Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-03-30 | Page 10 | Know Utah

K H I By y ALBERT F. F PHILIPS I With billions of Jf tons o of c cOal al In Utah It seems to hear that at orie one time the territorial territorial- legIslature leg leg- o of Utah enacted n a law which provided n a reward reward re- re ward ot of 1000 to any resident of th the territory wl who o would s-ouId oper opel a vein ein of coal rot not less Jess than IS 18 Inches within O miles ot of Salt Lake Lale City where it could be profitably mined premium was w-s offered In January 1854 1854 but it did not bring any result It was nine years before a a. coal mine was opened near the cit city Coat Coal from this mine sold for 40 a ton This incident is reveal d In a a. ot of the tho Salt Lake chamber ot of commerce entitled What MIning points points' out that it Means Ieans to Utah The pamphlet was not until 1863 that the tho first serious attempt was was made to develop the metal mines ot of the territory This development naturally caused n a demand for coal for Cor smelting and Cu furnace work On June 13 1870 the first coal was brought to Salt Lal Lake e City by rail Ten ren years later the tho Union railroad completed a a. br branch road from Echo to Part Park CIty and coal was furnished the mines in the great silver camp Another change in the history ot of the industry came in 1896 1816 when the first Independent operator opened a mine This was followed by other othel independent operators until the prese present t time when two twenty mines in Carbon Emery and Grand counties are operating and are producing 98 per percent cent of the states state's output Coal was discovered in Utah in the spring ot of 1851 when an exploring party ot of the company t mt settled set set- tied Parowan noticed an outcrop of coal on a small stream near Cedar ity They n named med the Coal creek On May 12 1851 the first job Of f blacksmithing black black- with Utah coal was don by a man named BrInghurst who made enough nails to shoe a horse in his shop in Parowan Coal also was discovered in Beaver Deaver Kane Morgan and Washington co counties but the principal mines are in Carbon Emery Grand nd Summit and Uintah counties Between 1851 and 1870 settlers In different parts o of the territory used small quantities of coal In their homes homes' hut but no report of tile the quantity mined was made until 1870 1810 Ip 11 that year tons were ere mined From 1870 t to 1886 the Coal production steadily increased increased in- in creased tons being mined in Then rhen there was a de decrease rease- rease and in 1887 the production fell feU to 1 tons In 1917 1017 the production w was s tons In the year sixty period ending December 31 1928 of coal in Utah totaled tons tons' with a. a total value of and an average value or of per ton hus far the estimates estimates' of the coal beds in Utah show that sc scarcely one tenth of 1 percent of the total resources o of the state have been exhausted A