| Show fort ints hohos IWO ery M le deposits posits of colorado will supply nation for years 7 LOOKS TO SALT LAKE AS DIS CENTER coal shortage of each winter soon to be thing of the past a at zion to salt lakes herald relief reiter la is in eight sight for salt lake f from roin tho the regular full fall coal shortages which are felt relt with the arrival of winters first eold gold breeze although utah and wyoming contain enst coat deposits ie posits intall freezes every winter because enough coal cannot be obtained by lacel cosil benters to supply tho tile demand in sight Is promised by the moffat rod road this line now in to course of construction from denver to salt lako lalo pierces the yampa coal fields in county counts colorado these havu been exan examined ined by the government and the expert engineers who inside the examination show that thero there la Is between nino him huri dred and twelve hundred square rulle mile t ot of good and anthracite rs coal blekh in routt count this one cc source lan supply the tile nation with coal at if I 1 f humor rumor has had it time anit time ir again that the moffat road Is to be come a part or of the tile bio grande grandest 9 stern stem no between den denser denor or and salt lake grand grund junction and other points on the raalph line of tho the rio grande have been reported as junction points but there la Is a more widely held bellot belief that the moffat road will bo built bull through to salt lake to get it share of coast business over the tile salt lake ponto 11 present resent surveys substantiate this be ilef an I 1 thero there has been no clat nh ith I 1 Do mado made thiet ahn t the tile lino ig Is no not t to be built from routt county through northeastern Kort heastern salt lake 11 while tho the regular coal shortage Is 0 abild to be treated rented not through lack of 11 coal but through lack of equipment 9 brought on oil en each eLfall full by an tin unusual isun demand for cars relief is pro promised mIsAd lit the building buil dlug of nt another line through a 11 coal held just across the utah line the file moffat roid road cuts in the neighborhood of aundrea miles from tho the distance li stance 1 between denver and ant silt like nd it hais the tile most direct louto to salt lake with the industrial growth ot of the west making unheard ot of at idea a shortage in all necessary supplies Is 1 being felt with bealh sue SUC 04 ceding din I 1 beor car Rall roald are being billt in all direct tona loas in utah und abates to the utah Is I 1 enjoying 0 o unprecedented industrial I interurban lines sire re planned malle factories tac torlea and of all till kind kinds are tire being built and when in operation these vill III draw heavily upon the western fuel fields whilo while the tile moffat coal felds in county munty can cart supply all points between the myurl river and utah wid bo be llast sered an enormous enor moue coast and intermediate busl nea W ai n euro sure I 1 tho tile new road over the salt lake route with the tho salt lake route roa tho the most important mining districts i tn in cevada u big nood need of fuel will be felt tri ill tho the sagebrush Sage bruah state tho the coal aa deposits in routt county have leen boon evit mined h en ell ginnoro lu in he of the moffat road ani and the gove government rement W we tun ton mining engineer in charge of tho industrial land and mineral depart mont ment of the denver North writer fit road corn tho the work of making malting an e report repart to IN lt president A X conr wai con can sullied in this bork ork and wit was per 1 to inform marrat on an tho the traffic to bo 63 from rom that sourm imd and to aid ald him in mapping out ai its future I 1 llan lano westons rc rit that there ibro nt at least ahie hundred square miles of boj lit floutt county tho he gist of the ho report was published in fonn forin tor for general I 1 any doubt which ruay ilae well lit id toward this report which naturally was regarded as conj Lom compiled piled by in 11 employer of 0 the tile company coin pany interested has been settled by a report submitted ed to the government by two export who spent the summer of it twi 1901 la in the coal nelds this report estin total aren at hundred yiquan re this included 1111 forty inist a of mi thru thra elte deposits depo aitt th budimer high grade acil excluded lu in thirty nine instances the gocr enta showed working scams to have all lo erdige width of eight feet tie te mil ronI report doea does not vary to nuy tiny extent froni that made by the tile govern government men ts eng ong lueers the report of the tile latter chaws the tile coal to in ie better in quality if thu road Is biln irad od ed lj in tho the southeastern part mart of the held and it Is expected will will reach tho the heart of tho the district within a a unlike many western railroads rall roade the moffat boadie road Is not with anny coal company |
