The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19
MARKET FOR UTAH COAL
NEW ROAD WILL AFFORD
Estimated That 100000 Tons Increased Produc-
ton Will Quickly Follow Roads Completion
Southern California will Be Supplied from This Sats-Coa Meas
ures Practically nexnausbe

/ company partner or the Marquis OF
Butte, and man OF wide experience
I in these lines. made a careful inves-
! tgauon of the coal situation at the re-
/ quest of his cousin. Colonel Miner. His
steamships touch practically an OF the
Paclnc coast ports In North and South
/ America and he Is familiar with the
shipping requirements FOR coal. He
came to these conclusions:
San Pedro's Importance.
Il consider that San Pedro might be-
made one OF the chief, IL not the very
chief port Of the Pacific coast after the
: clark road is completed. and IL should
/ certainly have a big share OF the
China, Japan and Philippines trade.
/ With the railroad through 10 vour
coal properties. i feel sure that San
Pedro could command the whole coal
/ trade of the Pacific coast sJuth OF San
! Francisco.
You may be assured that Ecuador
Peru, Guayaquil. Panama and Aca-
/ pulto consume fully 1900 tons per an-
mum. Last year Q90l) Chile imported
( from England 334, liza tons. from Aus
tralla 440,350 tons and from the United
States $3.50. OF a total of sos. ga tons.
this being exclusive Of coke Of which
S0.S6l tons were imported into Chile.
making total consumption of 1.559.644
/ tons Of coal In above named c0un-
tries"
It is expected that Utah steam coal
can be sold IN San Pedro In quantities
for So ton for vessels and coal for
domestic purposes for $3.50 ton about
81 under prevailing prices. With this
immense advantage that Utah could
nave almost monopoly for the coal
trade south Of San Francisco. and an
advantage over competitors In San
francisco, the coal going up the coast
by boat from San Pedro.
Quality Of Utah Product.
Except for the mining at CoalviIe
and that of the Utah Fuel company at
Castle Gate and nelghbOring places IN
Carbon county the coal resources OF
Utah have been practically untouched
until now the salt Lake route Is 20
give their development an important
stimulus. Their extent Is described by
Professor Marcus p. Jones as follows.
"GeOlOgically, our Goals belong 10 the
cretaceous age. After the basin was
upheaved ia which the coal was formed
a large lake was left In the center.
the waves Of which gradually wore
away the shores until the coal deposits
cropped out In precipices 1900 feet
high. The streams also cut box cam
yons at right angles to the shore line.
thereby exposing the nearly horizontal
coal beds In multltudes of places. So
that TO take out coal IL is necessary
only to run a tunnel in on the bed and
cart out the fuel This does away
with all the costly hosting machinery
so common elsewhere.
This coal belt enters Utah near
Evanston, Wyo., forms a large basin
near CoalVille, then runs east along the
north side Of the Uintahs TO and
around the eastern end Of the noun
tains; thence west back along the
south side to the head OF Spsnisb
Fork canyon where il forms the coal
range. the watershed between the
Colorado and the great basin. whence
II runs i'm a southerly direction for
many miles, and then bends westward
past Cedar City near which are the
iron deposlts) and Kanarra, thence
west until il passes out of the state
above St. George. In the southwestern
part OF the state the deuOsits are
small while between Iron City and the
Uintahs they are very heavy.
Supply For Centuries.
ms coal uel1, 900 10 1000 miles
long, is ten miles wide I'm the narrowest
place, while in others il may run up to
twenty-five miles. IL Is estimated that
we have 10000 square miles of coal
lands in Utah, but this is an exaggerr
alton; still we have immense bodies
Of thousands Of square miles. and of
such thickness as 90 supply the United
States for centuries. There is no coal
TO the west Of Utah except some poor
llgnltes, scarcely used, in southern
California; so we shall always supply
the great basin, and at least part az
California. with coal AT CoalviUe the
workable vein is ten 20 thirteen seet
thick; az Pleasant Valley there are two
veins. one thirteen and the other
twenty-elght feet thick: at Castle Gaia
the largest vein is fourteen feet.
With such immense resources anon
which TO draw. with an iron indust-l-
likely to be flOurishing and with tba
salt Lake route furnishing direct cheaD
transportation to the seaboard- lie
production Of coal I'm Utah is sure fo
grow until the state becomes the rival
If not the superior Of Pennsylvania in
that line.