| Show coal mining in ashley valley I 1 in n generous measure has nature en em dowed the uintah basin with uie the r of life for its inhabitant inhabitants and with the tile material things to make this life comfortable during the heated days of mic lumner cool winds from te tie mour mountain dain ranges combat the effect of the sun suns a burning enghu blasin and when the cold days of winter are upon us we need only delve beneath the surface of the mound to find the means to ward off the cold in our homes within a few miles of vernal lies a vast deposit of coal and for more than thirty years this fuel has been mined fe ir of the real roal mines are located eight miles aemi we of Vern althe biar norih north star brays and farmer farmers mines the bluebell colliers Coli lers ond dudley mines are located on brush creek twelve to fourteen miles northeast of vernal twenty miles north past cast of fort duchesne 1 is located the government Covern ment mine owned by the meral government as the name implies all the coal taken from these mines Is bituminous and found in the formation the shafts going down at an average pitch of 18 percent ithe average of the veins Is five and one half feet and all veins carry three grades of coal the top layer the thick vein in the center fand an the bottom layer the roal toot taken from the top lop and of the 1 is the hardest and hi lift the best storage stora ge values low tion when exposed to the element the top and bottom coal by actu actual tt test it Is hown to ti be equal to the best 0 cwm m coal I li ii i the state ot ut lb no not PI the mine named operator the enair veir most ff of them producing P rr y er hinr months to 0 o supply the do dondi m of uintah county with of the oi t out boing into mil nt A bound of coal Is importe d into ulnah co mtv for cong ampf ion nave save ohp required I 1 foal coal coal from th local mines sen senei eq verv d banded from it from rom heating kitchen carfes to sup up 1 1 1 n tew te w heat for the business ants of vernl and bov ovin n ot of the mn i I 1 li I nul aul d to jax desti destination natien bv tam ia ir ruck ani awl the oDe operation ration of the i rc 4 tive to mona men nion r the unav f t fie fu ful I 1 id d winter months at good haec for min ing ln and hauling everi nan er employ ploy fd pd in the mines Is a dweller in the basin marking the coal mining in di rv of tin tile county as 93 a str strictly icilY some institution the total output ot of all mines in uintah county U 1 ap v 8 tons since the pack allan Is the eldest oldest coal mine in the county and the largest steady producer an enumeration of the phases ct of activity connected alth ath its operation will serve as a it general account covering the activities Arc of the other mines expansion of the workings during the past twelve months has the main slope of this mine down an additional dit ional feet the present depth 0 of f the main shaft being approximately DOO feet and during the same period 1400 2400 feet of entries have been tf t fectea the annual output of the mine Is ton tons and eighteen men nian are employed diring the winter months the mine Is in uni year and a camp with au buildings shelter i tha tho wor corkers kers durni during the thirty fire viree years of it iti operation more fian vian tone tons of coal have hair been aken from the pack ahan allan mine ard all of chist vw wt con sinned in athley ashley alley all this tonnage wai was taken from above aboe the POO too fool level the deposit of coal having been merely touched side entries have lisie been driven from the main slope ml IM the owners conserving tre tte main deposit of coal so s to b enabled to cop ith the great ereath r demard foi coal me sure to arise a he lie population and industrial activities in th territory su sil polled rolled by the mine the present equipment Is equal to a production of tons bially hen ever that amount Is called for it is tho the only coal mine in uintah county equipped wh an all electric hoist and pumps and steel rails ran facilitate prompt al of the outa t the mine has a bin capacity of cars the price of coal at the mine the consumer hauling the product is I 1 3 per ton del delivered hered to the conium rr the oric h per ton miners in the pac paci ulan mian are paid an baer of J 0 oer ner ton for their ork oric pud in ad tit amon on to this high wige th jovn i q rf the mine pay tho the expense of and hoisting th on t nines lines in the vic vicinity anity of vernil P r r the only ones commercial v dlan d in uintah county him cl d dl f quire miles of territory rit I 1 li ic uintah basin are under I 1 lil I 1 d i t ti I 1 deposits of valuable batum in inn coal and awaiting deve lopint rit 11 i commercial scale ks the 1 en cn increases steadily diviny of 0 the unexplored areas will gradual undergo development tion of a railway into the baian an ever within the realm of would give an en impetus to activity in coal I 1 miring clr in the basin I 1 ilie coal deposits of the basin were alif as outcroppings by early settles one of these out cropping east of vernal and rear the colorado state line was discovered more than forty three bears ears ago when a pioneer plo neer built his camp fire on it t not knowing the nature of the malarial ma erial lerial worse AM 1 failing to extin extinguish che fire before he departed from the region the fire gnawed its destructive path into the deposit follo followed sed it downward into the earth and despite many efforts to conquer it the fire lj 13 said to be still pursuing its course far below he ie surface of the groina gro md so deep has the fire entered into the round ground according to reports that now the sole mean means to end the destructive truc tive woric work of the consuming ee pie ment is to divert a stream of water and flood the burning vein As no a stream tream of water ater to erve serve this purpose I 1 is at hand in ai a immel ate vicinity a valuable deposit of coal 1 is doomed to complete destruction due to the carelessness of an early day chilor to the uintah baim th ment mine aline located twenty miles northeast of fort port DL ch ne coal tr to the uintah ouray agniv nev headquarter at fort Duclie ene esne and find to fie indian other hoob at V 1 ri well as to the homes of residents of nr the two places the mine abw sells coal CORI at clen 04 o 4 is Ps to of uintah nud arid I 1 lic lichene henf cot gitles not ew welling in fort sn and whiterocks this mine bi ben ven coal tho the put fiat en bears ears and operates n ne raeh amr riving plying em pan mont to three to fo for t miners and bimber of mn dev lop lipit work ork Is don eon each lear during the three months all ita its production Is marketed in uintah aid old di besne counties count in all the coil mins min s ef pf uintah county are dete their depoles depo dep its cem me murate vitt with the annual output and the owner f of th prope ties are ass ired u ed of con inked dmd uninterrupted activity were it not for this imperatively necessary nece resource being located within the basin the aggregate expenditure of money to cupply it from the outside by means of r long haul from the railway points would be an immense drain upon the people of the basin exploration of coal bearing areas area in the basin not yet uncovered give assurance that there Is sufficient coal to supply a copulation hundred hundreds of times larger than thin at present |
