Show r ei oi REPORT CAUSES RUSH FOR COAL DISTRICT prospectors locating claims near proposed salina cutoff cut off considerable excitement has been aroused within the past few weeks by the rush which is being made in locating coal ands 1 in the mountains elst eist of richfield says al A ferguson who has recently been traveling through that district it has been known for some time that coal eilts in this locality said he but on account of the lack of transportation facilities no attention has been paid to it except for local use by ane ranchers lately however interest in coal seems to have awakened for a hundred miles around and locations have been made along the main ledge of the anthracite th coal belt this ledge is forty feet in width edth in some places and can be traced for a distance of twenty five miles the report that the denver rio grande railroad comp company a ny I 1 is a getting ready to build the salina green cutoff cut off is no doubt having its effect on the situation for the contemplated line will run within a few miles of the coal fields it iq 11 also thought that some of the t h e locators are acting in behalf of the denver rio grande company |