The Cecil Whig., 1869-06-26
From the san Francisco Enlletin.
Rocky Mountain Minerals.

There is probably between Echo Canon
and Cheyenne-4S0 miles-no length of
twenty miles where coal of some quality
could not he found by close search, within
easy distance of the Union Pacific Railroad.
With the cusory examination of the coun-
try which has already taken place, coal has
been found and worked in dozen places.
The principal of these we will recount
Near Weber City, Weber Valley, there are
coal indications, but no steps have been
taken to lay open the bed, and probably
will not be for some time, the supply
from the great veins east of the Wasatch
will place the price so low that small veins
of inferior coal will not be worth working.
COAL.
Five or six miles from Echo City, at Col
vile, some of the Mormon inhabitants of
Utah are working a coal mine and for the
present supply the Union Pacific locomo-
tivcs at Echo Station with fuel, and also
the contiguous town. The cost of hanling
by wagons is s a ton, and the coal is of i'll
ferior quality and is only useful i'll the gen
Grafton of steam, when mixed with the bet
ter coal of the eastward veins. This coal
is also hauled to Great Salt Lake City, and
is generally used there. The expense of
hauling by teams brings up the costto fam
lilies to $50 OF $2J Il ton, and in hard viii
ters it occasionally goes up to $50 ton.-
When the Utah Central Railroad is COM
&c In.
the railroad at Echo and the family trade
at Salt Lake City, as the rail borne coal
will undersell that hauled by team.
At Evanston, eleven miles eat of Wa
ing with a long tlame-that is, emitting
much gas i'll combustion-and free from
sulphur. The vein is twenty feet wide and
nearly perpendicular, and as the whole face
is exposed it can easily be worked, and a
small blast brings down an enormous weight
of coal. The mine is two miles from the
railroad and connects by Il switch with the
main line. The Rocky Mountain Coal
Company own the mine, and one of the
directors Or. Henry has made arrange
ments through Chinese firm in this city,
for number of Chinese Rockmen-that is
blastcrs-who will Immediately be despatch
ed to this new field of labor DR.. Henry
got his views of the utility of Chinese, as
have Generals Dodge, Easement and others,
from seeing their work on the Central Pa
cific, and in putting them into practice, he
is only anticipating the practice of other
men who have learned the value of Chinese
labor. An invoice of flour has been bought
in Sacramento and despatched to Wasatch
for this mine as an experiment. This mine,
it is expected, will not only supply the Utah
division of the Union Pacific Railroad and
most of the Utah towns on the Utah Cen
/ tral lines, but will supply fuel for working
the Central Pacific over the Salt Lake,
| Humboldt. Shoshone, and Truckee divi-
sions, when their present small supply of
cedar gives out. DR.. Henry talks of send
ing coal for domestic consumption ON this
side of the Sierras, even as far as Sacra-
mento claiming that the superior quality
will beat Bellnghan Bay and Mount Dablo
-
what is probably much more feasible, is to
Get this coal introduced by branch line
from the Central Pacific, i'll the vicinity of
Reno, to Virginia City and Gold Hill. lie
says with a good profit to the railroads, it
can be laid down there an TO be a cheaper
generator of steam for mining purposes
than WOOD even at 81 cord The lowest
price the Truckee and Carson River Rail,
road contemplate bringing down cord wood
to is $40 cord. 1t Is not necessary to dc
more than point to the fact that these pro
babe reductions in the cost of steam power
are coming forward, as the increasing deptl
at which paying ore is found, makes heavier
machinery, for hoisting and pumping OF
the Comstock lode, necessary.
OTHER COAL FIELDS.
On the road to Denver, Sl miles from
I Cheyenne. the Rocky Mountain Coal Com
pany have another colliery. 1t consists o
nine foot vein uf fair coal. This will be
come valuable when the Denver Railroad il
completed to Cheyenne, because it viii
have access to the domestic consumers o
both cities and ncighboring military ant
mining camps, and also to the Union Pacific
e stations eastward. It's great value, how
d ever. its contiguity to the iron deposits o
the Black Hill country.