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Show tGTipLiGR.R.jpGor--porabor?s PpcsGph, They Eulogize Pr.oyo and the Public Spirit of Her Citizens. And Assuro the Chamber That Provo Shall be tho Terminal Point. The Urgent Necessity of th5 Erection of Smelters Thoroughly Thor-oughly Shown Up. The meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce held last night was attended bv an enthusiastic audience. It. II. Doud presided. W. II. 'Brown, of the committee on direct mail route to Ileber citv, was granted further time in which to report. re-port. On motion of S. S. Jones, a receus was taken, during which the directors held an impromptu meeting, whenP P. Hindmarsh, J. P. R. Johnson, Jas. F. Dunn and John Farrer were duly 1 admitted as members of the Chamoer. On the meeting being called to or-' der Ben'R. Eldredge, in behalf of tho ! committee on railroads, stated that Don R. Coray and himself had visited Charleston and Ileber city in conr.ee-! Hon with a right of way for a railroad from Park City to Provo, and stated that they met with good encouraie-ment encouraie-ment in those places, and thought there would be no uifliculcv in securing secur-ing the right of way. People were ready to welcome the first road that come. W. X. Dusenbrrry in behalf of the same committee, stated they were not ready to make a full report this evening even-ing on the Tintic line, but thai, ' Messrs. Rice, Melntyre and IIvde. some cf the officers of the proposed road from Tintic to Provo, were present. pres-ent. Mr. Gash moved that the report be accented and that the committee re- , ceive the endorsement of the Cham- i ber. Carried. j Mr. Rice was first miroducsd and j spoke in glowing terms of Provo. I j can see that every movement which I has been raade is done in an ene-rj:-.: aging and business-like way. We dni I not come lo Provo to-night with 'he I intention of nuking any bona-i'-'1-" j propositions. We merely came to -ee the town and its surroundings To I say that we are plsased wouhTonly be j a mild way of expressing it- One j thing I can assurt you of. The rail- i road to Tintic will be built, and tha I too, very shortly Ihyp j3 the-V -'-"tCTiiTi?r v one thing is ne'u'r- in Provo- '.vr."" tisat is a smelter. If we can induce! eastern capital to erect such a thing j here, we would only he too glad to Jo J so." He concluded hoping t,;lt pr.)Vl could be made ths lerminus of ti e ! Tintic railroad- Mr. Hyde was next introduced .-nidi wps in favor of Provo being the teruo- j nus, as it had all the natural 1 c ts for so becoming. You a:i ki o v j our smeuers are ma l.-.iv,e en i i i the :-M!io;;;:t. of ore !!; iiiit ,-.,; ! On acc ui-ii ot tins we !;:r.t no, i fcur ore to Dens ana h- these MilIH.i i::-,r v.i-:r f j ( I seven! -ii.e . ents on the n ! i we evioo; m. nil. M; in'.e 1 to hiy off 150 t: en l (!;;v, ii .- ; liOt pit .! .t-.;r i".-.-, , ihe .-ii. ! I. ;! .i r s I Jfcl 1V"V-; l ! ?, -. !,; : :pis !!( t ill olie.s than any ot :vr ni. pre ft r i:;::;.img iiv-m Pro : -'pritigvdie. Our nuning dis! i i 1 rates tj i si in the United States. V. : must have a smelting plant in Utah to lvduce our ore and that with f-.ll speed. I know of no place that has struck me so favorably as Provo, for such a plant. If Provo continues to show the spirit she has in the past I can assure you that Provo will have both railroad and smelter ere nnow flies next season. Mr. Melntyre was then introduced and endorsed the remarks of the two former speakers. Mr. Prober! moved that the Chamber Cham-ber stay rigid with these gentlemen and help them with their right-of-way and to encourage, capital to build a smelter at Provo." Carried. W. JS'. Dusenherry moved that tlia subject matter introduced by Mr. Rice pertaining to smelting works, bi referred re-ferred to the committee on public improvements, with instructions to move and work, which motion was duly carried. John C. Graham moytel that the chamber extend its hearty thanks to Messrs. ltice, Mclutyre and Iljde for their presence and for the very hapov assurance that they had given the citizens of Provo. The motion was carried. Mr. Kiev again addressed the chamber, cham-ber, and at the conclusion of his remarks, re-marks, the meeting adjourned for two weeks. Witk the assurance of a railroad being constructed from Provo to Tintic, there is every hope now for the vast beds of iron ore. owned by the Utah Valley Iron. Mining & Manufacturing Manu-facturing Company, of this city, to be developed. These great iron fields are located in Utah Couaty and not far from Provo City, which would be a most desirable site for an immense blast furnace, a Bessemer plant for making steel and rolling mills for forming rails, angle i-ars, rod and bar iron and steel, manufacture man-ufacture of bolts, nails and other wrought articles, while foundries and machine-shoos would naturally follow for all kinds of cast-iron machinery, stoves and many other articles. It is on the cast side of the hills of Tintic, the reat silver, lead and gold camp, that these iron deposits are found, and .which is fourteen miles west of fruitaquin station, on the Union Pacific Railway. There upon a space of 340 acres is almost one continuous con-tinuous mass of red hemitite iron ore, while upon the surface thousands of tons are exposed to view. It has been cut into by open cuts 75 to 100 feet deep in solid ore in many places. These mines were, first opened in 1S75, and from that dale up to 1SS2, thousands thou-sands of tons were hauled to Santa-quin, Santa-quin, there loaded upon cars and taken to the smelters for fluxing silver ores. Although about two hundred thousand dollars has been spent in the development develop-ment work, the mass of ore is. so great at to make the development in its infancy. This ore ranges from 55 to 70 per cent in iron, while the gangue being Hme,'makos it all the more valuable in smelting, either with silver ores or for the manufacture of iron; and what is still farther advantageous, the silica only runs from 3 to 5 per cent. The ( ... ' developments h,-.ve been made by open cuts and tunnels, aggregtting" hundreds hun-dreds of feet, exposing bodies "of ore in extent and quality to rival anything in the United States. Then again, tiie working of -these iron bodies will be lieht in expense, since it will all be above-ground work, because there will be no necessity to dig down,' but only to quarry rather than mine, "or iron-breaking," as it is called where such large bodies exist. There is a read to the mines having such rasy grade that a span of horses easily haul two a-d a halt tons to the load", and it will be a small matter to build a railroad so as.to load cars direct from the quarries or openings. In this connection con-nection it will be well to give distances from Provo City as the starting point. The entire distance via rail io Santa-quin, Santa-quin, on the Union Pacific, twenty-six miles, thence by a road already surveyed sur-veyed and proposed to be constructed, fourteen miles, making forty miles in all: from the mines to Eureka, two miles. The Rio Grand Western has a route surveyed from near Si ringyille, via Spanish Fork and Payson. to the mines and on to Eureka and Silver City, making the distance considerably less than by the other route. There is another interesting feature m thee iron deposits. A portion por-tion of this iron ore is a most excellent substance for making a brown fireproof fire-proof paint. Some years ago a small mill was put in operation" at Provo City, to manufacture just such paint, and several carloads have been made and sold, and the company still manufacture man-ufacture and sell paint. If more capital cap-ital was invested and the mil! enlarged t make several grades of paint a very extensive paint business could be built up easily. This paint has stood the tst of time and exposure so well tm'.t its manufacture also offers inducements in-ducements for a factory to supply the West with such paint. But we" need not further argue the practicability e v establishing great factories for utilizing util-izing thn.vc vast deposits of iron. The way Utah and the West are growing there is absolutely an ample market for all the iron and steel one big piant can make. The ore has been' ttste-i enough to satisfy the' experimenters that the quality ks all right, and cer-t.-ir-lv there is no lack" of quantity. The nunc.! have been patented, hence the title is perfect, ant! they are owned by tiiH Utah Valley Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company, with headquarters head-quarters at Provo Cdy. That company and Proyo City both want the plant for manufacturing l- caled at Provo Ci!. and thev offer to eonLrih-ete eonLrih-ete . SSO.OOO towards putting woiks there. Outside of this offer they will otherwise other-wise give encouragement to un enterprise en-terprise i iiat will put in maeiiniery to t V V , , th mi i t f ' j i y i -i at 1 ii i ( t i i n 1 1 t I is i;cn time and monev in develop. ng these mines and experiim-nimg wh o t'tui i g h I i ti i i iti thereon, and imus.-ir and a.-ssoci iU-m in the company win c-x;en 1 evny j.ns-siuie j.ns-siuie helu io iLivance t.v maiiae; nr-liig nr-liig of t a::-, iron, hue uiu.-er. d lh--t (omp iuT are: .iuagf Vvarren N. D is- ce u dent ct V D i I ' .v.-cretw?. the cotapanv .s i,n: n-- I -i it I id - l r I I i ll t i , property is uiav securer io ul;-s nv bniteti :vtaie pa; en; it. and Uie ei-m-l panv is coin i s"d oi renres n: .; iv men of Provo Citv ana l avs r.j (::tv The Cow Case. 'it " It tl L 1 - , i , ( I H ( 111 1 ward v. i'jonie. yoi.ehaoi.-i. appeal I trom r its; Unknot ( e,.-:p. thi -ii ' i t i I l 1,1 lue o .; id Tr i v.: . . ! HI i ( : :,: . a . f.-. ... S!. ' ' ' - ... i -.-.-,. I - ; j . , - , - '. "-. i V. ; , ,. ' 1 i . : i -. . : . . -. i were: ' i tiiV V:IC Vt l-'.ilfl. Se -.ni. i Aduiisaitiji ui improper evidence. evi-dence. Third Misdirection of tho Court as to tie.: crime. The Court, after reviewing ;'ih niat tor at some length, finds no error in the record and affirms the judgment cf the lower court. |