Show OR ON IRON COi I ROAD SOON TO I I i I START I I Construction of ot the railroad from Lund to Cedar CIl City by the old Capitol Petroleum Fuel uel and ancl Iron company ItIs It Itis Itis is expected by the management will be bewell bewell e ewell well un under er erVa Va way before the enn eon of or the tho present mouth month R n. H H. l the company'S company s en en- en I gincer formerly connected with tho the Utah Copper company compan has bas returned with his cr crew w after aHer completing tho the survey suney of ot the tho line while Thomas Homer former country countr clerk of ot Salt Lake count county Is Js expect expected to return from Cedar City tomorrow after aCter completing the final abstract work With tho the filing flUng of or tho records and tho maps tho the preliminary work will have havo been completed and actual construction operations will tall be started b by tho the lion Han over O Construction company of Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia which concern as exclusively announced In The Telegram was awarded the contract for building tho the road at nt an estimated cost of about for tor the two thirty miles of ot mainline the tho necessary sidetracks and anda a 1 connection with tho the Salt Lake Route noute at Lund The route of ot the rn railroad has his been changed slightly at the easterly end and as a result tho the road will enter Cedar City on the tho east cast side instead of ot the tho west as orl originally planned This This' change which will bring the tho terminus nearer tho the big coal deposits of ot the tho I company compan necessitated additional surveying surveying sur Bur and also further abstract work Had it not been for or this dela delay It Is stated construction opera operations would have bech beeh started about April 1 It is stated by A A. Mocking Jr president president dent of or the Old Capitol compan company that tho road rond Is as assured good traffic from tho the start through the development by the company compan of ot Its own coal and Iron deposits Contracts now are being ne negotiated negotiated ne- ne for tor tho the shipment of ot from 1000 to tons of ot coal dall dally daily to Los Angeles Ange Ango- les lee and for tho the shipment dall dally daily of or from 00 O to lo tons of ot ron Uon ore of ft rt character char- char icier Jeter required b by smelters In th treatment treatment treat treat- ment of ot refectory ores This It Is declared will be but hut tho the beginning of or development de operation which prom promise Iso to make Iron county famous throughout the world It Is declared that the tha Iron deposits In the th vicinity of ot Cedar City are are- of ot sufficient clent extent to provide the entire world with Ith Iron for tor tho the next thousand years while the tho ocal deposits practically ar are inexhaustible It Is known that great reat Iron and steel Interests facing tho ho ultimate te exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion tion In five to ten years of ot the iron ore deposits of or Minnesota and I have havo been negotiating ling for iron lands In Iron county with wlm tho the Intention of or erecting erE great blast furnaces and steel mills probably on the shores of ot Utah lake and It Jt Is stated that an offer oCter of ot for one ono of or tho the several Re mountains of ot iron near Cedar elt City re recently recently re- re was vis declined b by local owners O According to lo E B D D. Dustin one of ot the directors of the company who recently returned from an nn o tended trip throughout Iron county count that In addi addition tion to tho the immense coal and Iron I de deposits deposits de- de posits there ther aro are veritable mountains of ot sulphur and gr great t deposits of ot potash polish assaying 15 lliS 5 per pcr cent nt pure o within twelve twel to fifteen miles of Cedar City is located the Parowan Cedar for Cor I cst est reserve reser considered th the most ex extensive extensive I timber district in the state elate and amI j i where I several everal mills ar lr In sup PUP I I pl plying lumber for tho ho Interior trade Mr Dustin states slates that the entire re region region ro- ro gion Is heavily mineralized and that gold sold and sliver silver deposits are known to exist within n a short distance of ot Cedar city city- l |