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Show PRICE B0W 'ONkHHtF - ' ' " . Sard coal now costs the Salt Laker $10.50 PEB TON. You pay that price OR YOU GO WITHOUT IT. There's only one railroad now tapping the Colorado hard coal 'fields. But the Moffat road is building toward them. Once there it will come : on to Salt Lake. THEN HARD COAL WILL SELL TOR ft 6.60 IN THIS CITY. The only well opened and productive anthracite coal mines west of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania are at Crested Butte, In Gunnison Gunni-son county, Colorado which are reached by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, ' - The product is used very extensively In Denver and Salt Lake for domestic and manufacturing purposes, and large amounts are marketed at points between be-tween Denver ana the Missouri river. When the Moffat road reaches the coal fields of Routt county, during the present year, the -superior anthracite deposits of that section will be very extensively ex-tensively mined for use in Colorado. Utah and the Pacific States. The fine bituminous and lignite coals along the Tampa or Bear river will also become prominent factors In the fuel business of Colorado and Utah. At the soft coal mines at Crested; Butte about 400 men are employed. The shipments are 700 to 800 tons a day. and of coke for the smelters 7000 tpns per month. ; ; ' |