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Show 1 FACTS .ABOUT IE J UTAHjRflN FIELD t Expert's Statement at Capital 1 jj Is Not Agreed With by f : Local Men. M TOiNNAGE TOO SMALL 11 Abundant Coal Is Adjacent to m Known Iron Deposits of It the State. fcH There have been several things tfcW brought out at Washington before the h A ; steel truet committee of congroaB to WI which Utahna take exception, oae being o? the Btatement accredited to Joseph Sell- ujfii wood, the expert who has been before ' ck 'f the committee for several days. The fj following extract from the Associated tm r Press dispatch contained In The Tribune -II " yesterday morning has aroused many or ?t - ihla city who assert a knowledge or con- qB Mr'selwood said that in Utah thero KU were known to be a billion tons of mor- W chantable ore. This ore can bo used to WW make Bteel Just as well bb any other ore, but It is not near coke or coal or M v fluxing moterlal, he Bald. yJ " 'But continued Mr. Sellwood, 'there ! jfi , 1b a great market In the west for stcc HI and a growing market In the central tol west, and the time will come when It i m will be practical to ship that western ) ore east or to ship from tho east the j Of coke and coal.' I, 1 Big Men Interested. "Several years ago, Mr. Sellwood ex- 0 plored the Utah ores for James J. Hill, B I the late John W. Gates and the late E- raj H, Harriman. They considered those ! mBki ores a reserve. , i In " How long do you think the Utah ores ? Hi "wUl Dft considered merely a reserve? a Hi asked Representative Gardner. KM " "Probably twenty-five years. 4 If "Mr. Sellwood thought tho time would I 11 come when It would bo practicable to build U steel plants on the Pacific coast and told 1 M of -when Gate3 and others had consld- 1 H1 ered erecting a Btocl mill at Loa An- Ji Ql . geles. With the completion of the Pana- f B ma canal the availability of the west- 1 M ' ern ore, It was said, would Increase. 1 B ' "There are in Utah." said a prominent mining man yesterday, "far greater ton- v S 1 nagres of Iron ore than a billion tons. I'm If this tonnage Is Indicated at the pres- m ' ent time there Is a great deal more that ! Wi will be discovered and opened at the 1 h! logical time. The United States geologl- S ; cal survey, as I understand It. Is author- ! If Hy for the statement that in Utah s E . tho greatest undeveloped iron deposit , fj ' known In the world. If this Is true, the ' at ! estimate of one billion tons Is entirely mt J too modest. Hf i Plenty of Utah FueL I; "And as for the Utah Iron not being near coke or coal or fluxing material, Biich an assertion Is ridiculous. Anyone knowing the state can point out that adjacent to these iron fields Is the larg est amount of coal to be found any-1 any-1 where, and Utah holds more undeveloped j coal today than the state of Pennsyl- "As for the quality of Utah-made coke, It Is far superior to that coming from Pennsylvania, as some of the smelting J Interests of Utah can testify. They tried out eastern coke at the time of tho Utah coal strike, and it was found far Inferior to the home product. It is generally considered that tho big Bteel Interests do not care at this time to boost Utah Iron in view of their extensive Interests further cast, and they are not assisting their own game a great deal by making statements that fall to square with conditions. con-ditions. "Some of these days the big steel Interests In-terests will be compelled to realize on their Utah Iron Interests, and the time Ib closer than twenty-five years. And when that day comes they will not bo compelled to send to Pennsylvania for their coal or coke." |