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Show UTAH HOLDS VAST TONNAGE OF COAL The eastern steol export who explained that the vast undeveloped Iron ore tonnages ton-nages within the state of Utah would not be available for a few docades on account ac-count of lack of fuel within the stale, should read the Mineral Resources of the United States for 1910, by the United States geological survey, page 206 of the second volume. He will find there the following; "Tho areas In Utah known to contain con-tain workable beds of coal aggregate 13,130 square miles, and there are 2000 square miles less known, but which may contain workable coals. The estimated original coal content of these fields, according ac-cording to M. R. Campbell. Is placed at 196,458,000 short tons. The production of the state since mining began, about 1S0. has amounted to 25,468, 6S2 tons, of which 2.517,809 tons, or nearly 10 per cent, were mined In 1910. Qn the basis that for every two tons mined one ton of coal Is lost, the exhaustion of tho Utah ftelds to the closo of 1910 Is approximately ap-proximately 3S.000.000 short tons, or 0.02 of 1 per cent of the estimated original supply." |