Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

by comparatively poor people.
who have kept continuously
at work since they discovered
the deposit five years ago,
during which time they have accom-
plished over five thousand feet de-
velopment work in the form OF cross
cut, tunnels. entries and air courses,
in Il consistent effort to demonstrate
the merits OF their discovery as
commercial coal mining deposit.
CLEAN HIGH GRADE COAL.
This extensive development has
been performed on vein of clean
high grade coal, five feet thick in hard
sandstone walls, and showing Il single
parting OF carbonaceouS shale two
inches thick. This Is n steep pitching
vein that strikes like all the others IN
the measure. nearly north and south
and dips west at an angle of IS de-
grecs 1t has been opened by two
cross-cut tunnels. The lower tunnel is
nearly 400 feet long and taps the vein
at q depth Of about zoo feet on the
dip at which level entries have been
driven for nearly 1000 feet in length
with several air courses to the
surface.
The deposit is laid open to work by
the long wall gravity system with
chutes at 80 foot intervals and shallow
crown pillars to protect the entries. This
lower development has been system
utically done, Is in splendid shape at
the present time. and Is Il credit to the
manager in charge. and one Of the
discoveries of the claim, Mr.. Leroy Hill
man and Mr.. David Nauhun, an cE-
EerenCed Welsh coal miner who, with
the addition of n carman. have formed
about the average crew kept on the
development OF the property. Quite n
tonnage of coal has been sold from this
development to satisfy tho urgent de-
mands OF the nearby farmers, the re-
ceipts OF which have been relSiously
put back into the further development
of tho ground.
This property now has n splendid re-
serve OF clean coal under cut and
opened by entries and chuteS ready To
mine. which, by virtue of it's superior
quality, Is in good demand in this Sc
we're winter climate, but. owing to some
uncertainty as TO their right to sell
the coal before patent is obtained IN
excess OF actual development work, the
owners are not pushing extraction, as
they have an earnest desire to enter the
claim when the survey has been COM
petcd and don't want TO hamper their
chances to do so.
All the coal that has SO far hccn
extracted from this property has been
sold to the local farmers Of the region.
who come to tho nlinc with wagons and
slcighS FOR long distances to obtain the
coal ana during the fuel famine PERI
DDS OF several winters past, this inter-
esting deposit has several times ma
tcrially aided in relieving IL very seri-
Gus situation. This coal has been sold
at prices varying from I5c per ton for
slack to $3.50 per ton for lump coal -
for small nut and $3.50 FOR run of mine,
Adjoining the Brown Bear claim TO
the north. the other properties in order
are the Boise, Last Chance and Pack
saddle. each of which have been de-
vclopcd tn the extent Q: several hun-
dred feet and have now exposed, at
moro or less depth, veins OF clean coal
varying from two to ton feet thick and
have almost concluslvcly demonstrated
the continuity of this important series
OF coal seams for the long distance pre-