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Show Published Every Saturday nv GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager Mitaae months. Single copies, 10 cents, Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, psy-ble to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered aa second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake Act of March S, 1879. City, Utah, under, the Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. Salt Lake City, Utah. . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: In the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, $&50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal 311-12-- 13 pryear. THE IRON A GE IN UTAH age. With the development of the gigantic iron the world and especially of these United States, came the ineous era of prosperity, civic advancement and wealth, more. or he iron industry appears to be rushing upon-Uta- fabrication of iron and steel. And another thing not to be lost sight of is the fact that Utah mines now produce nearly all the subsidiary minerals necessary to carry on the production of iron and steel, without calling upon outside territory for help. These are factors enterasmagorially, now advancing, now receding; and again ing into the problem of producing iron that will no doubt tip the scales clothed with a semblance of authority and evidently backed heavily in favor of Utah when the capitalists, who recently made an exhaustive examination of iron ore deposits and inspected proposed it capital to carry the project to a successful conclusion in blast furnace sites, finally reach a decision in this matter which means initiated. is so much to the future expansion of the commonwealth. rhile the iron industry is seriously contemplating an It is not, perhaps, advisable at this time to herald Salt Lake as state it appears that certain localities have started to the Pittsburgh of the West, while the matter is incubating; but as fe over the location of the blast furnaces, the pig iron mill sure as there is iron in Utah just so sure will these vast store houses ated hives of industry that naturally must follow the open-bi- g iron mines of Iron county. It also appears to be. a of wealth be tapped and when this time comes, Salt Lake, and all other towns of the state, will inherit that greater and ro'mantic era of profound indifference where the blast furnaces blast, the pig iron industry, finally prosperity to which our magnificent and varied mineral deposits has pigs, so long as ah. If the exigencies of the times, if rail rates and other made them legitimate heirs. It seems that the situation surrounding the future production and causes decree that the blast furnaces and the pig iron mill at some point south of Salt Lake Springville for instance smelting of iron in Utah calls for unity of action on. the part of all t is the place all loyal Utahns should pull for with all the citizens. There may exist differences of opinion as to the logical heir command,, because, indubitably, what tends to build place to carry on this big industry; but logic also indicates that.it is more essential at this time to induce capitalists to open up the iron imunity of the state cannot help, but redound to the benefit r communities, mines than it is to haggle over the spot where the ore shall be treated. nelting of iron ore and its fabrication into commercial proDEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION RAPS KING. Men able to building steel are big money propositions. capital necessary to start so gigantic an industry seldom igh carefully ever With mingled sensations of glee and consternation the local contingency. It is patent to all that s of treating iron ore can be most economically done at a democratic faction opposed to Senator W. H.. King met last Monday the place where the ore is mined. This being true it is night and gave vent to their, pent up feeling over his latest tirade reconclude that when iron is finally taken from the hills garding Mexico and his very evident desire to again precipitate the at the blast furnaces and the pig iron mill will be located country into war, as they styled it. y rail haul of the iron There was much scathing comment let loose at the .meeting condeposits. ne thing claim is pracparamount at the present time is to bend every cerning the Kingly attitude anent Mexico, which they iduce men of no capital to open up the immense iron deposits tically a closed affair insofar as all good democrats are concerned, o statf the ball rolling, to give life and activity to a new matter where they may happen to reside. The idea of the country dthin the state, the potentialities of which are bounded rushing frantically to arms every time a disgruntled .senator attacks e future time tries expansion of that greater-we- st already rearing its the foreign policy of the administration and at the same the industrial to hamstring the watchful waiting policy inaugurated by the late horizon. tone does unanimously declared to be most the iron industry of Utah once started hinge democratic administration,-thetomand for local democratic building steel with its multitude of I beams, repugnant and decisively antagonistic to national and cross bars and rolled-shapad infinitum ; but there must views. 'ts vvake To keep the country constantly riled up to the point of blockthose related industries such as wire mills, stove foiling1 mills, foundries and a thousand others too ading the ports of every land that failed to function, according to casting to mention. avered, personal requirements of Senator King, these within the shadows of the Wasatch mountains Old Mother would require a fleet as large as all the rest of the world powers posinto a cocked Provided all things essential, for economic production of sess collectively, would knock the naval limitation pact in all its manifold commercial manifestations. No other hat and make a swaggering soldier out of every school boy in the ?mes such limitless caverns of coaking coal with vast moun-iro- n land. were very pointed in their remarks reThey the ready and waiting, the coming, of the miner, the fe urnace expert and all those others who combine to make garding King's latest ballyhooing, their righteous indignation soaring y f workers necessary to' the production, smelting and to great oratorical heights as they progressed. They even introduced the iron , h in-h- this-basi- c . . . es anti-Kingit- es 8 anti-Kingit- es |