Show Cannel Coal DesMoinea 17Considerable excitement excite-ment has been caused here by the discovery dis-covery of an Iowa vein of pure cannel coal For years fragmentary pieces of cannel coal have been found on the lower part of the DesMoines River but the place of deposit could never be found In I the last few weeks it has been discovered I in Red Rock Township Marion County thirty miles below here It was discovered discov-ered on some farms by parties who were prospecting for coal on the new line of the Wabash road into DesMoines Finding Find-ing it in regular seam in one place they tried in three or four other places distant of a mile or two and found it there also It is is a vein five feet thick the lower two and and onehalf of which is the pure cannel coal and the other half of a coal much resembling Bloaa burg coal Large quantities of it were brought to this city today It was tried by the gas company here and pronounced fully equal to the Virginia cannel coal It burn to a white gray ash and an oil oozes out of it i as it burns A vein of six feet of common bituminous has also been j found by these prospectors sixty feet j below this cannel vein Excitement runs high and land in that region is being be-ing largely bought up |