Show i IRON ORE COT CANNOT COTt t l ll BE MiNED MID I IN UT AI A great deal Ilal has haJ been Ral said l about tto tl thy possibilities of or the tho iron Holds fields in the tho southern part of or this state A Dumber umber of efforts have been liefl to get capital In interested tores tej In iii those Immense deposits which h ha have hanot not given the situation fl seine som lJ e study are are- wondering In amazement why something has not riot materialized The Tue Theat fart fact that this ground is located som some lome distance from railroad lines and that It K would be Impossible to handle the ore to advantage unless the property was directly direct direct- ly connected with the road may ma manot not have been considered by mot most people Then too It has been heen demonstrated that sorno somo lar large f Iron deposits are aro to be found In other western states but because of or tho cheapness with which the ore oro Is produced In the th J Lake Superior region It will re require require rp- rp quire a number numbE of ot years Cars to compete with the I Iron n nr ore r mining n in that t section C Re Regarding Be- Be lr garding t t the I Idaho Iron r ore th the tho following W g comment Is III made marte Within eight miles of ot tho thio Milwaukee track on the Coeur reservation aton we found an abundance of ot Iron ore ore orl mountains mountain of ot It It states A. A J. J L. L I of ot the Milwaukee I land and company compan a a. close ally of ot the Milwaukee l railway but our engineers reported that It could not be mined at a profit under existing conditions conditions condi condl- and probably at no time during the present generation I had hoped that there thre would b be sufficient suf sur- gold In the ore to make It profitable profits profits- ble but it was found to be iron ore and nothing else I The qu quality of ot the ore Is beyond criticism but f i It lay alongside the railroad tracks track and could be bo dumped Into cars rs with the utmost ease ense a I condition condition condition condi condi- tion that does not exist th the Item Hem of at transportation transportation trans trans- the tho oat lOSt of ot coal or coke oke and amI the absence of ot convenient limestone would make it utterly impossible to mine mimic the ore In lii competition with the great undeveloped undeveloped un un- developed deposits of ot the Lake Superior region With coal several sl hundred miles distant distant distant dis dis- dis- dis tant and costing 9 a II ton and hardwood timber timber essential essential to the making of ot coke even fen more remote It tt is Impossible to take the ore and manufacture It into steel rails to compete In the east with the tIme ton 30 steel rails turned out at Pittsburg Iron ore oro Is dead at 15 cents centa a a. ton Few people realize this When II It W. W Thompson Thomp Thomp- son applied to the Idaho land commissioners commission commission- ers era for tor a year 60 50 ear lease on an acre tract of ot Iron land east of ot Lewiston for tor which ho agreed I to pay 15 cents a ton a II howl went up at the absurdity of the compensation compensation com corn offered to the state Yet I Iown Iown own an Iron mine on Lake Superior which I have havo lea leased heated ed at 14 cents a n. ton and felt feltI teltI I was getting etting a fancy tancy price for tor It ft It has the advantage of ot water transportation cheap coke and plenty of ot limestone |