Show UMBER READY j FOR L at hematite iron County have long been Und the resource A recent report the United States Geological Ley Ps the ore now in sight 1 No extensive or exploratory work e been only such shallow open as would show t character of the ore and the al extent of the intention has been called before L the News to the eoa beds at Harmony and fie mammoth cannel coal leads t the north fork o the Virgin in this The of the Harmony anthracite al veins has been undertaken by Angeles and the Wl coal field will be exploited i saon as the Interior Department reopens the land to I Except it is not to k mineral of Utah's that the News wishes to attention at this Plans laid now for the development of work is about to on the projected rail-Bad through the iron fields County and the- anthracite fields at in the part of this This Ki will be taken out at Salt Lake and after parsing the iron and fields and Counties be continued on to the Grand m of the Colorado in It k not generally known that Is or through which the Colorado has cut the Grand t heavily timbered Proposed railroad will reach and malte fimber mh Pressed tor the Forest f at by of this following L amount of timber on the aU W feet oard available 7 trees with a and breast yellow pine makes up the major amount of this' The quality ranges from the- best finishing material to stuff valuable for mining timbers and railroad ties The spruce type makes up about 20 per cent of the total This timber is all within a compact and easily logged estimated to contain about learn that this timber tract occupies part of a plateau or vast table land of about 1200 square and presents an easy logging This feature is in strong contrast to the mountainous areas and steep hillsides of the Oregon and timber The editor of the believing this to be one of the very few big timber propositions remaining open in some inquiries on the market side of the particularly the Utah Letters were addressed to the principal lumber merchants of Salt Lake asking them for an estimate of the including mining timbers and railroad imported annually into the State of The Utah Lumber replied in would say approximately million feet The Lumber replied as follows Have no but would judge from to million feet under normal Years of excessive railroad building or track repairing might increase amount by several million There is an unusually large consumption of the common such as mine railroad ties and dimension lumber a market feature which is most attractive to a lumber The investigation of the News into this timber proposition has brought forth many the quantity of available four thousand million the importation annually into the state of from to million feet ot the ease and economy with which it can be and to absorb it the markets ready Surely this is without doubt Utah's biggest and best It is a matter for congratulation anomalous that the present about to be are and that in the near future Utah's industries shall draw their supplies of lumber not from far away but from the Arizona which is naturally and commercially a part of County |