Show I How About Utah's Iron Ore I f By ly Ira C. C Tichenor Tichenor- A A to figures practically are official the United L A States now is leading the world in pig iron output and in 0 addition it is stated that Americas America's annual output of this metal has hasa a greater value than that of any other single manufactured com com- produced In this country and that It exceeds the value of all other b meta metals produced in America ls declared by the Comm Commerce Monthly 0 that the United States no now 0 produces s more than half halt o of the entire pig Iron output of t the e world While 0 j io iO o but 12 42 gross tons were produced In 1918 our total output was 44 tons Iron manufacture Is segregated ses In a a. comparatively few tew districts determined by the con coke eole and ore supplies Pennsyl- Pennsyl varila two two-Clr two fifths hs of or the country's pig Iron Ohio manufactures a tU wore nOra than one p Imports and exports of pig Iron are negligible compared with d Mon Our Imports come mainly from the United Kingdom and have ha l b erv Most of our exports go to Italy Canada and the United t and have been Increasing The United Kingdom I Imports ports about half halt l i J. J ore ore supply for or pig pig- Iron manufacture The war had little effect on 0 Gr t pig Iron output Her Her average e annual production of ot about S 9 gross gross tons has been approximately maintained l Exports of pig Iron fr fro United Kingdom which averaged about 12 per cent of production i tho five years ears preceding the war decreased during the war The cost ot of fW cUon of British Iron and steel has been tremendously Increased as t A of ot the war At present America can undersell British producers In aU U the tho markets of ot tho the world Including the British market but It Is not a te e that this condition will be permanent permanent 0 f 1 These facts and figures bring forcibly to mind the existence In Utah of ot the the greatest and richest known deposits of iron ore in the the world and which hav have hayo the time of or their original discovery ery been permitted to lie idle 0 One reason reason for tor this state of ot affairs Is that capital has been slow slow to tol l recognize the importance of or the Ir Iron n deposits of the state but possibly amore a amore amore more 1 potent reason Is the fact tact that Eastern steel interests do not relish the tho idea ot of f keen competition In the West est while railroad interests look with favor upon continued long long- hauls of steel to the coast for tor use there or or for tor shipment to the Orient Undoubtedly the time Ume will come when these immense deposits of oC iron ore will be utilized but In the meantime Utah Is being robbed of ot a splendid opportunity for increasing its fame tame and fortune |