Show developing COAL IN NEVADA operations at coaldale coraldale Coal dale promise much for people of southern empire in commenting upon the success attending coal mining operations at coaldale coraldale Coal dale in southern nevada the bonanza of tonopah To says after eight years of intermittent work it begins to look as though coaldale coraldale Coal dale was to take front rank with the varied industries of nevada everyone in the southern country knows the name of coaldale coraldale Coal dale and how it was applied through the discovery of out cropping and strong surface indications during the boom of 1906 the boom is responsible for the find not becoming more generally known or more popular as an investment but it is almost certain that developments of the next few months will dis close the existence of a real coal mine producing coal in commercial quantities A party of tonopah business men were the guests of ii i i A darms president of the darms coal mining company last wean wed lay day on an auto trip to the property w what 1 they saw and what they observed convinced co avin them of the great future in store stor e for the mine mr darms has been working almost aim t steadily for a year sinking a modern first class incline shaft designed to reach th the lower zone where he was confident coal chai would be found better than any he had opened in two other shafts some distance away and higher up in selecting this loca tion some distance away from his first ef fort president darms was actuated by a de sire to sink to a belt where the formation would be found permanent and not broken by volcanic action as found closer to the outcropping cropping out that mr darms will be successful in this attempt is proven by the geological conditions that confront him at the bottom of the foot incline which is now low going through a vein of extreme density with every promise of opening a vein that will establish the name of the mine the first shaft opened developed a 21 foot vein at a depth of feet with seven feet of excellent coal in the lower stratum at the bottom the vein dipped at an angle of 50 degrees at feet this body flattened out to a width of twenty to feet and showed excellent coal with the quality steadily improving with depth at feet the main vein faults but is not cut off this is a splendid coal with only 15 per cent ash at feet in the bottom of the shaft there is still another vein which was cut in the shaft at feet with seven feet of coal and the shaft was continued on its dip to feet where a width of eight feet showed the new shaft 1100 feet east of no I 1 shaft goes down at an angle of 58 degrees cutting all the formations found in the old shaft with expectations of penetrating the big vein found in no 1 at a depth of feet all work is of the most substantial character and no time will be lost in bringing results from the opening of the main ledge at depth the e expense K the only object in assuming of sinking the present shaft was to and also to secure a permanent footing reach a product with a greater percentage of carbon such as old coal miners say should be found away from the broken up metamorphic rock the new shaft is only three miles from froin railroad 1 goldfield the tracks of the tonopah Putt putting illg on and mr darms figures on coal to the a line of auto trucks to haul transi of railroad as a cheaper means ot of 1 n tation than by going to the expense that stalling a spur track he estimates a tons ton by this means he can deliver coal MI milli day on the cars the darms ut with th e company has been managed of t for salaries most economy without any has bleers and every dollar paid for stock stoc coln i the ct gone into actual development develop men t 1 l in the th e tr treasury pany has one million shares |