Show i Li IRON COUNTY to 1100 2720 City Dec CIty beat located ed t nty south lOuth ot tie the ot or ran and about the same lame dl tRU 1101 III It t th ibm ot the basin buln was lilt under the ot of the lal ate A Smith assisted alted by Henri Junt now HOW of at Mexico George Wood Joseph Thomas o others whose nin ii art are at mOlt moat but whose WhOM rood od out and are band for those who ore now Allum the connected with our town 1011 man ot of our leter settlements Cedar CIl City has hili many r re the being the third town built up U sInce Smith with his hll hardy band banI ot of Pioneers commenced Ih the Uon ot of this tart ot of Iron The Dhe n for tor beIng brought about mostly the treacherous ot of Coil t the Southern ot of the State Blate being noted tot It Its tremendous floods In Inthe the summer umer season The removal from ore olle loti to another hung being necessary for tor CILy until we are Wy Illy sour from Ih the or of floods Ir II the th commencement or of the ot of this It was 8 to tomake make maki I ar CIl City a town tow nd In Its III early experIence the roar 4 t the bleat blat furnace furnall Is II something Uon be vividly called to mind want ot 01 capital this Industry Wal vu allow to and finally died no traces ot of which on oan be today unless It is II ruins ot of TIm Till FUn ACE on the north sIde of at town lon and some or of the crude Iron ore lying about site silo ot of U Iron Works that Ihal used to ho Whets the Iron Works Work were abandoned abandond our Inhabitants numbered more mort than todar loday and In consequence ot of the bos 1101 In Ing down ot of the works work man many belt Cedar settle goIng to southern California white the majority sought homes In other parts ot of this State Siale Those ThOM who remained took up with other pursuits such Much as al tanning And Our condition rt at that thai time being In Inthe inthe the yrs eare ot of caused man many who bio had their ot of clothing to leo 1001 seriously about for Cor the lJ best t method to In securing necessary for tor their families III 18 the result was that Ihal k t great effort was wall made malle to 10 M as cu curs a few In order Jr that wool rOO I might be had from which clothing ci al of oC Il a crude and coarse quality was Wall And the inhabitants Inhabitant ot of ur town thus lIlUe enabled to pu peas over the trying ot of the hits and earlY 1 tI since lance which event our city hay bee prospered commensurate with to 10 Cud the theRO theIRON IRON RO WORKS DAYS are looked booked upon 11 by the older ohler portion of at atour our as aI the mot most trying In Inthe the history of Cedar Ceder CIt City The condl lions of the It at that time Urne ot of which we e write made It an easy euy matter maller to Introduce the Ibe principles or of cooperation tion III as there were few tew wealthy wealth persons In our midst midi a combined effort was WAI time the only our reach steps were iere Imm taken to Introduce allun In the year the present mercantile institution or of this city was at its Ila first tIIt display being In a 0 small mall and granary which Ull stands and Is a striking eon trust to 10 the institution ot of to today day The history of Cedar City Coop emte Institution Is before the people not only ot of Cedar City Citi but the holt or of can justly claim the or of being baing time theo regulator or of of at southern Utah n a friend to the veer ns as well na as the main feeder or of very Iven public enterprise that has been started In our town It bins ant Is at ent by men ot of ability whose aim olm has hils been to bo be content with reasonable dividends and deal fairly with the ot of the institution Like Ilke man many similar institutions In our State Its thull tar In life lite has not been upon Ullon the smoothest seas leu and at one period ot of It its I run iun the shoals of at financial for tor the institution how however ever eer some or of our lest best citizens tool took hold ot of time the almost sinking vessel and with the assistance ot of Its numerous creditor were enabled 1 to launch It forth again It no now sails on prosper ous waters and bids fair to rank with our most table Institutions BUSINESS EFFORTS Our town lown can enn boast ot of one ot of the Iho finest business blocks ot of southern Utah its maiden effort was no lese than the one already mentioned althou h not In a granary Its wares area were Svere displayed In a 0 private residence In one or of the back streets In our city and It I is ute sate to sa 50 Its stock In trade trudl would not UI more than lIve Ove hundred donaTe dollars when hen It commenced Its branch or of business we now to tilt the Cedar Sheep association whose birth can be Ie traced to 10 the earl early sixties when the effort wall wae made to loom corn menco the ral ot of Shel under the system this instItution was tor or man many t is 18 yet et the lead leal leadin Ine in sheep Industry In southern Utah Its hs capital stock being owned In nearly nearl very settlement ot of the State Time trib connected with this company compall are Its ibm paid capItal Is Isnow Isnow now over forty orl thousand dollars find and It its I annual expenses reach about twelve thousand dollars considerable ot of which is II paid out to employee of at the Institution tion Its last yearly olly dividend was thirty Per Ier cent and baa haB been heen no lees for tor time the past three years divIdends are general Iy by paid In e cash h and merchandise This Thle company has bias six she flocks of sheep with about hundred head to the flock till this sheep shep are looked litter after I Ione by byone one roan who Is 18 time the ot of all the herds The mercantile branch or of this Institution Is favorably located on the or of our town ton and Is ably Inducted In one ot of the most mOlt Im Imposing brick structures ot of southern Utah Ar Cedar City Is now beyond doubt nn an center canler for southern Utah The lift ot of time the Stole State or of Utah Ulah In ellab time branch normal here has hili cc ar this beyond question It its Is 18 WI weH trued the I 5 OO of both Loth ladles amt gentlemen cf It and amid ability the influence ot of this Institution Is being felt for tor rood good goodIn In our 1011 and Its bespeaks bespeak the high appreciation In which It is II held by Jy the poole people or of southern Utah or lur lot school Is III now to 10 It its full limit we 0 employ nine Ight ot of whom lire are last year 1 lime ht for teachers as al knee the munificent sum ot of two thou three hundred anti and seventy dol dollar dollars lar lars they also aiso expended on and aites three hundred anti for tor school one olle hun hundred hundred dred and dollars school chool I for tor repair and Improvements one hundred and Hv hP dollars this year the of at I will wil far exceed that thaI ot of II aim RI some improvements been beau made de and more morl Ire are un no noden den r contemplation we surely have An school system y tm with teachers well qualified for tor the various depart department ment macate Our status wll compare favorably with other towns the tho dominant church ot of the State has full tull Control no other religious or being known here our house or of worship Is ot of modern style comfortable and commodious anifla well Oiled filled with attentive every err Sunday Bunday afternoon our Sabbath school ts is of t by those who ho visit lIlt us ra as one or of the I I i 0 i II 1 n i I best belt In the State Stale It I Ii well web equipped and lies hal an excellent lot of In instructors AND AD STOCK RAISING G The principal labor ot of our Is and the th former lt if which tl ii somewhat retarded owing to drought although ha has ben been this year ear but not enough for tor loal hoel tuse I On One ot of Ih the principal al drawbacks to our farming Industry I l a leek lack of at system ot of wherein considerable ot of the waters ot of spring could ht be stored for tor u use durn during tl the dry months ot of summer with 11 this much tie de sired Ired farming Carmine could still Ull b be carried on successfully Stok Stock ano and sheep raising railing I If properly managed llY Pay thO those who engage In that thaI pursuit ci al though thIs branch or of Industry Is II at attended tended wih with rore more than for owing In part to extensIve treats ot of land band being taken U up for tor UM taco COAl AND t EnAL Cedar City depends to 10 a considerable for tor her future growth Ind end ll d upon hr her vat vast smut almOt almost unlimited natural resources together wih with the advent into Inlo our county or of tran transportation within the present year several dollar ha lice been expended In developing 1111 and securing curing valuable claims claim In Iron Moun lain tam vicinity a brief de description ot of which is II herewith appended In the vicinity ot of Iron MountaIn there are enormous dell deposit or veins of hematite and magnetic ores ore rent recent d di give that the theIron theIron Iron Hat cap vast of mini crabs of which Iron lion is on important factor Touching this lew new and Inter feature ot of the mountain the d de recently clone by E l A AThol Thol Thompson l and DJ Prow on the Home I p jj lIi i group are worthy of note nole This group situated near near time north point ot of the mountain consists ot of eleven pint claims five of at which are under bond to 10 time Iho gentlemen le above aboe named and six ot of which ore are owned by them FORMATION What II is true Irue ot of the formation In which the Ol ore bies bodies ot of the Homestake group are found Is true all also ot of al all the important Iron ore bodies ot of the district They Ire are In granite and linac the former being tIme the fot foot wall tl and the Iho latter laller ot of coure course the hanging SURFACE SHOWING The surface ot of the Homes tall tIme the claims upon which most mOlt ot of the wor work has hae bane done llone shows In the lime a cn con eln ot of head leall carbonates ali and silver beaming quartz abut about 1 five ions or of fould found at a depth ot of ten len tet feet Is isto t to I be In seen on tIme the dump and a Ireat great quantity of lot float galena apparently from this lime vein eln Is II to 10 be leon this galena lalena runs run from about fifty to seventy Imer cent lead to 10 tory forty ounces Jer of at silver and one to tour four dollars lold The Thi Ilver sliver quartz ot of which timers there I Is I a gr lt quantity sometimes rm runs at as high a as fifteen hundred ounces the work done here shows that but attention Il has ben been liven given to tImes thele ore ones Going to the contact there II Is to be seen JO io py Pv 1111 vu pus nt at one nt a bod body of oC hematIte ore to feet rel In width at this ore II I haI heavily copper stained In however hower but what his hue been developed by a fifty root foot shaft For or the first feet teet or 8 so this shaft I 1 halt bait In hue Ind and halt half haltIn halfIn In vein malle matter the later latter showIng occasionally some copper stain Ih time lime me then themi disappears I a the mountain at In an average ot of degrees degree And leaving the ahat shaft completely In iii decomposed and ond broken up UI ein mater matter Still Ull showing the coca u Ional copper stain At the bottom or of ortho the tho shaf shaft are to be observed on alt sides odd bunches ot of gIving od per cent cop copper er one dolar dollar gold old and ounces IIer sliver A drift to the west feet or more discloses the granite tC rot foot wall In the face tace another to the tat east discloses FIrstA 1181 ot or vein In copper stained and having In Is Its HAt seam or stringers ot of rie rite fet feet or of orhea hea heavy ore Impregnated wit wIth Irn ereen carbonates or of copper sometimes ot of an excellent grade rade but sc scarcely h on the whole caring carrying mor more than two to to 10 three per cent at mol most pr II dl distinct apparently a copper bY body imbedded or In a 0 soft C gr gray the same ten tet feet and out on on one side d throughout showing glIstening and streaks ot of which give le from twenty to pr per Ont cent cop copper per the whole indicating that I a con eoa pr bly hotly Is not tar fu to Ik seek CO CONTACT TC OIE DU DUMP P POn On thu lump dump are probably not lIot 1 less than four and one al or fn five tons or of this Ihl lak taken n torn the cam cham chamber br ber JIt mentone mentioned 11 surprising C tea tub ture Is that the dump mater flatter Itsel Itself runs four Iolar end and seventeen in gold and three ounce alver silver and there seems Beems to I be nn an unlimited quantity LE LEAD About ois oe hundred feet feel from time the en enI eon I tact t there is II In the lime a well lead carbonate vein eln from which at 1 a depth of oC tn ten feet teet there was U excavated about five tons ton ot of high rde grade galena this stuff I ii on the dump anti much of t tIt It runs as high as al seventy vent per r cent lead A ounes silver and four tor dol doi Jal foill gold Accompanying this carbon carbonate ate streak II is n a bl body ot of sped valued fIfteen inane mons which have Rlue ounces sliver Very Ito little work has hall been beon ounce done to develop this ore body Iod though It gives It promise to bo be worth rth looking aCer aCerNO after NO 1 SHAFT This shaft Is sunk In time lime two to hundred shot feet aWl away from te the to a depth ol of thirtyfour tet feet fr from the bottom runs a drift one hundred fiet feet lon long and calculate calculated to 10 strike the eon n tact In less therm ont one hundred cOil anti fifty tet feet mor more unless diverted to make the strike at abut about a fM right angle In n othe other wor Weeds the drift runs to too much In In line wih with the contact The Tho shaft hat and drift are wel weil made and wi will b be ot of great an ser er Ic In prospecting for tor the or ore bodies I It la Is probable that I It this shaft WU was sunk unk to a depth of two 10 hundred fet feet It would cut tb the vein on I dIp ot of water I lm Portent end and fortunately a ro good and supply I Ia found at the rac ot of lh the 01 one hundred root foot drift is II boll hoisted le with b by means of a whim For extensive work an Increase of water I is desirable but ul this can b be had I as dt di t 11 The mountain is II thickly covered with cedars that male nicks excellent end d mining timber tor or ordInary wok work lre irs wod wood is II The mines with a view Ie or of thon ar are mOt moat happily situated eal easy of access the distance to Lund is II abut about seventeen mile to Cear Cedar City eighteen mile the projected from Iund to 10 Cear Cedar City would In al all probe at Iron come Spring within seven miles plo passing COAL I IA A col coat region o of great rat and unknown extent is II In able proximity to 10 this won mountain If of Iron and c can b be reached within twenty miles limestone abounds and al all the essentials for the successful or of Iron are at command except a link In railway corn com which needs need to be supplied to render time the region and pr per malt ot of the opening up ot of the vat vast reo re resources sources which ore are now dormant dormont Both Iron and coal ar almOt almost In quantity coal cul claims ar are quits nu DU and ar are held by various parties In hop hope that thal ta the future construction by some lome ot of the railway and the develop merit ment ot of the region relon b by capital The quality ot of this coal oal for tor manufacturing purposes has been n questioned hit hut this I is fast being removed b by v pral tests which have been made which hel It strength for tor manufacturing turin turing purpose beyond question H I Hi HI It T I IT T C CI 1 I C 1 1 I J 3 T F FI T X 3 T I TI I I II I I I j f fI 1 i iL 4 1 L i I I f E t tT 4 f c I T T 4 11 X I t 1 T T 1 T j T T Tf f TI r rr I r 1 s PREHISTORIC WATCH TOWER SAN SANJUAN JUAN lUAN COUNTY f f HH HI HH 1 H jH I |