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Show nn.Mrris.s issckd on CASTI.K VAU.F.Y COAIj The Fnlled Klate geologlcat survey sur-vey ha Issued n bulletin (No. 621) on the geology nhd coal resource of Cnstln ValUy In Carbon, Kmery nnd Kivler countlts. copies of which may bo had from Congressman Howell or other members of the I'tah di legation, lega-tion, or direct from the survey. Tho bulletin wa written by Charles T. l.uptnn. It describe tho geology and coal resources of the country ex tmdlng southwest from Wellington, on the Denver nnd lllo Ornnde railroad, rail-road, nearly to Thousand I-ake Mountain, a distance of more than eighty miles. There nm n number of maps In thn document, showing not only the position of the geological for matlons, coal beds nnd mines, but nl so towns, roads, rallrouds, streams nnd other reatures. The Kmery coal field, whldi lie at the southwest end nf the region, I fully described, Dlreitor Oeorge Otis Hmllh. In call-'lug call-'lug Itepresentnttve Howell' attention I to the bulletin, sn)s the coal of the i Kmery field compares favorably In quality and thickness or 1x41 with the coal or other fields In Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, and a careful sllmate Indicates that the field contains morn than a billion ton of coal, or whlih one-half or two-thirds can ! n-cov ered. |