Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 31, Number 3, 1963

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FROM DEARTH TO DELUGE

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terior, believes that by the early 1970's coal demand will be 75 per cent higher than it was in 1961.20 Thus, the coal industry, with a rich and diverse past and with substantial unemployment in the present, seems to have promise of a reasonably bright future. As with Prometheus of old, Utah's coal industry may find its Chiron and Hercules and be saved from the vulture of recession.

29 Herald-Journal (Logan), May 11, 1961; Tribune, August 11, 1956 December 28, 1961 January 19 November 10, 1962; Deseret News, August 31, 1961; Robert W. Bernick, in Tribune, April 9 954 and January 31, 1962; see also report of the "Western Governors Mining Advisory Council (Governors 1 apers, Utah State Archives), 7.


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