, 1907-12-17

that magnificent road arc away
above the possible grades of the pro
posed line. Here was the best natural
roadway that ever led across the noun.
tain range.
Business in Sight.
There was only one other question
to ask, but that vas mighty important.
What would a road have to haul after
|, was built on the proposed line?
Well, to begin with 1t would run
a rich irrigated district which
produces an immense amount OF
traffic and with its easy grades
1t ought to get its full share of that
trade. Just by way of illustration. the
one town of Fort Collins pays for haul
ing freight in a single year more than
a million dollars and the new line will
bring Fort Collins Is miles nearer to
than the line that reaches
there now. The new road ought to get
half of that business to say nothing of
new business that VIII be created
by the building of the line.
Immense Gravel Beds.
Next the projectors found that they
could get hold of a deposit of gravel
or rather disintrigated granite, such
as the Union Pacific uses to ballast all
Of its tracks out in the western coun-
try. 1t is said that the Union Pacific.
has similar deposits of decom.
posed granite, can sell about all that
1t can haul out of there for 500 per car,
the cost OF loading same on the car be-
Ing about $3.50 per car. In view OF
the fact that the new company could
get control of several million carloads,
business of shipping and selling
this so-called gravel will be no e
business. But the Kansas projectors
were looking for more gravel. They
lad heard that there were vast depos-
us of coal up in southern Wyoming
still untouched and they went up to
see what there was to the story. The
report they brought back sounded az
IL 1t was filed with Kansas atmos-
phere. The people who were told, in
sisted on being shown. When they
vent up to view the land they found
hat the half had not been told.
Surprising Coal Veins.
A coal vein three feet thick lool.e
rood to a kansan. He has become &C.
,ustomed to seeing coal measures OF
,nly IA inches worked at a profit. He
S taken out to Wyoming and three
measures of coal, some ranking as
'emi.anthracite, the top beins
2 feet thick, the second IS feet thick
md the third below, % feet thick. |
These measures crop u of the hill |
ide one above the other. What there |
$ still below no man knows but ge-
claim that a still heavier and
icher vein lies deeper than the ones
discovered. This coal is unusu-
lily light; there is almost no moisture
II it and the specific gravity is not
great. 1t takes of this Goa about a
cubic yard or 81 cubic feet to weigh q
on. At this rate there are in round
numbers $4,000 tons of coal under each
lcre of land in this part of the Wyo
ming field aimed at by the Kansas
abroad projectors.
Millions of Tons.
AS they expect to get control of at
1000 acres of this coal land all
with coal the total possible
iupply would run well up to 800, 900, 900
ons, which can be mined at a cost
If considerably less than 81 per ton. !
Kansas consumers have been paying |
or coal that is not so good as this,
rom $3.50 to IS per ton.
Forty miles on beyond the coal
ields the projectors found a vast body |
If hematite iron ore. Maybe you have
ooked up the word hematite and know |
what it means, but for fear you haven't
We might say that it is derived from a
ireek word meaning like blood"
is caused by the iron ore coming
N contact with the atmosphere and
'xidizing, we presume, the oxide giving
ore a red cc'or. We did not visit
he iron deposit and only speak of it
hear-say.
Control of Iron Lands.
We are informed that the Kansas |
nen have secured several thousand
lcres of this iron land and that there
S enough iron ore on it to relay with
rails all of the roads in the union.
They also speak of large deposits o,
asbestos. which mineral in its pure
is worth some hundreds of dol
ars per ton n further on up the line
S a vast oil field which is said to be
he finest in the country.
"NEWSY" GIVES