| Show mineral wealth of ulah SIR I 1 have been a resident of utah for nearly twenty years and during that time have been actively engaged in business which has caused me to travel over the mountains and through the settlements and in portions of the adjoining territories I 1 have been careful in i n gathering information respecting the general wealth of the country and I 1 L have no hesitation in saying t that lat utah and those portions of t the he territories adjoining through wh which I 1 ch I 1 have passed contain an abundance of mineral wealth consisting of silver silvery lead copper bismuth and some cinnabar iron coal ana and fireclay fire clay also blackhead black lead native sulphur alum borax nitrate of potash sal ammon ammoniac lac carbonate of soda sod and gypsum but owing to the difficulty of conveying machinery across mountains in wagons to distances of from to miles and the amount of capital required to erect suitable works for crushing smelting smelling sm elting refining I 1 ac has made capitalists careful as to t their beir heir anve investments st in the business and further the absence of railways has prevented men of moderate means having rock thoroughly tested before undertaking to build suitable works before working the mines that is to say if there had been railways running across the country men of small capital could have conveyed the rock to mills to be crushed and tested and thereby have known precisely what they were doing while developing the mines copper ore is found in the tintic gintic district and vicinity of st george southern utah also in the northern gart part of the territory all of which contains silver of various amounts silver mixed with lead la is found almost allover all ali over the territory coal mostly in the mountains east of salt clake lake lawe city juab county sevier valley iron irony and kane counties the other minerals are mostly found in the southern part of the territory commencing at fillmore about 0 miles sou south th of salt lake city forty miles northeast north east of st george is the town of Ka narra east and west of the town are large beds of coal of good quality and variety and very extensive A few miles north and west are immense deposits of iron ore on oil tile top of the ground still west commences the desert around and on oil which are the silver mines ot of pinto or silver Belt Clover Valley Meadow valley pioche and star districts most of which with tho the exception of pioche are undeveloped this part of the country la Is of volcanic nature and many discoveries supposed to be good mines are in my opinion either blow ups or slides from principal leads yet there is no doubt of the quality of the mines being good but it requires men of julg judgment ment to know the difference inexperienced men frequently locate and work to great loss of time and money hitherto we have had a number of adventurers who have run all over the country to prospect with a view of selling mines or holes in the ground and have tried to get rich at the expense of others without paying for value received such men are always a nuisance to honest residents of the country and again salt lake city has been besieged by a set of broken down politicians whose friends in congress have got them appointed as judges secre arjes aries ac for some purposes best known to themselves who together with a few lawyers of the same stamp have all the time been trying to get interests in the mines and in some instances these judges have it is firmly believed sat upon ca cases es wherein they were interested and to cover up their deed they have kept up the cry of brigham young and the mormons cormons Mor mons they marry all the widows and maidens and do not give us any chance let us hang brigham young and drive away the tile mormons cormons Mor mons ons with the idea no doubt that they would get all the farms and mines wherein the mormons cormons were interested for nothing but thanks to the supreme court of the united states the actions of or these carpet for the last two years have been disapproved and their decisions set aside they have now begun to quarrel among themselves and a suit is in court b by one of them for the recovery of damages ages for the non pay ment of a note given for the purchase of a judgeship the latter dav day saints were the first settlers of the th valleys and have with great labor made the land productive and desirable they raise wheat corn oats barley potatoes and vegetables in general butter eggs fruit and beef all of which they are willing to sell to the miners at fair prices without which it would be difficult to work the mines to advantage for if provisions had to be imported imparted from the eastern states it would cost too much to make it profitable to work in the mountains the country is bryand dry and healthy and suitable for mining purposes and when we have more railways personal capitalists ta lists and honest business judges to supply the place of the clasi class before referred to we shall have one of the safest and best minin mining countries in the world but hai had had the judges c and lawyers before named s succeeded in carrying out their object in driving away the mormons cormons Mor mons utah would have soon become an unsafe place for english capital but BO so long as they tiley are undisturbed and remain under the guidance of brigham young utah is on one e of the safest places in the world for investment it would be useless for me to give rive you on any account of the mines 1 n tse the vicinity of salt lake they are well known in your market the people are actively actively y engaged 0 in building railroads an and have already completed the utah central distance about 40 miles and about 40 miles of the utah northern also about 35 or 40 miles of the utah southern the two last named lines are intended to span the territory and the work to be continued until completed in addition to these there are to be a number of side issues or branches brandies running into the kenyons kan some of which are nearly completed J JB B london brining mining journal june 28 |
