Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 20 | New Coal Fields Being Developed

NEW COAL FIELDS BEING DEVELOPED American Fuel Company Spending Largo Sums This Summer in Southern Utah. Development of now and established coal fields in southern Utah iB being pushed with great rapidity thiB nummer and hundreds of thousands of dollars aro going into tho work, according to Walter T. Harris, general manage cf tho American Fuel company of Salt Lake, who has just roturni d from an inspection in-spection trip to his oompany's property at Noslen, Utah. "Thero has never been a time in tho rocont history of Utah when bo much was boing accomplished in tho way of coal development as at present in Grand, Emory and Carbon count? es, particularly," particular-ly," declares Mr. Harrip. v'An Immense amount of rallTond work is boing done and a great many mon are ongaged. I look for these operations oper-ations to continue this fall. At Nsalon the Amorican Fuel company is now working in one of the best veins of coal we have ever found and tho mino is shipping steadily. The market for Utah coal seems to do steadily increasing and wo aro selling a great d?al of 'Boar' coal, as the American Fuel company's com-pany's product is known in California. Califor-nia. ' ' Tho Amorican Fuel company lias developed de-veloped its property at Noslen quiotly but thoroughly, and the mine ia rapidly rounding out Into one of the big ship-peps ship-peps of the stato.