Show I MONSTER LUMP OF GOAL I t Weighs Eight Tons and I Will Go to St Louis I I I I WILL BE SEEN AT FAIR I Great Mass of Fuel to Be Carried Upon Sleds I I I Transported Ono Hundred and Fifty Miles on Sleighs Thence by Boil s Uj I to the Exposition 35 1t j I While the real of the State Is In the throes of a coal famine says tho Donvor Pont the great empire of Routt county I l which la auld by geologists to contain larger deposits of coal than In all Pennsylvania I Penn-sylvania Is preparinG in develop Itn rc Q L rourccf and show to tlio world that It j will ta be able with railroad facilities to supply e fwl for half of the United States One oc the largest single lumps oc bltu nnouK coal over mined has been taken from the property I of Samuel T Adams iSl jicar Steamboat Springs The lump Q weighs exactly eight tons and the Worlds Pf fair board received word this morning I from Mr Adams that I bo Intended to make f i the big piece of coal a part of Rnutt coun e1 tys exhibit at the SI Louis fair There arc no niUroiidi In Route county and the 7 only means of transportation with the nearest railroad point Is more than 130 miles of rough mountain country by stage le or bobsled but Mr lam announces that ho will guarantee to take the I eight i ton lump from Steamboat Springs to St x Lmils intact i I Ills scheme for the handling of ln limp IP to tic It with r steel band and haul It m on il < tniln oc four slmls when he snow S becomes deep In February to the railroad rMl elation 3 Wolcolt There It will be loaded y load-ed on the I car by nuanu of a crane ill The constant jarring that vehicles are subjected to over the I stage lines of wftst IE irn Colorado would undoubtedly serve to 1t break tll huge lump no Mr Adnms bus rt determined to UHO sleds that will bo drawn r by twelve I horses rr Tin Moffat road Is much Interested In the Bout t county display and Is assisting tT tin local authorities In collecting the exhibits ex-hibits 1t I i I The fair board hud mad public tho fol t lowing letter which was addressed to the I County Commissioners by President Terry of tho Moffit line If 1 the County tommlsMonrrn of Uoutt county will appropriate any pay nt leat t nn ociual amount wo will donate to your CommlbHlonor tire sum of I WO for the purpose pur-pose of securing a collection from the va 1 ilous parts of Koutt county to exhibit at the I Worlds fair to be held at St Louis ibis amount will be paid to the Comailfi hloncr Bolcctoil to do the work by the ropr purlieu hI will iniiko thl proposition with he I vndersnandnir that the work Is to ho commenced com-menced Immediately so that you may have time to do It in a proper manner |