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Show COAL FIELDS' G00DR0ADS Salt Lake Route to Co-operate to Open Up Productive and Scenic Utah One of the most far-reaching enterprises en-terprises ever undertaken in southern Utah will be launched in a few weeks, according to a report made by Dr. Ernest Green of Cedar City. Utah. This is the opening up of one of the greatest coal deposits in the west. Dr. Green is the owner of 160 acres of coal land which he claims is the key to all the coal lands in Iron county. The land is situated three miles from Cedar City and eleven miles from Lund on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. It is located lo-cated 230 miles nearer the Pacific coast than the great coal deposits of Carbon county. A company is already in process of formation which, it is said, will take over the property of Dr. Green. It will be incorporated for a million shares, and work will begin on the property Just as soon as Prof. Peterson, Peter-son, of the Agricultural College, makes a report on the cost of the proposed pro-posed tramway and equipment. The tramway is to run from the mine to Cedar City. The stock of the corporation has practically all been taken by Salt Lake capitalists. It is said that the opening of these extensive coal mines, ultimately means the development of the great iron deposits of Iron and Washington Washing-ton counties, which are the largest undeveloped iron deposits in the world. These are the only great coal and iron deposits lying along the route of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad. The railroad company has already had surveys made of the line from Lund to Cedar City, and it is said that if that company does not construct the road, other parties stand ready to take hold of the enterprise. enter-prise. It is claimed by Dr.' Green that the construction of such a road would eventually result in its extension to the Grand Canyon at Bright Angel Point, where one of the best views of the canyon is obtainable, and that it would open up the Kaibab forest, where the government is now offering offer-ing for sale three billion feet of standing timber. It would also open undeveloped fields of gold, silver, lead, copper and antimony. |