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Show BACK FROM CEDAR. Major Knap p Kuehuatastic Over the Oat-look Oat-look for that Country Wonderful Deposits De-posits of Coal and Iron. Major Knapp, who has been engaged for several months in drilling artesian wells near Cedar in Iron county, is in Zion today. "What luck did you have in striking water V" was asked. "I am sorry to say not much. 'I struck water In all the welli I drilled," continued Mr. Knapp, "but in one of them in sufficient quantities to bo an object. I have taken up under the desert act some 20,000 acres of laud, on which I can get water from the mountains, and I expecting wlthiu the next two weeks a Pullman-load of people from Chicago, who I am going to take down and show over that section of the country." "Talk about coal and iron," he said, warming to his subject, "why we have whole mountains of it. There has been euougu development work done on mines of coal anu iron in our vicinity to show veins tha'. would make a Pittsburg mining man's eyes stand out of his head. All we want is a railroad; rail-road; the nearest one now is at Milford, some lifty miles away. Thero are several roads that have mad) surveys into Cedar, and wc hone for a road before this season is over. "There are thousands of acres of land In that section of Utah that are open to settle, ment which, with water and it is easy to get will grow anything. That is, in my opinion, the fruit-growing section of Utah, and it will bo but a few years before the laud will be all taken up." |