Show IRON ORE DEPOSITS The Iron County 5mil County and Box Elder County Ledges They Crop Out in Places Hundreds of 1eet High and Appear on tho surface for a Thousand reet The iron deposits of Utah like those of her coal are simply inexhaustible The main deposits are in Iron county Box Elder county and Juab county Mr Thomas Taylor who is thoroughly acquainted with the subject writes of Iron county There is no iron or steel being made from ore in the territory and that which has been the foundatton of the real prosperity pros-perity of the richest nations including our own has not yet been developed If the opinion of the Baldwin exploring expedition ex-pedition is correct which I quote Utahs great wealth lies not in its hundreds hund-reds of valuable gold and silver ledges but in its iron and coal fields The seeming fabulous stories of the immense iron deposits in Southern Utah but told part of the truth On reaching the iron fields we found them covered with thousands of acres of the finest pine and cedar timber suitable for making charcoal sufficient for the requirements re-quirements of the country for years to come Pinto iron mining district in which are the famous Iron and Blowout mountains is one vast extant of rich magnetic specular and hematite ores The ledges crop out of the earth in places hundreds of feet high and appear on the surface for eight hundred and a thousand feet inviting capitalists to double and treble their fortunes with scarcely a possible pos-sible risk of losing a cent But a few miles distant are immense beds of coal with which to melt out this huge body of mineral wealth This county has been visited by the most eminent professors of mineralogy Newberry Hewitt and others of New York E D Wassell of Pittsburg Pa Blake of New Haven Conn L E Hoi den of Cleveland 0 and others who have written ana spoken in the highest terms of the richness and immensity of the iron and coal > of Iron county Iron ore of general good quality is found allover all-over the territory A very elaborate blast furnace was built at Ogden some years ago A Mr Jones of Pittsburg started it up and made a few tons of the best quality of pig iron but he told the writer that Iron county was the place to make the pig iron A rolling mill might be built at Ogden but it was too far away from the coal for coal is the principal factor in the manufacture of iron and steel It requires for all purposes pur-poses connected with the manufacture of one ton of iron or steel an average of five tons of coal and all iron companies erect their works as near the fuel as possible A semianthracite coal has been found in Iron county and there is no doubt but a pure anthracite exists there and will be found as the coal fields are developed There are a number of firstclass found cries in Salt Lake city where they turnout turn-out the best of workmanship There are aiso founderies in Provo Ogden Logan and other places and there is no question but what their business would be much increased if they could obtain pig iron at the price that it can be made for in our own territory and surely it could be made as cheap here as in any part of the United States The coal of Utah would any of it make coke if it were put through a practical practi-cal process of crushing and washing sucu as is adopted in England and other countries coun-tries The crushing and washing are done there at a cost ot about 4 pence per ton It is believed that some of the coal of Iron county would do for the blast furnace without coking as pieces have been picked and analyzed giving less than 1 percent per-cent sulphur Then with iron ore of the purest kind in inexhaustible quantities already mined lead ore and limestone for fluxing equally accessible with charcoal fire rock fire clay and every other ingredient ingre-dient within a few miles of the plant why not be able to make pig iron cheap in Utah From inquiry made it was found that Utah was importing yearly over 5000000 worth of iron and steel and manufactured articles whose principal material was iron and steel From statistical reports we find that in the year 1SS8 there was made and manufactured manu-factured at the several iron works in the United States over twelve million tons of iron and steel being something like four hundred pounds for every man woman and child in the country for we use more of these materials than any other nation of the earth Utahs proportion would be about forty thousand tons per year Look at the vast amount of money that would be kept in our territory and the amount of skilled labor that would be employed in its manipulation into some of the different useful articles that wo import every year such as heavy castings for machinery stamp mills grist mills furnaces smelters water jackets water pipes gas pipes pillars columns and for fireproof buildings build-ings stoves light castings malleable iron etc wrought iron and steel for railroad rail-road locomotives car wheels bridges cars turntables scales etc tools itppl ments of husbandry plows harrows reapers mowers threshing machines steam engines steel and iron rails edge tools and cutlery nails bolts screws etc too numerous to detail all of which have their representative skilled workmen work-men and could be made in Utah adding to the wealth of the territory its profitable profit-able returns We are now about to be connected by rail with every part of our country and with the Pacific ocean creating creat-ing a market for the numbers of largo iron works which undoubtedly be established es-tablished in Uah in the near future The establishment of extensive ironworks iron-works in Utah with cheaper pig and merchant iron that can be brought from the east will make it possible to build and operate foundariesana machine shops in our neighboring states and territories where they make no iron at the present time There is none made in Wyoming Idaho Montana Nevada California Arizona New Mexico nor in Old Mexico of any consequence Capitalists are already looking this way and it may not be long before all the railroads rail-roads we have now will be wanted to distribute dis-tribute our vast production to the adjoining adjoin-ing country Our various kinds and rich quality and immense deposits of iron ore with low railway freights will ere long find their way to other localities than Utah For making special articles of iron and steel special kinds of iron ore are required Sometimes an ore not found in a certain country is found in a foreign land and required to mix with native ore thus in the year 188S there were imported into the United States from foreign countries reported by the American Iron and Steel association 1337617 tons of iron ore It may be that in Utahs varied store of iron deposits is the very kind required When the railways connect us with the ocean by a little span of 450 miles we shall be able to furnish Pittsburg New York and Chicago Chi-cago with our pure iron ore at reasonable rates The prospects for the establishment of iron and steel works is very good and in the opinion of the writer Utah has a splendid future growing out of her great iron industries THE BOX ELDER DEPOSITS are exhaustively treated in the Ogden article as they are very close to that city THE JUAB COUNTY DEPOSITS If are at Silver City in the Tintic district and are included in the writenp of that famous district published elsewhere We repeatUtah has iron enough to supply the world |