Show ENORMOUS IRON FIELD proposed railroad from lund to st george would run through it much interest Inte test manifested 11 3 dooley who is familiar with the coal and iron properties in iron county said this morning that he had received a number of i agai ding that section of the country he ile said the development before the house steel ii vesti gating committee has done more toward the advance ment of the iron in utah thin than any thing that has ex ever or happened the iron located in the south western part of the state in iron county the county deriving its name from the iron and is from twenty wenty to twenty five miles horn the san pedro los angeles A salt lal e aall load the nearest station being lund the e or course is north east cast and is prospected for perhaps tn twenty ent five miles vi with ith an occasional shaft and cut the deepest not exceed ing irig a couple of hundred feet the general formation is gilnite with lime quartzite and sandstone ranging from about a mile to several everal miles in width the ore occurring in each of these formations as in well ell as on the contacts the character of the ore ib hem agite magnetite magni tite bessemer remark able for its high metallic contents and anda a vezy small percentage of the colorado fuel and iron company his has about acres pat anted the millner estate about the same and a few small companies com and some individuals with various interests ranging up to several hun bun died acres each within a few miles of the iron are located some of the moet most exten sive coal beds of the state ranging horn hom four to eighteen feet in thick ness us and semi anthracite in character the deepest opening on oil the coal does not exceed feet the pro duct being used for fuel in the nearby settlements and mining campi camp i with the first mettlen ent of lion county early in the the pion cers constructed a crude furnace and coking oi kveps eps and bied od andirons grate and various house hold utensils the nearest body of water mag is ao lake like about twenty miles east cast the iron coal and water are in this favored locality and there does not seem to be any feces sity for slipping the ord ore to any other place yet while this may pe done by some interests others 1111 w ill in all locate a plant at the most convenient place in the ira lm ine mediate diate vicinity ot of either the iron or the coal in either case mal ing a short haul various s foi a railroad have been made from time to time the last having been completed in august 1911 this survey nab wash biorn lund to st george through the iron and coal sections st geoage is in washington county south of iron counte and is known as the utah dixie land I 1 there is no sen son ible theory by which the tonnage of iron can be estimated teti mated and the matter of con sma tion and reserve will be one ot of minor trouble the de den elopement elop ment of the coal hab hat not demonstrated its true and actual cha and quality and its being theory that pressure pies sure im plows the quality it is reasonable to presume that a greatly superior quality ol 01 fuel for all purposes will be found with development de elopement elop ment should electricity prove the economical method of handling the lion 1111 oie ole the A coal could be made to produce the electricity Y t blanch i old load from I 1 und to kanara a distance ot of about five would rould h b ve few curves curies and an in easy grade ind would be tributary and convenient corn to the settlements and agricultural districts and the stock i aiding interests as well as the coal and iron fields evening telegram |