The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-01

xoN6s. A short narrow guage rail.
road runs from the place to Park
City. Experiments GO to show thRt
1T ia of q non coking character, and
hence Of little use in connection with
the smelling OF this Territory.
TO the east in Wyoming are still
further deposits of similar lignitio
character. South slong the Wasatcb,
coal has been found in various places.
and varying character, but owing to
.siistaLce from railroad, IN few places
has much OF anything been done.
Eighty to ninety miles south-east oi
9ais city, in and near San Pete Val
ley, q number OF seams from six
inches to six and half feet in thick
ness, of excellent bituminous coal.
fzas bsen found. while little further
60 to- east. among the mountains,
others sa vide as ten OF eleven fee:
are being worked.
Already narroW-guags road has
been pushed up Spanish Fork, and
this ro3d makes them easily sccss
sibie. This coal yields a good quality
of coke, which is being used at the
furnaces in the Salt Lake valleys.
Now i! is delivered at the smelters
much cheaper than can,the Connells-
vile coke from Pennsylvania, and
still yield s handsome profit. At the
further beds mentioned, is a large
mum Der Of coking ovens, turning out
coke continually, Of which large
stock is said 10 be- on hand. Little
need be said of the coal beds OF Iron
County, and those far south, some OF
which are twelve Or more feet IN
thickness.
These and many others not men
toned. and bat little known, often
3hauce discoveries. prove the pres-
: a1os eff coal throughout the Terri
tory. and any future demand will be
at once supplied, either from them Or
many others ye! to be found.
The coal OF Utah has thickness Of
aaors than 200 feet, and lies along the
eastern slope of the great Wasatoh
Eange, from the boundaries OF Wyo>
ming, through the Uintah Reservs-
zion, Pleasant Valley, on Hunting
: Ton Creek, Castle Valley down to
Rana5 and Pahresh. There lie
splendid coal on Weber River and
its tributaries. for ten to fifteen miles
above Echo. We have thousands of
square miles of good coal land, which
is Ia splendid future for all of US and
Tor the railroads.
In the Ssnpete Valley, already
mentioned, ia the sandstones and
oongIomeretes, with the Goa, are
beds of shsle containing jet, ozozerite
and almost enough oily matter to
burn alone, while in the vicinity are
springs, bringing to the surface con-
siderable quantities of petroleum,
Eurther to the north similar snsles
appear. In view of these facts, it lie
aot improbable to suppose that oil
Will be found upon search being
.a1ade, and Utah may yet supply at
least her own markets.
eAET, GYPSUM AND SULPHUR.
Gypsum is abundant in Utah, the
Euost notable beds being in San pete.
above Cove Creek, on the Muddy and
soy Nephi. One vertical ledge is 100
9Geet vide. Fifteen or twenty miles
below the railroad. station at Salt
Creek are seemingly mex ssustible
quarries Of salt and gypsum; the
former yielding 80 per cent. of the
pure Article, are.~ being steadily
worked, and number of tons daily
are shipped to the Ontario mill for
ehlorid!zing purposes. OF this article |
the Territory can furnish almost any
amount.
The northern part of Utah abounds
90 salt springs pouring into Great Salt
Lake. The brine of Great Salt Lake is
Il per cent. solid matter averaging the
lake. IS per cent of which solid mat
Ger is salt, As evaporation continues,
other salts separate from the common.
leaving the manufactured article 81
line. The sun makes thousands of tons
every season. The price of the crude
article ia s. per ton. Further to the
south, along the TANKS of volcanic
Iphesvsls, very extensive sui phur de-
posts have been unearthed. On
these but little work has been done.
They are awaiting further railroad ia.
acilities.
COPPER.
In the extreme north. western SEQ
zion OF the country, within fly miles
Z! railroad, copper district has been
opened. The veins lying in micacious
stale, associated with porphyry aud
varying from 5 to 20 feet in width,
appear to carry almost all of the ores
Of copper. but mainly the oxide and
glance, which yield sometimes as
nigh as 50 per cent OF the pure metal
The mines are considerably developed
and the prospects exceedingly good.
Ehsre also appears copper in Copper
Gulcb, Saniranoisoo district. Cotton.
wood, Snake district, Red Butte Can
yon, sill over Beaver county,
Bingham Calyon. Antelope Island,
q L.