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Show ! BIG COAL BEDS AT CEDAR TO BE WORKED Through the efforts of Ernest Green of Cedar City, the Iron County Coal company has recently been Incorporated In-corporated and strong financial interests, in-terests, headed by Fred W. Webb of Salt Lake City, have taken hold of the proposition and development work on the property will be started immediately. Negotiations are now under way for an aerial tram in order or-der economically to transport the coal, and active mining operations will be commenced as soon as ar- i rangements have been completed for the installation of the tram. '. The company has under its immediate im-mediate ownership a large acreage of patented coal land, situated two miles from the head of the main street in Cedar City. Because of the peculiar formation of-Colob plateau and the abrupt rise it takes from the plains, the property owned by the Iron County Coal company occupies a strategic location, in so far as transportation facilities are concerned. con-cerned. The vein of coal traversing the property lies flat and ranges from 6 feet 8 inches in thickness to 12 feet, and estimates made by government geologists state that there are 1,-400,000 1,-400,000 tons of coal on the property, without taking into consideration the volume of coal that underlies the vein which outcrops at the side of the plateau, according to an official. The property is situated 3 2 miles east of the Salt Lake Route, with a good state road running directly from Lund (the railroad station) to Cedar City, but with the enormous tonnage in sight and the fact that these deposits lie 320 miles closer to tidewater than the Carbon county fields and 200 miles nearer the coast than the Gallup, N. M., coal lands, a railroad direct to the aerial tram terminal will be only a matter of a short time, considering the keen need of coal throughout the entire west. Situated eleven miles from the property of the Iron County Coal land holdings is the enormous iron deposit which has been decided by government geologists as one of the largest in the world. With the development de-velopment of the coal properties, it is only natural that smelters will soon be located in a territory where both coal and iron exist in such abundance. The coal is bituminous and determinative tests have shown that it contains 12,000 British thermal ther-mal heat units. It is an excellent coking coal and has been used for domestic purposes in the district for years. In 1907 the United States geological geologi-cal survey took cognizan:e of these deposits and an expedition under Richardson and Pepperberg, geologists geolo-gists connected with the government, undertook a complete survey of the district. This report was published in a bulletin of the survey, in which Messrs. Richardson and Pepperberg estimated the tonnage of coal four miles back from the escarpment to be the staggering total of 2.267 -803,840 tons of coal in an area o 295 miles. This report has since been confirmed by other United States geologists, as well as the reports re-ports of various engineers who hay made examinations of these remark-::ble remark-::ble fields. |