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Show g IH BIS COAL MltlE PROJECT Opening of Coal Mine in Iron County Will Help Solve Fuel Problem ' " Mayor Kelly and Other Bingham People Interested Commercial Com-mercial Club of Cedar City Entertains Officers at Banquet. f Among the industrial developments which will be of state-wide interest and also of much interest to Bingham , people is the opening of vast coal de- posits In Iron county, In the southern part of the state by the Iron County Coal company. It has been known for a long time that there was in Iron county "coal enough to roust the mountains and Iron enough to bridge the ocean," but only recently has any determined effort ef-fort has been made to utiliez . these valuable commodities. - The officers of this company, are Fred W. Webb, president; Ernest Green, vice president; Q. B. Kelly, treasurer; T. St. (L. Atkins, secretary; Prof. William Peterson, state geologist, geolog-ist, consulting engineer. City, a quiet and unassuming town I City, a quiet and unasssumlng town j of 2000 souls, some 250 miles southwest south-west of Bingham. The people of the i little town were delighted when It be- j came Known that 'Bingham and Salt Lake .financiers had decided to take ,, hold of the project and give to the V, world markets the great mineral re-f re-f sources which for ages have lain Idle awaiting the touch of industry, and to show their appreciation last week the . Cedar City Commercial Club gave a banquet to the promoters. Among the yuests at the banquet were President Webb of Salt Lake and Treasurer Kel- ly of Bingham. :Mr. Kelly was highly pleased with . the visit to Cedar City and he was sur-V sur-V "prised to find such -vast amount of w , coal, and he feels confident that at no distant day it will be supplying much of the fuel for a large section of territory terri-tory that now gets its coal from long distances. President Webb, who was In iBingham Tuesday, stated that active act-ive mining would commence within three months, and that coal would be going out to help fill the demands hade by the great draughts on our supply by our allies in the war. These coal deposits were discover-1 discover-1 - ed by the early .Mormon settlers and i for a time both the coal and iron were mined In a small way, and there is . st;l some evidence of the. crude old smelters in that community. |