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Show IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURING. Mr. Carnegie made his first great start in the manufacture of structural iron and steel. Should gas or oil or both be found in abundance in this valley, it looks as though there would be an opportunity op-portunity for some man or firm to likewise make a great fortune, even as Mr. Carnegie began making mak-ing his, for in the next few years in this city, and we hope in Ogden, some great structures will be erected, and the chief modern material used in such structures is iron or steel, where it can be obtained, xhe cost of such material here now is almost prohibitory; but with cheap fuel and the inexhaustible deposits of iron in the state, it ought to be manufactured and sold as cheaply as in the most favored eastern cities. Then on this side of the Rockies and on this sfde of the Sierras and Cascades there will probably prob-ably be 7,000 miles of railroad in the next four or five years. That will require 100,000 tons of rails per annum to keep tracks in repair, besides be-sides a vast amount of other material. With cheap material this city ought to be a great manufacturing manufac-turing center for steel and iron, and a great manufactory manu-factory of that kind would be a great thing for the state. |