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Show IRON t'OLXTY HESOl'liCES. Coal, Iron and LimeImportant Enterprise In View for This Locality. Salt Lake Herald. Fred Lurch, the eminent coal awl iron expert, has returned from Iron county, this state, Mr. Lurch, who is representing local ; mining men and eastern capitalists and investors, has spent the last six months in southern Utah investigating into the iron and coal resources of that region, confining his inquires very largely to Iron county, which region, he states, is truly remarkable in its mineral resources, re-sources, and especially so in its almost inexhaustible quantities of eoal and iron, and their close proximity, one to tho other, was in the way of a revelation revela-tion to him, as he states that he has visited this and other countries, and never yet, in all of his experience, found a looality where iron, coal and Hrae for flux abounded in commercial quantities within a radius of three miles, This combination, he states, he found in Pinto iron district, the iron being in the Iron mountain, with a limestone lime-stone capping, while he has discovered a vein of anthracite coal within three miles of the iron. Of the latter, associated with Colonel S. B. Millner of this city,: R. B. Dear of Duluth, Minn., and others, he has acquired ac-quired by location and purchase seventeen seven-teen claims, while of the anthracite he owns 480 acres. In addition to this, Mr. Lurch has bonds and options as well as interests in over 1,000 acres of bituminous bitum-inous coal lands up Coal Creek canyon, just back of Cedar City, and this coal, he states, cokes well, although it runs rather high in ash, but he is of the opinion that with greater depth this ex-; ex-; cess will greatly diminish. Mr. Lurch will be absent from Utah a few days on business with his people, and while nothing definate has been de-1 de-1 cided upon as yet as to further operations, opera-tions, he admitted to a representative of The Herald that it was quite likely that in due time the parties interested in this enterprise will put in blast furnaces fur-naces for the production of pig iron, ' with the probability that later on iron and steel works would be erected, thus forming the nucleus for great foundries, found-ries, machine shops and manufacturing plants, the aggregation meaning the upbuilding of a great industry for Iron county and the inauguration of an era of prosperity and progression for that section such as was long ago predicted by those familiar with the Iron and Goal resources of Cedar City and Iron City, two localities which are but a few miles distant from each' other, and, as the Utah & Pacific railroad is rapidly bringing Iron county into close commercial com-mercial relations with the outside world it is believed that it will not be long before this spot will become a Mecca towards which capitalists and investors will take their onward march, - |