Show THE tremendous use and fearful waste of lumber and the forests of this country is beginning to be jelt in industrial circles from froin ocean to ocean and it is be coming becoming evident that it will not be many years before there will be such a scarcity of native lumber that something else will have to be substituted in its place in the building of houses and the thousands of other uses in which lumber is employed in fact a matel material ial has been found that can be utilized in many many ways and which replaces lumber most satisfactorily this is iron with its accompaniment steel iron and steel have come into general use of late in building circles railroads are using steel ties ansome in some instances iron posts and columns have been tried with successful results and now it is learned that iron and steel are beina being used in mining in lieu of mining timbers and it is stated that the calumet and hecla mining company of michigan isnow is now using steel pillars in its great copper mines timber is comparatively scarce in utah but dame nature has not overlooked the needs orthis section as she has deposited enough I 1 iron ore with coal as a byproduct by product within the environments of the state to supply the world for an indefinite period with all the iron and steel necessary for use in every branch of indus industry fry and trade |