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Show !' EOT 15 iOE i j Federal Agent Says BedS Are Thin and Quality j Mot of Best. : Special to The TnbLir.e. WASHINGTON. May 2. Ccal v.-as tou'.J ri north .-a stern Utah on Lost en.uk, near Devils tfiid. many years buL i'. has btaz mined only because iu-1 it scarce Si. ibai region. hejioris I iv f-ived num different sources have indicated in-dicated that the beds discovered may be a iart of a ,-ood coal Held, so the United Siat.es geological survey, department depart-ment of the :r.'...nor. sent one of as membri-d vj examine the region. The ex-ymination ex-ymination proved that the coal along Lost cr.ek occurs in thin, irregular be as. f 9. inch aro st-pai-ated into several benches? ! ov bone and tiiale partings, and that it ' c:,h.h,MMiiinr,iic r. n ri .Mnnot compete with the o--al of higher rank which is found in vasi dt-posits in other parts ot L tali' and in Wyoming, although it is or considerable value to the residents of t!ii.;!l towns and ranches near by. 'I he Lost Creek coal field is in Morgan Mor-gan countv, Utah, twelve miies north-j north-j 01 Devil's Slide, on the main line of the Union Pacific railroad. For many I -ears small quantities of coal have been i imned nnd hauled by wagon to Croydon. I a i-ma'.l town nine miles southwest of j the lie Id, and to ranches on Lost creek. I The coal burns well in stoves and open : fireplaces, but contains a high percentage percent-age of ash and '-slate." It carries so ; much moisuit e that it rapidly fahs to pi.-cts on exposure to the air and is soon reduced to slack when stored. Otologists describe the coal-bearing rocks as belonging to the "Wasatch formation, for-mation, a Tertia-y deposit laid down on the upturned and" eroded edges of much older (Jurassic") beds. The Wasatch is composed of three parts an upper and a lower conglomerate and an intervening Series of beds u sandstone and shale. The coal was deposited on the surface of the lower conglomerate. A cony of bulletin tttl-L. "Geology of the Lost Creek coal field, Morgan county, coun-ty, Utah." by Frank K. Ciark, describing- the rocks and coal resources of this region, may be had un application to the director. United States geological survey, sur-vey, Washington, D. C. |