A Hematite Mountain

Almost in the exact geographical center of Wyoming is a mountain of solid hematite iron ore, with 600 feet of lt above ground. more than a mile wide and over two miles in length. liesides the iron the mountain contains a bed of lignite coal large enough to warm the entire world for a century, a dozen dried-up lakes of soda, where the soda is deposited to a depth of over 300 feet, some of the lakes being over (iOO acres in extent. In a mountain adjoining there is a petroleum basin larger than those of I'ennsylvania and West Virginia eombined. Out of some of the springs pure rectified coal oil is trickling at the rate of twenty to thirty reis per