Show BIG COAl BEDS AT AT- CEDAR TO BE WORKED Through tho the efforts of ot Ernest t Green of Cedar CIl City the the theIron Iron County Coal company has re recently been boen incorporated ed Cd and anti strong financial Interests headed headed head head- I ed b by Fred W. W Webb obb of ot Salt Lake Ike City have taken hold of oC tho the proposition and I development de work worl on the property will willbe willbe be he started immediately Negotiations j I are now under wa way for an aerial tram In order ordel economically to transport the coal and active mining operations will willbe willbe willbe be commenced an as soon as arrangements ha have ve been completed for the installation installation tion of or the tram The company compan has under its immediate immedi Immedi- ate ownership a large acreage of patented patented pat pat- coal oal land lan two miles from Crom tho time head of the main street In Cedar City of or the peculiar forma formation lion of Cobb plateau and the I abrupt rise riRe it takes f from om tho the plains the property owned b by the Iron Count County Coal company compan occupies a strategic lo lo- lo I cation In so far ns as transportation facilities facil facil- I aro are concerned i The vein of coal traversing tra the prop- prop orb orty JIt lies ties flat and ranges rangen from 6 G feet Ceet S 8 Inches in thickness to 12 feet and estimates estimates estimates esti esti- I mates made by hy government geologists state that thero there are 1 tons of or coal on the property properly without taking into consideration the volume of or coal that underlies the vein ein which outcrops at the side Ide of ot the plateau according to toan toan toan an official The property is situated 3 32 miles east of the Salt Lake Route Houte with a good goodstate goodstate state road running directly from Lund I the lie railroad station to lo Cedar City but with the enormous tonnage In sight and the tue fact that these deposits lie fe I miles closer to tidewater than the Carbon Car Car- CarI I bon boil count county fields ields and OO miles nearer the coast than the Gallup N X M. M coal lands a railroad direct to lo the aerial tram terminal will be he only a matter of ofa ofa ofa a short time considering the he keen need of coal throughout tho the entire west Situated 11 miles from the tue property I of ot the tile Iron count county coal land holdings Is the enormous iron deposit which has I been decided by government s geologists I l 3 as one of the largest In the world With ith ith the tue development dc of the thc coal properties I Il It is on only I natural that smelters will ill soon be bc located In iii a territory where both hoth coal and iron exIst in such dance The coal Is bituminous us and determinative determinative de- de terminative tests have shown that It contains British thermal heat heal II units It is an excellent coking coal and has be been beCu n used for domestic purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses In ill the tile district for years I I In Iii 1907 the United States geological sur survey sUry took cognizance of ot these deposits depos depos- its and an nn expedition under Richardson Richard son SOil and geologists connected connected connected con con- with the government undertook undertook undertook under under- took a a. complete survey suney of ot the district This report was published in a bulletin of ot the survey sur in which Richardson Richardson Richardson Rich Rich- ardson and Pepper berg estimated the tonnage of coal four miles back from the escarpment to be the staggering total of or lO tons of or coal in anarea an anarea anarea area of or In miles miles les This report has since been l b by other United States geologists n as well ell as the tile reports of ot ota various va a arlous arious a rious engineers who have made examInations examinations examInations exam exam- of these remarkable fields I |