| Show OUK IEOK AND COAL INTERESTS wo believe it u an axiom that no country can bo thoroughly that does not possess these elements 0 greatness england iho country in the world alias made herself so through wealth whilo america n moving towards a supremacy of the world through her boundless with a rapidity thatis truly iok amongst tho vac resources there are none that lioi bo mow highly prized than those of coa anil irod lor in their rapid utilization depends much of our early prosperity our statistics for 1872 show ahm our imports exceeded our exports millions of dollars a condition of affairs anything hut as it proves that our territory is owing abroad for the deficiency or in other word that wo are living upon borrowed money the principles f political economy demand that this evil be remedied aa early a possible and good that steps bo taken to et increase our exports or our imports as early us possibly pos this we think can be accomplished as easily as the former by giving hat attention to the development of the two articles named which their sm porta demands col and railroads are almost as intimately linked together as coal and iron for the one is almost useless as an export without the aid of tha other and DO community of people cm hope to grow anto any great commercial importance without the aid of ono or tho other to come at our kropi utah must hare railroads and aki aroi buat be imported or produced at home if we import it its wat ia lost to the territory if we it at lioma that much capital is saved for biome use and the territory the vital question is can it bo produced at home cheaper thin it can la imported wo believe it can for the cost of production of the best grey iron at the diminutive works in the bouth is eaid not to exceed and a half cents per pound with til the disadvantages the proprietors to contend with if this be true and surely tho matter is worth close at tin not only produce railroad iron to supply her own demand but can also make of it nil article of export to cupply adjacent states and territories ri and now for the coal it is beyond that utah is richer in coal of all grades than any of the adjoining territories aad we have already acmon that we da malo of it an article of export to nevada if not to more distant places the territorial enterprise his already assured us of a market in storey county alone for tons daily at 12 per ton while alie demand from be interior portions of that state along the line of a railroad from our southern fields to that country would swell the amount to or COO tons again M chose fields produce anthracite coal in abundance it h safe to assume thit the demand for it would not be limited to nevada but that in the course ot a few years it would be aed to supply many of our trunk lines of roads and alao for other purposes where that quality cf coal is almost indispensable our iron and coal interests are identified railroad building in utah and tho earlier we to develop the former the more rapidly will the develop the whole territory and give a simultaneous growth to every county for with coal iron and narrow gauge roads backed by our dilver mines we have tho advantage of a start in lic boru such is no other slate or territory in the west has ever bad before |
