Show CHEEK DUMPS DEPOSITS OF COKING COAL ARE RARE IN WEST ONLY TWO DEVELOPED IN UTAH testa test made by various agencies of Pod products jets from seams of sweet company show favorable results salt lake city one of the most moat interesting developments of recent years in the carbon county coal fields Is the opening recently of a deposit in the gordon ci eek district which gives promise ol of yielding coal ot of excellent coking quality the coal comes from the property being opened up by the sweet coal company crucible retort laboratory and crude oven tests testa all have yielded the same result and an oven test now Is being conducted by the chicago byproducts by products coke company of chicago action of the coal in a home furnace was responsible tor for a sample bet being it 9 forwarded to state chemist herman harms tor for determination the result indicated that the coal was of a coking character r urther further tests from samples taken from three faces in the mine were made by the bureau of mines with ith similar results then a sample was forwarded to the keepers laboratory pittsburgh and former determinations were confirmed the koppers report contains the following comments this coal exhibited definite coking properties in the laboratory test but la Is of such unusual quality and the volatile matter Is so much higher than the usual extreme range for coking coals that we would not feel justified in 14 making a definite prediction on coking behavior from the laboratory test teat we would recommend that a sample be forwarded to the chicago by pro I ducts coke company tor for a be box x coke tt st the products byproducts by were very satisfactory the ash sulphur and phosphorus contents being remarkably low the coal is of coking type but it a box coke coho test Is desirable to determine tile the c F ruc tural quality of the C coke 1 supplementing the scientific re research reso arch C N swept sweet president of the sweet coal company erected a small bellive oven at tile the mine and during the past week has been conducting some tests of a practical character waro 8 samples of 0 coke biado in the lost oven acro brought to salt lake saturday and further confirm the opinions regarding the coking properties of the coal deposits of coking coal are roro in the west only two have been developed lit in utah one by the utah fuel company at and the other by the columbia steel corporation at columbia both tit in carbon county because douse beuse ca use of the ho rarity of coking coal the development of iron resources was delayed a number of years |