Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 13 | Drilling for Coal on San Juan Claim

DRILLING FOR COAL ON SAN JUAN CLAIM J ! Samuel .1. HouKr, miner and prospector, , has interested San .Juan parties in the 1 m'-a (if opening up a coal vein for 1 he b--n'-'it of the town, lie jp enua tred in sink iiiK a a ha ft on t he C-. It. ( 'hi ;st en-i en-i pen pla ce sout h of town, with t lie e -!pe:tation of tappinc the vein at a depth , of approxima tely forty feet . 1 Should the j.roHpect fir'tve 1 lie exist ence of co;il so close, to the town it wdl be a :;e;it boom to the com rn u n i t v and will i.A ;i very p'r,''tai.le i u vel m et; i. for the parties wito havfj shown their ent-rjinse in fi na ncinc its development, i Mr. Houscr h;is jre' iouy;y r'tosju'ci eij the c round with a drill and he is rr-! rr-! lain of a four or five-loot vein , heinc tappr-d, but as to the (jualtty of the coal, that cum onlv he determined bv prospect -in with shafl and cross-cut,' wln h tl " I 'art ics are dotn nrnv with eve is- evi -tb-Tic,; of success. San .Juan I ;ecni der.