Show IT is reported that los angeles citizens are enthusiastic over the outlook for the extension of the utah pacific railroad from southwestern utah on to ahe the coast but they cannot look upon the project with more favor than should the residents of zion such a line to io los angeles and the coast would be e of value and benefit to utah and to salt lake as it would give this section a direct outlet to the seaboard sea board and a ready and nd better market for the various products of the state while california fruits and vegetables could be laid down here fresh from the orchard and the garden of course these advantages will be something worth talking about VU but they do not embrace all of the benefits accruing upon the completion of the road included in the list being the market that such a line would give for immense im deposits of iron in iron county this state and not only in a crude form but in the manufactured state as the binding together of salt lake and los angeles by bands of steel would result in the establishment of blast furnaces foundries and manufacturing establishments lish ments somewhere in iron county the output of which in the shape of steel rails manufactured iron and iron pigs could compete with eastern goods of this character in in oriental marts and there would be no d difficulty ier 1 in doing this as in the immediate I 1 vicinity of the iron mountains there are in inexhaustible fields of coal of excellent quality los angeles angelea of course with its great oil wells would not necessarily furnish an active market for utah coal but it could utilize crude iron ore and pig iron to good advantage but seagoing sea going vessels would want coal galore and there is is a scarcity of this commodity in a region as isolated from the coal sections as is this flourishing city aside from these advantages to be derived from the construction of this will pass through a wide stretch of country which contains some of the richest mining camps in the west and these eventually will aill develop into devay producers of the precious metals |