Show COAL BEDS p government expert looks over southern utah field of limitless coal g at LAKE tho coal of southwestern utah lias been known since 1854 when the firby mine was opened but its remoteness from any large market f has restricted its utilization to the supply of local demands for which it lias long been important tiie construction of the san padro los angeles salt lake railroad has however brought transportation fa within fhe miles of alie important out crops and a a branchi line from tins roid to alic principal mines could easily be built such railroad lines are said to hao been suncy ed but no con st ruction work has been done the coal ia in calob plateau east of cedar city and kanarraville Kanar raville and west of tho plateau in the eastern 11 bloies of pine valley mountain y new harmony J the structure of the region is such that borne of alic coal crops out in precipitous cliffs bordering the plateau feet or more above the plains to the west and it is at the bottoms of canyons and near the lei el of the plains for this reason a knowledge of the afi geography alie ind 1 P structure of the region is assen s bial to a proper estimate of the value of the coil land with tho purpose of gaming such knowledge T lee one of alie geologists of the united states geological survey is made a reconnaissance survey of this iran county field in the sum mer of visiting tho principal i coal openings sampling tha coil J f and determining alio position oj alie various coal bearing locks A preliminary report on this work lias just been published by tho survey in bulletin no which forms part two of contributions to economic geology 1096 and contains the of the i gation of coal lignite and peat de tins report roay lc obtain i ed free of by applying to the director of tho survey at washington D C but little his been done in alie iron county field partly alic coal lias been only in alie sm ill tow na located near alie outcrop and partly it is exposed at the surface at ao many points along the outcrops alie workable coal of the plateau is i ably all at the same horizon though thin be ims locally occur at several other horizons sir lee calls special attention to alic thin bed of limestone containing many foils locally known as shells winch lies about one hundred feet alie coal and is used by proa in lo citing the coal bed leeral prospects have been located in tins way where the coal was covered with slide rock the first coke oena in southern utah were built near ono of alio mines of this region and carl alic coke for smelling smelting sm elting iron but differ as to coking qualities of the coal from different hiir parts of alic field ft A the proximity of tins coal field to deposits of iron ore in the iron mountains will doubtless prove a most important factor in its future development the ore is too remote from shelters smelters sm elters to be profitably utilized at the present time hut the iron are rapidly being acquired by largo operators and will eventually bo productive it 19 possible that alie coal might be for smelling smelting sm elting alie iron ore near alio mines the new harmony coal particularly winch is a semi anthracite may prove satisfactory is for tins purpose if it can be obtained sufficiently free from impurities this coal differs from the other coals of the region in its position in the lowlands west of the plateau and its occur ance in several bed thic knea |