Show < IRON Probably the largest known Iron deposits in the United States are In Iron county Utah in the Iron Mountain and Iron Springs districts The Iron zone Is from twelve to fifteen miles long and extends from Iron mountain to Iron springs These districts are thirty miles east of Modena on the Oregon Short Linerailroad but this road and also tIle Rio Grande Western and tho San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake railroads all have surveys made which run close to the great Iron deposits There are 131 patented claims In thcso districts of which Col S B Mllner and associates own nlnet Been Other owners are Walker brothers seven claims Cullen P Campbell eleven claims Colorado Fuel Iron company five claims the Taylor estate seven claims and James McGarry four claims V Salt Lake parties have been Interested Inter-ested In these Iron deposits for the past eight years but it was not until two years ago that these districts attracted at-tracted tho attention of capitalists In the East During the past years the development develop-ment work done by Mr Mllner and his associates has revcaTc the presence of largo bodies of highgrade iron Tho development work has exposed something some-thing near 40000000 tons of hematite and magnetite ore In tho districts and this ore will run 62 per cent metallic Iron A large percentage of these ores are bessemer and all tho necessary flux for tho manufacture of Iron con bo found on the ground These ores era absolutely free from titanium and sulphur sul-phur The ore lies between granite and lime The ore can be shoveled out of the mountain which makes it strictly n Bteamahovel proposition and It is estimated es-timated that It can be mined for 10 cento per ton Experts who have examined ex-amined the iron estimate that there arc not less than 60000000 tons of oro in the districts Mr Wltcher Jones of Salt Lake represents rep-resents all of these Iron interests with tho exception of tho claims owned by I tho Cplocidq Fuel Irpn company |