Show BIG DEVELOPMENT fOR UTAH AHEAD Under the The Tho Truth About Utah Ulah the Desert News is running every day some pertinent truths as to the states state's people her resources or products Speaking of thee lice oal in the state and Its reference reference reference refer refer- ence to the big now steel corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion just about to start operations in Utah the Deseree News says In checking up some broadcast Information sent out by a local organization organization organization or or- we find that Utah's coal resources are estimated In one pamphlet at tons In another pamphlet by the same organization organization or organization or- or the estimate of our won coal resources is given at tons Taking It In m round numbers there is a difference of ot a hundred and five eighty billion tons but what's a small bagatelle like that between friends In estimating tonnage In the ground one mans man's guess is as good goodas as the next Still it makes us won won- Jer just how much coal there is In Utah We Ve hear it loosely stated n office club or cafe that we have enough coal to keep the old world wagging for a hundred and fifty years Then some other equally eq good authority corrects the first er ar and makes it two hundred years ears What's a mere half halt a century in iho tho Hie of oi t the tho e world especially when either one of them might be right Utah began using her own coal seventy years ago when an attempt was made to coke coal coat near lear Cedar City for or orthe the purpose of smelt smelt- smeltIng smelting Ing ng Iron county iron ores By Dy a a. long delayed but logical coincidence the smelting of this same iron ore are will bring about the greatest production production pro pro- of our coal Available figur figures s on production began in 1870 when the co coal l mines ot of the state turned out ut tons valued at Down Dawn to the present present pres pres- TES TE'S ent we have produced over tons ton valued at more than 1 5 our yearly production going going go- go ing lug around five e million 1 tons with between four and five thousand men employed when not engaged in striking as at present We are said to have coal in seventeen counties r that Is workable or In more than half the state Another eSI estimate mate of 1000 square miles of coal laud is t In the Inthe the the- past ten years tho time production has more more than doubled 1 The he coal ind industry is de declared lared to tobe tobe tobe be in only its infancy in Utah During DurIng Dur- Dur Ing the past fifty years the available deposits have been dec deci Ly only onty on on- ly ty a i half of 1 per cent or a adint adint dint nl in the whole supply If you draw a straight line Une through Utah north and south you will find no deposits of coal of or an any consequence consequence con con- sequence in t the e United States west of that line It has been found that Utah possesses vast quantities of an all excellent grade of coking coal al almost almost almost al- al most equal to the coal of Pennsylvania It was the dIscovery discovery discovery dis dIs- dis- dis covery of this fact that ha has hastened hasten hasten- ed the the organization of the forces that chat will wiIl so soon n make the great iron and steel industry of the state a re re- re ally The imagination on pauses in awe and wonder at the pictures one may conjure Before another double decade it is not without the bounds of reason to contemplate contemplate late Utah supplying supplying sup sup- plying most of or the coal Iron and steel teel to the western half of ot the world r |