty . ~! oY • .PLEl~SE 1:ortr:i\HD l'iiiY :1A:IY.1 YOU l-U~VB roR US 'IO RO cm ;PRI!i!G:3 Y/YOhlJ:HG CARD UTII OD Pf,CIF I C COJC CQ!__lJuTY . 1:JilU.a.m Reid. �Rock Springs - Sept. 24, 1934. Llr. T. H. Butler: hlr. ll. W. hledill : Mr . Thoe. Foster: Mr. Geo. A. BrOl'!n: I hlr. William Heid of Scotland, whom you have met, and Mr. r~ G. E. Leek, lraveling ~tudent of the Mavor & Coulson, Ltd., \"Jill speajc at the Old Timers Building Thursday evening, September 27th, at 7:30 P .hl. Please give this meeting publicity, extending the invitation to hear th.ese talks to as many men as possible. Original Sianed: I. N. Bayless �I have received a copy of "Rules and Regulations For the Government of All Employes of The Union Pacific Coal Company" bearing number above. I will read these rules, and I further agree to observe same as long as I am employed in or about the mines of The Union Pacific Coal Company, and will return this book in the event I leave the service of the company within one year. ----;?JJ. • L ·r (Signed) •••••••• ··········~·--············,···(.~ (Witness) 0...0~ . ·-- ·-···· .... (Date)~~e~ Employed in Mine..·-·-·-·····at.............._................ as ••·-····-····-····-··········-··--···················· [This Receipt to be Filed ln Office of Employment Agent, Rock Springs.] �Copy to - Wmo Re:id, JiJsqo ~ Dr.Eugene McAUliffe 0 Messrs.Union Pacific Coal Coo• 1416 Dodge Street, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A. Dear Dr.Mot uliffe,.. • : • - . . . .. - -....-.-• h ~• - Mr.Wm.Reid, son 9f nzy- friend Mr.Charlee. Reid··..G,!llneral .Manager,.,9,1· the l11ii'e Got1l Company and now Aeaist-ant..--.i\gent: in that Company, is coming to .America .shortly to study amerioan Mining Methods. I .know if he finds it poa~ible in fixing up his Itinerary to make oontaot with you it io not even necessary to suggest to you that you should let him see your work ut Rook ~prings. You will find Mr .Wm.Reid very well worth meeting and an interested visitor. r erh6pe you will be good enough to let my old friend Mr . Pryde know c~ this possible visit. I tto bope you end your f smily continue fit and able. YourG sincerely• �Rock Springs - Sei)t. 11 , 1934 ~ r. Eugene 1.i.cAulifie: I h~ve c:1 le: tter from \lilliam Ret,g , from Scranton, &.dvieing he t,ill 'i:>e he:re on Tr~in 21, Thursday evening . I presume he \iill stety a :mund here for some t i me . �NEWLY REMODELED FOUR HUN OREO ROOMS ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF OWNERSHIP MANAGEM E NT r ~ - ~ I 0.• "l,•• ~ ' '. : ----=- -----=SCRANT ON, PENNA. - C.un GAR.AGr;. l\uoss Trt( STnc.a ~~- ��HOTE L CASEY Four Hun<1re<1 Rooms Abso1utel4 Fireproor ·sc~ton,s Best" /4J 400 Car Garage Convenient. Scranton, fPennsif Lvania, �L.c f~ --- A1: .... Z " Hf~.~ August 20 0 19~ o l!q~oc J. B. Duvo:i 0 ll3.t 0i:'.' [~ 0 oulc 011 !i'G:lo.? 7 4'''i Bro.J.d s·c:·oei; J ~.ti!.J L!(.'.:1 • Gl.nf.l[;O\J, Se otlunt'..o d.eli(#lttul. aver~3 t,ith hit:11 ID'• Du:to, Dl.. e ll• Iil ~ YOii..11.() C.nd 'f!li"S O :m P1tteburl#l lnat woo}J:. I t y:.10 go~d. -to :ico L'irs Gal1:1o~:: ecam. fiy collplil!l0nt3 to li!rs. nuvoz, .mu lcl.nuc:;·i.'i :.."ec:u:ds t o ·i.~hi:> ,Otm.S peopl.e. ,,, ,,, ... CO : Jlr • ./v G. B. PrJdo • . Very alnoorcl7 youro , �- l 1.. I Vt I\UG ~ tJ 19::?4 '"I .. , . ,... ·- r: ."' --- .. 080-3 Omaha - August 18~ 1934 0 Mr. G. B. Pryde : Yours 15th r egardin g visit of N~o William Reid of t he Fife Coal Company, Fifeshire, Scotland: I am delighted t o join you in doing everything we can for Mr. Reid, and if' YOL1. iiii ll keep me posted, I ,·,ill t ry to h elp in ever y way possibleo �.., Rock Sprinbs - Augus t 15, l~:Sli llr . Eugene !1cAuliffe: Herer.rith co py of letter from Mr . William Re id, a member of the staff of 'l'h e F i fe Coal Company, li'if eshire, Scotland, and my r.i.nS\7er to Mr . Reid. The Fife Coal Company is a l arge operating comp any in Fife shire, not far from my h ome . Whi le I do not kno,1 lir. Reid personally, I h ave knov.n his rela.ti ves for quite a number of year s, as they h ave been prominent in the coal affairs of Fifeshire. Mr . Car lo w, the 11anaging Director, 'is, I think, a cousin of Mr. Re i ds. They are a very progressive company, and have aone a ~reat deal of ,.,ork in mechani zation , c:i. nd I thi nk llr . Reid will enjoy his vi s it to the United States. I have taken the liberty o f suggesting to llr. Reicl ,.,th.a t you would be g lad to a rrange to have him visit some of ✓ the larger mines in the United Sta tes if he should desire tc1 do 60 • It woulci be a very f ine thing if be could oome out here when we have our Safety meetin g aua dinner for the employee of the Superior 11 B 11 Mine. I shall keep in touch with him and kee.v you advised ELS to hi B plans. �~ r. •;:illic:.n 'Z' eid. c/o Penns.tlVbDli.c lio~e:.. Uev1 York Cit.1. :; .~ . . ,ei' eren ce i o m2"tle to yoill:'o of •·•U..l:,;US t 1st. :i h!::.ve c 21·1· i cd on a very interenting corres .t1ondence \'; ith ~:.' . c~rlon i'o1· GO!!!(; ti 1:1e. I du.l l be c;l~Lc.i to r.ave you vi ui t ou:..· y1•ope:rtieo ti. t any ti~e convenient to you. !lr. I. G. E. Leek, the \·J irmer of the .r..!avor & Cou.lmn ?ravelin.:_, Dtutlentahip, Glo.s~ou, Sco"tlr:md, ~.-i ll 1n~obably oe here early in nep tember. I ao not l<nori yet the exact an. tc of his visit. but if you coulci c ome at t ·. c.t ti De . i t ~:ou ld Pl"Obaoly be in terc s tint, for both 9f ~•. ou: ~:ley ttv.ber voul<l probably cie the bes·t t i me fol' you to come, ~eCQU£ e the ~euth~r out here i ~ bette~ then. LaJer in the yenr, the ~euther is quite di o~Breeable, 2nti it ✓ i .3' o ore tiii'fioult to t:,Ct a::-ound. \7e ht.Ve properties at 1'ocl, .Sptincs, Reliance , .:inton @nd ~3u.:,,e rior. in i:2e Rock 13print,;s _, field, anc.. at Hinno, a.oout 150 miles e8st of ricc1r Sv ringe. You mii)lt d eei re, cJ.ao , to go to some of t he Utrui aincs, u 6 they have c;ome very 1&2.·ae o inc 0 tllexe . {.'bi le they do not [.~proximate your conditions, you may be interes ted in seeine£ the ~7ork there in the thick ~ea.ms . If you n ould like to c one out here soon a fte1· your aniv~l in the United State s , thn t noulti be entirely e:stiafnctory, £00..J in the event tlw.t you desire t o do so, Ur . Eugene :.5:oAuli i'fe, our I'red~ent, J:'l.as a lr:.rge acquaintanceship -r.itb coal men in the United Stutes, and I Mn sure h e n ill bu glao to :::mk!:: arrl:Jne,ements for you to visit some of the l u rgor mines in Illinoi s vna. Pennaylvanio., arid in any ot' tl:..e other sta tee thi. t you o esire to vi sit. • If you have not arranged for railroad tr.meL-'Ortation in thi e country, probably the best a ethod for you to travel would be via !Jew York Central to Chical)>, Chicai;o l: liorthwef!tem to Omahu and Union Pacific from OmDha to Boo.k S.[,rinea. It woula Ji)robably be \iell for you to purchase a �2 re tum ticket, c.-no then , if you d0 s i 1e to nmke s i de trips, as you no coubt n ill, off the r.1.iiin line, you coulu pu:r chase tri p ticket s . I \'.'OU.l tl out,ee s t that you ge t in touch with t.: r. H. A. La't'1reuce > Ceneral 1-\gen t . 'oni on Pacif ic Ha ilro&d Cocvmy, Room 4G 2, c-. t G21 P.if th /,venue, new York Ci 'to'· I know he would be £:;lat! to t...eGi s t you in your tr:::nsportation pro oler.1G. I :::hQ ll be g l ad to have you stay jus t a s lo ng as you desire, anu ,1e n ill t.l ve you every facili -cy to make e:x~minC4tions of our yro :9erties. 'l'he1·e n.:re a grea t many Scotti sh peopl e i n Eock Bprint:;,s, a na I mu sure you \'iill feel at home h ere ana enjoy y oui· vis it. "v'iih ki nd personal reg-c1:i:."'ds, I am Very s ince1·e l y you:rs, . i ·. , �../c u.ss OF SERVICE DESIREik DOMESTIC '\~ CRAM CA0L.S FULL RATE DAY LETTER DEFERRED HIGHT UESSACE HIGHT LETTER HIGHT LmER WEEK END LmER J Potrons abould check cl:mof t<rric:c, dc:med; otbcnrioo 1111e11S>110 will be tmmmJtt«J GS ll fall•l'Oto commanleaticm. <C@W'V ©>lf WJE~,r~~~ rnJNll@~ ,r~ILi~@~AlMC . Pock Springs - Aug . 13, 1-:)34 \'lill iam Reid Pif e Co al Co . Coudenbeo.th , Scotlond DEJ;.IGHTED HAVE YOU VISI':i' 0UR PROPER'I'Ili:S l\ll \"/liI~'IMG YOU 1'ULLY TODAY CARE PIDmSYLVAl'IIA HO'l'EL N:E.'\'/YORK Geo r ge .Pryde �ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ACCRESSEO TO THE COMPANY. ~•-oO,,.CE LE: VEN, FIFE. TtcLECRhMS "CARLOW, PHONE, LEVEN '.' "F1Fcoi:: COWOENBEATH. fi:LttPHO .. E H•~ 161 & 162 No. 7 Office, L f! Vli:N If.'! 18110 185 Cowoi:N1n:ATH YOUR REF . OuR REF George B. Pryde, Esq., Vice- President&. General Manager , Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, '!'! Y O M 1 .N G. Dear Sir, My r.tanagine; Director , J,lr. Carlow, ilas suggest ed that I 1night write to you to ask if' you vrould be good enough to let me visit your works some time during my visit to the .States . You may lmo\"1 my father, t.:harles C. Reid, who for many years stayed at Leven and is a cousin of Mr. L:arlow. I vrill be very much obliged indeed • if you could possibly see your way to let me spend a day or two to study your organisation as well as your mechanisation. I am at present in charge of The ~ife Uoal Company ' s Cowdenbeath and Valleyfield group of collieries, an area v,hich you may lmow has many difficulties. I have been given leave of absence for 3 months tour in the States , and sail on the 22nd of August , and will stay in the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York, for a day or two when I arrive about the 30th August. If you could write me there I could get in touch with you and arrange specific dates for such a visit. If you are on holiday at the time of receipt of this letter I will write you myself when I arri ve on the other side. Yours faithfully, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Concerning Visit of William Reid and K.H. McNeill Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1934-1935 Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence, 1934, 1935 Description An account of the resource Documents and letters documenting the correspondence of William and K.H.'s visit to the mines. There are copies of the mine maps within the PDF. Documents are held together by brass pins. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George B. Pryde, James Johnstone, I. N. Bayless, R.I. Robertson, Eugene McAuliffe Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0284 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/b55ec357f005c1828e310d7091d7c6dc.jpg ed36acf67661cf10ca9b80a4e5b4979c https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/a0ed3f0a14e417dd3aa78510cc9f2926.pdf d335ecc1d2abac5648c7148344025ac9 PDF Text Text GC?i.~....J:j."'Ji.:t.'.J.l,ti..: :--~~ .~:1.0?J~~J _;. .,;-~ -~:; ~.J ~~ • (;J..:i.1, I.,1.: ~ .'! T;" :,:_~ c:. ---'--J.i ;·:_.L ,.... cu::.:.; :~\._,; .: J LJ ; ~.. -~ " f·•!,1 ~ '- - - ,, ' \ ,t,:; �., J o tl1\o~l o:~~ • i t't • Cil- ~·c. t :.-. i't.". n t C.,lil ~!.'f-s ~- D 1nrC!lIV"t : l'\'.>!' 'i" He n • <"1 • �LJr, £ur;euo l'c/,uliffe: Our File l~o. 21 on c::chonc;o of ! t.ndo betucon 'l'hc Union Pacific Co:.1 Oor.pcr..y 1..r.d tha Contr.:il Cotl C.. Co!:c Co,:i:n,r, ln3-1915, r eferred i;o :.u your letter of Fcbru:.-ry H ·~h, ueb r<.c<..ivco this morning. ,.. -,~1 ~Ir.I' ,, uE01,SE 8, PR'.'i' �Qnaha, February 13, 1931 0 tir. G. B. Pryde : Herewith your fi l e No. 21 on exchange of land s between The Union Pacific Coal Company and the Central Coal & Coke Company, 1913-1915, received sanetime ago by meo Kindly acknowledge receipt. ___... / "" ~fo_,u_e_g~ �Omaha, January 30, 1931. Mr . George B. Pryde: Reference is made to my message of January 27th at Sharon Springs, Kansas, regarding warranty deed from Central coal & Coke Company to The Union Pacific Coal Co~pany, and pa rtial release of mortgage. These documents were mailed to the County Clerk at Green River for record, January 21st. On January 27th I noticed in the Denver Post that the Central Coal & Colee Company 11as in the hands of Receivers, and I thought it advisable to have these papers filed for record at once. Some County Clerks ~ill not file the papers until I remit the fees, and not being sure that these papers had been fi l ed, I thought best to cal l to your attention. The papers have been returned to me and I note they were filed for record on Je.nuary 24th . Thanking you for your trouble. Y.M. SHI (I ~//YI. CC - Mr. Eugene McAuliffe �I enclooe he:ror1i th the io:!J.01-1in~ t r'!.'l'C:'.nty ';or1p~n~1 Deed fX't1:J1 <}ent:rn.l Co2l anc.I Cok e to ?h 0 Union r>ncific Cool 'Jr.1cc"';lb0r c.. \.1_, 1'330., 101:")C!'!Y :i anted 0onveyin3 n.11 of Geetion 19 » rmd tl!o cot hGlf o:? ':lcction no~h o.11 in Tormohip ;JO iJor.-th, Uu.11se -~.0tl. eat, "!~ th 1'2aolu:,1on o~ noo.l',J of Directo:ro of ~cnt~al vo:~ nn~ Coke Co~n~ny nttcchej . P~ !'ti.al '!'elc~s=- Jf rno:rt::_ogo fro=i 'Firot Union '~"x•ast en .! 8twin3G Er:~n..l't:i r.a 'i;ruo toc, .to Cent:rt'l.1 Oot!1 2nJ Co!~G L0:7lr':._ ~Y., Jt>tcd Jenuu!'y 8 ., 193ll) xcleasin_:; the l a,.1 de:1cr!botl in nbovc c.entioncd deed f::o!'.l fo:rce nnd offcot o:Z ::.'!:rst ~,ol~t~age det>d of tru!'lt, and attc.ched t he:i:'eto ~xtz-. c ✓.:; fro!ll )y- Lc·:·s of First Union Trust and £cvin:;o nrmk. :rno above docu~ent0 11ere oont to oo vith t:r . .JcAuliffe' G letter of ,Jr-nuo.ry 17th oi th requeot ·thc.t x ~r:rru.~c to lluve them recorded end then fort'?a!'J to you for :filu . 1t1e deed t!ld rcl enoe nere filed for rocortl i n f:..,eet .ater C!)unty ,Jnnuer.1 24., 1931 . �a %! LE _ ....._.__, X e.lso cnc1ooe abotr.acto of ti tlo 4! i;1i th copy rny l e'c;·i;ex t;o Ui'. toomin, eopy o f Judgf'l t.c cey • G l0t·Gc1· to r~ r tiooDis enc: copy of :~1· . l1oomis 1 let;tor· to me . Fo:r you:r infor~mtion I o.l oo give you copy of oy 1et:ter of nece.nber 2e, 1 930 t o ·11~ . i{ci th a nd copy of hie letter to me of date December Bnth. QC - r.!Tc "':ugcne ci\u1.i~i'e Ur. Ci~o1\.5s E . r .!.:;y-1c �- a_ - .. l ( COPY ) CIWTRl~L •COAY.. e! corm COUP Am{ ,,. Kei th ~ ..1-.mt J. ~. Shively, ~s q . n L~md Oomd . r:io:ton01' 0 Tho Unit)Yl Paoif:i.o Coal Oornoany 0 14:lG Docic;o B'Gl'00t I> Owallo. 0 1Je'bx-o.ska. • :J6-jjh 0 in regaz>tl to the ~:m~ch~o0 by The union ?o.ci:?:i.c Cm1 Ro· Y) <--~JI 'lf'IV v .01_ o·.171. ,e)9 ......... 1," """. vu ❖ v vH 1 - 9 • ) V>('l """ ~ ,. ~he • ,·c, ,.,,. \ o·'~=' ('•,,c·"· '"0 ... ,.,e,c<l-=~-t-e-;, IJ •-' v. .:• , . .J l>1 on • ...,, ~ , ,., 1, ,;ca,IJ ~-· pz-!co u:nd tl0li Vei'y of th8 tlt;;Cd. 8. l\D ·c:hi o Cor.::1po.ny :le deni:rouo '~h:1.t t h i s tranoaction bo ouch ~u.y~0nii z,:::c 0.:. v ing th0 rel cm.Ge frorn tho rnor·~3:2f,'e ,':.W3 t ,10 Gcci f l?~Ll th:i. Cl Ooupn..Tly. ( >.. ) To thi G end: ~the Co:...1pany has o:-:0cutmi t he 01'i'.'"':1nrr1 o-2 ·i:iho deetl 0nclooed in your letter of necc::1b0l' 2G ni thout c!:2nge 11 tho deed be1nG dated Deoembe::r 20 , l •30, u.."'ld e::ecutod : nd :::.ckno·:1l cde;0d a.s follo\7B : �( COPY) "711 r::c•.rngss 1:.TISR80F:, -~h0 Cl'UJ\t cn.· , Cl~!!TRA1 COAF.s MJD corm OOLiP.i\.UYO hu th on.u oed t h0oe p:r000n"GG t o bo s0al.0d oi ~h :i:to corpor:1t 0 ocuJ. 9 und. t o b e oigrl'led b y i 'GEi xzx::rni§. prG□iden'[:; al1d 2:t·Gosted by i tc necrote.l'Y, th:'!. □ 29th clay o f t10001:ibe!' 0 Ao Do 19.llib,_ - J o t:,., Fl1 ao1~ . en ·~!1io 89t h J2.y of . . . I'eo 8i".1b0s O 1930!) before oo :_nuc~::>cd "cha.a . f-' 4 i'ei-'vl:: ·i,;o n o peroon.a.lly !mo·.'fl, \;h o n boin3- by 1J0 d~ly CJ\7o ? n, diu ony th:1·~ ho iG the ~ =r:~2mz I?:?ooidon t oi C-~~~:.1 "ti\t COAL .\iE) 00:i'~ CO~.TA!!Y unrt ·i;hn.t the 00ul u.i 'fi::::ecl 1.io nc.i d inc·;;rw.:ent i n the corpo1•a.i c eeu.J. of o&id cor)o:?o.·~ion CJh.1 t11a.t u...:i <.l :ln0t:ru.ucnt D'1s oi c~ned nntl ::iu:uetl in bchulZ of CJ.J.hl. :!ol,,.:;O::''..ltion b y authorit y of i to P.02.rd of Di:?eoto!'G p n:l c:..dc1 _n•1 ,n ,. A., Keith uok~o·:;1 cdged Go.i d inntru::1ont to be th.0 :'.;' TOO \C "( .:.n,1 d o0d o:? □ aid CO;?!)O?a.t ion. cTanuary "t'.,,, 1g 32 . R~r~iett ~- '~Oui n . :··otn.:iy -::ub! lc . -:;c o.1 . ,·. �~ SP t (COPY) un.2.011 T1~usi and f1avin[SG DUnk, 33 South Cl2.rl~ $ 1G!>0<:}tp Chicago:, :U.linoi !3 0 "i;he TruErt0e ·:.hich io nut hnri :rnd to exf:icute re10as0□ und0c ouT fi:roi uo x-tgage . ( b) ·.\'0 have p:repu.l'Gd an.cl fo:rr1a:i.~a.0d to the T:r~uG-tes n th.0 o::>ic;ir..~1 u0eti h;aroin ~'ci?0:r~0d to, encl the o ~~i Q.1.n:11 :;.~0lot:lc0 duly mmcu·{;cd bJ ✓,.;ho i':,u9~0e O upon recei pt t>l' ·i;he pt.t'Z'ob:'.G O p:.?:!.00 o tb0 rm.:.'clmoo p~ice oi tblo p :~.:,peA'ty, to- ·~1it 0 r;:nz, D51 . 33, in ez- chenco for Gniu oTi ginnl docc und oaid original ~elcaco? ( Ggd ) Ch::w. ,., • ~mi "Gh l) :,r.eoidon"G. �/ (COPY) Dec01Jb0:.: ae ll 1930 G. I(c3'.Vlih ~ P:\:'c~:::i d m1tu Contx>nl Coo.1 & Cok0 Cornpany D RGi ·~11 11· 3.?or.:ry Bul lu i n b D l{U.nGa8 Ci ·t y , ~ i 0 BO'Ul'i • !.!Z'o Ch :.~Cl o P.wi:?ic Cou.1 a ~:u p:iny \7il1 bo rg:lv0n full a.nd compl et e pooocsoi on on po.~rr.icn.,." o-:? t h e puTcbo..O0 p z-ice and d eliv c!'y o:? the c1e m1o I GUb:Ji·~t0d the fo 1'm of i70.2 i:c.nty Q.GCd :, nhich deed und partial ~eleaao of oortcage a~o r eady ~o:: c1 0livecy 0 .dndlY advi oe . Ence. CC_ ur. EUgene UcAuliffe. Veey "G::uly Y OUl'S p Original Signed J.M. SHIVELY �( COPY) ' iYOLlinr:: 11 nhich i s boin~ p12rchri.s0c1 by The Un:i.on r- •cif:lc Con.1 COD!)UY.!.Y x'roa t h o Con t:?21 Coo.1 i: Coko C~::ipo.ny g_ �t (COPY) Cheyenne, \1yoo Deoo 5th ., 1930 Mr. N.H. Loomis, Genercl Solici ·.,;o:i:, 01:icllap I1ebraslca. Deur Sir: HererJi "lih the :files and the nbs·li:ra c"iis for Seo . 19 and ·i;he ;·/est-half oi Section 20 0 l1ot7!lsh i p 20 iio::r·Gllp Range 104 TTc st, SUeetna ter County 11 WyoL'ling ~ 1hich you oent us ,1:1 -th youz-s of Deoe.nb~r 4,Gh. On -~he fact s as s!l.orm in these abstrac·i;s the t 1'.;le 'i;o the l ando in question ig in the Centz-al Coal antl Ooke Om:.ipany, -;-1i ·~h ~ easc:ient -Zo'i: ·the construction and □e.int enanoe of a -~rc.nsmisoion line no!'osn Sec·t:ton 19 in favo:r of the Union Paoific ·,coal Co:....-pt:...riy gl'an·~cd June 28 ~ 1918 P and fi l ed June 19, 1919, I1-lhd also subject 1.:;o .::. uo rtgage given by the Central Coal and Ool~_e· Oor:.:pc...'"'ly to -the r.'i~st irust and Savings Bank, the :!!ohigan f:rust Ooapany, • Fidelity national Bn.nk ancl Trust Oompa.ny, 1and L!c~v in A. Traylor, Trut:rtees, to secure seven @illion tloll~rs df conds. You t;ill note that no have had ·i;he 00r~Gifica·teo of th1 Cl et>)! ~~ tho Uni·i'ied States District Cou-rt here c.ttuched Gho-;-rir ,I ' -~h ere a.re ~o jud~ents, l :lenn, e tc . D.t tha t off i ce. Yours ve~y t ruly, ( Asd) John ·1. Lacey I �Omaha., Deoernber 2 , 1930. Mr. N. H. Loomis: I encl ose copy of Ur Reith 9 s let ter of 1·1ovember 26th . with abstracts of t itl e , and copy of pro= po sed war ran t y deed to ~hioh he refe r s. In the deed refer ence i s made to a n ease- ment da t ed July l g 1 922 , ·,1hich i s no t 3horm on abst r a c t of titl e. I think you •-~•ill f ind t he Certifica t e of Ac!mo:vl ed~- ment i s not i n form a.a prov ided by ·i;he Wyom i ng Statute . Th e r e s houl d be a t tached to t h e ac3tract s Certi fic ates of t he Cl e r k of the Uni t ed Sta t es Di s trict Court fo r t he Distri c t of ~.yoming~ a s t o judgment s and suite pendi ng . If the abstracts a r e to be exs mi ned by !fl r . Lacey , I am sur a he ~ill be gl a d to secure the cert ificates . If not, and you ·rill so advise I -::i ll s ecure Certi f icates of the Ol erk of the United Stat es District Court. ! f t he Title Exami ner should deem i t neces sary to make fu r ther s ea rch of the county r ecor ds I ~111 be gl ed to huve thi s 1one. The abstracts show no leases of any ki n~ covering the l ands in question. Mr Pryde may b e abl e t o advise as t o whether the lands, or any portion of the s ame are oooupied. If there are any oooupants we should be ad- vised as to whether there are any leases in f orce , or �a 111111.r . ,ghts ola1med by suoh occupant s. r.11 th the return of all enclosures, r.rill you kindly give me your opinion in duplicate. J. r! . SHIVF:LY CC - Mr. Eugene ~oAuliffe .. �c.s. Form 2191 - SYMBOL .Jtf M X 7- 2 8 · 5 0 0 0 M Px CLASS OF SERVICE REQUIRED Preferred Immediate delivery Indicate by X i n proper line the class of service required. Dx Day Delivery during day Nx Ni ght Delivery by next morning Do not s pecify p~eferr~d service if other service wil l answer the purpose. - Rock Spr:i..nc;o - Junuu17 27, 1 931 J. L Shi'1cly Ori..'\lm l"OCO!'tlod nnd l'!ot;ifico.:~ i Ol'l O C!ri; t o YOlll' oi'£ico i ll 0:-:::ilin . n-97 . �r Form2191 UNIO N . PACIFIC SYSTEM '"" SYMBOL AM Px CLASS OF SERVICE REQUIRED Preferred Immediate delivery Dx Day Nx Night - M ~ MS K Rush X . Delivery during day Delivery by next morning I ndicate by X ih. the class of service r'" Do not specify prefe, service if other s ervice Wh,. answer the purpose. Sha~on Springs 1201 PM J an 27p 193l 0 GBP Rocksprings cra~~anty deed to coal Company and r el ea se of mort gage ma iled count y olerk G~eenriver -last week f or record Please ar re.nge t o have f iled at once o S=-l JM Shively 107 PM / . I I F I �_. :::rn= - ... ' •. , t .' t ,, ..t ... I I C 1 ., , , :: :c v··· tl c ..l �- C .. ,- ,4--. I . I <f.1., ,..,. • 11:t.~-- i/Jqir.~/f 0 ") I ~ I I • I' ,t JtlN 1 } Omaha - January 10, 1931 o " i.,T• G• B. Prydeg Referring to the purchaoe of land by the Union Pacific Coal Company from the Central Coal and Coke Company: This transaction r.as completed in Chicago, Thursday, January 8th, by the delivery by Hr. J. A. 13enne,7itz , General Attorney, of the voucher for $213,951033, to the First Union Trust end Savings :Bank at Chica.got> Mr. Bennet.ltz receiving from them the Deed and ·,m I.:.. 'na, '' I �,, -- - �,M ' M Form 2191 SYMBOL PX Ox Nx X c.s. 7•28 ·5000 H CLASS OF SERVICE REQUIRED Preferred Immediate delivery Day Delivery during day Niaht Dell very by next mor_ning Indicate by X in proper line the class of service requ i red. Do not specify p~eferr~d service if other service wrll answer the purpose. ,.. 9 • 0 �form2191 . . c.s. UN ION PACIFIC SYSTEM - SYMBOL ,AM M - X B 30 SOOOM CLASS OF SERVICE REQUIRED PX Preferred Immediate delivery Dx Nx Day Delivery during day Night Delivery by next morning JR rX X Omaha 3~8PM 29 Indicate by X in proper line the class of service required. Do not specify preferred service if other service w ill answer the pu_rpose. Dupl ic~·,te GBP B~ck Springs v.-ire me not later than 10 ar:1 tomer:a:-o.-, p 1·ice per acre o.nd c.creage any rui~eral land aalee vicinity Rock Sprineo ma de recent years approximate price aok~d for reliance tract by central company have in mind purohaee f rom Mr Hay and :::,entral company pur chase trom !iege:ith M-63 ~gene McAuliff~ 432PM r.::: �-. .s. . . V ..., ., ... . 'I' ' . . l ,~.: s \ i ~ • I 0 ' I ii I ..... "f p;/ I • OrlgloeJ s411111 GEORGE B, PRYDE I l �c.s. Form2191 PX Dx CLASS OF SERVICE REQUIRED Preferred Immediate delivery Indicate by X in proper line the class of service required. Day Delivery during day Nx Night Delivery by next morning Do not specify p~eferr~d service if other service w ill answer the pur pose. .;YMBOL _ M X 7-2 8 ·5000 H ~·,1·; y ,.,.. -..,_. , ~ ..• ,...,_ ...c 1.:: • ,, - ~r I -~~n-• ,, 0 0 0 t'.:.,:; o �Form 2191 UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM ~M _ ,...., ~-- SYMBOL Px XI X Dx ~J \ Nx ' M I\ c.s. S·30 •5000M CLASS OF SE~VICE REQUIRED Preferred Immediate delivery Indicate by X in proper I ine the class of service required. Day Delivery during day Night Delivery by next morning Do not specify preferred service if other service will answer the purpose. omaha 1037 AM ,.,ct 28 ,.1930 JP Rookaprin~s Rs ,..,xchangi; coal l end with central ,.cr11pn.ny wi re me fcllo1.fing informatiiOn A- ~1vise how price S 18,930 ~as fixed for aale sec tiop 18 by railtoad to coal compa ny . B- p-: r,,· is ~'-179.nn ,'3 estimate tonnc1.ge ,..entral ftomp£1.n y lands 11,780,000 tons Jlvided between section 19 and weet half oection 20 . ,,_ It=• nleys estimate& 9,6 30,000 t ons in se~tion 30, advise wha:~ apprcJci ma te J tonnage has b~an re9overed frcm section 10 ~ith approximate ramaining ~~serve aeo tion 30. �Rock Springs - April 16 , 1930 1.:r. George B. Pr:irde: Vlith the return cf r.~r. J. A. Sa r g ent 's letter of April 1st, 1930 to Er. t!.cAuliffe relative to estimat ed workable co al en section 19 and YI-} Sec. 20 - T. 20 N. - ~. 104 1:,., ovmed by the Centrnl Coal nnd Coke e'ompany, \'.'ish to say I have r.1ade a ca reful e r.alysis of ray previous estimat e of recoverqble co e l on t hi s l and , and heve used a diff e rent a.et of eng i neer • s t hE:r. l111 the crir..ine.l (1) est:i.11--tt' r•1:d Co ('.l m:c' ei : :.. \·e feF t hes been as~rnmed f . S econor:ic~lly un,.c. r \ - 'l.ble, rt tr.e pres er;t tin,e in t hi s field. ~.:c. 5 SEA'' No. 5 Se arr: h r- s bot proved worka ble over r->.ny cor1si den: ble a rea in this field due to irregulnri t y in cleanness of se.?ri find t},e slaty nature of the coal and '.'las not taken into consideration in our first estirude. It is barel~• possible tha t abcut 100 acres of No. 5 Se am t:ieht be Y1ork o.ble; having an average thickness of 7 fe <:t and wr.ich t:ould e~ual 700,000 tons. NO. '!'~o. ~ SEAfC 3 See.m outcrop badl y burned across Sec. 19 i ndic~tir.{; a cc.nsidere.ble El?'ea e.djacent to the outcrop to be ur.worka.ble. �- 2 - .·:::.bl c o 1!l. •11f :r::.~:. ..o.!.c . , , ·, o .r.:..-::t see. i o.. in_, ·:o . 5 in- -·-·___• ..,,.. 11 , ~.-.-'t • •W .,,.. * ., • • • �- 3 nalia.n.;'3 i·:o • 4 :,li.11c on thi::l se!:J.jll and d:..amond d r ill I'Io . 11 ;rt, ·l;he line of section J.9 int'.ic:-..te a co11si ,'.er::;.0lL ·u·ett of ·ou1•11;;1l ctml in s;:;;,: .. 19 ·~ 8.i~ f""" . ...) ••1 ~ •~C • 20 0 Diamond nr.i. L!. ·1Jl v.3 -_;1di c::.t a .1 -;er~' ::;:r.nll •:,orkable ..:r:;~ ill the s::i:!, Sec. 19 . Di:l!:lo21d dr ill ho :!.zs i nC:ic.:.;0 t .. y .Jee • Ce.rtr~.l l Com_:,2.u ~• , �2u, '!'. 20 H., a. 104. of -i;_i o 6 ,- , i.1. u.ppeo.1· t o bo due A cons::.cJ.er:...blc ).trt of '&:10 cif rcrence --v •• ••.•.. ,J • • o• est i;..z.:t e o.iJov e -~he a.1ouut s sho·,.n in �- 5- Ko. 5 J c::1.;:i 100 :tc:: ....s .... 7' 700, ouo t ons Ho . 3 So~,1 ( Ori..,lna.l ;::s·;;11...tcu ) llo . 1 tieo.iJ ( C1•i.., ina~ c .:;·~1. •- ~i.. ) I:o • 7'· Seu.in 500, ooc II i:o. 7 sE":a.:.l 360, 000 II 2w, ooo II ~ 1:0 . Po~:::;ibl ..... i:i~r ~:..t!>-3 o:." t o j!·~~wc tJ Y0!... :·i .... .; ; t"' ~i'~- ·~c II �ORi{~l~'1'L ON Ff LE 1;o, _ I - .I I S' t-f: THE UNION PACIFIC COAL CO!lPANY ,~ tement showing tons mined and roya lty receiv ed from lessee ~ of l a nds ormed in Colorado and Wyoming 9 during; the years 1 920 to 1929 0 both inclusive o ·- COLORADO . 1rona RO~i'O..l ty ~ \VYOlII WG ':..'o ns TOTAL Roya.L ty Tons Royal 1'.i}" 9 0 i?6 0~8 33492360 10 $ 36~612"23 427 ; 5l 3cl0 tJ ~6 9 089 021 57 11 827095 6 11 694 o9l 230\)228 005 32 0 '!~:,5., Gl Z88 0 056o 00 39 ¾ i.]:41 0 52 19273 739229 ., 69 l0~ 30~o62 26?11212088 350622 045 34: 0 9 ~~2 0 57 ~51'9Z-2,,07 1S23 553~22o3/b 800600 891 305 ,106029 '11 0 025016 360 9 528 l• 63 4:91086.., 0:- 192':: 108v'700 o07 1693?1 ., 51 228g257o 73 35al~?v53 33 6119571180 51 ~ 50<; oOt 1925 l E0 0 l22.,28 1 7~295 .. 00 207 0 175061 329129.,68 327, 2~ 7 oS9 4:9 9 Ll..:~~ r, ( 8 1926 11Su952o63 17 . ~32~53 30 l l O39 , 8 ': 4t::,199 o5l 42O,t92,5O 6l 9 532o 0t 1927 171 0 S58vl 3 f.5 ,674 v~6 ~c_,~22~~27 57 p5l 6.,0 0 5CA: 0 18 2 c~0 83olSOo96 1 928 459 , G'!6 011-=~ 69,12€-t~( 2::-s:;::65 .Go 32 , 3420 74 6'?9? 012002 1010469 072 H 129 52S~480u75 78 0 4:2015 l "B cs.-45078 22 1128 .,56 704,£26 c53 100 9 620 ., ·n-- 1920 9;::}):~77 o00 1921 Tota l l ll 781) Gl7 o26 0 0259,635.,53 2(1683,292018 ~}369 11 460 o4? 4!>469pt09o44 &e:., 'J:on 14o4Sd Per Ton 13077¢ Per Ton - <-':! ~)628 2<2 6 000 Q l~o06$:' .- Auditor•o Off icei Rock Spxi n:s , \'/yot1i nG o J;o:-i l 5, 19300 ----- �Rei'oX'rin.; to your l ot. icr o of Octobm· 4t h nnd Ocvou cr 22nd , \,'.i:th 1·c:;ard to noqu:i.ri ns ounoroh:i.p, c~.t hcr by purchu..uo o,· oxcllc.n,::o , Gf cof'.1 Hr . Sr;nnn ha.a t,or kcd up all tho datn on t hi::. :iml l hnve r, O110 ovor t :;G propooition tri'Gh hin. It n9p ca1·0 t o t G that nn e;tehouGe of coal l untl ol,uft, ,1, J,)O i;o 5, l .)u ·;,cm!: clt.:lr copucity, enc c;c.ke u very dooi !·nbl o c:.ij11·.!cni p ouor or:d \';ntor linoo ot n rcuaonnbl o coat . 3. C:>~1 - CC:?!'.33 0 :1 ~!w lc,.nd 09pcar t o ue l co e linblo t o bo 0pl i t a nl di~-ty m:d t'ic pitch of oonl oeano ,u,lll not bo so oxco~~i v<? nn -~lloeo on ~-co.. i c.m 3 .. 28 - 105. 4. '.t:lo curfo.co mil:oo n dcoi r ublo location for a l urco co1mci ty r1in.i.::1s ,mi -ii. "O"' \.! ,~ 0 .1.l' C O:Jl Con b C Cl i i1Ct& •1 t 0 ·11110 ' l i"OJ.0 • 0. cnl u i ni n;; on l>oth oidos of ohcft. 1. Cont rally lo::a.tetl t'l.:.1:~n..; pk.11t . n1er o uoulcl bo no iI"'r:icdint. o ret urn fro□ -~ho nc,.ul rocl l c.1.d c.r1 ::.-:. p:rububly will not he neoacenry to opon thia trl.i1ing unit for oovc:-- 1 ye. 1·0 on �,· of cl oaninr; up praaont oporo·t;it13 1".linoo. " of chonoo to open n oooll capo.oiiy oinii18 unit on Sociion 3 ... 1 8- i JS at c. very klOmnol initinl. i nv00tmont on aocoui'li of or.mll ti"aolcnge i'Oquircd and t:nter and houo! ncr focilitico, xanltinu it unnocooonry to pl."ovido a. oinin:; tonn ao thio l nnti io clooo to ·~ho t.o,1i1 of Rool~ Sprin:.. o. 3. Cool o:n thio l and no1i; f:l.rD t r.;t•ado co:!l <luo t o r:oi.o·i:.ui~o ool'ltent but thi o ;;cml ic n t;oot.l quality ot c:in oonl, probably oqu3l to tho Relinnoe conl. Tho folloc:rlnJ advan{.1?.._::;00 \7ould accrue :.o tr.o Co:1tral Conl C'Hd Gol,c C..,,.::>ar,y by oxchauging l1md r:i"th .'.~:o Union t-'cci.i'ic ~op.J. Co::,1pnn~r: lo Cont:rai Coal oncl Coke ,·~onp r,,iy \JOUl.cl UC(!uil·c ?. ..;ood gratlo 0£ coni701"cinl COC'J. NJ ..,l:e cc:.1 cor.:i.. uoui., t u ti.a tv\'.'1'. of ~ock J_pl'~i _;:; i~ :;, :Juch 1,cn•o clca::.1•ublc t~e,:,:i. ;:c;;_ : -..!'CL tl1:, thr.u t!:<.1 coal nol't~, of i1ock Spri:1,c o. 2. Ooc:;ion 3 .:.:~:j J~.,:: .,;~:i~r-cw. Co~]. 1111J. Go'.!G Vur.ipt..r:,•o vrocc,nt o!,or utin~ n:tno:J . 3. Cool u0at vf ::~.:.-..:·~~: .. or Gn.1y o::-, .'..i.u.:U o!Joui<l Lo \';Or koll iro:-:1 £!. no., 0~1~:f·~ Ooru. nnd l'!olrn ~o:;~pnny it t 10\·, ;:i.na ~'.lCrc l.ll'a,,ch live ar l +,nil trm:~ f.oi· ~lpjll<? '1,'!'(!Cl.o m.•o :-!Oi! pr..:;.:..<led by tho Gnoot_-:ptoc 3rs:uch, l c.:.-;"ir.·: o:1ly uino yni-tl t1·0.cl:n ~o \.iO co1,:.1t:.·14c·;,cd . t.. if -..1.c 0011~.. r ul Co'l l i.ud Co}m ~;o,;ipnny ol:oul tl dco.ira -;,o open E.. 1:iino on t hci;:px..op orty norlill t.li' li.0lio.nce, it, nould ,•oquiro nbou~ ·~h1"co "ililc!l of ural'lch li~,e -'.:.r:1cl: "'?,.: r1.inc ~::..-.ple trnc!w, oucl n ohc.ft thei"c uoulrl ho tloo,or tt•Pr. tho :.,1mx't on ,:co·;;ion 3. 'ihoro would bo no expent;c for u. ;·:111.c;• uy:J vO::J p houoin.., n,1ti o..,hcr ,cail iti oo no thi:J locat ion is clot; (' to i.!l·.~1. ,or..: .,hoy ·.,o opou on 5ecU01.1 19 oml \71} Soct i o,, 20, it \/Oul u h<:J !,c:acooncy t o !)1·<Nido tl~c~c !aeiliti oo E.~ u. oot1oidot"abl o invoot□,mt. ro 0pc:-a-'..c a □ino of nbo..ri: l ~JOJ tono en1n1rJi ty <111 :Jooti on 19 or ~-:r of fl0c'tio 1 20, 'l'o,:r:- ohi p t:.V ::orLl! , ~ n.~c l -J~ .,t.rn·;. , :11ulJ c:.tnil bettor ·1,Lt.'.n t:. h··li' 1:1illion JOllnr i nvoat11on·i , \Jh:l.l o cual on <Joot ion 3 - 10 - 105 on,1 bu optmcd uz, i.ii.h n co:,pnroti vel y m·.a.ll in.it i nl invcotuent . �tioighocl nll 'theuo ovcntualitioo o.o tho Contml Coal c.nd ,4 Coopo.ny \7ill pi•obnbly brfa13 thooo dieadva.nt o:::es to your ~rt'i;ontion •:1hen 1,Jwy tallt to you 1~050.rll:lnu t he ox.change. It soC!Jo ·to u::i thot tho <lioativnnt• ccoo on r.;ccriio11 3 "" 18 ... 105 n.r e aa f ollom1: thiu lt.HKV.. :1-:i;y mttl :l.·1 r;i::i_y be dooil' nbl o i'o_. 'i'ho Hui on !\:,c:li'ic Co:::.1 Goq rn.viy oocH,ion. ., .... SGruno on J cc·GiOl'l 3 ace nUC! l im:linotl to bo Gpl it c,r.d dirty nnd ~ l 'C VOl'Y oxpcmoive ucvclopnod \.or lr nuccaccry t o olitd.. n oocl nor~h of r . i ll Li nc 5. ..'1.11 !JCl!lJ. a uct 'i)o r,inot.l to tho dip. 6 . i':i.:.;0h o'i o cm.::.. vory heovy on \7eot hnlf of Section 3. �!1~o Gca~c;o Bo l?lf'yt\o z l~o t'O{iUOtT~o(l by !~z.· • t~l!.ul~\ ifO tOdCI';l o ! uo L,ti~ ch:lt]a t:cs-oz1M,h t\ GO?}f ef i:·oJalty ·~onnosc 1Jf yom·o i.:.'..nc!l fx-c.:.1 lieoCi oD 3 0 'l\.,po 10 ~,rtll 0 l~nGo 10~ Coo·a fro::i Ccn-~s-t1l t:o::.2 m1:l Gciun G.:>r~un:.1° o ~onoc lJ 5Gluc:.Y £r..:i::1 ~o".lilO 3 ua!!.. 'I , Lion Goal tioq_i:Jn},rt' o Len.no { ~5~ :~F fli'~:::1 ~c~ :::::::i 3 U!l'.3 ), 0 i.!occn:i;h Go:,;J. 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GG I l2o43 r Vol ot~l o Goti~u~tible ::,0. 35 I =:,.J o(!-'J I t;; voUV ... ,. f l2o05 3'/oOG I ,w.ao I t ~ I 3100"..: I I 1"1Z£iu carbon 51005 A8b 3 . 0-'3 I • ~ _ :; g r ,- . . I : .i. sn L1<m.~o_ .. • i 51. aa I J oGG • f 4::.J. 03 Ul.lo~U - - - - - - - - - - -- --· .--•-~ ~ -• =~... 30. ~5 !i2 ofl.5 3. 10 2olu J o'32 ,N~~~ -_J~~~~=~•;-~==:~~ ; ·- - - - - - - "'•• '!•~oO! 1a.eo I 'i . UG - -- - -~f ).og~oo_ ~-~=~(o,QO . 2 1~ m a ,•>. ..n: l';SP ~ , . , , ,. i, ...._ _ _ _ __ :r • I �-j J a . ' . ') ,~ ,u.,,. .... ,L Omaha - October 22, 1929 Mr. G. B. Pryde: Yours October 11th on exchange of coal lands uith Central Company: ilben I left Rock Springs it uas ~ u.nderstand!fbat you uould give me your recommendations regarding tonnage. etc .• these figures to include the lands belonging to the Union Pacific Company nou located near the Central Company's TTorkings uhich ue might be able to exchange ~ith them. �I Chief Engineer Rock Springs, Uyo., October 9thp 1929. Ur. H. 0. l.fann, Chief Engr., Union Pacific System, Omaha, l~ebr. Dear Sir: Hr. l~Auliffe, on his recent visit to Rock Springs, requested me to obtain fro□ you a blue print shom.ng the aliz n- me11t of a proposed railron<l spur, off the South Pass Branch, to the Central Coal and Coke Conpany's property ori Sections 19 and 20, ':i'o\msh ip 20 r~orth , 18.ng e 104 \7est of the 6th P. i! ., S\1eet~;s..ter County, U:,oning . The grade for this line uas constructed about 1910 and a recent inspection shor.s this grade to be in fairly good condition. tie uill also appreciate your furnishing us, as quickly as possible, a rough estioate of the cost of constr~cting the tracks shoun on your blue print. Mr. UcAuliffe stated he only desired en approxil'late cost figure for this t:1ork. Very truly yourc, J I �/: I !., I j , I I .,.,i �1 1,. -7 ff ' . . �Oma.ha - October 4, 1929 ?Sr. G. ». Pryde: At Mr. HcAul1ffe•s raqueet, I Em sending you toda,y by railroad mail the prints received from the 0Gntral Coal & Coke Company ohich Mr. Mc:Auliffe said he uould talk to you about on his uay ueot. Ur. UcAuliffe said he uould like to have Mr. Suann use these prints in making hio a.na.lyois, the printo to bo returned hare m.th your reoommendationo. �"" ' ,.,, . . ,, """' .. ~ ... - ( i3y ~ .c. u-aetl fru 1 in(L·;iciu::.~ on Jul:,, 15, J.901 . �..:..do. I _J !/ cb �~~a°~~~ ~€3@ ~0 lldltiJlifl ©wll ~d ~~#~~ ~IJ?. g@e# ~ela ~fl g~~ ~ ~~ ~(G �Rock Springs - r&arci1 HS, 1925. Mr . G• .ti. l"ryde: letter fii th tJ1e return or ilir. O' Fla1 erty' s/to Ikr. hicAtUirre , refer,~iug to proposed tra de of No. l Vein coal ;Jetween Tl1e Central Coal at1d Coke Company and The Lion Coal Company , 1 am attaching three blue prints si1ov!i11g ill green NO • .l Vein coal \'Illich A;r. Vai~~ de s ires to -trude to The Lion Coal Company for No . l Vein coal shoun in red , lying south of 40 foot fault on Lion Coal vompauy' s Union Pacific Rai lroad Company ' s .lease 175 .544-F. I unders-cund no agreement between Central Coal & Coke Uom?any and Lion Coal Company agreeing to the exchane;e has been made t o date . �CENTRAL COAL 8: COKE Cm.!PANY J, S. O'Fluherty, Chief .Engineer. Keith & Perry Bl dg. Engineeri ng Depto :<a ns us Ci t y, Ho. March 12, 19~5. !;r. Eugene HcAulif fe, Preside nt, Union Pacific Coal Company, 1maha, lJebraska. Deur :.:r . !JcAuliffe: '.':e ha ve be0,. negotia ting wi t h Lion Coal Compan y fo r some additi ona l exch:.inge of coal \1herein they desire t o work some c oal of our company in :fil vein lying north of the bii; fauH in the &~- of St 7} of Section 2 -10- 105. i.J.s o , i t i s pr ob1£ole 1,re cun u ork the ;fl vein from our Vail openin;; on the land l ying south of t h e bi g fa ult in t he S} of SE¾ of Sectiori 3-18-105~ This coa l i s own ed by th e Union Pncific, and t he t'fl vein is leased, I believe, to Lion Co,;.l Cor:ipany. T•rn fuce of Vail openin_; i::; n e,\"J stundi11g in the HE,l- of Sect i on 10- 18- 1 05, and entries could be tur ne d a ]mos t i mm:idi:!tely int o t ,1e f/1 vein froin t he Va il s lo9e. However , -cher a is a p oi!"',t t h....t makes us f earful of a s ki ng for a osi 5--nment of the lease to our co1r1pcmy, ::.nd thu:t is: in t he Vuil opening there is a _~ ~ . ! t hat widens out to t h e sout:1 to •:!here i t almost l!uts out t he coa l.. -Itoneve r , to the north it shortly disappea rs leavi:16 a cl1:1a a 1nn of co :-,1. .:.i"Erclo :r.ol. kno,-; -1-i. ow fur th is c ondi tion to th0 n::>rth conti:auei:;, out bclie v -· v,e~-.nf l not he.ve any troubl e in \iorking the c o:tl out of your l a nd ir. th.; &L of SE·t o.r'secti on 3- 18-10.5 lying; south cf t h'3 fault, yet th ere is no ·:my of abs oL:.r ely ,.,.m-~eivi n~ t i1is except by diamom d rillinJ . It occuLT01 to us, hor1evcr 1 ,;t-l1c1.t , in view of the fact that \ ·10 are in a pocition to turn entries in-c o this c;>al, some f orm of lea::o could b e dre:rm th at v;ould provide if this f10,;;i¾1g roc~ .,.dc(es continue to tile north and ID$.kes it impra ctical or unprofit a..ole to mine -;;his coal that \·1e n ould not be ooligated to mine s ame . ·.:·e ,lesire to di:. cuss t,;i s mutter ,·1ith your company prior to any further neg otiations with the Lion Coa l Gomp-ny looking towards assignment of :-iny of our coal in t/1 vein. If you .,ill kindly have thiG rn....:tt er investigated and advise 1:1e in regard to same, I \·1ill ve ry much ...pprecie,te it. Yours truly, J . S. O' :flnherty (Signed) Chief Engine er. �\ I �- ~m@&uw,·~;m JUL 7 • I j ,~2:: 6niEflAL'1AN46ER - , Omaha - July 5, 1924. i.ir. G. B. Pryde: Yours of June 27th, with three prints referring to coal underlying Sections 1 9 and 20, Twp . 20 ::. , Rge. 104 '.7., Rock: Springs: The prints indicnte clearly tha des irnbility of working our O\'m coal rather than try to work out the Central Compn.ny ' s tonnage on a royalty basis, and when !.ir . S1:mnn has time I rri.11 be glad to get the r esul t of his handling . i �Rock Spr inr; s - June 27 , 1924 . Hr . .Eu{;ene He /\uli ff e : Jara att~ chin ~ here~ith ,three ·rints: _ No . 3 Seam, -No l Sct'.m and lfo . '7°} Sea~ ; in Secti ons 19 ::m d 20; Tormship 20 N·orth : Range 104 ·:1est, :,;iro-perty of t he Centra l Coa l & Coke Co . This in connection 0i th our pro!)osal to :!.e a se part of the ii~ cos.1 1~.no., :pa rt icu larly Sea:..1 i.; o. l, t he i cle:· ori g i nally in asking for tll: s b e i n~ en a cqount cf our :. orth -~ntries •i n : ~o - 1 '.Tine Re lianc e ho.vine n.;pproacheci the sou'Gh boundari es o: Section 19 in lif O. l Scm:.l. • I thought tln t · :: f we · conlo. o'ot~in a roY7 of forties along prolong the life ci" ru 1• ::.,0 . ~ t ~10 S Guth :.:ino a.11 ( li ne c:t: thi s 13cction i t uu1 lo. ::::.0t. ' extend our t ct l ha ul very·· appreciably P.i"lli. tha t t..'i-ii o z:o u ~d still le::tv·e c nour;h -te 1·1·i to1·y if the Central Ccc..l ( C9l,c Cc. , l ,~ ter on shoL, ld. decide to 1:orlr t he coal i n uhic:, i;ny e:; tho::: b e cL :r.'ty or: um·;orlca.ble , cutting t he r:crlc,:,.ble ter:ritcry into 0:. t orti 0'1 in :t he Soutl1 hal f anci in the e :-:tre~:1e 1-Tc.rtll ha.l f . ·:ie :h :iu c? .a~l·et i n ~ r:.1. t:.J =~r . Vail :>re_sterday a.."ld he ·:;o uld not co ~nent ~c our ta~ i~g only a pa r t of the t o . 1 8e~t1 ~~t re~uesteu s ub j ~ct we t a ke i t a l l a n d to the 3.pproval ·of hi s_ su:p.e rio;rs t haj/:.:...::.>.t \';c t:.:.~:e a.11 cf t.1-:c-, co al in Ho. 3 3c,_: uec:.usc if \Je ciici not ci.o this ,.-Je -;-;cull be tclcing ·::,art of is c lear ~nd I a :Jree 1.:ith hL1. On the oth0r h~ncl, do nc.t thi nk· it ~de: t o c 4r h:'l.ulac;e cc•st by inc1·eai:;ing cur i:;c'~~l i1~•.ul tr :, 0 . 1 Sl ope and r:c ·,-;oul tl a l ~o hnv2 t o !J:-!Y the r .:i:r~l ty en thio coul. ~av ing th1 s i n mind , h:.i.v e dec ided th: t :i c i..., 1.,\;nt a~ the . I �p1·esent ti:ne to l e t t hi s m3:cte r r e s t~ g i vin6 c ur a t te n t ion to ma.k ing plans to r,::•j v e i n~\jo t h -? l ower E; Oams fror.1 e i ther lfo . 1 Se alll or Iro. 7l in secti ons 30 and' 31 ii'l c ..1r· o·:1n h o l d i n ·s . • ? here i •s n o i~Glli u te hu r ry ab c u t t his and j u s t a s soon r,iven t c t h i s :rc. t ter s o . we ca n ::ork U l1 a p l -'1.n for sub... ission t o 0 i I l ., �Rocle S;,,rings, ~/yomin5. June 25, 1924 . I J,:r . G. B. Pryde :- La.st ·.,ea'< i.:r . 1:cAuliff e rne11tioned ·tile fa.ct \·,e had 1'10t given i1.im :)rints shot1in~ good coal o.ret.; on the Central Coo.l •,: Coke Co i!pan~•• • Sec"tions 19 :md 20 just north of Union Pacific Coal Cot1pan}r'.:; ?.eU.F1.nce r:incs, c.ntl n e o.re attcching one copJ each of good conl nr~~s si:O\m i'l colo1· for seruns llos. • nr;ls . 3 - 1 and 7-~- on this land. �Roc k. Springs , \7yo . .. llay 13 , 1924. ·In talkincg \7ith rr. Vail on rr;v return fr om Idaho he m:idc ·i;he s·~ntement. ·t;hat there vms u ~;ossi bili ty of ou r beinc a.bl a to l ease the coal adjuc ~n t to our Ho. l Hina a,t Reliance in 11 · Jcc-l:.ioru:i 10 an0. 20 c.._,._ned by' the Cent~2.l Coe.l ;;.; Cok e Co.u1.9any . ... You probably rec.el l 1.·1e h2.d this i,1'-l t t er U !) t:3ome montho t:: Coko Cou:.1~.ny the !)r:i,. vilege o~ minins co2l in 9u:r Sect.ion 35 , at Secticna 1£ :::.11~ Ire ot.:-.:t ss tha.t on account of leases obtained fro::.i u:.; 2-ni t he cool undcrlyinc their o·.'ln :;round ·they have tcrri tory in Roel· Springs 0 01· :lirr-.3 \d~.'i:.ely adjacen·i; to Rock 39rings, that mll ~U:f> ..>ly ull thP.i:r ·i;h.-.3y .:iicht be r;illing ·i;o con□ icler l ea.sin~ coal in Sections 19 and • :~O c,dja.ceni; to Ticlinnce s_c ::i.s to obtain ~ome r~vcnu~. There is no ]?/l:i:t.ic~tmr· hurry a·oou·i; this but I tl:ousM~ .,~l1a.t no.::iutime you ucre in ·{e.nsas City you might bTin~ the uatte:r to ) nnd ~ct his re-o.c·t:lon. ..,. r. 80,:rgent''a a ttention �... 0 WI'• Dugene IlcAul:l.ffc : • the Central Coal & Co~0 Cor:11,0..ny. ,, ft...o t.ho v :;:-o _ os:..·u on to our interest at fuis tme to llturo tn~ e::;:ch..'11130 Se::.:2 ·.1.rn:lor Rcc!r Sprincs a hilc our cn-;;r•:lc:3 in Relic.nee �/- Omaha, Nebraska, July 21, 1923. Mro E. So Brooks: Your letter of July 5th, with copy of letter written by Mro Svra.nn, and blue print, relative to exchanging land with the Central Coal and Coke Company: As I gathered by reading Mr. SWann' s let-'cer, Mr o Vnil is not recept~ve to the exchange , and I do not believe anything will be gained by attempting to force a trade on the Central Coal & Coke Company. In any case, any prospecting that is done on land to be taken over py/ ( by them should be done at their expense. I think the big thing for us to do is to try to get the tonnage up in the existing mines, developing the acreage mcmed by the Coal Company, only working out exchanges or lease-holds 't"Then it is de.finitely necessary to secure le.nd in order to keep ~p the tonnage or to maintain a mine bale.nee. As I stated to you in my letter regarding the Hanna lease to ra-. Hay, I .feel that commercial mines located on small tracts immediately adjacent to our principal development very largely depend on us for man power, there being hardly any doubt that Mr. Megeath 1 s force, I when he re-opens this fall, will be largely recruited from us. In substance, our best commercial producers seem to be willing and able to run quite independent of us, and I believe, so far as possible, we should encourage that sttitude, preventing the development of any complex between the Union Pacific Coal Company and the Railroad Company, which, £or obvious reasons~must b kept quite apart. ~ , --- 4 ~ / ~ // 7/'VL. �.,. Ju l y · 5tho 19·~3 . ·i;!'o.cling Ho. '7 Semu coal m.1darlyiv.g ·G..}ie City of Rock Springs fo:r coal in ifo . 1 Se~urr at 3.eliancc . . ,... l,.._, ... '.!.:,ccation of holes oL:c .:n on 0 a.ttnchctl ~ :r i::1-t. D.~ticn is d JG:i.ra.'blcii :for our o-rm· us e , for the i nte11tion of r:ork- Proof tha t ib.e conl is :not· uo:....i.:sble in a:cea. t dI'illG!.!. ·,::i.11 nccesait2.t0 goin:; c.lorm "Go 1-:-c •.7 Sc~1 i:-.1l1,3rc it t3'1c •.1onc:; left to .drill ~o. 7 Seru:i at Rock Sp.,:i:n.:-;s. J ,. j_£l. �,TIJIO/JIO :t•2'•20000 \ THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY OFl-'lCE OF Chief .c;ugineer 'yom.i.n::; . June 29.:h , 1923 . Lr . i. S. Brooks, 'lice Prat;. & Gen ' l Lai1ager , Roe~, ::iprin3s 1 ·.:yoninr:; . -~car Sir: - In accorcie.uce ,-,ith your i ns t ructi n s coni;aineo in letter dnteci Ju.10 2ls·i:;, ther~~·.·ith returne-'. l at"1d rcfcrri1:.; to proposed exchc.r.Je of .:o . "i:.0,-.11 7 ;;e::ll:l underlying the of H.ock Sprir!gz tc The Ceu-i;ral Cco.l G.: Coke Compan}' for coo.l in Sections 1,. and 20, '.l.'201'. , Rlo4.·. :, nt Relil.1~ce , we subuitteci blt.e print sho·:,ii,~ propos ed l oce.:i;ion of t,10 D. u. holes to prove u!1 tho seau and as further ir.struct01.. I !mci 11 talk with Supt. Vail of The C•.m'l;r~l Ccal 8: Coke Co::i_.=..."ly relative to his vis·.,~ cor.c~;rnill'.:; t ,o ti·:.tde in sonerel eloo to obtai~ his id~a as ~o t~e p roper lo~ati~1 o; pr oposed u . ~ . ~o l es to prove up the bloc~ of coo.l under discussion. '..11e11 this tracio i.-1as proposed to u· . Vail a fe\/ oonths er;o he seemed to be vcr/ r ecerd;ive concli!r!'!i. ~ the _>ror,osition but in our tall: last ,.-,eok he see.meci to hnve c::·,~11:-_;ed his l!liu.i in rezo.rd to the trade or else ,·ras enumerating all the disadvantages tiic·;, c uch a cleul tr.i::;.,~; i1ave in or<ier to get a more advantageous tro.cio from 'i'he Union L;r. Vail euumerc.ted SOL.e of the c.t iso.dva .-ta~es of t he trado as foll o:1s : (1) The coal in the east half of -the land proposed to be traded is lo\"l about to 5' 6 11 anci ·1'he ~entre.l ~oal & ~oke Gompany have proven by t,!eir ex.::,erience in c. c. & c Ho . 2 Ludvigse.1 Li?1e, a."ld also at ~nect·:;ator th~t iit tl!h hoie ht 01 coo.l 011 ;ro. 7 $eao, the cleavage plo.nes e.re close to5ether end it doe3 not roai;e coi..uerciul lw,ip. Ho so.ys a lar5e bl .,c of this coal ·::as left in t:!"' S .. t at•./i.•tf.•r ..ine no-[; be- �1 the mine run p rice wa s too hi 6 h but because the cost of comme rci al lump was exc ess- After making this statement he acimi tted 'l'he Centrt:.l Coal & Coke Compa ny had lerge blocks . of this hei ght of coal i n i;heil· o~·m land and on Uni on Pacific l0ases v.'hich they zroulo. have to work to be abl.-: to reach higher coal. His '\"rhole line of a r gument would i ndicate he desir ed a t r a de uhereby he could exchange a certain percent of the coal from thi s lo\7 area for lump from some other Union l Pacific Coal Company 1-Iine. {2) I '!'he cost of get tine; i nto this block of coal would be practically the same as in openi ng a 1te'.1 ni:t:e a s h e said No . 2 Slope \70uln have to be remodel ed . (3) No. 2 DIJ!lip has been constructed a nUI:1ber of yen.rs ru1d does not meet the present requirements of scree:nine; c oal to satisfy the commercial trade and the worst; troubl@ to his mind is the fe.ct that the ya....-d arrangement is such that it y;ould have to be remodeled before anythin[; coulc. be done to i mprove the Dump a:Tangement. l4) He claims 'i'he CentrE'.l Coal C: Goke Company has 5,000,000 tons oi' coal in sight in t heir mm l a nd and in their Union Pacific lease s and a. ne,, Dwnp \TI. th e. ne·,, ya rd should be placed up the '.L'ipperary Canon abo:.it a mile. (5) The coo.l proposed to be tre.ded to '£he Central Goal & Coke Company has not been thoroughly prospected but the arrangement of proposed D. D. holes subeitted on blue print uot.tld meet uith his ap1:,roval; the north hole shown to be drilled first as the indica tions are that Ho. 7 is a split seam on the north half of the area i n proposed trade. If the first hole proved to be in high clean coal the trade i7oulci look much better but D. D. hole Ho . 5 indicates that the coal ·,1ould be split . ( 6) The extra yardage expense due to the fa.ct that '~hey r1ould not be able to dra'\"t pillars unde r the tC\m is a serious point to be considered. ( 7) Hr. Vail wo~1ld prefer to o.,en this coal by shaft located near the u. p. rt . rt. ,tater tank r a ther than through 'l'he Central Coal Cc Coke Uo. 2 Slope but t his woulci tie up a larse block of ground quite valuable as builain6 sites. I �( / Up to the present time the Reliance end of t he deal seems to be all that /.J.S been considered as i'F.r. Vail i nformed me that the proposed exchange of coal had not been s ubmitt.ed to him for comment by the General Office in Kansas City. Very truly yours, Ch_ief .E:ngineer . �THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY 11.Dnoon:s ~~.L°"D 01:N'L JIA"'"A.GEn June 21 1 1923. Mr. C . E. Swann, Chief Engineer, Rock Springs, Wyo. Dear Sir: With return of correspondence relative to exchange of No. 7 Seam underlying the City of Rock Springs to Central Coal & Coke Company for coal in Sections 19 and 20 - 20 N. - 104 W. at Reliance , call your attention to the second paragraph of Mr. Sargent's letter, in which he says: 11 lf it was thoroughly proven there mi ght be some arrangement worked out that would be mutually advantageous" . Please check up our drill holes and if another hole or two is necessary to thoroughly prove that No •. 7 is workabl e over the area we would like· to l ease to the Central CoaJ. & Coke "'Compa...11y. Note where additional drill holes should be put down and to what depth they would have to go to reach No. 7 Seam. Encls. I. �Omaha, Nebraska, June 19, 19230 Mro Eo So Brooks: I mailed the contents or your letter of June 12th regarding Central Coal and Coke Company's No. 2 Slope exhaustion to Mr. Keith• Mr o Sargent writing me under date of June 15th as follows: "Mro Brooks is right in suggesting that our Noo 2 Slope at Rook Springs is just about at its end. However. other development that has been going on for some time is progressing nicely and we should have within a fer. months somewhat greater capacity than heretofore and what is available gives us easily a life at om· present property or 12 to 14 years. "Your Mo. 7 seam in your land ahead· of our No. 2 slope as we understand is unproven, but if it was thoroughly proven there might be some arrangement worked out that would be mutually advantageous, but our thought is norr that this coal could not be reached by us except at an excessive cost of production as against our present workings and those that are already under development. "You doubtless are quite i'amiliar with our north property near your Reliance mine and if so will appreciate that here there is e. long life ahead of our company in the Southern Wyoming field . No.t\tro.lly our company is not disposed to consider releasing any part or all of this land. although admittedly it is conceivable that there might be something offered in some other direction that l7ould in a way, if not fully, compensate. If you have in mind something that you can propose that will really in your m·m mind i'ully justify us in talking about an exchange it oould be easily arranged to have our Mr. O'Flaherty go into the matter in detail with you or your associates so that a definite conclusion could be reached in a reasonable time.~ Have you any f'u.rther comment to make before I reply to Mr. Sargent: �'\ !..Ll' • i~u~ ne lTcAuli:f='c , k1rea ., r.i::.10 .. Uuio· Pa.cifi c Co l Co. , 0.rae.ha. , !Tc 'braska. Dee.r Si .. : • T1:.ere is • a _ • or tl12. t th,.::. Ce.i."1 t.ral Coei C: C ok ~ 'be :J.U :ioable to c;c·i; J:ic.1.dou i: o. 2 ~lope. l,:e j 3 l ieve tba t tllis e:toh2.n;?;e uou 2. eJ'l2.ble hi~ to oontinue to operate t.is No. 2 ~lope for yo-rn Youre truly, �CEN T RAL COAL & COKE OO W1P.Al~Y G ENER A L O F F'IC E KANSAS CITY, MO . B RANCH O FFI CE A T - - - -- --- Rock Sp rings, V/yoo, April 10, 19230 M'Ro E . S . :BROOKS , Vi ce ;Fresident & General Mgr . 1 ~he Union :1;1a.cific Coal Co., . Roclt Springs I Wy Oo Deo.r Sir:- < ry," I h ave y our letter of April 9 th re l ati ve to exchange of coal and h ave referred the matter to our chie f e ngineer 1 :Mro J oS o 0 1 Fla.herty, with the recomrne-ndat i on t hat he make i mmedia"i;e inve s t i gation. ~ Yours t ruly 1 ~ £,-~L ~" Su;per i ntende n t. / \_ I �iir. • A:i:·i:,hur Vail, Supt. , (; ~zi·'.:.:t·a.l Coal [· Coke Co. , :2.oc}: !Jgrin:s,,.:yomins. Su"v:.ri.t ·Ghc follot !imig in order to st2.r·i; ·i;.he _"[>:;i.11 rc:1.l- :l.u; • .lcnE l:.~c line '\;e :isi."~ to.l:ted co::.cc:t·::-:i n.:; exc~nn5e of cc;:i.1 ::.n ii~ . '! .ie[';."1 ,· in on::- ':cc ·:.io:1s 26 antl 35 - . <J :.! . .. 105 ·.: . , Ilc,clt n:?I' i.n. ·s, i.1lrl.ch ia e.d j~ce:rG 'i;o your ~)!'C .;; C!l~ Ho . 2 Slope , fOl' cro.1 .:.::. ~~o . 1 -:c.-,;;: , l:1 ~-ou:c ::ectio:.1s 19 p.;:ic1. 20"' 20 r~. - 1 0-1 •;., -..:.j:i,ccn t to o\.r --~li ~:ic:! 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Youra truly , �8TAHDARO 2•22·20000 Fo,... iuoa THE UNION PAC IF IC COAL COMPANY I:s' R EPL~ PLEASE R EFER 'l'O oFl"ICEl 0 11' Rook Springs 0 Wyoming February 17 9 19230 '!:'fro George '.BoPryde O GenoSupt • Uni on Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, \'fy-omi ng o Dea.? Sir:Referri ll[; to your i nqui ry a.bout Movember 1922 concei-ni ng proepects for an excl1ange of c oal from Uni on Pacific Railroad Company9 s Section 3 To18 l!., lt.,105 \'lo \-rith The dentral (foal & doke Compa."1:V :f'or coal adjacent to the Reliance Mines on the i r Sections 19 & 20- To20- No Ro 104\,'f o . I su.bmi t the f ollo\·ii.ng inforntion for your approval: Olu- Diamond Dr ill Records on Section 19 To2 0 No Ro 10-4- tl o do 11ot tally 011t for intel"Va.l be·i;':reen the c oe.l seams as shorm. by' our Reliance Drill Roles or there has been en er ror in correlati ng seams bu.t after we t al ked t o tTr.,Vail abou.t the discrepanci es shown i n OUl" records he had his engineer (l ':r o1.'f eimer ) coma dcmn to our of fice vri th his t opographical pr ospecting map and h i s Diamond Dril l Records and ue uere abl e t o tell fai rly accurately the amount of coal on Seams 3 - 1 - 71 and 7. On the be.sis o,f 1000 tons of recoverable coal per acre foot,ue found about 380 acr es of 7} ft,, coa l on No. 3 Seam or 2,850, 000 t ons; II ti II 1 II tt 1 , 540 p 000 II 220" " 7 " 560" " 6 " " 6 " 440 " making a c ombi ned tonnage of " " " " 11 11 7½ 11 '] " " 11 3,360,000 2 8 640 9 OO_Q. 10, 390,000 " " " and I On Seams .3 and 1 there would be a combined tonna€e of 4p390,000 Tons . On Seams 3 - 1 and ']-~- there would be a tonnage of 7, 750, ~00 t ons . Section 3 T1 t8 l'T .R. 105 \71 Iro.3 Seam is not sufficiently prospect ed t o est imat e intelligentl y the coal content . \"lest of the S\-1eet ,rater or Big Fault t here ar e about 480 acres of 6-}· ft. coal on lro. 1 seem or .3, 120,000 tons and 480 acr e s of ~ - tt. coal on Mo.'] Seam or 3, 120,000 tons, ma.king a combined tonnage of 6,240,000 tons. Without opening a ~ew mine on The Sweet\,ater Branch to obtain this coal The Centra~ Coal & Coke Company would l1&ve to drive their Tip.. perary Slope 2200 ft. through a na.rrow strip of coal and then t hey WOUld be at a point about 180 ft. b elow No. 1 Seam or 70 f't,, above 1:-:0 0 7 Seam on Section .3. II �Through their new mine on No 0 3 Seam would be the logical place to work No 1 Seam on Section 3 but this v10uld place this coal so far in the future as to make it unattractive as a trading proposition at this timeo 0 The haulage proposition to obtain any amount of coal from Seco3 through the Tipperary Slope \7ould consist of three hoists and a big motor inside and an outside motor haul of about 1"'ri miles and this would not appear to me to be attractive. A better trading proposition seems to be exchanging ooal on Noo7 Seam ahead of the present Central Coal S Coke Company's Noo2 Slope for coal adjacent to the Reliance l.ttnes on Central Coal & Coke Company's Sections 19 and 20 To 20 Mo Ro 10,5 1:"/o ';fe have sho,·m on attached blue print one of several systems v1here- by the coal ahead of The Central Coal & Coke Company's No.2 Slope can be lended where the present lio.2 U.ain Hoist can pick it up. This system consists of a landing driven in coal just bel0\'7 Noo23 Ent-q Centr~l Coal & Coke Company no.2 l tine and a r ook plane driven from this coal to the ooel on opposite side of the fault system and from near this point a slope oa.n be driven in the Hoo7 coeJ. po~allel to Union Pacific's old No.t Slope on Moot Seam to the big fault sho\',n a.t Noe 27 EntriJ in old No l Mineo The l min Haulage Sy!ltem would consist of two slopa hoistso 0 l'fr.Va.il has intimated he v,ould not favor an exchange of leases on a small scale bu.t if he trill enterto.in an exchange of ooe.l leases of moderate size The Union Pacific Coal Company is in position to exchange oos.l on Uo.7 Seam sho\'1ll on map es tribu.te.ry to The Central Coal & Coke Company's llo.2 Slope do,m to the big fault sho\'m at No.27 Entry no.t Ulne, having an approximate uorka.ble tonnage of 1,900,000 tons for coal in No.t Seam or Seems 3 and t on Section 19 T.20 N. R. 105 VT. adjacent to Union Pacific Coal Company's mine uorkings in Reliance Mine No.to The Central Coal & Coke Company by mining coal above the big fault m.11 be able to keep their l~o.2 Plant working to full efficiency for the next 15 or 20 years. I estimate that for a.bout $50,000 The Central Coal & Coke Company will be in shape to obtain 500 tons of coal per dey from coal above the big fa.ult and the outpa.t :from this mine would increase rapidly with only e..dditional development cost until they would have an outpa.t of 800 to 1000 tons per da.v. It seems to be the recognized opinion tha.t coal in Rook Sprin§ and immediately south is a better grade of cormnercial coal than that to the north. The Central Coal & Coke Company's town prop0rty on Section 36 at Rook Springs uould likewise be increased in value a.nd their dwellings be occupied for the next 15 years a.t least. �( The Central Coal & Coke Company, in order to uork any coal on Sections 19 and 20 To20 No Ro 1O~- Wo nould have to make an invostment of $800,000 to $1,000,000 to build railroad tracks, open and equip their mines, build tomi and get a v,ater supply, but by ma.king this exchange this expenditure would be postponed indefinitely and at the same time this property would be producing a. revenue. If limited to coal above the big fault The Central Coal & Coke Com:pa.ny vrill claim they frill be at a. big disadva.nta~e in mining No0 7 conl at Rock Springs in that their development cost for coal under the town of Rock Springs vrill be from 1 Oe to 2oi a ton more than if the coal rra.s not s o eri tuated as the:, \7111 not be allov,ed to pull pillars under the area sho,•,n on map in broken line. (!Ja.rked "lfo pill:i.rs to be dratm".) The Central Coal & Co~e Company claim tl1ey he,ve already made heavy expenditu.res in preparing to open up new mines to keep the No 2 Plant goine e.nd these conditions ,'Till he.ve to be met 1n BllY excaa.nge that is proposed. 0 Ur.Vail seems to be satisfied with the tonna~e above the big fa.u.1 t bu.t if The Central Coal t~ Coke Compe..ny insists that the exchange of leases shall be on a large scale The Union Pacific Coal Compe.ny could exchange all the coal on Noo7 Seam TThich is shown down to the big fault an,1 in addition the coal north past the old Noo3 Pump Shaft (also sho,m on attached map} giving a 'bloclc of 1300 acres of Iio • 7 coal containing about 8,000,000 tons of coal and in ca lculating tonnage in either or both tracts '78 have used only 5o;& recovery over area shorm on map where np pillars are to be dramio To obtain coal in Noo7 Seam below the big fault The Central Coal & Coke Company CO"J.ld sink an 800 foot hoisting shaft ,rest of the Belia.nee Tracks near Noo3 Pwup Sha.ft and could sink No.3 Air Sha.ft 490 fto do,m to No 7 Seam and use it for an air shaft. The Central Coal & Coke Company could open this mine for about $250,000 tp $300,000 as it would be necessary for them to build bu.t abou.t a mile of mine tracks to complete their Plant n~ar No.3 Pump Sha.ft ns the Reliance llain Line would act as a passing track but t his expenditure would not be necessary for at least_t.!i yearso 0 Benefits to be derived from an exchange of coal leases as mentioned above by The Union Pacific Coal Company: · 1. The Union Pacific Coal Company's present plant equi!)!llent and to..-m property at Reliance would be maintained in its present location for an additional period of at least 20 years by obtaining lease on Seams 3 and 1 only. 2. All the coal on Seems 3 - t and 7½ can be mined from existing Union Pe,cific Coal Company mines wi thou.t expensive ad.di tions to the present equipment. 3. »y- exchanging the lTo.7 coal under. the tomi of Rock Springs a lar~e area of valuable land suitable for torm lots would be released uorth at present prices $60,000 to $75,000 of which $25,000 to $30,000 rrorth viou.ld be available as soon o.s this exchange was made by releas lng land held back of The Union Pacific Coal Company's l.tine Office for ope~ing up the toI, end �4-- of this block of coal and the other $30,000 to $.50,000 worth of building lots :rlll be available if it is decided to open the main hoisting shaft for the big block of No.7 coal west of the Reliance Tracks instead on flat just south of old Moo3 Slopeo 4. Coal on Noo? Seam on Sections 19 and 20 north of Reliance owned by The Centra l Coal & Coke Company could be mined through a rock slope or rock tunnel driven from Reliance ~fine Nool or Reliance No 4 1tine and made available to the present equipment at Reliance and prolong the life of the town of Reliance accordinglyo 0 To open up Moo? Seam at Reliance \·rould probably cost The Union Pacific Coal Company nearly e.s much as it would cost T"ne Central Coal & Coke Company to open up the shaft mine for coal on lvOo7 Seam below the big fe.ul t at Rock Springs~ bt1.t either proposition Yrould not have to be considered inside of the next 1.5 to 20 yearso .5o Workings in Moo4 lline Reliance will be driven up to the south line of Section 19 in a few months and it will be advisable to take this into consideration in c ase a big exchange of coal is contemplatedo 6. The advantage of prime importance derived by The Union Pacific Coal Company would be from the fact that their present \·:orkings in Reliance Noo~ :.une a re not7 1..1.p against the south line of Section 19 of The Central Coal ~i Coke Company and can be extended into this land at once with only a.n addi tim-1al cost for ·the development and the same thing would apply to the Reliance Noo4 Mine in a: few months on Noo7½ Seam. 7. It would seem advisable to allovr the pa.rties working Nool Se8.ID to work NOo3 Seam also e,t l ea.st over the same territory that the Mo.1 r:orldn$S cover. It is not advisable to exchange No.7 coal belol'I the big fault unless found necessa.ry to swi.n g the aeal for the reason that the logica l pl ace from nhich to recover Noo3 coal north of old Uo.3 Ulne (consisting of 760 acres of 6 ft. coal or 4,.560,000 tons) is from the ne'\7 Sha.ft in the vicinity of lfoo3 Pump She.ft. This coal can be recovered from lTo.4 Mine bu.t not as ad.vantegeou.sly as from the shaft to No.7 Searno Very tru.ly yours, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Re Proposed Exchange of Coal Land with the Central Coal & Coke Company Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1923-1930 Subject The topic of the resource Letters and documents, Eexchange of land and purchase, 1923-1930 Description An account of the resource 11" x 8.5" blue folder with black handwriting on cover. A collection of letters and documents regarding the exchange of land and purchase by The Union pacific Coal Company. Some pages are faded may be hard to read. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Union Pacific Coal Co. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0059 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/97e621ae172e6e310db448e9bf87e1d9.pdf 0ae8489010f45f2f39893d6dec4eae9c PDF Text Text FILE NO. 284 - VISITORS AUSTRALIAN Visiters - Australian Iron & Steel Ltd. C'CT/45 - Broken Hill Proprietary Co. ltd. - Melbourne. AUG/46 - Eelhcurne - i’he Broken Hill Proprietary Coy. Ltd. LAY/'!? - Lining Engineers - The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. I'.e 1 hour..j, Australia Ltd. .. ... 50 1- MILLER, C. '.7. - Executive Officer HUFTON, H. S. = Research Officer 2- ilcLENNAN, Ian 11. SYr.iE, C. 1. 3- WILhlESON, Heywood GRIERSON, John J. 4- HAMS, A. H. MORRIS, J. A. 5- PEARCE, H. L, - Manager - Lebo Colliery KNOiVLES, H. C. - Maintenance Engineer �NOo 5 �080- Mr, V, 0, Murray: Herewith, for your information, copy of letter from Mr, N, E, Jones, Managing Director of The Broken Hill Proprietary Company of Melbourne, Australia, dated April 7th, and copy of my reply of today, regarding visit of Messrs. Pearce and Knowles. �080-3 April 14, 1952 Mr. H. 2. Jones - Managing Director The Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd. 422 Little Collins Street Melbourne, C. 1, Australia Dear Mr. Jones: Acknowledging receipt of your letter of April 7th: be are always glad to have representatives of your company visit our properties, and you may be assured that ue will allow your representatives to examine our properties and obtain as ouch information as possible. As you know, we are fully mechanised, however our seams are pitching seams end in all instances we are not able to efficiently us? some of th? equipment that is being developed end used in level seam mining. However, w? do have two Con­ tinuous Miners in operation, one at our D. 0. Clark Mine, Superior, Wyoming; and one at our Ho. 11 Mine, Reliance. also have a number of Joy loading machines and shuttle cars working on these pitching seams. Therefore your men will be able to see additional machinery which was not in operation at the time of the visit of Mr. McLennan and hie associates. You no doubt are kept informed by news items and radio on our steel labor controversy. This, together with transpor­ tation, communications, etc., makes for a certain amount of confusion in this country. Cur coming presidential election, however, appears to be most important due to the issues that will be debated. Ve, like everyone else, would be happy to see world tension relaxed somewhat. 1 will be very haouy to meet Mr. Pearce and Mr. Knowles: and I am still hoping that you will be able to visit this country, enabling us to meet. Please remember me to the members of your staff who have visited this country, and best wishes to all. Sincerely yours, t-H-.-aui �-copy- THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY GO. LTD. 422 Little Collins Street Melbourne, G.l,Australia 7th April, 19b2 Mr. I. No Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska U.S.A. Dear Mr. Bayless: It Is with much appreciation that I recall the kindness and assistance that you and youi' company have extended to members of our organisation who have visited the United States, and in saying this I wonder if I may make a further call on your generosity. The position, as you know, is that we have had in hand for some years an extensive programme of coal mine development and mechanisation, which has now reached an advanced stage;we are now feeling the benefit in our overall operations of the considerable amounts of effort and money expended. With the furtherance of this plan in mind, we have decided to send to the United States two more of our coal mining personnel, namely, Mr. H. L. Pearce, Manager of our Nebo Colliery (one of our newest and most highly mechanised mines), and Mr. H. C. Knowles, who 1g the Maintenance Engineer for our Southern Coast Collieries organisation. I would be very pleased indeed if they could have the pleasure of calling on you and perhaps also meeting some of your officers. With this thought in mind, I have taken the liberty of providing them with a letter of introduction to you. The purpose of the visit is, of course, primarily to study the latest development in underground mining practice, more parti­ cularly simultaneous cutting and loading of coal, roof bolting, mechanical loading of pillar coal, shaft sinking, drift driving, etc., and the equipment side generally. Therefore, if it would be convenient to you, and they could be permitted to see some of the operations on the mining side under your control, then I can assure you that the experience would be most helpful, and I person­ ally would be most grateful. They have been booked to leave Australia by air for San Francisco on 16th April, returning towards the end of July. We have been having a busy time out here in Australia, and as we stand now we have years of work ahead of us. Generally speak­ ing, our operating conditions have improved considerably over the �- 2 - past six to nine months, mainly as a result of increasing fuel supplies, which in turn have resulted from the programme to^whlch I have referred above, and to better continuity of work from the miners themselves o In the Steelworks we have been comparatively free from labour troubles and overall production is on a much more heartening basis« At Port Kembla, which has been the scene of most of our recent developments, they are producing at a better rate than ever before<, I hope that I myself will have the pleasure of meeting you in the not too distant future, either in the States or here in Australia, should you be contemplating a visit to this country. In sending my best wishes, I also pass on the kindest regards of Mr. Ian McLennan who is at the present time absent from Melbourne o sincerely, /s/ N. E. -Jones Managing Director �Best Wishes for a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY S<jr>mooo Couuie^y tAevj SoctM. VtakE.%. THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY COMPANY LIMITED — Australia �The Steel Works as seen in the distance from the Newcastle hill overlooking the shipping basin with the Town Hall tower in the foreground. ��Omaha - October 23, 1S50 OSO-3 Mr. Ho Co Livingston; Supplementing my letter of October 11 regarding visit of Mr. Ao Ho Hams and Mr. J. A. Morris of Australia on October 30 th: Hereiflth copy of Western Union message received this morning from Mr. Hams. Please make hotel reservations, and arrange to have a car at the airport to meet these gentlemen. HCL: HCL: Reservations made, hotel instructed to hold for late arrival alh Plane arrives at 9:05 PM -has been running on time. alh �-copyWESTERN UNION East St. Louis, Ill. via Rock Springs, 'Wyoming October 21, 1950 I. N. Bayless 1416 Dodge St. Omaha, Nebr. Will depart Chicago Monday, October 30, 2:50 p.m. GST Flight 629 and arrive Rock Springs 9:35 p.m. MST October 30 on Flight 133 from Denver STOP Many thanks for making air arrangement ’ - - HAMS �Omaha - October 11, £950 Mr. Ho C. Livingston; o8o_s 4^4 '' Mr. A. H. Hams and Mr. J. A. Morris of The Broken Hill^ Proprietary Company, Australia, are scheduled to arrive in Rock Springs by plane on October 30, and I have promised to meet them there. Suggest that you make hotel reservations for these two gentlemen. They will want to look at some of our mines. �080-3 August 23, Hr. A. Ho Hams Assistant Superintendent of The Broken Hill Proprietary 100 Park Avenue New York 17, N. Y. (cops- “ M*. H. C. Livingston Vice President-Uporation The Union Pacific Coal Company Hock Springs, Jyoialng ) Dear mr. zlamss This will acknowledge receipt of your let­ ter of August 21st, advising that a change of plans has taken you direct to Hew York, which will neces­ sitate deferring your visit to Wyoming until early November. he will be very happy to have you visit our properties at that tine, and will appreciate your notifying us somewhat in advance in order that we nay make any required reservations for your hotel accommo­ dations. Sincerely yours. �Omaha - August 6, 1950 080-3 Mr, Ho Go Livingston? BLEN0............ — m t' J? ' Herewith copy of letter dated July 26th from The Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Melbourne, Australia, together with copy of my cable reply, regarding the contemplated visit of their Messrs. Hams and Morris to our properties sometime after the middle of August, You will note that these gentlemen are to notify your office when they arrive in San Francisco. Please arrange to show them any of our operations in which they are interested. ; RECEIVED I AUG - ? I9J0 VICE-PRESIDENT A1 ions ^AG/^7 �J DOMESTIC SERVICE V JaNT^NATION^S^K^V Check the class of service desired; otherwise this message will be sent/vs a full rate telegram FULL RATE TELEGRAM DAY SUETTER 1206 SERIAL NIGHT LETTER NO. WDS.-CL. OF SVC. r Check the class of service desired; otherwise this message will be sent at the full rate FULL RATE DEFERRED >^ODE NIGHT LETTER JOSEPH L. EGAN, PRESIDENT PD. OR COLL. TIME FILED CHARGE TO THE ACCOUNT OF CASH NO. The Union Pacific Coal Go. Scnd thefollowing message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Osaka, Nebr. Aug. 6, 1950 HEMATITE . MELBOURNE 0 AU STEALS A Yours 26th. Pleased to have Messrs. Hams and Morris visit our properties. Have notified our offices Rock Springs to anticipate their visit. I. N. Bayless I �THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY COMPANY, LTD. 422 Little Collins Street, Melbourne 0. 1, Australia Telegraphic address: "Hematite" Melbourne 26th July 1950 Mr. I, No Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska, USA Dear Mr. Bayless; Towards the middle of August we will be sending two of our coal mining engineers to the United States of America for a few months to look into coal mining matters generally, but more particularly in connection with roof bolting, trans­ port control, extraction of pillars by machinery, plant main­ tenance and mechanical mining generally,. The two officers we have selected for this mission are Mr. A. H. Hams and Mr. J. Ao Morris of our South Coast Colliery Organization and they hold the respective positions of Assistant Superintendent of Col­ lieries and Supervising Engineer. You may recall from previous correspondence that we operate four collieries on the northern New South Wales Coal­ fields adjacent to our Newcastle Steel Works for the production of coking coal and now have five collieries on the South Coast field feeding the Port Kembla Steel Works, Our northern mines have for quite a number of years been operating on a fairly high degree of mechanization and in the South Coast mines we are currently spending quite sub­ stantial sums of money in furthering our development and mechanization programme there. In fact we have now reached the stage where 90 per cent of our output from these latter mines can be mechanically cut with 78 per cent mechanically cut and loaded. In 1947, when our Mr. Heywood Wilkinson and Mr. John Grierson visited the United States of America, you and your company were very kind and also most helpful in assisting them and they greatly valued the opportunity of viewing the opera­ tions under your control. Whilst I do not wish to transgre'ss on your generosity, I have taken the liberty of handing Mr. Hams and Mr. Morris a letter of introduction to you in the hope that it may be convenient for you to receive a call from them. I do hope also that it will be convenient for them to call in at Rock Springs and if such proves to be the case it would of course suit their programme best if they could do this �on their way East from San Francisco0 I am therefor© sug~ gestlng to them that as soon as possible after their arrival in San Francisco they make known to you the fact that they are in the States and also to your officers at Rock Springs, at the same time enquiring whether an arrangement as suggest­ ed above would be convenient to youo They will travel by air to the United States and should thus arrive in San Francisco during the latter part of August 0 Needless to say for any kindness or assistance you may be able to extend to these officers of ours I shall be most gratefulo With kindest regards and best wishes, Yours sincerely, /s/ (Illegible) �N0» 3 �Rock Springs, T/yoning December 31, 1949 Bear Friend ’.'ilkinsons For the tliree years I have received your Christmas cards and am Glad to receive then as I know you are still en­ joyin’ life. I am writing you just a far/ linos to wish you a prosperous and happy new year for 1950. ’.'u are all very much alive around Rock Springs, minin; some 3,450,003 tons for 1949, our production being curtailed quite a bit by work stoppages which you havo probably read about in the various newspapers of your country. V.e have installed a few units of shuttle cars, top cutting machines that cut up to 13’ liigh and 14 BU Joy loaders with shuttle car units. If labor conditions permit, we will probably also Install a courilc of continuous minors durins ^he year and may also pick out a couple of places on the property where we can do some strip .mining unless the Railroad goes entirely to oil, which they are considering very seriously. Kindly give Hr. Grierson iqy kindest regards as wall as Hr. McLennan should you happen to see them. Kindest regards and best wishes, I am Sincei'ely yours, OrigiDal Signed; Hr. Heywood ’Jilkinson, Asst. Supt of Collieries Broken Hill Property, Ltd. Newcastle, .'.ustralia 1 * MURRAY �'q'n r 4- .JUN 2 1847** TheU.p.CoalCo. oINGS. Fairmont, West Virginia, May 24, 1947 Mr. H G Livingstone, Vice President, Goal Operations, Rock springs, Wyoming o o Dear Mr. Livingstone* I desire to thank you for your kindness to us during our stay in Rock Springs and during our journey to Cleveland. I am sorry that we were unable to get together for a night in Cleveland. However, we did enjoy our stay with you and although we have seen quite a few mines since we locality we have not seen a more clean cut or/safe operation than thafce of your mines which we visited. Will you kindly give my best wishes toTfesss.Verne Murray and Io M. Charles. Yours faithfullyp Bo Ho P. Co. Ltd., Australia. �080-3 Omaha - May 4, 194? Mr. H. Co Livingston: Your* letter of May 2 relative to Messrs. Wilkinson and Grierson: I am confident they will enjoy their visit to Utah. I note you state you are endeavoring to get air transporta­ tion from Chicago to Cleveland the morning of May 12. Cleveland is an ovex1 night's ride from Chicago and unless these gentlemen wish to spend Sunday night in Chicago, they would gain nothing by staying in Chicago over night and going by air to Cleveland. They can take a train out of Chicago any time before midnight Sunday, arriving in Cleveland Monday morning. Hotel reservations have been confirmed. �Hay 2, 1%7 Hr o Heywood HVilklnson z i*1' Hiy' John J o< Grierson Copy: Hr. II. C. Livingston Gontlonon; Horowith, as requested by you this date, one print of Drawing Ho. 1940.35-Aj T9-F3, Pina and Profile of Rock Slopes., D. 0. Clark Hine, Supsriorfl Wyoninr;. Very truly yours, Sigae<s Encl �Book ijprfcisc « —.'o ..o 2, 1947 o kAlyiCSOS (SC -- .'?r# ?• J# rctortioH Ur# Ho’ri.’ooti ’.i'l”".... ?r> Mr# Joi in ?rioracn) '..a i-ave arranged an itinorasy for .‘.’oosru# an' ^rlorncsn, .\2th bhcdr personal idshoog as foSlouu: Leave P.ocl: Jprinvs cn Sunday <, May l,3 aeecqpeniad by Safeby .'.placer F# J# FatorndLl and drive to :'.»ico, Ctch9 ctmyinj at the lse«tOii '.uto Coui'u# ’ .'£.”'J.2-73 T.’ay 5t visit U.S# Puel Caupes^r’o l’ia;.ai’iu Mino5 accc.:ipanied by Jaims ."c?:ir.9 General Sup-.jriiiscr.dcnt. ’IUcsday3 May 63 visit xndepsndoni Cod rjxl Coic Ccdp.my|3 Kcnilisorth illnoa accompanied by ijr.;o Jao’aon9 Guncrintenlo.’it. i;adnQsd.”y<> 7# visit Genova iitcol Ccapaiv^a Itorso Ca/.yon iJoiOj accoopanled 'ey :iparlntc-ident P. V# nicies# Thursday.? 09 return to Reel: Jnrincs by car. Safety Jii^inccr i’ctcvnoll '•.•ill .valeo tho tri? with Posara# - jlldnaon end bdorsan# 7.3 arc arraujinj roll triaioporbatlor. leavin': uo<£: Springs on Friday.) 9a arriving at Chicago on . if Straaoliner reservations ore available# '..’o arc also attcupbin^ to seeur-a roiorvationo via United Air lines fraa Chicago to Cleveland on the morning of H^y 12. Your Mr. Johmon states reaciwations havo been cade at Cleveland Hotel for tho to jcatlcneno ’Je fiosaae that you will havo the hotel raoervution confirmed# Ori-*’3' .. r » ta. «* l,! �080-3 Omaha - May 1, Mr. H. Go Livingston: Confirming phone conversation date Herewith copies of letters from F„ S. Mulock, Vice President, U. S. Fuel Company, and Walter Fo Clarke, Independent Coal & Goke Company, dated April 29, regarding visit of Messrs., Wilkinson and Grierson. I. No Bayless �copy UNITED STATES FUEL COMPANY NEWHOUSE BUILDING SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH April 29, 1947 Mr. I. N. Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge St. Omaha 2, Nebr. Ref. File 080-3 Dear Mr. Bayless: We have your letter of April 25 relative to Messrs. Wilkinson and Grierson from Australia, and will be very glad to have them visit our mine. Please give us such advance notice of the time they will arrive in Salt Lake as is pos­ sible, so that we can make the necessary arrangements, including such hotel reservations as are necessary. As they are expect­ ing to proceed from here to Cleveland and I assume their program will be rathei' full, I would suggest that they could save time by arranging to take the Denver & Rio Grande Pros­ pector from Price to Denver. This train leaves Price at 8:49 P.M., thus giving them the full day at the mine without the necessity of returning to Salt Lake. We will be glad to arrange the necessary train reservations if they so desire. Yours very truly, /s/ F. S. Mulock Vice President �-copy- INDEPENDENT GOAL & GOKE GO. WALKER BANK BLDG. SALT LAI® CITY, UTAH April 29, 1947 Mr. I. N. Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear Mr. Bayless: With reference to the visit of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grierson from Australia during the first week of May, we shall be happy indeed to have these gentlemen visit the Kenilworth property. When they are ready to make this trip, will you kindly have them contact this office or General Super­ intendent George B. Jackson at the mine? Very sincerely yours, /s/ Walter F. Clarke �W 1, 1947 !&•<> Claude Po I-Ieinor, Vice Pres<> & Gen« Legr0 Utah Fuel Company Judge Building Salt Lake City 11D Utah Copys Nr0 Io No Bayless Dear Mr» Heiners We have copy of your letter of date April 30, 1947 9 concerning Hessrso Wilkinson and Grierson visiting your properties during the week of Nay 4» We wish to thank you for the courtesies extended, hov/evcr wo are advising that it is rather doubtful that the two gentlemen will find sufficient time to visit the Utah Fuel Company mines during the week of Nay 4° Kindest personal regards, Yours very truly, o HCL/rt �UTAH FUEL COMPANY The Calumet Fuel Company General Offices - Judge Building Salt Lake City h, Utah CLAUDE P. HEINER Vice-president and General Manager April 30s 1947 MT. I N Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska o o Dear Mr. Bayless; ' Thank you for your letter of April 25 in which you state that Messrs. Wilkinson and Grierson would like to visit certain of our properties during the early part of May. We will be pleased to extend them any appropriate courtesies, and will wait either for further word from you or from them about the matter. CPH: jo CC: Mr. H. C. Livingston ��080=3 April 25, 1947 / - A■ Mr. P. L. Shields - Vice President United States ^uel Company 1015 Newhouse Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah (cc: Mr. H. G. Llvingston)^_J> Dear Mr. Shields: Messrs. Wilkinson and Grierson from Australia expect to arrive in this country the first week of May, ,r,r^- and would like very much to have the privilege of visit/I s' Ing your mine. Shey expect to spend a few days in Wyoming and Utah, thereafter going to the American Mining Congress meet in Cleveland, May 12 or 13. Sincerely yours, Original Signed I. I J. E "~r* '^c'- Same letter to: Mr. Sam Woodhead - Gen^. MgrL Independent Coal & Coke Co. Walker Bldg. Salt Lake City ■ Mr. Claude P. Heiner - Vice Pres. Utah Fuel Co. Judge Bldg., Salt Lake City �Class of Service This is a full-rate Telc^xam or Cable­ gram 'nlcss its de­ ferred character is in­ dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre** ceding the address. JOSEPH L. EGAN PRESIDENT Th«* filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination KHA91 PD=UD OGDEN UTAH 25 644P :UN ION PACIFIC COAL CO RW= ARRIVE HOTEL UTAH TONIGHT GOING 28TH APRIL WILL YOU KINDLY MAKE ON TO ROCK SPRINGS M0NDAY-. RESERVATIONS LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU= WILKINSON AND GRIERSON-. THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE �v .;<1 0W \ ; ■•■'• 1 —* 080-3 April 8, 1947 — " ' •' A X R NAIL Ar, Escington Lewis The Broken Hill Proprietary Coy. Ltd. 422 Little Collins Street Melbourne, C.l, Australia (co; Mr. H, 0. Livingston) Dear Ar. Lewis: b^^ ■•* Acknowledging yours of March 25:. I would suggest that you have your men wire Mr. H. 0. Livingston, Vice President-Operation, Rock Springs, Wyoming, on their arrival in San Francisco, and he, in turn, will wire me here in Omaha. Thea I would suggest they go directly to Rock Springs, Wyoming. Mr. Livingston will be on the look out for then and I will endeavor to meet them in Rock Springs, making up an itinerary. I am suggesting this for the reason that the American Mining Congress meets in Cleveland, Ohio, on May. 12, and if they arrive in Rock Springs the latter pert of April or first of May, it will give then tine enough to go through our sines and then I think they should go to Cleveland for the Mining Congress meet, which will be. four days. They will be able not only to meet practical and technical men of the coal industry, but they will have an opportunity to hear read and discussed both practical and technical papers. They will also be able to view all the modern mining equipment, together with certain improvements which probably have not yet been tried out in coal mines. I expect to attend this Congress meet, and if you will advise, I will make necessary hotel reservations for your men in Cleveland. ’ Sincerely yours Original 2. N. BAYLES; �copy- THE BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY COY. LTD. 422 Little Collins Street Melbourne, C.l, Australia 25th March, 1947 Mr. I. N. Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street OMAHA 2, NEBRASKA U. S. A. Dear Mr. Bayless: I acknowledge and thank you for your letter of the 21st ultimo and do appreciate the sentiments expressed by both yourself and Mr. McAuliffe. It is indeed good of you to offer such ready and full assistance to our two officers, who are now programming to leave Australia by air on 20th April. If it suits your convenience, I will arrange for them to go straight to Omaha after their arrival in San Francisco and they should therefore make contact with you some time dur­ ing the last week of April. I will, of course, ask them to contact you on arrival at San Francisco to confirm their movements. In the concluding paragraph of your letter you asked for certain data concerning our mines, which would enable you to include in their itinerary collieries with conditions some­ what similar to those existing here. As you may know, we are operating three collieries near Newcastle for the production of coking coal and also three collieries on the South Coast, feeding Port Kembla. In addition to the three last mentioned, we are at present developing a fourth colliery and winning coal from a new tunnel of one of our existing collieries. 1 attach a sheet setting out the particulars you asked for and I also attach some notes on our Northern collieries which may prove of general interest to you. I am also arrang­ ing to have some brief notes prepared covering our Southern collieries and these will be forwarded on to you as soon as they become available. At the time of writting you last month I also wrote Mr. Humphrey of the M. A. Hanna Company and the present inten­ tion is that our officers should contact these people at Cleveland after visiting some of your activities. Again many thanks for your ready cooperation in this matter. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, /s/ Essington Lewis �THE BROKEN HILL PTY. GO. LTD. NORTHERN COLLIERIES - NEWCASTLE FIELD Thickness of Seam 5 ft. to 7 ft. Pitch of Seam Variable hut averages 3-4$ Overburden Varies from 200 to 300 feet at shaft Mines are gassy Goal - Hard, Dustiness Mines are damp in places and not over dusty Roof Conditions Fairly good, except in damp places AUSTRALIAN IRON a STEEL LTD. £ OUTERS COLLIERIES Thickness of Seam 6 ft. '60 10 ft. Pitch of Seam Variable but average about 4$ Overburden Varies from 500 to 1,500 ft. Minos are gassy Coal moderately hard No. 1 Seam dusty whilst No, 3 is damp to wet Roof conditions generally good but some areas very bad �“JOHN DARLING11 COLLIER! "John Darling” Colliery is situated at Belmont, 12 miles south of Newcastle on the eoast. Area of the colliery holding is 10,000 acres including land and under sea coal. The area of sea coal is 5,000 acres. The nino employs 580 men. Two vertical shafts, 22 feet in dia., concrete lined, are sunk to the Borehole Seam, the depthto the floor is 878 feet. Nine seams of coal were passed through/two of which are worked the Victoria Tunnel .atc 650’ and the Borehole at 873’. Victoria Seam has a total thickness of 10’ 6” of which 5’ 9” of the bottom portion is mined, the upper part is made up of inferior coal and clay bands. These clay bands swell where there is any damp­ ness and cause roof falls up to 8 feet. At this height the roof is fairly good. All main haulage roads are excavated to the 8’ parting. Above the coal seam the strata is a blue shale. Method of work is bord and pillar. and pillars 17 yards. Width of bords are 8 yards All coal mined in this seam is mechanically cut, bored, loaded and hauled. Heavy track mounted mobile coal cutters undercut the coal for a depth of 8' 0”. The weight of the machine is 9 tons. The H.P. of the driving motor is 50 and this motor is only used for cutting. A 20 H.P. motor is fitted to the machine and drives the tramming gear, and elevating screws for tilting the cutter bar. Bower is A.G. 415 volts, 50 cycle, 3 phase. Each machine has 100 yards of 165/016 4 core flexible trailing cable attached to a reel on the machine, 3 cores are power and 1 earth. The other end is fitted with a plug which fits into anyone of a number of Terminal Boxes fixed to the main armoured cables from the supply source. The time taken,to cut an 8 yard bord 8 feet deep, including sunping in and out, is 25/30 minutes. Shot holes are bored with hand held drilling machines electri­ cally operated on a 125 volt, 3 phase, 50 cycle circuit. A small , transformer, 415 to 125 volts, is carried on the coal cutter. The drilling machine is supplied with power through a 5 core 140/010 flex­ ible cable, 3 cores for power, 1 earth and 1 pilot core for earth leakage protection. Starting and stopping is operated on 32 volt circuit/ The weight of the drilling machine is 45 lbs. Tungsten Carbide Tips are used throughout for drilling, the tips being brought out at each end of the day for regrinding. �- 2 - Mechanical Loaders are heavy track mounted mobile machines weighing 12 -tons. Loaders are electrically operated by a 50 H.P. motor. All slewing and lifting movements are done hydraulically. Gable arrangements are same as Coal Cutter. Loaders can load 6/8 tons per min. when conditions are good. □even shots are fired electrically in each Lord by a certifi­ cated shotflrer. No pillars are being worked at the moment owing to the state laws prohibiting the use of mechanical appliances in pillar extrac­ tion. Locomotives at the face are 11 tons including battery, operated by 2 - 17 H.P. motors driving each axle through one set of gearing. Batteries ax-e lead acid and alkaline and are charged at the end of each working shift. Manual operated brakes apply to each wheel set. Sanding equipment is provided'at each end of the chassis. All batteries are charged and repairs attended to in a fire proof room near the pit bottom, where any gases given off from bat­ teries pass direct into the return airway. Motor Generator Sets for charging batteries are located in a fire proof room adjacent to the charging room. Main line haulage are 3 - 20 tons Trolley Wire Locomotives operating from overhead wire with rail return at a voltage of 250 D.C. The overhead wire is suspended by insulators fixed into the underside of a 511 x 2§“ steel channel, the latter fixed to the roof. On each side of the steel channel are sheet guards fastened to the sides of the channel with bolts and springs which allow the pole to open the guard, the spring closing same after the pole has passed through. 0 The channel and guards are insulated from the roof and is so arranged that should an insulator break down or the 1 channel or guard become energised by any other means up to 25 volts potential, the power is automatically cut off at the switchboard of the Motor Gen­ erator Set. The electrical supply to the trolley wire is from 500 H.P. Motor Generator driven by an A.C. Motor. General repairs to locomotives are done in a fire proof room fitted with a 5'ton crane and necessary tools. All tracks for main line haulage are laid with 60 lb. rails on xjooden sleepers with welded plates across joints for earth con­ tinuity. Water for topping up batteries is distilled underground and located at a point where it can be gravity fed to a battery in any �of the rooms mentioned. Provision is made to change a discharged battery during the shift should it be necessary to do bo. This is done by manually operated gear which pulls the discharged one off concurrently with pulling the charged one on. Spare batteries are kept for this emergenoy. Provision is also made to cut the power off- the overhead wire in the event of the main ventilating fan stopping for any reason, and is accomplished from a hinged plate held in position between the intake and return airway by the suction of the fan. Should the fan stop the hinged plate is so arranged that when it opens it trips a circuit which in turn shut down the generator. Skips used in this seam carry 5 tons of coal and are fitted with drop bottom doors. These discharge into a 75 ton storage bin. The coal is fed out of this bin by chain feeders onto a 421* wide rubber belt 500* centres and discharges into 3 ton skips for hauling to the surface. Water from the mine workings is collected in a dam near the shaft bottom and is pumped to the surface by a 6 stage Centrifugal Pump running 1,500 R’.P.M. and driven by a. 130 H.P. A'.C. Motor. The rising main to the surface is a 6" mild steel pipe. The pump delivers 25,000 gallons of water per hour at a total head from all causes of 710’. Electrically operated pumps deal with water from the workings to shaft bottom. Borehole Seam. The thickness of the seam is 7* 3n. The portion being worked is 5’ 9” and is above the 1’ 0” of inferior coal on ths bottom. The strata above the coal seam is a dark shale up to 2 feet in thickness, and is troublesome in working the coal. It has no supporting properties and invariably falls at the working faces. It varies in thickness from 9” to 2*. Above this is another ohale but fairly strong and sakes a good roof but has to be timbered on main roads. Method of working la bord. and pillar 7 and 18 yards wide respectively. The full dip of both seams is due west with an average gradient of 1 in 24 (nearly 4%) with local gradients up to 1 in 8 (nearly 12/5). i Both seams have vertical cleavage planes or partings at vary­ ing distances from 2 to 4 feet apart and generally bords are driven at right angles to this cleavage line. Faults are common in this seam with displacements up to 6 feet, one exception being where it is 23 feet. �- 4 - Igneous Dykes are met with and are of various thicknesses from 4 to 25 feet, and in one case 100 feet. The coal is ©indered and partially coked on both sides of these dykes. Ml coal from this seam is hand Dined and filled into 25 cwt. skips and hauled by horses from the face to flats where battery locomotives haul to the shaft bottom. Pillar extraction is in operation in this seas, the method of extraction allowing almost complete recovery. tlatex’ from this seam is pumped from the workings to the pit bottom and pumped to the Victoria Seam from where it is punped to the surface by the pump at that seam. Ventilation of both seams is by a 12’ x 6’ Multiblade ®*an capable of producing 500,000 Cub. Ft. of air per min. with a 4!1 water gauge. The output of the fan at present is 380,000 Cub. Ft. of air per min. The drive is electrical by a 500 H.P. Synchro­ nous Motor driving through a hydraulic coupling water coo?-ed. JF/RT 14th' March, 1947 �BURWOOD COLLIER!! Distance from Newcastle 6 miles. Area of Holding (a) Land coal 2,020 acres (b) Sea coal 2,700 acres. Goal Seams worked ■=> Victoria Tunnel and Borehole. Depth vertical from surface to the Victoria Seam 320 and to the Borehole Seam 600, There are three shafts on the property, one of which is used for winding, and a slope drift to the bottom seam. The sectional area of drift is 15 feet wide by 7 feet 6 Inches high. The total length of slops is 2,250 feet which includes a sump at the lower end. The angle of the drift is one in three and a quarter or 30.7$. wive sections of conveyor belt are installed at various centres from 420, 460 feet. The width of belt is 42 inches. Capacity of conveyors is 550 tons per hour. . . H.P, of driving motors 110. o Each belt drive is fitted with Tandem drive through steel gears with chain drive to motor. Each belt is fitted with a Thruster Brake on the Counter Shaft to prevent reverse running when belts are stopped. As the coal is fed out of the bins it passes through a Coal Cracker which reduces the large lump coal to 10 inches. This facilitates blockages at the transfer points. The belts are Installed on one side of the drift leaving room for a transport road for men and materials. All major repairs to underground plant is done on the surface, the plant to be re­ paired is hauled up the slope. Storage bins are provided at each seam from where the coal is fed to the belt conveyors. Capacity of bin at the Victoria Tunnel Seam is 250 tons. !i CI t! !t Borehole Seam is 400 tons. Bins are rectangular, the long axis being at right angles to the conveyor. Skips of 5 and 6 ton capacity are loaded at the face of Victoria and Borehole Seams respectively and unloaded into the bins, through three bottom Goors per skip, the end door of each skip is secured by a locking bar. Victoria Seam is 13 feet 6 Inches, of which the lower 6 feet to 6 feet 3 inches is worked, the upper portion is made up of coarse coal and clay bands. On main haulage roads some of the coarse top is removed to give an 8 fest height. Above the coal seam is a blue shale and chert strata. Roof conditions are fairly good excepting places where the overhead strata is damp. In such cases the clay bands swell re­ sulting in broken roof. �- 2 - The floor is a mudstone formation with a fairly good parting at the coal seam floor* Seam dip generally about 1 in 30 in a southwesterly direction, with local gradients as heavy as 1 in 8 or nearly 12$. These con­ ditions are in some cases for and against loads. Bords are 3 yards wide and pillars 14 yards with out-throughs at 44 yard centres. Faults are common up to 19 feet displacement. Dykes of Basalt and Dolerite Rock are met in various parts of the seam and vary up to 30 feet thick excluding cinder coal on either side of same. All coal mined in this seam is out, bored, loaded, and hauled mechanically. Coal Cutters and Loaders are track-mounted and locomotives are battery operated. Boring is done by hand held drilling machines electrically operated and carried on the Goal Cutter. The operating voltage of all face plant is 415 A.C. excepting the boring machine which is 125 volts. AlkxaXrsuXtaxaxgxjSMxiSEEL Xtt&l&xsXKxSftx&xxffi^xxxshkRXxkh&nhxksxl&fixx&lkHx Ml circuits are provided with overloads and earth leakage protection. Provision is made for Trolley Wire 20 ton Locomotives for main road haulage. Tracks on main roads are 60 lbs. and intermediate 45 and 30 at the face. All face tracks are steel sleepers (ties). Minor repairs are done underground and major repairs on the surface. Ventilation of the seam by a high speed axial flow fan electrically driven and delivering 160,000 ou. ft. per minute. Borehole Seam is 11 feet inches thick of which 5 feet 3 inches to 7 feet 6 inches of the upper portion is worked. The immediate roof being splinty coal of about 1 foot thickness. The- strata above the coal, seam is a black shale of some 2’ O'* to 2’ 9" in thickness. Above thia is a strong blue shale and makes on excellent roof for main haulage roads. The dip of the seam, faults and dykes are as described in the Victoria Seas. Goal is mined from under the Baoifio Ocean as well as under land. Width of bords and pillars and centres of cut-through in land �- 3 - voi?k is 6, 12 and 46 yards respectively<, Width of horde and pillars and centres of cut-through in undersea work is 6, 8 and 38 yards respectively. Shis seam is in the transition stage from hand mining to com­ plete mechanisation. Those sections completed have heavy track mounted Coal Cutters, Loaders and LocoEiotlvee. The latter are battery operated. Main roads are 60 lbs. reduced to 45 and 30 lbs. at the faces. All minor repairs are done underground and ma^or repairs on the surface. In other sections cosl is undercut by short trail machines and bored with hand held machines and hand loaded out. This class of raining is being superseded for full mechanisation. Pillar extraction is by hand .methods, the state laws preclude the use of mechanical appliances in same. Ventilation is by a large Centrifugal fan delivering 210,000 cu. ft. per minute fitted with a ?luid Coupling Drive. Coal is brought to the surface by shaft fitted with double deck cages with 1 ton skips being hauled up game, and a slope drift from surface passing through all seams to the Sorehole. The grade of this slope is 1 in 3.25 or 30.7$. JI?/RS? 14th March, 1947 �LAMBTOM COLLIERS Lambton Colliery is situated at Redhead 9 miles south of Mewc^atle on the coast. Area of the colliery holding is 5,396 acres Including land and under sea coal. Two shafts were sunk to the Borehole Seam. Several seams were passed through, two of which have been worked, the Victoria Tunnel and Borehole at depths from the surface 200° and 435° respec­ tively. Mining is confined to the upper seam only, called the Victoria Seam. The total thickness of the Victoria Tunnel Seam is 14" of which 5° 9!1 is the working section. The total thickness of the Borehole Seam is GB 9” of which 5' 5E! is the working section. Method of working is bord and pillar, with bords 8 yards wide and pillars 12 yards wide. The seam has a full dip of 1 in 30 (nearly 3$) in a N. 80° VJ. direction with local gradients up to 1 in 8 (nearly 12/0 . The seam has vertical cleavage planes or partings at vary­ ing distances from 1 to 2-1/2 feet. Bords are driven at right angles to these cleavage planes. The unworked portion of the seam is made up of Inferior coal and clay bands, and in some sections roof water is encountered causing the ©lay bands to swell and roof troubles result. In some cases falls take place to the full height of the seam. The roof above the coal is a mudstone and will not stand without supports. Faults are common with displacements up to 8’ 0". Igneous Dykes are met with at times of varying thicknesses. These dykes are of a Basalt and Dolerite Stone. The coal is cindered and partially coked on either sides of these dykes. All coal is cut by heavy track mounted mobile coal cutting machines operating on 3’ 6“ gauge track and weighing 9 tons. Machines are operated by electric motors of flame proof type 50 H.P. and 20 H.P. 415 volts, 3 phase, 50 cycle, size of trailing cable 117/018, flexible 4 core, 3 power cores and 1 earth. Goal Borer is carried on the Goal Cutter and operates on 125 volt circuit. A small transformer is carried on the cutter from where the voltage is transformed from 415 to 125, 3 phase, 50 cycle. The flexible cable used on the borer is tough rubber flexible cable of 5 cores, 3 power cores, 1 earth and 1 pilot core for leakage protection. The boring machine Is hand held and bores 8 holes for each 8 yd. wide working place, 32 volts on boring machine for starting �- 2 - and stopping. Mechanical Loaders are track mounted mobile machines operated by two 15 H.P. motors, one operates the gathering end, the other the discharge end, same power and cables as used on Coal Gutters. The total weight of machine is 8 tons. Maximum loading is 4 tons per minute. Locomotives at the face are battery operated, weighing 11 tons with.battery. Locomotives are operated by 2 = 17 H.P. D.G. Motors, one driving each wheel set through steel gears. Manual operated brakes apply to each set of wheels. Sanding equipment is provided on each end of chassis. All batteries are charged mid repairs attended to in a fireproof room near the pit bottom where any gases given off from batteries pace direct into the main return oixway. Motor Generator Sets for charging batteries are located in a fireproof room adjacent to the charging station. Main line haulage are 2-20 ton Trolley Wire Locomotives operating from overhead wire with rail return at a voltage of 250 D.C. The overhead wire is suspended by insulators fixed into the under side of a 5 x 2-1/2° steel channel fixed to the roof. On each side of the steel channel are sheet guards fastened to the sides of the channel with bolts and springs which allow the pole to open the guard, the spring closing sane after the pole has passed through. The channel and sheet guards are insulated from the roof and is go arranged that should an Insulator breakdown or the channel or guard become energised by another means up to 25 volts potential, the power 1g automatically cut off at the switch board of the motor generator set. The motor generator set supplying power to the Trolley Wire Locomotive is 500 H.P. Ml tracks on main lines are 60 lb. to the yard rails, the fishplates are welded throughout for earth continuity. Water is distilled underground electrically for topping up batteries. & small air compressor electrically operated is installed near the charging station for cleaning batteries. Racks for changing batteries during the shift are provided at the charging station. Provision is made at the brick stopping between the intake and return airway at the end of the charging room to automatically cut the poirei’ off the overhead wire in the event of the main ventilat­ ing fan stopping from any cause. This is accomplished by making a �small hole in. the brick stopping between the intake and return, and. fitting a hinged plate over the hole. The suction on the •plate pulls the plate over the hole when the auction ceases (which Eleans the fan has stopped), the hinged flap is arranged that it falls open and makes contact with a circuit that in turn opens the main switch on the generator. Ventilation: Two ventilation fans are located on the surface, the first a 72" Sirroco double inlet delivering 100,000 cubic feet per nin. and driven by a 180 H.P. 415 volts, 3 phase, 50 cycle. Motor drive to fan is by 15 V. Belts. The second fan is a 30" double inlet and delivers 50,000 cubic feet per min. and driven by a 80 H.P. Motor 415 volts, 3 phase, 50 cycle. Motor drive to fan is 14" flat endless belt. Major repairs to cutters and loaders and retiring of loco wheels are done on the surface. Electric head lamps of the Edison "J" type are used throughout the mine and are charged and repaired at the surface. JF/RT 13-3-47 �NO. 2 �April 25 p 1%'7 Mr. Io McLennan The Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. 122 Little Collins Street Melbourne, Australia P. 0. Box 86 A Dear Mr. McLennan: I was more than pleased to receive your letter of April 15th informing us of the proposed visit of your coal mine people, Messrs. HeyxTOod-A’ilkinson and Grierson to the Hock Springs coal fields in the near future. Me will endeavor to give them the inform­ ation they desire about our mining methods that are being used here. Trusting that you are enjoying your new work at your mine office in Melbourne, as I am sure you will find plenty of work to keep you busy, with kindest regards and best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Original Signed; V. 0. MURRAY V. 0. MURRAY. VOM/pb �TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS- “Hematite” Melbourne TELEPHONES : M.U.8OO1 | (IO LINES) ALL COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD EE ADDRESSED TO THE ; Company • P.O. Box 36 a Your Ref. Our Ref. IMcL:LJT. 15th April,!9U7 Mr. V. 0. Murray, The Union Pacific Coal Co., ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING. Dear Mr. Murray, I was very pleased indeed to get your letter of warch 19th, and to know that you safely received the December issue of the"B.H. P. Review". We have arranged for this journal to go forward to you regularly now, and I feel sure you will find it of some interest and remind you of your friends down here. You may have already heard that two of our coal mining people, uessrs. Heywood-Wilkinson and Grierson are shortly leaving for U.S.A., and I know that it has been arranged with Mr. Bayless that they call at Rock Springs. I do hope they have the pleasure of meeting you, and I am quite certain that they will be most interested in all you are doing. As you will see by the address at the head of this letter, I have recently been transferred to our head office in Melbourne where I am finding plenty to keep me busy. With my kindest regards to you and all the other friends I made in my short visit to Rock Springs. Yours sincerely, P.S. Would you please remember me very kindly to mr. Livingston. �March 19, 1947 Mr. I. M. McLennan, Esq. Iron & Steel f.'orks Newcastle % Broken Hill Proprietary Co.., Ltd. MeIbourne , Australia Dear Mr. McLennans I have received a copy of your Decenberp 1946 issue of the ”BHP Review” which is indeed most interesting. I have noticed that you returned safely to Australia last September 26 and also remember quite distinctly the short visit you paid The Union Pacific Coal Company while visiting the United States of America. With kindest regards and best wishes, I remain s Very truly yours, C i rin»l Sigi «d; V. X MURRAY VOM/pb ��1/ August 27, 1946 Mr. Ian M. McLennan c/o J. F. Jobson American Representative Room 1016 1011 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. McLennan: ”'e are happy to have your letter of date August 17, 1946 and assure you that your visit was welcome end most enjoyable. ?fe shall be happy to remember you to the rest of the organization and invite you to drop in on us at your pleasure. »e shell keep in mind your kind invitation to visit Australia, this depending upon my proposed flying experience during the month of September. If same proves successful, we might surprise you with a visit. Kindest wishes. Cordially yours, Original Sl«ne^’ . H. G. LWINGSION HCL:DaP �'alia,. Registered office 422 Little Collins Street Melbourne c. 1. AUG 2 5 1946 AUSTRALIA. ----- ... Vi£S PHEsik. OPERAtink, ' c/o Jo Fo Jobson American Representative Room 1016 1011 Chestnut Street Philadelphia j, Pa. August 17, 1946o / Mr. Ho Go Livingston Vice-President Union Pacific Goal Co. Rock Springs, (groining« Dear Mr. Livingston? Now that I am back in New fork, I am writing you this short note to tell you how much I did appreciate all your kindness and help to me at Rock SpringSo I did so much enjoy meeting you, Mr. Murray, and your other officers, and I came away full of admiration for your developments in the coal bearing areas of Wyoming. I do hope that one day you will fulfil your threat and come and see us in Australia. Even if you don’t do that I hope that you will feel free to write to me on any subject at all where you think we could be of any help to you. It could be that some things we do may be of interest because many of our conditions are so similar to yours. We had a splendid trip from Rock Springs to Salt Lake City despite the fact that we were held up for a few hours by stones across the road brought down by a cloud-bursti Mr. Orme was indeed a very gooddriver and companion for the trip. Would you be good enough to remember me very kindly to Mr. Murray and to your other officers whom I met. With kindest regards. Yours sincerely, Ian M. McLennan IMHcL/mh ��Form 2191 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed M TELEGRAM 3 GR MI CT OMAHA NF AU£ 11 1946 HOL SG MR C Y SYME AND I M MCLENNAN ARRIVE TRAIN 3 MONDAY 12TH TOLLMAN CAR 30 PLEASE ARRANGE RESERVATIONS PARK HOTEL AND HAVE SOME ONE MEET THEM E'TQA 1223 . M-33 �June 29,0 --r. Ian M. McLennan c/o David Baker, Jr. 1011 Chestnut Street Phi1adelph1a, ?ennsy 1vania (co; Mr. H. 0. Livingston) Dear Mr. McLennan; I have yours of June 25. and the management of The Union Pacific Coal Company; Mr. I. N. Baylees, President, Omaha; Mr. H. C. Livingston, Vice President-Operation; Mr. V. 0. .Murray, General Manaver; and Mr. I. M. Charles, Chief Engineer; will be delighted to meet you and Mr. Syme, showing you all courtesies possible, Including the inspection of any of our mines, power plants, villages, etc. With respect to your suggestion that you stop off at Omaha: I would be most delighted to'have you do so, but as your time seems to be short, may I offer a substitute suggestion? I would recommend that you go through to* Rock Springs, Wyoming, and if you will get in touch with Mr. H. L. Lauby, Eastern Traffic Manager, Union Pacific Railroad, Suite 350 Rockefeller Center (625 Fifth Avenue) New York City, or Mr. C. H. Saltmarsh, General Agent, same location, they will work out a schedule for you from New York to Rock Springs. If you prefer to deal with our representative at Philadelphia, call on Mr. Morton Mann, General Agent, 904 Girard Trust Building, Broad Street and South Penn Square; or if you are in Washington, Mr. H. B. Blanchard, Washington Representative, 600 Shoreham Building, 15th and H Streets, N.M. Any of these men will work out schedules from New York, Washington or Philadelphia to Rock Springs, and our train Mo. 3, known as the Transcon, carries through sleepers from both New York and Washington, via the New York Central from Hew York only, ©nd via the Pennsylvania Railroad ifrom New York and Washington, to Rock Springs. On your arrival at Rock Springs, or if you could give • me advance notice after checking with any of the railroad agents above mentioned, we would attempt to negotiate transportation by plane from either Rock Springs (which, however, is restricted �- 2 - to one plane dally), or preferably from Salt Lake City (within easy driving distance of Rock Springs), or Cheyenne, In other words, we would try to get you back by plane or possibly by one of our streamliners from Rook Springs to Chicago, with con­ nection to New York City. If you stopped over in Omaha Monday, August 12, very little would be gained except to meet a few of our Omaha people; no coal mines located in the State of Nebraska. On the other hand, I think we can do’ the honors in Rook Springs equally tzell, coupling the work of gathering information with an exchange of ideas, perhaps driving over to Salt Lake City for a look at that most interesting city, where a number of coal men are located. kindly write me further on the suggestions outlined, and be assured that you will be most welcome to Omaha, and our Wyoming properties. Mr. Bayless, whose office adjoins mine, will be very anxious to meet you, as will Messrs. Livingston and Murray at Rock Springs. When you write Mr. Lewis, please give him my compil­ mentis. 'd ord1ally yo urs, Original �LlOo 1 �October 16, 1945 Hr. David Baker, Jr, 1011 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dear Sir; This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of October 13th. We shall be happy to have the officers of the Australian Iron & Steel Ltd. visit our properties here5 however, we do no washing of coal. Our coal mining and preparation is for locomotive and auxiliary fuel. Suggest we be advised a few days ahead of the arrival of these gentlemen in order that reservations may be made. Very truly yours, INB:DAT �’'.a/w /rTr/i/iatie 7/a/>ia7437fi 77aM> S>i7/</feM ^/u/twTeftAta/, October 13, 1945. The Union Pacific Coal Co Rock Springs, Wyo. Att. Mr. Eugene McAuliffe. Gentlemen: My clients Australian Iron & Steel Ltd. advise me that two of their officers Messrs. C.W. Miller, Executive Officer and H.S.Hufton, Research Officer anticipate arriving for a visit next week and desire to see your company in the interest of coal handling and washing. Please advise if a War Department Permit is necessary. Yours very truly DBJr.sw � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a Visit from Australia Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Oct 1945, Aug 1946, May 1947, Aug 1950 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, Australia, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from Australia. All documents are held together by a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource I.N. Bayless, N.E. Jones, V.O. Murray, I.M. Charles, H.C. Livingston, F.S. Mulock, Walter F. Clarke, Essington Lewis, Ian M. McKennan, Eugene McAuliffe, David Baker Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0323 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/881248b206c61a823bf44c537aa9e4a9.pdf 0e4ef30a8c7ca08f5da6f9847e5b3b77 PDF Text Text FILE NO. ’ 284 VISITORS - Chinese 1- To C» T’ANG AUG/45 2- Ching WU OCT/45 3- Lanning CHEN JUN/45 4- Yu Chi TIEN An. Ju-TSENG Chun-Lin WANG En-Ming LIU JUN/46 Chao SHOU-YEN Wei LIANG Tzu Nai CHUAN Yang KING-SHU JUL/46 5- Chu CHIAO JAN/47 �NO. 5 �January 21, 1947 .alter H. Parker ^rofessor of lining , University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Minneapolis 14, Minnesota Dear Professor Parker: Ifc have your letter of date January 18th, advising that Mr. Chu Chiao, Chinese student at your Institute, would like to visit our property, observing performance of coal cutters, coal loaders, transporta­ tion, ventilation and tipple equipment. 7;e shall be happy to have Mr. Chiao call and avail him of the facilities of our property^ Yours very truly, HCL:DAP �University of Minnesota Institute of Technology Minneapolis 14 SCHOOL OF MINES AND METALLURGY DEPARTMENT OF MINING January 18, 1947 Union Pacific Coal Co., Rock Springs, Wyo. Gentlemen: Mr. Chu Chiao, a student from China, is returning to China. He is a metallurgical student hut has taken some work in coal mining. He would like to see some actual coal mining, especially coal cutters, coal loaders, transportation, ventilation and tipple equipment. He is traveling to Seattle, over the Union Pacific via Portland, and I have suggested to him that he stop off at Rock Springs on Monday, January 27th Will it be possible for him to see some of your operations? It will be greatly appreciated by him and also by us here at the School of Mines. There will probably not be time for an exchange of letters before he leaves Minneapolis but I will give him a letter of introduction and tell him to go to your office in Rock Springs. Yours sincerely, YffiP/L ’Walter H. Parker, Professor of Mining ��August 13, 1946 , ?o N. H. Lesser Pierce Management Scranton Electric Building Scranton 3S Pennsylvania Dear Sir; We have your letter of August 10th, with reference to forwarding any mail received here for the Chinese engineers. Yesterday we forwarded one letter which had been received from Chao Shou-yen from Salt Lake City, Utah, addressed to this Company, with the request that we hold for the arrival of a Chinese engineer (no record of name) but who failed to arrive in Rock Springs. This was sent to you at the I-iauto Coal Company, Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania. This is the only mail we have received that has not been delivered direct. Very truly yours, Original Signed^ H. C. LIVINGSTON] HCL:DAP ��I n?ECEiVED~j PIERCE MANAGEMENaIi 3 1946 ENGINEERING consultants and mine managers ANTH IRACITE - EJOAL ~ BITUMINOUS I V^j-EHAT!^______ | �After 3 Days. Return To PIERCE MANAGEMENT SCRANTON ELECTRIC BUILDING SCRANTON 3, PA. �a/ o kr, William H Lesser Hauto Goal Company He s qu eb on ing, Penn a 0 July 25, 1946. f'r. L Livingston Vice President Union. Pacific Goal Go. Rock Springs, Wyoming De ar LIr. Liv ings t on: I am. very glad to inform, you that we are visiting the Colorado Fuel £: Iron Company Denver, Colorado Not/ and shall go to Benton, Ill, to visit the ,;ilmington ?: Franklin Goal Company on July 29 0 he expect to return to Scranton, penne on Aug, 2nd. If there are some letters forwarded to your Company by Ur. Lesser for my friends: Wei Liang, Yang Ming-shu, Tzu Nat Ghuan and me, would you please take care of them to the address shown below: c/o Mr, William H Lesser Hauto Goal Gompany Nesquehoning, Penna. Thank you very much for your kindness, I am. Very truly yours, Chao Shou-yen �Rock Springs - July 23, 1946 Lir. Io N. Bayless: Kindly refer to your letter of date July 19$ 1946, file OSO-3$ requesting short resume of the visit of Chinese engineers to our mines. The second group of four arranged for through Pierce Manage­ ment, Inc, arrived at Rock Springs on date July 8, 1946, the names of the young engineers being as follows: Tzu Rai Chuan and Yang Ming-Shu. Chao Shou-yen, Uei Liang, The young men stated that they were all residents of north China (definitely not Cantonese) and that their activities on return to China would be management of mines in Manchuriao The four men were assigned to Resident Engineers Gasper at Reliance and Lebar at Stansbury and they spent the period of July 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th underground at the above-mentioned properties. They also visited the Power Plant at Rock Springs and the Engineering Department at the Rock Springs Beadquarters Building, Our impression of the group from the numerous questions pro­ pounded is that they are much more interested in cost figures, which we do not divulge, than they arc in actual technique of mechanical mining. It would appear that their duties in their homeland are more that of cost accounting than planning and supervision of work. The group loft for Castlegate, Utah on Saturday, July 13th. Orijinal Signed- HCL:DAP G. �080-3 Omaha, July 19, 1946* Mr. H. 0 , Livingston: Will you please give me a short resume of the Chinese engineers who were at the mines last week? �THE RUCK SPRINGS DAILY ROCKET Rock Springs, Wyoming JULY 13, 1946 Properties of The Union Pacific Coal company in the Rock Springs area were being inspected this week by a group of four Chinese graduate mining engineers from North China, Included in the group are Chao Shcu-yen, Wei Liang, Tzu Nai Chuan and Yang Ming-Shu. They will leave today for Castle Gate, Utah, to inspect coal mines in that vicinity. The four men are part of a group of 12 Chinese engineers who are towing coal mining properties throughout the United States to learn the various phases of me­ chanical mining for adoption in their own country. The engineers represent coal companies and Chinese government mines which are producing bitu­ minous metallurgical coal in north China. They report a deposit of coal there having a 450-foot seam, and assert that the coal is being mined entirely by hand, with op­ erations being carried on both by subten-anean and open-pit mining processes. �Juno 22;.3 1946 The Co S«.-Card Irpn'i.’orks Co P. 0. Bdx 117 / Denver 1, Colorado Pierce Management 60S Electrical Building S c rant on a Fennsylvania Gentlemen Some Chinese engineers visited our properties las week and were very much interested and impressed with your rotary dump. They asked us for a print of same. They wor< An Ju-Tseng Lie. En-Hing Tien Yii-Chi Wang Chun-Lin c/o Fierce Management 60S Electrical Building Scranton, Pennsylvania If you wish to send each a print of your dumpa we are sure they will appreciate ito Yours very truly, Onsinal Sis“cSs t M. CHAMPS �JUAiO 24 5 1946 Pierco Management 60S Electrical Building Scranton, Pennsylvania Copy; Mr. H. C. Livingston Gentlemen: Attachod hereto four blue prints of Sheet No. MD-S prepared by the Allen and Garcia Company engineers of the General Layout of our Stansbury Mine Tipple, which havo been requested by some cliinese—engineers who recently visited our properties. They were: An Ju-Tseng, Liu En-Ming, Tien Yii-Chi, and '.Vang Chun-Lin ;jc will appreciate it if you will see that each of them receives one of the attachod prints. Yours very truly, Enc« �Rock Springs - June 22, 1946 Ur. I. No Bayless; Referring to your recent letter concerning the visit of a number of Chinese arranged through Pierce Management of Scranton, Pennsylvania, the following men arrived in Rock Springs on June 19: Yu Chi Tien, An Ju-Tseng, Chun-Lin Wang and Liu, En-Ming. All of the above men are graduate mining engineers, varying in age from 32 to 37 years and have been sent to the United States by their government for one year's training under Pierce Management. They arrived in the United States during the month of September, 1945, and expect to return to China during September, 1946. All speak English quite fluently and indicate their choice of American food and drink as the hot-dog and Coca-Cola. Evidently they have not become acclimated to the extent of the American choice of Scotch and Soda and T-bone steak. Their time, to date, has been spent in visiting the bituminous and anthracite mines in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. They v/ere quite enthusiastic in their praise of our mines, especially the matter of pillar extraction with duckbills and Joy loading machines, and very much impressed by the systematic timbering program which they state is the only example they have observed so far. Their activities during the week were entirely at Reliance and Stansbury districts, together with a visit to the Rock Springs Power Plant and the General Office. �- 2 - They have been furnished a copy of our Book of Safety Rules, Book of Standards and the History of The Union Pacific Coal Company. The gentlemen are leaving for Utah on Sunday, June 23, to visit Carbon County mines. Their United States address is as follows: Name c/o Pierce Management Scranton Electric Building Scranton, Pennsylvania A copy of their China address has been placed on file in this office. request. HCL/rt Should you care to have them, we will forward them to you on ��E'■C7SP? 7 A a/ % .Mr. /; /J-Z TZE-PE! D avenpor-T Pood -Tie nr5 idis cdma / S S’ stfS? �Send the following telegram, subject to the terms on bacfy hereof, which are hereby agreed to 6 o p y FOR VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS TODAY Omaha, June 14, 1946 Fo Lo Rousselle Please Management Scranton, Pao Have changed, reservations to 19th0 I. N. Bayless f FT--. - . p. �© o p y Scranton, Pa.t June 14, 1946 Io No Bayless, Pres., Union Pacific Coal Co0 1416 Dodge Sto, Omaha. Due difficulties railroad reservations Chinese engineers unable arrive Rock Springs until 1?45 AM Wednesday, June 19th, Train 21, and report your office about noon Wednesday. Because of time of arrival could we prevail further your good offices and ask you make two double room reservations YMCA or hotel. Advise us fast wire collect. F. L. ROUSSELLE Pierce Management �Form 2191 7-45-5M M UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed M TELEGRAM ROCK SPRINGS JUNE 15 1946 TNB (T’AHA 3-129 RESERVATIONS CHINESE STUDENTS MADE PARK HOTEL C-28 HCL �Form 2191 7'45-5M M UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed M TELEGRAM 15 GR B KV1 OMA 442 PM JUN 14 1948 HOL SG CHINESE STUDENTS ARRIVE* TRAIN 21 UED 19th INSTEAD <fe?th CHANGE RESERAVTIONS FOR 'TYiiO DOUBLE ROOM'S 19th. B-129. INB �Rock Springs - June 10, 1946 Mr-. H. C. Livingston’^ Mr. I. M. Charles Attaching, hereto, copy of letter dated June 7, 1946 from Pierce Management, Inc., F. L. Rousselle, Secretary-Treasurer, also copy of my wire in answer thereto, concerning Chinese technicians .. . ........ who are to visit the property, same being self-explanatory. INBsDAT �Charge to the account of. J CLASS OF SERVICE DESIRED I DOMESTIC TELEGRAM DAY LETTER -$ -CHS-UNION PACIFIC COAL CO. CABLE X. ORDINARY URGENT RATE SERIAL DEFERRED NIGHT LETTER NIGHT LETTER Patrons should chock class of service desired; otherwise the message will be transmitted as a telegram or ordinary cablegram■ f Send the following telegram, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to FOR VICTORY OIDY WAK DOMDS TODAY Omahaj Nebraska June 8, 1%6 F. L. Rousselle Pierce Management, Inc. Scranton, Pennsylvania Letter 7th. Dates for Chinese technicians satisfactory. Advise later detail their arrival. I. N. Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Co. �- c o p y - PIERCE MANAGEMENT,INC. Scranton, Pa. June 7, 1946 Mr. I. N. Bayless, president The Union pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge street Omaha 2, Nebraska PILE 080-3 Dear Mr. Bayless; As you will recall, we were forced to call off the trip of three groups of Chinese technicians who were to visit your property. Me would now like to reinstate this trip with the first group of four reaching your mines on June 17th, the second group of four on July Sth, and the third group of three on July 29th. Me trust this will be satisfactory to you, and because of the fact that the time is rather short until they leave Scranton, we would appreciate if you would wire us collect to the effect that the above arrangements will be satisfactory. ;;e very much appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Yours very truly, PIERCE MANAGEMENT, INC. /s/ F. L. Rousselle, Secretary-Treasurer �080-3 May 9, 1946 be: Mr. H. C. Livingston Mr. F. L. Roussells Secretary-Treasurer Pierce Management Scranton Blectric Bldg. Scranton 3, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Roussells: This Kill acknowledge receipt of your wire dated May 9 informing us that due to the present coal strike, the Chinese group will not visit our properties as scheduled. We are sorry that it is necessary to postpone the trip but agree that it would probably have been uninteresting if the mines were not in operation, and everyone would be very busy, if the strike is.settled soon, trying to get the properties back into operation. If the trip is scheduled for a later date, will be pleased to cooperate. Sincerely yours, Origins'. f in-'"'’ I. N. BAALESS �1 . . I c ■■ April 10, 1943 Mr. F. L. Roussells Pierce Management, Inc. Scranton Electric Building Scranton 3, Pennsylvania (co: Mr. H. C. Livingston) Dear Mr. Eousselle: ■Jour letter of April 2, addressed to Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, who is at this time in Washington attending wage negotiations: We will cooperate with your plan of showing the groups of students around the mines, and if you will notify me a few days before the expected arrival, we will make hotel reserva­ tions, as well as arrangements to conduct them underground at as many of our operations as they care to view. Sincerely yours, Or\uWl‘ ' I. N. BAYLESS I ' i •] 194S ■> ° vic-’ . nt. | ; �copyPIERCE MANAGEMENT, INC. Scranton Electric Bldg. Scranton 3, Pennsylvania April 2, 1946 Mr. Eugene McAuliffe Chairman, Board of Trustees The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear Mr. McAuliffe; As you will remember, Mr. Pierce in anticipation of his being in China about this time, wrote you the latter part of 1945 asking if you would be kind enough to take for a period of two weeks two Chinese engineers in whose training we have been cooperat­ ing with the Chinese Government. Since that time some changes in plans have occurred and we are wondering if you would cooperate in the following plans. We are trying to arrange a trip for eleven of these engineers through the mines in Colorado, Utah, Illinois and Wyoming and a visit to the plant of the Goodman Manufacturing Company in Chicago. This trip is being arranged because these boys have expressed an interest to see the type of mining in these various states before their return to China. You originally agreed to take two of these men for a period of two weeks, but under the present schedule for this trip we plan on sending out three groups - two of four and one of three - and we would not anticipate that any one of these groups would.be at your mines more than three or four days instead of the two-week period originally contemplated. The present schedule calls for the first group to arrive at your mines on May 13th, the second group on July 15th and the third group on August 19th. Naturally this trip is being planned in advance but subject to the present bituminous wage negotiation, which of course, might necessitate a change in this trip. We, of course, will keep in touch with this situation, and unless the labor dispute has been satisfactorily settled we will not send them on to you. We will later try to give you the definite time of arrival with the thought in mind that you can arrange accommodations for these men as suggested by Mr. Pierce in his letter. While this represents quite a change from Mr. Pierce's original'plan, we trust you will be able to go along on'the change and would appreciate your advice to this effect. /s/ F. L. Rousselle Seore tarv-TmaRurar Yours very truly, PIERCE MANAGEMENT, INC. , - �December 21, 1945 Ur. Jaras s H. Pierce Pierce Management Scranton Electric Building Scranton, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Pierce: Referring to your letter of December 14, regard­ ing the plane of two Chinese mining engineers for an inspec­ tion of our properties in the summer of 1945: We will be very glad, indeed, to show these gentlemen our operations and furnish them whatever information I they require, and X will appreciate your giving me a little advance notice of their arrival so that we may arrange for hotel accommodations at Rook Springs. Sincerely yours, Original EUGENE McAUUFFE Mr. Bayless: Copy of Mr. Pieroe’s letter attached. DEC 241 �PIERCE MANAGEMENT Scranton Electric Building Scranton, Pennsylvania December 14, 1945 Mr. Eugene McAuliffe The Union Pacific Coal Company Union Pacific Building Omaha, Nebraska Dear Mr. McAuliffe; As you know, Pierce Management has been engaged by the Chinese Government on the rehabilitation and expansion of the coal and mineral industries of China. As part of the work essential to our introducing American equipment into these mines, I have undertaken the training of a large group of Chinese mining officials who have been in various mines of the United States for the past three months. I am trying to give them a very comprehensive picture of different types of mining methods and equipment, and inasmuch as I must go to China shortly, I am now planning schedules for cer­ tain of these men between the months of May and September, 1946. I would appreciate very much if you would extend me the • courtesy of permitting two of these engineers to spend two weeks on your property sometime between May and September next year, we to give you ample notice of the arrival of these men. With kindest regards. Sincerely yours, /s/ James H. Pierce �NO. 3 �080-3 February 4, 1946 Mr. Manning Chen e/o Mr4 0. F. Sargonfre 1 Box 34^ Memphis^Tenneasee (co: Mr. H. C. Livingston) Dear Mr. Ghen: Thia will acknowledge receipt of your letter dated January 29. Me are sorry that your friend was unable to make an Inspection tour of the mines. If you find time to again visit our properties before you return to China, we will appreciate having you, and I am sure that our organisation at Rook Springs will be glad to renew your acquaintance at any time in the future. Sincerely yours, �c o p y ■= c/o Mr. 0. F. Sargenfrei Resident Engineer Madjoski and Masters, Engineers Box 345 Memphis, Tennessee January 29, 1946 Mr. I. No Bayless President and Manager The Union Pacific Goal Company Omaha, Nebraska Dear Sir: It has been so nice of you to extend your invitation to my friend Mr. Linson Hsu to visit one of your mines when he was receiving his training in Wyoming Division. Thank you so much. Later on, I learned out that he, Mr. Hsu, had not been able to go and visit the mine. Sure he felt very sorry about it and he ever tried to make it even when he was already back to Omaha. I am sorry too that so far he has not been able to avail himself of this grand invitation. Our time of training was set for one year. It is almost up till now. It has been scheduled to leave for China around the middle of February, at the port of San Francisco, California. I came down to Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 21, and moved to here Memphis, Tennessee yesterday. Here the Arkansas arid Tennessee states are jointly building a bridge over the Mis­ sissippi river. It was just started. That's my mission to come to have some training on the job. By the time I left Omaha, my friend Mr. Hsu was awaiting an arrangement to New York City. So, I imagine, he would not be able to see you and your mine. Recalling the enjoyable visit last June, to your mine at Rock Springs, I certainly have treasured it so much and recog­ nized as one of the finest trips my Lord Christ has made for me in the past one year here. Well, if I can't see you and friends at your place be­ fore leaving this land for China, I will still remember you and all friends in prayer. Thank you and all friends with you for the kindness ever extended to me. ! Best regards to you. s Sincerely yours, /s/ Chen, Manning �October 5a 1945 Uro Manning Chen c/o Mr, P.o a« Kane, Structural Engr. Uo P. Headquarters building 1416 Podge Street Ctaaha 2.D I’ebraska Copys Mr. Linson Hsu c/o Mr. To L. Pldcoek, Divn. Engr. Union Pacific Railroad Comparer Choyenno, vyoning Ur. I. M. Charles Rock Springs, *7yoaing Dear Sir: Ihis will acknowledge receipt of your communication dated October 3rd. i7e will be glad to allow your friend, I'r. Linson Hsu to visit one of our nines. If ho will write us the tins of his arrival in Rock Springs, wo will provide scaeono to accoiapaw hia through the nine. Voxy truly yours, Origin"*! Sisnc:i: No BAYLESS IHBsDAT �^r' ^-/-ruc/ural G^'r . i o I & t (j p pijqs g(jd. & . ’ l Mr. i.N. B^y/es^ I <o cS’/’r«e.^“ '—2, file.br’d OeA 3' ,9^5‘ ’'^S«q/<£_(r)-f ^tn4 Gc,iOer-a?/ I ne. J^,o^ Pac.^-C Ca3>l O^fary- Rod P<=3 C k t' r r sjns- “Vloe.r'e, 4r<5>toinji or> k (’r> 3 o r^ l—!.S'~4 wi'+h <s«s ✓&<■» <yr u s rece-tVi'^ CU,\>h Pac.’pc r5.a>.V^ae/ , ®r»e. SysAtm. • -5 Jii^dy inr ^i-ff'Zr&.rvh /•'ir>«-J O+ R;;^+ mw. <5omg_ i'/n CoionQcJ'ioD v'j'y° yrti.'tjd £) ,'i/i'il'oO . Ma-y^er- Garpenfer' " >‘~> Ml'5 /oC^tl'0'r> m<i o4 ~th<g_ v'S/u.oj/j 1^. 4v'f> 4-o •yomr' J S. < o c k 5pr Urd if)<SL z Mr. j5^+ ^1'3 v° 4o jre-CL. yomr r-vM'neL . 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' ^ncTher VVi+h (Mr. 3^.‘4-h/ b«.s4 5> uXlcJia-Vi'-Pm I 14 rsnex^b- b^_ 4-o you. <ai/-^ Mir. </k/‘Gk S'hdrp •■^‘t rveer- , ~c,-d&y , d Kock-Sp f-1'o^ s , |4- 2 r><J c4r<5-!j4’i^ yowr- crAfi'c^ . m o •sv enn sift'-/- G, r ««.-!• r^0 J "kj f^r. ��July 19, 1945 Hr, Hanning Chen e/o B fc B Department Union Pacific Railroad Company1735 19th Street Denver, Colorado Dear Hanning? Received your letter of July 17th„ Am glad you enjoyed your trip around the office and mines of The Union Pacific Coal Company., Hr, Smith and Hr, Williams spoke of you, also Hr, Sharp □ Ue will be glad to have you visit us at any time, You no doubt will find it very hot weather in Kansas this time of year; however, you are gaining some very valuable experience. The. solution used for foot baths in our bath­ houses is nOnox”, manufactured by the Onox Company, Incorporated, 1248 Wholesale Street, Los Angeles 21, California, Looking forward to seeing you in the near future, I remain Very truly yours, IBBsIl ��-/w c/o Mr \ J) x pzM-rOD ft 0/0/ UpRR C-o A^^rif~ ^5/<£><£./ v Mr. I, M• Z^y/exf I A^ Mru\X) P&c-f •f-fQ. M'Oct/ Co^np&rf^ Dear iir. \/o^r c^,'^ic _Je r « 'Q-<Z. c s> // 4 o I iw s- ■+!'"'£) <5) c.lr3)^ce. -U v/vov-sh i p 4^ 3>-^ -Ti P 4heir" o^r^-Beare^ ^ce(Q^/4l^^/ (zt>cM. £><2s-/- sp!tce-looki'n£ homes As)//^^z^/ ba-fA scco^nnc’Jei-f-forsS f>;c.Mtred s ^ladern p/^ys»'c^^> / ^ar& £,r 44, e ^^er^rooicnA inne^ir~ l^ann Hr. ?ryd^ , +he sat^f p <~aH,-ce a-F ^t„ers /oeir_ ■* lv;+h kcs-f u/.lhej l/\7i [M&sns I ■ a . ’ j o . rGEN 4rZ-44e ^S-h'w.0^1 Sln&rp<s_ ’ JUN 2i - a>mft 4* you _ .J rf _ f-ftos �Rock Springs ■= June 18, 1945 11? o Eugono. He Auliffe ? Mro Manning Chen, the Chinaman referred to in your letter of February 23rd, filo 080=3, arrived at Rock Springs Thursday evening and was th© guest of The Union Pacific Coal Company until Friday night, Juno 15th0 Chen visited some of tho underground works as well as the surface plants at Stansbury and Reliance» He was very appreciative and expressed his sincere thanks and appreciation.. Signed; ’• Al. BAYLESS INBsABJ * Ss^5 ���/ea/e by 63 «ck £pr'oj>s by X'-iX f>-f~1- �BCG - Mrso Ao Mo Outsen Miss Anna Baird ’ ’ . cbxjy '-'6 27-. >’ xcck ': o S' -r o uo iJlViilgLiiiQilS : ..’o Vo Oo LUi .’ays i» Mo UharXetK (GG - El*. augcno Me luliffu) I am attaching copy o£ lottos* froa Ek*. EoAalii'fa czuLalniiiM ttot scno iina nithin tho n<X-G Chc’i3 .".avinins _ ._-r_ .-■-■=» eaH upon un -.•.a.:bku Msso o? lec’>» Uta dn.3 abound oux> idna-So If t'da young aaa sko«a up isx ny abav:X ..yaX-1 cnrvost to to shcrjn cvosy csurt.cqy rjid ’«o given an opnas^Gw/ity bo viait- the tsinos without ccl^y0 Original Signed: i. H. BAYLESS F ..5 �THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY 1416 DODGE STREET EUGENE MCAULIFFE, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OMAHA, 2, NEBRASKA IN REPLY,PLEASE REFER TO FIIE 080-3_____ February 23, 1945 Mr. I, No Bayless - President The Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming (cc: Mr. Chen, Manning) Dear Mr. Bayless: Sometime within the next three months Mr. Chen, Manning will call on you for the opportunity of looking around our mines. This young man, a Chinese, is one of 69 honor students,who is a graduate bridge engineer and who, with six of his associates, has been assigned to the Union Pacific Railroad to study various angles of railroad construction and operation. Mr. Chen is under the direct supervision of Chief Engineer B. H. Prater, and as soon as his program is completed, will get out on the road for study purposes. He tells me that he worked in a Chinese shaft mine and is very curious to see one of our mines and our method of mining with machinery. This boy, with his associates, including a young woman, is the product of American Christian Missionaries, Mr. Chen having served for some time as a missionary among his people. Therefore I know you will be deeply interested in him and will see that he is taken care of in your absence. It may be some time before he gets to Rock Springs, his first assignment that of a bridge job at Cozad. You will be interested in knowing that "Chen" is a family name and the first name, "Manning", was chosen by himself. In order to conform to passport regulations, he signs "Chen, Manning", but I am sure he would like to be called by his first name as he is a very gracious and friendly boy, speaking school English very well. Please see that he is taken care of when he appears at Rock Springs. Sincerely yours, �NO. 2 �m c tu i? a K1 n ii m �Rcak Springs - October 21, 1945 Vo 0. Murray iJr. Ho G. living#ton Hr o I, iio Charles &*. Co Go Sharrer Hr. F. J. Peternell) X recalved the following from Ur. E. P.o t’alao, Engineer in Charge, Eepartcont of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, reaver, Colorado: n12r. Ching .'.u, Reproaentative of the Technical Section, ministry of Economic Affairs, Chungking, China, dealree to visit your operations at Hinns, uyomlag, and probably sc-mo of ths mines in the Rock Springs district. I am having Er. E. ... Herman, of this office, take Hr. ,'u to Lcunt Harris on the 22nd, and ihoy uhuuld arrive at fenna, October 24. If it is 4.greeable with you, please make arrangements fos* Er. .Ai to go underground on Cctoter 24. ar. u v<ill then leave Hanna on Catcher 25 and bo in Rock Springs the earning of the 26th to visit you and sake arrangements for visiting the nines in that district. •’Anythin^ that you can do to expedite Lr. til’s visit will be greatly appreciated.1’ You will note that Er. E. A. LSorgan and U*. Ching .Ai vd.ll arrive at Hanna on October 24th and Meh to go into the mines. They will then come to Reck Springs and visit none of the mines in the Rock Springs field. X would suggest that every courtesy ba ehovm Hr. Ching U and Lr. Horgan, they being allowed to visit any of the nines and view any of the eperaticns they wish. Origins! Signeti: H. N. BAYLESS L3:LL a at. OCT 2<: �October 21, 1945 Mr. E. IL Maize Engineer in Charge Department of the Interior Bureau, of T'ines Denver, Colorado Dear Hr. Maize: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter stating that Lir. E. A. Morgan and Er. Ching Vai mill visit our mines at Hanna, October 24th, coning to Rock Springs on October 26th to visit some of the mines in the Rock Springs field. Vfe trill be glad to show Mr. Ching V.Tu and Mr. Morgan around our property. Yours very truly, Original I. N. BAYL&Sb INBiLL �UNITED STATES TMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF MINES 914 U.S. National Bank Bldg Denver 2, Colorado October 19, 1945 ERM:pv Mr. I. M. Bayleso President Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear Mr. Bayles: Mr. Ching Wu, Representative of the Technical Section, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Chungking, China, desires to visit your operations at Hanna, Wyoming, and probably some of the mines in the Rock Springs district. I am having Mr. E. A. Morgan, of this office, take Mr. Wu to Mount Harris on the 22nd, and they should arrive at Hanna, October 24. If it is agreeable with you, please make arrangements for Mr. Wu to go underground on October 24® Mr. Wu will then leave Hanna on October 25 and be in Rock Springs the morning the 26th to visit you and make arrangements for visiting the mines in that district. Anything that you can do to expedite Mr. Wu’s visit will be greatly appreciated* Very truly yours, E. R. MAIZeZ* Engineer in Charge �NO. 1 �Hock Springs - August 31 <> 1945 Mr» Eugene McAuliffes This will acknovzledge your letter of August 29th,, filo 080-3s stating that Hr. T. C» T’ang will be unable to visit our mines due to the sudden ending -of the war0 a®-.DAT �080-3 Omaha - August 29,.1945 Mr. I. N. Bayless: On July 23 I send you a copy of a letter addressed to Mr. James H. Pierce, Scranton, Pennsylvania, relative to a Chinese engineer, Mr. T. C. T'ang visiting our mines. Mr. Pierce writes me under date of August 2? that the quick ending of the war has changed Mr. T'ang1s plans and the visit will not be made. RECEIVED �July 23, 1945 Mr. James H. fierce Pierce ?ian ageznent Scranton Electric Building Scranto«, PennsyIvani a (cc: Mr. X. N, Baylegg) Dear Mr. Piercej I am sending a copy of your letter of July 21 to Mr. I. N. Bayless, President and General Manager, The Union Pacific Coal Company, Book Springs, Wyoming, who will be glad to receive Mr. T’ang when he visits Wyoming in September or October. Will you kindly ask the gentleman to address Mr. Bayless as to his arrival, perhaps the best way xfould be for him to go to Boek Springs and thereafter one of our people will take him to Hanna for inspection of Hanna Wo. 4 Mine. Thanks for your inquiry regarding ny health, which is excellent. X am, however, beginning to give thought to the passing years. Sincerely yours, (Hgir'-l Steaafi. SUGENEMcAUUFFE • / ' £ (' • . << , . �“.copy PIERCE MANAGEMENT SCRANTON ELECTRIC BUILDING SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA July 21, 1945 Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, President The Union Pacific Coal Company Union Pacific Building Omaha, Nebraska Dear Mr. McAuliffe; We are working with the Chinese Government in con­ nection with the purchase of a great deal of mining equipment, and one of their engineers, Mr. TOC. T’ang, expects to visit Wyoming sometime during September or October and is particularly anxious to see thick seam coal working. I take it that the most logical place for him would be at your Hanna No. .4 Mine .. I would appreciate if you would give permission to Mr. T’ang to visit your property and if you will advise me what official of your company he shall contact in order to make the necessary arrangements. I have not seen you for a long time, but I have kept track of your Institute activities and I trust you are staying in good health. Yours very truly, /s/ James H. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a Visit from China Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Aug 1945-Jan 1947 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, China, 1945, 1946, 1947 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from China. All documents are held together by a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource H.C. Livingston, Walter H. Parker, Chao Shou-yen, W.H. Lesser, I.M. Charles, I.N. Bayless, F.L. Rousselle, Eugene McAuliffe, E.R. Maize Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0324 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/af9f9ab37ce8214294ce94d0258390b7.pdf 4150e8583c34a979def48ce375b2f830 PDF Text Text FILE NO. VISITORS 284 - Chinese 6- Yuan TUNG APR/47 7- Chao-Chiu TSAO SEP/47 �NO. 7 �October 28} 1947 LIr. TsaoChao-Chiu c/o Jen-Lan j> Chen 243 7i • Park Street State Colleges Pa. Copy: Hr. IL Co Livingston Dear Mr. Chao-Chiu: Je were pleasod to receive your lotto? of October 22s 1947 <> and to know that you are continuing in your studies under capable hands. I do not know of anything that I could add to this:' letter which would be of assistance in your present studies9 but we wish you the best of success. Je did not have opportunity to thank you for the Chinese souvenirs which you left in this offico, but Mr. Livingston joins tie in expressing our appreciation. Pest rognms • Very truly yourss (Jnjpna! Signed t M. CHARLES �Tsao Chao-Chiu, c/o Wen-Lan, Chon 243 W. Park Street, State College, Pa<> October 22th, 1947. Mr. I. M. Charles, Chief Engineer, Union Pacific Coal Co. Rock Springs, Wyoming. Dear Mr. I. M. Charles5 I regret that I missed to say goodbye to you during the last time I left Rock Springs. I trust you would excuse me when you learned the cause. Owing to your kind treatment, I feeled the warmth of the school life again wherever when I studied in your office or in your mines. You gave me a good idea in the proper use and arrangement of coal mining machines which renders me to study the new knowledges.in coal mining practices more easier. to you in my poor English. I can hardly express my gratitude But, I shall never forget your kind favors. After a 12*. days travel, I am talcing my training with Lehigh Nagation Coal Co. now. The mining system here is quite different from those in your properties due to the different conditions. try my best to learn the whole things before I leave. I decide to iVill you kindly give me some instructions which would benefit to my study? VJith my kind regard to you and your assistances. I remain, Yours very sincerely, /s/ C 0 p Y Tsao Chao-Chiu �October 25, 3 947 Mr. Tsao Chao-chiu c/o Mr. Wen-Ian, Chen 243 W. Park Ave. State College, Pa. (co: Mr. H. C. Dear Mr. Tsao: Acknowledging receipt of your letter of the 22nd. We are only pleased to have been able to give you some small amount of assistance while you are seeking to enlarge upon your education in coal mining by visiting and studying coal, raining operations in this country. I am sure that you will be able to see and learn a great deal in the mines with which you are now connected. Please feel free to call upon us for added assistance if the occasion arises. I am sorry that I missed you in Omaha as I would have liked very much to talk with you, but I hope and expect to see you again before you leave for your native country. I shall pass to Mr. Livingston and our organization your expression of appreciation. Sincerely yours, ,£SS �copy Tsao Chao-chlu c/o Mr. Wen-Ian, Chen 243 W. Park Ave. State College, Pa. October 22, 1947 Mr. I. No Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear Mr. I. N. Bayless: By my friend’s call, I had to leave Rock Springs before the date I reported to you. This rendered me fail to pay my farewell and heartfelt gratitude to you during I passed through Omaha on my way east. I hope you will forgive me on my unexpected case. Now, I have settled quietly enough to write, I do not hesitate an instant to return my sincere thanks, not only to yourself but to Mr. Harry C. Livingston and all your collaeques for the kind treatment I received in my train­ ing with your company. I hope it will be in my power some day to repay this great kindness, and I shall always remember it with fillings of the deepest gratitude. By your kind recommendation, I am taking my training with Lehigh Navigation Coal Company now. It is clear to me that I can easier understand the new ideas in coal mining practices after accepted the technical training from you. I hope you will give more wise ideas to me during I stay in States. Please give my kind regards to you and Mr. Livingston as well as your collaeques, I remain, Yours very sincerely, /s/ Tsao Chao-cnu �Tsao Chao-chiu purchased the following from the Reliance Store: Paid cash for pair of shoes charged belt, hat and overalls Board (Poljanec's) <?23.06 ���Rock Springs - September 27, 1947 Mr. H. C. Livingston: Herewith two copies of Release From Liability signed by Mr. Tsao Chao-Chiu, releasing the Coal Company from responsibility for any personal injury to same. Encl. �RELEASE FROM LIABILITY In consideration of permission granted by The Union Pacific Coal Companyto the undersigned to visit and inspect-^ the .Wyoming coal­ mining operations of said company on or about 3 and following, the un does hereby assume all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property while upon said company's premises, and does hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators and dependents, forever acquit, release and discharge said company and its officers and employes from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property that may be sustained by him while upon said company's premises, irrespective of the manner in which said injuries or damage may arise and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and covenants never to institute any action or pro­ ceeding at law to recover damages for such injuries or death or damages to his property. . , Date at -uelisnce 9 <'yo . , this 25th ^entembaro 1947. . I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE RELEASE day of �RELEASE FROM LIABILITY In consideration of pormission granted by The Union Pacific Goal Gompanyto the undersigned to visit and inspect the Wyoming coal- mining operations of said company on or about 1947 September 1$, , and following, the undersigned, each for himself does hereby assume all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property while upon said company’s premises, and doos hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators and dependents, forever acquit, release and discharge said company and ‘its officers and employes from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property that may be sustained by him while upon said company’s premises, irrespective of the manner in which said injuries or damage m-y arise and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and covenants never to institute any action or pro­ ceeding at law to recover damages for 'such injuries or death or damages / O a x'xto his property. ; v/v Reliance, Wo. Date at tZ i' ■: September , 1947. ’O,-. a i this " Ag > £ ‘ 25th 'v-.. I HAVE READ AND UNDSnSTAtJD THL ABOJE RELEASE " “ X. ' / day of �Septesaber 24$ 1947 ■= Rock Springs .^ayoailng Mr. ivilliaa Spence (CCs Mr II Co Livingston) MAIL . TO _ Herewith two copies of Release From Liability to be signed by Mr. Tsao Chao Chiu and returned to this office. Prompt handling will be appreciated IMCsgs hncl o Qstgfcc! l I'', c.4A~' �R FROM LI? BILITX In consideration of pormission granted by The Union Pacific Goal Comnanyt-o the undersigned to visit ana inspect the Wyoming coal­ mining oooratidns of said company on or about ________. _ , and following, the undersigned, each for himself does hereby assume all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property while upon said company’s premises, and does hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators and dependents, forever acquit, release and discharge said company and its officers and employes from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property that may ba sustained by him while upon said company’s premises, irrespective of the, manner in. which said injuries or damage m.y aviso and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and covenants never to institute any action or pro­ ceeding at law to recover damages for such injuries or deatn oi’ damages to his property. Date at , thxs I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE RELEASE day of �Rock Springs - September 22, 1947 /1" , / L’r. I. No Baylosss (CO - Mr. I# Mo Charles) Your letter of date September 20, 1947, Filo No. 808-3, concerning scholarship of Mr. Tsao, Chao-Chiu. Mr. Tsao, Chao-Chiu is now living at Reliance and continuing his study of our operation by accompanying the nine foreman and other supervisory personnel. lie will spend some time at Reliance and wishes to then visit the Superior and Hanna districts. He has freedom of entry into the nines and checks in and out in the regular manner. We believe that we aro handling the natter in accordance with your wishes with the exception of executing a waiver, releasing us from responsibility for cry personal injury. This will bo done immediately. Ci /-' i! H. C. LIVINGSTON HGL/rt �080=3 Omaha - September 20, 1947 Mr. Ho Co Livingston? Referring to my letter of September 17, together with copy of letter from Mr. Pierce of the Pierce Management Inc., relative to scholarship of Mr0 Tsao, Chao-Chiu? I would suggest that you discuss the matter in detail with Mr. Tsao as I would hate to put him to unneces­ sary trouble and expense of going to New York at this time if the matter can be satisfactorily handled otherwise□ Would appreciate your advising me of your handling. For your information I am attaching copy of letter just received from Mr. Tsao. I would suggest that you work out a detailed arrangement where Mr. Tsao will have more or less freedom of entry into the mines to study different classes of mining, as long as he reports to the mine foreman and a record is kept of his entering and leaving the mines. Would also suggest that you request that he sign the waiver. However, I would not insist on this if he does not feel inclined to execute a waiver, re­ leasing us from responsibility for any personal injury. Advise final arrangements �-copy Mr* Tsao Chao-Ghiu Engineering Department September 17, 1947 Mr* Io N* Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Goo Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear President; I am very sorry to know that you have dropped in troubles for my training because I want to work in your mineSo It is quite true that I would rather work in underground to learn the practice than study in the office, but what I mean to work is to study in the mines, not work for the company, for I am not strong enough to take the rough jobs of the miners* It is obviously no reason to me to get payment from you, otherwise it would make a I think this can obviate the misunderstanding loss to you* between us due to my poor english speaking* I regret that I have much disturbed to Mr* Harry C* Livingston and Mro I* M„ Charles for they arrange the works or training program for me* Your staffs are also doing their best to help me in study underground* told me what I want to know frankly* They It is so much you have granted to me, how can I request more from you* I, therefore, write this letter to you immediately when I know that I have caused troubles to you and I must make it clear to you that I do not want any payment from you during my learning* With all good wishes to you and to Mr* A* E* Marrlsh, I am, Yours very truly, Tsao Chao-chlu �080U3 ; 'h C : 1 9 ^,947 - \ [ Omaha - September 1 j Mro Ho Co Livingston; Referring to my letter of September 12, quoting message received from Mro Jo Ho Pierce regarding Chao-Chiu Tsao As indicated in his message, Mro Pierce has written me more fully regarding Mr. Tsao, and copy of his letter of September 15 is attached for your information.. Io No Bayle �-copy PIERCE MANAGEMENT Engineers and Mine Managers Scranton Electric Bldg. Scranton 3, Pa. September 15, 1947 Re; File 080-3 Mr. I, No Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear Mr. Bayless? On September 11th I wired you from Nev; York concerning MR. TSAO, CHAO-CHIU, which wire I presume you have received. A number of years ago an international training organi­ zation was set up whereby certain engineers from foreign countries were brought to the United States on scholarships. Under this program, the Government appealed to us to assist them in placing these engineers in mines, which we have done as a gratis effort. This organization, however, was disbanded eight or nine months ago, and the only authorized agency for placing Chinese engineers and looking after their welfare is the National Resources Commission of China, 111 Broadway, New York, which is headed by Dro To To Eoyang. Their method is to have all engineers report to them in New York before assignment and they arrange all of the details and provide them with a life and accident insurance policy, and with sufficient funds for traveling and living expenses so that they are not dependent upon any coal company for the expenses of their training. Unfortunately, in this case, possibly through some mixup in the Nanking office in China, this man was sent directly to you, and the National Resources Commission was unfamiliar with the fact that he had gone there directly and only discovered it when two other engineers reported to them that Mr. Tsao had gone directly to your Company. Had the matter been cleared through the National Resources Commission originally, this man would have known of the change in the program and would know that you are not expected to put him on your payroll. He has been advised by them as to what the present status is and consequently, I suggest that you do not make any payments to �- 2 - him and that you take the ordinary precautions of having him sign a waiver against accident or death on your property, even though the Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company of Balti­ more insures him against death or accident in the amount of §5,000, Yours very truly, /s/ James Ho Pierce PRESIDENT �:r' Rock Springs «• September 1% 1947 hr0 I. ’Io Daylcaes (CO - Mr. I. M. Charles Mr. H, 11. Tibbs Mr. Jo3o Ho Galicich) Tui’vher concerning the matter of employment of Tsao Chno-chiu. He attach copy of letter by ? ttorn^r Calicich to Director of Immigration and Haturalisation and reply by < tan Oleon, Chief Entry and fepartere Section on the bottom of Hr. Palicich’s letters also copy of letter by L5T. Calicich to I. Charles of date September 12, 19475 this subjects It is apparent that vie «cre unable to offer employment to Toao Chao-chiu duo to terms under which ho was adrritted to the United' States. ~7o are dropping him from our pay-roll records at tlio fkftianeo district and trill advise him that wo chall bo happy to havo Irin stay for a short period of tino to accompany nine foremen and other poroonnol in the course of their duties, enabling him to gain sone knowledge of our operation, ’.'.'a do not fool it would bo v:cll to authorial a prolonged stay on the proparty as sane would interfer with the activities of our staff 0 If you do not agree, v<o shall ba hap^ to hava the benefit of your advice in the natter. �-1 41947 080-3 OPl Omaha - September 12, 1947 Mr. Ho Go Livingston: You received copy of my letter dated September 6th, addressed to Mro J» Ho Pierce, President, Pierce Manage- ment, Inc0, Scranton Electric Bldg0, Scranton, Pennsylvania, relative to Mr. Chao-Chiuo For your information I am quoting herewith from Western Union telegram just received from Mr. Pierce: "Relative your letter September 6 concerning Chinese engineer, Mro Chao-Chiu Tsao, we regret very much that he did not clear through our office for instructionso Your company under no obligations to pay salary and is against the policy of National Resources Commission., He will be adequately covered with insurance and there will be no obligation in this respect on your companyo Will advise by letter fully on my return to Scranton next week. You may be sure that I appreciate your promptly calling this matter to my attention.," I will send you a copy of his letter as soon as received. �Copy - Mr. H. C. Livingston September 12, 1947 Mr. I. M. Charles Chief Engineer The Union Pacific Coal Coo Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear Mr. Charles: With further reference to the matter of possible employment of the Chinese student who came to my office with you the other day, wish to state I am herewith enclosing copy of letter written by me to Director of Immigration and Naturalization, San Francisco, Calif., together with copy of reply made by him on the bottom of my letter. Yours very truly, /s/ fp cc - Mr. Harry M. Tibbs J. H. GALICICH �JOSEPH H. GALICICH Attorney-at-Law No. Side State Bank Building • Rock Springs, 'Wyoming September 5, 1947 Director of Immigration and Naturalization, San Francisco, California. My dear Sir: It is my understanding that a number of young Chinese nationals have been admitted to this country for a limited period of time, in order to study American industries and obtain training in our production methods, etc. The amounts which they receive from their Government, or the foundation which sets up the,funds for such training, is not very large and it would appear to be difficult for them to get along thereon. These men could obtain employment in the industry in which they are receiving their training, and I wish you would please advise whether or not the conditions of their entry into this country prohibit or in any way limit such employment. I am interested in this both from the standpoint of the national, and that of the prospective employer. Thanking you, I am, Yours very truly, /s/ J. H. GALICICH Such students as you speak of are not permitted to work for remuneration. Their Government is required to take care of them - that is the terms under which they are admitted. Under no condition can they replace American labor. Very truly yours, For the District Director, /s/ STAN OLSON Stan Olson, Chief Entry and Departure Section, San Francisco, District. �080-3 1947 Mr. J. H. Pierce - PreGident Pierce Management, Inc. Scranton Electric Bldg. Scranton 3, Pa. (co: Mr. H. G. Livingston) Deer3 Mr. Pierce: Relative to Mr. Tsao Chao-Chiu: Correspondence-began sone three years ago relative to Mr. Chao-Chiu coming to America. On August 30 he came into my office in Omaha, and I was unable to determine just what his scholarship included, and what he wished to do, as he talks and understands very little of the English language. However, I sent him out to dur Mr. Livingston at Rock Springs with the suggestion that Mr. Livingston get some of the Rock Springs Chinese boys to interpret for him and try to determine what the'setup was. Mr. Livingston tells me now by phone that Mr. Chao-Chiu received a scholar­ ship of approximately 01,700, fare included, and that he wished to go to work and be paid for his services. Fox’1 the present I suggested to Mr. Livingston that he put him on as a helper to some of our mining engineers, which will help him become acclimated and familiar with our mining practices. No doubt it will be necessary for us to pay his a wage. Therefore I suggested to Mr. Livingston that he employ him like he employs any other man, so that there will be no complications in case he is injured. On my next visit to Rock Springs I expect to go into the matter a little more carefully, and while we are perfectly willing to assist in international student relations, we are somewhat at a loss as to Just how to treat this matter. I would appreciate your writing me in detail your understanding of the setup. , Sincerely yours, aYn. Bayless �“ c o p y - PIERCE MANAGEMENT Scranton Electric Bldg. Scranton 3, Pennsylvania September 4, 1947 Mr. I. No Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear Mr. Bayless; I have been advised that Mr, TSAO, CHAO-CHIU (Reference No. S-155) is enroute from China to the United States and has had some correspondence with you relative to visiting your property. This trainee is under the supervision of the National Resources Commission of China, and I have tried to be help­ ful in getting him into important mines where he can see good methods. Both the Commission and myself are very apprecia­ tive of the courtesies extended by you, and I have asked particularly that your mines be included because I have always felt that they are outstanding examples of good management in coal mines. Yours very truly, PIERCE MANAGEMENT, INC. /s/ James H. Pierce President �THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY 1416 DODGE STREET I. N. BAYLESS, PRESIDENT IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO OMAHA 2, NEBRASKA file 080—3 August 30, 1947 Mr. H. Go Livingston Vice President-Operation The Union Pacific Goal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming (cc: Mr. Ho Co Livingston Mr. I. Mo Charles) Dear Mr. Livingston: This will introduce Mr. Tsao Chao-Chiu, who arrived in my office this morning. I would suggest that you introduce this young man to Mr. Charles, who will try to work out a suitable program in keeping with the best practices of our company. If you will refer to my letter of June 18, this year, and my letters of May 28 and August 10, 1946, this will bring you up to date. I have been unable to determine just what Mr Chao-Chiu plans to do; however, I think you Tirill be able to work out some satisfactory arrangement. Mr. Chao-Chiu will no' doubt be in Rock Springs on my next visit, and would then appreciate discussing his plans and receiving the views of yourself and Mr. Charles as to Mr. Chao-Chiu's future connections with the company. Sincerely yours, �O8O-0 August 50 „ 19-4? Mr. H. Go Livingston vice President-Operation The Union Pacific Goal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming (cc: Mr. H. Co Livingston *•Mr -A o TO «•* Mo Charles) Dear Mr. Livingston: This will introduce Mr. Tsao Chao-Chiu, who arrived in my office this morningB I would suggest that you Introduce this young man to Mr. Charles, who will try to work out a suitable program in keeping with the best practices of our company. If you will refer to my letter of June 16, this year, and my letters of May 28 and August 10, 1946, this will bring you up to date. 1 have been unable to determine just what Mr. Chao-Chiu plans to doj however, I think you will be able to work out some satisfactory arrangement. Mr. Chao-Chiu will no- doubt be in Rook Springs on my next visit, and would then appreciate discussing his plans and receiving the views of yourself and Mr, Charles as to Mr. Chao-Chiu’s future connections with the company. Sincerely yours, �i947^G 3q GR25U OMA 30 1112A HCL RK SPGS o , TSAO CHAO CHIU5 CHINESE STUDENT ARRIVING RK SPGS SUN 412PM TRAIN 13 o SUGGEST YOU HAVE SOMEONE MEET HIMo DOES NOT SPEAK OR UNDERSTAND TOO MUCH OF OUR LANGUAGE. B 18 INBo �• ■ o n A9A7 080=3 Omaha - June 18, 1947 Mr. H„ Co Livingston: I am attaching copy of letter from Tsao Chao-chiu. Please refer to my letter of May 28, 1946, of which you received a copy, and also copy of letter which was transmitted to you August 10, 1946, from this gentleman. I presume it will be necessary to furnish this man some work in the erigineering line upon his arrival. Suggest you discuss this matter with me on my next visit to Rock Springs. �copyThe FuShun Coal Mines Bureau P.O. Box No. 26 FuShun Llao-nlng, China May 29, 194? President I. N. Bayless The (Jnion Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2,-Nebraska, U.S.A. Dear Sir: On the day that you sent me your letter (080-3) last year which you have favoured me with your kind permission to my advanced studies in your mines, I received a formal information from our government. In which, I was told that I can do what I should do in order to get my passport signed now. I, therefore, am beginning to discharge my work to my successor1 and shall go to Shanghai at the end of July. If all the things go on at ease, I would start my journey at September. Best wishes to you and your fellows, Very truly yours, /s/ Tsao Chao-chiu �- C o p y - Fu Shun Coal Mine P.O. Box No. 26 Fu Shun, Liao Ning, China July 22, 1946 Mr. I. N. Bayless The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska, U.S.A. My dear President: I have taken a month long journey from Chungking to Fu Shun with my comrades for the reception of Fu Shun Coal Mine from the Japanese hand since my letter to Mr. George S. Scott was sent. This delayed one and a half month to receive your letter (060-3); my reply was postponed also. I am so glad when I got your permission to grant me a chance for my advancing training. It is so benefit to me that I can study under your guide and teaching, as xx^ell as contact with the most fashionable machinery and mining methods in the world. I shall try my best to start my journey as soon .as possible, and make up my mind not to disappoint you in my lessons and practice. Thank you very much for your help and encouragement. I send your approval to our government as a'cert iflr cate today for the request of my expenses and passport. It would be delayed to be signed for a short time due to the rehabilitation of our government. After the funds provided, I shall set out upon my journey and inform you at opce. Under- this circumstance, ± beg you an apology for my delay and venture to ask you to retain my opportunity. With best regard. Yours very truly, Tsao Chao-chiu �A 1 R M A !_ 1 Mr. Tsao Chao-chiu Tien Fu Coal Mine Company Box No. 1 Feipoh, Chungking, China (co: Mr. Albert L. Toenges U. S. Bureau of Mines 4800 Forbes Street Pittsburgh 13, Pa. Mr. H. Q Dear Sir: Mr. Albert L. Toenges, Principal Coal Mining Engineer, Fuels and Explosives Branch, U. S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sent me a copy of your letter dated April 21, 1246, addressed to Mr. George S. Scott, U. S. Bureau of Mines, 4800 Forbes Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; also copy of letter addressed to Mr. Scott by Mr. henry '-ang-Foo uhi of the Tien-Fu Coal Mines, Peipey, Szechran, China. Mr. Toenges requested that I communicate directly vith you. be vill be glad to give you an opportunity to further your studies in our coal mines in the vicinity of Rock Springs, v’yoming. are operating; mines at Rock Springs, Reliance, "tansbury, Minton, Superior, and Hanna, ’’yoming. be operate a tipnle, or sizing and grading plant, at each’district or group of mines, v’e do not operate any coal washer!es or dry cleaning plants. If you wish to further your studies on our proper­ ties, ve vill be glad to have a letter from you direct, or notice of your arrival in this country to take up your studies. Me vill assist you in making arrangements for living quarters at Rock Springs, Wyoming, and our operating staff rill cooperate in providing access to bur mines or forking out detailed arrangements on your arrival. Sincerely yours, Origi/fj/ss^fr] / a I. N. Bayless - President The Union Pacific Goal Company �copy- Tien-Fu Coal Mines Peipey, Szechwan, China April 21, 1946 My, de ar Mr. Scott: Every college graduate of our country wishes to go abroad for further training, Your enthusiasm makes me bold to introduce to you my friend Mr. Tsao Chao-Chiu. He had been here for more than three years and I am much influenced by his working spirit and good learning. Now a golden chance allowed him to apply as a practicant to some collieries of your country as'all the expenditures will be paid by our government. You may .remember what I had said to you that an intelligent but poor in economy youth of China how difficult to educate himself more in order to express his ability to our* need country. So I beg your help to solve the problem faced by him that would be considered as a personal favor to me. With good wishes to you. Yours faithfully, /s/ Henry Wang-Foo Chi �copy Tien Fu Coal Mins Co. P. 0o Box No. 1 Pelpeh, Chungking China. April 21, 1946 Mr. George S. Scott U. So Bureau of Mines 4800 Forbes Street Pittsburgh, Pa.r U.S.A. Dear Mr. Scott: Though you stayed here in a very short time it im­ pressed me deeply of your goodwill and enthusiasm which is expressed so exceedingly in your design of washing plant. In addition, I feel so honor that I had listened your lectures in our drawing hall. And I expect profoundly to get the guide and teaching from you forever. It is so lucky that Mr. Wang-foc has promised to introduce me to you. Would you allow me to make my request in detail? I am a Cantonese, of twenty-six years old, graduated of the mining department of National Sikiang-Institute of Agri­ culture and Technology, China, in 1942° served in Tien-Fu Colliery for more than three years. Last year I won a com­ petitive examination, which was administrated by The Examination Yuan of our government, and was admitted to be sent abroad for advanced practice in coal mines of your esteemed nation for two years. But as military affairs go first in wartime, I was ordered to delay my departure. At present the war is over. I am notified that I would be sent out immediately as soon as I could get by myself a certificate from one of the collieries In U.S.A. All the expenditures will be paid by our government. By your kindness you may imagine hot* anxious to reach the goal am I. Therefore, I venture to beg you to recommend me for any collieries that you might be acquaintance with and am awaiting your kind reply. With all good wishes to you. Yours very faithfully, /s/ Tsao Chao-chiu �copy ENCLOSURE Experimental Record Name Tsao Ghao-chiu Sex Male Age 26 Nationality Canton, China Experience Graduated at the mining department of National Sikiang Institute of Agricul­ ture and Technology. Student engineer and sectional engineer of Tien Fu Coal Mine. Applied for Coal Mining Brach Technician Address P.O. Box No. 1, Peipehp Chungking, China �NO. 6 �THE KAILftH MINING ADMINISTRATION. C/0 Mr, To S, Yen 515 International House 500 Riverside Prive Hew York 27, IT, Y, Mr. Livingston Vice President, Operations Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming, Dear Sir, I wish to take this opportunity to convey to you my most grateful feelings for your kindness in allowing me to visit your Mines and for your frank and sincere at» titude in supplying me with all the information I asked for, I consider myself very fortunate in having seen your Mines for from the engineering and administrative aspects they undoubtedly rank high among the scores of coal mines I have seen in America, Europe and Asia, May I ask you to convey my best wishes to the members of your staff who were so helpful to me on my trip to your Mines, I wish particularly to mention Mr, I, M, Charles, Mr, R, 0, Murray, Mr. John 3. Hughes and Mr, Harry M, Tibbs, I had a very interesting trip across the Continent and, especially in this greatest metropolis, I find things so fascinating that I cannot help feeling that life is worth living. I will leave New York in 2 or 3 days and will be traveling in the mining districts in Pennsylvania and West Virginia for at least two months. Thanking you again ano sending you my best regards, I am, Yours sincerely, �April 19, 1947 Mr. Yuan Yung.. Chief of psner^l AffaipfT The Kalian Mining Administration TangsHan, NortlfJZ'ana Copy; Mr. H. C. Livingst Dear Mr. Tung; Herewith, as you requested;, the following prints; 1 print of our Drawing I Jo. 1800.320, T8-B3, Method of Entry Development with Shaking Conveyors 1 print of our Drawing No. 1800.326, T8-B3, Sketch Showing Method of Extracting Room and Entry Pillars with Duckbill 1 print of our Drawing No. 6180.33, T5-IJ4, Organisation Charts, Mechanical Loading, The Union Pacific Coal Co., 1942 Very truly yours, Originai Sig”e!2: L M. CSIARiXS Enel. �[ ' -- '■' Rock Springs - April 16, 1947 Mr, Io N. Bayless: be attach hereto copy of letter by Mr, William F. Masterton of date March 5, 1947, introducing one Mr, Yuan Tuns (Chinese) who has landed at Rock Springs making a request to visit our property. Under the circumstances, we have granted permission to Mr® Tung to spend a limited amount of time on the property with the understanding that he is to furnish his own transportation to the districts, this by riding the miners’ bus and place himself under the supervision of the mine foreman for each shift, Mr, Hughes will make the necessary arrange­ ments and start Mr, Tung on his itinerary. We have had a great number of visitors during the past few years and we find that our hospitality is being somewhat abused. 01 • ■ .. H, C. LIVINGSTON HCL/rt �c/o Kailan Mining Administrations CHAOKOC HWANG, Kuyeh Station, Hopei Province, North China. 5th March 1947. Mr. H. C. Livingston, Vice President, Operations, Union Pacific Coal Company, ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. Dear Mr. Livingston, This letter will introduce Mr. Yuan Tung of the Kailan Mining Administration who is taking the opportunity during his leave of visiting the United States and refreshing himself in regard to modern practice and developments in coal mining. Mr. Yuan Tung received his mining training at Lehigh University and so is quite well acquainted with conditions in the U.S.A. He was for a number of years Manager of one of the mines of the Administration producing some 4,500 tons per day and is now the Chief of General Affairs, in which capacity one of his major problems is the responsibility of maintaining an adequate and contented labour force in the Mines Area which, as you will readily imagine, is no easy task with the present troubled political and financial conditions in China. Mr. Yuan Tung read the report which I made to the Administration on my visits to mines in the U.S.A, and has expressed interest in the operations of the Union Pacific Coal Company and I shall be glad if you could do anything to assist him in either seeing any of your mines or in learning how you deal with labour and welfare which I know is one of your strong points in the Union Pacific Coal Company. Yours very sincerely William F.Masterton. �-J DOh^STIC Cl ASS OF SERVICE DESIRFD \ CABLE TELEGRAK ORDINARY DAY URGENT RATE LETTER SERIAL DEFERRtg NIGHT LETTER NIGHT LETTER Patrons should check class of service desired; otherwise the message will be transmitted a“ a telegram or ordinary cablegram. WESTERN UNEON TELEGKAM f Rock Springs - April 12, 1947 YUAN TUNG HOTEL WASHINGTON GRANT AVENUE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. RETEL 11 TH APPROVE VISIT OUR MINES WEEK OF APRIL 14. Ho C. LIVINGSTON THE UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY �--------------- k Class of Service This is a full-rate Telegram or Cablo grarn^unless its dcz ferred character is irv dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre­ ceding the address. JOSEPH L. EGAN PRESIDENT The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination • KH4' NL PD=SANFRANCl SCO CALIF 10 IS-., APT i i A’., :: H C LI VINGSTON, VICE PRESIDENT* UNION PACIFIC COAL CO ROCKSPRINGS WTO ’JUST ARRIVED FROM CH I MA WITH INTRODUCTION LETTER FROM MASTERTON TO YOUu PLEASE ADVISE WHETHER I MAY CALL AND SEE YOUR MINES EARLY NEXT WEEKr. REPLY CARE HOTEL WASHINGTON " GRANT AVENUE SAN FRANCISCO= = YUAN TUNG-. THP riOKTPAKTV WITT. A PPDVrT A n? nTTHHVOT’T/iXTn TT./M, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a Visit from China 1947 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1947 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, China, 1947 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from China. All documents are held together by a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource I.M. Charles, Tsao Chao-Chiu, I.N. Bayless, H.C. Livingston, James H. Pierce, J.H. Galicich, Stan Olsen, Henry Wang-Foo Chi, Yuan Tung, William F. Masterson Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0322 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/84c61e32aa76c7786ecb8bb044c87917.pdf fccb3702527ee0ceb804d945d400c7f8 PDF Text Text FIlE NO. 284 -<VISITORS GREAT BRITAIN Visitors NOV/43 1= HIEDSON, Donald 2- BUCHANAN, G. R. KING, H. R. ' APR/44 - - Ashington Coal Co. Ltd. Ashington, England (-Correspondence Only)- Fife Coal Co. Limited - SCOTLAND 3- MILLAR, A. OCT /44 - "forkington, Cumberland - ENGLAND 4- SPROSTON, J. B. DEC/44 = Regional Production Director Ministry of Fuel a Power - GREAT BRITAIN Lancashire, England 5° tIAR/45 - Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co. - ENGLAND Go Mo Vv 1LLS 5 C® Jo �NO. 5 �080-3 March 25, 1945 AIR MAIL Dr. C. Jo Pottar Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator U. S. Department of the Interior Washington 25, Do C. (co? Mr. I. N. Bayless) Dear Dr. Potter? I Absence has prevented an earlier reply to your letter of March 13, filo DA-1, re visit of G. M. Keightley and C. J. Wills of the Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Company, England. W© will be glad to receive Mr. Keightley and Mr. Wills at a tihe convenient to them, giving thorn the broadest access to our property. It is proper to say, however, that-ve do not use any pneumatic machinery of f consequence, merely a few rock drills1used in driving rock tunnels, etc. Very sincerely yours, �NO. 4 �April 16, 1945 *// I1 ' V,.--I) ' Mr, J, Bo Sprcston lieadowcroft, Forest Grove Eccleston Pk., Proscot, Lancs, England Dear I2r, Sproston: I am afraid I have been somewhat neglectful in answer­ ing your letter received in Earch and can only offer the excuse on account of the rush in business, We are still operating seven days per week with a difficult labor supply, We have just completed another wage negotiation which gives the miners approxi­ mately 01,30 per day increase in wages. This will not Cause any less absenteeism. In fact, it is becoming difficult for th® miners to spend their money, therefore, they are taking life easy and loosing a great deal of time. The Union Pacific Coal Company produced 6,300,822 tons of coal last year. We were hopeful of producing approximately 7,000,000 tons of coal this year. How­ ever, with the shortage of labor, which amounts to approximately 20 per cent together with another 20 per cent average absenteeism, it appears that we will be lucly if we hold our own and produce as much coal in 1945 as we did in 1944® However, we expect to carry on. The war news indicates that the fighting will probably be ended in the near future in Europe with a job .in the Pacific left to be picked up. We are thankful for the good news and to see the finish. However, the Pacific may take some time yet. The loss of our President, Franklin D, Roosevelt, is a great blow not only to this country but to all civilized nations, and while we hope that it rH 11 not have any effect on the prosecution of the war, it is bound to have its effect on this country and may, of course, have its effect on all Allied countries. You have no doubt heard our present President Trumaa analyzed by news analysts, Uhile we have every confidence in his ability, we realize that he does not have the experience and knowledge of war affairs that President Roosevelt had. However, this will soon become history and be only one of the events in the march of time. X- �Mro Jo So Sproston 2 April 16, 1945 Our particular job, of course, is to fuel the Union Pacific Railroad which had more business last week than ary week in its previous history, hauling war supplies to the Pacific Coasts We expect this to continue for some time. I would be glad to be kept informed of the progress you people are malting on the installation of mechanical loadingo Would be glad to have another visit from you at any time and will certain ly appreciate hearing from you at any tine0 Sincerely yours, Original Signed: I. N. BAYLESS II'® s AB J ��x&se&£87<Mr fir. h f* . fifrESteT. (/£. A u C X v .-t t * 2 r / \ !':t-=-/ : f .’.• t(. Z <? ^tc. & X- o Av;V5<- .< <?; ' ��5 ����c£o ���HP' I. N. S (ftCIS PR£S&£MT, L/ahom JfacfJW fSm <& HqcK Sp^rn^GS '78 GREAT PORTLAND STREET «- LONDON. W.l. ... PMO>’- MUaCUM 7047'0 >.G.aTtBC0 UtOt.1 TH^ W*A CKtqiTltO ACT 11*1 PLEASE SEND books us ��It was my intention to write to you sooner than this, but I have been so very busy picking up the threads of work from where I left off. That & the usual excitement of having both my children on leave together, one of which has departed to India. I arrived home safely having had the thrill of flying the Atlantic, it was quite uneventful but very cold. So cold in fact, that our sandwiches were frozen solid and snapped like biscuits. Before I write further I should like to express my sincerd thanks to you for your great kindness whilst I was your guest at Rock Springs. learnt much and at the same time enjoyed myself. I I have only one regret that I did not stay longer as the atmosphere and the people were very fas­ cinating. What would have been better would be a visit in the Spring or Autumn when I could have seen some of the country side and also real cow boys. Even so I had a real thrill in my short stay with you and I can truthfully say that I had more satisfaction & enjoyment at Rock Springs than I did any where else. The literature you gave me about the U. P. Railway & the book of instructions applying to your property has been full of interest to me. Both books will bear reading more than once. book, "Be a Man". Then of course there is the Really very good and so full of good horse sense. z �- 2 About my trip generally I think the most enjoyable interlude between pit visits was the travelling, acquaintances I made. I enjoyed the long journeys and the many If I may say so without causing offenqe the people in the west that is round Wyoming^ Oklahoma were far wrser'than those fur­ ther east. There was a more natural outlook on life as contrasted with the rather hard rushing and intentness of the East. Washington as a city was most impressive and has the atmosphere of solidity about the place. You feel it will be there when many of the other cities have moved with the wealth of the country. Kansas City was very like our Manchester rather rough and full of shoppers, but it near Xmas time and everybody seemed anxious to spend money. I quite enjoyed my stay at Mcalister and Mr. Puterbough was most charming. Xmas was spent in Columbus, not a very nice place, in fact very dirty, but then I think my impressions were wrongly coloured as I was at that festive season thinking of home. It was the first Xmas I have been away from home & family since I was married. It was at Columbus that I started to run into your American winter, there was plenty of snow and freezing hard. Not so bad as when I arrived in Pittsburg, I got snowed up for a week as transport was very disorganized. What impressed me of the severity of the cold was the fact that the fast flowing rivers were frozen . solid, an unusual thing I believe and one that portends floods0 I now read in the papers that the floods are serious and that the iron works are affected. When I left Pittsburgh I flew to Washington and had a another �- 3 - vaew of that city from the air. Quite a good thing it saved me so much walking round the city. Finally I journeyed to Montreal and there ran into a good Canadian snow storm. This delayed me for two more days. thing that they can do in Canada and that is move snow. arrangement. There is one A most efficient It can be likened to Joy loader & shuttle car service. I only had a superficial impression of Montreal before flying home. I am not superstitous perhaps a good thing. We flew on the 13th with 13 passengers. Finally may I again say how very much I appreciate youi’ kindness. Please remember me to Sherrar. Kind Regards. Yours Sincerely, J. B. Sproston �3199 I have received a copy of “Rules and Regulations For the Government of All Employes of The Union Pacific Coal Company” bearing number above. I will read these rules, and I further agree to observe same as long as I am employed in or about the mines of The Union Pacific Coal Company, and will return this book in the event I leave the service of the company within one year. (Witness) Employed in Mine. as [This Receipt to be Filed in Office of General Manager. Rock Springs.] at �; S l-P 46r Z MORRISON - MERRILL & CO. Salt Lake City, Utah Phone WAS 4110 Presented by M. S. WEBB ^USHEP TACOMA, WASH. �Rock Springs - December 13* 1944 Mr0 Eugene McAuliffe? V Mr. Jo Bo Sproston, Regional Production Director, Ministry of Fuel and Power, of Great Britain, arrived in Rock Springs Monday evening, December litho He spent Tuesday going over maps, development plans, methods of work, etco, with Ur, I. Charles in the Engineering Department0 He discussed operating conditions with Messrs 0 Murray and Livingston and myo­ self last evening. Livingstono He is visiting underground today with Mro He expects to spend today and tomorrow underground, leaving for Oklahoma either Thursday evening or Friday morning. Mr. Sproston seems to know the British mining conditions and while he realizes that some of the mines in Britain will not lend themselves to the installation of mechanical mining as we are applying the machinery, he is definitely of the opinion that their haulage could be improved and there are mines with seams of coal which would be very easily mechanized., Mr0 Sproston is being shown every courtesy and given any information he desires ��UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SOLID FUELS ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR WASHINGTON 25, D. C. NOV 2 2 1944 Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, President, The Union Pacific Coal Company, 1416 Dodge Street, Omaha 2, Nebraska. IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO DA-1 My dear Mr. McAuliffe: This letter will introduce to you Mr. J. B. Sproston, Regional Production Director, Ministry of Fuel and Power, about whom I wrote to you on November 14° t Sincerely yours, r tjtC 1 1944 J- Potter, Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator. „ J ' �UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OE THE INTERIOR PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, S3OO SOLID FUELS ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR WASHINGTON 25, D. C. OFFICIAL. BUSINESS Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, President, The Union Pacific GoalJ?t5mjx 1416 Dodge Sj et;r ' 0ma)?.<r"2 febraska �Rock Springs - December 11, 1944 Mr. Io No Bayless: ■ / (CO - Mr. E. McAuliffe Mr. V. 0. Murray Mr. H. C. Livingston) XV'.' /z X / / Mr. McAuliffe telephoned this morning from Omaha advising that Mr;-, V' V J. V Sproston, Deputy Regional General of the British Mission of Supply, headquarters in Washington D. Co, will arrive on U.P. No. 21, to be our i V) guest while visiting our mines. Mrs. Outsen is arranging reservations at the White Mountain Lodge for him and we will plan to meet him at the train; thereafter, endeavoring to make his stay as our guest pleasant and satisfactory > L'; • ■ v �~'2/i C. ' .? �Rock Springs - November 19, 1944 I X Mr. Eugene McAuliffe; This will acknowledge the receipt of Carbon Copy of your letter to Mr. Potter regarding Mr. J. B. Sproston’s visit to our Rock Springs Mines. We will be glad to have Mr. Sproston visit our properties. Original Signed: I), El. BAYLESS �080-3 November 17, 1944 0 ■ ■ . ■ '' ' ' ' ■ ' T ' Dr. C« J© hotter Deputy Solid Tuels Administrator U. S. Department of the Interior Washington 25, D. C. Mr. I. N. Bayles (co. Deax* Dr. rotter: I have your file DA-1 of November Id, advising that !’the Deputy Director ©eneral of the British Ministry of Supply Mission, Washington, D. C., has informed me that Mr. J. B. Sproston, Regional Droduotion Director, Ministry of Fuel end Power, will visit this country on a mission similar to that of Messrs. Dobson and Millar who recently visited your mine.0 You requested permission for Mr. Sproston to visit our Rook Springs, Wyoming, eoal operations. We will be very glad to receive Mr. Sproston, and o if you will advise my office of his anticipated arrival, we will be looking for him, making necessary hotel reservations at Book Springs, ^"hereafter we will be glad to show him through our mines and give him.all the information we ©an. Sincerely yours. KU6ENE �NO. 3 �February 23, 1945 Hr. A. Ifillar "Firth. View", Siddick Workington, Cumberland England Dear Hr, Hiller: I received a few days ego your letter dated January 22nd and was glad, indeed, to hear from you. I have thought of you often since your visit. It is very nice of you to say the kind things about myself and The Union Pacific Coal Company. There are tines vzhen we are not too proud of some of our accomplishments. Wo did, however, wind up with a very good year last yoarj oven with the large labor turnover, absenteeism, etc., we produced 6,300,822 tons of coal. Wo produced 612,000 tons of coal for tiic month of January tliis year, however, we are slacking down on demand at this time and are not producing on Sundays. I can inagina some of yo<ir difficulties and experiences in attempt­ ing to work a Joy machine with shuttle car on steep pitches. No doubt you people will prove the Duckbill sooner or later and probably adopt a standard method of mining which will, lend itself to mechanical loading. The war news sounds better at this time and again we are all getting in on optimistic mood; however, I am afraid thoir are some long unhappy moments ahead before we settle back to a normal life. Messrs, hurray, Livingston, Knill and Sharrer send their regards and speak of joa as the most promising "Johnnie Bull” who has visited this property for sone time; in fact ry offer still holds good if you would like to come to this country and be a Hine Foreman. Hoping to hear from you often, I remain Sincerely yours, IND:DAT ���Oo ��y- ■ I ��Mr. A. Millar Firther View Siddick ’.Worthington Cunberlandj England Great Britain �Rock Springs ~ October 18, 1944 Mr. Eugene McAuliffe: Hr. A., Millar loft here Sunday morning, October 15th, to visit the Oliver Coal Company mines at Somerset, Colorado. I talked to Mr. McWhorter about making it possible for Mr, Millar to visit some of the mines in Northern Colorado, subbituminous field, Mr, Mqiihorter agreeing to do this, Mr. Millar drove with Mr. Bayless to Denver, arriving there Sunday evening, and Hr. Bayless also got in touch with Lire JJc’.Jhorter to make arrangements so that Hr. Millar will be able to go into some of the Northern Colorado nines. Hr. McWhorter has also been asked that when Mr. Millar®s visit lias been completed to arrange for reservations East for him. Er. Millar spent three weeks on our property, and I think that he got a great deal out of his visit as he wont in the mine in the morning worked with the crews on the shaking conveyors and also on Mobile Joy loaders. I am sure when he returns to England he will be in an excellent position to supervise the in­ stallation of the shalcing conveyors with Duckbills which his company has purchased. Original Signed: GEORGE S. PRVDE EX1 o&PY ON Ft �October 18P 1944 Mr. Co E. Ifc shorter The Goodman Manufacturing Company Denver National Bank Building Denvers Colorado Dear Hr. Me "Shorter? Herewith letter for Hr. A. Millar which reached here after he left Rock Springs. I am assuming he will be back in Denver and get in touch with you after visiting the Somerset mines. I would be obliged to you if you ■would see that delivery is made to Mr. Millar of this letter. Sincerely yours,. Original Signed: GEORGE B. Enc. �October 12, 1944 ’.'r. G. 3. McWhorter The Goodman Manufacturing Company Denver National Bank Building Denver, Colorado Dear Mr. McWhorter: As I advised you by phono, Mr. A. Millar, Mine Foreman from the Northern part of England, will be in Denver on his way to Somerset, Colorado, to inspect the mines of the Oliver Coal Company, and his stay in Soperset will probably be for three or four days then he will return to Denver. I would appreciate ^eryuruch' if you will take cars of Mr. Millar on his return so that he can sco the loading operations in soma of the Northern Colorado mines. Mr. Millar plans to drive to Denver with Mr. I. N. Bayless Sunday afternoon and will no doubt call at your office sometime Monday and discuss his itinerary with you. Sincerely yours, Original Signed: GEORGE B. P.RY0E �ItOUii u-PLlluCkzj ;.Xv.-’1UG COOl/t-i-J<■ — .?JiL'iiJL;G Gv—rVkL£ 3 CG1£ i<. iLr u A© JILL. J w ..ILL J?xL ■ <.- UUU«j«j A X-sJ xJ J i;i uL» izluJ. ikb * - -L IX-U ^.'_;ij.jO_- Xri*«x«u.'rX UijicXJ-Gt'O • -JI -!1 t/uJ 3 O^CIjOgK LlGiiD**Y Io Lb Aa-lu Zj.. iX«u--i^u) —-JLV-j j-.-^... ..C-<‘. i'.:-wAi'0l~— J UW--- .‘l^.X �October 12, 1944 I'r. Co B. McWhorter The Goodman Manufacturing Company Denver National Baal: Building Denver, Colorado (CC - Mr. Ao Eillar Mr, Io No Bayless) Dear Hr. Ec..hortors As I advised you by phone, Hr. Ao Millar, Nine Foreman from the Northern part of Ikigland, will be in Denver on his way to Somerset, Colorado, to inspect the mines of the Oliver Goal Company, and his stay in .Somer­ set will probably be for three or four days then he will return to Denver0 I would appreciate very much if you will take care of Mr. Hiller on his return so that he can sco the loading operations in some of the Northern Colorado lIajLKOS q. • Mro 1’dllar plans to drive to Denver with Hr. Io II Bayless Sunday afternoon and will mo doubt call at your office sometime Monday and discuss his itinerary with you. Sincerely yours, Original Signed: GEORGE 8. h® �BT9 11598 I have received a copy of “Rules and Regulations For the Government of All Employes of The Union Pacific Coal Company” bearing number above. I will read these rules, and I further agree to observe same as long as I am employed in or about the mines of The Union Pacific Coal Company, and will return this book in the event I leave the service of the company within one year. Employed in Mine as. [This Receipt to be Filed in Office of General Manager, Rock Springs.] at-— �I 2 as. J-..f �Mr. Ao Millar, Mechanization Officer of United Steels, from Cumberland, Great Britain, arrived in Rock Springs Saturday, September 23rd, from Washington, Do Co Mr. Millar came by plane from Southern Ireland to Canada -then to La Guardia Field, Hew York, the total time flying/lieing t-wenty-three hours. Mr. Millar was sent to the United States by his company to study mechanical operations in several mining districts of the United States, starting in The Union Pacific Coal Company mines in the Rock Springs district. For some time under lend lease mining machinery, in- eluding mobile loaders, shaking conveyors with Duckbills, and mining machines have been shipped to Great Britain in an effort to increase the production of coal. From time to time engineers have come to the mines of the United States, including The Union Pacific Coal Company mines, to study the mechanical loading operations with the view of operating them in the British mines. More recently it has been thought advisable to send men whose duties are entirely with underground 'work in the British mines0 Quite a number are at present visiting mines in the United States, Mr. Millar being one of this number. Mr. TN 11.ar plans to spend several weeks in the United States . After leaving The Union Pacific Coal Company mines, mines in Colorado. he will visit some His full itinerary has not yet been established. After a week in The Union Pacific Coal Company mines in this district, Mr. Millar is quite enthusiastic about the possibilities of installing mechanical loading in the mines of the company which he re­ presents in the Northern part of England. During his visit he has spent �- 2 the greater part of his time underground studying the operation of the machinery in the cutting and loading of coaly and he states he will find this experience of great assistance in his company’s mineso �080-8 September 25, 1944 Dr. C. J. Potter Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator 3160 New Interior Building Washington 25, D. 0. (pc: Dear Dr. Potter: Mr. G. B. Pryde)^ ' • Your B-l:8 of September 15 on visit of Hr. Alex Mitchell to our Book Springs mines: Under date of September 25 I received the following wire from New York City: ’’Have been advised British Ministry of Supply Mission of your courtesy in granting me per­ mission to see over some of your mines. 1 regret I have had to return east and am very doubtful if I will have time to go west again. With best thanks. Alex Mitchell - Chairman . The New Cummock Colliers, Scotland I am sorry that we are not able to see Mr. Mitchell, but possibly at some future time he will be able to visit our properties. Sincerely yours, ■ . » OrlgimJ Si'.nnd •F.UGENK Mg-AUUFFE �UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR' SOLID FUELS ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR WASHINGTON 25, D. C. In reply please refer to 3-1:8 Mr, George B, Pryde, Vice President, The Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, Wyoming, September 21, 1944, My dear Mr, Pryde: This letter will introduce to you Mr, A, Miller, about whom I wrote to Mro Eugene McAuliffe on August 4, Sincerely yours C. J. Potter, Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator �Form 2191 « 24 GROAN ■. , . UN:ON PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY z 11-42-10MM ' 'Z. TELEGRAM Ok AHA 225 PM SEP 22,44 GBP SG LETTER 16th J P STRACHAN BRITISH MINISTRY SUPPLY MISSION WASH nIKES QUOTE "MR A MILLER MINING OFFICIAL FROM UNITED KINGDOM LEFT HERE YESTERDAY EVENING BY TRAIN SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE ROCK SPRINGS 840PM SATURDAY END QTE. L-47 EMC A 437pm �080-3 Omaha, September 16, 1944 Mr. G. B. Pryde: On August 4th, Dr. C. J. Potter wrote me that he would send E. H. Dobson, mine manager, and A. Millar, mechanization officer, of United Steels, Great Britain, to spend two weeks in our mines, studying duckbill opera­ tions. This morning I received a letter from Dr. Potter, advising that Mr. Alex M. Mitchell of Comraock Collieries, Ayrshire, Scotland, would like to visit our Rock Springs mines, Dr. Potter advising that the British government is paying all expenses, and he will notify me within two days of his arrival at Rock Springs so that necessary arrange­ ments can be made, this visit to take place the latter part of September. I wired Dr. Potter today, per copy attached. He said nothing about Messrs. Dobson and Millar in the last letter. �r'L i the >1 account1 ofr____ W d_____ J? •°______________ COAta GO a2 Charge to 'J---------------------------------- Send the following telegram, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Omaha, Sept. 16, 1944 FOR VICTORY BUY WAR BONDS TODAY Dro Co J. hotter Solid. Fuels Administration for War 3160 Men Interior Bldg Washington D G Sour B-1:S 15th. Gladly receive LLr ALez Li tiltohell our sines Rook Springs Bugene LtcAuliffe �Rock Springs - August % 1944 Mr. I. I'J. Bayless: Herewith copy of letter from Mr. McAuliffe regarding two British coal mine officials comin - to our properties. Mr. McAuliffe advises that the committee that went over to make a survey of the coal mine installations in Great Britain is very critical of some of the methods employed in that country in utilizing some of the mechanical eouipment that has gone from this country to Ireat Britain and has suggested that a number of the mine officials come to this country, go into the mines in America, and get firsthand information. He talked to me about this on the phone yesterday and suggested that we send them in with a Mine Foreman so they can get the necessary information at the working face. After they have been in the mine several days, you and I and the staff can hold evening meetings with them and discuss our operations. An article in Business Week indicates that the committee that went over is very critical of the application of the mechanical equipment in Great Britain. to read the article. unc. �080-3 August 7, 1944 Dr. C. J. Potter, Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D. 0. (cc - Mr. 0. B. Pryde) Dear Doctor Potter: Yours of August Z^h with reference to sending Mr. E. H. Dobson, mine manager, and Mr. A. Millar, mechaniza­ tion officer, of United Steels, Great Britain, to visit our mines for two xveeks, studying duckbill operations: Please have these men report to our Mr. George B. Pryde, Vice President, Operation, Pock Springs, Wyoming, who will assign each of them to a mine foreman, who will, if they desire, stay with them during the entire two weeks period, or if it is found desirable, they can shift from one mine to another. In substance, we will be more than glad to cooperate with you in this matter. I would like very much to hear of their arrival and when we may expect to meet them, so that arrangements for their reception can be worked out. Sincerely yours /s/ Eugene McAuliffe COPY �Rock Springs - August 9, 1944 Mr. I. N. Bayless; Herewith copy of letter from Er. McAuliffe regarding two British coal mine officials comin; to our properties. Mr. McAuliffe advises that the committee that went over to make a survey of the coal mine installations in Great Britain is very critical of some of the methods employed in that country in utilizing some of the mechanical equipment that has gone from this country to Great Britain and has suggested that a number of the mine officials come to this country, go into the mines in America, and get firsthand information. He talked to me about this on the phone yesterday and suggested that we send them in with a Mine Foreman so they can get the necessaiy information at the working face. After they have been in the mine several days, you and I and the staff can hold evening meetings with them and discuss our operations. An article in Business Week indicates that the committee that went over is very critical of the application of the mechanical equipment in Great Britain. I have sent that magazine in to you to read the article. Original Signed: GEORGE 8 PRYDE Enc �OSG»®o August 70 1944 Dr, Go J. Potter, Deputy Solid Fuels Administrator, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D. Go (oc “ Mr. Go £* 0 Pryde} Dear Doctor Potter: yours of August 4th with reference to sending Mr. E. H. Dobson, mine manager, and Mr. Ao Millar, mechaniza- ’ tion officer, of united Steels, Great Britain, to visit our' mines for Wo weeks, studying duckbill operations: ‘°lease have these men reoort to our Mr. George Bv Pryde, Vice President, Operation, Bock Springs, Wyoming, x.'ho will assign each of them to a mine foreman, who will, if they desire, stay with them during the entire two weeks period, or if it is found desirable, they can shift from one-mine to another. In substance, we will be more than glad to cooperate with you in this matter. I would like very much to hear of their arrival and when we may expect to meet them, so that arrangements for thbir reception can be worked out. < Sincerely yours, �NO. 2 �Telegrams “Fifcol, CowdenbeaIj Cowden . res idem; General The Union hoc’: Sprint •..YuhlilC-. Dear I'r. Bayless, Cn looking through my files the other day I found that I had not replied to your letter of 27th February. I em glad that Uro 1'cAuliffe passed you a. copy of my letter as I had intended, at that time, also to ■’.’.'rite to you. Your figures in regard to output and labour force for last year are very rood indeed, especially when one considers the remarkable turnover of labour you have experienced. It is most interesting to me that you should be able to train so many new mon end yet maintain such a high efficiency. Cur labour position here has been most difficult during the war years as we leave had little intake of suitable manpower and our wastage has been at a fairly high level. Our intake of labour has for the most part been composed of "Devin" Boys, tlia.t is, youths of military age who, on being called up for the forces were balloted to the Coal Fines instead. naturally many of these youths have no interest in coal­ mining and in many cases have a bad influence on other workers. Approximately 7-3y of our employees a.t the present time are "Bevin" Boys Apart altogether from this aspect, we are not getting the full advantage of the new methods. This ray be due, as you indicate, to �Telegrams "Fifcol, Cowdenbeath." Telephone Nos 181 to 185 Cowdenbeath. C ■the difficulty of introducing new methods and machinery durinc; a war period. It is true that we are increasing our total output and our operating efficiency to some extent by the new methods but we feel that we are not getting the full co-operation end effort of the men. Did you, in the initial stages of mechanisation, experience the same difficulty.? V.'ith due regal’d to differences in conditions, we believe that the men are only giving us one half to two thirds of the output possible with duckbills. This is most disturbing as wo do not : now what more we can do to increase efficiency. host of our officials have received careful training in the new methods and have had numerous lectures, illustrated with films and slides, on the subject. \.'e have trained six demonstrators who are now used to train operators end we have inaugurated a training course for operators at our Central Workshops. Vlages paid to all operators are day rates and while we believe this to be the correct system, wo sometimes think that contract work would stimulate production. One feature has, however, given us great encouragement. A short . \ time apo we organised a single entiy did.vs.ge with one duckbill working i 3 shifts per day. The men selected, three on each shift, had no previous duckbill experience, but a trained demonstrator was placed on ("'■ each shift. The entry was 14’ wide end the coal 5’ to high. The’ best progress obtained "was en output of 240 saleable tons (2,240 lbs.) in one day’s working (i.e. throe 7r- hour shifts), while over a week of 17 working shifts a driva-'e of 414 ft. was obtained. This job was very well organised in regard to all services end the results obtained were ' more than twice the average we are obtaining with our other duckbills. As many as G complete cycles were made in one shift. The/ �Telegrams “Fifcol, Cowdenbeath." Telephone Nos 181 to 185 Cowdenbeath. The vrar in Europe is now over end I feel sure that the Pacific TTar will also soon he at an end. no doubt when conditions become more or less settled, we ■'.'.•ill realise a much better performance from our people • 17111 you please give my kind regards to Hr. l.oAuliffe and to Hr. George Piyde, whom I hope is now enjoying his well-earned retirement• Yours sincerely, �AV JUKI > �February 27, 1945 Mr. Ho Ro King The Fife Coal Company, Limited Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland Dear Ur. Kings Mr. Eugene McAuliffe has passed to do a copy of your letter dated January 30th commenting on your developments in mechanical load­ ing in Great Britain also your kind remarks about The Union Pacific Coal Company. V.’e produced a total of 6,300,822 tons of coal last year with approximately 2,800 total employes on the pay roll. Our labor turnover was very high. In fact, to maintain 2,800 employes during the year it was necessary to employ approximately 3,800 men, which, you will realise, lowered cur efficiency when, being forced to train this number of man, some of them entirely inexperienced^ and I might say many did not desire to do any work of any kind around the coal mineso We are not attempting to develop any new methods or add new types of machines to our operations at this time, being content to carry on with our present method of mining and present type of machines until after the war at which time we hope to make further improvements both in mining practices and mechanical mining. Ue are sure that you and Mr. Buchanan will be able to develop improved practices of raining by installing proper types of mechanical equipment. We appreciate your many difficulties and would be glad to give any information at any time you think it would be helpful. The war news at this time sound promising. However, with the setback late last year, the people in this country are rather hesitant to become too optimistic. We all realise, of course, there will be many adjustments after the war before we will be able to settle back into our routine method of living. Please convey my personal regards to Dr. Reid and Mr. Buchanan. Sincerely yours, IIS 8 AB J �(ja7^& N\ c. '-copy- The Fife Coal Company, Limited Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland 30th January, 1945 Mr, Eugene McAuliffe Chairman The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska - U.S.A. \ Dear Mr. McAuliffe: ,'r. ; ’r-. 4... When Mr. Buchanan and I left you in Rock Springs, I promised to write giving information regarding our progress with American methods of mining. I am now implementing that promise but I wish first of all to again thank you and all your staff for the very great hospitality with which you received us. The visit to The Union Pacific Coal Company will long be remembered by me and I hope that it will again be possible to visit you at some later date. I was very pleased to hear of your appointment as Chairs man of the Board and was somewhat sorry to learn that Mr. George Pryde had retired from service. On the other hand, I wish to congratulate Mr. I. N. Bayless on his well merited promotion. My company has now started a very intense programme of mechanisation and modernisation, and it may interest you to know that we are producing 25% of the coal won by American methods and machinery in this country. Most of this coal is mined by Duck­ bills and we have adopted, as standard practice, the methods carried out by The Union Pacific Coal Company. In this respect we are greatly indebted to you for all the valuable information and advice given us during visits. The best results we have been able to attain so far are 4-5 tons per person employed to the main haulage, but as foremen and men become more proficient, we are hopeful that greatly improved results will accrue. One Interesting point has emerged in that we have been able to obtain in selected subjects, practically 100% extraction with Duckbills at depths approximating 2,000 feet. At present we are developing what we expect to be the first all American mine in this country. On the surface a very simple tipple has been laid out with haulage, electrical equipment, office, ambulance room and lamp room housed under one roof. The coal from underground in two ton capacity drop bottom cars of our own design and manufacture is emptied into storage hoppers on the �- 2 - surface, from which it is removed by motor -truck to a nearby screening plant. Only two men are employed above ground, exclud­ ing truck drivers. Underground all slope haulage is by direct rope with locomotive haulage on the level and a 42” track gauge. American room and pillar methods of complete extraction are employed at the face and on full production it is expected that 80/90 men overall will produce an output of 500 tons per day. Four similar mines are in course of preparation. In addition to the above, we are contemplating recon­ struction of many of our older collieries with the introduction of . broad track gauge, large cars, locomotive haulage on the level, and direct rope haulage on all slopes. The method of working proposed throughout is by Duckbill or hand-filling onto chain conveyors. The above brief outline will give you an indication of hotiT we are progressing and of how much we owe to your company for the advice and help rendered us. Dr. Reid and Mr. Buchanan send their kindest regards. with best wishes, I am, Yours sincerely, /s/ H. R. King �April 15, 1944 Dr. William Reid General Manager The Fife Coal Company (Limited) Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire, Scotland Dear Bill: I was greatly pleased to have Messrs, King and Buchanan with uso Mr. McAuliffe came from Omaha with them, and-we- spenttwo busy days and some busy evenings here. Your two officials, I think, got a good deal of benefit from the visit as they seemed to lenow what they were looking for and apparently are two very capable men. We should have liked to have them stay longer at our property, but their itinerary was fixed for them and we disliked to change it. They made full use of the time they were with us, and we, of course, had a nice visit with them regard^ ing the conditions in Scotland at the present time particularly at the properties of your company. The automatic Duckbill, with shaking conveyors, I am sure will work out very well in some of your work. Joy machines are good for sinking slopes of limited dip, say, up to 10 degrees. The Joy can also be used to drive entries where you can drive at least three places simultaneously. The only thing, of course, with mechanical loading is to keep the loader busy. We had a fine meeting with the Rock Springs Chapter of the A.I.M.E. here, and we included quite a number of business men here to have dinner with us in the evening. The Rock Springs Canadian Legion had a fine party on Wednesday evening which we all enjoyed. It was fine that Mr. McAuliffe could be present during the entire visit. He is still very active and a remarkable man. During the years I have been associated with him, I have become more and more attached to him. �Dr. William Reid - 2 - April 15, 1944 I have recently written to a friend of mine, Captain S. J. Giovale, who is with the American Medical Corps somewhere in Britain,, I have asked him, if he is in the vicinity of your home, to call upon you. Before he joined the Army, he was a doctor at one of our mining districts. we are still having the same difficulty with shortage of men and large labor turnover, plus absenteeism,. Our experience is very similar to your own with the absenteeism growing in direct proportion to increases in wages and earnings. I am sure you will have a great meeting with Messrs. Buchanan and King upon their return. Give ny regards to them, Mr. Carlow, and your father, and I hope to write to them sometime before long. Sincerely yourp. Original Signed: GEORGE B. PRYDE �April 15, 1944 Mr. G. R. Buchanan The Fife Coal Company (Limited) Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire, Scotland Dear Mr. Buchanan: It was very kind of you to write me from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, prior to your leaving for home. I hope you enjoyed the remainder of your visit in America after leaving Rock Springs. I derived a great deal of personal pleasure in meeting both you and Hr. King because you talk ry language and come from very near my old home. I shall not soon forget the fine visit we had. It would be entirely all right for you to write me anytime either you or Mr. King have a problem you do not fully understand, and I shall be only too glad to answer anything you may ask, giving you any information I can. We of The Union Pacific Coal Company family are e:±remely interested in the developments going on in your mines with the adaptation of the mechanical loading. I shall do everything possible to help you. Weather has warmed up somewhat, but we have had an esctremely long, cold winter and are looking forward to warmer weather. Mrs. Pryde has been in Seattle, Washington, with sonin-lav; and daughter. Mrs, Frost, ny daughter and her two children are still staying with me. Hay I again express ny pleasure in meeting you and hope we may again meet at some future time. My best regards to you and Mr. King. Sincerely yours, Original Signed: GEORGE B. PRYDE �lluquesne (Club ^JiHsburgh 2si o' /‘7^4/- ��4/ 080-3 April 10, 1944 iir. J. D„ A, Morrow, president, Joy Manufacturing Company, Franklin, Pa. My dear John: Many thanks for yours of th© 7th. X would like to have the two Scots on our payroll if we had a job for them; Z think they are both bang-up mining men. We try to do a real Job of British hospitality when a fellow from ths Island comes over* and Dro William Heid, who sent these two men over, has been on our pro­ perty, and we hear from him very frequently, their mines located dos© to where Mr. Pryde was born. We had beastly weather when the Scots were with us, but they took it in good form. X under stand Mr. J. B. Mavor of Mavor & Coulson is on the way over here, in fact he sent me a wireless to that effect several days ago, but without detail as to his arrival. Plan to ooms out next summer and see us. We will tp.be care of you even better than we did th© Scots. Sincerely yours, C'-fgiE J cfJ‘. 1 EUGENE McAUUFFE �Apr!1 7, IS <14 Ur. nurene IIcAuliffe, President The inion Pacific Coal Company 1416 lodge Street Omaha 2. Nebraska Dear Dene I have just left J King and they are certainl^y: way you and Georg© Pryde/i^so' Springs. They found t;trip q interesting ai'-d enjoyed personally very much. of ours of tlic Bri t i sh L' ue 1 seeing Americ equipment as ill as Je and the an of ' ,ucaai id ol praxso or the of then at Rock to the ost very - <z hey had with OU themselves eus toners ‘icial representatives me interested in " me two ds generally; Joy ey, Goodman and Sullivan e were our vasts. want such a fijje example of American hospitality inte st in their mission everything is going noil with both h best regards. Sincerely yours JO ::ad u:acturt i;g cgiipai; y narrow cc • IJr. George Pryde Onion Pacific Cool Company Rock Springs, ‘.yarning / • VJ �Rock Springs - March 23, 1%4 Mr, Eugene McAuliffe; I an sending you today, under separate cover, a photograph of Messrs, H, R, King and G, R. Buchanan, these sent rae by Mr, L, E, Brown, Special Representative, Jestinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co,, Salt Lake City, Utah, Original Signed-: GEORGE B. PRVDE �March 23 s Mr. Lo E. Brown Special Representative Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Coo 10 »7. First South Street Salt Lake City 1P Utah Dear Ero Brovm: I am indebted to you for the two photographs sent to me of our friends H« Ro King and Go Ro Buchanano I have forwarded one to Er, McAuliffe for his filco Sincerely yoursp Original Signed?. GEORGE B. PRYDE �ELECTRIC er MANUFACTURING COMPANY * Mr. George B. Pryde Vice President Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming IO W. FIRST SOUTH STREET SALT LAKE CITY 1, UTAH March 21, 1944 Dear Mr. Pryde: The Deseret News have very kindly furnished me with two prints of the picture appearing in their issue of March 16. This covers your friends H. R. King and G. R. Buchanan, and I thought possibly you might want to forward one copy to Mr. McAuliffe. Very truly yours, BROWN Special Representative leb/ec WESTINGHOUSE—THE NAME THAT MEANS EVERYTHING IN ELECTRICITY ���March 20, 1944 Mr. L. E. Brown 10 W. First South Street Salt Lake City 1, Utah Dear Lrr. Brown; I am in receipt of the two copies of the Deseret Mews of March 16th which you most kindly sent me. I wish to e:ctend ay thanks for sane. The Scotchmen had a very good visit here, and v;e enjoyed having them. '—-—Sincerely yours. Original Signed GEORGE 8. PRVDE �WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC er MANUFACTURING COMPANY * IO W. FIRST SOUTH STREET SALT LAKE CITY 1, UTAH Mr. George Pryde Vice President Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming. March 17» 1944. Dear Mr. Pryde Enclosed please find two copies of the Deseret News of March the 16th. You will note the news item on the first page of section two with photographs of Mr. H.R. King and G.R. Buchanan. It was a real pleasure to meet these gentlemen and have them see the Utah Copper operation at Bingham, which they enjoyed immensely. Sincerely, WESTINGHOUSE—THE NAME THAT MEANS EVERYTHING IN ELECTRICITY �Rock Springs - March IS, 1944 Mr. Eugene McAuliffe: I an attaching herewith three photographs that Mr, Vi’illiams took here on Wednesday, March 15th. You may wish to send one each to Messrs, King and Buchanan and have one for your own files. If you desire additional copies, I can send then to you as we have the negative here. cane out very well. Original Signed: '''■■'GF 8. PRYDE Enc. The pictures �At Rock Springs, Wyoming March 16, 1944 Mr, Arthur Co Green Goodman Manufacturing Company Halsted Street and 48th Place Chicago 9, Illinois Dear Mr. Green; Yours of March 13th; We had a splendid tine rd.th the Scots, tak­ ing them into Stansbury, Reliance, and Rock Springs No. 4o Tiie two last compare with their conditions, and I am sure the operation of the Duckbill is pleasing to them. They left last night to visit the Kenilworth Mine, Mr, Schloss meeting them in Salt Lake City this morning. There is some doubt of their ability to visit this mine due to the blocked roads. In any case, they are fixed with transportation and xvill arrive in Chicago on the Union Pacific City of Denver at 10;40 a.m,, Sunday, March 19th, <<e had no salesman in Rock Springs, Sincerely yours, Original Signed: EUGENE McAULlFFE �P. 0. Box 417 Bock Soring s, Wyoming . March 11, 1944. Dear Mr. Pryde, The article in Saturday’s Rocket stating that Mr. King and Mr. Buchanan of the Fife Coal Company, Scotland, would be visitors in Rock Springs, set the Ladies Social Club of the Canadian Legion to wondering if it would be a nresumption on their part to tressnass on the prerogatives of the Union Pacific Coal Company (hosts to these executives during their stay here) to organize a British concert at which both gentlemen would be asked to say a few words, and the ladies have asked me to approach you for your advice and to request that you use your influence in this regard. With this in mind I called your office on Saturday and was informed that you were out of town and would not return until Monday Mrs. Outsen referred me to Mr. Bayless to whom I outlined the thought of the ladies. Mr. Bayless was very co-operative and thought that both Mr. King and Mr. Buchanan would be in Rock Springs over Wednes­ day nqight, and suggested that the Ladies club make tentative nlans and contact your office on Monday for your opinion as to what might be done, and when. The Ladies Club have completed tentative plans which roughly have the following outline: That a British concert be held in the Congregational Church on Wednesday evening at 8 PM. (Concert be similiar in structure to the Burns’ concert recently held in Rock Springs). That admission be free and the public invited. That a cup of tea be served after the concert. That Mr. King and Mr. Buchanan be asked to tell a little some­ thing about ”0ur Ain Folk” in their struggle against the Germans. That Mr. McAuliffe and Mr. Pryde be asked to honour the concert by their nresence on the platform. That the concert-chairman arrange his continuity to suit the convenience of the distinguished guests, in the event they can stay for part of the programme only. T would greatly appreciate a telephone call at 100 at your convenience on Monday so that I can relay your thought to the ladies. Yours very truly, Alexander Braes. �THE DAILY ROCKET March 11, 1%4 W@ ©@ffi iiWffl 7© 111 1W Two executives of The Fife Coal company, one of the major coal producing companies in Scotland, will arrive in Rock Springs next Monday to study operations of The Union Pacific Coal company mines here. The men are H. R. King andV-------------------------------------------------G. R. Buchanan, agent and plan­ ning engineer, respectively, for at the Dead Horse Canyon club house. Arrangements for the gath­ the Scotland company. William Reed, now general man­ ering are in charge of V. O. Mur­ ager of The Fife Coal company, ray, chairman, and R. R. Knill, made a visit to The Union Pacific secretary of the chapter. Coal company mines in Sweetwat­ The meeting promises to be a er county in September, 1934, and most interesting one, as the Scot­ Kenneth H. McNeel, now deceased, tish visitors will no doubt have also of the same company, made much valuable information to give a visit here in October, 1935. the members and guests of the A number of the British mines, engineering chapter. including The Fife company, have enviable safety records and have installed American mining ma­ chinery shipped from the United States. This equipment includes undercutting machines, shaking conveyors and mobile loaders. The two officials of the Scot­ land company are now in this country to study American mining methods and the operation of me­ chanical loaders with the view of increasing production at their mines. Additional coal is badly needed in the British Isles at the present time because of the war. They will be accompanied to Rock Springs by Eugene McAu­ liffe of Omaha, president of The Union Pacific Coal company. The ■ three men will be guests of honor at a meeting of the Rock Springs chapter of the A. I. M. E. to be held at 6 o’clock Monday evening �iPost (Office EJepartment PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYMENT Or POSTAGE, $V.3 Passports mailed March 15, 1944 to r ED :POS^ J. P. Strachan, Esq. British Ministry of Supply Mission 1801 K Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Via registered mail - No. 4190 Return Receipt Reguested - Special Delivery War fund Return tn (NAME OF SENDSP) Street and Number,\ or Post Office Box.) REGISTERED ARTICLE No?Ost OfficeINSURED PARCEL tlo... . State �Form 2191 9-41-1OMM UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY ----------- M Time Filed. ■ W ROCK springs ticket OFFICE LIAR 14,44 COPY GBP TELEGRAM SG THE BEST ’IE ARE ABLE TO SECURE II! SPACE FOR BUCHANAN & KING ARE UPPERS 5 & 6 CAR N-l TEN 23 DUE CUT 9:10 PR, MARCH 15-44 I MOULD SUGGEST THEY KEEP THE TICKETS THEY KOI I HAVE AND TENDER / THE! FOR A REFUND EITHER AT SALT LAKE PULLMAN OFFICE OR AT DE!’VER, PURCHASING TICKETS FOR THE UPPERS ’IE AES HOLDING FOR THEM. II BYRD TA �Form 2191 9-41-10MM UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed TELEGRAM M — .... COPY 10 gr dm rush Denver Colo 522 PM Mar 14, 1944 EUGEI-T MCAULIFFE SG NO FILE DRAWING- ROOM CAR U-15 SCHLOSS AND SCHUBART MARCH 18 TIT LIMIT MARCH 17 5 PM Y-1809 KNM 647 Hl iGIG^L OG f&ii O, ■<' XL-.-. �c. s. Form 2191 9-41-10M M UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed. TELEGRAM M SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iftRCH 14, 1944 EL'cA - ROCK SPRINGS, 'TO’TNG YOUR TIRE THIRTEENTH D A- RG" CCLFIRI’S RESERVATIONS II' NAIL OF C.I'. SCHLOSS OF DEALING Ru.L AND COL'PAFT1E:.:T LEAVING SALT LAKE CITY TRAIN NO. 8 5:00 P..V. FRIDAY 17TH K421 FHK A �C. S. 9-41-10M M Form 2191 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed M TELEGRAM Rock Springs - March 13, 1944 2/q KNICKERBOCKER Salt Lake City C M Schloss of Schloss and Shubart denver arranging reservations D and RG train eight leaving Salt Lake five PM Friday seventeenth gentlemen hero under auspices British government friends of Ernie assure D and RG people they have tickets and confirm reservations made by Schloss. Eugene McAuliffe �c. s. 9-41-10M M Form 2191 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed M TELEGRAM Rock Springs =■ ILrch 13 2 1944 PRICE DENVER SCHLOSS aND SHUBhRT DENVER MADE ARRANGEMENTS DHL,’IRQ ROOM LS3SRS. KIBG ziND BUCHANAN DENVER TO CHICAGO CITY GF DENVER SATURDAY EVENING EIGHTEENTH I SI J OVER HERE UNDER AUSPICES BRITISH GOVERNMENT OH TIGHT SCHEDULE PLEASE CuHFIRl! 3 AND S RESERVATIONS. ■UGENE ISAULIFFE �X WST'iRN UNION J. Do A, Korrovzj Presidents March 13D 1944 Jcy Jiinufae tuning Company Franklinj, Pa. SCOTS «RRIV;U HERE THIS aFTLRNCON «NXIGUS SPEND ADDITIONAL TILE HERE CONTACTED SCHLOSS IN S.xLT LAKE CITY WILL LEET THEM THEIR uRRIVAL THURSDAY AM SIXTEENTH VISITING INDEPENDENT COMPANY MINE KENILWORTH FRIDAY GETTING D & F.G SALT LAKE Uli PRICE FIRDaY NIGHT THENCE CHICAGO VIA DENVER ON SCHEDULE. EUGENS MCAULIFFE �Messrso King and Buchanan arrive Salt Lake City 5:40 a.m., Thursday* March 16 th* meeting Mr0 C. M. Schloss at Hotel Utah who has arranged Pullman space Salt Lake City to Denver Do & RoGoRoR<> No, 8 leaving Salt Lake City 5 p«>m.9 Friday* March 17th0 Mr» Schloss will put the gentlemen on train Noo 8 at Price or Salt Lake City* arriving Denver 9;50 a.m.* Saturday* March 18tho Mro Schloss has arranged Pullman transportation Union Pacific City of Denver to Chicago leaving Denver 5 p<>nio* Saturday* March 18th* arriving Chicago 10:40 a<,m<>* Sunday* March 19tho �1’01 Class of Service This is a full-rate Telegram or Cable­ gram" ’nless its de­ ferred unaracter is in­ dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre­ ceding the address. NEWCOMB CARLTON J. C. WILLEVER The filine time shown in the date'line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination 1<H 65 20=MADI SONVfi LLE KY 11 708P GEORGE PRYDE= ’•VICE PRESIDENT UNION PACIFIC COAL CORP RW=- 'LEAVING CHICAGO TOMORROW CITY OF LOSANGELES FOR ROCK SPRINGS STOP IF CONVENIENT TO YOU MAY WE STAY REMAINDER OF WEEK= BUCHANONr. THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE �c. s. Form 2191 UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Time Filed TELEGRAM M ROCK oSSIHSu - L’AUCH 11, 1944 EEcAj OFAIIA r; iseiivations hade w white eouotaih lodge for imic, buch^nan, and youruelf ALL AIT.UVIEG 13TH B-18 CBP 9-41-10M M �Rock Springs - March 10s 1944 Mro Eugene McAuliffe: I handed ths following article to Er. Do Go Richardson to be published in the Rock Springs Rocket of March 11 s 1914 o Orijina' SiCn ed: GECiltt b Enc �KTo H. Ro King, Agent of The Fife Coal Company, and Mr. G. R<> Buchanan, Planning Engineer of the same company, will arrive in Rock Springs, Monday afternoon, March 13th, to study the operations of The Union Pacific Coal Company mines here, Dr0 Uilliam Reed, now General Manager of The Fife Coal Company, made a visit to The Union Pacific Coal Comoany mines in Seotember, 193A, and Mr. Kenneth H. McNeel, now deceased, also of the same company made a visit here in October, 1935» A number of the British mines, including The Fife Coal Company which is one of the major coal producing coal companies in Scotland and has an enviable safety record, have installed American mining machinery, consisting of undercutting machines, shaking conveyors, and mobile loaders, shipped from the United States. These two officials of the company are now in this country studying American mining methods and the operation of mechanical loaders with the view of increasing production at their mines. Additional coal is badly needed in the British Isles at the present time on account of the war. Messrs. King and Buchanan will be accompanied to Rock Springs by Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, President of The Union Pacific Coal Company, and in the evening of the 13th, the Rock Springs Chapter of the A.I.M.E., of which Mr. V. 0. Murray is Chairman and Mr. R. R. Knill is Secretary, has arranged a meeting in honor of the visitors and Mr. McAuliffe who is past president of the A.I.M.E. Dinner will be served at the Dead Horse Canyon Club House at 6 p.m., and the meeting promises to be a most interest­ ing one as the Scottish visitors will no doubt have much valuable informa­ tion to give the members and guests of the Engineering Chapter. �Mr. Ho Ro King, Agent of The Fife Coal Company, and l£r. G. R* Buchanan, Planning Engineer of the same company, vd.ll arrive in Rock Springs, Monday afternoon, March 13th, to study the operations of The Union Pacific Coal Company mines here. Dr, '.illiam Reed, now General Manager of The Fife Goal Company, made a visit to The Union Pacific Coal Company mines in September, 1934, and Mr. Kenneth II. McNeel, now deceased, also of‘the same company made a visit here in October, 1935» A number of the British mines, including The Fife Coal Company which is one of the major coal producing coal companies in Scotland and has an enviable safety record, have installed American mining machinery, consisting of undercutting machines, shaking conveyors, and mobile loaders, sliipped from the United States. These two officials of the company are now in this country studying American mining methods and the operation of mechanical loaders with the view of increasing production at their mines. Additional coal is badly needed in the British Isles at the present time on account of the war. Messrs. King and Buchanan will be accompanied to Rock Springs by Mr. Eugene McAuliffe, President of The Union Pacific Coal Company, and in the evening of the 13th, the Rock Springs Chapter of the A.I.M.E., of which Mr. V. 0. Murray is Chairman and Mr. R. R. Enill is Secretary, has arranged a meeting in honor of the visitors and Mr. McAuliffe who is past president of the A.I.M.E. Dinner will be served at ths Dead Horse Canyon Club House at 6 p.ra., and the meeting promises to be a most interest­ ing one as the Scottish visitors will no doubt have much valuable informa­ tion to give the members and guests of the Engineering Chapter. �•>( Goodman Manufachuhwo Company Electric Mining Machinery MAIN OFFICE AND PLANT HALSTED STREET AND 48TH PLACE CHICAGO, 704 DENVER NATIONAL BUILDING ILLINOIS DENVER, COLO. Zone 2 DENVER TELEPHONE TABOR 5090 March 7, 1944 Mr. George B. Pryde, Vice President Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear Mr. Pryde: I just had a phone call'from Mr. Green regarding your friends, Mr,. H. R. King and Mr. G. R. Buchanan, .who are over here from England looking over mechanical" loading for the Fife Coal Company. Mr. Green met them at the station in Chicago Sunday morn­ ing and put them up at the South Shore Country Club Sun­ day. They spent Monday going through our factory and were very much impressed by its size and the quantity of equipment we are turning out and by the fact that we make all of our own equipment, Including motors. They had a schedule laid out that contemplated visiting a number of larger mines using mobile equipment. However, they told Mr. Green they were primarily interested in Shaker Conveyors with Duckbills as they felt this equip­ ment was the only loading device they could employ satis­ factorily in their properties. Because of this, Mr. Green changed their schedule so they will have ample opportunity to see what they by all means should look at. Today they are at the Bugos-White Coal Company at Gilles­ pie, Illinois, which mine uses all Shaker Conveyors, dis­ charging onto belts. Tomorrow they will visit the Shear Coal and Coke Company at Canton, Illinois, which is also a Duckbill mine. On Thursday they will go to Harrisburg, Illinois and look over a Joy loader installation which the Joy Company is anxious for them to see. Thursday night one of our men, Mr. Hall, will meet them at Harrisburg and drive them to Madisonville, Kentucky where they will see further Shaker Conveyor installations in low coal. They will return to Chicago Sunday morning and Mr. Green will again meet them at the train and put them up for the day at the South Shore Country Club, subsequently putting them on the train for Rock Springs Sunday night. They will arrive at Green River Monday afternoon in accordance with the instructions they have passed on to you. �March 7, 1944 Sheet #2 Mr. George B. Pryde They at first planned on spending only Monday afternoon and Tuesday at Rock Springs, proceeding to Utah Tuesday night. Mr. Green has told them that Rock Springs and the Union Pacific Coal Company offer the very best possible chance for them to see and learn the best application of Shaking Conveyors and has prevailed upon them to spend more time than originally planned in Rock Springs. We don't know how long they will stay in Rock Springs but they surely should stay there several days and I feel sure that after talking with you they will be agreeable to spending more time with you and your very fine organization. I know you will urge them to do this. From Rock Springs they will visit Utah and I .am today mak­ ing arrangements with Dave Bryson to take them under his wing. I would like to have them see Bryson's Conveyor work at Sunnyside and if they are going to look at cater­ pillar mounted loading equipment I also think they should see Clear Creek which is a track mounted loader mine. Clear Creek is doing by far the best job with mobile loading equipment of any mine in Utah. Mr. Green and, I believe, Mir. McAuliffe are both of the opinion that Messrs. Buchanan and King would be more effect ively sold on the use of Shaker Conveyors and Duckbills if I, or in fact any Goodman man, were not to tag- around with them at Rock Springs. For this reason it is felt that it would be better if I did not meet them at Rock Springs, at least until they are ready to leave. I do think I should take them to Utah if they go there because I know that un­ less they go to the right people there they could leave Utah with a lot of bad information. This is primarily why I want Dave Bryson to give them the true picture of the Utah situation. I think it would be very dangerous to turn them loose in a strange country to make a quick survey of mining in Utah without knowing they are getting good authen tic information. I want to thank you for your extreme kindness in inviting me to be with these people at your properties. I believe that Mr. McAuliffe and Mr. Green have the right slant on it and that it is best that I stay away from Rock Springs. District Manager CEM c Whor t e r : mo �Saturday, Jan* 27; Sunday, Jan. 28, 1940 DECEMBER |l Su Mo Tu V/o Th Fr Sa 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 192021 22 23 242526272829 30 | 27th and 28th Days |V JANUARY i SunMonTueWedThu Fri Sat 12 3 4 5 6 7 3 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Patented FEBRUARY Su Mo Tu V/o Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 1415 1617 18 192021222324 (2526272829 339 and 338 Days to Como �080-3 Omaha - March 3, 1944 Mr. G. B„ PrycLe: Confirming phone conversation this morning, I quote message from Mr. J. D. A. Morrow, President, Joy Manufacturing Company, Franklin, Pennsylvania, dated March 2: "Buchanan and King desire leave Rock Springs Tues­ day night, March 14th, on Union Pacific 21-23 for Salt Lake City. Will you please ask Pollock have space for them accordingly. Thank you." Today Mr. Green of the Goodman called me up and asked that we give them a full opportunity to investi­ gate Goodman equipment, it apparent that Mr. Green thinks the Joy people have the inside track. Mr. Schloss will convoy the gentlemen from Rock �ATTENTION’ MR. PRYDE A I f\ Hock Springs - liarch 3, 1944 .' I , . „ .. (CC: -‘T» Ko Ho Knill) I am attaching copy of letters from ^r. McAuliffe to Hr, Pryde Er. V. 0. Hurray; stating the time of the arrival of Messrs. King and wuchunan, who arc from Scotland. I v.ould suggest that you call an A.-‘••U.S. resting for Monday, March 13ths dinner to be served at 6 at Howard’s Cafe. In addition to inviting all members of the A.I.M.E., I would suggest that Messrs, L, H, Brown, A, L, Taliaferro, uayor,Dr. To H, Roe; Chairman of the Lion’s Club, Ur. S. L, Voucher; Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, ^r. Claude Elias; Er<> g. R. Hctzler of the Mountain i'uel, Orlo Hetts/t John Hay, Jr. be invited, lou ray think of ether prominent business men who should be included, would suggest also that you in­ clude the Hine Superintendents fi’om Hock Springs, Reliance, Stansbury, winton, and Superior. The invitations should be send out as quickly as possible to the men, and you should have prepared a number of copies of the list of those invited. Of course you will also arrange for the dinner at Howards, giving them as much information as is now on hand, this to be done as quickly as possible, youto notify Howard later as to the exact number who will be present �080-3 - A/ ■ \ 1< / Omaha, March 1, 1944. Mr. G. B, Pryde: Mr. J. D. A. Morrow called me from Pittsburgh this even­ ing, advising that Messrs. King and Buchanan are in Pittsburgh today, and will leave Chicago on Streamliner No. 103, Sunday night, March 12th, arriving Green River 2:55 PM, Monday, March 13. Will you please arrange to meet this pair of Scots at Green River, talcing care of them as per my previous a,dvice? I will either go out with them or join them in Rock Springs. co - Mr. A. C. Green, Go o diiian Mf g. Co., Chicago, Ill. Euge ne MeAuliffe �080-3 Omaha - March 1, 1944 Mr. G. B. Pry de: Not hearing anything from Dr. William Reid about the Scottish visitors, Messrs. Buchanan and King, Mr. Green has wired the British Purchasing Commission in Washington, inquiring of Mr. Strachan what, if anything,'he has heard of these two gentlemen. I think we can depend on Mr. Green to follow up as soon as they arrive, giving you advance notice of their visit to Rock Springs. As stated to you, I would like to be there during their stay, at which time we should put on a good meeting of the Wyoming Section of the A. I. M. E. �Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to WANT A REPLY? C 0 P Y Chicago, March 1, 1944 0 "Answer by WESTERN UNION" or similar phrases may be Included without charge. Eugene McAuliffe, Pres., Union Pacific Coal Co., 1416 Dodge St., Omaha, Nebr. Mr. Strachan of Bureau Purchasing Commission in Washington advises us by telegram this morning Messrs. Buchanan and King left Washington last night for Pittsburgh to see Joy Company. They will contact us later. I will keep you advised. A. C. Green, Goodman Mfg. Co. Mr. Pryde: For your information. EMcA 3-1-44 �Class of Service This is a full-rate Telep-im or Cablegran' tIcss its de­ ferred character is in­ dicated by a suitable symbol above or pre­ ceding the address. A. N. WILLIAMS PRESIDENT The filing time shown in the date line on telegrams and day letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is STANDARD TIME at point of destination >KHA24 DL=DENVER COLO MAR 1 1O25A ' GEORGE B PRYDE VICE PRES= •UNION PACIFIC COAL CO RW= HAVE TAKEN CARE OF FLOWERS FOR CHARLES FUNERAL FOR YOU MR BAYLESS AND GENERAL OFFICE-. HAVE NOT YET HEARD WHEN MESSRS BUCHANAN AND KI MG WILL ARRIVE FROM ENGLAND BUT THEY PLAN TO GET IN TOUCH WITH US THROUGH BRITISH PURCHASING COMMISSION UPON ARRIVAL= C E MCWHORTER'-. ■ v\ . - THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE �080-3 Omaha - February 25, 1944 Mr. G„ Bo Prydes Relative to the visit of Messrs. Buchanan and King from Fife: I discussed the matter with Mr. Green by telephone in Chicago, and later personally In New York, this week, and while he has not heard from them, it will be his plan to send them out to you If they desire to go, giving you advance notice of their arrival. I think we should make their visit the occasion for holding a meeting of the Wyoming Section, getting them to tell us something about the British system, which meeting I would like to attend. �Rock Spring; - February 23 s Mr. Eugene McAuliffe; I have yours of February 18ths file 080-3. I shall be glad to look out for Messrs. Buchanan and King of The Fife Coal Company. Original Signed: geoe b. pryde �080-3 Omaha - February 18, 1944 Mr. Go B„ Pryde; I have the following cable from Dr. William Reid, Kirk Caldy: "Buchanan and King, production officials of this company, will contact you through Goodman end February. Grate­ ful for visiting facilities." I xvill call the Goodman Company tomorrow and sug­ gest to them that they send these gentlemen through from Chicago to Rock Springs, giving you notice of their arrival. I would like to have you give them full opportunity of inspecting mechanical loading, safety, and other matters, putting them up at White Mountain Inn as our guests. �All Communications to be addressed to the Company Head office, Leven, Fife. Telegrams “Carlow, Phone. Leven." "Fifcol," Cowdenbeath telephone Nos „ 161 a 162 Leven Nos 3181 to 3185 Cowdenbeath. 1.7±h.. -Fe.bw Tnvrsc.ay Your Ref Our Ref R/TS. Mr. George 3. Pry de, Vice President, The inion Pacific Coal Co., Rock Springs, ’. Y 01. ING, U. S. A • Dear Mr. Pryde, ere are two m- re fellow Scotsmen, George R. huchanan and Henry 'A. Hing, coming to you for infer lation on coal face loading They will recognise you at once from the photograph right behind my desk side by side with that of . r. McAuliffe. They are looking forward to this meeting very much indeed. Kindest regards to you and hrs. Pryde. Yours sincerely, �<■ NO. 1 �be; . Mr Pryde 410-05 December 16, 1943 Mr. Donald Eindson The Ashing-ton Coal Gomoany Limited Ashington, Northumberland, England - Dear Mr. Eindson: Your letter of November S2 arrived yesterday and I hasten to make renly. First, under separate cover I am sending you a copy of our February and December, 1943, Employes Magazines. On page 53 of the February issue you will find ail of the information for the five years requested, and on page 62 you will find the rules governing our safety awards for 1943. In the December number, page 50?,, you will find our overall safety record, 96,724. man­ hours. per lost time accident for the first 10 months, against 148,433 for the same neriod in 1942, and 117,097- for the year 1942. Answering your questions in the order asked; the "vital principle1' governing our program was the prise appeal, which not only meant getting something, but in addition human nature is so constituted that it is always interested in a gambling enterprise.. In ray opinion, the chance of winning a prize does enter into the conduct of the individual while"work­ ing in and about the mines. I am definitely certain that the desire to avoid loss of life, limb, or working time ‘is not upper­ most in.the minds of the great majority. You. will observe, by reading the Run of the Mine articles in the December magazine, where our labor situation has gone. I look on Mr. Lewis as a menace to war production; but the fact remains that he has the entire Washington hierarchy afraid of him. So far we have been faced with a mild winter, but with two or three weeks of severe western winter weather, or even throughout the east, we will have a real coal famine. I enclose a little booklet showing the measure of wages we are paying under the’ "portal to portal" agreement, effective �Mr. Donald Hindson 12/16/45 November 15. During the last two or three days we have had some fifty men in a new mine on strike against their own agreement. The wages paid are perfectly ridiculous, three or four hundred men refusing to work the first four days in order to qualify for the higher wages on Friday and Saturday. If the measure of government interference in the conduct of our coal mining industry expands such further, we will have complete chaos. What we should have is an amendment to the laws, insuring full Justice to all 'workers, fixing at the same time the measure of responsibility on their part toward the consuming public. I think I know Mr. Wheeler of the Joy Company; at least 1 know of him. I understand he is a very good man. The Duckbill was developed and patented on our property, thereafter sold to the Goodman Manufacturing Company of Chicago. Your story of near misses is most interesting. I hope your son will return in good shape and that I will have the privilege of meeting you when the war is over, as I fully intend to run across for one more ‘’look see'5, as our old Chinamen would say. Very cordially yours, Cdsteifa^-5 WGHNEMgAUUFFE RECEIVED v1GE-PRESID^T oF£RATION_S__ �copy THE ASHINGTON COAL COMPANY LIMITED Colliery Office, Ashington, Northumberland. Nov. 22nd, 1943 Dear Mr. McAuliffe: The time has come for me to introduce myself as Agent for this group of collieries. You have occasionally heard from and written to our Mr. Docherty, Safety Office. Now it is my turn. First - I write at home out in the country at 8:30 p^m., on a damp November night by the side of a decent fire spite of fuel shortage It is here I do my quiet thinking and construc­ tive work or plans - no doubt it is in the operations and con­ tacts where life pulsates that the real valuable work is done as we cannot live to ourselves, we’ve got to get amongst people. I read your last Magazine with much interest - that in which you became an "old timer". Good fortune to you and your grand efforts. We admire you here - one day I’d like to meet you. We have been restudying your prize safety scheme - wonder­ ing what is the VITAL PRINCIPLE which gets there. Is it interest aroused through the money or prize appeal; is it interest produc­ ing better workmanship, or just what is it in your considered opinion? Do you exclude attendance as a qualification and if so, why? Doesn't the man who gets in the greatest attendance run the greatest risk, i.e., time exposure, or is this offset by the fact that he is generally a better workman all round? We have not been successful with a similar scheme and naturally wonder why. Since the war our rate has rocketted to 50$ over prewar and this is general over here. Are you feeling the blast now and to what extent? We have over here a Mr. Wheeler of "Joy, Inc." advising on installations of American equipment, and so we become more closely allied in thought and deed. We, ourselves, are installing duckbills in a 4'-0" seam with a very soft roof where present output is approximately 1.75 tons per underground shift. Small compared with your large figures. Labour problems are many and difficult in these times, but at heart the men are sound, more especially as individuals. �- 2 - In the mass they act unreasonably at ’times and quickly react to news. Your strikes soon infect our men - to what extent do yours reciprocate? Our Essential Works Order, guaranteeing a week’s pay and limiting management's disciplinary actions has upset morale greatly. The men are not ready for such a leap forward and in war times it misses the mark badly. In effect the men seem to say there is money about when a war has to be fought and here the government shows how we can get something for nothing and we will make the most of it. And they do. One wonders at times why output has not fallen even more. Still it is good to be helping in these mighty times, and one would not have it easy. The harder the game the more enjoyable it becomes. My younger boy is in the Army, having broken his Cambridge studies. The elder is reserved in mining. I did my bit in the last, being.a young engineer in the Field Corps. Whilst, as I said earlier, we live out in the country, we have had our share of "near misses" all round - about 15 bombs in all - one leaving a hole 70' across and 40' deep not far from the house. Probably a nearby searchlight has been the attraction. Then we had 57 panes blown in - and out - and later I saw the Hun come in and drop a direct hit on one of our colliery fan houses - complete destruction. This was a Saturday evening and we started up Monday morning with a standby fan and holes and gaps all over the place patched up. Lately we have been unmolested. Well now I've finished for the present and hope to hear from you in due course. Meantime may I say thank you for helpful letters and information you have personally sent from time to time. Congratulations upon becoming an old timer and to your good work. Yours truly, /s/ Donald Hindson RECEIVED DEC 18 1243 VICE-PRESHjiwT OPERATIONS ����ASHDTGTOJ' COAL C0UE&.KY LTD. EG ZE. STRUG ICRS. ��sX.i- L.T. .. • ��������� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a Visit from Great Britain Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Nov 1943-Mar 1945 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, Great Britain, 1943, 1944, 1945 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from Great Britian. Includes photographs from these visits. All documents are held together by a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eugene McAuliffe, I.N. Bayless, J.B. Sproston, C.J. Potter, A. Miller, George B. Pryde, H.R. King, J.D.A. Morrow, L.E. Brown, Alexander Braes, A.C. Green, Donald Hindson Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0320 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/29b4261ca7d2803a5204daccce738669.pdf e4f2bd4327263287aa200cafbdbb81b7 PDF Text Text FILE NOo 284 - Visitors - Colorado School of Mines' Students �COLORADO A C OLLE GE OF SCHOOL MIN E R AL OF MINES E N GIN E E RIN G GOLDEN COLO RAD� May 25, 1955 Mro Vo O. Murray G eneral Manager Union Pacific Coal Co. Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear Mro Murray: We wish to express our thanks to you for the fine visit we had at your property on May 10. We feel that the opportunity which you have afforded us will be beneficial in the future, both academically and materially. In addition we greatly appreciated your generous hospitality in taking care of our lunch. Sincerely, GTBsll George T. Bator Associate Professor d�:t� �May 6, 1955 Y�. George T. Bator, hssociate Professor Colorado .School of :.Iines Mining Department Golden, Colorado Dear Professor Bator: Your letter of ?.'!ay 3rd aavising that a group of sixteen mining students and two facult." members �·.ill visit our properties on May 10th has been received. 'Ne wish to advise that \;e hnve scheduled our Stansbury and Superior mines to 1:wrk 'Iuesdo.y, Y:.ay 10th, and it is our plan at the present time for your group to v�sit the Stans bury Nine, No. 7 Seam, ,•;here a continuous miner, Joy loading machines, ar.d shuttle cars on a belt panel are in operation, also a couple oi shakers doin6 developcrent work. This will give your t;roup an opportunity to s1,e this equip!llent in operation. ·::e will be looking for you on Tuesday, l!B::l 10th,rr and will try to .sho•,; you the complete cycle of operation at this property. '.':ith kindest regards. Very truly yours, Origin2,l Si;roed; V. O. MURRAY VOM:KB �C O L O R A D O A C OLLE G E MINING S C H O O L OF MINE R AL O F MIN E S G OL D E N E N GINE E RIN G DEPARTMENT C OL O R A D O May 3o11 1955 Mr. V. o. Murray General Manager Union Pacific Coal Co. Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear Mr. Murray: As mentioned in your letter of March 4, I write now to call your attention to the fact that our group of 16 mining students and two faculty members wish to visit one of your properties on May 10. Our complete itinerary was sent to you last week, and I trust you have received it. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter, and I am looking forward to meeting you next week. Very truly yours, George T. Bator, Associate Professor GTBsll �MEMORANDUM Sixteen senior mining students from the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, under supervision of Professor George T, Bator and Professor Howard L. Hartman, arrived at Rock Springs 5:45 p.m., May 9, 1955, and were taken into the Stansbury Mine thy following morning, May 10, 1955, by Mr. V. O. Murray, General Manager, Mr. C. E. Grosso, Mine Superintendent, Mr. Robt. Yourston, Resident Engineer, Mr. James Mecca, Mine Foreman Nao 7 Seam, and Mr. John Nesbit, Mine Foreman. The group visited all the working places in No. 7 Seam, watching the working cycle of the following equipment operating in this seam: Top cutters, shuttle cars, Joy loaders, Continuous miner, belt ways and shaking conveyors. The average age of the students was probably 22 - 23 years. They were a well behaved bunch of young men and were taken to luncheon at Howard's by The Union Pacific Coal Company. The group was ready to go into the mine at 7:45 a.m., came to the surface about 11:00 a.m., were furnished showers, towels, soap, and then proceeded to Howard's for lunch and left at 1:30 p.m. for Jackson, Wyoming. From this location they hoped to go through the Yellowstone Park into Butte, Montana. General Office Dictated by Mr. V. o. Murray May 10, 1955 �HEi.�0RA.t.lDU?l Sixteen senior mining students from the Colorado .::ichool of Mines, Golden, Colorado, under supervisio of Professor George 'I. Bator and Professor Henard L. Hartr.:ia.n, arrived at Rock Springs 5.:45 .m.t, May 9, 1955, and were taken into the Stansbury lline the following morning, May 10, 195 5, by I.r. V. 0. !.{urray, Gene ral Manager, Mr. C. E. Grosso, 'tine Superintendent; Mr. Robt. Yourston, P-esident Engineer, !Jr. James .Mecca, �Jine Foreman No. 7 Seam, and 2ir. John Nes it, Mine Foremi'm. The group visited all the i;mrking places in Nq. 7 Seam, watching the ,'lOrking cycle of the follm'iing equipment operating j_n this seam: Tor cutters, shuttle cars, Joy loaders, Continuous miner, belt -:.:;a.y;; and shakinr; conveyors. 'Ihe average age of the students r;as iJrobably 22 They were e. v;ell be:haved bunch of younr; nen and ,·Jere taken to luncheon at Howard I s by The Union Pacific Coal Cumpan�r. The group nas reaciy to l,O into the mine at 7: 45 a.m., came to the surface about 11:00 a.m., were furnished shm·1ers, tov1els, soap, and then nroceedec. to Hm·, 2.rd Is for lunch ar.d left 2.t 1: 30 p.m. f�r Jackson, "":"yoming. From this location they hoped to go through the Yellm·,stone Park into Butte, Montan5. 0 1 ·L�1 s·.. \1 General Office Dictated by�- V. 0. �urray May 10, 1955 I , � { -: l� �RELEASE FROM LIABILITY Each of the undersigned hereby states that he·understands and realizes that coal mines and mining If'emises are extremely dangerous; and that for and in consideration of permission granted to him by The Union Pacific Coal Company, a corporation, to visit and inspect its coal mine, operations and premises on this 10th day of _t ____May _______tt _, 19-12,_, and subsequent days, each of said undersigned does hereby assume any and all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property, while upon said Company's premises, and while travel­ ing to and from the same, and does hereby, for himself and his heirs, executors, administrators and dependents, forever acquit, release and discharge said The Union Pacific Coal Company, a corporation, and all its officers, agents, servants and employees, from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries, and for loss of or damage to his property, which may be sus­ tained by him while upon said Company's premises, or while traveling to and from the same, irrespective of the manner in which said injuries or damages may arise or be caused, and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and each of the undersigned covenants that neither he nor his heirs, execut�rs, administrators, or dependents shall ever institute any action or legal proceeding to recover dam­ ages for such injuries or death, or damages to his property. If this release shall be executed by a female, the pronouns tthe n ; 11 1 1 him 11 , his 11 and "himself", as used herein, shall be read and construed to include their feminine equivalent. Dated this 10th day of ------------May , 19 55 �RELEASE FROM LIABILITY Eaoh of the undersigned hereby states that he understands and realiz es that coal mines and mining :iremises are extreme ly dangerous; and that for and in consideration of permission granted to him by The Union Pacific Coal Company, a corporation, to visit and inspect its coal mine, operations and premises on this 10th day of _____Ma ___ y______,t 19�, and subsequent days, each of said undersigned does hereby assume any and all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property,. while upon said Company's premises, and while travel­ ing to and from the same, and does hereby, for himself and his heirs, executors, / administrators and dependents, forever acquit, release and discharge said The Union Pacific Coal Company, a corporation, and all its officers, agents, servants and employees, from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and·all personal injuries, and for loss of or damage to his property, which may be sus­ tained by him v.hile upon said Company's premises, or while traveling to and from the same, irrespective of the manner in which said injuries or damages may arise or be caused, and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and each of the undersigned covenants that neither he nor his heirs, executors, administrators, or dependents shall ever institute any action or legal proceeding to recover dam­ ages for such injuries or death, or damages to his property. If this release shall be executed by a female, the pronouns 11 he", 11 him", "his" and 11 himseif 11 , as used herein, shall be read and construed to include their feminine equivalent. Dated this 10th day of May , 19 55 • ------------- I HA.VE READ AND FULLY UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE RELEASE. �RELEASE FROM LIABILITY undersigned hereby states that he understands and realizes that coal mines and mining II"emises are extremely dangerous; and that for and in considerati on of permission granted to him by The Union Pacific Coal Company, a corporation, to visit and inspect its coal mine, operations and premises on this ___l_O_t_h_ day of _tt , 19 �, and subsequent days, each of said ____M•ay t _t_t_____ undersigned does hereby assume any and all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property, while upon said Company's premises, and while travel­ ing to and from the same, and does hereby, for himself and his heirs, executors, administrators and dependents, forever acquit, release and discharge said The Union Pacific Coal· Company, a corporation, and all its officers, agents, servants and employees, from any and all liabi lity, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries, and for loss of or damage to his property, which may be sus­ tained by him'v.hile upon said Company's premises, or while traveling to and from the same, irrespective of the manner in which said injuries or damages may arise or be caused, and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and each of the undersigned covenants that neither he nor his heirs, executors, administrators, or dependents shall ever institute any action or legal proceeding to recover dam­ ages for such injuries or death, or damages to his property. If this release shall be executed by a female, the pronouns 11 he", 11 him", "his" and "himself 11 , as used herein, shall be read and con1Strued to include their feminine equivalent. . Dated this 10th day of May , 19 55 . ------------- LLY UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE RELEASE. ;:> ��z:;;/ �I' COLOnADO SCHOOL OF DH1�ES GOLDE�, C�LO�ADO �Mo l o r a�� and U t ah Ca al Comp a n y Uni o n P a c i f i c Ca al Co m p a n y �n a cc n � o Co p per Co mp a ny C e � rc � 0 M i n i n g Cohlp � n y "·: > :•. :. s -i:. 1.ri:,. 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V. O o Murray Gener al Manager Un i on P a c i f i c Co a l Co . Ro c k S p r i n g s , W y om i n g D e a r Mr . M u r r a y : I w i s h t o t h ank you for p e rm i s s i o n to vi s i t o n e o f you r p ro p e r t i e s a n d I wi l l a l s o wr i t e to you s ev e r a l d ay s b e f or e o u r v i s i t a s r e qu e s t e d i n you r l e t t e r . V e r y t r u l y you r s t, cJ. � � G eo r g e r. B a tor ..fe. As s o c i a t e Pro f e s sor GTB : 1 1 �( I I ·� I' J' ,/2 / March 4, 195 5 Mr o Ge orge To Bator, Associate Professor Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado (CC - Mr o I o Mo C harles Mr o J o B o Hughes Mr o c . E o Gro sso) Dear Profes.sor Bator: This will advise recefpt of your letter of March 2nd stating that yo11 are planning a mine inspzction trip this cominB liay and that �rou i70uld like to schedule a visit in one of The Union P�cific Coal Company ' s mines Tuesday morning , May lOth o ;Ne will be very happy to have you and your group of students visit us and I i1ish you ,,ould call this to my attention a fe\'1 days before you e:>q>ect to arrive so it will enable us to schedule one of our properties to nork on that dateto You no doubt know that r10 have curtailed our operations very materially working only the D 0 O o Clark Mine at Superior , Wyoming and the Stansbury Mine at Stans­ bury, Wyoming. May 10th. As m::1.tters now stand we will expect you on Very truly yours, VOM:tKB ' .v �March 4, 195 5 Llr o George T. Bator, Associ ate Professor Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado (CC - fflr . Io 11. Charles Mr . J.tB. Huehes Mro C . E .. Grosso) Dear Professor Bator: This will advis e receipt of your letter of !�arch 2nd stating that you are planning a mine inspection trip this coming i1e.y and that you 1:,ould like to schedule a visit in one of The Union Pacific Coal Company ' s mines Tuesday morning, tlay 10th. We t':ill be very happy to have you and your group of students visit us and I wish you v;ould call this to myt attention a few days before you expect to arrive so it will ena.ble us to schedule one of our proparties to ,·rork on that dateto You no doubt know that we have crurtailed our operations very materially working only the D . O. Clark Mine at Supa�ior , Wyoming and the Stansbury Mine at Stans­ bury, Wyomingo May 10th. As matters now stand we will expect you on Very truly yours, VO�:tKB �C A O L O R A D C O L L E GE MINING O S OF C H O O L M I N E R AL DE P AR T ME N T O F M I N E S G E N GIN E E RIN G O L D E N C O L ORAD O March 2 , Mr o V o O o Murray Vic e-President Union P aci f i c Co al Co . Rock Sp ri ngs , Wyomi ng De ar Mr. Murr a y : The M i n i ng Dep artme nt of the Colorado School of M i n es i s p la n n i ng a mi n e i nsp ect ion tr i p th is comi ng M ay and w e would l i k e to i nclud e on e of your m ech a n i z ed co al mi n es on our iti n e rary. Our tri p i s d i r ect ed tow ard th e Butte are a a nd i f i t would not i nconv e n i e nce your op er ations, we would li ke to schedul e one of your mi n es for Tu esd ay morning , M a y 10. W e will b e tr aveli ng by st ate v eh i cles a nd there will be 16 sen ior m i n i ng stude nts a nd two f acul ty members i n our gIWp . Our ob j ect i v e i s to f it i n w i th th e norm al comp a ny ro�ti n e, v i si ti ng underground i n the morni ng and surf ace p l a nt i n the a fternoon, time p ermi tt i ng . All members o f th e p arty will be e qui p p ed to go underground except for el ectri c h e ad lamps. We w i ll a p preci ate a ny f avorabl e consi deration you may extend a nd w i ll b e ple ased to rece i v e suggestions you m ay wish to of f er . Very truly George T o Bator Associ at e Professor GT&LL �A FILE NO. . / --.. ----·---...-- lbert go !Ceen::i.n, \ssociate Professor of Dining Colorndo School of !i:i.nes .olden, Color�do (CC - Liro I o 1:. Cho.des) eo.r Prof I<eenan � o 1_. ;c ac kr1ov1led'"'e your letter of clntc ctobcr 10th, Qdvisin� that travel 1:L"'litations 'i'iill not allou your visitinz our Hanna r-ro. 4-/\. Bine on date October 27 . The c2.ncellation h:1s not cauc;ed any inc onvenience nncl ne shn.11 be he.pm to have you inclu :e tho 'ock Sprin_�s area in the itinerary for your s0nior class during the sprine; of' 1950 . COl"dially, HCL/rt �t ' COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES GOLDEN. COLORADO Oc tobe r 1 0 , 1949 Mr . H . C . Livings ton , Vic e Pre s ident Union Pa c ific C oal C ompany Rock Spr ingsa, Wyoming Dear Mr . Livings ton : Thank you f or your l e tter of Se ptember 30 , 1949 , grant ing us pe rmis s ion to vis i t the Hanna No . 4 .Mine of the Union Pac i f ic C oal C ompany on Oc tober 27 with our s e ni or mining s tude n tsa. I t is with re gre t tha t we mus t canc e l this pr opo sed vis i t due to trave l l imita t ions occa s i oned by a cur ta ilment in time allowe d for the trip. · Ac c ordingly , plea s e be advi sed tha t we will be unab le to vi s i t you on Oc tober 27 as planned , and re gre t any inc onventence we may have caused you by thi s cancella t ion . Our spring inspe c ti on tri p for our mining seniors will inc lude v i s i ts to mining ins talla tions , b o th hard rock and c oal , in the Nor thwe s t dis tric t and we will grea tly appre c iate the oppor tuni ty to vis it c oal mine s in the Rock Springs area a t tha t time . Howe ve r , ins ofar a s this i s in the s omewhaat dis tan t future , I shall corre spond with you la ter re que s ting your views on this ma tte r . S inc e re ly yours , AMK : j �� --=---Albert M. Ke enan As soc ia te Profe s s ora. of Mining �Septe ,1b or 30, 19h9 Albe:i:� t ! I o i<eo.1::.an, i", ssoc i£._\'i;o Professm· o_ L:ining Coior[1do $choo1 of _fines Col ,on, Color.ndo . - 1·t,,t· o Jr o :i , h�� ( .,,t ~• o ,.v "'1..!.'l:-::c: •_; :;; ) \J V Der..r • ...•of o r eencn � Our upolo§ fo·• dcl.3.y in repl� :in� 'i; o your lette of � e:) �C ber 22, 1949 , r,m·ms sion for your senior cl:1sa of 3h stu.dents, to-3ether ·.i.:ith three fa.cultt' I. G1:bors, to vi�it our !!::mm. Ho o 4-:-. ::inc on ltit, e Cc-caber 27tha :c-- equestine R,aply to your lett.er has been crnbycd av:aitin ::; scr.10 a.dvic G as to the poss.:.bility of filrF' :J o )Grat.in_; on cto:.ier 27 . r-o_ turn� ,ely, r:c have :ca­ c eiv0d n<ivice on this date that ow .ines will return to 0·)3ra.tions on t!ondny, Octobm.· 3, nnd ·;;e nre conficknt th. t t oy wil l ·o ::orkin[; on dato October 27t. 1 :1 0 v;clcome your p:1rty to ow· I!a.rm:1 fJo o L}-A property on date October 2'7 an l viill make arrc.ngcmcnts for sufficient n1.ll!'cb cr of our en�:ineering per­ sonnel to meet your party .:i.nd .:iccompal'l.>'· you unclercroW1dto 1 i'Je r;ill app1"0ciatc your advising us by wire on dste Oct.ober 25 the time of' your arrlvnl at Hc1ru1a s o thut Yle may make propG!' o.r-.ranGements . i.Ve sua�ost that your party b0 at the mine mouth not later than 6 :30 a omo October 27 to catch the 7 : 00 u om o ma.ntrip, this of course if convenient to arrange o Cordially, Original Signed: H. C. LIVI NGSTON HCL/rt �kECEIVED Omaha - September 28 , 1949 S E P 3 0 1949 ____ 080-3 VICE-PRESIDENf OP E RATIONS ._,,._����'. Mr o H o C o Livingston : Your s of Sept ember 26 , with att ached copy o f letter from Albert M. Keenan , Assoc iate Professor of Mining , Co lorado School of Mine s , reque sting permi ssion �or hi s senior class o f 34 mining student s and three faculty members to vi sit o ur Hanna 4-A Mine on Thursday , October 27 , • 1949 : I see no obj ection to allowing Profe s sor Keenane· and the student s to vi sit the Hanna 4-A Mine . I would sugge st , however , that you make arrangements for suf­ fici ent co nductors to organi ze the underground vi sit to allow fo r uninterrupt ed ope ration, as_ well as for the prot ection o f the visitors . Probably Mr . Charle s and hi s experi enced mining engineers wo uld be helpful to Mr . Burre s s in handling the party . �} i Rock S prings - Septe�ber 26n, I.'iX' o I o N o Bayles s : ;:Je attach c opy of l etter by Albert Ho Keenan .? A ssoc iate Professor of tiining, C olorado School of Mines, dated September 22, 1949, requesting permis sion for his senior class of 34 mining student s and 'i:,hree faculty mem­ bcn• s to visit our Hanna No . 4-A lli.ne on Thursday .? October 27, 191�9n. rJe b elieve that you mentioned attendin the 75th Anniversary cel0- bration at Golden and may wish t.o discuss thi s matter ,·Jith Mr . Keennn at that time . In the event that you do not attend the c elebra'(,ion and wi sh t o have us make reply to Ur . I(eenan ' s letter, will you kindly advisen. Originatl Sign ed:t H. C. LIVING STO N HCL/rt �COLORADO SC HOOL OF MINE A S C H O O L O F M I N ERAL E N G I N E E RI N G G O LD E N ' C O L ORADO DEPARTMENT O F MINING ENGINEERING S e ptember 22 , 1949 Mr . H . C . Livings t on , V i c e Pre s id ent in C harge o f Ope ra t i ons Union Pa c if ic C oa l C ompany Ro ck S prinr.;so, Hyoming De a r Ur . Livings t on : The mining depa r tm ent of the C o l orad o S c hool· of r.Une s i s pre s en t ly planning an ins pe c ti on tri p o f �e s te rn mining opera t i ons f o r the s e n i or c la s s o, and w ould grea tlv a ppre c ia te the opportuni ty of vi s i t ing the Hanna C oa 1 Mine of th e Un i on Pa c i f i c C oa l C ompany � .A c c ordingly we w i sh t o talce th i s opportun i ty to d e te rmine i f i t is po s s ible f or us to inc lude the Hanna Mine in our i t ine rary . r.I.b e propo s e d da te wh i ch w ould_ favor our s che dule would be Thurs day , Oc tobe r 27 , 1949 . Thi s da te , i t i s r e a l i ze d , w i l l b e c ontingent upon the end ing of the current c oa l s trike , bu t i f a t a l l po s s ible ·w e w ould a ppre c ia t e the oppor tuni ty of v i s i t ing th i s ins ta l la t i on . The inspe c t i ori g roup w ould b e c ompo s e d of 34 mining s tudents a nd 3 fa cul ty memb e r s t rave l ing by chartered bus , the la t te r rema ining w i th the group a t a l l t ime s . 1.Ve sha l l grea tly appre c ia te any favorable c ons ide ra t ion you may extend us re ga rdinq; the propos e d ,ri s i t a s we fe e l the s tudents and facul ty a l ike wi l l gre a t ly bene f i t from the opportuni ty of s e e ing your mining opera tions and plant fac i l i t ie s . I t vJ i l l be doub ly inte re s t ing t o the s tudent s who are gradua t ing th i s c ominc; s pring in the re c e ntly re ­ e s tabl i she d c oa l mining curriculum . �1Ve sha l l we l c ome any sugge s t ions you may ha ve to of f e r re ga rding our propos ed trip . Im_m ed ia te ly upon re c e ipt of your de c i s i on, if fa vorabl e , ·w e sha l l be gin c orre s pondenc e w i th the Chamber o f C omme rc e of Rav,l ins , 'fJyoming , re la tive t o hotel and mea l a c c onunoda tionso. Any SU[�e;e s ti ons you may o ffe r in thi s re pe c t w i l l be mos t we l c omeo. s=� Al'.fKo: j Albe rt M . Ke enan A s s oc ia te Profe s s or of Mining �DOM ESTIC 5 J INT"RNAT 0" Check the class of service desired ; othen,ise this me.ssnge will he sentns ,dull rato telegram DAY LETTER 1206 NIGHT LETTER NO. WDS.·CL. OF SVC, JOSEPH L. EG�N. PRl?BIOt::NT PD. OR COLL. CASH NO, '- Check the clru,,.of service desired • othernise th.is messngo will bo ' sentnt the full ra.te FULL RATE DEFERRED CODE NIGHT LETTER CHARGE TO THE ACCO UNT OF TI M E FILED Send tl:cfollowlnc mcssoec, subject to the term, on baek hereof, which are hertby =ud to �:ee�c.rr1 1 __Q'i; I f\.:.';,?O • ,� olc:ir2Co ..c�!' . !:h.. . Telegraph your order for America's favorite magazines-HOLIDAY, 1 yr., $5 o the Post, 1 yr., $6 o LADIES' ll-lOME JOURNAL, 1 yr., $3. All prices U. S. only. No charge for wire. Pay Western IIJnion clerk for subscription or when billed by publisher. Publlshlirwlll, on subscriber's requost. refund run amount paid for copies not previously mailed. Prices ·subject lo change without notice. �- C O p y - COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES GOLDEN , COLORADO July 2 6 , 1949 I-Ire. I o N o Bay l e s s Pre s iden t The Unio n P ac i fi o � Ooal Company 1�16 Dodge Stre et Oml.!l.h a 2 D Nebraska. De ar Mr o B ay l e s s : E . R . Coombe s , Exeoutive Vi ce -Pre sident o f Me chani z at ion Maga­ zine has sugge-st e d I co rre spond with you relative to a mutually convenient date for a vi sit t o the ooal mining propert ie s of The Union P ac ifio Co al Company . As ue starn ed'it or of the magazine , the nature of my vi sit ui ll be to gather mat eri al on the mining of co al , including all of the impor tant phase s of conl mining · sc·1hi oh we feature in our mo dern min e story o f the month. Mr s . Coombes has sugge sted we cover the St ansbury Nine o f The Union Pacific C oal Company , but the final de cision i:·r e leave to your di s cret ion . t-1y pre sent schedul e fav· o rs the dat e s o f August 1 and 2 p 1949 , for the propo sed vi site. Thi s uould afford ampl e opportunity fo r me t o vi sit your property and spend one day in si de the mine and one day to look over the surface installations and gather background mat erial on· the hi story of the mine , and other items of intere ste. In our pre sentation of the story , -we find pho tograph s to be o f gre at int ere st and mo st uee ful o I shall appreciate reviewing any pho tographs yo u may have available and will be ple ased to photograph any addit io nal feature s you may de siree. It i s hoped the abo ve date s are mutually sat i s factory to you . I shall appreciate a confirmat ion o f the se date s , or any suggest ion for dat e s mo re convenient t o you . Since the time element i s so short , I shall be mo st grateful fo r a confirmation by t e legram advi sing me of the name and lo cat ion of the mine and the person to whom I sho uld report on August lat or your selected dat e e. Ki ndly send the t elegram collect to my home addre s s , n amely , 8893 We st 10th Avenue , Denver 5 , Colorado . Sincerely., /s/ Albert M. Keenan Nest ern Editor Mechani zation Magazine �Ii != I LE NO . .::..... ---�---June 5 , 1948 :u.rr. Clifton rJ. Livingston� Head Department of Mining Colorado School of Mines Golden, C olorado Dear Mro Livings ton : 'He ackno�·1l edge your l ett er of date Jw1e 3 , 194'8 , expres s­ ing your appreciat ion of c ourtes ie s extended durinr; the recent vis it of the Senior Class to our propertiesr. i'Je are aluays happy t o have the 1Jiners 1 1 vis it the property 11 and assure you that your group r.;ill always be welcrome Cordially, Cri� inul Si3ned: H. c."' LIV INGSTO N HCL/rt o �, COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES GOLDEN. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF M IN ING June 3 , 194 8 J ;J N 5 1 948 Mr . H. C . Livings ton Vic e Pre s ident in Charge of Ope ra tions Uni on Pac ific C oal C ompany Rock Springs , Wyoming Dear Mr o Living s ton : We grea tly appre c ia te the c ourte s ie s ex tende d to us on our re cent vi sit to your prope r ty . Will you pl e a se extend oura.pe r­ sona l thank s to all concerned wi th the vi s i t . We fully re ali ze the sacrif ic e s to your re gular rou tine of produc tion which re sult from a vi s i t by a group the size of ours . We hope , however , tha t i t will be po s s ible for us to revi s i t your plant in fu ture years . You.r s _very truly , ,( da � 4J . ;(,·�· 71�..-.z:,-,,-...L.._. C l if ton W . Living s ton, Head De par tment of Mining �Ma y 26a, 1948 M ETALLU RGICAL EN G I N EERING T he Uni on P a c i f i c Coa l C ompa ny Rock Springs Wy oming Attent i on : Mr . H . C . Living s t on V i c e Pr e s ident , Opera t i ons Dear Mr . Living s t on : May I thank y ou for y our kindne s s in s end ing t o me a c opy of t he g r oup pi cture of t he s e ni or c la s s , ta ken at Rock Spring s on May 10 . I t hink i t i s a ve ry ex c e l lent gr oup p ho t ograph and I now have i t pub l i s hed on t he bulle tin b oa rd , where i t ha s been a t tra c t ing c on s i d erable a t t ent i on . S ome of the boy � �l!Y� bee!]. wond e r ing if i t wou�d 1?,e os~s f b ll? t o ob �i n cop i e s o f the p hot ogra p h . Rea l ly , I am ve ry s o rry I c ould not make t he t r i p thi s spr ing , but I hope to be able t o vi s i t Rock Spr ings s ome t ime dur i ng the c oming summe r t o say he l l o and t o look a t t he d a ta y ou ha ve c oncerning ut i l i za t i on of we s t­ e rn coa l s . My own gue s s i s t hey wi l l be us ed for pr oduc t i on of synt he t i c liquid fue ls long bef ore we begin t o u s e oi l s ha le in quant ity for the same purp o s e . Tell the boys he l l o for me . Your s very c or d i a l lya, i, t l� CBC : jw C . B . Ca rpenter Hea d of De par tment .J �Ma,y- 21 J) 1948 \ J Professor Cl.ark Bno Carpent e r Colorado School o f Mines Golden l) C ol orado Dear Prof : We are transmitt ing, under separate cover, copy of group picture of the s enior class trip, 1948, taken at Rock Springs on date .liay 10 . VJe felt the picture might be of interest to you and others o The group c onducted themselves very uell and it �ms a. pleasure to have them v isit the propa rtyo Needles s to say, v;e missed your SI!l.iling c ountenan c e as nell as that of Dean Signer . Kindest personal wishesn. Yours very truly, Orin0inr1\ Si,r d: H. C,nLW\1 ;G::i"\ v:·bn HCL/rt �May 6 , 1948 .Mr . H. c . Living s ton Vi ce Pre s ident in Charge of Opera tions u. P. C oal C ompany Rock Springs , Wyoming De ar .Mr . Living s t on : Our seni or trip schedule s are now comple ted, and we are enc l o s ing c opie s of our printed trip schedule as promi sed . We are all look ing forward to the tri p , and will s e e you on the da te sche duled. Ve ry truly yours , e. u/ �r- da c . w. Livings ton, Head De partment of Mining Engine e ring �flLE ; '.J . ............ :..... Colorado School of Mines GOLDEN. COLORADO May 9 to 21, Inclusive 1948 ThroughCoal lllines at Rock Springs, Wyoming. lllines, Concentrators, and Smelters, Snlt Luke City a!Hl vicinity. l\lines, Concentrators, and Smelters, Butte and vicinity. Cement l'lllllt at Devil's Slide, Utah. Iron llllning at Sunrise, Wyomini:-. �Colorado School of Mines GOLDEN . COLO R A DO May 9 to 21, Inclusive 1948 ;., TRANSPORTATION gy : The Union Pacific Railroad PARTICIPATING COMPANIES : The Union Pacific Coal Company Kennecott Copper Corporation, Utah Copper Division Geneva Steel Company United States Smelting Refining and Mining Company Combined Metals Reduction Company New Park Mining Company Silver King Coalition Mines Company The Elmco Corporation Anaconda Copper Mining Company Ideal Cement Company The Colorl?-do Fuel and Iron Corporation �COLORADO SCHOOL OF l\UNES Senior Mining and Metallurgical lnspcctio �rip 1 948 A N AJ,L-E X PE ' • T R I P Your d posit o f o n h undred forty-five dolla-s, ($ 145.00) pays for all n c ssary c...x pens s of this trip. These includ transportation, meals, t i ps, be , and inci­ dentals but do not includ any expens tlrnt may be incur­ red by any memb r of th group for h :s own pe rsonal use. l'RO:H l'TN • All members of the party a::·e requested to report promptly for every in p ct1on trip o.nd at U1e tirn shown in the itin rary. All busses will I •ave promptly on sched­ ule. and trains cannot be held up for late arrivals. Failure to be on han d at h tart of an i nspection trip, unless ex­ cus d b for hand, will be counted as an abs nee. 0 RTE Y Th Colorado School of l ines n.s w II n.s the members of this party w ill be on inspection at v ry plant. Not only will this group be the guests of th various companies who hav xtended th courtesy of p rmitting the group to visit th plan but the actions of u,e members of the group will det rmine the attitud of the e compo.niese toward futur r quests to visit these plants. Be courteous. ask questions. get all the info:-mation possible, but do not indulg in hor!!'. -. lay. AFETY Th companies whose plants will be visited cannot be responsibl for he safety of th members of the group whll on visitation. uides w i l l b supplied by each of the plants visit d. Every pos ible precaution to prevent accid nts will be taken, but it will be necessary for every m mber of th party to exercis caution, care. and Vi&"l• lance whil on plant v isitation. Follow your guide, remam with your squad, do not wander away from the group. Abov all do not try to operate machines, and do not ind ulge in what seems to be harmless fun. R E PO RTS A written r port is r quired. To be able to prepare a good report it i nee ssary to take as complete notes as possibl o n ev ry plant visited. The report must be type­ written. It b comes a permanent record of the trip. Its value to the individual writing it w iJJ depend upon the are taken i n pr pari ng notes from which the report Is t :-anscribed. This r port must be handed into the re­ spective departments not later than May 25th. 1948. The cred i t value of the report is 3 semester hours. These credits are required for graduation. �CLOTHING urtl hats und flashlights are required for al l men htkit11: this trip. If open lamps are not permitted u nderground the com­ p:,any invol\·cd will furnish the necessary safety lamps re­ <nuired. The weather may be chilly. csJJecially in Butte, and u-.rarm clothing i s recommended. The mi nes will be warm, and in seve-al cases wet. ffiubstantlal silocs shou l d be to.k n, and rubber boots and Jrainco:1.ls or slickers are advisable in several of the mines. T.11 e towel, soap, and a change of clothing to Sunr ise. GROUP Keep with your group. I n case y o u w i s h t o leave your group ask the group leader. The Faculty members a, tak ing this trip to be of assistance to the members of the group. Ask questions. Take advantage of every op­ portun ity to obtain information about processes ancl. meth­ ods mployed in all plants visited. Groups are as followse: Group 1 R. T. Phelps, Metall urgy Bodine, G. C. Clark, B. C. Elsner, F. R. Gough, C. P. Ho, F. H. Horn, C. L. Lankenau, A. W. Loeb, M. J . Mosheim. L . P. Schieman n. T. D. Thorpe, D. F. Zohn. B. Group 2 A. P. TTichmann, Metal lurgy Buehler. M. L. Chen. P. C. Evo.:1s. R. F. Cowher. S. H. Ho:ige, J. H. Ilyman, E. D. JJa,:rence. H. EJ. Me:-ritt, R. C. I .'cwton, D. E. ?hip ·s, T. E. G.::hu ltze. J, F. To-;-1 nsend. M. T. �Group 3 Group 8 McNam�ra, W. F. Pandya, M. J, Quinn, J. E. Schneider, C. M. Stewart, R. M. Warfield, R. S. Bosio, G. Coulter�. J. Edwards, W. F. Gaynor, T. E. Hochberger, S. M. Jahnke. 0. L. Larrabure, E. C. M. L. Smith, Metallurgy Levy, W. B. Metzger, G. E. O'Keefe, D. P. Quinn, F. J. shi. M. Seldin, M. B. acheld. R. E. Travis. L. C. Is, R. B. ra. A. E. ,tta, A. F. , R. M. Totals Group 4 Faculty Students S. L. Smith, Metallurgy Mangone, R. J. r, J. J. llfornes, J. E. , R. N. Pavone, D. nan, H. H. neese. D. W. ;, J. s. St edman, A. pp, R. L. Warren, M. E. r. R. D. In car<' of Colorado School of :nines Party H. 0. Davidson, Mining ,.nW.n K. Matheson, K. H. r, A. A. T<riner. G. M. owsky, A. F. Peeso, J. F. '· Jn . J. Reno, H. T. tm, H. D. Seerley, J. J, ein, P. P. F. Taylor, I, R. gg. D. H. Wood, E.nT. Salt Lake City, Utah C/o A'gent-Union Pacific Railroad . Group 6 " - - -."""" M f! . Butte, Montana C/o A·gent-Union Paclfic Railroad Ogden, Utah C/o Agent-Union Pacific Railroad Cheyenne, Wyoming C/o Agent-Unlo '3 Pacific Railroad A.nH. Lindley, Mining ,hemin, G. J. McDonald, J, T. n, C. W. Motica, J, E. 1ich. J. Persse, F'. H. nan, R. H. Robinson, w. G. I, C. M. Shanklin, P. R. ,ert, J. C. Sudasna, P, P. Yacberry, L. M. :e, R. F. Group 7 110 ADDRESS ALL LETTERS Group 5 G. Heim, Mining Mccutcheon, W. R. comb, J. W. Parker, G. W. ens, J. W. Peter, P. W. l, R. D. Samuelson, P. L. n, D. H. Simon, R. E. elbacher, G. E. 7 103 \ 1 �Group 3 McNam�ra, W. F. Pandya, M. J. Quinn, J. E. Schneider, C. M. Stewart, R. M. Warfield, R. S. Bosio, G. Coulter�. J. Edwards. W. F. Gaynor, T. E. Hochberger, S. M. Jahnke, O. L. Larrabure. E. C. M. L. Smith, Metallurgy Levy, W. B. ra. A. E. Metzger. G. E. ,tta. A. F. O'Keefe, D. P. . R. M. Quinn, F. J. shi. M. Seldin, M. B. ache!d. R. E. Travis. L. C. Is, R. B. Totals Group 4 r, J. J. . R. N. nan, H. H. ,. J. s. pp, R. L. r, R. D. Faculty Students S. L. Smith, Metallurgy Mangone, R. J. Moraes, J. E . Pavone, D. neese. D. w. Stedman. A. Warren, M. E. In cnr(', of Colorado School of 1'1ines Party H. 0. Davidson. Mining ,.nW.nnK Matheson, K H. r, A. A. Uiner. G. M. owsky, A. F. Peeso. J. F. '· J. J. Reno. H. T. ,m. H. D. Seerley, J. J. ein, P. P. F. Taylor, I. R. gg. D. H. Wood, E.nT. Salt Lake City, Utah C/o A"gent-Union Pacific Railroad . . Butte, Montana C/o Agent-Union Pacific Railroad Ogden, Utah C/o Agent-Union Pacific Railroad Cheyenne, Wyoming C/o Agent-Un!o '.! Pacific Railroad Group 6 A.nH. Lindley, Mining :hemin. G. J. McDonald, J, T. n. C. W. Motica, J, E. ,ich, J. Persse, F. H. nan, R. H. Robinson, W, G. I, C. M. Shank!!n, P. R. ,ert, J. C. Sudasna, P. P. :e. R. F. Yacberry, L. M. Group 7 110 ADDRESS ALL LETTERS Group 5 G. Heim, Mining Mccutcheon, W. R. comb, J. W. Parker, G. W. ens, J. W. Peter, P. W. 1, R. D. Samuelson, P. L. n, D. H. Simon, R. E. elbacher, G. E. Zangara, M. G. ,, B. D. ay, E. H. 7 103 \ l �SCH EDULE cnior t r i p i n M i ning nntl i n lllct nllu rgy 1\Iay 9 to 2 1 , inclusi\"c, 1 9-18 /' untl n. �·, 1\lay 9 L ave Denver 5 : 20 p.m., Union Pacific Train No. 37. D inner in d iner. 1\Io ntluy, 1\Iuy 10 Arrive Green R iv r, Wyoming, 2 : 35 A.l\'L Leave Gr en River 5 : 45 A.M .. chartered busses. Breakfast, 6 : 1 5 A. I . , Park Hotel, Rock Springs. Leave Park Hot 1 by busses, 7 : 00 A.l\I., for mines of the U n ion Pacific Coal Company. Lunch 12 : 00 noon, Old Timer's Club Rock Springs, courtesy of Uie Union Pacific Coa ! Company. Inspection of U. P. Coal Company power plant and s urface plants in P.l\I. Dinner, 6 :00 P. M .. Park Hotel. Rock Springs. Return to Green Ri\"e:- by busses. 7 : 00 P. l\I. Tucstlay, 1\Iay 1 1 Leave Green R iYer 2 : 45 A.M .. Union Pacific Train No. 37. . • 1c T rnm Arrive Salt Lake City 8 : 10 A. M., U11 1on pac1"f"e No. 37. Breakfast, 8 : 30 A. l\I .. Temple Square Hotel. Leave Hotel at 9 :00 A. M., chartered busses. Take box lunches. Inspection of m ine of Utah Copper Company nt Bing­ ham in A. l\: L Inspection of Magna 1\1 1 1 1 of Utah Copper Company in P. M. Dinner 6 : 30 P. J\L, Temple Square Hotel. \Vcd ncsdny, J\la�· 1 2 Breakfast, 6 : 15 A . M . , Temple Square Hotel. Metallurgy group, leave Hotel 7 :00 A.· M. by chartered busses, take box lunches, inspection of Geneva Steel plant all day. M ining group, leave Hotel 7 : 00 A. M. by chartered busses, take box lunches. inspection of Lnrk Mine in A. M., surface plant of Lark Mine in P. M. Dinner, 6 : 30 P. M., Temple Square Hotel. Tln;1rsday, l\Iay 13 Brel!-kfast, 6 : 1 5 A. M., Temple Square Hotel. M m mg group, leave Hotel 7 :00 A. 1\1. by cha:-tered b�sses, take box lunches, inspection of Butterfield Mme 111 A. M. Midvale Smelter in P. M. Take boots and slickers to Butterfield Mine. Metallurgy group, leave Hotel at 8 : 00 A:. M. by chart­ ered busse;;, inspection of Midvale Smelter aH day, _lunch at Midvale. Dmner, 6 : 30 P. M .. Temple Square Hotel. �: Friday, Uuy l•l Breakfast. 6 : 15 A. M., Temple Sq uar e l\I�ng Group, leave Hotel 7 :00 A. MRabtel • ch artered b._,ses, take box lunches, insp ection· ofy New Park Mine and surface plant. 1\I tallurgy group, leave Ho l e� 7 : 0 o A. M. b chartered b�sses, take . box lunches, inspect ion of �ilver King Mme and m ills. Di nner, 6 : 30 P.M., Temple Square Hotel. Sut urd y, ::IIay 1 5 Breakfast. 7 : 0 0 A.M., Temple Square Hotel. Leave Hotel at 7 :45 A. M., busses. In pection of. plants of the Elmco Corporation. Lunch 12t: 00 noon, Temple Square Hotel. Afle:· oon, holid ay. Dinner, 6 :30 P. l\L, Temple Sq uare Hotel. Leave Salt Lake City, 8 : 00 P, M., Union Pacific Train No . 29. Sunday, l\luy 1 6 Arrive Bulte, !lt:30 A. M . , Union Pacific Train No. 29, Br a.Ida.st. 9 :45 A. M., station restaurant. Lunch, 1 : 00 P. l\I., station restaurant. Dinner, 6 : 30 P.M., station restaurant. l\Ionday, l\fa y 17 B�eakfnst. 6 :30 A. M., station restaurant. Metallurgy group, leave station at 7 :30 A. M., take box lunches. all day at mills and smelter at Ana­ conda. Mining group, leave station at 7 : 15 A. M., visit Moun­ tain Con Mme In A. M., lunch at station restaurant, visit surface plants ln P. M. Din!1er, 6 : 3 0 P. M., station restaurant. Tuc3day, lll uy 18 Breakfast, 6 : 30 A. M., station restaurant. Entire group leave station at 7 : 30 A. M., take box lunches, visit various plants at Anaconda. Dinne.·, 6 : 30 P. M., station restaurant. \Vcdncstlay, llluy l!l Breakfast, 6 :30 A:. M., station restaurant. M ining 1,roup, leave station at 7 : 15 A. M., visit Leonard Mine m A. M., lunch at station restaurant at 12 :00 noon, leave· station 1 : 00 P. M., visit timber framing plant at Rocker i n P.M. Metallurg)' group, leave station at 7 : 15 A. M., visit Mountam Con M ine i n A. M., lunch at station res­ taurant at 12 : 00 noo,'1 leave station 1 :00 P. M., visit surface plants in P. m. Dinner, 5:30 P. M., station restau-:-ant. Leave Butte 6 : 4 5 P. M., Union Pacific Train No. 30. �Thursday, llla:r 20 Arrive Ogden, Utah, 6 :35 A. l\I., Union Pacific Train No. 30. Breakfast, 7 : 00 A. M., station restaurant. Leave station 7 : 45 A. M., cha1:_tered busses, take box lunch, Ideal Cement Company plant at De1·il's Slide, Utah. Dinner, 5 : 30 P. M., station restaurant. Leave Ogden 7 :00 P. M., Union Pacific Train No. 24. / , Fridn,y, Jl[n,y 2 1 Arrive Cheyenne, Wyoming, 7 : 00 A. M., Union Pacific Train No. 24. Break.fast, 7 : 1 5 A. M., Frontier Hotel. Leave Hotel 7 :45 A. M., chartered busses, take box lunch, visit Sunrise Mine of C. F. & I. Corporation at Sunrise, Wyoming. Take towel, soap, and a change of clothing to Sunrise. Dinner, 5 : 30 P. M .. Frontier Hotel. Leave Cheyenne, 7 :00 P. M.. Union Pacific Train No. 334. Arrive Denver 11 :50 P. M. �o ... 1:f.'lo '' 'f ;�9 '*J �o � r r-:, .____ Vo J . �oto�noll .,, .Q..Ulru-..1 G�.,c� � :J o ,tl o .,'it}'g:::, 1;'.o :'} • Lcb:e / '""' . S o J}.'Jc·�-· 1'.J� \V CJ.-.:1011 t;�.,( -�-� �--"j;,, Li v:tneot,o� -.::::--/ �'n�n w,� o r' . e,. .J�ll.\..'Z'(l:j t:f�o J • B. IiU§'108 :7�. Spi.,m.cs0 fJ);;":.),JQ.cm,o t-o 7d}O 0. oOo :::ny JJ) .i 19 ,() D to o.cm-. i}.Y 'Gho -----D/1.l - ---- �< l " E;(TRt. COPY ON FILE ....-. ................� /) I I FILE NO. '"••--·---·-· • . ' /··-- Rook Springe - April 29 .l) 19/,\S t1r o V o O o J' ,LU.-'1'8.J lir. J . a o hu.gh0s - Hix' . I . B o Charles iii" . J. J� o Saith Lir . f.' , cJ o l'e't:, e1·nell �Jilliaru roek L!.1� Mr . H. r.rr. Tibbs Mr. Chas. G1•osoo Mr . \"lilliam Spence Mr. E. R. Jei'.fe1:is Mr. 11. F . Hoborts 0 tho Senior Clas s of the Colorado School of tines will visit oui., property on their annual senior trip on date May 10, 194.8 . A b1.�ie£ outlil?,e of the day ' s itinerary is as follons : Leave Green itiver by bus at 6 : 00 a.m. Breakfast at Park H otel, Rock Springs , 6 : .30 a .n. Leave hotel for mines at 7;00 a.El. Lunc h, Old Tiners I Building, Rock Springs , 12 noon Visit Rock Springs Power Pl t , 2 : 00 9.m. Dinner at Park Hotel nt 6:00 p.m. Return by bus to Green River at '7 :.00 p.m. There will be 137 :1en 1dd in the pa:rvy which n:Ul require an unusual. number of our personnel to propsrly c onduct and insure a safe visit underground. \7a plan to break t,he group int,o trm pr,rl.iec .!) on0 group to visit the Reliance No . 7 11ine and one group to visit th0 StD.J.1sbm"y to . '.3 Seam. Thoso requested to .ra.e0t the party at the Park Hotel and leave for the mines at 7 :00 a.m. are as follows : v. o. l'.iurrey J. B . Hughes I . 11. ,., harles J. A. Smith F. J. Pcternell Thos . Bernatis, Jr. Yiilliam Greek H. ll. Tibbs Joe Ber'1>a F. P. Lebar Vernon Gras Chief Engineer Charles will instruct the above listed to be avail­ able at the Park Hote� pr0vious to 7:00 a.m. trr. Grosso ,1ill have his assist­ ant, Ur. Lar1, and night, shift foremen Overy.I) :Nielson and Jenkins, together with Resident Engineer· Bowie, available at Stansbury to meet the party shortly after 7 : 00 a.m. �:� o S11ance i."Jill have his assistru1t, Toey Taucher .P Jr. , togetl1er ,dth o.va:UeJ • e to ITl3 et 'l:, h0 paz,-i:.y at Relirulce shortly after "I ;00 a o il o Hr o 'fibb s, assisted by Mr. Jefferis, v;ill plan lunch a:l:i the Old 8 T 1 r.1ersddBuil ding to consist of hot dogs and buns ( at lc.:i.st tm, per man)� cut of pie tc gethe:i." Hith coffee and Coca Cola. Tho abovG nhould be served in a pape... plate :, buffet style, at the !dtchan serv in� nindons • .''e nish to impress upon all c oncerned of the ab solutG r16eeoslty of keop in 1nind that the young men are enti:." clJ; inoxp,.rioncecl and pos sibly both venturesome and reckles s . Therofo:ro:, ple.:.i.s o ke3p in mind that wo n1d1 have n definite ?esponsibil:1.ty in ssei.n,5 that no one is in 'u:. e th0 trip is conducted v1Uhout mishap. Criginal Signed: H. G. LIVINGSTON HCL/rt in any tiay and t,h.a.t �Co '. , o Lhringston, Hc.ld :.__lni.n.[; D op;:1.--bncnt Go� :S:--o':10 School or Ltlnro r"' ldan, Colorado � �:..'o (CC - . llm•r�1 lli" o i.T o l.T. J . B o liUQ:lC3 lI1•0 F o J. Potornoll) Dear !.!!>. Livingston : i'ie c.c:h10:7le<ls� rcc�}ipt, of ::our le'l'.,ter of date L:a.t�ch 30, 19h:d, r1U,h cor.:iploto · ·t.inei"m"' t:.n:1 'et.oiled it,:i.J1or�u-:r of your ctrv, in f�ock Springs on late Uc(f lOo ·, ·e a�suLJ.e fro.u proviom, ccr'''?ospondcmcc 1J.ni\ yc•r c.<.ivic ,] ns to bus 'tran::.po2."tatio.n fi•o:n ()J'._.cr. 'liver to RocI,. Oprinf;s and 12tu:rn that four buoes \Jill bo p1--ovidcd to tt·.:m�pori:. a. totul of 137 t''.�n . IT ;:m �ru correct in our Utl un•:it ion, i-:c t:.1.11 uLan tc have tno buses go to our R.0liunc0 pro;_:un--tj, n21 1 ttw to .:-:tensbw.j" C:Ul'inB the u.ornL"lf; to vioit tt.c Wtdorg r�1u e:nd 5�•.f.£.cc opor.:.tio • ·.·e \Jill provid..., sufficient sup0Fv1iool:'s to sai'CG'Uurd ill C O.."lcornctlo ,•·�ftcn� ins_!,X;ction oz ti10 r��lirnc e a.".u c•tc.nGbury proporc.ics, . .-e ,;illd have u. luncheon at our ill..d 'i'mersd' Builclin_:; in itock ,'.:j�,rlngs, ,md in the a:Ztornoo.n visit the power plant at r.oct: Sprinz3 . 1.. ct.urn to the Park Hotel The nb ovc eched.ulo r1ill allo1:1 .;:;ufi'icic.tit tiu!e fe,r d-our for dinner o.t 6 p.m. and retui•n thereafter t't) Gr•een �i.:l.ve!" t�t 7 p.rn. Youro wry truly·:> I .� .... �:c:�! !3i��ci: ; ; ,:. L!ViNGSTOM �Rock SPl�inga - April 2, 1948 Herewith as previously requested itinerary of Colorado School of I.lines Sonioz, Clas s trip this springo You will note that the group is scheduled to visit our property on Monday, May l_O . They are traveling Union _dd Pac ific and arrangements have bean made by Mro Stapleton of the Union Pacific Railroad Traffic Department for buses from Green River and return. We have tentative plan to fGed the boys on May 10 at noon, the food to consist of 11 hot dogn sandwiches, etc o Original Si:;.,ed: H. C. LIVING�TON Hct/rt �COLORADO SCHOOL O F M I NES GOLDEN, COLORADO Df � 111 C:j � \ii ColaRAOO 1: . , • Living s to n , Vic e Pre s iden t in C ' ..: !''.::_' e o f Ope :rE' t i ons Uni on Pa c if i c C oa l C omn nv :- ock ;:, �,r inL, "' , 1.' y o ni n c; � � 1 1r o I th nk you f o your l e t te r s oft. ebr'uar> _ �:; 3 r nd 24- , [:'T'P n tin.:,,' pe rril i s s i on fo i:> ou r rroup to v i s i t your 0�1e rc. ti ons 01� ; -o..y 10 . I lmow tl!e s tudent s v. i l l appre c ir te tb i s op:)ortun i tJ a11d w i l l o ene 1' i t fI:re£ tl:r 'uy s e e lng y our 09e1,2 t l on s . On th i s ba s i s , �e s 1 ould l i te to submi t tris fol l ow i�� t im e s c_h eclu l e for th e da , , E:ub j e c t to rev i s i on t o f i t ·- our oper�. t i onst. ( Lenve Gr e en _:i v e r , by bu s t 6 : 00 A . :.1 . Breakfa s t a t Pa rk ::--o t el , Eock ._' pr• inr; s e. t 6 : 30 L . i ; . Lea v e h ot e l for w i e s � t 7 : 00 A . �o Lun£_h e. t Olc1 1:1: ine r I s :2ui lci inP- , Hoc k C'princs s t 1 2 : 00 i',1 Dinhey, a t P::.: rk H o t e l .s t : 00 P . }l . Re tu ::'.'· n b�." bu s to G!'e en R ::.. v e r a t 7 : 00 P . ., ,: . Hr . St· phi ton of the Uni on ?[:c i f i c R . R . i s ma king: 2 rra nge ­ me nt s fo� bu s s e s fro� Green � i v e r a nd for tran s orta t i on to the � ine s an� othe r o�era t i ons , a nd is o l s o m�k ine a rra n�eme nt s for our me a l s 8. t the ?r. rlr _ , ot e l in t:ie :no rninr and e veninc. t i th r e ca rd. to th e lunche on or dinner wh i ch you s o kindly offered , we b e l i e ve th e luncl1 ° on \'1 ill proba bly w o� k ou t be s t . Our full sroup w i l l b e d ivided into 10 or 1 2 sma ll group s , a nd the s e 3mall [yo up s c a n b e sen t to d i fferent pla c e s i f de s ired in ord e r �o avoid undue c rowdinc end int erferenc e � i th nor� 1 ope rr.'. ti ons .. an outl ine c opy or our i t inerP ry i s enc lo f ed , and w e w i l l s end you a f1J ll c op�r wl�en "' r!.1 r nce1r.en t s A re c om p l e te and pr inted c opie s r re nve il�,b l e t. In th i s r e e:e.rd , 'W B Viou ld l ike to ha ve you r suE�e s t l ons o s to wh ich of your mine s and surfa c e pla nt s ':V e v; i ll v i s i t , so thr, t ti.1i s in1'ormn t i on c anto e included in our prin ted i t ine re ry. ·, , e do 2. ppre c ia te your kindne s s in pe rm i t tln// our v i s i t , and ere l o okin� for�2 rd t o i t w i th pl ea sure . Very truly yourst, e. . w . t;.,-.;_ r--rda c . l�. Livinrs ton Mininp D e oa f t�ent Head �C olorado School of Mine s Sen�or Trip , Spr ing , 1948 Sunday , May 9 - Leave Denver 5 : 30 P . M .. Monday , May lG - Arrive Gre en River , 2 : 30 A . M o Vi si t U . P . C oal C ompany Tue sday , May 11 - Leave Green River 2 : 45 A . M . Arrive Sa l t Lak e C i ty 8 : 10 A . M . V i s i t Utah C opp er C o . open pi t mine and Magna Mill � edne sday ; May 12 - Mining group vi s i t Lark Mine , Lark , Utah Me tal lurgy group vi s i t Geneva St eel planta, Genevaa, Utah Thur sday , Ma y 13 - Mining group v i si t But terfie ld Mine nea r Lark in A o Moa, Midvale smel ter in P . M. Me tallurgy group v i s i t Midvale sme l t er all day Friday, May 14 - Mining group vi si t New Park Mine a t Keatley , Utah Me tal lurgy group vi s i t Silver - King Mine a t Park C i ty , Utah Sa turday , May 15 - Vis i t Eimc o plant , Sal t Lake C i ty Leave Sal t Lake C i ty a t 8 : 00 P . M. Sunday , May 16 Arrive But te , Montana a t 9 : 30 A . M. Monday , May 17 - Mining group vi s i t Mounta in C on Mine Me tallurgy group vis i t plants a t Anaconda Tue sday , May 18 - Vi s i t va ri ous plants a t Ana c onda V� edne sday , May 19 - Mining group vi.s i t Leonard Mine and Rocker timber frruning plant Metallurgy group visi t Mountain C on Mine Leave Bu tte a t 6 : 45a·P . M . �-2 Thursday , May 20 - Arrive Ogdeni · Uta.h a t 6 : 35 A . M . Vi s i t Idea l � emen t C o o plant , Devil ' s Sl ide , Utah Leave · ogden, 7 : 00 Po M p Fr iday , May 21 - Arri ve. Cheyenne , Wyoming a t 7 : 00 A . Mo Vi s i t Sunrise Mine of C o lorado Fu el & Iron C o o a t Surtri s� ., Wyoming Leave Cheyenne a t 7 : 00 P . M. Arrive Denver a t 11 :oO P . M . �February 21+, 1948 er o C o 1:i o Livingston, Head liining Department Colorado School of lfti nes Golden, C olorado Dea:r t!ro Livingston: Supplementing .rcy- letter of date February 23 , 19'1.8, rm r1ill appreciate your furnis hing us a copy of itinerary of the Colorado S chool of Mines senior trip o Yours very truly, HCL/rt �February 23, 1948 Mr . C . r;J . Livingston, Head llinin 0 Department C olorado S chool of Mines Golden, C olorado Dear Hr . Livingst on : 1/le are happy to have your letter of date February 19, advising your plan to visit our property on date Hay 10n. We v1ish t o assure you that you are most welc ome and that all of our facilities are at your disposal . V'le note the unusually large number of students plus faculty of . 137 . iJe can very easily furnish transportation by private car for the 12 faculty members . However, the transportation of 125 students from Green River- t o Rock S prings and return is a bit of a problem. i"Je sug3est that you have the pass enger agent arrange for tiw U . P. buses to transport your student personnel from Green River to Rock Springs and return . l'Je will be pleased to have a buff et luncheon or dinner for the entire eroup at our Old Timersn' Building in Rock Springsn. Then.matter of selection of luncheon or dinner we ,·1 ill leave up t o you and r1ill appreciate your advice as to your preferenc e . advise. If we can b e of any assistance in securing the buses kindly Cordially, HCL/rt �COLORADO SCHOOL OF GOLDEN. COLORADO CF g*� □ �� l'Ol R,t,..00 February 19 , 1 94 8 M:r o H o C o Livi ng s to n , V i c e Pre s id ent i n Cha rge o f Opera ti ons U. P o C oa l C ompany Ro ck Spri ng s , Wyoming De ar Mr o Li ,ri ng stono: W e a r e mak ing pr e limina ry a rran gement s for our spr i ng insp e c ti on trip for mining and m e ta llurgy s tud en ts a t the C ol orad o Sch o ol of IIIine s o Wi th your perm i s s i on , we sh ould l ike to vi s it your o perat i ons o n Monday , Ma y l Oo Our group w i l l c o ns i s t of 60 m i ning s tudent s , 65 me tal lur gy s tudent s , and 12 fac ul ty memb e rs - a to ta l of 1 37 men. Our t enta tive s che du le c al l s for arriva l in Gre en R iv er at 2 : 30 A . M. on May lO o We sha ll be able to s t ar t from Gree n R iv er and a rrive a t your o peratioons e arly Monday r::i orning , pre fe rably a t about 8 : 00 A. M. , or \Vha t e v e r time w ould b e s t f it in wi th y our o pera ti onal s chedule . We shou ld l ike t o v i s i t one of your m ine s i n the mo rning , and vi s i t surfa c e i ns t al la t i on s and power plan ts i n th e aft erno on, c ompl e tinr; t he v i s i t by ab out 5 : 00 P . M. Our tra in w i l l l e·a ve Gr ee n River a t 2 : 30 A. M . May 1 1. Our group w i ll b e div ided i nto groups of ab out 12 men , e a ch in charge of a faculty member . The s e gr oups can be group ed e.nd sche duled in any manner vlh ich would b e s t f i t i n wi th y our opera ti ons , and i f our vi s i t mret s w i th your approval , w e should. l ike to have your sugg e s t i ons a s t o the b e s t si z e of g roup s , and ope ra ti ons whi ch should be vi si ted. Very tru ly y ours , c . w. 1,iv i ngs ton, Head Mining Departmen t CWL/ms c �....... -�·- I.J ,, , ( - .. Profes sor Clark B. Carpenter Dept. of Uetallurgical Engineering Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado Dear Profo: W e have your letter of date November 12, 1946, suggesting a discussio� of labor relations with your senior class, also instituting course in co al mining and fuel engineering. We shall be very happy to accept your invitat�on to visit the class at first opportunity at time of visit to Denver . I am sure that it will be very enj oyable and interest­ ing to have the reaction of the seniors 'and, in particular, the returning G. I . o1 s. Vie are naturally much interested in the proposed course in c oal mining and fuel engineering and offer our sincere cooperation in any way pos sible to assist in the placement of this course in your curricula . ·ye know that McWhorter is much interested and are hopeful that Professor Signer will also be enthused. Kindest per.sonal wishes . Cordially yours , HCL: DAP �COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES GOLDEN. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF METALL U R G I CAL E N G I N E E R I N G CLARK B, CARPENTER, PROFESSOR WILLIAM November 12t h , 1946 B, CRAMER, ASSOCIATE PROF'ISSOR ARTHUR P, WICHMANN, ASSISTANT PROPl!SSOR WILLIAM C. AITKENHEAD, ADSISTANT PROP'llDSOA Uni on Pa c i f i c C oal Companyap Rock S pr ingsa� Wy omi ngao A t tent ion :- Mr o C o W o Living s t on Vi c e Pre s i dent and Gene ra l Manage r o S I G M U N D L. S M I T H IN STRUCTOR D e a r Mr o Living s ton : - Tw o i t ems �wha t i s the chance of inve igl ing you t o d i s cus s t he ma t t er of labor rela t i ons t o my c la s s in tha t subj e c t s ome time w heny ou a re i n Denve r o The c la s s mee t s on Tue sday and Thur sday 9 : 50 t o 10 : 40 A .M . The re ar e 14 s eni ors in t hi s cla s s , a lmos t t o man a reuurned Gi oW e ccam lock t he d oors and go a t i t . I hope you will g ive thi s careful c ons ideration .Wha teve r you mi ght have to say would carry w e i g ht with t he s e kid s a. T he s e c ond i tem i s s ome thing e l s e again o Some t ime when you a re in Denver a nd I find out about i t , I would like to a rrange a mee ting w i t h you , say a t t he Un ive r s i ty Club whe re we can have lunc h or d inner and ta lk , perha p s a l s o imbibe a l i t t l e a, and d i s cu s s t he que s t i on o f wha t s houl d go into a c our s e in Coal Mining and Fue l Engineer ingo I would want S i gner to be pre s ent , and per ha p s Soapy Mcwhorte r . I have had thi s ma tter in mind for s ome t ime a nd I want to do s ome t hing w i th i t .Your c oopera tion will c er t a inly be muc h a ppre c ia tedao Y our s very cord ia lly g .6. I�" . ·P.-. c�� Car� L//L, . �WE TE R u ION Cl.ASS OF SERVICE Th;, is :, full-r:i.rc Tct.,r , or Coblc­ gr:m\� ·Jess Its de­ ferred �harncter is in• dicarcd by :, suitable symbol above or pre­ ceding the address. ,I 1201 .� t -� - S�BOLS DL-Day Lecrcr ( ::>3 )� , I NL-N1gh, L<t1cr LC-DcfcrttdC.ble NLT-C.blc Night L<ttcr Ship Radlogmm A, N. WILLIAMS '."�A ,:i:M +:�A •'-n= '" th.. rlAtA Hnn nn tclcl!lUIIIS ' PRESIOENT nnd dav letters is STANDARD TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt ia STANDARD TIME at point of destination I·< H22 1 � = R l F L E COL O 6· 9 00A L I V I M GS T O rl :i CA R E U N I O N P A C I F I C CO A L CO = I .,. •• _;: r •I•'I .:•I r.I) I f' ' 1 r,. , I 9 j,{ / • £:. \ R 1 •r1 .;- R E S I G :·.: E R S L E T T E R W O U LD A P P R E C I A T E A R R A N G ELl E ! TS TO S E E Y O U R OP E R A T I O i": S T H U R S D A Y E I G H T H= : D O U G L A S .. • I' t ' ., ) / I ll ,, I I THE COMPANY WILL .APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE �July 26, 19/.,,6 Professor 1':l . I . Signer, Head Department of lli.ning Color ado School of Mines Golden, Colorado Dear Profe ssor Signer : r·. Your letter of date July 19, 1946 , c oncerning the virsit to our properties of :ur. J . K . E . Douglas , of the Cent1·al Rand lli.nin Africa. Company, Johannesbur£;, South ': e shall be happy to cooparate and have Hrr. Douglas visit the. pr ope rty and rzquest that you advise, b;­ \'Jire, two days previous to the date of his arrival so that v,e may assi,'.¥1 some .mamber of our stnff t o accompany hia on h is visit. Very truly yours, Original Signe d: 1 0 i\l \-\. c, . U\J\ N GS HCL :DAP �Mr o H . C . Living ston Vic e P r e s ident , Ope rati on Uni on Pac ific C oa l C ompany Rock Spring s , Wy oming Dea r Mr . Livings ton : Mr . J. K. E . Doug l a s , of the C entra l Rand . Mining C ompany , Johanne sbu rg , South Afr icaa, is enrol l ed a s a spe cia l pos tgradua te s tud ent at the C olor ado School of Mines . He ha s been awa r ded the Transvaal Chamb er of Mine s Pos tg ra.dua te Sch ola r sh ip which enti t le s him to about a six-month s tay in the Unit ed State s for a very thorough s tudy and in­ spe c ti on of mining , mil l ing , and sme lting p rac ti ce s . We have out lined a t r ip which wil l take Mr . Douglas into eve ry important mining di s t ri c t in the we s te rn pa r t of the country . I shal l app r ecia te i t ve ry much if ou wil l affo r d Mr . Doug la s the oppo r tuni ty of y vis i t ing y ou r ope rations on o r about Augus t 7 , 1946a, and l earning fi r s t hand the methods a s pra c t i c ed in the Uni ted Sta te s . taa l y , r_ua ]�aa Aa �a �aa M . I . Sign Head Depa r tment Mining r MIS : em �#' tv:. I COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES 'f}J� GOLDEN. COLORADO i1Tay 2 8 , 194 6 ;A f!,1 DEPARTM ENT OF M I N I NG · v- Mr . H . C . Livings ton Vic e Pre s iden t , Op era t i on Uni on Pa c ific C oal C ompany Rock Spr ings , iiiiy oming Dear Mr . Livings ton : On b ehal f of the facul ty and the s enior mining and m e ta l lurgi c a l s tudent s , I wi sh t o thank you for a very enj oyab l e and ins truc t ive trip through the mine s a t Rock Sprin[!; s o. You and your s taff vr nre put t o a grea t deal of troubl e in a rranging thi s trip , e spec ially in ge t t ing us from Gr e en River t o Rock Spring s . I a s sure you tha t w e a l l ap­ pre c ia t ed your c o opera ti on . Your s very truly , �I �; �-r· M . I . Signer ,(Jread 11] . MIS : em Depar tm en t of Mining I } -- --- ---- .' I �Form 1 83 5-45-l OOM-U D I STR I BUTION OF BI LLS PAYABLE For � 41 lunche s at 3 a65 each for Colorado School of r.!ines party. N_________ REGISTERED I DEPT. No. ___________ AU DIT No ___________ A MOUNT $ To Urs a James Cummings ' Stansbury, ilyoming TITLE OF A TCOUNT � lli.n"e Office s\\snens.e . <c1oor to " In:iµries to Persons" '"- on ,tf'h-r-m 89 ) •' y / ,, I \ • Payee I HEREBY CERTIF'Y THAT THE ABOVE ACCOUNT IS CORRECT: CHA RGEABLE TO ACCT. No. 26e65 DOitOTI.Y IJJ.110 . C.lerk APPROVED F'OR VOUCHER, "\., 0 !3!:-. :.1.l S ,: . · .. � : fl G I : \I i "·.: · . · , it • • l., . l l • ' vice r-resident, Oper, DISTRIBUTED. EXAMINED ANO FOUND CORRECT, F'OR �FROBES MINING I N DUSTRIAL TELFPHONE 1 1 4 WEST BROADWAY 4-C. 73 SALT LAKE CITY I , UTAH \. ��Hey 16» 1946 Copy: Hr. H . C . Dea� Profosso� Signer : \Je m'O Donding undor s0p:1rat0 cover t,JO print:.s ouch or the filQ,!):J of Jo • .3 and No . 7� Soar:10di, Stansbw."y ill.no; alao i, the Gcnoro.l 11ap of tho Stansbui....y LUne and draning �io. 1970 .31, map o· ..o-:-Jinf • .n.Uz>o2d Ya.rcls and Coal Tipple, Rook Tunnel and liinos , Outcropo Md. Burned l\.rcas i> Stonsbm>y D ri:hich rs� trust uill bo of assistanoo to you and e:cplcin o� oporat.ions to your students. r.1r. Uvin3oton io oonding bost riishes for the suce0ss of your trip and those to co;n.0d. Very truly yoursd, Qriainal Si(Jnoe I. M. CHARLlM �Form 2191 - U N ION PAC I F I C RA I LROAD COMPANY Time File�-----M TELEGRAM LC cf J _.-- 7·45- SM M { • �· tf/)f!:j /( � ; l· �.J Cl.ASS OF S[R\IIC[ DESIR[O \. CA B= LE: �•- - � 'lC r CC..,---l ---t- -�� TELC-... o.v � \ LETT CR OROlf:ARY URGENT RAT'[ OEFERREO NIGHT Lmrn rllGHf u:ncn l�tro�s thcu!J chttk d.c.:. or u:n·itc dein-J: oll:�r....-i:.c lhc m�l!U �; 11 be tr.i.ns..'TlittN a!! � t.eh-,:r.un . ur orJirury r.i.blr.:r-m , (C(O))P1f (O)JF . WJE§1rJEIRs.N UJNil(O)N . 1rlEILJEG�AIMI ROG IC S PRHJGS ,- ! ffOi: fib l il.Y 9, 1946 Io SIGi.JEfi '·1EPART' , i{T OF tlir.JING COLOHAVO SCHOOL OF �INES GOLDEtJ, COLOFU1.DO REI.ET L1AY 7THC. LUNCH AllilA!JGEHD;r-JTS I::i\DEC. SOf!E -;UE:3TIOIJ HC:GAIIDCHJG SE'fTING YOUR CAR OUT G=lEEN- HIVE R H�STEAD �OCK S PRIHGS • .SW'GEST YOU­ CLE./\. R TH !lOUGH STAPLET01i .!'"i.R.'U\ !JGWG CAR SLT OU'£ ROCK SPRIN� . H . C . LDJINGSTOW, VICE PRESC. TL" Ur.IOt' Pfi.CIPIC CO .'\ L Co..!!· !,l'i"Y �COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES � � a, Df GOLDEN. COLORADO May 7 , 194 6 � � ti\ * CotaR.t..oO DEPARTM ENT OF M I N I NG Mr . H . C . Livings ton V i c e Pre s ident , Op eration Union Pac ific Coa l C ompany Rock Spring s , Wyoming Dear Mr . Livingston : The memb ers in our party will b e 4 facul ty and 20 s tudent s . Ano ther question tha t has b e en a sked by Mr . Staple ton of the Union Pac ­ ific Ra ilr oad , who i s arranging the det. ails , c onc erns lunch Tue sday noon . Should h e arrange for a b ox lunch , or can lunch be obtained a t the mine we v i si t ? Be st regards . � % �aa £)a MISa: em M . I . Si Department ou r s , �• . (I, "' .: �":_� ;: · \ . ·,,t ,: 1· .. .'! ,� . n - • -1 , ::!,L -� •• ,.,.: -�J � :: �--�:� ,.:. r.u • -.,: ll) •;3 �)iC°ifJ ---- ... . . • ... .� �. , It. .\ � ....J ,_, . " � -',/ � # - ,.:....J .: .,', ,., •� · : ... �2 �.... Ro el. ..ipr in :; s - :i1y l :S , 1946 �-:r • . 1. C . Livin0 s ton : Thi s v:i l l uclmou1Gd6 u re cei pt o f your lct-cc r unted La:,· a , 1946, with re ;;ard to Co lonl<lo oc•1ocl of :.. �1'1� s ' ..,en i o r C las s In s p..l c ti. on ·.r rip .?ar t;i,r . be inte re s ted in more extens ive j oy loo.Jins o ·,c rn.t ionr , svch ecs T:ould be evidence d in Hcliance !lo . 11 Linco. JT;:�ms �Rock Springs - May 13, 1946 1a'. H. C. Livingston: This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 8th, concerning plans for Colorado School of llinest1 Senior Class inspec­ tion trip, Tuesday, May 14th . /df VOM: LL �::r� --...____ / -·,--.. �Stansbury - May 11, 1946 �r . H . C � Livingston: This is to acknowledge receivt and understanding of your lliay 8th letter� regarding we G olora_do · c· ool of 1:iines ' S enior Class inspection Trii:i May 14th . -, .._ , ..., ·•· v �Rock Spr ings - May 10 , 1946 Mr . H. C . Livingston: Thi s wi ll ac lmowle dge r ec ei pt and unde rs tandi ng of your letter of May 8 relat ive to the vi s it of ins pecting party o f C o lo rado Scho o l of Mine s S enior C las s . OGS �ms �Rock Springs - May 10, 1946 Mr. H , C , Liv ingston : This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 8th, c·oncerning plans for Colorado School of Mines I Senior Class inspection trip on Tuesday, May 14th , JBHa:LL �' • Roc k Springs - May 10 , 1946 Ur . H . C . Livings ton : This will ac- knowledge receipt of your letter o f Hay 8 , 1946 , conc erning the Colorado School of Minesr1 S enior Class Inspectrion Trip Party on llay 14thr. - I . , ,.:. . ..., �\ I �,,· Ro e� Sprin.c; s - t:o.y 10, 1946 :..: r. H. C . Li vin_;s ton : Tni s wil l 1...c lmmvle d_::;e r e c e ipt of your lette r of Liay 8 regartling inspection cri p to be n•�,ue b,r tne l:>enio r C las s of Co lorado Scho o l of ...inc s on La:1 14 . FJ?�ms �,1'i.'ofQ:.;sor �.1. .... :..,i_;socr :.> o_��u..tr:.112nt of binit1G Colm."a:i, Jc1-'!ol)l of 2 ':imrn Gol(\,:m, C::>lorudo Copyd: :21,. I. u. 'hnPlcr.;d L�r. \r o o. r.:u.t a�r .1.J"' . Jo � . . Hus_:J-,c� • ,c, ;1el:no,· lc \:;o l.'DCCi.:)t of .70LtP lott er of l.'bto ·:p.ril J?, 19h6 , .'..ltkf.!tin,_c] ltino:•;:ry o:,. p:roposc .son:..op :t.n:;;;•:�C J�lOl.'l Cl".:.[, • • v•'° ., .• ,··Vl...i1 ··�1 Vr,t ,·· ,. •c , roo l1 �- : - J • ,, o ·" c· ""'"'"'· C"rJ""" t..1:�v - r, •J . 4 • 4-al V ...1.. V J ....!..:. .. .,;J,,,S,.._•'• "_� � , ..... , , � �¼ '-)1.,,,, , "' t:i.on iu not l).\:, ;_:ill Cll'l COUl."O.:_;:!.fl�; l Oi.d GdV:.1-;:.ti '(, :) t .0 Jl:.:!.!L G "111 dlo oo.rno D.l."o :.:.ctuall.r· not o_ o:ratlnc; hc\ :cr.•or, �.o f0 ,1 t,; o:t tllcn•3 :!.o u .sJ.ij t posoib:llity t.1at� ,...-o ·.111 1 bo op" rati·ls on d.,!,te :{ny lht!1 . I1·ro,:,ar..Uao::; or tho cocu. str:lt;:o , o:::o or.; u.l lJo l1:i :21y to have �1ou vi;:;it tho r,i�op01.-ti,1 on ;_!o.y llith ui·:d v:i.11 a.r!':JJ.l;_,;:i an into?'co�:lri_::; ti"'ipdund orJt'O:.md .ind on t�.o ;:.iurto.cc. ·i-'o ·.illl a11:,i-ac:l.ntc ym.11... a.dvi:JinJ the oi�ct mu:ibor of your _.m--ty so th,lt nc c nn c1.ri•::U1eo o.n infoi-iu:il d1 nnor. Kindest uishos. Yours vory truly, !, ' l! ! � iiCLd:TJ:S '°l,-i:·; . • J ' ... �( COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES l • GOLDEN. COLORADO April 30a, 1946 DEPARTMENT O F M I N I NG Mr . H·. Ca. Livingston Un ion Pac ifica.aC oal C ompany Rock Spring s , Wyoming Dear Mr. Livings ton : Enc lo sed i s a c ompl ete i tinerary of our propo sed senior inspec ti on trip . The c oal str ike s e ems to be in the same s i tuati on tha t i t was a month ago , but in spite of thi s , we intend to go ahead with our s enior trip . May I a sk whe ther your com­ pany will b e abl e to handl e us even though the s tr ilre i s not s e ttled by May 14 th. I r ealize tha t a trip through an in­ a c t ive mine w ill no t b e a s sa tisfac tory a s forme rly , but , nevertheless , w e would like to v i s i t your opera tions . Wi th b e s t per sonal regard s , I am, Very truly yours , MIS : em Enc l o sur e : ��f!i:=: Depar tment of Mining / / I �u II) I C OLORADO SC HO OL OF MINES GOLDEN, C OLORADO IUSYECTIOU TRIP I 1946 i �P.l.RT I C IP:.'.i' DTC- C OLP��lH.ES Co lorcdo Fue l and Iron C orpora t ion , Sunri s e W,roming Uni on Pac if i c C ou l C ompany , Rock Spring s , V!yomlng :> Utah C opper C ompany lline s a t BinghaLl , Utah Mill a t ifagr.,a , Utah Si 1 vcr King C oa 1 i ti on I::J.no s C ompany , Po. rk C i ty , Utah Uni t ed Sta t e s Sme l tins , Refin ing , & 1'.: ining C o . a, !:iidva lo , Utah r"..mo r i c an Smo l t ing cc Re fining C ompany , Garf i e l d , Utah �nac onda C opper Ll ining C onpany l-�ine s a t But te , L:0�1 tcna i-� i l l and S.i:w l t o :;:' u t :.na c or:.d.a , ifontano. Sui tc.b l o 11ndi r.cing p l o thc s 1 ' , inc lud ine heavy b o ots or sh oe s and ha rd ha t s arc ne c e s sa ry . I t i s a l s o sussc s tod tha t some t ype of lamp be taken c,, long - - a fla sh l ight i s sui table . In c a s e; mc::.i l i s Gxp c c ted while 0 11 routo , i t should bo addre s s eda: C o l orado School of Llino s Po.rty · f'1_· ,,,.. Sal t f r., 1r ,. (' � i---. U J.tn0 1·J "l o : :-,•a-:,•- t :j,.., , -,,.., P.: (.; ·.lnn 3ut te , I :ont2.na , c/o :1.gcnt , Uili on Pa c ific R . aR . a c ..!.J C.. -"- ,, J ..._ :\,, . ·� ' \..• .:. . ; ..) · , • • ' J .... .. .... ' · - - - - AH ALL-EXP ENSE TRI P Your depo s i t ·of one hundred do llar s , (��100 . 00 ) pays f or all nec e s sary· expen s e s of th i s t r ip . The s e inc luc.lo tran s­ porta t i on, meal s , t ips , bod , and inc iduntn.l s but do not inc lude any expense tha t nay be incurr ud by any memb er of tho group for his ovm pe rsonal us o . PROL:FTNESS All members of tho party aro ro quo s t 0d to re port promp t ly for every inspe c t i on trip and at tho t ime shown in the i t inerary . :al l bu s s o s •,N i l l le ave pro;11p tly on schedule; , and tra ins calliL O t be hold up for la te arr ival s . Fai lu�e to be on hand at tho s tart of un inspec t i on tri p , unl e s s ex­ cused "u o forcha:!.1d , will b e . c ounted as an ab senc e . C OURTESY The C ol orado School of �ino s a s we l l a s tho mom­ bors of thi s par ty will boaon inspe c t i on at evory plant . Not only will thi s group be the gue s t s of the various c ompani e s �' who ho.. v e 0xtcnded the c our t e sy of pcr:r.ii t t ing the E;l" oup t o vi s i t thu plant s , but the a c t i on s of tho mo�b u r s o f the group wi l l de t e rmine tho a t ti tude of thc s o c ompani e s t oward future r e que s t s to v i s i t tho s e plant s . Bo c our t e ou s , a sk que s t ions , g o t a l l tho . inf orma t i on po s s ib l e , but do no t indulge in hors e ­ play while w i thin a planto. S::..FETY Tho c ompan i e s t·1h o s o p l::i.nt s w ill b e v i s ited canno t b e r o s pon sibl o for tho s n. i'o ty of tho mc!nb o r s of tho group while on v i s ita t ion . Guido s v; ill be s:..1.p:pl i 0d by on.ch of tho plan t s v i s i ted . Every po s s iblo pre cau t i on to prevent a c c i ­ d en t s w i l l b e t ake n , but i t w il l bo nc c d s sary for ovory mom� b a r of the par ty to exorc i s e cau t i on , wa tchfulne s s , caro , and v igilanc e while 0::1 �)lo.:1t vi s i ta t ion . Follow your e;u id0 , re ­ ma in w i th your squad , do not wander away fro!n tho t;roup . Ab ove all , do not try to opcruto ma chine s , and do not indulge in what s o o�s to be harmle s s fun . REnPORT S I t i s a lway s b e s t prG c t i c o wh i l e o� inspe c t i on trips t o tako c omplo tc no t e s on .ov�ry plan t v i si ted , and t o ob ta in a s c ompl e te no t e s a s p o s s ib l e on every proc e s s u s e d . Tho s o no t e s should sub s e quen tly b 0 tran s c r ib 8d into a p or­ manon t r e c ord . Tho mor<; c ompl e te the noto s taken tho more c omp l e t e n.nd va luable th,:, pcrmancm t roport . �·. full report by oach s tudent on all plant s v i s i t0d :mu s t bo submi t ted to hi s de par tment b y Hay 28. �SCH�DULt Sunday , 1:Iay 12 L0avc Denve r , 5 : 10 p . m . Uni on Pac i f i c Tr . No . 17 :...rrivo Choyonn o , VJyo . , 7 : 55 p . m. - Dinnor on Din ing Car T,1onday , llay 13 Breakfa s t - S t a t i o;:: Ru s taurant - 6 : 1 5 p . r.i . Bu s le ave s at 7 : 00 o. . mft for Sunr i s e , V/yo . , Underground trip Lunch - Box Lunch Re turn to Cheyenne , 5 : 00 p . m . :.. dv i sab l c to tak e s oa p , tow-:.; l , and change of cl o thing to Sunrai se Dinner - Sta ti on Re s taurant - 6 : 00 p . m . Leave Ch0yc1111.c , Wyo . a, 8 : 5 5 p . r.l.a, Union Pa c ific Tr. 7 �� sday, 1b.y 1� :·,. rrivc Rock Springs , Vfyo . , 4 : 0� a . r.1 . ' Br eakfa s t - Park Ho tel - 6 : 00 a . m . V i s i t Vino s and Surfa c e Plant - Uni on Pac ific C oal C o . Underground trip . Lunch - Box lunch Dinner - Gue s t s of Uni on Pa c if i c C oal C o . - -- '.i-J cd.no sdc�y , 1:1:ay 1 5 Leave Rock Springs , Wyo . a, 1 : 50 a . m . a, Uni on Pa c i fic , Tr . 37 /(.rrivc Sa lt Lake C i ty , Utah , 8 :00 a . m . �reakfa s t - Sta t ion Re staurant / Loave , by bus, for I.''. idvalc Hill L Sme lter of U. S . S . R . & 11 . C o . 8 : '15 a . m . Lunch - Box Lunch Dinner - Sta t i on Re s taurant Thursday, 1,�o.y 16 Breakfa s t - Sta t i o� Re s taurant - 6 : 00 a . m . Loavo , by bus , for Silv�r King C oa l i t ion Nino s C o . a, Park C i ty , Utah - 6 : 45 a . m. - Undergr ound Trip . Lunch - Box Lunch Dinner - Stati on Re s taurant - 6 : 00 p . m. Friday , J,:ay 1 7 .c.l{fast - S ta t ion Re s taurant .,.. 7 : 00 a . n. Braca Loav0 by bus , 8 : 00 a . m. for mine of Utah C oppur C o . Lunch - Box Lunch D inne r - Sta t i on Ro s taurQnt - 6 : 00 p . m . Sa turda.y, r,Iay 18 Breakfa s t - S t a ti on Re s taurant - 7 : 00 a . m. Lcr1.vo , b y bun , 8 : 00 t. . r,1� f or I-.bt;mn. I.Iil l of Utah C opper C o . Lunch - Box Lunch ;�f tornoon - Vi s i t Garf i e ld Smc l tor of l.r.i.t;ri cn.n Smc l ting & Rofinine C o . Dinner - Sta ti on Re s taura nt - 6 : 00 p . m . , Uni on Pac ific Tr . 2 9 Loavo Sal t Lake C i ty - 8 : 00 p . m .aa �sunda;r , r.1ay 1 9 :.rrivc But tet, l .Ionta na - 1 1 : 00 a . r.i . C aI' s Park ed a t No!" th o rn Pa c i f i c Stu ti on Bru1kfa s t - Ob t a in Q d dur ing t ratin s top a t D i' 11 on , 1.,on �. t ana Lu..vi ch - S ta t i on Rc s taure.n t - 1 2 : 00 noon Dinnor - Sta t ion �o s taurant - 6 : 00 p . m. 1.londay, T,Tay 20 Br eakfa s t - 6 : 30 a . m . Und c r8r om1d t r i p t o r: inc s of :.no..c oncla C oppor riiining C o . Lunch - S t a ti on :1c s t::rnrnn t ( I'o s s ib lc Box Lunch ) Dinnor - S ta t i on R� s taurant - 6 : 00 p . m . Tuo sday , M,:qr 2 1 Breakfa s t - Sta t i on Rc s taurnnt - 3 : 30 Q . m . Leave , b y bus , 7 : 30 a . m . f or �na c ondn V is i t Mill , Smcl t ur , �nd .El o c t. Zinc Plunt of ;,na c onda C oppor Llining C o . Lunch - Box Lunch D inner - S ta t ion Re s tauran t - G : ·.J O p . r.1 � Leave But- t o , L'Ion. tai.7. a - 7 : 4 5 p . m . ; Uni on Pac l f i c Tr . 30 Wodno sday , May 22 �rr ivc Sa l t Lake C i ty , Ut�h , 9 : 15 a � m. Breakfa s t - Sta t i on Ro s tauran t Ho liday - The re. 8. r 0 nuncrou s point s of int c r v s t in Sa l t Lake C i ty thn.t you rnic;ht w i sh to v i s i t - Univer s i ty of Utah , r,T ormon Tab e rnac l e , Sta. to C n p i tol c..nG. I::us0um, e tc . Lunch - Stc. t i on Ro s t aurun t - 12t: 00 noon D innor - Diningt·Car Lcnvo Sa l t Lo.lee C i ty , Utah - 6 : 00 p . :m.t, Uni on Pc� c ific Tr 38 Thur sday , I.ray 23 �rrivo Donv o r , C ol orado - 8 : �0 a . n . �! .__:n:rch 1 , 19/,6 Professorrr. . I � .s� _;, ner , . D,:; purtmenc. of :'...1n:m,:; Colorado School of �inc s Golden, Colorado Deur l'rofcssor Sirner : '.Jc n:rc..: har,p�· to hux o · our l0 t e r o f do.to L\nrc .1 12 , 19L. 6 , ;:,<lvbin:: pl<>n foL Senior Inszx:, ction Trip and isi t 't.o our ro. c rt.J on c ate Euy li+ , 1%6 . Ii:. ,;;ill incicct.: bo a t,lsasure to have: your group visi·�..--i.hc f,ropo rty , c.nci -.·i c ,·iill apprcc .i.f.to yot�r c1d­ v isi�1.:, � d0t.::.:.il 1 tir::e of ,.n ·.dv�l .:::ncl l0nsth of your stay, 2.::; u.: dusire to 3U _ lea ..:ut ti·ie .:1ctunl inspection of prop<:rty v1i'l�h .i .:. rpropri.ite eni.,crta:�.Jt..iwnt , possiuly ln Lile forn: of ::n ini'or .al diu-10r. ::u have Gl'Gatly missed th-:! annual i :::;p.:;:ct ion c,f 1 1ru ... rsr11 and .::,r-- loot<:L :..; Ot · iard l:.o a roncual of th2 tmjoyable occaoion. Or1,1innl Si:?;ned: H. C. LIVINGSTON !L,L:rLL �Earch 14 , 1946 Professor hl. I. Siener Department of �.'.inin13 Colorado uchool of .::5.ne s Golden, Colorado Dear Professor Signer : - are happ_ t o h2.ve Jrour le tter of elate .:e lfarch L'2 , 1946, c.dvisine plan for Senior Ins oe ction Trip and visit to our prorJe rty on <late Lay 14, 1946r. 1 It 1·1ill indeed be a ple asure t o have your group visit th& ::iroporty , .cmd rie rdll ap;,rec iate your ad­ visini:;, in detail, time of arrived and length of your stay, as l e desire t0 sup1 leoent the actual inspection of property r1ith c1pproprinte entertain:c1ent .11 pos sibly in the form of an informal dinnor . :;e have greatly missed the a nnuc:.l inspect ion of 1 1 f:li.ners 11 and ar(;; lookin� forviard to a rene1.:, al of ths enjoyab e oi::!casion. Y ours very truly, Original Signed: H. C. LIVINGSTOl!l HCL:oLL �COLORADO SCHOOL OF M I N ES GOLDEN. COLORADO March 1 2 , 1946 DEPARTMENT OF M I N ING r11r . H . C . Liv ing s t on Uni on Pac ific C oal C o . Rock Springs , Wyoming Dear l\1r . Living s t on : We ar e planning our f i r s t Seni or Insp e c t ion Trip s inc e 194 1 , and w ould l ike pe rmi s s ion t o vi s i t th e Uni on Pac i fi c ope ra tions on May 14 , 1 946 . Our group will b e smal l c ompa r ed to fo nner year s , numb ering ab ou t 25 facul ty and s enior mining and me tallurgy s tudent s . Our la s t trip t o Rock Spring s in il'iay 194 1 , was one of th e mo s t en j oyab l e of our entire insp e c ti ons . If permi s si on i s gran t e d , w e c an notify you s everal w eek s in advan c e o f our arrival a s to the final d e tai l s of the trip . ;��ct�r Very truly yours , MI S : ad � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding A visit from the Colorado School of Mines Students Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1946-1955 Subject The topic of the resource Mines Visits, Colorado School of Mines' Students Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from the Colorado School of Mines Students. All documents are loose and some are held together by staples. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George T. Bator, Howard L. Hartman, V.O. Murray, H.C. Livingston, Albert M. Keenan, I.N. Bayless, Clifton W. Livingston, C.B. Carpenter. I.M. Charles, M.I. Signer Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0316 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/ebe93667205024a54952d356745f1431.pdf fedf3b4634f4b8731338cbf8c7ded5cc PDF Text Text FILE NO. 284 .VISITORS - Students of Michigan College of Mining & Technology �) \..:-..t ·- I l /L-:<..-'L I, , ,,..,...___,__" --- - MICHIGAN C • ' COLLEGE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY HOUGHTON. MICHIGAN BOARD OF CONTROL ENDICOTT R. LOVELL, CALUMET CHARLES .J. STAKEL, ISHPEMING WILLARD H. DOW, MIDLAND L. F. DUGGAN. REGISTRAR -- GI ") FIL - l\!0. ....... ·' ... ' / .._..., F. ALBEE FLODIN, IRON MOUNTAIN F. L. PARTLO, DEAN Mro H. C. Livingston, Vice President, The Union Pacific Coal Company , Rock Springs, Wyoming. Dear Mr. Livingston: I have just returned to Houghton after having spent nine consecutive weeks in the field with groups of students majoring in mining engineering. The first order of business is to gratefully acknowledge the many courtesies which were extended by the operating personnels of the various places that were visitedo You and your staff did everything possible to make the trip well-worthwhile, and I want to thank you, and the others, most heartily for what was done for us. It was indeed a pleasure to have spent time with you and Mr. Murray. I hope that before long you will find time to pay us a visit at Houghton; then I'll take time off and show you about. Best wishes, as ever. Sincerely yours, � �---;i Cf:.1..w.Q J. Murray Riddell, Head, Dept. of Mining Engineering. JMR/S c.c. Mr. I. N. Bayless � T N. F, KAISER TREASURER AND BUSINESS MANAGER \. GEORGE A, OSBORN, SAULT STE. MARIE --, 7/g1{ GROVER C. DILLMAN, PRESI September 13, 1949 FRANK .J. SMITH. RAMSAY, CHAIRMAN .) r �c·L,.:. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY x.. (/}My. fl),._,� � � In consideration of permission granted by the C for the use of its prop�known as the -if 3 ,j� ;;:rf4 dd<� � ata5-I��.:;;�� certain students from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, Houghton, Michigan, we the undersigned, being of Legal age, assume all risk of injuries, or death, that may be received while on, in, or about the said or any other property of the Company, or in going to or coming from the same , and for ourselves, heirs and/or personal representat:tves , release and discharge the said Company from any and all liability for such �njur!es, or death, whether the same be caused by t�e negligence cf the Company or its employees, or otherwise, and covenant never to institute any action or proceeding at law to recover damages for any such injuries, or death. J,jf __ day of Dated at 1;:g�j c':J;;a:n, this __ ._ -=����---1 19_!!:_J_ In Presence of: t/C-. �� V � : ��di@�? -�u4�___, I(;?�/JI/ ;O/d/0�� �ct_� �RELEASE FROM LHBILITY In consideration of permission granted by 'l'he Union Pacific Coal Cornpany to the undersigned, students and stai'i' members of the Liichigan Colle6 e of Mining and Technology, of Houghton, !.Iichigan, to visit and inspect the 'iyorning coal-mining operations of said company on or about the 8th day of August, 1949, and following, the undersigned, each for himself does hereby assume all risk of personal injuries anci f' or loss of or damage to his property while upon said company's premises, unci does hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, auministrators and depenuants, forev�r acquit, release and discharge said company and its officers and employes from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries and r'or loss of or damage to his property that may be sustained by him v�hile upon said cornpany I s premises, irrespective of the manner in which saia injuries or damage may arise and whether said injuries result in death or other,1ise; and covenants never to institute any action or proceeding at law to recover damages for such injuries or death or da.ma0es to his property. Da tea at .dock ->prings, .iyoming this I HAVE READ AND UNDERST ,.ND TH1 8th day of il.ugust BOVE RELE.1SE , 1949. �...... ;'].,_; 1 L( FILE NO. ···-----Juno 21., 194? �-I>o Jo I."Ul."'ray Ridrlcll, Le�d Dcp.. 1,tocni of t&lin.G En.c;ino-rin'-" �r.,llc[�O of !.iining ,:n '.i'uclmolo& r�ouchton., '.:lchism Yotu.. lcttm.' of cbtc \HO 15 1> l9l 9, 1.'c luoJt • n.� pon.iiooion -ro:,;• 2,3 students in 1-::i,,.in cri:.,in�rin0 16 tiu.'oe of ·•our- ot:iff to vi ...it om� p1.'0poi�t,7 on dnto Y:Onll· !', .'\u:;tmt. �o "c sl ::ill bo h:.i 1y�i .--.. o h'.._:.VC ., ou via:lt, the : ro.Jm.�y <1m. oro hopeful tho minos ,.-illl bo o O"'Ltin;; on date , u__,m,t o Uri:: inal Signed: H. C. LIVINGSTON .iCL/rt �MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY HOUGHTON. MICHIGAN BOARD OF CONTROL FRANK , J, SMITH. RAMSAY, CHAIRMAN ENDICOTT R. LOVELL, CALUMET June 15, 1949 CHARLES J. STAKEL, ISHPEMING GROVER C. DILLMAN, PRESIDENT N. F. KAISER TREASURER AND BUSINESS MANAGER L. F. DUGGAN, REGISTRAR WILLARD H, DOW, MIDLAND F. L. PARTLO, DEAN GEORGE A. OSBORN, SAULT STE. MARIE F. ALBEE FLODIN, IRON MOUNTAIN IV Mr. H. C. Livingston, Gen. Ngr., Union Pacific Coe.l Comoany, Rock Springs, �-Tyoming. Dear Mr. Livingston: N l 8 1949 ,_ ·PRtslfJENt On behalf of the College, it would be appreci­ ated. if you would. accord :permission for twenty-th.l"ee students in raining engineerin; Bnd three of staff to visit one of your coe_l mines and the pouer plant on Monday, August 8, next. You T·rill recall tha� 1,re s·oent ti'!O days Hith you t·hro years ago ana_ made una.erground tri·9s at both the Ste.nsbury and Clarl{ Mines. In that 1•re will only h2.ve time to visit one of the undergrounct operations this year, I shall leave it with you to select the mine. If permission is granted, I will make it a point to wire you two or three days in advance of arrival. Sincerely yours, � �"")q,u� J. Murray Rid.dell, Head, Dept. of Mining Engineering. JMR/S c.c. Mr. l, N. Bayless �- I. (, )"!' ;.l l y ...... _, ,;.-\· \. �I ,_ • ) MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINING _AND TECHNOLOGY HOUGHTON. MICHIGAN BOARD OF CONTROL FRANK J. SMITH. RAMSAY. CHAIRMAN PATRICK M. THORNTON. HOUGHTON September 17, 1947 JAMES T. HEALY, HOUGHTON GR 1 ,1/ 1)£ 1 .,� N. F. KAISER TREASURER AND BUSINESS MANAC.ER CHARLES J, STAKEL, ISHPEMINC WILLARD H. DOW, MIDLAND Mr. H. C. Livingston, Gen. Mgr. , Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, Wyoming. Dear Mr. Livingston: Reference: Your File No. 080-3 On behalf of the College, I want to thank you whole heartedly for the many privileges and courtesies which were extended to students and staff during our visits to your operations on August 23 and 29, last. Mr. Murray and his assistants did an excellent job in showing us about and making the trip so well worth­ while, for which I am personally grateful. The two courtesy luncheons which you furnished the group were thoroughly enjoyed. The way all of us ate bespeaks an appreciation. Last Thursday evening we returned to Houghton after having spent five weeks in the West. It was a great trip, and all of us got a lot' 0 of good out of it. Sincerely yours, ��°19�J.J.&Q Y. Murray Riddell, Head, Dept. of Mining Engineering. JMR/S c. c. Mr. I. N. Bayless l,yj/( . DILLMAN, PRESIDENT L. F'. DUGGAN, REGISTRAR ENDICOTT R. LOVELL, CALUMET t ·11vt.�· ��=--. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY In consideration of permission granted by The Union Pacific Coal Company to the undersigned, rstudents and staff members of the Michigan Qollege of Mining and Technology, of Houghton, Michigan,-fto visit and inspect the Wyoming coal-mining operations of said company on or about �the 29th day of August, 194?; and following, the undersigned, each for himself does hereby assume all risk of personal injuries and for loss of or dam.age to his property while upon said company's premises, and does hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, administrators and dependants, forever acquit, release and discharge said company and its officers and employes from any and all liability, of whatsoever character, for any and all personal injuries and for loss of or damage to his property that may be sustained by him while upon said company's premises, irrespective of the manner in which said injuries or damage may arise and whether said injuries result in death or otherwise; and covenants never to institute any action or proceeding at law to recover damages for such injuries qr death or damages to his property. R..a.ck Sp ri'l:;6/ '0,oti7/'� Dated at II:ag;teh, �d:.gc::iu, th�s 2 7-74 day of '1ug0zl, _194�. I ILA.VE/RE.AD AND UNDERSTAl\fD THE ABOVE RELEASE arl2 . sf?,,, I}• • rf3A<' $ J e. (f. Approved: --�.,.__{_II:._-!,._ C• .. •. • .. e:.o.:________ Asst. Genera.I Solicitor \._. �Rock Sp:dngs -· J\u5Ust 25, 1947 L' .. o Vo Oo r'iurrey L: "o 1-· o I' o Shm"p Ploase refer to my l<attor of date July 7, 194?, concorninc visit of student and professor ps1--sonnel of the 1.1ichigan Collo�o oi' llining and "''cchnology a Tho purty VIill arrive in lock :.:iprincs dur•in is the le.to .u.·tornoon of 1 t g;ust �7 o.:: l \':ill u:i.�h to visit our OP'�ra.tion r.,, u;:,s Jo.7 nnJ ?riduy J> _ug,.wt 28 o.nd 29 ( this ,:..eek) o Yie have for,n of release furnished by �o Buyless r;,hich uill have to be executed before the party entier the pr0mises, saE1e attached heretoo will kindly see that the release form from liubility is executed by all people in the party and arr,:mec for thcii· visit under ~roundo HCL/rt • You �BOARD OF CONTROL FRANK J. SMITH. RAMSAY. CHAIRMAN PATRICK M. THORNTON. HOUGHTON JAMES T. HEALY. HOUGHTON ENDICOTT R. LOVELL, CALUMET CHARLES J. STAKEL, ISHPEMING WILLARD H. DOW, MIDLAND �080-3 I July 10, 194? r i'-lr. J. Murray Riddell Hea.d, Dept. of.Mining Engineering College of Mining and Technology Houghton, Michigan (cc : I I Mr. H. C. Livingston) De2-r Mr. Riddell: This· 1:·1111 acknoi:dedge your letter of July 2, relative to student trip to The Union Pacific Coa.1 Company's mines, Rock Springs, Wyoming. Your pr•opcoed date of August 29 and 30 is :per­ fectly et1.tisf2.c'to1--. •. Hoi:ever, ,-,e question uhether the mines will be in operation on Saturday, the 30th, as the mine vmrkers 1 • contrs.ct call::; for a five-day 11ork week. You may be able to step your schedule up on& day and make it the 28th and 29th of August; or, in the event this cannot be readily done, there is s.l1.·1ays a number of men a.round the mines on Saturdays, even though thB mines ar·e idle, and there will _be nothing to prevent the strn:1ent� from visiting the miner{, either underground or on the surface, regardless of whether or ncit the:y are in operation. Hould ouggest tl1�t you uire Mr. H. C. Livingston, Vice President-Operation, I1he Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, 1:jyom1ng, a. day or two ahead of your a.rrivt,.l. 1 \·;e are enclosing a copy of a form of release �,hich our legeJ. department has requested be used. 'I'his relee.se may be signed and sent to the undersigned here, o� signed and handed to Nr. Livingston &t Rock Springs. Sincerely yours, Mr. Livingston: I am attaching copy of release requested by our legal department. .. �Rock Sp:rings - July 7 :, 1947 Hm�ouith copy of letter from H:lchigan Coll0ce of Jl.ti.ning and Tochnology of Houghton, Michigan, conce:rnil:'lE v:1s:H:. of otudent p3rsonnel· to our mines on dates 1\U8US't. 29 and 30 . 1 ' \ Kindly keep the matter in mind and tnk0 eaPe of n:rra.ngements £91., ihe visit of the party of 18 . HCL/rt �Rock Springs - July 7, 1947 Ur . V. 0. rfiurr ay : Herewith c opy of letter from Michi1an College of Uining and Technology of Houghton, Michigan, concerning visit of student pers onnel to our mines on dates August 29 and JO . Kindly keep the matter in mind and take care of arrangements for the visit of the party of 18 . HCL/rt �I MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINI NG AND TECHNOLOGY HOUGHTON , MI CHIGAN July 2 , 1947 r.1:-,,:, . I . W .. Bayle s s , Pz>e s:lclen t , Union l?o.ci :?i c CotU Company, 1416 Do dge Street, Omaha 2 , Neb:-i:.""0.sko. . Dear Mr . Bayle ao : Reference : 11hi s communi m,:tiol'l lette1., of !'.lay 26 in nhi to have aux• s·�ud ent s an(l " mining ope ration n . I i' a:!.2 o e S-o rings cm the ai1.d SatUl"d.ay , that yom." min o.dvi se . t i s n� to your 2ppre ointed eed a oillingne s s your \'Jycming; co sl ----- . ,., o.r1"i ve at Rock , nnd spend iI'rido.y �h you. rt filay be l"'d,,y . Ir so , kindly fi ft een students .md thni v,e nill im-po se upon I 1z· . Living- m reservation s for the group ; these ne ed make te natuz-e . We are traveling by autoof a le , and , · nsequently, it will no t be ne ces su�y to ·,-...._---=-t-=-r_.• . , ortat:lon. In the event that there is any change in the schedule , I shall make it a point to oontaot Mr. Living­ ston Dell in advanc0 . There i s en closed the form o f release whi ch i s customarily used . I f you desire another type of fo �m, endoraed prior to a:i."I'i v.2J. , kindly advi se . t.�ay X heur from you, please? Sincerely yours, ��--:,1.:..L.w.1 J . r.'Lurray Riddell Head , Dept. of mining Ene;ineering ·J rnR/S Enc . o . o. H. C. Livingston �/ RELEASE FROM LIABILITY In consi deration of permission granted by the for the use of its property known as the ------------- ____________ a t ______________ by certain students from the Mi chigan Colle ge of Mining and T e chnology , Houghton , Mi chigan , we the undersigned, being of Legal age , assume all risk of inj uri e �, or death, that may be re ceived while on, in, or about the sai d or any other prop erty of the Company, or in going to or coming from the sam e , an d for ourselves , heirs and/or p ersonal representatives, release and di scharge the sai d Company from any and all liabi li ty for such inj uries, or death, whether the same be caused by the negligence of the Company or its · employees, or otherwise , and covenant never to insti tute any a ction or procee ding at law to re cover damages for any su ch inj uri es , or death. Dated at Houghton , Mi chi gan , this _____ day of -------- ' 19__ . In Presence of : �080-3 I-1ay 26 , 19�7 l1r . J . D-1urray RiddGll He ad , · Dept . of Hining Engineering Michigan Coll0ge of Ninil'g 0.nd Technology Houghton , Iii chigt:m ( cc : i:ir . M . G . Livingston ) ----- Dear 112::c � Hiddell : You1� letter of 11ny 22 , advi si11g thut a group o'f your junior> s.nd eenioY' a·tudcmt e t-7ould like to vis1 t one o r tt·ro of our mining ope1"s.tion0 -v;hile 0nking your we st ex-n field trip : I t-:-- ould sugge st that you schedule your trip to vi sit t1?-e Stansbui--y ?:line at Rook Springs and the D . 0 . • Cl ark I:-1 ine at Superior , \'Jyom_ing . t-Je uould appreoiate &n outline of. your itinerary as soon as it hns been developed . \J_e uill endeavor t o pro,ride t_ranapo rtat ion from Rook Springs to the mine s , and will al so gladly assi st in making any re servations for .your stopover in Ro ok Springs . 6inoerely yours , �al�qe/6 I. N. tJ.AYLESS � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a visit from the Students of Michigan College of Mining and Technology Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1947-1949 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, Students of Michigan College of Mining and Technology, 1947, 1948, 1949 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from the Students of Michigan College of Mining and Technology. All documents are held together by a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J. Murray Ribbell, H.C. Livingston, I.N. Bayless Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0317 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/08b0cdb9ca721bbb6cdf7645346a0e61.pdf 16916c2388f18f5786dd860d1ba33a5b PDF Text Text FILE NO. 284 VISITORS - UNION PACIFIC Railrpad Co. Officials 6- HARRIMAN,.Mr. & Mrs. E. Roland AUG/47 Visit to Westvaco. �WOo 6 �Omaha - August 299 1947 Mr. A. E. Stoddard: Mr. H. C. Livingston: Mr. Elgin Hicks: Attached is copy of letter August 25th from Exec­ utive Vice President Seaton of the Westvaco Chlorine Products Corporation, addressed to Mr. Ashby, relative to the pro­ posed trip of Mr. and Mrs. Harriman to their rains. I will appreciate it if Mr. Hicks or Mr. Living­ ston will work it out so that Mr- Gaylord is furnished the information suggested by Mr. Seaton, and in conversation today I understand that all arrangements have been perfected with respect to proper handling of Mr. and Mrs. Harriman upon their arrival at Green River. P. J. VL2HCH Enc. �August 29, 1947 CHRYSLER BUILDING PLEASE REPLY TO '211KI 40S LEXINGTON AVENUE !INK i&£JIY4R18 kiiN8 NEW YORK,N.Y. Mr. H. a. Livingston, vice .k're�. Operation, Union Paci fie lioal. 1.;an:pany, Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear ivi.r. Liv ingston: In reply to your letter of august 25th, we will be glad to hav e Mr. and mre. Harriman vis.it \'1estvaco on September 2nd. arrang;nents will be made for them to go down the shaft a t 2:00 P.M. and to visit tba su rface. Yours very truly, WESTVACO CHLORINE PRODUCTS C:ORP. �µ �(COPY) WESTVACO CHLORINE PRODUCTS CORPORATION Please reply to Chrysler Building 405 Lexington Avenue Neu York 17, N.Y. r'1ro G. F. Ashby, President Union Paqifio Railroad Company Omaha 2,- Nebraska August 25, 1947 Dear Mr. Ashby: • It was indeed a rea1 p1eaeure to be able to induce you to g_o down the shaft at Westvaco, Wyoming, a week ago yesterday. -I am very appreciative indeed of your finding time to make this t rip .. We certainly 1:10uld be glad to have Mr. E. R- Harriman Chairmall of your Board, and Mrs. Harr-iman go domt ,the shaft on Sept�m,ber 2nd. Obviously this 1nv1tat1on may be extended to others in his party -whom you uould like to have see this Job. I a m uriting tfr. G. B. Gaylord regarding their forthcoming visit. If convenient, I would suggest that you arrange to have a wire or telephone message sent to him indicating the approx­ imate hour of their -arrival. He can be reached at his resi­ dence in Green River in the evening or care of our company dur­ ing normal business hours. If for any reason Mr. Gaylord should not be at the property on September 2, Mr. Downey and Mr. John Jacobucci. will take care of them properly. Possibly before September 1st our telephone connection to the mine will have been established, although I cannot be certain at this writing that this job will be finished. Best personal regards ,. Very truly yours, WESTVACO CHLORINE PRODUCTS CORPORATION MYS:AI..U- M. y. Seaton Executive Vice Pres�dent �August 25, 1947 tlr o Go B. Gaylord, Manager Uestvaco Chlorine Products Corpo Green River, Wyoming Dear Mr. Ga,ylord: Mr. and Mrs. E. Roland Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad Company. \"Jill arrive at Green River on Train No. 1, 1 ::)..0 p.m., September 2, departing on the same date on Train No. 11, 5:50 p.m. Mr. G. F. Ashby has requested that t1e arrange trip to r:estvaco, visiting the surface and taking Hr. and trrs. Harriman down the shaft to visit the Trona deposit. i'Je nill �--reatly- appreciate your cou rtesy in makins previous arrangements for suitable clothing, i.e., rubber boots, etc., for the convenience of Mr. and Mrs. Harriman, also having in readiness availability of the shaft bucket at 2 p.m. so that they raay enter the shaft without delay. This is of course necessary due to the shor t time betv1een trains. �'le will attempt to discuss this matter wi th you personally previous· to the time of the visit. I- In the event there is any reason that the Harrimans cannot visit the shaft bottom on date September 2, ,,ill you kindl,v so advise. Yours very truly, HCL/rt �t Form 2191 • -}, ( UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY • Time Filev.-____ M fl , .h TELEGRAM Rock SprinE;s - l\ugust 25, 1947 1'\BS = Omaha J> nnd on line :nm� Omaha YOUR B-882 VISIT W. AND MRS. HARRIMAN VIBSTV./1.CO OPER,\TION. CONFIRMING PHOI\lE CONV13RSATION WILL Mf1KE ARR,'\tJGEMENTS INSURING PERSON/\1 HANDLING OF Pl\R'fY. C-24 . I 5-SM M I �rORM 2191•B-THIN • \•t\. ,:"_._ \."�'\ UNION p AC I F I C RAI LR a AD C a M � .AN TIME F"ILEO _____.,,. T LEG RAM • __,.. •· • • 1 •· ' ·- /j MAILGBAM ----�- �-: ·,1\ \:_: \ J f._., I , �: ., -/ \ • 12•46•500M \ 1 ,_//·· �/:>- -- Omaha - August 22, 1947 (OC-Vir 0 Elgin Hicks Mr0 E 0 T 0 Watson Mr 0 F0 E 0 Terwilleg�r Mr o Wo 5 0 Whittaker) Confirming our conversation yesterday 0 Mr 0 and Mrs0 E 0 Roland Harriman dill arrive Green River in Business Car 102, Train 1� at 1:10 PM, September 2nd, le�ving there on Train 11 at 6:60 PM the same day 0 During their layover e.t Green River they both would like to drive to Westvaco and go dotm into the shaft of the mine0 You are fully familiar with the situation at Westvaco and �111 appreciate if you will supply and�utomobile and driver, and also make the necessary arrangements with Supt 0 Jaoobucci at Westvaco for the shaft tr1p0 It will probably be necessary for Mr0 and Mra 0 Harriman to wear rubber boots, suitable clothing, etc., �or this trip down into the mine0 As per our oonversat1on, will you kindly handle and wire me your adviGs that it will be taken careoof0 Am giving oopy_bf this communication to Genl 0 Supt0 Hicks, and this tdll cancel my &862 of even date to him instructing that he make arrangements 0 However, Mr. Hicks will arrange to be at Green River and assist in handling unless otherwise directed. Am also giving copy of this to Messrs. Watson and Terwi.lleger so they will be familiar with the arrangements. It 1s 1 of coursea import­ ant that this trip be o�efully arranged and that there be no hitch in 1t 0 �882 A. E. Stoddar� � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a Visit from the Union Pacific Railroad Company Officials Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. August 1947 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visit, Union Pacific Railroad Company Officials, 1947 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from the Union Pacific Railroad Company Officials. All documents are held together by a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource G.B. Gatlord, P.J. Lynch, M.Y. Seaton, H.C. Livingston, A.E. Stoddard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0318 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/dbc2ca2e0661380e9bfe74a23a7b691c.pdf 4fa47d577ba04a31a30d532ebccbebd9 PDF Text Text FILE NO. 284 VISITORS - United States Government Officials 1- SMITH .o H. I. & Party. Chief, VS Geological Survey, �uning Division .. 2- BOONE, Admiral J ,. T • >::>:,Medical & Sanitary Survey Group- US NAVY DICKEMAN, Commodore Charles T• .AMBERSO,N, Comdr. "• M. - KING, E. T,. Comdr. - SMITH, Comdr. Leon E. BALCH, Comdr. J. H. SHRONTS, Lieut. Comdr. J.F.- PHILPOTTS, Lieut. Comdr. E. F. LEE, Russell - SHERMAN, Allen JUL/46 JUL/46 �NO. 2 �CC Mailed !NB, Omaha I l' V f At Rocle SprinJn, ·;-;yomi.11.3 Septonber 5, 1946 L:.1°. !w.la.n Sher:unn I ublic Relutiona Officer, r2edical Survey Group U. S. Departr:ient of the Int crior ··:n.shin;ton 25, D. C. Dear l.�r. Sherman: • This nill <1.cknonl0d;0 the receipt of pictures of Renr Admiral Boone, Com oclore Dickcman J> nnd other m:;;:rocrs of the Headquarters Staff of tl e ...:2clical Survey ..:roup nhilc Thank you very much; I app eciate ., our rerJe�ibr:mce. Cordially yours, r;m:DAP �COPY UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF '!HE INTERIOR COAL MINES ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON 25 � D. C. 30 August 1946 In Reply Please Refer To Medical Survey Group Dear Mr. Bayless: Among the many photographs taken during the visit of Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, Coin.'llodor e Char les T. Dickeman and other members of the Headquarters Staff of the Medical Survey Group to Wyoming Early last month were the enclosed, which I thought you might like to see and have for your files. Cordially your s, (Sgd.) Allan Sherman Public Relations Officer Mr. I. N. Bayless·, President and General Manager The Union Pacific Coal Corporation Rock Spr ings, Wyo.ming �)L.il, l c_ ' (' l' \_ \. I I July 22, 1946 C. '11 Dickemau, Conuno<lm.,e ( '.GC) t3t,� U. s. DopJrt2ent of the Interior Co� !.fines ;,d:.tlnistr.:rtion \.1nshington 25, D. C. • Dear Comraodore ic.{eCTan: l'le acknonled.:.,e r-eceiot of voui-• most compli­ men-;;ary lettor o .:- d:ii:.e Ju__1 y l 1: 194.6: 'li.lY ·.:o s,_,_y -�;!1:1::. our ::ictivi �'JS merely YJe .J in kecpin� rJith the spirit of the '·est. i7e shall be vei."· happy to have you 'rop in on us for 2. business or orson:u visit at nny tirne thnt you a.re in the"'nide-opan sp::i.ces. 11 Sincerely, i1.8.: 5:l C. :·..:./ � nd � 'i' \-. c,. UJ\ HCL:DAP �\0� ./1, �UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE. INTERIOR COAL MINES ADMINISTRATION 1r WASHINGTON 25, D. C. July 18, 1946 IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO Mr. H. C. Livingston Vice President of Oper&tions Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Colorado Dear Mr. Livingston: On behalf of our party and myself, I wish to express our sincere thanks for your cordial hospitality during our recent inspection .of the coal mining area in Southern �yarning. You and your associates were most cooperative and helpful and assisted us substantially in making our survey of the health, sanitation and housing conditions a success. With kindest regards, I am, Sf1fcere ly, k·,.o-v�� I, I I C. T. Dickeman Commonore, (CEC) USN ., �July 10, 1946 . ;. ',, l . ., ,/ Hr. Livingston: .s per your instructions I have notified the f all owing re�ardin3 the meetin called by Adm. Boone tomorrow (J, t 8:00 PH 11) evening n Library: r. L3..S:1lle Hr. Uarchant Ur. Lucas Colon; Cotl Compan:r '- Rock Springs Fuel Co. (Clerk at Lin office suirl :.: . Foulger is out of tom but t. e:r expect him b;,.ck tomorrov:) l:.'.r. Foulger L·on Coal o. 1'.,r. Prntt M.r. Sorensen Ke:r.rr.erer Co.ql Co. (Both Ur. Pr;,.tt and t:r. Sorensen .'.lre out of town but expected b \<Jk tom rron. . LH �TJ-lli H. CK SPRINGS D ILY ROCKET Rock Sprintss, '.'iyoming JULY 9, 1946 f,vil.\ • studv: meclica!. treatment oi ! miners, adcqu:i.cy of hospitals and· disp•m�aries, sa=iitary water supply, hou.sing and 0U1er facilities In coal mining commu.T\iti!'3, according to Lieut. William F. Kogt•I. USN, dis· trict representative .of the l<�CMiA . .Accompany.in.,� All.mi.ml Boone '\\ill be Corrm10do1'\! Chal'le:J T. ' Dickeman. civil engineer· corps,.' USN, who is his consultant ou hcu..,ing; Comdr.· J. l\f. Arnbe:r,;on, mc-c.ical �orps. us:-;. spPci�,list iir, !:'a.n:t:J.tion ancl i•p:dsnic u.i�·e:1ses; Comdr. J. H. F.A!lc:h. ;r!ministr�.r,­ li\'c niue; Comdr. E. T. Kin�. spc- • chlli;;t in ,·o..:reittion Comdr. Leortl F,. 8111it11, ::l!'i:!l l't'Pll'>'(•llt.atiVP or; the «>al mines administrntioa; L.5.�:ut. Con!.!,·..T. F �hn,n• ----.�-' dalist in public health: Md l.i.eut. C..omdr. E. [,', -.Philpoa..'-', sp;, �!!:lL fa l1.ousll1J. Re:i.r Admiral Boone- ruts had :1 disti..."1b"Uish�d medical (\l.l"CCr, bQtll 1 \\ith the .a.rmy a.r.d the na1.:y, s.u1ce his appointrr:.ent in the. medical corps of th� United States naval. reserve in April, l!lH. :&'or his sen·­ ices as surgeon jn France during the first \\!orld war, he was award­ ed the Dlst.ing-.1ish� Service cross and the l\fe<lal of Honor by· the 1 army and the Silver Stat· meda.11 vli.U1 five oak leaf clusters and Pu-rplc H,,a.rt with oak lt>.af cluste,·, by the war department for \'Vorld vtar services ,,itli the sixth· regi­l ment of marines. He also has m.a11y other :t\\"al'illl and citations, some of French.and Italian mi_gin. • Following his. return . to the, 1 United States in Februat'Y, 1919; Rear Admiral Boone served in the bw'e.aU of medicine and surge.J:¥, l •navy department,, in Washi.ngtoa1 ,until Ma.y; 1922;·when.he reported· for duty a.s.��cal officer-aboard: th1; .presidential yacht: Mayflowe-r-.­ . serving in . that ru;signment until:, Ap1il,-1929. During that pc'.!'lod he was phys:icia;n .to Presidents Wai·-· reri. G. Harding· and Calvin Coor' , Jidgc, He also. served • as medical' off-i.cer- t-o the white house 'during-• 'the administration· of President: He!·�rt Hoover, continuing in this. l duty ·until ·.March, 1933. • l Commodore Dlckeman,.who also· 1 s���versca.1 d_!l�;; �o�c.l-W:�- • REAR AD:\I. J. T. B001''E iOdHO). 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Livingston Mr. Ifodge Bm:>z,e ss ) Dear rll."' . l:.10Co1me11 : Thi s nill acknot1l eclge l?eoeipt o :? your letter' of JUly 16th, stating thnt uro Ho Xo SQith, Chief, and a party o f Geologicru. Survey� r!Iinirig Di vi sion, men will • vi sit our Ifo.nna. 4-A r.Iine on July 2211d a Thie l etter reached me this ciate » �s it uas nailed to Ro ck Springe and was sent in by l:.11" . Livingston . t1r. Burr1e ss, local 1'11ne Su_ erintendent at Hanna ., nill be advi sed to furni sh information and facili.t ies • for your 1nspe ct ion 11 and I 8I:l uali'..inr; General uaviager V . o . Murrny and Planning Engineer o. G. Sharrer t o be pre sent at Hamm . 1'.1r & Livingst on may find it conven­ ient to ao conpany thi s pai�ty . I \'Jould like very much to di scuss our mutual probleo s uith tir o H . I . Smith and his party , aT1d if you nill advi se me hoi:1 long r.11". Smith exp ect s to be in \1yo­ □ing, or whether he intends to return east Via Omaha, I nill a:pprec1ate the inforoation . Sincerely yi;,urs, Orbital W.e -0 1• Jf· BAYCE-;s �I, iI I Rock Sprinr,o - July 17, 1%6 Ur . I . R . Bayless : (CC - Mr . I . � . Charles Er. V . O . uurray Mr . Jo m B . Hut:;h�s Ur. Hocl__, e Burress Ur . O . G. Sharrer) ,_.-e arc trans;:iittini:;, he re·;1ith, original of l,_;tter dn.ted July 16, 1946, addressed to you, b/ Charles U. HcConn0ll, conceminu r• visit of eieht or nine men of the u . s . G. S . , includine '.'.r . H . I . Smith, to our iianna Wo . 4-� ;.:ine on d at e Jul 2....nd . '.le ns sumc that you \':i sh to make reply to � :r . '..'..c ..,o_mell ::md , t 1 re;fore, have de.::e� red doin .:..� so . ' ;e assu2e the visit of the u . S . C-. ..J,.. ■ p.:i.rty is 3 cul:.'lLl'l"tion of meet int, ,rith !.iessrs . : .�c(.;onn 11 a . Bourquin at Hanna s0�1e no11tbs a.eo . , concerning the recovel'y of coe.l nnd n:y· ifietl mininc sy stc f'? .. . ·;e believe Hcs srs . : �urr2y on · SharTC!' 1:er - pr ,..,ent at th�t ,, ..: ctin�, .-,nd it is our r� plan to have the�1 acc o .p .ny :.:'.ine Sup.arintendent 13urross -,,ith the 'G . S . G . S . pe.rt;:r on their i1 s peci,ion of ti1c r:ri.ne . •..-e n.ls'.) plen to ._:o 2.lonc; unless ; • .meant.i,1 e to pre:c lude s r-_me . so:nethit,c hap_p ens :u1· t.1e ln t.1e event thn.t you pb.n tc oc p::-esed for thG inspection 2nd discus s ion, -..rill you '.�incily _ a.dvisu . L11 the _ ce.nti-n , i' O •;Ji]._]_ :b.­ press upon all conco rnad that no c om1 :. itmont s are to be :aade and nothing resolved \'Iithout your written approve.l. HCL : LL • : ruEiz;�l Siimad Jffi. 0. LIVINGSTON r(r . Chm·lcs : Please arran G e to acco:,1pc.ny 1:cssrs . rnurray and. Sharrer to Hanna , bein;:: available -:.o inspect Hanna lfo . 4-A r.Sine on morning or :Jonday , July 22nd . HCL �UNITi.".;lJ STA?ES D3PART1JEI.;T OF Tifa INTi3B.IOR G]�LOGICAL surrvJ!,y Hinine Division 306 Federal Buildina Salt Lake City l, Utah • july 16 , 1%6 El' . I . N . Bayless President. Union Pacific Coal Co . Rock Sprinr,s , 1:yo:ning Jear l'."r . Bayless : A part�, of S or 9 Geolo_r.ical 3';.lrvey , ;:ininG Vivisio!'. r:en, • on incluciinG Jr . II . I. 3.:rl.th , G'1ief, ,:ill visit ..\'our ihnna l:iine, July· 22nd . ·,:ill you pleas e contact ";,"our loco.l .Supe rintendent so as h C _.,ill be prepared to take U.3 ut u0r ...;roun i' ithout too 1mch in­ convenience to hin. very truly yours , / s/ Chas . bi . :.:c l.:or.nell Chas . '.1. �c Connell ;.Jining K.11 6 inc :c Copy � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Regarding a Visit from the United States Government Officials Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. July 1946 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, U.S. Geological Survey, Medical and Sanitary Survey Group, 1946 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from the United States Government Officials from the Medical and Sanitary survey group and Geological Survey. All documents are held together a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource I.N. Bayless, Allan Sherman, H.C. Livingston, C.T. Dickeman, Chas M. McConnell Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0314 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co.