Show V CO COIL OP 01 it uri 1 S 1 D C march starch 20 hundreds Hun dreda do ot of billions tul llona of tons of coa coal contained in the vast area ot of coal land lands in the went west consisting of inore than 70 acres are owned by the united state states government according act tu to un all nu tit of tho the united states geological gc survey ey some tracts ure are of immense value containing beda beds of the biggest krade grade of coal in veins from to eighty feit foot in tit 11 1 a lieu nou method of selling this coal land the government will III rain gain an all enormous of money the old w a vuie uns to sell 11 the coil coll land of value at tui ton dollars an all acre if f more than fifteen miles front it railroad or rubout dollar dol litro it if within that limit 0 no o the survey surey niria measures suria tho the to 11 in fit airy nod and the land li lq hold sold on oil a it oil toil basis As a re su mitt it coal 1 lands have beun been priced na as high its four hundred dollars an all ic ecru ro and in ill one tract at even eon sik six hun I 1 lied led t bollara toll a ro during the last beir the 11 cil ell surety has lins classed by individual forty acre trade tracts sa acre acres of the tho coal linds with a total value of it and thia this addid to the results of former vork work ghea a it total of 14 13 acres clas aa as coal lands with a allott of lly ily the old method these would have a it valuation of which shoma it net galit aln to the kov enniK nt of nearly all tda tits of coil land sales 1 are deposited to the credit of the irrigation reclamation fund |