The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
Half the Deposits in Utah Will
Never be Worked.
THE WONDERFUL VEINS.
The Castle Gate, Pleasant Valley and
COalyille Mines.
Coal Enough to supply all the Western
states and Territories for
Hundreds of Years
to Come.


inexhaustible.
There are hundreds of veins that will
not be worked during the next hundred
years, and while the present supply is soft
or bituminous in it's nature, it is believed
that anthracite equal to the Pennsylvania
or Colorado article will yet be found with
in our borders.
A semi-anthracite coal has already been
found in Emery county, but it is too far
away from the railroad to be mined to adj
vantage.
The first discovery OF coal was made at
CoaiYille, Summit county, many years
ago, and some great mines were worked
at big profit for several decades. Later
on the Pleasant Valley and Castle Gate
mines were opened by the Colorado Coal
and Iron company, and these were worked
for several years, yielding millions OF tons.
In the same valley the Union Pacific owns
several coal mines, which have produced
largely In the southernmost part of the
territory there are also huge deposits,
which are worked on a small scale, sup
plying the immediate neighborhood only,
on account of the lack of railway facll1-
ties There are also some very good
mines in Chalk Creek canyon, near Coal
vile, which will yet be heard from.
The Pleasant Valley Coal company is
operating mines both at Pleasant Valley
and Castle Gate, Emery county, the lat
ter place producing the better quality.
The mines in both places are operated by
very complete plants, and are lighted
throughout by electricity, and this is the
sole power used to drive the pOnderous
machinery used by the company. and in
firing the shots which blast the coal out
of the solid. The company has made I'M
provements during the year at both
Castle Gate and Pleasant Valley in the
wav of machinery, miners houses, etc.,
in fact everything that goes to
make model coal mining camps and
plants. Castle Gate has fine school,
debating society, reading room and other
things of nature to elevate and instruct
the citizens. The company employs be-
tween five and six hundred men the year
round, and ships in round figures about
300, 900 tons.
The company also makes a coke that
is equal to the Pennsylvania article, and
is sold to the smelters at a less figure than
the foreign product can be laid down for.
The coking plant is capable of producing
over ten thousand tons per year, and this
capacity will soon be increased.
There is no reason why, if there was
demand for it, the Pleasant Valley mines
could not mine and ship 4, 900 tons day.
THE HOME COAL COMPANY.
The Home Coal company is operating
nearly if not ali the mines of Coalville,
and has ground enough before it to last
over a hundred years, If the average out
put were to even reach 500 tons per day.
For years the company has maintained an
average pay roll of over $1,000
a month, and it gives en-
ployment to small army of men. The
| coal mined here is bituminous in its ma
ture, and is a general favorite with the
people of Salt Lake. With a railway
| from Salt Lake to Coalville not under the
control of the Union Pacific, but operated
for the benefit of the citizens OF Salt Lake,
| coal could be laid down here 81 a ton with
big profit to the dealers and the owners
of the mines. The present output of the
Home Coal company is about one hun
dred tons per day. The mines of Coal
Vile are among the most important in
dustries of Utah, and it will not be at all
astonishing if the near future sees eX-
tensive manufactures spring up in the
immediate vicinity of Coalville which
has good railway connection.
IN CHALK CREEK CANYON,
also. only few miles distant from Coal
Vile. are immense deposits of excellent
coal. samples OF which recently exhibited
in this city appear to be equal to anything
of a similar nature IOltuu III GuI9 GeII1UOIy :
Near Upton, in the same county, there
are beds OF good coal. These, however,
have not yet been developed. There are,
however, several other counties in the
southern part OF Utah where large beds
OF coal are known to exist. but they are
not worked, owing to their distance from
the railways. The advent OF some OF the
many lines now pointing in this direc-
ton, however, will make it possible for
this natural wealth to be utilized.
IN IRON COUNTY,
but too far away from the railway to be
utilized now, there are also inexhaustible
deposits OF coal, in close proximity to the
immense iron deposits spoken OF else
where.
With favorable railway rate, Utah
| coal would be a household word in all the
western states. AS it is, our coal is used
in large quantities outside OF the terri
tory.