Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of
Date of this Version
7-1906
Citation
Science, New Series, Vol. 24, No. 602 (Jul. 13, 1906), pp. 51-52
Abstract
ALTHOUGH for years past the state legislature of Nebraska has offered a bounty amounting to four thousand dollars for the discovery of a twenty-six-inch bed of workable coal, and five thousand for a thirty-six-inch bed, it is only within the past few days that any one has filed with the governor legitimate claims for the bounty. The bed of coal recently exposed, near Peru, Neb., extending some forty-two feet along the sides of a tunnel back from the banks of Honey Creek, seems to be fully thirty-four inches in thickness, as measured by the writer. This is known as the Honey Creek or Peru coal mine.