| Show GOAL MEASURES Of IRON COUNTY Willis T 1 Lee of U S Geological Survey Makes Report of ofA ofA ofA A Reconnaissance THE FIRST COKE OVENS BUILT In Ii Tills his Wn nl ns U cd liy by h v Early Sellers rm for Smet In ium J Iron r n ni The Tho coal cotil of ot Utah has Imas been b en known 1851 1931 when the lust mino was opened hilt but bil Its lIS naO from lam any market has hall restricted Its utilization to 10 tho the supply of ot local demands for or which It has hias long been Important The Time construction of tho Sun San Pedro Po o Low Los Angeles An lell Salt SnIt Lako Lake railroad has however brought trans transportation facilities within 35 miles mies of ot the tho Important outcrops and amid a I branch line from this road to the tw principal mines mimiCs lne s could easily Cathy e sly be bl built buit Such rai rail railroad railroad i road rond lines linos Inell aro are said lold to have havo ha vo been beets our sur surveyed lur but no tic construction work has ham been boen done lone The coal coal Is iii In itt Cobb plateau east enst of 0 Cedar edar City and arid and west of the limo plateau In 11 the tho eastern eUller slope oC or rune Pine Pile Valley Valoy Mountain near New sew Harmony The rite rh structure of ot the region Is such ouch that some of ot the tIme coal coat crops out In II precipitous cliffs plateau o feet or moro more above tIme the plains to the time west arid and some somo of It I Is exposed expose at It the tho bottoms of Cf o canyons und mind near the level of tho plains plain For this huts leRson a tt knowledge of ot the geog geng geography raphy rlph tho time and the structure of ot the tho region Is essential to a I proper estimate of tho time value of t the thc coal coni land With Ith the purpose of ot gain galum gainIng Jall lug Ing such knowledge I Mr 11 Willis T TIce TI Lee Ice I C one of ot the geologists of the United States geological survey sune made ludo a 1 reconnaissance survey suno of ot this Iron county Held leW In time the summer of ot 1906 visiting tho the principal coal COi I open openIngs tags Ings sampling tho the coal mind and determining ing lag the position of ot tho the various coal bearing rocks A brief preliminary report on 01 o this work has hall Just been published by h the survey survoy In Bulletin which forms part II r of oC Contri Contributions to 10 Economic Geology 1906 and contains the results of ot the govern Joern government government ment Investigations of ot coal lignite and peat fleat deposits This Tills report may mar he be obtained free tre ot or charge chargo by applying to time the director of the tho survey at nt Wash Washington Washington ington D P C CHul But Hul little prospecting has been heen done none In Iu the tho lion Iron county field feld partly par I because tho the coal has been used liFer only In the small towns located near neal the tho outcrop lund partly because It Is la exposed at tho the surface ot nt so many man points along the tho outcrop The rho workable coal co l of ot tho the plateau Is probably all al at the same samo horizon though thin seams occur home hert and there thero at nt several levoll other horizons Mr l 1 calls cul special attention to a athin athin thin bed of ot limestone containing many fossils known as screw shells which lies lien el about feet feat above the coal c al and und Is Js used by prospectors as a guide Imide In locating tho the coal conI lied bed Several prospects have hae been bee located In this way wa where time the coal was cowered covered with wih slide rock The first coke ovens In southern Utah were built buit near one omme of ot time the mines of this region and amid all early settlers us nl tho time COliC 1010 for or smelting Iron but hut reports differ as ait to coking qualities of ot the th coal coat from different n ri of timo tho of ot this thia coal field to deposits of at Iron trots oro nrc In the Moun taints will wi doubtless prove prom a I most Im ira Important Important factor In Its Is future develop ment The fhe ore oro is too remote from existing to he be profitably utilized 1 tl zed at nt the time present time but b t tho the Iron properties are aro rapidly rapid I being ac tie le by largo large operators and will wi eventually be It I Is ts ble hie that the coal might be used for smelting melting meling tho ha Iron ore oro near the mines The Tho Now Nosy Harmony coal particularly which li Is a i may prove provo satisfactory for this purpose It If It con cnn ho h obtained a tree free reo from rom Im him Impurities Tills ThIs coal differs from front the tho theother other coals of ot the region In Its It position I In the tho lowlands west ivest regon of ot the tho plateau and anI Ind workable Its IR occurrence thickness In several beds of or I SAN SAW FRANC CO MARKET James Iames A Pollock 8 Co Cc bankers and ana furnish the time following from from San ian Francisco on Nevada Neada mining stocks todaY COMSTOCK CO 29 Mex Mex Gould Could Curry Curr 2223 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