| Show LET US MAKE IRON an item of news that should have created more interest throughout utah than it evidently did was recently transmitted all over the country it was to the effect that orders had been placed in iron and steel mills for tons of plate and structural iron and general material for a new york pipe line an order was also placed in 10 chicago for tons ot of plate iron for ship building on the pacific coast and others were coming along and being placed quite rapidly several elevated railway schemes are to be consummated in the be immediate future and we are advised ad that it will require the best beat and most constant efforts of all the iron mills to keep up with these orders and altogether it looks as though a veritable blom in the iron trade were upon the land such information when properly considered affords general interest to everybody but here in utah it has hai special significance and this should be grasped and applied by all who have the genuine welfare of the territory t 11 t heart we have some of the finest and most extensive iron deposits to be found on the globe suppose for the instance tance the magnificent fields of iron county were in any part of illinois or iowa or even nebraska would they be simply lying there undisturbed by the hand band of man or would the nights nigh tsin in such neighborhoods be red with irith the glare of furnaces and the days made musical with the sound of clanging hammers and the rush of escaping steam would the people of either of those communities be sending to england or pennsylvania or any other foreign producers for what they require in that line or would they be givina employment to thousands who would otherwise be idle and shipping iron wares to every point of ti e compass these ques eions tione carry their answers with them it la is a veritable met fact that the expenditure of say eay a paltry in the erection of the necessary works in iron county or any one of several other points in utah would be the means of ultimately bringing to and keeping in the territory more wealth within a given time than could be derived from any gold or silver district in our midst unless something strictly phenomenal were uncovered in the meantime the promise of renewed activity in the iron trade gives to toe the situation and makes it more than ever worthy worth our careful consideration it is more than probable that every pound of manufactured iron and every bar of 0 pig iron that could be produced would be demanded demaud ed beforehand and how much could be produced the amount is altogether incomputable the ores in places are as nearly pure iron as they can bean be and d retain any portion of their present surroundings and there la Is more of them than could ever be extracted by the hand of man while their present accessibility is a matter involving out but little means and little effort in the way of exploitation it only needs a proper start after which such bush an industry would run by its own momentum the cost of production would be lesa lea than in many places and with an unfailing supply and a strong and steady market what more should be asked those who control the dep deposits oBits or any considerable poro por tion of them should bestir themselves and take advantage of the favor able opportunity for a commencement now presented iron to the be most useful of all the metals it is in we may say the only absolutely indispensable metal yet it is known that vast ledges of ore as heavy in percentage of yield and as finein quality as any in pennsylvania Pennsylva nii i ohio or any other place in the world outside of utah exist in abundance in the mountains of sanpete and many other places in the wasatch range that have never been worked on for a day that have been walked over by pros in quest of gold silver and copper r and are still utterly ignored why pry because at present they are not worth the trouble of locating them they must be worth it some time however to rest refit our material prosperity so far as the mineral resources of bur berri tory are concerned upon what are recognized as the precious metals alone is a reproach to providence which has so richly endowed us in nearly all other respects to see train load after trainload traio load of manufactured iron coming in from abroad while our mountains are filled with the raw materials for making it at home borne while thousands of men wanting work are living in enforced idleness while hundreds of thun thousands sands of dollars capital is in rusting in strong vaults and all the skill needed la Is in our midst to is another reproach and the sooner it to is wiped out the better for all concerned |
