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Show NEW MINERAL DISCOVERIES IN WYOMING. Mr. C. Poutz, the scientist employed employ-ed by tho Union Pacific railroad company, reports a remarkable discovery dis-covery of coal about eighteen miles north of Aspen, Wyoming, on the land ot the railroad, in the same valley where oil wells have been sunk. The coal deposits are found between a scries of terraces of Band stone in the nearly perpendicular face of a detached range or hog's back, three and one half miles long and 700 feet in height. There are several seams of coal, of various thicknesses, thirty, forty and sixty feet, making in all Borne 200 or 300 vertical feet of coal, pressed upon by a greater mass of sandstone, which renders the coal very dense. Mr. Poutz also reports a discovery, sixty-live miles north from Rawlins station, of two lakes, covering over 200 acres of concentrated Boda water, , wiiicb contains nearly one pound of soda to ten pounds of water. The quality of this carbonate of soda is fully equal to the imported article, the wholesale price of which is at present sixty-seven dollars a ton. Mr. routz estimates the value of this deposit de-posit at nearly ?G,000, and the expense ex-pense of getting it out four dollars a ton. The deposit is fifty-five miles from the railroad, and Mr. Poutz calls the attention of the company to tho question whether a narrow-gauge railwuy to these lakes might not prove rcnumerative, to extend ultimately ulti-mately to Montana; the route from the Union Pacific road to the soda lakes along the Sweetwater river and mines to the road followed by Capt. Jones, 1S73. |