| Show IRON leon I 1 it has been truly said that a person who can teach people how to help themselves is their truest friend I 1 met a man on the street today who said can you tell me where I 1 can get employment and the question is often asked what shall we do with our boys there seems to jeareal bo a real necessity for some one no to originate something for people to do and if we are going to do anything let us commence with the industry most needed one that would lay luy lay jay th the a foundation for the prosperity wealth and self sustenance of the territory of utah and open up an avenue of commerce with the surrounding state states s and territories that industry in the writers opinion lori iori is the manufacture of iron we have a country abounding with it so much so that we have called one of the counties of our territory iron county and the quantity and variety of ores are such that any kind of iron or steel might be made it is not now a question as to wb whether ether iron could be made or not it has been pronounced to be of as good a quality aa as ia Is made anywhere this is attested by amos howe and T pier tont gont kontof of salt laake lake city who have both oth used it letus let us see what others say mr E D wassell of pittsburg pitts Pitta burg says fromi an article published in the the DESERET kows w S I 1 was surprised beyond what I 1 aint ami able to express at the great mineral wealth of iron co abounding as it does doe with iron ores and coal the irom ironi ores so far as I 1 am able to judge surpass anything of the kind hind I 1 have ever seen both in regard to quantity and quality etc etc I 1 quote also aiso from the baldwin expedition tion as published in the S I 1 heralds Seral ds great wealth lies zot not I 1 in its hundreds of valuable gold and silver ledges but in its iacoi and coal ceal fields the seemingly seemingly fabulous stories of the immense lrea irca deposits in southern utah but told pant part of the truth pinto fron yron iron mining district IM strict in which are the famous iron mountains is one vast extent of rich magnetic and hematite iron ores the ledges crop out of the earth in places hundreds of feet high and appear on the surface for eight hundred and a thousand feet inviting capitalists to double and treble their fortunes with scarcely a possible risk of losing a cent A few weeks ago professor J X S newberry read before beford the national academy of sciences anees ances a lengthy account of the enormously extensive mines of iron and coal veins in he said its iron ore is without a rival and the territory possesses not far from these ferruginous beds four thousand square miles of coal veins that are equal to any in 1111 illinois nois now how does it not appear that nature llad lind placed within our reach there sources of skilled labor of im in mense amount am 0 that tha t we might amigh t thus i find our people employment and give our sons trades at mechanism and manufacture and not have them do the drudgery now feces sary for many making ourselves the poorly paid farmer the railroad i grader the hewers bewers of wood and I 1 drawers of water but perform the i skilled labor for making things we now import the manufacture of iron would naturally open up a very extensive use of it the capt castings could be entered into ab once and without much cash outlay huch euch adwater as water mains ad ard pipes gas mains beams pillars castings for smelters shelters sm elters stamp sr cru crushia shig mills stoves etc the manufacture of various kinds of malleable ware would furnish employment for miners smelt smelters sm eitens elters ew designers pattern makers finishers and a number of laborers who command good wages commencing with these first branches we could ina lna in a little while 0 make all the wa cast ings for rolling mills fur naces etc an and d this would a ally aily y pave the way for every branch of theiron trade and give employment to thousands ands of people and bethe very resort that our youth require to commence a bank we money to commence a mercantile institution of any kind we of course need money to commence manufactures generally general ay in our present condition in order to import machinery and material we need money but to commence this the foundation the greatest and hest best of all institution swe do not necessarily need a large amount of money but intelligent and well directed labor labors which is the best of all capital at some future time I 1 will try jo to show how bow this can be accomplished ONE wiio WHO is interested 4 M the pre president ident has diree directed ted the ther following officers to be placed on the retired list general dunn pudge judge advocate general general Van VIet adjutant quartermaster samuel smuel woods deputy paymaster general and major jos H eaton palmas ter general |
