Show HARMONY HARD COAL salt lake daily herald S T God godbe bethe the well known mining engineer has been investigating the coal fields of southern utah with the result that he has become convinced that the best field and the one most easily accessible is the harmony field in iron county the codi coal there is a semi anthracite it is I 1 only 35 3 miles from railroad and the route by which lt it is reached is an easy one to build over 1 I can not understand how the harmony field has so long escaped attention said mr godbe yesterday there are at least six veins from frona four to ten teil feet wide best coal I 1 have seen in the western of the try it is not quite equal to the new co t anthracite but it is near it in jork contains 70 quality 1 t per cent of fixed carbon aria a i burns without smoke its introduce introduction it 11 to t salt lake would be one of the best tha th 1 that could happen arid and it could be so e easily accomplished that the only wonder is that th the supply of fuel for this region has not for a long time been drawn fro from in that source salt lake should be getting hard coal and plenty of it at not to exceed 4 to 5 a ton to instead of being compelled to pay more than that for soft coal with the supply liml limited ted to the point of famine resources are varied the harmony coal fields are in a small range of mountains within the escalante valley some distance west of the mala main range of mountains where are the coal fields that have attracted the most attention the great iron deposits are adjacent to the harmony coal field the altitude is only feet or about that of denver and an easy route for a railroad could be obtained the escalante valley contains several hundred thousand acres of fertile lands with every evidence that a supply of water for irrigation could be obtained from flowing wells stockmen Stoc kmen have put down wells which have a great flow and there is every reason to believe that the supply is ample for all purposes the country therefore has varied resources the climate is agreeable and I 1 firmly believe that only a railroad is needed to make it one of the richest sections of like extent in the west mr godbe believes that salt lake capital would find a most profitable field of investment in building an entirely new railroad from this city to the harmony field by way of fillmore and beaver opening up old communities of great undeveloped resources |