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Show Coal Makes A Unique Exhibit Column Thirty Feet High Makes A (ri-eat Iinprt'wsion Constructed of Six Solid Hlocks of Utah Coal liaso Measures Four Feet In Diameter, Diam-eter, Lower Block Weighs Seventeen. Seven-teen. .Hundred .and .Ninety-Five Founds Analysis. Due to the unique coal exhibit erected by the fuel companies of Utah at the Panama-Pacific exposition, now open to the public at San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Utah is winning distinction. The coal exhibit is said to be the center cen-ter of attraction in the mining building build-ing and is directing considerable attention at-tention to this state, as well as evoking evok-ing much favorable continent. It is the most striking exhibit in the building. build-ing. The exhibit is constructed out of six solid blocks of Utah coal and is thirty feet in height. Its base measures mea-sures two feet six inches in diameter. The lower block of coal weighs 1795 pounds and the upper one carrying t.he cap weighs S4 5 pounds. The total to-tal weight of the column is, in round numbers, L'6,000 pounds. The coa'l of which the block is composed com-posed was furnished by the Utah Fuel company, the Consolidated Fuel company, the Independent Coal and Coke company, the Spring Canyon Coal company and the Standard Coal company, all operating mines in the Castle Valley coal fields of Carbon county. Several of the coal seams mined in this territory approximate in thickness the total height of the column. ' Accompanying the exhibit is a typical analysis of the coal of which it is composed, as fo.i-jwa: Moisture, 1.5'.) pur cent; combustible volatile matter, 4 0.28 per cent fixed carbon or coke, 52.73 per cent; ash, 5.45 per cent; total, 100 per cent; sulphur ".34 per cent. The heating value id sairllo be 13.412 British Thermal units per pound of coal. The Utah coal fields cover approximately approxi-mately 15.2 00 square miles and contain con-tain 1f!7. 000,000, 000 tons of coal. If Utah had to supply the coal consumed con-sumed in the United States it could do so for the next 386 years, and at (lie end of that time have considerable consider-able coal to spare. |