| Show thina VR sunnyside Sunny side camp dirty deuce in a new deck R A KIRKER discourses ON SOUTHERN UTAH MINE has interested eastern capital in development of great coal measures Med not far from new harmony R A kirker who will with a party of eastern capitalists has been tor for a considerable time developing a coal proposition down on the hoe line of washington and iron counties in southern utah in talk ingrith ing with a it cedar olty city representative sen senta tive last week eek displaced more enthusiasm in his properties than he lie has heretofore shown J 0 laser it prominent business man of ohio who ie Is one ot of the finan financiers clors of KIr dirkers kers company compan paid a visit to tho the property last week the record tried to secure an interview with the gentleman on hia his return from the mine but missed him howe howater Ho mr in talking of the matter with local business busine sR me men ho he allowed enthusiasm and seemed confident flint that they the had a big thing kirker brought in samples of the cool coal taken ioime thirty feet from tho the surface of tho the shaft thac that is now being sunk it con tatus 70 por cent fixed carbon and anti is suitable for use in anthracite th sto atones es and anti for smelting purposes the 1110 company has a quantity of thia this coal on the dump and in order to introduce it on td a market I 1 has ina volunteered volunteer til to furnish the utah and eastern copper company which oper ates is smelter out of st george a car load erco of charge the only condition being that the copper company p ply ty forthe for the hauling and nd give the product a fair test nor la Is the matter of quality any more gratifying than that of quantity tit chere ore are five distinct dIstIn Lt veins traversing tho the property which can le be traced trai edon on the surface for than two miles these velas veins vary in size f from roni eighteen inches to conr ctet D during tir the past two bears a or avire the company has been cri engage intermittently in the development love I 1 hopmen sit of the property the work being largely lo 10 the form of tunnels at present a small force of men Is being employed emp loed and thie this force will likely be increased in the near f future kiture among the possibilities for the future if it suitable transportation f abill ties oro are not vouchsafed i by ono one of tho the established railroads rall roade is the building of is blanch bianch line of their own kirker believes that when they aro are in a post position to place their product on the market in paying quantities their properties will bood for construct tho the brinell branch tile this of course will only bo be in case tho the exist ing roda coida refuse to supply facilities 1 1 tu IT i for transportation the tho interstate commerce law lav would compel the other roads to receive the product 1 ori n tendered and ta to inako artro i on hauling there to t perhaps no beatti itu authority thor on coal properties in tha the state of utah tian mr kirkor lie ile has 1 hada wide and varied experience in the development of 0 coal land lands lu in this and several other states lie ile ins a the original locator of the coal mea wea suns suros and took no au active part in their early lie ile has 1 made important dico verles 1 of coal in colorado atud fl 0 where he ile Is a mining engineer of experience en so that his deductions ore are worthy of consideration he ile that bo he would not give tho the harmony coal belt tor for all sun Sunny alde froin now en on it Is expected that development work v ill bo be pushed with more vigor than in tho past and it la Is not nor unlikely that illias nay prove proe the 0 opening pening bedge in n tle the utilizing of th alio matchless natural resources of iron county munty |
