The Klickitat County Agriculturist, Goldendale, WA., March 10, 1906, page 1

COAL MINES LOOMING UP

     There is no doubt but the Mount Adams coal field is the most extensive, finest and the easiest working of any coal field in the Northwest, and perhaps in the United States. There are thousands of acres of this fine fuel buried beneath the foot of this grand and monstrous pile of rocks and snow. The land is as yet unsurveyed, but nevertheless, a large portion of it has been taken up on one side of the mountain, but there are other places near at hand, where, although the coal does not show such indications, perhaps upon development it would show even better. The finest which was taken by the late Wm. Chatfield and others, is what may be called a wonder in the way of coal. It is on the side of an embankment about eighty feet high, between the bottom and top of which are some seven or eight distinct veins of coal varying from three to fifteen feet in thickness. There is a tunnel into the large vein about sixty feet, and the coal develops into a fine quality the farther away from the surface, and shows an inexhaustible quantity of the finest quality. The tunnel is nine feet high and yet not in any place reaches the bottom or top of the vein. In the center of this great mass of cole is a vein - the one followed, which is six feet thick - that is very hard and brilliant, looking exactly like the famous Brazil block coal. The coal above and below this is softer, but has great blocks of this hard coal mixed throughout. Work has been suspended for several years, but we believe a patent has been secured on the claim. With the advent of railroad construction in all directions, it is believed these mines will now take on a new life, and that in a year or two, there will be a second Roslyn at that point. The opening of these mines would be of utmost importance to the people of Klickitat county as much of the supplies for the miners would come from this section.

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