The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1915-12-31
Carbon aud Emery Coal Fields Ar,
Immcnsr.

About half the counties Of Utah
contain coal deposits though In some
OF them there has been practically
no development. Within the borders
Of Carbon county bituminous coal u
found In abundance and there are
also deposits of elaterite. ozokerite
and asphalt. The coal companies OPP
Grating In the county produced In
1914 nearly three million tons Of coal.
which. figured at the average price
- fiei per ton, amounted To So
f30. 600. decided decrease from 1913.
because ~ the general depression Ia
business and other causes ~ 1gtJ
Carbon county produced $4,000 tons
of coke. valued az ti.GSs.sO7. OF this
amount over two-thirds was shipped
out of the state. II IN reported.
ON the Emery county side Of the
wasatoh range. Tor distanc. 81 sev-
cnty miles are some Of the greatest
measures OF what IL regarded ~ the
best coal In the state. II " cstimat-
ed that In this field there are from
ak 10 seven billion tons OF hitur1inous
coal. the value 81 which. added Co
that nf the gypsum and carnotite
mines. contribute 60 make Emery
county one uf the richest sections 81
the state In potential wealth. within
the past five years Mcfarland. one Of
the newest and largest coal camps In
Utah. has been opened up In Emery
county aud la 1914 produced 2bS.Ntl
tons. Another camp of importance b.
iinok Hawk. situated on the Emery
Carbon boundary the openings ~ the
mines being In Emery county New
coal camps further south are contem-
plated.
Grcat Things Ahcad For Iron County.
Iron ,ounty's greatest potential
wealth perhaps lies. or viii ultimately
Ne. In the mammoth deposits ~ the
mineral whose name the county bears.
Second only Co iron. In Importance
from AN ultimate commercial stand
point and even uf more consequence
az resent and until the section shall
have attained a higher degree of de-
yciopment. are the measures ct nn-
thrncite and bituminouH coal found
within the county, In the vicinity ~
New Harmony. In the extreme south
crn end uf the county and extending
across the line into Washington cuun-
ty, h located an Immense body OF
high grade scmi-anthracitc coal This
deposit has been developed To- some
considerable extent boy means OF turn
ncls ana drifts, exposing an almost
limitlcsF quantity of practically an
thrucite coal. the finest. IL h said, 90
be- found west OF Pennsylvania. This
coal does not coke. ana the claim h
made that II does not require IL. as Il
| h "a "hemcrsc' and "a smokoless coal
East of Cedar city and Kannara In
the canyons and on the mountain sides
have been opened M number OF
points good bodies of hituminous coal.
suitable Tor steam and other COM
mrrcial purposes. but which are az the
present time supplying fuel only for
/ the residents OF Cedar Cly and
ncighhoring towns As yet there Is
not sufficient development work TO as
certain the real quality of the product.
/ The coal being near the surface. the
] pnalvFiH would contain more ash and
m"istur" than when greater depth IN
| reached
This body at coal can be- traced Tor
| bout Fifteen miles along the face 81
tNe mountains ana back for two or
three score miles, II Is held by some
| experts 60 connect with the coal meas
ures Of Grand county distance Of
uerhaps two hundred miles How
| ever this may he. there g. no question,
/ iron county residents claim, as "a the
| quantity of good fuel stored there
| awaiting transportation facilities a.
nlaces where IL win rll much felt
want upon the Pacific Coast,