| Show 1 t ja ft iron ipton olty CITY june ath 1870 PRESIDENT P GEO A SMITH I 1 dear boothr Brot hr gratitude ia a rich apon to those alone who can and do express it this privilege I 1 avail myself ot of a at present pres ent for myself and also in behal behalf of the iron compary Com papy for the couppe s shown us in you towards our oun r superintendent Intend in eilt dr while wall e on a visit to your city the drle Drie pr essed himself thus of you when I 1 enquired how he hj was received ac said he h e had I 1 money mr smith sitti never want he reminds me bays says gife ilfe h e of a barrel of good wine the lonser longer its kept the better it rows weare only reassured by th this that we maybe may be confirmed in the fact that you remain a steadfast friend to the iron interests of utah I 1 would to god clod there were more than there now appears to be without iron railroads will be of ot little benefit to us without iron we cannot compete with either the esat east or west in agricultural or mechanical pursuits with it we are comparatively independent without miserably we shall make the grey cast iron who we again ask sk will purchase it of us for the price of freight my whole soul I 1 have thrown with all my means menns into the works and can live to produce iron when if it falls fails of a market I 1 must again resor resort to my profession for bread for wives and little ones I 1 feel best when engaged in fostering the manufacturing fae fac turing interests of our mountain home and cannot perceive how we can succeed as a people only through home manufacture grey cast iron is the foundation of all successful iron works and I 1 trust president woodruff and the board will encourage its production as well as other iron by liberal premiums zinc and copper cooper abound in our vicinity unsurpassed is ahe the zinc in richness and quantity assaying from 60 to 75 per cent 1 1 it is easily worked and can eau be brought into use for wash tubs wash boards buckets bowls bowis bo piping and the various uses that tin an and brass are used for it can be produced for 10 or 1 15 scents r cents per pei pound these items I 1 think worthy of consideration and I 1 desire to promote their thelt production I 1 feel the want of a response in my feelings to our enterprise by the editor of the NL NEWS Ws I 1 may be wrong but my feelings are that we will succeed and we would like to have havethe tha bedord Te dord or the present present 0 t read to future generations that b t it may be seen that we labor for the cause of zion I 1 am offered a press type ao 1 l III I 1 will advocate ate the mining lute inte interests of r southern utah 1 I shall not accept but theiron copper the and tin business should be encouraged cou raged by our leaders and irwill it will be a I 1 for our people to cottrol the iron business busi busl ness nesa of utah is of more importance in my judgment than to own the 0 B R railroad and will prove prote more lucrative for without iron I 1 can not see what we cani ean can or hope to liro produce duce or for exportation ik with my own means I 1 established tb the e oil gli bubin business ess in S st t george an and d expect to be placing on a figlie basis the but I 1 hope to meet viti 1 more in iron than I 1 have had in theall business you will excuse my iron naad raan mania manla la I 1 am interested or I 1 should not ilvo live jive and work aa I 1 do A railroad near ua us must shortly be built and a telegraph commercial relations will be extended to W us so soon as iron can be put in market southern utah must be provided fori for commercially or others will reap the harvest TLe tte theredore therefore I 1 urge our capitalists to send their ex per tsin iron ind and examine and if our deductions are truel lend a hand to fasten an interest that today to day is without moorings news with us becomes stale by the time it reaches us ten days from your city a time to us 11 like ilke e oi ox train days of yore general prosperity attends the labors of the people popie with usual good health the spring is dry and cool hoppers none no fearson theoal the cail lom bill I 1 never had any the new movement has only one advocate on the pinto the most of us realizing that w we e have all in old mormonism that we WO bargained for and more than we live to and fully enjoy kind regards to to all in the office truly your friend SETH beth ier M blair bnair he icen recently deceased Is PL perpetual letual Pe tuai secretary odthe french academy hair had reached the ripe age of eighty his brother immortals used jokingly to prophesy that he would live as ion lon long iong as fontenelle who when he lip ask asked edior edlor ho old ho he was wag use used d to put onet nin fin finger ter ger to his lipar upland and pointing with the other to heaven murmur hushi rushi dont put them in mind of it |
