Utah Coal & Coke

(Three Utah Coal & Coke companies)

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Utah Coal & Coke (first) (1899-1900)

October 19, 1900
Utah Coal & Coke Company was organized in New Jersey, with a stock value of $10,000. On October 31, 1900 the stock was increased to $10 million, and the company name was changed to Utah Fuel Company. (Utah Fuel Company and Wasatch Store Company Statistics, University of Utah Special Collections)

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Utah Coal & Coke (second) (1912)

Organized on January 27, 1912 by J. R. Sharp, incorporated on February 9, 1912, dissolved involuntarily on November 9, 1974 (Utah #9410)

February 29, 1912
Utah Coal & Coke company was incorporated to own 2000 acres of coal lands in Emery County. The president of this company was J. R. Sharp, brother of W. G. Sharp. W. G. Sharp had already taken all of the stock and bonds of Castle Valley Coal company, Black Hawk Coal company, and an option for Consolidated Fuel company. (Salt Lake Tribune, February 29, 1912)

March 2, 1912
"The Utah Coal and Coke company has been organized and it is said this concern will act as the parent company for the various subsidiary interests which have been purchased by the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company, and of this company, J. S. Sharp is president, A. L. Fullmer, vice-president, B. R. McDonald, secretary and treasurer, and G. A. Iverson and G. W. Fullmer, directors." (Goodwin's Weekly, March 2, 1912)

March 15, 1912
Utah Coal & Coke Company was incorporated for the purpose of "absorbing" Castle Valley Coal, Black Hawk Coal, and Consolidated Fuel. (The Salt Lake Mining Review, March 15, 1912, page 17, "New Railroads For Eastern Utah Coal Fields")

(This company may have been very short lived during March 1912 due to a name conflict. A very similar company had been organized in October 1900, and two weeks later changed its name to Utah Fuel Company, a subsidiary of Rio Grande Western Railway. It is possible the short life in 1912 may have due to the company still existing as a paper company under the control of RGW or D&RG.)

March 26, 1912
The Utah Company was incorporated in Maine on March 26, 1912, as a holding company subsidiary of USSR&M. The Utah Company was shown as holding 100 percent of the following companies in 1915, except as noted. The Utah Company would later transfer its assets to United States Fuel Company

Consolidated Coal Co., incorporated in Utah on October 16, 1907 (100 percent)
Castle Valley Coal Co., incorporated in Wyoming on July 12, 1909 (52.19 percent)
Black Hawk Coal Co., incorporated in Nevada on February 13, 1911 (100 percent)
Utah Railway Co., incorporated in Utah on January 24, 1912 (100 percent)
Panther Coal Co., incorporated in Nevada on July 27, 1912 (100 percent)
(Poors Manual of Industrials, 1916, page 1237, covering the 1915 year)

June 1, 1912
United States Smelting Refining and Mining company acquired control of the Consolidated Fuel and Castle Valley Coal companies. The United States company had already acquired control of the Black Hawk Coal Company, and they also owned the former Orem family interests in the Castle Valley Coal Company at Mohrland in Cedar Creek canyon. (Eastern Utah Advocate, June 6, 1912, "last Saturday")

March 30, 1915
United States Fuel Company was incorporated in Nevada on March 30, 1915. (Nevada Secretary of State, entity C208-1915; revoked in December 1991, reinstated in February 1992, still active as of July 2013, offices in Memphis, Tennessee)

May 7, 1915
U. S. Fuel was operating the Black Hawk and Hiawatha mines. (Carbon County News, May 7, 1915)

January 3, 1916
United States Fuel Company filed articles of incorporation with Utah secretary of state. Capitalized for $10 million, with incorporators being E. L. Carpenter, Moroni Heiner, E. R. Gibson, G. E. Forrester and H. R. McMillan. the company was to take over the interests of Consolidated Fuel Company, Castle Valley Coal Company, Black Hawk Coal Company, Utah Coal Sales Company, and a number of smaller coal mines in Emery and Carbon counties. United States Fuel Company was organized in Nevada. (News Advocate, January 7, 1916, page 1, "Monday")

January 3, 1916
The property of Consolidated Fuel Company was conveyed to United States Fuel Company on January 3, 1916. (Carbon County Miscellaneous Records Book 3-D, pages 254-259)

The property of Castle Valley Coal Company was conveyed to United States Fuel Company on January 3, 1916. (Emery County Book A-5, pages 315-318; Carbon County Miscellaneous Records Book 3-D, pages 254,256)

Utah Coal & Coke (third) (1918-1922)

November 13, 1918
Utah Coal & Coke Company was organized in Nevada on November 13, 1918 by A. C. Ellis, Jr., Duncan MacVichie, E. J. Raddatz, and C. H. Gibbs; incorporated in Nevada on September 11, 1919; filed in Utah on September 18, 1919. Took over claims of Marana Land & Development Co. (3,120 acres) and J. R. Evera (680 acres). Organized as the coal mining subsidiary of Columbia Steel Corporation. Its coal property was to be known as the Columbia Mine and was located on 4,000 acres four miles south of Sunnyside, Utah, in Water Canyon. A railroad spur line was to be built. The new company held the rights to 3,120 acres of coal lands in the Sunnyside district, purchased from Marana Land and Development Company, and another 680 acres in the same section purchased from J. Van Evera. (Salt Lake Herald Republican, September 20, 1919; The Sun, September 26, 1919)

November 1921
The Columbia name was retained when a merger created the Columbia Steel Corporation in November 1921, combining Columbia Iron & Steel Corporation (with steel plants in Portland and Pittsburg, California), with Southern California Steel Company of Los Angeles (with a large steel plant in Los Angeles), and Utah Coal & Coke Company (with coal deposits in Utah's Carbon County, and iron ore deposits in Iron County).

September 1922
Columbia Steel Corporation, a recent merger of Columbia Steel Co. of San Francisco and Utah Coal & Coke with operations in Carbon and Iron Counties, Utah, announces plans for additions to its plant at Pittsburg, including a new rod mill, wire mill, nail works, and other structures, at an estimated cost of $1,500,000. Capitalization is $15,000,000. Address is 503 Market Street, San Francisco. (Blast Furnace & Steel Plant Volume 10, Number 9, September 1922, page 489)

December 20, 1922
Columbia Steel Corporation was organized in San Francisco, to consolidate the holdings of Columbia Steel Company of Pittsburg, California, and Portland, Oregon, and Utah Coal & Coke Company of Utah. (Ogden Standard Examiner, December 20, 1922, "today")

February 1923
Columbia Steel Corporation, recently reorganized with capital of $20,000,000, is perfecting plans for additions to its plant at Pittsburg, including an addition to open hearth department, new sheet and wire mills. Plans have been arranged for the immediate construction of a new blast furnace at Provo, Utah, work on this will be "pushed to completion." Wigginton E. Creed, president of Pacific Gas & Electric, is president of the corporation. The company is a combine of the Columbia Steel Co. with mills at Pittsburg and Portland, Oregon, and the Utah Coal & Coke Co. of Salt Lake City. (Blast Furnace & Steel Plant Volume 11, Number 2, February 1923, page 181)

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