Show IRON Editors Herald I Will you please give mo room in your valuable paper for a few remarks re-marks on the above subject I am glad to see that people are becoming interested in the manufacture manufac-ture of Iron and though we may differ a little as to where jit should be made when correctly informed we shall agree at least in the opinion that it should be made in Utah Territory I do not see how any one can advocate ad-vocate at present the manufacture of iron fronrthe ore in Salt Lake City for we have no iron ore few fluxes and no fuel charcoal coal or coke and to bring ore from Tintic for instance to this city with other necessarieswould be very expensive As I am informed the ore only contains con-tains 25 per cent metallic iron you would have to mine handle and freight four tons of ore to get one ton of iron besides the fluxes for be it remembered this extraneous matter requires the same quantity of fuel to heat it that the same weight of pure metallic iron would and in southern Utah the ore contains con-tains an average of 65 per cent metallic ironand I have been informed in-formed that for one ton of ore put into the blast furnace with the proper pro-per ingredients for fluxingthoy have taken out one ton of iron from the Iron City works As to the statement in the HERALD of the 28th that the pig iron brought from there to this city was too crude for light castings I J say the writer has been misinformed Messrs William J Silver Thomas Pierpont and Amos Howe all of this city iron masters who have all used this iron tell me that it was very good indeed and well adapted to making light castings MrPier pont has made light stove plate from said iion Mr Silverinformec me that one of his moulders Daniel Davies had moulded from this iron some of the lightest and most intricate Intri-cate filigree work of casting he ever saw and that the iron from Iron City whether hard or soft had a toughness about it that made it avery a-very superior article NoW what need of expecting to find ore of any better quality than here spoken of We want to go to work at once and fix upon one place and that to begin with where so many prerequisites are concentrated as are at Iron City and after while we might establish estab-lish the manufacture of stoves in Salt Lake City and put up puddling works and rollin mills at someplace some-place in Utah Cache or Weber Counties wherever fuel and water were most available But the reason why they failed to make iron at Ogden right at a railroad centre was because they were too far away from the ore coal etc and in our opinion it will be along time before success attends the making of iron at such places |