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Show jtaM State defi rted oral co! i t ' fori Supplement to tori i.J EME 1Y: COUOTY I litjs nndJ stav, EM etai FE ou!( to "J Iron County OB a : Towns and Resources Its Cities, 1 ?rvo g a to d uf iS- fc- -d I f I i $ - " asea ithf 1tm iiimibiii" MB tl y. f steij Bank Building and Business Block Jar 'HyJ V'alf ah Section of Cedar City's Main Street. ul.vf Iron niB Community Life in Iron County Is Wholesome County-Histo- rical n, pal By Pres. 19 sa I its lo V4 le tad ngj 9 IS. lei WE R. PALMER, Parowan Stake of Zion Iron county set Parowan and Cedar City, in the year 1851, The of these settlements was founding art of a gigantic scheme of President Brigham Young to conquer for civilization the inland empire of the eoontry known as the Intermountain The two principle tlements, wre founded Fest. a remarkably short span of years after the arrival of the great empire builder in the Salt Lake valley, he had practically circumscribed 4f Intermountain country with a siife of There was Fort outposts. Limiii, on the Salmon River in what now Idaho. There was Fort Supply on the east. Carson valley, in western Nevada, on the west, and Iron county, Santa Clara, and Los vegas settlements on the south. These Iron county colonies, which in the Within is ng included also old Fort Har-nserved as recruiting stations rod colonizing centers from which ere drawn the settlers for new settlements all through what is now y, Southern In the Utah. winter of 1849 and 1850, an exploring party sent out by Brigham Toung, discovered the ereat beds of wn from which this county takes its name. Iron Courtesy Zion Studio was scarce in the west, and ex expensive because of the peat cost of freight from the Missouri River by ox team, and yet it was indispensable. , The discovery of fte iron ore perhaps set far ahead e colonization of this section of country, for the crpat leader conceiv- i the idea of manufacturing iron The wholesomness of Iron county's community life, is not the least of its assets. It has no foreign elements; its population, is strictly American and you will not find in any of its communities, any China towns. "niggers' quarters" or other wise. Something of conditions m the re spective communities, is given here has revolutionized the community. 3. 835 car loads of sheep, 150 car loads of cattle, and nearly two and a quarter million pounds of wool and mohair are shipped annually from Cedar City. Its extensive range and cheap forage corps make it a real livestock center. 4. The development of the inexhaustible deposits of iron near it, from which 500,000 tons of 53 ore are shipped annually; its coal, gyp- - notel El Escalante, Cedar City. at Parowan. educational center for the Southern organizations in the West, as well as federated womens' clubs and other 8. The El Escalante hotel with 88 mediums of public benefit. "latch string" is on guest rooms, auditorium and commo- theCedar City's outside. We are more than pleasdious dining room, and other hotels, ed to have had the members of the bring tourists and conventions. 9. Cedar City has one mile of street Utah State Press association with us your 1927 outing. We hope the paving, many miles of concrete side- for treatment you received was such that water a walks, sewerage system, city and lights, telegraph and telephone you will come again. We recognize the untold good of the press and apconnections, etc. 10. Churches and lodge rooms, a preciate your visit and the good word you will pass along. part of the state. GEORGE A. MITCHELL, Secretary, Cedar City Chamber of Commerce PAROWAN CITY with: CEDAR CITY fledar Citv. the meroDftlis of South ern nah haa inprenspH its rmnul&tioti from 2,462 in 1920 to 4,000 at present. Perhaps no other town or city in the state has made the vigorous, perm anent development mat ceaar uuy has made during the last four years. The dreams of its founders are varilv coming true; it is destined to become a great industrial and scenic center. The following are a few things that have made, and are making this thrifty community: 1. Its greatest asset is the spirit of its people; they "go the big town tmngs. get" 9. The rominc of the branch line of the Union Pacific railroad in 1923 tinn nf 1000 neonle. manv of whom, or most of whom had been attracted here by prospects of an industrial . community The rnminfir of Johnston's army, with their enormous supply of imple ments, chains and iron 01 all Kinas, somewhat relieved the iron shortage in Utah and by the year 1860 the building of the railroad into Utah was assured. This solved the freight problem and insured an ample supply of this point to supply the Intermiron, and the- local industry was ountain needs. abandoned. To impress the advanced of the iron After the break-u- p period of 'Ton county settlement, it is only works many of the settlers left the necessary to say that there was no tnum. some went to California, and S wn south of Provo, and the first others to pioneer new settlements in vmpany saw no white man after leav-- H vanous parts 01 boutnern uian. that section. The principle industry 01 me sec-tin- n Iron was manufactured has nlwavs been its livestock. actually nere in Cedar as the The climate was good, forage abund as City early U of 1852, and thereafter, for some ant, and there was an ideal commna- ven or eight years, intensive eff- tion of winter ana summer ranges. orts were put forth to produce it TivnctnrW. therefore, flourished from commercial quantities. Castings the beginning, and the fact that they exceptional quality were produced could be transported, to maricei on me from the very beginning, but the hoof has made this industry the counworkers never succeeded in manufact. , . try's one best bet. tne uring a satisfactory malleable iron. Farming has been successiui to but Because of the determination of extent of the country's needs, Resident Younc tn hnild un a suc- - until recent years the markets for cssful iron industry here, there were formimr nroducts were so far away among the early settlers of this sec-"o- n that there has been no incentive to a number of highly trained engi- produce any great surplus, me comneers, mechanics, and exDerienced ing of the railroad into Cedar valley the best men that could has stimulated farming activities to workers, Jn e found. The influence of these the extent that more land, perhaps, toined minds creatlv enriched the has been brought under cultivation wial and civic life of the colony in in the last five years than in all the 'lose early days. history of' the settlement up to that In 1858 Cedar time. had a populaCity gi2amsis&it 2mtwmA2g3L ml 'mixssrs imfm&xmmi-'imA- ffra at Parowan. County Court House and Public Safety Building Parowan City, the countyeat and second largest city in the county, was settled in January, 1851 by, Mormon It is located ort" the Zion pioneers. Park highway at an elevation of six thousand feet; hasfc population of near two thousjfcwtr owns- its own water system through which it receives an abundant supply of good water from a mountain spring; its own modern electric light plant from which it sells a large surplus of power after providing for, the needs of its own citizens; has probably the best lighted mam street of any city its size in the state; concrete sidewalks, a good high school and elementry schools; public library, theatre and amusement halls, churches, a progres sive bank, stores, garages, cheese fac tory, bakery and other business con cerns. And with these it has a climate the ideal; very which approaches healthful and without extremes m temperature. Its chief industries are agriculture and livestock, and it is the center of one of the biggest Ram- bouillet sheep industries in the world. Since the establishment less than a year ago, of a cheese factory, the dairy industry is rapidly forging ahead m Parowan and the Farowan cessively valley. Minerals of Iron County - 1- - The L. D. S. Church at Parowan. public library, swimming pool, two modern show houses, dance halls, pavilions, rodeo grounds, canyon resorts, etc., supply wholesome recreation. 11. The chamber of commerce has $10.00 two hundred and twenty-fiv- e members, eighty of whom serve on committees. It has a membership 6. 11 IS tourist iieauqusivcis one of America's greatest wonder- with the national chamber of commerce and is closely connected with lands. It has 7 The branch of the State Agri the Salt Lake City chamber. cultural college makes Cedar City an one of the most substantial Rotary sum. and manv other minerals make for development and wealth. 5. Its 16,000 acres of improved and 50,000 acres of brush land, together with its gravity and subterranean irrigation water, make agriculture the big industry. JOHN M. FOSTER Attorney at Law, Cedar City, Utah. There is no locality any where to be found that offers a better opportunity for the study of pure geology than the region extending from Cedar City southward to the bottom of the Grand canvon of the Colorado. And there is no other locality of the same dimensions which contains a greater variety of minerals of economic value than does Iron county. Yet both of these fields have been almost wholly until the past few years. Aside from the great bodies of iron ore in the Iron mountain district and extending westward into the Bull val ley district,- we have in this county and extending into Kane county, a - great body of bituminous coal cover- ing six hundred square miles of ground. This vein of coal outcrops near the top of the Cedar mountain just east of Cedar City, appears again Courtwy Zion Studio in several places in Coal Creek can yon and is seen in many outcroppings east as far as Orderville. It is ap proximately five feet thick on an average. No doubt the same vein extends westward from the fault plane just east of Cedar City but is buried too deep lor one to determine tne thickness or extent. While this coal has supplied Iron county and to a limited extent Washington county, with coal from the working of four or five mines in Coal Creek canyon and the Kanarra mountain, since the first settlement of Utah, yet there has been no extensive development of the vein to the present time. In the south end of this county, in the vicinity of New Harmony, there are three distinct veins of coal extending into Washington county from Iron, county. At this place the great intrusions- - .of andesite forming the Pine valley mountain and the mountains northward have converted the bituminous coal into an anthracite. ' Eastward,' extending from Iron county into Kane county, there is a vein of cannel coal approximately six feet thick. This coal is comparitive-l- y rare and used chiefly for the making of bricketts, burning in open grates and producing gas. No development work has been done on this coal and at present it is too far from a rail road to be of commercial value. Beneath the coal a few hundred feet and outcropping on the face of Cedar mountain is a great body of the best' quality of gypsum. The stratum of this mineral seems to be coextensive with the coal. In coal Creek canyon and within two miles of Cedar City the gypsum is completely exposed in many places, all of the overbearing rock having been completely erroded away. This deposit will not remain neglected much longer. In the mountains extending from Newcastle northward, lead, silver, gold and copper are found in a great many different places. None of these veins have been developed to any extenl except the property of J. R. Richards and his associates. The best deposit of gold yet discovered in Iron county is found at state line. Here there was considerable activity about twenty five years ago, but the camp was abandoned without half testing cut the field. The gold occurs there at the contract of two igneous intrusions, one a rhyolitic porphyry and the other a more basic rock, but I haven't examined it carefully enough to know just what it is. The gold found in this camp was of very high grade. We have limestone and building stone of unlimited quantities and of good quality, both, of which, are easily accessable, and none of which is used to any appreciable extent. Shale and gravel lie at our door. This material makes excellent surface for roads and has already been used to a considerable extent in building the roads of this county. On several occasions over two hundred loads per day of this material has been put on the streets of Cedar City by voluntary service. Potash and phosphates are found to some extent in the strata east of Ce-( Continued On Page Four.) ";' I ,' I PI s I V, V i 1)1 4 4 ? tlilll .1 4, ft Courtesy R. D. Adaim Studio Power House at Cedar Mountain Tramway Coal Mine. Largest Known in the Intermountain West or Coast States. Gyps'nra Beds in Cedar Canyon. J i 4 ftf "I ffi mi .Sill, AiiMi)ArfMMI riii ii ii iirr rfr- - 1 Courtesy Zion Studio Tourist Camp, Cedar City. |