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Show I! UTAH'S IKON FIELDS. Expert Talent Says They Must Come Into Commercial Use. Walter Fitch, the new manager of the Utah Interest of the United States Mining company, Is, with his family, temporarily sequestered at the Knutsford hotel. Dis-1 Dis-1 cussing the iron regions of tho "Lake Su-I Su-I perior country" yesterday. Mr. Fitch, who .Is conversant with every portion of I them, said that while the output of Iron I ore, with the unprecedented consumption M of steel tho present year, will exceed I 20,000,000 tons, perhaps, tho known supply I is sufficient to comprehend the requlro-I requlro-I lnents of fifty years or more. Nor chould this, he added, discourage thoso whose I faith has been for so long pinned to the enormous Iron-deposits of Utah, of which B ho has read, as a source of revenue. On the contrary the hour is approaching when the requirements of the West must he supplied by Western resources, and this must bring them into splendid activity. activ-ity. Again, the consumption of iron oro Is hourly Increasing and an "ago of iron" is rapidly settling over the country. .The regions on which tho builder has relied for lumber are almost denuded and In a few years the frame structure will have pnssed Into the obsolete. The iron masters mas-ters recognise thta, as do the producers, and conditions are molding themselves accordingly, ac-cordingly, said Mr Fitch, than who there are none more familiar with conditions condi-tions In tho realms of Iron. In the vast deposits of Iron In this State he recognizes many possibilities, nor Is there nny telling nt what hour a pioneer will come along to put them to commercial commer-cial use. His advice to the owners is to hoid on to them. When Mr. Fitch and his family left ' Michigan It was snowing, in contrast with 1 the Ideal autumn weather that greeted them on their arrival In Zlon. and they aro correspondingly impressed with the change of environment. Tho present week ho will begin his pilgrimage among the plants and properties over which ho has consented to preside. |
