Salt Lake Herald | 1900-05-03 | Page 9 | Coal in Mexico

MEXICO Valuable Find Made in Important Manufacturing ing District City of Mexico May 2 There is much muc interest in the development of new and extensive coal fields in the neighboring state of on which depends s the manufacturing com COrn community community Yesterday a final test on a large scale of this coal cOOl was made in inthis Inthis this city as a the proposition of being able to procure procure coal in sufficient quan quantities quantities quantities in that portion of the ia is very important In order to give the coal a thorough test two large boilers at the distillery four foul corn mills and arid a dynamo d were I operated at the same me time The coal I burned in hi a perfect manner nn m producing an an extremely hot fire A peculiar fea feature feature feature ture of the test is that there was no DO smoke visible issuing from the smoke smokestack smokestack smokestack stack This is explained by the fact that on account of the small of ot bitumen contained in the coal COf hy hr oil compels comI els combustion before the smoke the flues flues thus consuming it Six mines will be in active within the next twenty days and it is predicted that by the 1st of If o June there will be b a total output of tons daily laUy It is expected that the coal will whole wholesale wholesale I sale for or about 2 per ton the lag ing prices in Mexico for Pennsylvania coal being nearly 18 18 r From present indications coal con exists in great quantities The outcrop east i of the Mexican railroad has been pros prospected prospected as far as the foot of Mount a distance di tance of miles