Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-14
dahos Coal Fields and Their Possibilities

.ur fuel problem ia Idaho is one
II ~ The most serious questions
touching The future material
i development Of the state, Tor
Alb. our territory ls lavlshly endowed
,.wre with a variety OF natural
,,rees the one most important
. of coal resource g. rather deh-
,t m It's development as
KIN 9S per cent OF the total area
tee state DO uccupie- 30 s-
esea or motamorphie metal bearing
nations. However recent invesu-
i mas shown thut iGano possesses
Printed area OF the most important
f.lrIru formations OF the west.
90. 81. SHOWN .nis coal bearing re-
d. hot To- exceed ~ By 80 miles
'-y,,uf ana covers puruon ol ttr
M 80. .6fagrs OF Fremont ana Bing-
v .o.uuea adjoining the Wyom-
mi state liue
IGNITE COAL DEPOSITS.
p,,ssors of Ignite coal have been
,.l'o,...B boz half dozen different
.rt.s. boo the state, but with the ex-
.r..r o. those at salmon ClJy, uotn-
vi bas Igsu disclosed 80 far oi CONE
-e-.aI mpnuyDce IA this line. The
--,it. r.4.- aIr usually very high m
~ ana moisture. and while some u
1.m may prove OF cyus.uo.a... ..-al
-,o1rt.uoa as a source OF domestic
+ II Is Ldialy likely that they VIII
-.r eut much figure I'm a CONNER
,si Uav. as they are usually OF very
rUe3 area.
7i.s r,a. deposits OF Bingham anu
r...-,rt. ,olntes IRE OF the DituminoLs
,-riatv and are contained IN well
,srslopel series Of Cretaceous coal
ZINC formations. Lower Laramie
~ltbout question "a part of the rich
,,sI bearing series of western Wyom-
',g and contain the characteristic
,ssUs of that series extensively de-
tloped
AT HORSE SHOE CREEK.
The most important occurrences OF /
cal I'M the state. so far discovered /
srl developed. are at Horse Shoe |
cr4ek "a tributary of the Teton river, /
n Fremont county. about 20 miles east /
N sugar city and the same distance /
nom sd Anthony and ReNburg.
Looking east from Sugar City, the /
rsaks of the grand Teton's are OBJ
grrod excepting their highest crests.
M a long low range Of hills that
eaeh Boz elevation TO about 1900 feet
above the general level of the Snake
river plains. and form horn shape
gur from the Teton range. They sep
.arate the main Snake river valley from
he Teton basin and die out I'm a low
togback 20 the north between Canyon
creek and Hadeu ON the stage line eN-
tending from ST. Anthony to Victor
and Jackson Hole. The big hole
ridge Is au anticlinal fold that Ia
.badly broken at its south exposure in
ths direction Of the South Fork can
yon. but lis northerly termination
seems TO be- less disturbed and 10 have
q rather uniform struction. A cross
section OF this uplift from west TO
east win show a fiat dipping series OF
.rhyolite lava sheets that cover the en-
t-e easterlv slope OF the ridge and
extend nearly to it's crest that aggre-
gate 500 feet I'm thickness, as exposed
ty fault Don the Snake river canyon
bear HeIsgs hot springs.
A PECULIAR FORMATION.
Underlying this immense flow OF
PINK lava and forming the actual crest
b the ridge IS a series of heavy beds !
o q-arizose sandstone and massive
lads Of blue and gray Cretaceous llme-
f9ae OF very pure quality, Under
ping The heavy beds OF limestone Of a
saiogTa phical width for nearly "A
pile e a series OF beds Of fossilfer-
pas sandstone and shale beds. with |
fmeOus Intervening seams high grade
luminous coal and everything this Sc
Pc On the extreme easterly slope OF
DIS uplift, Is "a remnant of the same
ryoIlie that is exposed on the western
|iape which is probably the eastern
rs Of the anticline, and indicates that