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Show A MOUNTAIN OF COAL. The Chalk Creek Company Is Rewarded for Its Persistent Labor. One week ago yesterday the diamond drill of the Chalk Creek Coal company struck a twelve-foot vein of coal, which is believed to be a part of a great mountain of bituminous coal. The strike was made near the old Allen beds, about half a mile from the burg of Coalville. The shaft is down 300 feet and the company will begin putting in levels and rooms and make all necessary preparations to produce coal in sufficient quanity to supply any demand that may be made on them. Just now the company is taking out between forty and fifty tons of coal a day, but tho demand for coal is sufficient around Coalville to exhaust the present supply. A boiler is being put in place in the company's shaft house and an order has been placed with a supply company for cage and chains. II. P. Mason, one of the gentlemen interested inter-ested in the. Chalk Creek Coal company, expressed ex-pressed unlimited confidence in the discov-1 cry of coal at the company's property. "We expect," said be, "in a short time, say three or four months, to be able to produce from 200 to 300 tons of coal a day. We have been workiug three shifts at the mines, but after we get actively started on the levels and get our rooms ready w e shall run as large a force of men as possible. The coal we have discovered dis-covered is one-half anthracite and it is highly impregnated with gas and tar. It is also believed be-lieved to be a good coke coal. We are experimenting ex-perimenting with it on that point now. "We became convinced," continued Mr. Mason, "a long time ago that there was a great Bed of coal at the point, where we have made this discovery. L ntil ten years ago the Allen beds, which lie to the south of us and are separated by a dyke, produced coal in paying quantities and of good quality. qual-ity. Theae beds were struck in the early days seventy-five feet under the surface. They were worked for a long time, but in following the dip the miners encountered the porphyry dyke which separates our mine from the Allen beds. This dyke was called a fault then. One day there was a cave-in on the Allen beds, and a man and mule lost their lives. The mines began to play out 1 1 - . .. J : : "An eminent geologist wandered across that country a few years ago, and Bishop Cluff got him to describo the land wherein occurs this dyke. The geologist did so, and proved remarkably correct in his conjectures. conject-ures. Later we received the impression that this dyke had been formed after the vein had cuts its way through the ore body, instead of impeding its progress. Acting upon this theory, we sunk a shaft immediately to the north of this dyke, which is 100 feet wide by the way. At a depth of 156 feet we encountered en-countered an ore body. We closed work at this point aud went further north and sunk a shaft 300 feet and tapped the same vein, showing it to have a dip of 26 degrees to the north. There is a mountain of ore there. It has very little slack to it, and is the best coal ore I have seen in tho territory." The mine is half a mile from the railroad, and the coal can be handled rapidly and cheaply. The company has expended $10,000 o far, and are highly gratified with the results. re-sults. - - - |