Show COAL RESOURCES our state could supply the world at the present rate of demand for one hundred fifty years few people of utah realize tle tl e immensity of the coil coal measures of their own state this state is in a position to be one of the greatest greate t coal pi educing states state in the union its coal resources art an almost limit les according to al R campbell of the united states geological survey the areas of utah known to contain workable coal are estimated to ag gregath 13 miles while there at aie e 2 e miles of which but lit ie to is I 1 but which may contain beds ot of coal that aie knorl able the same authority estimates the contents of these fielda t be 48 choit tons of coal 11 ith additional information at hand since ar mr campbell s investigation of the coal areas of thia state one oe can seasonably leason ably say that there are at least in round numbers fully short tons of coal un mined in utah the value of these great eoal con measures to the state and its citi zens c can an best be estimated upon the hypon hypothetical proposition that were the state ii without them and it was necessary to impost coal into the commonwealth as is the case in many other states this particular lego lemouree uree of utah is worth north at lea least leat t 1 basing the price of the coal on NN what hat the run of the tile mine article is now selling tor for in the state the production pio of coal through out the world each year is 1 short tons if utah were to furnish all the coil used in the in world orld each v air e ir there is sufficient now I 1 of in the state to I 1 beep up shipments for years at present there are about 3 tons of coal mined each yeal in utah all but 20 per cent of which is consumed in the state in the neighborhood of 4 men are em aloyed in the coal mines about ton tons of col e are manufactured each near ear lit utah and the companies compa nips producing th chiq N lose many thousands thousand of dollars each 3 ear in not riot utilizing the by products some ot of the greatest drugs drug khion n in medicine come from coil tar far the total coal production pio ot of the horld in 1910 aias approximately 1 0 00 tons ot of chich the tile united states contributed about 39 per cent this country has far outstripped all others and in 1910 according to the united states geo goo logical survey it exceeded great britain which ranks second by over tons |