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Title: An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Tuttle, Charles R. (Charles Richard), b. 1848 Durrie, Daniel S. (Daniel Steele), 1819-1892
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: Chicago : Richard S. Peale & Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s now being successfully worked,about five miles southeast of Fort Dodge, in Webster county.Large quantities of coal are shipped from that point to Dubuqueand the towns along the line of the Dubuque and Sioux CityKailroad. Three or four years ago, it was barely known thatsome coal existed in Boone county, as indicated by exposuresalong the Des Moines river, but it is only within the last two yearsthat the coal mines of Moingona have furnished the vast suppliesshipped along the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, both eastand west. The great productive coal field of Iowa is embracedchiefly within the valley of the Des Moines river and its tributa-ries, extending up the valley from Lee county nearly to the northline of Webster county. Within the coal field embraced by thisvalley, deep mining is nowhere necessary. The Des Moines andits larger tributaries have generally cut their channels downthrough all. the coal measure strata. The coal of Iowa is of the class known as bituminous, and is
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24 TuTTLifs History of Iowa. equal in quality and value to coal of the same class in other partsof the world. The veins which have so far been worked are fromthree to eight feet in thickness, but it is not necessary to dig fromone thousand to two thousand feet to reach the coal, as miners areobliged to do in some countries. But little coal has in this statebeen raised from a depth greater than one hundred feet. Prof. Gustavus Hinrich of the State University, who also offici-ated as state chemist in the prosecution of the recent geological sur-vey, gives an analysis showing the comparative value of Iowacoal with that of other countries. The following is from a tableprepared by him — 100 representing the combustible: NAME AND LOCALITY. 03 O 0,0 co Am S3 (0 0 > Brown coal, from Arbesan, Bohemia.. Brown coal, from Bilin, Bohemia Bituminous coal from Bentheu, Silisia.Cannel coal, from Wigan, England... 36 4051619450 64 674939650 3 16 21 10 2 5 n 005325 114123126113104110 8

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