Emery County Progress | 1906-01-27 | Page 1 | Patenting Immense Tract of Coal Land

patenting immense tract of coal land mr don bobbina of salt lake city mas IQ Cast ledale yesterday on a business errand asked concerning hii application for patents to coal land in Huntine toa canon through his attorn ev E W senior he stated that there was no deal with any large sin dacate for the sale of tho land but be bad secured the necessary means to pat ent acres now and more later of coal land IB that section I 1 not certain that such aill be the case still I 1 am of the loo that the castle valley railroad it salina cut off will be completed th tear and as it will run within the 15 mile limit of the coal land we will effect a saving of per acre by la tenting our coal land now it the clark or union pacific people are to build a coal road into huntington can voa the information has net reacted my from any reliable source I 1 am chippi wg three carloads of coal to the coill at stockton where it ill be tested for its coking and other commercial qualities tests of the coal leave heretofore been made chich prove it to be as fine a bod of coal as there is in utah the coal property mr robbins is in te rested in 13 being put in good shape for futura development we learn from other sources that in the past few months he has distributed some in cash for coal land options labor etc among the people of huntington toa mr bobbins has spent the b st years of bis life to the promotion of enterprises in emery count and he has hundreds of friends here and throughout utah who earnestly hope that success will crown bis efforts