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Show Bit PWiffi IS MADE FRBMTHEGDVERHMEHT Frank N. Canicjron Pays $12,000 for 1 GO Acres of Coal Lands, Frank. N. Cameroin, general superintendent superin-tendent of tho Utah .Fuel company, and special inspector of coal mines, paid $12,000 in gold Cor .100 acres of coal laud situated in Cailbon county, near Helper, lo the government officials of tho laud office, Friday forenoon, at the National Bank 'of the Republic. The fee to this transaction involving the entry of coal lands in Utah is the largest received by the officials of tho land office since it has lxieu established. Whoa seen by, a Tribunes reporter, Mr. Cameron said that he had purchased tho laud for his own uso and not for the company with which lie is engaged, lie said, however, that the land adjoined ad-joined that of the company. At tho present time there are two entries driven on the land which have opened up some, of tho best bituminous coal veins in the state. The grading already has been dono for si spur running run-ning from the mines lo the Denver & Pio Grande railroad, and it. is tho" intention in-tention of Mr. Cameron to incorporate a company for ho purpose of opening up the mine on a large scale. Tho capacity ca-pacity of the mine when in running order or-der will be about 1000 Ions per day. |