. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. asatch to Kanaband Paria, 20,000 square miles. The formation may have been entirelycarried off by erosion in considerable areas; but it was all originally under-laid by coal, and the upper edge of it, lying along the eastern face of theWasatch, from Pleasant Valley down through Castle Valley to the Colorado,has not been eroded away. A railroad eastward from Salina through the canon would strike midwaythe Castle Valley coal field, which is twenty or thirty miles wide by 150 mileslong, the coal cut int
. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. asatch to Kanaband Paria, 20,000 square miles. The formation may have been entirelycarried off by erosion in considerable areas; but it was all originally under-laid by coal, and the upper edge of it, lying along the eastern face of theWasatch, from Pleasant Valley down through Castle Valley to the Colorado,has not been eroded away. A railroad eastward from Salina through the canon would strike midwaythe Castle Valley coal field, which is twenty or thirty miles wide by 150 mileslong, the coal cut into and exposed here and there by the canons of thestreams. A railroad from Springville, on the Utah Southern, through SpanishFork Canon, will strike the head of Pleasant Valley in fifty-two miles, fromwhich a way can probably be found into Castle Valley. The latter road isbeing constructed, and will reach Pleasant Valley this summer. The formerleaves the Utah Southern at Nephi, and reaches the Wales coal vein on theSanpitch in twenty-seven miles. This it is promised will also be constructed. COAL, IRON, AND OTHER MINERALS. 33 this season, the grade through the canon having been nearly completed a fewyears ago. From Wales down the Sanpitch to the Sevier, and up the Sevierto Salina, is an easy route, and the canon thence into Castle Valley is said tobe practicable for a railroad. Utahs supply of coal is absolutely inexhaustible, and it will not muchlonger be inaccessible. It is probably a lignite, like all the coals of theRocky Mountain region, containing about 50 per cent of fixed carbon, al-though it is claimed that the vein at Wales, which is four feet thick, eightmiles long, and supposed to continue into the mountain six miles, is semi-bituminous. It dips about fifteen degrees from the horizontal, and is openedto a depth of 1,100 feet. There are twenty improved Belgian coke ovenshere, and before the owners suspended work, they made and marketed 100car loads of coke. They crush
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