Show 7 rr r ADDITIONAL MINING NEWS PITTSBURG OP UTAH IS PROMISE Of CEDAR CITY Blast Furnaces and Steel SteelWorks I Works Works Expected to to Follow Coal Development t.- t. I The building building up of or a Pittsburg of Utah it I Ils Ie declared by Fred W. W V. V Webb president president dent of the Iron County Coal company Rill result from the development of the immense body of coal at Cedar City S Samples of coke made from the coal de dePosit deposit de- de deposit posit have Just been received by the company and experts declare the product to be equal if not superior to the best 3 that is manufactured in Pennsylvania It is declared that this means the deVelopment development development de de- de- de of the great deposits of iron ore in the the- vicinity within a few miles of the coal supply and the construction of blast blast- furnaces and steel works Mr l Webb who vho returned from a a. visit to the property last week stated that tha t the company's engineer had made a most report on the survey for tor a railroad railroad rail rail- F road from Cedar City to connect with SI th the Salt Lake road at Lusk and declared i that if It necessary the tile coal company would build the road which would be about twenty-eight twenty miles In length He expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed the belief however that the Salt I Lake company would see the advantages of constructing the line and would not delay dela Its building longer than actually necessary It was stated by Mr Webb that the I construction of the tramway from the mine to the valley below and which will willbe willbe b be about two miles in length will begin within the next three weeks and that bythe by bythe bytho I the tho time it is completed the tho work of mining mi ml- ning the coal could be star started ed Th The vein feln of ot coal traversing the property property prop prop- erty lies lles flat and ranges ranges- from 68 to 12 feet teet in thickness It is estimated by government government geologists that each aero acre contains approximately tons of coal The coal is bituminous and tests have ave v shown that It contains 2 BritIsh Brit Brit- rI ish thermal h r heat tt units lf It has a proved v tobe to tobe be been an used excellent for domestic coking fc coal purposes po and l in it has the district for tor years |