Show Gr Great at Iron Deposits in Southern t h 1 t J Jl H 7 t t y T TI I k S SS SS S S S S S 4 S S S Sr S 5 r S i V VS 5 5 S SS 5 SS 55 S 45 c 4 4 iv 5 SS SS S S SS S S 2 S St S t z S S S j 4 SS S S SS SS S II S S l S r J S f r Another corner of t C P Part rt of twenty acres of ifon iron S Y four miles distant d J S over feet above mountain S S 5 S Iron are not In veins or r pockets but In masses mountain high that rise 1500 feet above the In county count Desert Mound 18 a or of 65 per cent Iron and a mile Its two companions Iron mountain and Iron Springs mountain contaIn iron ore in quantities that can cannot cannot not be measured On Iron Springs noumi aIn the re body od Is three and a haf miles long Jong and from to wide About Iron mountain runs a semicircular ledge from to feet In Width and eight miles long The depth ot of these ore bodies can only be Some experts Who have ox ex ined the field believe the iron ore the plain ThIs has yet yetto to Lo be demonstrated but enough has been proved to show that Utah has greatest bodIes or of Iron ore in the world The iron ore of o not be mined Th The bodies can be worked as quarries The ore out solid and bare and there are arc mountains or of It more than enough now in sight tv sup supply supply ply the west for fOl a Railroad tracks may be built right the Or era reducing the cost pf f taJ taking ing out the ore to a minimum The deposits are butt but one miles from the Salt Lake route now east of the station tation of Lund in Iron county For yearn earD these vast deposits of iron were neglected but lately no a realization of their importance in with the railroad development of the see sec section tion directed attention to the field with witha a prospect for early operations i During the year the Colorado Fuel Iron company which has extensive holdings In the fiell conducted tive experiments which lately have hae been dl discontinued While the company has made no announcement ement or of it is the expert in inthe Inthe the of the company compan discovered that excellent ore for general and ape special dat cial purposes purposeD exists in apparently in inexhaustible inexhaustible exhaustible quantities In county The Colora Fuel Iron company and Salt L k capitalists who own practically all the claims s of the Ule dIs dia dIstrict triet expended from to in tunnel and drill work during the year The researches only confirmed i what had previously been taken for granted from fron the surface showings that the three mountains are practical practically ly solid Iron ore Abo About t 25 per cent or of the ore is di adapted l to treatment by the eon eom yeTter verter process which produces Beroe mer WillIe hll the remaining ore gives excellent results when treated b the The is employed ed in the of t structural steel steel teel etc During the past year eur the tendency amore e general use of the open hearth pl process has been marked It is possible lY by this to a amor amore mor more nearly pro and for I this reason the h iuis s been highly 11 commended by leading engineers of the count Utah can supply aU all the ore that will be required for r and bUIldIng in ill the west for generations to come Utah lake is regarded as the ideal place cr r the reduction work Coke and abundance or of water are necessities necessities ties The onh coal suitable for coking Is found in C Carbon and Emery coun ties which with railroad con connections and the hick ack of water In the theiron iron fields make k Ual ah lake the logi 1011 logical cal place for the furnaces and coke ovens according judges The iron ore la iti mi 9 that the tho cost of hauling the ore would be but slightly In excesS of he cost of hauling pIg iron while the h haul ul of the Coke from Carbon or county to Utah lake would riot be so 50 great as to haul huu It if the ab absence absence sence Of water In the he iron fields did not furnish an in obstacle le tt t the building of a plant at the mines The the iron fields of the state largely on the rail railroads railroads roads Both the Salt Lake route and the Rio Grand Grando Western Vest m are within ens easy striking distance of the ore de deposits posits ts |