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Show BED MILS E. J. Ed.dard3 Disposes of Big Five Coal and Other Lands in District. Property Along Survey of Proposed Railroad Taken by Californians. 1'.. J. Ld'iards, Lnown tu many of the 'Nevada and ralifornia mining men anions t. "old-tllnvrs" an Death Valley Joe, v. a . ; in fait Lake yesterday after his fir.-1 ijit in tv. enty-fi'. c j ears to trie place of boyhood in southern Vlnii. Mr. Ud- i.ii d:; ,r.i;!:t r. itu him a brief for the v Ir.;iu mineral resources of Iron count:', liuti lie claims to be l!:e "reatent tnin-eial tnin-eial lad In the world, bar none." As a mining engineer, Mr. Uddards has followed ids profession from Utah to heath vallcv. from the diamond fields of .Urea to llie great mines of Liberia dur-im dur-im ids quarter of a century of wander- In;;:'. This m:iie-.l area in southern Utah, he ;ii:,, is destined to become one of the meat ore - prod uei ng fie'ds of the world. ''I here." he, said yesterday, "will be found iron and coal, as een tho natives are avarc. but imld, silver, lead. nine, tuns-slen tuns-slen and others of tne precious minerals and tuetals can be found for a distance of many miles. from the Muddy river to :i. point east of Lund is a. mountain chain which is almost one continuous mine. "'This territory will lie developed one of these days." he says, "and when It Is we-allh will bo poured into tne state." Mr. Lddards said yesterday that ho has lust closed a deal whereby tie has sold ' coal and Iron lands belonging to the Big Vive Milling company to a California fvi'idicate lor a consideration of $?o0.-c"0. $?o0.-c"0. The land consists of l;:'0 acres of coal laud and twenty-fi c iron claims a ion-' the route of the proposed railroad of tiie uld Capitol 1'retroleuui & fuel eompa.ny between Lund and Cedar City. Ldward'll. -Why to, a veteran mining man of San l'raneiseo. represented tho pur-euasurs pur-euasurs in the transaction. |