Roosevelt Standard | 1914-10-19 | Page 1 | Coal Discovered

COAL DISCOVER discovered tD the most import important at discovery that has been made here for years was the finding of a vein of coal within two miles of roosevelt heber timothy was out prospecting for gypsum tuesday and accidentally came across a surface cropping of coal along the henderson berich bench 1 two miles north of roosevelt wednesday they dug into the ledge three feet and it is claimed that the vein is getting larger and better as depth is reached if this proves to be a good mine it will be a god send to roosevelt and duchesne county as it will solve the expensive fuel problem for this part of the basin instead of paying 1000 per ton for coal we will be able to buy it corless for less than half that amount atrain again it is another big assiat added to Roosevel ts jn many ny resources 9