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Show ON GREEK DEVELOPS GOAL DEPOSITS OF COKING COAL ARE RARE IN WEST; ONLY TWO DEVELOPED IN UTAH Tests Made By Various Agencies Of Products From Seams Of Sweet Company Show Favorable Results Salt Lake City. One of the most interesting developments of recent years in the Carbon county coal fields, is the opening recently of a deposit in the Gordon Creek district, which gives promise of yielding coal of excellent coking quality. The coal comes from the property being opened up by the Sweet Coal company. Crucible, retort, re-tort, laboratory and crude oven tests all have yielded the same result, and an oven test now is being conducted by the Chicago Ey-Products Coke company com-pany of Chicago, 111. Action of the coal in a home furnace was responsible for a sample being forwarded to ' State Chemist Herman Harms for determination. The result indicated that the coal was of a coking character. Further tests from samples taken from three faces in the mine were made by the bureau of mines with similar results. Then a sample was forwarded to the Koopers laboratory, lab-oratory, Pittsburgh, and former determinations de-terminations were confirmed. The Koppers report contains the following follow-ing comments: "This coal exhibited definite coking properties in the laboratory test, but is of such unusual quality and the volatile matter is so much higher than the usual extreme range for coking coals that we would not feel justified in making a definite prediction on coking cok-ing behavior from the laboratory test. We would recommend that a sample be forwarded to the Chicago By-Products' Coke company for a box coke test. "The ' by-products were very satisfactory, satis-factory, the ash, sulphur and phosphorus phos-phorus contents being remarkably low. The coal is of coking type, but a box coke test is desirable to determine deter-mine the structural quality of the coke." Supplementing the scientific re-research, re-research, C. N. Sweet, president of the Sweet Coal company, erected a small behive oven at the mine and during the past week has been conducting some tests of a practical character. Samples of coke made in the test oven were brought to Salt Lake Saturday and further confirm the opinions regarding re-garding the coking properties of the coal. Deposits of coking coal are rare in the west. Only two have been developed devel-oped in Utah, one by the Utah Fuel company at Sunnyside and the other by the Columbia Steel corporation at Columbia, both in Carbon county. Because Be-cause of the rarity of coking coal, the development of Utah's iron resources was delaj'ed a number of years. |
