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Show 13 ( This accessible readily source of high-grade fuel provided I <' impetus to the establishment of large smelters in the Salt Lake Valley, , ) and proved important factor in the later location of an the Ironton and I Qeneve ._/ in Utah plants County The Pleasant purpose of mining became the main Coal Valley the coal late as were in at Castle The 1876. 20 beehive were other the the Pleasant 75 per cent of all the coal mined in Utah Company's The coke most use In 1898 the hauled to the ovens at mines important were located Castlegate, Sunnyside at behive Mine Castlegate At was hauled ovens by wagon were and for a erected to the Utah Valley Coal Company for at erected number of years coal opened. coking, p. Sunnyside.2l 509 . . Hobson, OPe clt., p. 31. 21Hobson, , was peak production, ovens 19Hunter" , 20 Huntington Canyon In Emery was the smelters. by built at the mine. thirteen-foot produced In 1890 the Pleasant ovens coked there for were soon Although Company, 1875, and eleven beehive coke in opened Valley Smelters. eighty which for the Gate, Winter Quarters, Clear Creek, and Sunnyside. was there in area Territory. operation, among The Fairview mine at the head of County 1876, in Carbon-Emery and the Grass Creek Coal Company 1900.19 in the of coal in the Utah Valley Coal Company produced as Company, organized deposits producer competitive companies Wasatch Coal • p, 31. At first the coal was but in 1903 coking there 819 twelve and were ovens The Clear Creek mine |
