Show WYOMING'S GREAT COAL COAL MEASURES t Government geologists who ho have ten been en measuring Wyoming's coal ebal re reo resources ret t sources announce that in one ono field fleM the Gillette thero there are Arc moro more than p. p tons in workable wo kable hams f ams That is almost as much Coal as has been mined rained in the United nit u-nit d States to dale date all mines a total of about tons Over this vast coal domain are scattered hero horo and there tI re several country mines and prospects from which small quantities q bf of coal have been bren tal rn for Jor domestic dom use Ranchers mine their heir own coal from the nearest outcrops which usually are bluffs along some stream where whore the weathered coal is kept wash wash- washed washed ed ed away n by freshets All points In the Gillette fleM are within GO CO miles of the tho nearest railroad shipping points railroads running to the tho north and south of the he field Railroads have been US us- usIng Ing DS this coal which is of low sub- sub bituminous rank ot of ot a class often referred to 10 as black lignite and burns readily A considerable part of tho the coal In n tile Gillette field Is owned by bythe he the United States and Is subject to development do under under- government go lease After Ater the fields now being ex exploited ex- ex exploited have been exhausted thero there will be a rush to this huge untapped tied pod coal resource With talk of diminishing United States resources a general thing thins today toda knowledge of this vast tract comes as aston aston- astonishing astonishing information |