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Show COAL VEIN 40 FEET THICK. Lucky 8trlko Made Eighteen Miles From Evanston, Wyoming. According to a special from Evans-Ion, Evans-Ion, Wyoming, Joseph Acocks has made public tho Btory of probably tho greatest coal discovery ovor mado In tho wostorn states. Mr. Acocks says that about eight years ago, whllo prospecting for nuartz somo eighteen miles northoast of Evanston, ho stuck his prospecting pick through n thin stratum of sandstone, which broko away, uncovorlng a coal vein. There bolng no great market for coal at that time, ho covered up his prospect, pros-pect, nwaltlng an opportuno tlmo to Dpon It up. This summer tho Union pacific Coal company sent Its prospecting pros-pecting g.wg Into tho country with a diamond drill to locato If possiblo tho cast dip of tho Cumberland nnd tho Spring Valley coal veins. Mr. Acocks watched their movements move-ments clo-icly until thoy wore within two miles of his hidden treasure and then procured a forco of men and commenced to opon up tho vein. Ills greatest expoctatlons wore more than realized, for a voln was exposed forty for-ty feet In thickness and has already been uncovered for a dtstanco of eight mtlos, with apparently no end. Eight entries have boon mado Into tho stratum, which dips on nn anglo of 15 or 20 degrees. The coal Is of a superior su-perior quality, being tho true Cumberland Cumber-land stratum, which Is tho Fox hill formation unbroken nnd In placo nnd much cloancr than tho original Cumberland Cum-berland voln. A good water supply and excellent railroad facilities are closo at hand. Tho land this coal was dlscovorcd on is government proporty, and Mr. Acocks has applied for a patent pat-ent on all tho surrounUIng country. He will mako no statement as to what disposition ho will mako of his groat discovery, beyond saying ho has been offorod a good llguro by thrco prominent concerns. |