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Show SEES BIG FUTURE FOR IRON COUNTY Transportation Company Secretary Optimistic Op-timistic Over Possibilities for Iron and Coal Deposits. "When the iron and coal deposits of j Iron county are fullv developed, they will become one of the greatest indus- j tries in the state," said an engineer connected with one of the large eastern east-ern bonding houses yesterday, according accord-ing to .7. J. McC'lellan, secretary of the Old Capitol Petroleum, Fuel, Iron & Transportation company, when speaking of the prospective building of a railroad into Cedar City, Iron county. The engineer is further reported to have declared that he can see no reason why, if satisfactory arrangements can be 'made, his company will not build the railroad in the very near future. Delays, De-lays, he is reported to have said, may be occasioned by the scarcitv of skilled labor la-bor and materials and the inability to secure necessary equipment. Regarding the iron at Iron Springs, the engineer said that he believed it to be possible to develop a great industry, indus-try, but that the coal would be a secondary sec-ondary consideration to the government. The mining of the iron will constitute the greater industry, and he predicted that witiiin a comparativelv short time steel plauis would be established in the vicinity of Cedar City, increasing the population and pay roils enormously. He is reported to have said that he di'd not know of a place in the United States with greater possibilities in the iron and coal industries. The engineer is credited with saying that the flotation of the bonds for the railroad will be an easy matter. He also expressed the opinion that the capitalists cap-italists of Salt Lake would not hesitate to take an important part in financing the new railroad. |