| Show IN UTAHS DIXIE Ore Shipped One Hundred and Thirty Miles by Wagon Southern Utah Offers the Best Opportunity for Railroad Investment and the People There are Heads to Assist ST GUOROE Nov 41891 Special correspondence corre-spondence of TUE HERALD The Dixie smelter continues to run nicely and is turning out copper very fast The accident Of Friday caused considerable delay but I Sunday forenoon the furnace was started up again and is at present in full blast Charles Worthen tho employee injured by tho explosion is setting around again and while ho will carry tho scars on his arms for years and probably for life feels nearly as well as before Tim largest bar thus far weighed goes 49T pounds and assays 90 210 copper Tho slag is comparatively free considering the fact that the ore is self fluxing and thus far there has been but little waste It is probable that when the ore now on the dump is used up the smelter will be shut down for a short lime on account ac-count of the firms inability to gat enough teams on tho road Atoresent the mill can keep about tifty cutlits going and until the people get their crops in and winter hauling haul-ing done they will have some little trouble to keep the smelter going The seventh car of high grade ore winch is now at Milford I Mil-ford has been sold to Denver parties lor 810 per unit a good price considering tho present condition of the copper market i I Thus tar the owners of tho Dixie group i have had no trouble in disposing of all their shipping ore at top notch prices Tno rca sor for this is the good lIdo of copper it makes being next in value to the Lake copper cop-per and even ranked as high by some nnn inc and mill men Now that the smelter is an assured success the owners intend to I j II put on a full force of men at tho Apex and take out ore from all live stupes Tlieiriue looks better each day and awry drift that is made discloses big bodies of high grade j rock There seems to be no end to toe bas i class or ore and shipments vill be made all I winter and as fast as practicable One I i hundred and thirty miles is a long haul by wagon and only u few mines could stand I it but the Apex while laboring under all these disadvantages is paying well It isto be hoped that the rumor concerning concern-ing the change in the plans of the Rio Grande Western in its movements in the south are all unfounded and ako the houso of the foolish man built upon the sand or rather exist only in the mitts of the Tribune scribe the story he tells is that the line is being surveyed south from Salina through Richlield and the small settlements thereabouts thence west to Cove Creek to take in the extensive sulphur beds then continuing across the mountains until the vicinity o ° Milford is reached and following follow-ing the route of the Union Pacific rundown run-down tho desert into Nevada and then directly across country to Southern California Cali-fornia If this statement is true the Western West-ern vill make the same mistake as did the Union Pacific or the Utah Central as it was formerly called The policy of the latter road seems to have been to build to a certain point and miss all settlements not exactly in tho surveyed route In other words to make the people como to it instead of it going to the people This policy is exemplified ex-emplified bj the present state ot affairs at Springvillo Payson Nophi and nearly all the thriving cities south of Provo In almost al-most every instance the road is considerable consider-able distance from the town and some are several miles away Tho Veason for this was that the line was building south to Milford and Frisco and to have run through tho settlements might have made several miles and consequently several thousand dollars difference It can easily be seen that the Union Pacific did not expect a rival in the south so early in the day and the fact that the Rio Grande Western has made so much advancement taking in the growing country of Sanpete and the rich mineral lands of Beaver county as it went gave the people of the south renewed hopes that the Union Pacific would also push its proposed extension through to the coast Instead of doing this however the company com-pany seems to have taken a back seat and has now pulled up and nauled away the twelve miles of road already laid south from Milford The 140 miles of grading done two years ago still stands idle and the fierce desert winds have in places entirely obliterated it filling up tho cuts with sand and leveling the grade to the old plane If as the scribe states the Western has changed its plans and intends to leave all the country south of Richfield out in the cold it will make one of the grandest mistakes mis-takes on record Southern Utah today presents one of the best fields for railroad building in the world The people are pro pared to receive the advent of tho iron horse with rejoicing and all help in their power will be given The country only needs a road to become the richest and most populous in tho west Already two surveys have been made from Provo to the coast and the best of routes were found From tho present terminus of the Rio Grande Western south through Beaver Red Creek Parowan Cedar Kanarah Behevue Toquerville St George St Thoma Bunkerville and so on to Los Angeles the grade with the exception of a few places is almost selfestablistiod the country is rich in minerals the best of agricultural lands only await settlement stocic raising can be carried on hero to better bet-ter advantage than anywhere in tee west the climate is equal and in some parts superior tbe that of California mineral springs of higher medicinal qualities than the famous ones of Arkansas abound in i untold numbers Semitropical fruits flourish and attain as high a state of per fection as in California vegetables of all kinds could be placed on the northern mar kets as early as from the west cotton grows in the southern counties with very little attention vast beds of coal only await development de-velopment and silver lead copper gold Iron sulphur jet and other mineral depos its underlie the entire country The first road to tap these vast resources will reap its own reward In order to comprehend the worth of tbo southern tier of counties a person rnut cover them himself New projects meet the eye at almost every turn and their ultimate i ulti-mate culmination depends almost entirely upon the early advent of a railroad The mining industry has been but started and near St George alone there are several largo mines which could almost furnish enough freight to pay one road The owners own-ers of the Apex intimate that they could now ship over one hundred tons of ore per day and with an increased force tho output could bo made to more than double that amount Besides this mine thero are hun dreds of others which could be worked to an advantage Among tho many and varied industries of the south is stock raising During the last year it is estimated that 15000 head of cattle were shipped north and east This immense output will all the handled by the first railroad to build south The sheep and wool industry can not bo overlooked and plays an important Dart in the building up of tho country Sheep men state that just as soon as a railroad strikes the country they will ship instead of drive their flocks to tho winter feeding grounds which lie below tho dip of tho Great Basin and are pronounced the best in the west Add to all tho mentioned re ssurces from which a road would derive an enormous revenue tho great amount of freight used and heavy passenger traffic and it will readily bo soen that for tile Rio Grande Western to build across the dese rt and entirely ignore tho long line of settle settlements e ments directly on the route will be to make a mistake for which the road will at no very distant future suffer greatly E G jn |
