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Show winding side rails, can enter and be loaded from the breast of the tunneled chambers, is evidently immense. Tho iiality, as shown by the following analysis ana-lysis and statement made by Mr. Mi'-V Mi'-V kkh, Stilt Lake's well-known as-sayor, as-sayor, speaks for itself; Carl on tF.m per cent VciltltllH " " MiiiHinro " " ' Au : ! " " A iio ..l rnliliiK co;il ariil tlx- ten c ;it In V t ill I r ilium (tic ii-e. This coal area embraces gome (1000 acres, more ur less, is and has been for some years held and workeil by an association asso-ciation of working men under L'uited States law and in connection with private pri-vate survey connecting with United States ollieial surveys, lining just outside out-side of the tifleen mile railroad limit this coal land can he entered when covered by a special or by general United States ollieial surveys at $10 per acre one half what it would cost if within the prescribed limit. It undoubtedly un-doubtedly oilers a raro chance to railroad rail-road men to obtain a largo interest by furnishing railroad facilities and a market mar-ket for thisadmirably located and easily worked deposit of coking coal. COKE. While the supply of coke is running short in the east, due to a protracted strike, and while the furnacomen are showing signs of dissatisfaction, it may be well to call attention to our native product. What we said about this subject three weeks ago is even more appropriate under the circumstances today. If the readers of Tub Timp;s, with the opening of the coming summer, will take a pleasant jaunt from the thriving town of Huntington in Castle valley, soma eight or eleven miles up the picturesque canyon along ; which the Huntington river courses, j they will reach the romantic grounds aud coal fields belonging to the Kmery County Coal and Coke association. They will observe, under the superincumbent superin-cumbent pressure of 1000 feet of solid rock rising abrnptly from out-cropping I veins of coal some twenty-threo feet in j average thickness, the imposing outline j of this remarkable coal deposit. This ' coal, eipial, if not superior, to any in Utah for domestic, steam and coking ! purposes, has been attacked from three sides by a half dozen tunnels of from i 30 to 1 25 feet in length. The quantity ' of coal thus exposed by tunnels from a i tri lateral vantage ground, all runuing j towards a common center and into which railway cars, climbing up the j |