Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-11-18
COAL BUSINESS.
Colorado Experts En-Route fer
 the New Fields.
Another Shaft to be Put Down Eleven Miles from tho Last--Bill-
 ions of Tons of Coal.

| in one or two years for about SC ton. This is equal to wood for Sl.50 per cord, in additions to being more cleanly and requiring infinitely less work to bring about its consumption.
 The Sonora coal fields furnish better and better reports. E. B. Wagy, iu t iu from there, reports seeing fer him. self what seems almost credible the creppings of eixty-fo vein of coal. Such body can hardly be con- prehended. On the boring astonishing figures are given. They were: Seventeen feet down, six feet vein. Elghty-one feet six-foot vein.
 Two Hundred and seventy-one feet, sixfeet-fwo-inch vein.
 Three hundred and niuety-three feet, twepty-two feet.
 This is total of forty-one feet. Taking foot in thickness of coal to produce lUOO tons per acre gets the following, as the available result in the valley, of 200 square miles: 200 times GAO Al 900, tqualiHg 5,248, 100000 tons. However stupendous these figures, greater depths and bigger bodies are yet to be encountered.
 SAMPLES OF THE COAL.
 MT. Wagy brought in with him a lot of samples eff the coal from various seams found in the shaft sunk in the past m nth. It is beautiful coal, truly. It has the hardness and shine of the anthracite. Coming from near the surfacs it IS more broken however. From another part of the field he brings samples of "egg" coal. Egg coal Is curious formation os very hard anthracite formed in small irregular balls. about the size of eggs. The for nation in which they are embedded is also coal. The egg coal :s very valuable, the best coal in the market, always being quoted at hightst prices. The veins include one of the egg coal twenty two feet in thickness.
 DOWN TO BUSINESS.
 Four Colorado experts and capitalists passed through Benson night before last, en route for the fields. They will put through the sinking of shaft X 6 feet to the depth of 400 feet The sink
 
 recent shaft of forty feet, which was merely xperimentai-and a highly gratifying experiment. They said if the coal fields were even onc-tenth as good as claimed aLd showed they would be satisfied and push the work. Work will be begun at once.
 The question of labor becomes of paramount importance in the working of such masses of men as are employed in the great coal deposits In Sonora cheap labor is abundant, and should this run short, the Mexican laws do not prevent the importation of Chinese, Japanese, Italian or other foreign con- tract labor. The government, iu its anxiety to promote immigration to de- velop its latent resources, is not par ticular as to the pedigrees of the in- corners. However, the company that will undertake this enterprise, is pre- pared to introduce into the workings of these mines sll the machinery and labor saving appliances known to modern mining, and, consequently, no other colliers will have any advantage over them in this respect.
 With exemption from taxation and | duties, ard the railroad and transpOrts- tion privileges which have been granted by the Mexican government together | with the latest Improvements for mov- ing and shipping the product, It be- comes self evident that delivery into | the ships hold at Guaymas. will cost | less than from the Pennsylvania or Newcastle feds. The distance by | rail from the mines to Guaymas is | seventy-two miles, and the freight will | cost about one-fourth cent per ton, per | mile. The distance by sea to San Fran l cisco is 1500 miles, being about the same as from the northern mines in Washing l ton. From Guaymas to Yuma is only | 400 miles, and here this cheao coal can | be sent over the Southern Pacific, while l at San Diego shiploads will tap the | transcontinental Santa Fe.