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Show ,". ' toff oamMnnafM riMiiimi ' f " ' ' " "" " . OGDEN MEN IN COAL MINING f ' 5Iorc attention is being given to the coal Ciolcls of southwestern Utah, than, to any other fuel area in the West. Eastern investors aro buying coal lands in Carbon and Emery counties. pa.uuj,' the "' government from $100 to $350 an acre for land' thai, prior U the ! withdrawal of the coal areas, sold for $10 to $20. based on the pwximity of Uie land, to railroad transportation. Ogden investors have not overlooked the fiell and cfne of the strongest companies, -with. Ogden capital haek of it. i: now preparing prepar-ing to open up what is said to be the largest col vein in the I'mted States, about 20 miles southeast of Price, where the coal is i-la-vscd ns a semi-anthracite. The coal resources of Utah have been seareely scratched over. but. with the change in Hie coal industry, brought about by the driving of the railroad companies from the commercial field and the opening open-ing of the coal measures to outsido investment, surprising developments develop-ments will be made. |