Show SOUTHERN UTAH COAL MEASURES activity there now that railroad is is promised good crops promised in dixie william ford one of the early settlers of southern utah was here last frida mr forda home is in cedar city no H I 1 though he has pent 40 years of hi hn life at Kan narra and I 1 his has rode the range in that section until every nook and cranny in the mountains for a hundred miles is known to him ile he is a booster foi 01 hs arlion and expects to lee some borne ia I 1 charges changes in that country now that a railroad is promised and is pretty sure of being constructed lie he says peaking spra kinK king of crop cron conditions that thele are splendid prospects arld and grain will wih be ready for r cutting in about three ree weeks the fruit crop is not damage to the ex e tent that was first reported and that there will bean be an abundance of apples and I 1 plums but peaches w ill be scarce mr rord ford talked of the im mene e deposits of coal in that country and baul thit he could arar true e the vein for i a hundred miles the coal veins have hae been pronounced anthracite toa oal ind and he san sais s the mounta mountains ins are seamed and coil tile oal meis ures of so southern u thern are just beginning to be known since the tha strong indications of a railroad for th it country hive been noticed noti ceil then them is an activity among the people to acquire much of the available coal land ire many mines in operation for supplying 9 the towns tonn of the di duct but no attempt h is ever been made to de the coal eins owing to the long distance from a railroad at st gerige harve harvesting ting is 13 on oil in full blast and khz th second crop of lucerne is being cut fruit is ripening and altogether things are humming mr ford went ent on to sigurd to agit asit his two sons who are arc living there one on of them is engaged at the jumbo comp anys anNs mill the boas like this country and the father wanted anted liv to see them in their new location |