Show southern utah coal there has just arrived from washington an account of the coil coal production of the united states during 1910 prepared by the geological sur burvy vy in N which inch cich each state and territory is taken up by districts and thoroughly ha idled the tile mines of this country last year produced tons of bituminous bitu minus coil coal x valued al at in increase of tons N al bcd it at over the preceding veir near the pennsylvania anthracite production last bear 5 ear totaled one valued it at utah produced tons with a value of an increase of tons of a alue of over the year before in tho the chapter of the tile coil coal fields of southern utah this volume sms one of the large fields of the state is s the southern utah field which extends for many milet in the tile coleb plateau and its eastern ex c tn sion in iron washington kane katie and garfield counties as fir as the colondo colorado ri river er the coal is of colorado age and ancs in thickness from less thin than one foot to more thin than ten feet it his has been opened at only a few places in the towns of cedar city Ka narra upper kan all abaid and escalante so far as known the coil coal is chiefly low lom grade bituminous but locally coil coal of better quantity haa has been found A fair grade of cannel coal occurs in the north fork of the virgin river in the northwestern part of kane county and a small area of semi anthracite coil coal long has been known a few miles north of the town of new harmony Hir mony in iron county it is probable pro bible that the ii western estern pat pait t of the field will be tipped soon bv a branch lino from sin san pedro los angeles an eles salt lake railroad |