Show coal discovered in gap four foot vein proves to be coking and gas coal found by R A kirker expert of nation wide reputation best bituminous turn tu coal in county parowan carowan boasts imants of having THE oal aid mine of southern utah the P product being far superior to any bi et found in this see sec ton tion of the state the te events leading up to tn the finding of coal in this valley are as follows in april of alex H rollo d decided c that coal could be found in commercial am re al quantities in this valley vailey an and at after t er deliberating for a fe few w days day as to the best method to go a bout finding it asked dr E smith and G W eatough to join with him and secure t the he services of R A kirker a on coal a 1 expert of nation wide reputation and have him prospect the browan parowan valley Accord accordingly y mr killer was employed by the gen gentleman aleman and mame imme whately began the search for coal in dica ions going first carefully over the canyon which upon investigation proved ta be a poor door field so summit not cans cani on was then prospected with the result that coal of a fair quality was there but not in large a enough n ug h quan quantities titie s to pay for cevelo development amilt mr 1 kirker erker then made a careful study of the locality ina known n as the gap and came to the conclusion that this w was as the place to find coal it if any ext existed in the valley he a then in prospected near what is I 1 known as red lake and after about twenty minutes search found exactly what he was hunting for in the way of af coal indications upon digging a shaft to a depth of sier sever al feet he was successful in uncover ing an excellent coal flow which gave every indication of developing into a four foot vein of coal the flow had been up heaved to an angle of about 65 degrees and it was de aided by mr kirker karker that a tunnel should be driven about feet be low the flow in order to tap the vein where solid coal might be encounter ed when this stage of the proceedings was reached rillo ratio smith and eatough fou found nd that their ready supply of the coin of the realm was practically exhausted this caused the gentlemen to interview a number of the parowan carowan ineize citizens as and secure their assistance ind in driving rivin g t the he tunnel to tap the vein As a result a co partnership was formed be tween rollo smith and eatough and kirker together with 26 paran par Paro aan an gentlemen the money put up and work on the tunnel begun the t tunnel was as driven for a dis tance of feet and the vein un on boie entered d and proved to b be I 1 just w what hat mr kirker estimated it would 4 ft of coal of superior quality testa test of the coal I 1 hae hile proven that it is I 1 a coking kinland kin gand and pascoal gas coal has but very little sulphur and no p rites a of f iron iran which means that it will not clinker but burn away to a white ash ill the tests show that it runs run high in carbon the kind hind of coal that la is found in sunn side coal dis brict the salt lake route officials have hae been highly interested in the coal prospect from the beginning saying that if the vein is of commercial size special efforts will be made to have it shipped to the coast via the salt lake route the amalgamated sugar company of ogden also states that if the coal is of the right quality yh Y h it pro esto to be and the salt lake route will 11 build a spur to the mine they will ill erect a sugar factory in carwan parowan valley the spur is completed however even if the rail railroad road does not build a spur to the mine there will be plenty of sale for the coal as already people from beaver Miners minersville ville paragonah Para gonah as ve ell as parowan carowan and summit are anxiously waiting for shipping to begin which wiil wid be within a very few dav das a this coal lies in the colorado group measure and is older and better than the coal in the mesa verde verda coal measure its quality makes it ideal for furnace use as it will not clinker or choke draft with excessive smoke intake the units of heat beat are very cry high which means that m more service can be secured from 1 one I t ton m of this coal than from tw tons of the average coal of I 1 iron ran county previously uncovered |