Show metallic wealth the metallic wealth of utah especially in iron has never received the attention it rightfully if these were developed to a proper extent it would become clearly evident that this territory would be a successful rival of the famous lake superior mines in alie output or iron ore the very best quality of aliis metal can be found all over utah in every conceivable variety the most important beds are located in iron county some miles from salt lake city the belt in this section is two miles wide by sixteen miles long the ores are magnetite and and essays assays carefully made by prof newberry the well known scientist of columbia college new york show that they contain an unlimited supply of bessemer ore of a superior quality it is estimated that over tons can be seen above alie surrounding ground on blowout mound alone in aron county there are upwards of fifty claims around the iron spring and iron city groups which at the lowest calculation hold in their rocky embrace over tons of iron alie intrinsic value of which for the of tons has no equal in the world |