Show IRON COUNTY anthracite record cedar city utah manager R A kirker of the harmony coal company came in from the properties the first of the week and is spending a few days in town seen by a record scribe mr kirker expressed himself as being well pleased with the prospects for a branch line of railroad to their anthracite coal properties erti es he says that the railroad and coal corporations which have been engaged in knocking their properties with eastern and california capitalists have about reached the end of their tether so to speak experts who have examined the properties have made reports so favorable that it will be impossible to decry the measures much longer the following are some excerpts from a communication which mr kirker recently received from J C lather one of his eastern associates the letter speaks for itself the experts that examined our property came in last night and I 1 spent the day with them they make an elegant report and I 1 will send you a copy as soon as I 1 get it thoy say that your report is untrue in this that the coal measurements are all larger than you gave them they say that the coal is good high class commercial coal and unlimited in quantity and that they think you have well covered the territory they say that in their judgment this is the best coal in the west etc |