Show COAL FIELDS ON MOFFAT ROAD New Deposits in Vicinity of Hayden Will Attract Attention Among the articles this year ear in the forthcoming annual pUblication of the United States geological survey which Is popularly known a EconomIc Bul Bulletin letin will be a preliminary report on the Yampa lampa cool coal field of Routt county count Cole TIlt This report Is ia particularly important since the field eld is one of the most prominent in Colorado in respect to Its areal extent the and thickness of its coal boos beds and the quality oi o its coal Although in a genEral way the Yampa coal field has been known for great many years ears It has been practically Inaccessible and 2nd consequently very lit le has been done dOlle dOllet t toward ward Its thorough exploitation or devel development development It is boweter the tha in int t of the Denver Demer Northwestern i Pacific railroad generally krown as the thc Moffat road to extend its present line from Middle park through Gore canyon and thence across to the Yampa valley valIe When this is done the Yampa coal field win will become one of the important sources o 01 coal coni of the state slate The field which covers practically 1200 square miles centers about a broad area of rolling countr country in the vi of Hay Hayden Hayden den I It i Is bunde hounded by a sharply dissected rim of sandstone rd ridges e rising from 1200 to I 1500 feet above drainage level Yampa river cut cuts acro across the feld field In a westerly direction n i it s down this that the surveys of the Moffat road road have b been en made The cals coals of thi this fel field are for the most pr part bituminous anthracite of excellent quality is known to occur with within in a certain limIted ana area The feld field was carefully by Mers N 11 Id Fenneman and Hoyt S Gale vho in the paper mentone de describe scribe us outcrops of the coal and the geologic structure or dios of the beds into the various bins basins Many Ian sampled were col collected ted by of caIg in the f field I and nd were ep made under the the direction of Professor r N I W Lord of Ohio state at the lab laboratory oratory of the geological survey suney coal tet test in plant St Louis l MO o oThree Three grups of cl coal cds beds are described which in the be feld field are known a as tl tJi upper middle and lower ps Each group o ocl of cl coal sams seams has a g vertical thickness of from 2 to 4 feet and the several groups are b by to 10 1000 feet teet ot 01 baren barren shale and sandstone The number and aud thickness cf th the Ct coal beds ech each group vl vary fr from m place to te TJ place ce but bu usually ther there are at it least three sams seams ot workable thickness arid and a number of smaller beds in ech each group The he lag largest t tb bed of cl coal b reported from the fed field has a b thickness of abut about t twenty nty fe feTe feet The f ld Be lies north of cf Yampa river Te and the c of the coal is due to igneous an Intrusions At th the present reEnt tm time this part f the te ibid is more at attention thi than any o other her but the report shows that that althougH containing some cat coat of a higher grade it is of r a L mil ge g a graphic ext extent nt and wi will Jt not he be heso so valuable luab as 85 many hae supposed |