Show IRON COUNTY COAL during the past few weeks this western country has been perilously near a coal famine in some localities the lack of fuel has been keenly felt and this in a country which is more than ordinarily blessed with inexhaustible coal fields so scattered and so advantageously located that the wonder is that there can ever be a coal scarcity a coal famine among consumers in emery and carbon counties in utah several extensive coal mines are in operation and even now a number of new producers there are being extensively developed and equipped this region furnishes the bulk of the tonnage produced in the state and were it not for the rapidly increasing population of salt lake and the west this source of supply alone should be sufficient ident for all wants but it seems that a greater tonnage is needed and especially ally so during the very close and cold weather this intermountain country has been experiencing and this tonnage has been augmented to by shipments from coal ville utah and from the coal mines ot of wyoming and still a scarcity has existed with such conditions confronting the market the consumer almost every winter the wonder has been expressed that a coal field in utah the largest possibly in the west has never been extensively worked or utilized this fi eldis located in the mountains back of cedar city and Ka narra iron coulty county its existence has been known for years and the best of the deposits are owned and controlled by salt lake people the coal is of excellent quality and is exceptionally adaptable for stove grate or furnace the veins are from four to twenty feet thick and are easily accessible at the present time they are but thirty or forty miles from a railroad the salt lake route and a branchi line could be built to them say from lund or modena over a desert valley anat is almost as smooth as a floor less than twenty miles from these coal fields are the great iron deposits in the iron mountains also largely owned by salt lakers this comprises in all probability the largest measures of iron ore to be found in the west hematite hemi tite magnetic from froin which the finest of iron and steel can be manufactured and the haul from the coal mines to the iron deposits is all down hill in the near vicinity of these iron deposits labeaf bear new harmony there are fine deposits of semi anthracite coal these have been quite extensively developed by los angeles parties a branch railroad to connect with the salt lake route is in contemplation and it is intended to supply the los angeles market with this hard coal it seems strange that a region possessed of so many opportunities as is iron county should be bd so long neglected and it would seem also as if these resources were in the strangle hold of the trusts that the trusts are not yet ready to develop the great coal reserves of that section to utilize the magnificent deposits of iron for which that region is noted to establish great industries dus tries there to build furnaces and manu factories where one can stand in the valley and comparatively speaking almost touch the coal measure with one hand and the iron with the other were the coal fields of iron county utilized there would be no need of a coal famine in salt lake or other points in the west no scarcity of fuel during the bitter winter months |