Show FAITH I 1 WITHOUT hlll 1111 WORK hildi IS DEAD As to further detailed description of f air alunite a nite and nitrates of iron county as mentioned in last weeks issue we await returns of any alses of samples sent east and south before we publish any article thereon at the present time with the endeavor to be conservative serva tive and most impartial in stat ments herein we propose to give to to our readers facts and nothing misleading relating to recent discoveries co and developments our faith in iron countes Coun tys future outcome in utilizing the mineral wealth eventually of all the dormant raw products is established and we are positively convinced raw materials jenals do exist in southern utah in practicable incalculable values atuel but why is it that in the past and at present we have been living upon great expectations and the hope of an earthly reward rewards are we throttled by unknown influences or can it be with inexhaustible raw materials at hand handlo so favorably located which seem to be held in a reserve preserved co condition edition that they shall be comatose for evera it is well known that the greatest of all of the resources of iron county bounty are mines developed develon ed for inure ini fui ure uti utilization libation liza tion and especial benefit for or the people and they have not and do not give returns or pay interest on the investment and can anyone except a knocker deny that qualities nian guan and values exist incalculable 7 can this be questioned when we have aae beyond any doubt in the greatest quantities and the various qualities the best in iron ores anthracite bituminous and coking coats coals silver co copper river lead zinc antimony tungsten she elite manga neze sulphur selenium nitrates and other in bi products and all of the mentioned minerals are most favorably located situated a and nd available for sites for furnaces mills steelworks coke ovens oens and withal factories unit and other plants for the treatment or production of the non metals and earth minerals of this kingdom of utah and the great west and yet nothing is being done toward the end of commercializing commercial izing these numerous nume rons natural products why nota in the establishment and the operation of the great forthcoming plants works and BubBi danes have we one in sight can anyone make any other calculation than that the local prosperity and state wealth will give to the blind the already sightless to say the least the total eclipse to the big I 1 and little you statesman of utah who hadnot ha haN enot and do not support a states state commission or the utilities bev within another half century it is possible that a third fourth or fifth railroad may regulate freight rates in the interest of both tee people and coming industry but the present population of iron iran county will be living in another world unshackled it 11 biti born without regulated rates or rail roads we are handicapped becan not create and operate industrial work nor can we ship raw or manu fractured products out of iron county or utah at this time under the present candit conditions ions we pretend to be alive but are we wea do we need a railroad in iron county do we need branch lines or spurs to feed any transcontinental line now operating or forthcoming there is hut but one answer yes questions asked with evasive answers are unquestionably wrong and now it is not the idea of all broad minded men in this county to even intimate let alone erect a chineise Ch ineese wall between any two towns within the boun bound dries nes of iron county or if we are so fortunate be as to have hav a railroad that cars will be tabled with products of any one town those labels shall read iron county products only it is the editors belief that it is far from the thought of liberal libera minded men to tolerate the services of secret sen service ice men to guard money from passing from one town to another the general iron iran county boosters boasters bo are loo oking forward in animated anticipation of having a railroad to thread its way entirely through hu his country with various spurs or branches tapping each of our wonderful mines and all of our resources it la is not our policy to print idle and senseless such a as occasionally casio nally appear in an iron county contemporary |