Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-06-16


twenty miles where coal of some quality
would not be found by close search within
easy distance of the Union Pacific Railroad.
With the cursGry examination which has
already taken place, coal has been found
III dozen places. The principal of these
we viii nc ecount. 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, as
the supply from the great veins east of the
Wasatch viii 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 coal mine and for the
present supply the Union Pacific locomo-
tives at Echo Station with fuel, and also
the contiguous town. The cost of hauling
by wagons is 81 ton, and the coal is of
inferior quality, and is only useful in the
generation of steam wheT mixed with the
better coal of the eastward veins. This
coal is also hauled to Great Salt Lake
City, and is generally used there The
expense Of h9uling by ms brings up the
cost to families to $50 to S25 ton, and in
bard winters it occasionally goes upsto $50
a ton. When the Utah Central railroad is
completed this mine will lose its best GUS
toners me railroad at Echo and the fam
ly trade at Salt Lake City, as the rail,
borne coal viii undersell that hauled by
cam.
AT Evanston, eleven miles east of Was
Itch, Is a fine vein of superior coal, burn
ng with q long fiame-that is, emitting
much gas in combustion and free from
sulphur. The vein is twenty feet wide and
nearly perpendicular, and as the whole face
s exposed it can easily be worked and a
mall blast brings down an enormous weight
i coal The mine is two miles from the
ailroad, and connects by a switch with the
main line. The Rocky Mountain Coal Co.
pwn the mine, aud one of the directors
DR.. Henry has made arrangements
through a Chinese firm in this city for
number Of Chinese rOckmen-that is blast
rs who viii be Immediately dispatched
0 this new field of lapor Dr. Henry got
lis views of the utility of Chinese, as
ave Generals Dodge, Easement, and
,thers, from seeing their work on the
'entral Pacific, and in putting them into
,ractice he is only anticipating the inten.
ions Of other men who have learned the
alue of Chinese labor. An invoice of
lour has been bought in Sacramento and
dispatched to Wasateh for this mine as an
experiment.. This mine it is expected,
I'll not only supply the Utah division of
he Union Pacific railroad and most Of the
Utah towns on the Utah Central lines, bat
viii supply fuel for working the Central
Pacific over the Salt AXE Humboldt
Shoshone and Truekee divisions when
their present small supply OF cedar gives
ont. DR. Henry talks of sending coal for
domestic consumption on this side of the
Sierras, even as far as Sacramento,
Bellinghan Bay and Mount Diabo out of
the market His great idea and what is
probably much more feasible, is to get this
coal introduced by a branch line from the
Central Pacific In the vicinity of the Reno,
to Virginia City and Gold Hill. He saws,
with a good profit to the railroads, it can
be laid down there so as to be a cheaper
generator Oi steam for mining purposes
than wood, even at 81 a cord. The lowest
price the Truckee and Carson River rail-
road contemplates bringing down cord wood
to is so a cord. 1t is not necessary to do
more than point to the fact that these
probable reductions in the cost of steam
power are coming forward as the inereas-
ing depth at which the paying ore is found
makes heavier machinery, for hosting
and pumping on the Comstock load nee
essary.
AT Rock Springs, Is miles east of Green
River and 1877 from Wasatch and within 100
feet of the depot are two veins of coal, the
property of Mr.. Van Dyke; the principal
vein Is four to six feet wide and the coal is
Of good quality. Almost the only market
for the product of this mine will be the
railroad, for the use of the locomotives
and cars running on this division of the
Union Pacific railroad.
AT Point of Rocks, 26 miles further east
the Wyoming Coal Company have several
veins of fair quality, varying from three to
five feet in thickness. Their collieries are
connected with the railroad by switch or
short branch of two miles. Near the same
point, Hall & Co. are working five-foot
vein of similar coal, and connects their
mine also with the railroad.
At Black Buttes, eleven miles further,
and nine west Of Bitter Greek, a proprietor
known by the familiar appellation of Jack
Morris. is working five feet vein Of coal
the produce of which is brought to the
railroad by u switch OF three-fourths of a
mile in length.
Near Rawlings, the Rocky Mountain
Coal Company, the owners of the Evanston
colheries have Il magnificent coal field;
three veins thirteen feet, twenty-six feet
and forty feet, the latter Is said to be the
widest coal vein in the world The coal is
NNlN bilSll anu ClGdu " lltIlCllt-, dHtl DuElS
with a short flame emitting great heat but
little gas. When used Tor locomotive pur-
poses it is necessary to have the fire CRATE
raised. 1t is Of no use for making gas and
will not coke, but it can be used success
fully for smelling iron ore in its natural
state. The collieries are half a mile from
the raj road and communicate through q
switch
few miles further east in the direction
of Laramie few hundred feet from Car
bon station, with which it connects by a
switch, is n 6! foot vein of coal belonging
to the Wyoming Coal Company. This is
the only instance ON the line in which the
coal is got out by vertical shaft In every
other it is worked by tunnels or open drifts.
This concludes the list of the principal
coal veins known and now worked. 1t is
somewhat singular that the finest coal and
the largest deposits are just over the re-
spectiye SUBMITS and ON the outer slopes
OF the great plateau between the summit oi
The Wasatch range and the summit of the
Rocky Mountain range. II may be advisa-
BILE here TO explain that the summit of the
Rocky Mountain range is actually crossed
near Separation Station, though the de-
preston is there so great that the apparent
summit and much the highest elevation is
found at Sherman, on the summit of the
spur known as the Black Hills
OTHER COAL FIELDS.
On the road to Denver, 81 miles from
Cheyenne, the Rocky Mountain Coal Com
pany have another colliery. 1t consists o
nine foot vein of fair coal. This Will be
come valuable when the Denver Railroad
is completed to Cheyenne, because 1t will
have access to the domestic consumers o.
both cities and neighboring military ano
mining camps, and also to the Union Pa
enc stations eastward. Its great value,
however, arises from its contiguity to the
IRON deposits OF the Black Hill country
IRON.
mere are IN the Black Hills not only de.
po7ltS OF IRON ore equal in extent to the
largest known on this or any other cont.
nent, but they have the remarkable adITon.
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