Show EMERY GREAT COAL MEASURES the best and largest body of coal west of the in its exceptionally fine new year s number the salt lake tribune says this of the great emery county coal fields the greatest east of Penny sylvania the coal fields of emery county cov er an area of perhaps 1000 square mileo the most extensive of any in the inter mountain country but as yet indevel aped but little has been written about th s great field the main range of the wasatch mountains skirts the western boundary of emery county for a distance of over dixy miles the mountains are divided along this stretch into what may be termed a double range a series of h gh moun tain valleys following the western line of the county for nearly its entire length the western or sanpete por tion of the range is barren of coal almost in its entirety the only excel tion being at the little town of sterling in the southern portion of the sanpete valley the eastern or emery portion of the range is high in the mineral along almost its entire length from castle valley through to the upper valley series there is an average dis tance of about tv enty m les the length of the coal bearing uplands be ing over 50 miles it will be seen that the coal fields of the county has an area of 1000 square miles As how ever the ringe is cut up by many can an immense area enst be de ducted from this it is safe to say however that there is squar m les of country in which the coal measures are nearly continuous the wasatch mountains in emery county are almost entirely made up of carboniferous sandstone mixed with a mass commonly called blue shale the coil appears in blanket form running almost in horizontal plane through the mountains there are three and in many places even four and five of these veins passing through the hills the one above the other these veins average in thickness from five to six to twenty feet and even thirty feet there are many places where con serva tive estimates place the tonnage at between 20 and 30 tons per acre the coal measures occur in a general wa from to 1000 feet be low the surface and th greit weight above them has solidified the product to such a degree that though the coal is of the bituminous character it here assumes almost the hardness of ite the larger vein which can be traced for miles through the country is aid to be the anest quality of cok ing coal west of the eastern anthracite fields it is free from sulphur and any other foreign substance subs and for s nelt ing purposes can hardly b equaled with the bof these fields has been in burtington Hurt ington can on near the north county line it is here that salt lakers have hold nga to the amount of several thousands of acres on their ground several of the veins have been opened up by somewhat ex tunnels and drifts and the prod act is f und to be of the higl est grade while the bodies grow stronger as depth is attained preparations were midean 1906 to connect this property with the outbid world by railroad and to place the product upon the market defeated td by the action of the federal government which brought sweep ng charges of fraud and conspiracy against most of the coal operators of the west cedar creek canyon is another locality where a cons demable amount of develop ment has been accomplished the mines located here have long been the source from which the settlers sett leis of castle val ley have for the past thirty years drawn their fuel supply so great are the veins at this place that a four horse tram is often driven into the mine and the wagon loaded directly from the vein cottonwood canyon to the west of the little town of orangeville Orang eville has also been somewhat developed and several claims are now being worked for tt e benefit of the settlers the same can be said of ferron and other canyons which appear all the way to sal na an yon on the |