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Show L0N PAYS UTAH BILLS V' t V' ' ' "Tn p1 Workmgs in 1 f ! f ViX ' ' 1 field t 1 - " 1 i : -Ilvr' eCo'umbia $ Company v fcV x" . , rf" n,' " ; i , fflis. "J-lv? "I "' "--- " VW 4 1 i ySi l1 E. . O'CONNOR E b ona mUl whosa mining In , -? "Truh wa not onlr tolerated j, -j I Slt seirtily encouraged by the :: snritlM of the Mormon church 17 day. wm iron. The 1 Lan wa a long and costly l s haul from the east. Wei-"J Wei-"J Z tisrsfore, was the discovery a ; , La We existed in abundance ? J, tm clny ot Cedar in Iron 9 l0tr' . i 1 1S61 half the men At Cedar g Ht apart to develop an iron hjtrr During 186! a blast fur- g ul 49 erected, coal was coked ji on September SO, a stream of t id iroa " drawn from the Jiics. In November a company j Dser9t Iron Company, took ft th plant from the colony. ( iras raised in Europe and, t H Hten rears, the company con- H ri to operate. Upon the build- s j U i railroad to Utah in the , ! ; the cost ot Iron products was ( t ai the home industry became t iti. An effort to revive it on "i i. operative basis wa3 made by ' Neiar Hanks and the Great j : fatern Iron Co. in 1868 at Old , lu Town. The company was ab- ( crbd ia 18S3 by the Iron Manu- , ' itairlng Co. of Utah. A local J jarket for iron castings Is said to i :un been developed, but the pro- ,y:.4 railroad on which the com- 1 W relied did not materialize. ' Ilia appropriation of Iron land ' ; 'kin ta 1S77 with the survey of a ! :,.1j claim called the "Blowout". Inciting claims was the outstand- . zi feature of the iron business for ; Kreral dacado3. Those most ac- ' '.ti In acquiring claims were Matin Mat-in (Mien, S. B. Milner and the dorado Fuel & Iron Co. The F-MDd once patented, a search for . Vial to develop and exploit It , ni in order. The clock of time ;:W3d to 1923 before a successor 'J 'hi Old Iron Town enterprise '. wared. In that year the Colum-li Colum-li Steel Corporation went actively ' ork at Iron Springs, using a ' Sniel and glory hole system. The Slowing year shipments ot ore to ' Mast furnace at Ironton were . snmenced. Mneteen-thirty was an eventful 1 tor the Utah iron industry. ! J) United States Steel Corpora-, Corpora-, " came west and purchased all properties ot the Columbia L There was no lack of capital Operations were shifted to i - Mountain, 12 miles southwest ! Desert Mound, and a railroad to J't point was planned. Surveying . a standard gauge line was , IJ"3d in the fall ot 1934. Con- Auction began May 1, 1935, and ' completed on August 25th. Preliminary work on a mining "4 crushing plant had been in irogresa for some time. On August , 19S6, the building of the plant raa actually begun and the follow-ng follow-ng April it waB completed. Adjacent to the plant site are everal ore bodies. One of these, he Black Hawk, Was selected for he first development. An open lit was started 700 feet from the ecetvlng hopper of the primary srosher. The ore is broken by irilling and blasting 6-lnch churn rill holes. The open pit face Is 10 feet high by 160 feet long. The re Is loaded by a 2-yard electric ihovel into two trucks, each with a capacity of 28 long tons, and hauled 0 the hopper. A pan feeder con-reys con-reys the ore from the receiving lopper to a 60 i 48-inch jaw crush-r. crush-r. A belt conveyor carries It to 1 scalping screen which by-passes lie finished product. The oversize toes through either a reduction or i cone crusher. The product of :his operation, which is all of 2-nch 2-nch size or less, is conveyed by a jelt to a double-deck finishing icreen which produces three sizes is follows: First grade, under 5-16 nch; second grade, 5-16 to 1 inch; ;hird grade, 1 inch to 2 inches. The jre is loaded into railroad cars and shipped 239 miles to the blast fur-lace fur-lace at Provo. Since the Columbia Steel Corporation Cor-poration opened the mines at Iron Springs in 1923, operations in the listrict have been continuous. The ievelopment of the iron industry in Utah was the greatest incentive to the building of the Cedar City branch of the Union Pacific railroad. rail-road. The iron mines have been the largest source of revenue for the road and also the largest consumers con-sumers of power In the southern part of the state. Their payrolls have always been substantial. From them have been derived most of the $90,000 of taxes paid annually by the railroad to Iron county. Payments by the railway, mines and power company to the county are -well over $100,000. Although it has not been feasible to smelt the ore in Iron county, it is done within the state, so that the coal mines, stone quarries and transportation companies contribute contri-bute to the employment of labor and the tax revenue of the state, the counties and the municipalities. municipal-ities. Farmers and local merchants are secondary beneficiaries of the wealth produced by the iron industry. indus-try. It Is a highly competitive industry. indus-try. The Utah field must compete not only with domestic producers, but also with foreign interests fortified for-tified by cheap labor. To do so It needs the same support throughout through-out the state that it receives from the people of Iron county. |