| Show i SOUTHERN UA UTAH I HASt HAS t WEALTH Of I 1 I. I t 1 Great Field for Pro Prospector and I r Investor in I Garfield and P Kane Counties t t BOTH COAL AND COPPER t. t I Deposits Discovered By Cowboys Cow Cow- ow- ow boys boys boys-A boys Await wait Await R Railroad i and Capital TI March 2 28 While Nevada J mining 31 are arO and nUl more mOIe or 1 e 5 wild is Js bein being done lonC It Iti i 11 might hl he lIe well ro Tor o mining mining nice men to o conJ con- con J 1 si futuro cl oC Utah of-Utah Utah al and ami especial especial- I ly the thc parts that contain undeveloped 1 wealth S Southern Utah Utah affords af- af fords ottis good 01 fields for Cur 11 development dc and 1111 t- t t. t tu tho a amassing maRcil of fort fortuno Ulo There n are arc arci r i r j i. i the tho gold silver and mil copper ol r f 4 J L deposits Js of or Dla county the lie imS im- im fn- fn j jr S f.- f. mountains of Iron and arll f sivo coal coni deposIts gf LIi the thc t ti Ion count county eg CUll copper coppel 0 of Washington ton county and the V coat coal copper of tr If and nna nd Kano It I is to the la last t named two F E of or the lie that sections slate attention is 3 directed In Jn this story 4 In the year yem midwinter John P Pollock John and Nick Reynolds opened a coal 4 1 bod hod fn In n Hen el oil canyon about seven east cast of oe Tropic Troll This deposit si Lx to In fourteen feet in thick thick- n ne nex and tini can be ho bC mined with little cx- cx penso Tho The vein lI lies CR almost almost on 01 a level I and nd its Is extent Is ic unknown Outcroppings Outcroppings Outcrop- Outcrop pings s of the thc mineral can be bc seen following fol ful- JC IJ lowing the strata stata of oC the mountain for 01 several miles mies both en east cast l and alil west from tho ho above alo mentioned deposit i. i Coal Coke Successfully This Tills coal will wi ill coke COlic successfully Several Sev Sc era eral loads have ha e been leen haret hauler to town I and burned in both hoth heating and 1111 cook conk st stove c ive A man can cami go from rom Tropic I to to the tho the mine di dig his Ills load lonel and arid return In Jn trio day men have havo used it i In fn the blacksmith shops an and It I Ia has lias proved to be bc a goo good quality but at present with with wih wood so o plentiful that that two loads can be hauled In a 1 day laY and the railway station staton 85 miles mies t distant dis dis- tant taut the th outlook i h is not hot bright enough to encourage development Those deposits of fC coal arc are believed to be a continuation of or the tho enormous beds heds that are alo found in Scofield Ca Castle CastleGate CastleGate tle Gate Gat and Winter Quarters There is no reason wh why they thy could not be Th They are arc under tho the same mountain One can follow just un under er erthe the eastern rim of or the time Great Basin from S to time the t e mines in iii Tropic and see see ce SS of coal nil all al alo along the line lino and ha halting halting- tn at nt Escalante some omo fort forty miles mies northeast of Tropic on one will vi see an enormous bed of excellent cx ex anthracite Other deposits of tho time mineral are arc In evidence e in Esca Eca- haute lante Nine Nino miles mies helow below Tropic are aro the coal mines mimics of oC which I aro yet et undeveloped Following lowing on 01 down toward the time Color Color Colorado Col Col- or orado dO river ri er many teo deposits is arc are enc en en- c countered At Al one ono place on the Wah WahWeap I a a coal deposit hits has boon bon burning burn burn- hi lug ing for twenty or thirty years years vears set on onfre fire fre most probably by some Indian hunter or b by some curious cowboy The Thc fact fal of it its burning so lon long proves the e enormity of oC the deposit In years ears to come when the tho south Is built buit up UI nore when the railroad is extended as Is promised and when the now plentiful woo wood l Is cule culled the thc coal fields s so o of Escalante Tropic an and will wl ped be worked and the product ship ship- COI Copper cr on flU Rock Hock uck Spring Spring- Bench Nor Is coal the thc only mineral of or Carfield Garfeld Garfield Gar Gar- field feld and Kane counties countes Fifteen miles south Houth of or Tropic o on what Is J known as Hock flock ock Spring bench Is a large deposit of copper ore of good quality the discovery discovery dis dis- dis covery of or which is recent recent Copper plains arc mc found in hun hundreds Ic s of or places between E Es calante and the Buckskin Jn mountains On the Buckskins in iii Kane I county are copper mines that have haw been worked successfully and In years year I past past ore has hns been shipped h by team in paying quantities Farther down own I the Colorado Colordo are arc the inestimable quan quan- titles tte I of copper south of SL SI George In ir 1 I Washington county count and In Jn northern I I Arizona Will yi it I pay to investigate this section Neither ch l ar coal anti and copper Conner tb the C omy on minerals round found In twi these southeastern south south- i eastern counties countes G Gold hI has has recently been discovered five miles north 1 of Tropic tho the assays of which show values val vat ties ues run ranging ln from tO to 20 21 O a ton tou practically surface showings howin M. M North orth- orth west of Pa thirty years year ear ago w m found deposits of or slIver silver thou though aJo h hur of ur a low ow grade IHle Near tin south rini of or the Great Basin between tw Hatch and Upper Kanah lanah tire are deposits o oC what hut appears to be pure Imre borax ls Going In 11 I ii Two capitalists from California were In town only last last week and alI Ol are arc convinced that lint a great future is in tore store for this section of the state Ins In Inus us s mineral wealth and t ten n da lays days back hi Henry Orton Olton of passed through hero with wih seven sven mining men menon on cli route to a point on the Buckskin mountains where ho discovered some Homo V Valuable rock ten cars ago while herding sheep The Tho antimony deposits at Coyote are 10 alrea already y producing good r returns and ld aro mo attracting attention They are aro Garl Garfield lc deposits and unc hel help to to swell tt lity number of oC mineral sections o of the tho two counties countes referred to One Ono barrier harrier to the time discovery an and development of or the mineral deposits e if of this s section f rM Ix the tw aridity of ut C tho time Country From May to tn September tJI sun SUI shines parching hot on the tho stands aps and anel water Is nut not Ift plentiful Men have found mineral riches were s licup herders or 01 cowboys and anel had no capital Hal to tn prosecute developments lc Time The mil way station IK is far and shipping ship ping has been 1 but In the time near near- future an awakening Is 18 looked for when additional discoveries developments develop develop- ments and shipments will J be made malc |
