Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-28 | Page 38 | Utah Coal Exhibit Arousing Interest

UTAH GOAL EXHIBIT BIG INTEREST Column Thirty Feet High Evokes Favorable Comment Com-ment at Exposition. Duo to the unique coal exhibit erocted by the fuel companies of Utah at the Panama-Pacific exposition, now open to tho public at San Eruneisco, Utah is winning disl inctiou. The coal exhibit is said to bo the center of attraction in the mining building and is directing considerable attention to this state, as well as evoking much favorable comment. com-ment. It is the most striking exhibit in the building. The exhibit is eonidnictrd out of six solid blocks of Utah coal and is thirty feet in height. Its base measures tour feet in diameter and tho lower edge ot the cap measures two feet and six inches in diameter. The lower block of coal weighs 1703 pounds aud the upper one carrying the cap weighs MS pounds. The total weight of the column is, in round numbers, 26,000 pounds. Ihe coal of which the block is composed com-posed was furnished bv the, Utah Fuel' company, the Consolidated Fuel companv, com-panv, Hie Independent Coal & Coke companv, com-panv, the Spring Canyon Coal company com-pany and the Standard Coal company, all operating mines in the Castle " alley coal fields of Carbon county, Utah. Several Sev-eral of the coal seams mined in Utah approximate in thickness the total height of the column. Accompanying the exhibit is a typical analysis of the coal of which it is composed, com-posed, as follows: Moisture, 1.59 per cent: combustible volatile matter, 40.23 per cent; fixed carbon or coke, 52.73 per cent; ash, 5.45 per cent; total, 100 per cent; sulphur, n.S'4 per cent. The heating value is said to be 13.412 British Thermal units tier pound of coal. The Utah coal fields cover approximately approxi-mately 15.2011 square miles and contain 197.000.000,000 tons of coal. If Utah had to supply the coal consumed in the United States it could do so for the next :i?6 years, and at the end of that time have' considerable coal to spare.