Show IRON ORE OUTPUT it has been apparent for some months month that thai the iron ore product is destined to play a most important factor in the revenues revenue of this country for this year according 0 to the geological z survey r generally accepted as eminent and accurate authority on such subjects the iron ore output for the un united cited states for the year 1898 was a trifle e over nineteen million long tons the same source gives the output for the year 1899 at nearly twenty twenty five million long tons far in excess 9 of that of any other country in the world making a 8 net gain of nearly sixteen million tons ha W ing a value of per ton in 1899 as against again 11 the per ton in 1898 three states in union practically contributed the entire pm nine na duct namely michigan producing million tons closely followed by minne al with something over eight million tons in mil von being third with nearly two ON tons and twenty 0 one other states state 8 tons J the total of perhaps twenty six million utah it is interesting to consider the position po arest if inthe the in this procession might assume g prose P iron ore business was industriously buted irrespective of the ni r elou ow depos eber its in utah wasatch juab morg who and salt lake lak e counties th there e re are those t 41 0 ile maintain that in iron county ic iron rank ran could soon be made to take first ac ore production it is said and generally gene cepter as a truth that in iron county excepting a skim subsoil that the county is all a ma petite and bemi tite iron ore experts who out but a short t time ime ago were employed to examine and report on the iron ore possibilities of that section proclaimed them ansur passed or unequaled auy anywhere where saying t that hat in the ne neighborhood of iron city there are belts of iron ore out cropped easily traced for thirty or forty miles in length t by five miles in width there is nothing r to show that colorado contains any great deposits or mountains of iron ore as compared with utah such being the case with inexhaustible coal fields nearby what is to prevent utah from being 11 the s supply and distributing point for the trans mississippi valley in the manufacture of iron and steel |