| Show DOWN FROM THE MINES the rich coal deposit bein worked by fiovo Inh vidna on sunday evening sir ales wilkins and mr jas F dunn returned from a trip to their coal mine in chalk cheek for which they left prove on thursday last the gentlemen found everything satisfactory and encouraging they brought back with them specimens of the coal and also some oyster shells tins of which cover the coal vein they have a force of six men at work and intend now to go right ahead developing their claim while away arrangements were made by them for the building of a mammoth kiln with a capacity of bushels in which to burn the oyster shells the finest lime made is from these shells as the article will not slack when exposed to the air and is free from grit while it makes no aaste vaste whatever the kiln will be a perpetual per petral affair as it can be fed from the top and he lime taken from the bottom it takes but twenty four hours for alie lime to burn already the proprietors have orders for lime amounting to over seven hundred bushels the specimens of coal brought down by wilkins andrunn were taken from a vein covered with these oyster shells the vein has been traced for overa mile tho out at places going as high as ten feet the opening from which the coal is being taken has been run in sixty feet on aji air line and presents a face of seven feet of solid coal no machinery vill have to be used in getting the coal out after it is mined as the teams can drive right into the opening load ap and drive out this is one advantage that the proprietors have railroad engineers who have visited the scene of operations say that they have never seen anything lakeit li keit the coal gives a white ash similar to wood ash and ia a very clean coal a person being able to go into the mine and get ont the article without getting in alie least hit dirty the calculation is to run into the coal vein feet when the wyoming utah railroad gets through that section of country the coal will be shipped in large quantities mr wilkins also brought down from the mine a petrified oyster that he picked up among the shells the vein of oyster shells is from ten to twenty teet thick |
