The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1870-06-09
HnflAc Rallroad.

The western Mines OF the Rocky
Mountain Coal and Iron Company are
located on Bear river, about three
miles from Evanston, q station ou the
Union Pacific Railroad, butt by the
Rocky Mountain Coal and Irou Com
pany.
These mines wore disccved by one.
o the members Of this Co npany in
the Gll Of 1864, but wero not exten-
8 yely worked until about the time
the Union Pacific Railroad, was DOM
pleased to Evanstown, in October,
1898.
The Bran,h Railroal to the mines
was complicated in November, 1863,
since which time cars have been load.
oil A, the mines aud forwarded TO oil
poio,s on the Union AMI Central Pa
cifc Railroads. =,
The mines are nine hundred and
al,y-,cyen miles west of Omaha, nine
hun lred and City 1--we miles ers' OF
San Francisco, and s,ven,y miles east
Of Salt Lake (Osden)
The coal is found Ia NJ r'y q hor'.
z,utal position, and extends along the
face Of the Rear River Mountains,
north and south, for about oue aud q
half miles. 1t is reached by tunnels
from the main railroad track. The
vein or scam OF coal varies In thick
meas at the tunnels now open from
twouty-six to forty-two feet, and has
been traced by the blossoms and crop
pings some three miles cast
Tho quality Of the coal is very Pc
culisr. being between the anthracite
and bituminous, (semi. .bituminouO,
entirely free from al trac' OF sulphur
burns without smell or smoke, depos'
its but a small amount Of white ast
two and ono .ha'f per cent. OF water
and from seventy to seveuty-'our pei
cent. Of 6xcd carbon, also from twenty
to twenty two per cent. ot volatile
or inaammab'e matter.
The coal Is used in locomotives o
, the Union Pacific, Central Pacific
and Utah Central Railroads.. and make
ION the passenger locomotivc') up
wards of ninety miles run per ton o
coal. 1t ia entirely free from clinker
does not burn out the fire-boxes o.
!; crates. and Is universally conceded by
the railroad master mechanics and en-
J cineers to he the best and most econ
omical coal for steam purposes 10 Amer
lea.
Som, ,hundred and 6fty tons PEI
dav are mined at this time, but tn
mines are opened for tho delivery o
four hundred tons daily, which can b
increased " twelve hundred ton
wherever the demand shall rcquir'
it.
North Of the coal mines, and con-
/. ti,nOus u them, Is the irop propert!
2 of the Rocky Mountain Coal and irot
Company. This is . mountain OF iro
! which assays, from the surface, thirt.
. to thirty-6ve per cent. Of oxide OF iron
. thirty to th'rty-two per cent. OF car
9 Donate of lime, and is entirely fre
) from sulphur or phosphorus, 1t i
. , cxhaustablc in quantity. The iro
. exists 10 the form Of mixed car bonat
$ and oxide. -.
d This Company propose during tn
a e,,suiu. o."-sr 1870 to,erect ablas
furnace Of fifty tous capacity per>da.
for tho manufacture Of pix iron.
+ Owing to the proximity Of the COS
$ to tho Iron ore, it is believed that pr
, iron can DO manufactured at less Coz
!. at this point than at any place II
!. Pennsylvania or Ohio being situat
b. midway between Omaha md Sa
e Franci SEQ, the iron Acquires ad ditior
y. al value from the great saving in trans
r portation. =,
II Is extremely fortunate for tn
country that these great beds Of COT
e are found along the line OF the Pacii
railroad, as wood for steam purposes
: scarce and expensive. and will be o.
= tirely exhaus'el in few years, Will
o by the development Of the coal field
e Of Wyoming Territory, the Pacifi
T. railroads ore enabled to procure fu'
i for their locomotives at no higher rate
than is now paid for the coal Of Obi
II and Illinois by the railroads Of tn