| Show ROAD boad WILL TAP RICH WHAT OTHERS SAY OF MOFFAT ROAD under the heading Alof fat road hlll jr y strike strike uth coal fields the fiovo 1 Pi ovo post post hao haa the following follo wang from Gov government emment surveyor floyt S galois galob report hoyt S ment engineers ha made a survey vt df the coal lands in the eastern part L of this state and tale be part of 0 ol orado and in this report ho he tells tella of tho the valuably ablo coal lands through which the moffat road oad i au arlu pass heo hen it comes through to this city ama on to salt lake there has been awre cr less leaa upon the moffat line and without doubt active work ft enill bo be commenced common ced on that road with in the next year so that provo will W able to boast of being on the track line of three big ralli oads ads instead of the report of these lands Is in the geological survey bulletin largo parts of the area described by mr air gale cale are still public lando tor for 4 K the region examined is somewhat remote from railroads it is as yet tather rather sparsely settled the val T ley of the upper yampa bamps river is now reached by the I 1 Alof fat road which was completed as tar far as steamboat springs about a year ago it is re ported that this athla road will soon be continued westward and its proposed route is shown on an the maps in this report the report also gives descriptions and unbiased estimates of the most important resources of the country adjacent to this new road for a distance afons its route of 0 oer or miles and Is therefore par ticUl cul arly timely and interesting the bullet a contains five tiow new topo graphic and geologic maps colca chica axe are similar in tonn form to the geological surveys topographic atlan sheets although not complete nor final as compared with the surveys survey standard maps they probably will be for some time tho best sival nl abla lable maps of the are areis areia is th lluy y oel iori the report deec describes ribes the general geology of the region and points out the relations of the coal bearing rocke to the other strata in these fields and to in ilio arm each ti that Is likely to bo be dey developed eloPed as IL a large commercial field la Is described separately the descriptions follow the public land survey units that Is they axe are given la ia order by toy with reference ii to sections and areas within townships towns hipa most alost ot of the the data showing show ing tile the number and thickness of coal beds were nere obtained at prospect openings sufficiently information has been col cof lect elect to prove beyond doubt the great value of these lands and to afford general estimates of tile the amount of available coal they contain the bulletin includes a table show ing the results result of 92 analyses of rep samples of the coals these samples were collected in the course of the survey of the field am and were analyzed in the governments aabol laboratories the tale ot of analyses Is so arranged as to permit ready comparison of coals from different parts of the adeas described the anal ez are accompanied by a brief discussion of the meaning and inter filter pre pret atlon tation of analyses of coal and a estimate of the quality of ge gan liral ral aly coals in these fields th reater fc part of the best coal in this general region may be classed 1 I as high grade bituminous the cyal flom a few districts shows a higher calorific value alue and that from othla othis must be classed as ash Is norvil ruinous or lignite the ranging from 5 to 10 per cent the percentage of sulphur ts Is low most of the coals are hl high gh in ola tile combustible matter so eo that faiuu ski 11 ful firing and fumach con st ruction are needed to produce the lest best result a post |
