Show THE SOUTHERN COUNTRY C 0 people are just awakening to the fact that southern utah presents a field the possibilities of which equal if not excel any portion of the state itis hard to see why the vast resources of this section have been so long neglected for they have been called to the attention ibn of the public many times things are beginning to io move now however and the coal iron gypsum and oil are bringing this section n more prominently prominent y J into the limelight the counties of iron washington bea ver and kane embrace a territory fairly fairi alive with magnificent opportunities the th oil fields of washington county are attract ing widespread attention but only aa a few years ago a more inactive region could not be imagined even should the oil not prove a commercial success and there can be no reasonable doubt but that it will u it has served the purpose of attracting ing notice to the other natural resources of the country it has long been known that in iron county were huge deposits of iron and almost unlimited fields of excellent coal and yet until recently they have remained 1 untouched 1 the one obstacle in the way of 0 progress has been the lack of the magic touch of the railroad with the building of the salt lake road a noticeable change occurred but the result was not broad enough now there is talk of building a road from lund to cedar city and possibly on down through the county to the drigin oil fields this would prove the biggest boon that section has ever known it would tap one of the largest iron deposits in the country and open up a most valuable supply of coal it would bring a rich agricultural section in touch with the outside market and would pave the way for other industries that would make a metropolis of this southern country the building of this road if accomplished complis hed will prove of inestimable value ito to the industrial welfare of the state |