| Show COAL RESOURCES OF UTAH while our territory is blessed with the scenery of eden the climate is such as to make coal a matter of general interest which fact must be my apology fr for this essay coaids the most extensive sive of our minerals from the uintah reservation on the north it spreads spread sin in massive strata south a d istance distance of three hundred and fifty miles to the colorado in a varying belt from five to twenty miles wide the largest veins ure tire those between sanpete and F emery mery counties during a days drive down ton canyon the travelers attention is constantly called to the coal beds peeping from beneath their ca for a along ong distance the huntington river flows over abed a bed of the black mineral the longest veins developed are those at scofield and winter quarters they vary from fourteen to sixteen feet in thick thickness neds dipping to the south and west during the year 1890 three hundred and fifty thousand tons of the best bituminous bitu menous coal were taken out in these camps the quality of castle gate coal is unsurpassed in the world there have been a hundred coke ovens built which produced ten thousand tons of superior coke during the year 1890 there are several mines and prospects near coalville Co alville on the weber the most important being owned by the home coal company and chalk creek company which furnish the nort northern herh settlements with about thirty six thousand four hundred tons yearly about fifteen miles east of fairview lie the great fields of the huntington there are but two mines opened one owned by citizens and the other by an english company the latter had several coke ovens built about fifteen years ago and found the coal to produce good coke they ceased work however on account of the long distance to a railroad if the rio grande western would build a branch line up cottonwood canyon scores of mines would be opened and coal enough produced to supply a nation for centuries to come wales in the western part of san pete has had in operation mines which have supplied sanpete and juab counties forbears tor for years the yield now is comparatively vely ively small and the quality not so good as other mines the fields of southern utah are twenty miles in width and terminate at the colorado river an analytical test shows coal to contain over fifty per cent pure carbon and one half of ot one per cent sulphur showing an excellent quality for smelting smelling sm elting and blacksmithing thus we see how nature has blessed utah and when the citizens fully realize the resources of our fair territory and make an effort to develop them they will grow in riches untold JOSEPH HANSEN fairview |
