Show successful experimenting W JENNINGS cohade Co have lately been experimenting in the smelting smelling sm elting business and for that purpose have erected in the fifteenth ward temporary smelting smelling sm elting eiting works and so far their efforts have been crowned with gratifying success their first attempt was made with a quantity of ore from the hidden treasure mine in eastfan y yon on owned by jennings lee and the result was some excellent pig piga 1 composed of clear lead and silver were cast those castings can be seen at the works near mr jennings Jen ninga tannery they have not been assayed but they indicate a large percentage of silver temporary works for experimenting in the manufacture mand facture of iron from the native ore are about to be erected also by the same firm by which the theory of making iron in utah will be thoroughly tested and aa as the member the firm engaged in making the experiments are thoroughly up in the business having had bad a long experience in the oid old country there is every reason to believe that their efforts will be as successful aa as they have been with other metals the caution of the experiment res in first demonstrating the practicability of their theory on a small seale scale is business like and commendable for after overcoming the difficulties that are to be encountered in making iron on a small scale the manufacture of this important article can then be entered into to a large extent without fear of failure should the experiments now being made by jennings co prove entirely satisfactory of which there is but little room for doubt we understand it Is their intention to put up furnaces ac on an n extensive scale in a suitable location when the manufacture of iron can be said to have really commenced here a new era will have begun to dawn upon utah As an evidence of this it is only necessary to point to the island of great greatt britain w which ieh ich although insignificant in point of dimensions dim ensigns en is one of the wealthiest wealthie sl nations in the world and her greatest great est esl source of wealth has been in her coal coa and iron mines then what is there to hinder utah from becoming one of the wealthiest spots on the globe here are the elements of wealth strewn around us in profusion in various forms we have coal and an abundance of iron ore of the richest description and in addition we have all the requisite muscle and skilled labor to develop these invaluable resources All AH thatis that is required then is the application of the necessary capital if the success of the numerous enterprises with which mr jennings has heretofore been connected is anything to judge from there is little doubt doutt but the matter above alluded to will prove another triumph of perseverance and energy capitalists there is wealth in the iron busi busl business neEs |