Show ww PINTO april 1 1871 editor deveret deseret jems jews dear brother oa O friday the alth I 1 visited the iron works in our ward and saw the brethren actually making iron after some somo three years hard struggling success h has As crown crowned edth ed th their air efforts I 1 bay say daveral tons stacked by the works and they were tapping the furnace at regular intervals and running out some eight hundred pounds every eight hours no interruptions or stoppages by non flexing fluxing or chilling or uncontrollably obstructions occur aa ak perplexed the breth brethren renat at cedar city years ago bub hub everything seems to work very satisfactorily facto rily bro It bichard Ichard harrisson Barr isson of this place was present a man maa long experienced in iron in Eng england Ivind I 1 and he pronounced the iron no 1 bro adam adama bishop of adamsville Adams Ada mavIlle ville who ia Is their furnace manager and has had a long experience in the business in england calls it the tho chevery th every Overy best beat of iron their blast is blown by a emall email steam engine imported from the east at considerable cost the members of the company few in number have labored hard and long to bring about the present result there are some dozen or fifteen hands at voik volk running night and day and when the material on the ground is ill used up they will be compelled led to stop and blowout blow biow oufa the furnace not having hands or capital enough to keep it running and supply it at the same time the com eom company tr by is making arrange arrangements ments menta to 60 cast the e iron into useful articles buchas buch such as hand irons sad baa irons hollow ware and stoves and show to the people in utah and the world that the tho manufacture of iron in utah is a fact As I 1 said baid the few that stuck to the enterprise have labored hard and have become somewhat reduced in in circumstances bub but as success has attended their efforts they are quite elated in their feelings at the prospects of the future the company is organized on the operative cooperative co principle with bro ebenezer hanks banks aa as president who la Is quite a business man bro homer duncan is vice president with good men for directors bro seth bf blair is secretary this enterprise is worthy of being pushed forrd as we need cast and wrought iron and steel and if it itt bo be manufactured in the territory it will enable us to keep the means at home that we now send abroad and thua thus take another step to live within ourselves here then ia Is s good op opportunity for some of our capitalists to flavest caveat their wealth enrich themselves and build up the country the production of iron here is no phantom but is a fact and I 1 am told the ore is inexhaustible and very rich giving at least 75 per cent and the flexing fluxing material is near by stone coal is found near by a little of which was vas shown me and there are thousands of acres of cedars good wood to make into coal near by so you will perceive that all the material wanted to carry on iron making on a large scale is here I 1 hope to seethe beethe bee see the time when all the iron that is needed for railroads quartz mills and domestic use will be produced in our midst I 1 understand a of this iron is to be besent bent sent to president brigham youngs office and you will have the pleasure of seeing it yourself A few words with regard to and I 1 will close grasshoppers are hatching out thick rendering the prospects for farmers rather poor toor we bhail ahall soon have our operative cooperative co dairy in operation and be able to produce pro dupe a large quantity of butter and cheepo of good quality 0 hoping you and yours sours are well welt I 1 ie remain yours in the gospel elchard rioh ElCH ABD B S lyo ilo ROBINSON 0 bishop of f pinto T suo SRO effort IN consequence ence of the shortness of feed for cattle cattie lu in california large herds berds are being shipped from some somo parts of that state to the tho sagebrush plains of nevada to le be fattened for market |