Show COAL NEAR GOLDFIELD from coal fields near at hand it is believed that goldfield nevada will have solved the fuel problem for that section of the country and that southern nevada will be provided with an excellent quality of coal from its own mines in speaking of this pleasing condition the goldfield review says A few months ago the th e principal mines of coaldale coraldale Coal dale in this county were taken over by a syndicate headed by louis K koontz within a short time as soon as united states patents can be secured or made pin pending ding development work on a big scale will be undertaken there and the fuel problem for southern nevada will undoubtedly b be 0 s solved solve d these coal measures range from twelve inches to six feet in thickness on the sur improve W with ith depth where there and face a ce less contraction through the influences has been een fluen ces of the air the surface the coal mined will even 0 on n burn freely and leaves little weight though considerable bulk in ash this thi s bone as it is called consists principally of lime wh which ach has infiltrated in the form and occasionally as spar of gypsum although the claims have been casually worked for many years no considerable depth has been attained and although considerable sid erable improvement in the quality of the coal is noted it is not yet of high enough grade to be a merchantable product the veins lie between shale and sandstone and are quite flat never dipping more than twenty degrees from the horizontal plane this makes it very easy to extract the coal but difficult to attain depth by following the dip in inclines the favorite mode of prospecting in this district the coal is shiny black and is unlike ignite in its appearance neither could it be termed either a bituminous bitu menous or an anthracite th coal no fos fossils bils have been found in the veins and it is almost an assured conclusion that the coal was not formed ot of fallen trees nor was it a product of the ally believed by those who have studied the formation that the coal is the result of tules and wild grasses that were covered by a sediment that subsequently became sandstone the width and number of the veins evidence that at the time the coal was formed vegetation was very rank in this portion of nevada and that the rainfall was copious |