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<br />0009lJ6 <br /> <br />Page II <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />. TIlle ent:ireJ area bounded roughly by Highway 4@ 00 the north, the Axial Basm and <br />Highway 13 on the east, the Book Cliffs on the Smith and the (hoeen River 00. the <br />west, is bla.n!l:eted by illlIlllIerWll beds of coal. varying in depth frmn OM Ill" two tt9 <br />abomt telrl or twelve feet. Thelre are h'Wlldreds of miles of outcroppmgs of theslll <br />ve:!mi and the pioneers of' the area used to go till these outcroppmgs and dig their <br />fuel suppJ.;r frllll1 lnmdreds of little hllll1e millles which they developed Oll!. their <br />ranches or near their settlements. <br /> <br />In addit1.oll1 to these regular GOal. be!is there is another group of tremendous depth <br />which extend rough]y frl!llll the Axial Msbl west soothwest to the vicinity of <br />Dragon, Utah~ these beds va:r'f' in width to thirty miles or' more and outcrop alo:ng <br />almost eve~ strealll. and major rav'me whiGh crosses these depreits. <br /> <br />These depreits, which were slllIletimes refen"ed to by the early geologists as the <br />'mlImnn coal beds because they did not se6lllll to confQ'.t'lll to the geBeral fOl"lll!lticm of <br />,he regions ootcr<op bl the Rangel;f a.I'E!a in some of the higher elevations aJ1d cm <br />s';~eep mwnta.:ilm sides where OIIlle may get a good general idea @If their deptk and the <br />It'pth of the hard sandstone f<Ol'1I!ations which separate the different; coal deposits. <br /> <br />The accompany1ng graph was made fr@1l!ll one of these h:i,gh wtGroppings which is locate<< <br />eighllt miles up the White River frl!l\ll Rlmgely at a Pl!)iIIilt knOWllll as the Staley mine. <br />This mine is working in the No. 6 vem which has an average depth of better than nine <br />feet. <br /> <br />These deposits 'were reGognized by the ear1;y s'llX'Veyo!'s as of such :importance that <br />. iYidll.strial plant sites at strategic p<oints among them were reserved fill!' construotion. <br /> <br />Studies made by the Brilllm EngiJmeering COlIIparl;r sht!lw that a speoial stud;r was made by <br />the U. S. Coast and Geodet:l.c Survey.. this Stlld;r indicates that the speoial. coal <br />reM extelOOl wer the area :wcluded in the tIlSpeoial Stlld;y Areatll (page 12) ud oOllitaa <br />one hMdred m:lJJ.i<Oim t<1:l11lS of gOl!)d grade coal. <br /> <br />! geimlllral idea of the total qUalIiltity of coal :l.n the district cu be estimated by <br />IIl1iltipllying the whole area by the rmmber of tOM noted in th:!...9 special study per unit <br />area.. this would illdioate approodmate1y te1ll billioll1l tons @If coal conta1Il.ing approxi- <br />mately fifteen billiol1Jl barrels of oll available. <br /> <br />AJJiL at these 0001 dep(;lSits are of high grade bit1.lminous, hard and glosBY's with 1aw ash <br />OOllrtent and pract:!.illaJJ;r ill@ froreiglffi matter. One can readiJ;y see from the accomp~g <br />allMl1;ys1s that this c<oal. woo.ld be a splendid SOll1'C6 of synthetic fuels due tEl its high <br />content of volatile matter. <br /> <br />&:ilalYsis - Staley Coal. <br />ifTUs 13490!1b. <br />Mroistures 1% <br />Volatile Matters 36.6% <br />Fixed Carbons 5101% <br />Jl.shs 4.9% <br />Tra@e8 Sulphur Uranium <br /> <br />5120/59 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~_ _ JL;,", <br />