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Show 1 ) t coal VEIN 43 FEET thick. ucky Strike Marie Eighteen Miles ' From Evanaton, Wyoming. Arinrilrtin; to a apeclnl frum i:nna-ton, i:nna-ton, XVynnilnjT, Jimoph A'-oCka Ins l:i:iilo public the atnry nf probably thn rveiteit cnnl dluriivory ever madn In tl.n wo torn slatea. Mr. Acneka anya tint about e'Kht yoirs nvt. while pronpnrtlnjs fnr c,uart?. l-ollio eighteen tnllei nnrthoTFt nf Uvm-ton. ho , 1 tuck Ma prni.portlnr? ploK throurh a Ciln rtridim of aan.btonn. w-hleh lirnko awny, nnonverln a coal vein, j l he-n be!n;: r.n Rrml mnrkrt for cnnl tt tlint time, bo covered up hla prnn-ort, prnn-ort, nwa'tlnK an n'Pirtutin thnn tn npon It up. 1 hla rummer tlio I'nliin ruiinc Coil rinipiny sent Its pros-('.Ttfnr; pros-('.Ttfnr; Rina; Into tho country with a Idlatnnnrl drill tn Incite If pnsall In the cirt dip nf the Cumberland and tho Uprlng Valley cn.-il veins. I Mr. Aenrka watched tlnlr ninvo-monta ninvo-monta cliisoly until they woro within two miles nf bla bidden t-eaaiiro, and then procured a force of men am! commenced to open up tho vein. Hla Greitnrt oxportatlnne woro moro than realized, for a vein was cxpnact! forty for-ty feet In thlcknos and baa already been uncovered for n illntance of clRht mllei, with apparently no end. Kli;ht entrloa havo been madn Into tho stratum, which dips un an onojo of IS or 20 decreoa. Tho coal la of a superior su-perior quality, bclna; tlio truo Cumberland Cumber-land stratum, which Is thn Fox hill formntlnn unbroken and In place and much eleiner than tho original Cumberland Cum-berland vein. A Rood water supply and cxcilleiit rallrnad fuclllllo arc clnae at hnnd. Thn land this coal wnr discovered nn Is nnvoi-nment prnperty. and Mr. Acucks has applied fnr a patent pat-ent on all the surroundlnrt country He will make no rtil'mcnt ss to whit (II. pnrltlnn he will mnko nf his ifent (llrcuve-y, beynnd siylnit ho has boon offered a Knnil lli;uro by llaee pruinlnunt enncerns. |
