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Show CEDAR CITY COAL TO BE DEVELOPED; HOI'E FOR BRANCH RAILROAD Development of coal mines mines that are expected to be. large producers will be under- taken this summer by the Iron County Coal company, near Ce- dar City, Utah. The company has purchased a property from Dr. E. Green of Cedar City, and is negotiating for additional lands that will make an aggre- gate of about 600 acres. The land is two miles from Cedar City, and the company will have the advantage of being several ' miles nearer that place than any other oth-er producing mines. Cedar City is thirty-two miles from Lund, a station on the Salt Lake Route, and efforts are being made to have a branch of the road extended to Lund. The route would be across a flat country where no bridges and very little grading would have to be done, so tho cost of construction would be comparatively light. Such a branch railroad would open the Pacific Pa-cific coast market to the Cedar City coal, it is claimed, and because the coal is bituminous, caking quality that will not slack or generate spontaneous spon-taneous combustion, there would lie a big demand for it. Such qualities make it desirable for use on ships, and the Cedar City people have an eye on the needs of the navy, it being be-ing understood that the government is to construct a number of coaling stations along the Pacific coast that, it is hoped, can be supplied from the Cedar City mines. According to geological survey reports re-ports the holdings of the Iron County Coun-ty Coal company contain 8,000,000 tons of coal, in three beds six to forty for-ty feet thick. The compnny plans to work the middle vein, which shows a thickness of between six and seven feet. At present coal used in Cedar City is "hauled from mines seven to ten miles away at a cost of $2 a ton. The new comptny management believes be-lieves that coal from its mines can be delivered in Cedar City by the 1 aerial tramway for 10 cents a ton. About 20,000 tons a year are consumed con-sumed in Cedar City and its vicinity, and the company expects to control that trade, as it can supply coal at less than other producers. The Green property is declared to be the key to the situation in Iron county. The tramway will cost about $30,000 and the company expects to expend $50,-000 $50,-000 more in opening the mines and equipping the property In first-class shape. One of the greatest iron deposits to be found in the world is only a few miles from Cedar City, and with railroad facilities available, the residents resi-dents of that portion of the state believe be-lieve that development of the iron and coal mines would be undertaken on a large scale. ' The .officers and directors of the company are: L. W. Robbins, president; presi-dent; J. A. Rasmussen, secretary and treasurer; Judge Joshua Greenwood, Prof. A. Peterson, John C. Sharp, Dr. E. Green and Judge Charles H. Sharp, general counsel. The company is Incorporated for 1,000,000 shares of 25 cents par value, val-ue, of which about 700,000 shares remain in the treasury. Mining Record. |