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Show The History of IMining in Utali , v 5 ' ' " 'j I ' "o ... i Huge reduction works like these which furnish much Utah In-i dustry wore underneath of when Pioneers arrived. j (EDITOR'S NOTE: Thli is the third of ft seriei o feight article! on the history of the metal mining- industry in Utah.) Within the next 30 years farming farm-ing and kindred industries in Utah grew up. The crop land of the state amounting to two and three-quarters three-quarters per cent of its total area, came under cultivation, compared tb a national average of 20 per cent of its area under cultivation. But the natural forces that restricted re-stricted the amount of arable in the state were the causes of the deposition of mineral resources. At the time present mountain ranges were being lifted to shut out the moist winds from the area their ery lifting was creating the ore deposits of Alta and Park City in the Wasatch mountains, of Bingham, Bing-ham, Ophir, Stockton and Mercur in the Oquirrhs, of Tintic a few miles south, and Milford ind Frisco and many others. The coal lands which were mentioned had their inception in-ception prior to this. As the hot, dry summers were drying up Lane Bonneville they were making possible the formation forma-tion of the salt brines of the Great Salt Lake, which some day v'll form the source of many valuable materials in addition to common salt, which is already being mined. ' By proper attention to the future development of these natural resources re-sources and seeing to it that t'ic"ei already developed are not allowed' to slip backward, Utah can support a population many times the pres-, ent and provide a livelihood for , all. f The westward trek of the small i band of religious people from Illinois Il-linois .which had its beginning in 1846 and ended in Salt Lake Valley Val-ley in 1847, is closely associated with the beginning of the development develop-ment of the resources of the west By the time these Pioneers had reached Council Bluffs, war with Mexico had broken out. A number of the Pioneers went on ahead to California to join American fortes and fight for their country. Two of these men were with Jim Marshall Mar-shall when he made his historic gold discovery at Sutter's creek California in 1849. (The fourth' article in this series will appato soon in these columns.) |