Show AS TO SOUTHERN during the past few years quite a number of camps productive of the pre precious cious and baser metals have been established in the southern and southwestern south western portions of utah and this great and practically and undeveloped section holds out splendid promises in the way of the ultimate production of gold silver lead and copper still it has been known knowli fo for years tb that at the area embraced by iron and washington counties were prolific in their deposits of the precious metals which however in their e extent and prominence are hardly to be compared with the great mountains of iron ore to be found in iron county which I 1 in their ma magnitude 1 and almost incalculable extent su surpass the wonderful iron fields of michigan minnesota and wisconsin in these mountains of iron in iron county iron ore of the finest quality is ia found in a desirable variety included in the list being bemi tite and magnetic and often so pure in ebar character acter that the sepe ration of the crude ore into pig iron is but a step and this wealth of iron its existence has been known to the people of southern utah ever since the pioneers invaded this section over forty years ao aco 1 As a matter of fact this iron has been u utilized to a certain extent and in the early days in the history of iron county furnaces were erected and pig iron produced which entered largely r into the economy of the early sitt settlers lers of this region and in fact nearly every house in iron county settlements is today fitted with grates manufactured from iron county iron iron and yet it has taken years to convince the outside world that in utah there were mountains of iron and inexhaustible beds of coal aad until within the past twelve months conditions have not been favorable to the extensive utilization of this remarkable source of almost untold wealth now however boever the indications are that it will not be long before the iron mines of this section will be worked until great blast furnaces are established and mammoth iron works erected accompanied by a growth in other directions which in the near future will bring iron county to the front as one of the most prosperous and prominent portions of the state and of the west for that matter |