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Show GREAT INTEREST III IB COAL FIELD (iBy U. Tah.) Fred W. Webb, president and general gen-eral manager of the Iron County Coal company, returned yesterday from the properties of the company near Cedar ' c,ty, Utah, where he went to com- mence work on the aerial tram from the properties to the terminal located almost at the main street of Cedar City. The Cedar City Chamber of w. Commerce met last 'Monday night and resolutions were passed indorsing the efforts LMr. (Webb is making, looking to the great development of this country. coun-try. The enthusiasm displayed at the meeting was marked. The development develop-ment of these fields Is of epoch mak-. mak-. ng importance, not only to Cedar City but to the surrounding country, and the fact ahat a railroad will shortly be built in order to take care of the transportation of coal will open up a large mining and farming territory that will mean millions of dollars to the local people. The deposits on the Colob Plateau ' have been estimated by geologists in the employ of the United States geological geo-logical survey, and have since been confirmed by eminent mining engl neers, to contain above 2,500,000,000 tons of coal. The coal is an excellent coking coal and representatives of smelting interests are now In the field making examinations of the deposits looking to the erection of a smelter at the mountain of iron that is located within ten miles of the property of the Iron County Coal company. That .a smelter will follow the development of these coal deposits would seem to be assured. Upon his arrival in the city, Mr. Webb said: "I have been engaged In many large propositions throughout the country, but the undertaking of developing these Colob Plateau coal deposits is of the greatest magnitude of any development devel-opment proposition that I have either handled myself or been interested in. The needs of coal along the Salt Lake railroad are enormous, and as everyone every-one knows, the shortage is marked. We have entered into tentative con tracts with various steamship and other companies at tidewater in order - to provide a market for our coal, and a . railroad will be run thirty miles west cf Cedar City. |
