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Show Escalante Coal. KscnlaniV, down in Garfield county, coun-ty, is not worrying nbotit its conl supply sup-ply next winter, according to L, C. Christeusen, conl mine operator nnd rmirher of Hint region, Kxenluiite is nbout seventy milen over the "rim of thujinsin" from Mnrysvnle, on tho railroad, but it gets its conl supply from mines close at hand, Tin conl sells at two dollars n ton nt the mine mouth or at four dollars n ton, delivered de-livered in the customer's bin in Ksca-limte. Ksca-limte. "And n ton of coal usually weighs nround twenty-five hundred pounds there," snys (fhriHtensen, His mine is on uu outcropping of conl in Albey Vnsh. No is working n seven nnd n hnlf foot seam, but suys that there is n thin coating of shale for u floor and Hint (hero u Himthwr koHiu below reaching to n depth he Iiiih never determined, though he has dug in for jmssibly five feet. This eotl, however, being under the bed nt the wash, is wet, nnd not so pUiMinl to mine, mid so far thoro has been no great necessity of mining wei eonl near Ksenlaute. Christeusen snvs Hint in Cherry Creek Canyon in the uciuity appear nuteroppiugs of coal in three big veins, resiioctively eight, twenty-four nnd six feet thick. I to lins as yet been unnble to get the government gov-ernment to fix any price on it. |