Show LETS lET'S TAKE A R L LOOK t INTO fo THE fUTURE FUTURE V While we ar are enjoying the recent influx of since the advent ad vent of the Railroad and everyone seems to have s to do and andare andare andare are busy doing doing it the it-the the output of freight from this section is several times it has been lets let's lets let's j just st take a look ahead and see what the near future yet holds for us Twenty years ago when the writer was connected with the Colorado Iron and Fuel Company during their preliminary preliminary pre pre- operations ns it looked like a along along along long jump to the time when the railroad railroad rail rail- road would be hauling out train load after train load of the black gold we have so so much of and some of the pessimists then were heard to say Oh well th they y are just gobbling up the property to hold someone else out The writer was told by the then Superintendent that it would only be a matter of time till they of the near east would have to come coma here for the cheapest mined ore in inthe inthe inthe the world Well Wen one of the companies has come and is shipping ore and it itis itis il is causing so much favorable comment comment comment com com- ment in the great outside outside- that outside that four ty-four of the big men came to sea set for themselves just what there is here To say the crowd was pleasantly pleasant pleasant- ly 1 surprised would be telling it too mildly by far They invaded the Columbia Columbia Co Co- Co lumbia Steel Company's works last Saturday in a body and viewed all the workings from one pit to the theother theother other ther and were most favorably impressed impressed im im- im- im pressed with everything they saw j Now w lets let's s 's look a little into the f fu fu- ture A few F something g sine Ti that i will take taka place within the next twelve months One of the first things to be done will be bethe bethe the opening up of the Old Homestead mines at Iron Mountain and this will necessitate the extending of the present present pre pre- sent ent road from the spur at Desert mound on to old workings and around to the oldest of all ll the works were the pioneers dug the grey iron ore some fifty years ago There is a deal on between the boys who own the controlling holdings of the Bull Valley iron and the United States Steel Company in which it is be beyond ond a doubt that the said Company Com Con pany will soon take it over and the thel l' l result sult will be a distributing of many many thousands of dollars among those who have done the hard work of getting the patents and making them secure What does this mean It means simply another branch of the railroad from Modena to the southeast about an m equal distance from the main line lineas as it is from Lund to the present workings This latter is a steam team shovel shoel proposition and it will be some I Io o of the easiest mining in the world as all aU that will be needed is a large cut and the ore tumbled into the cars as all fast as the road is capable of handling it it The quality of this ore is of the very best known and the quantity is unknown Just imagine one small bed of solid iron ore four thousand eight hundred feet long and twentysix twenty twenty- six hundred feet wide There are over one hundred claims patented and andall andall all have ore in sight on them BIG T Twell well some Very well what's the answer T This The opening up of this great bed of Kennel coal over here southeast of Cedar and also that of that other great bed of coking coking coking cok cok- ing coal farther east and as a result the smelting of thousands of tons of iron near here instead of the shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping of the crude ore The next big move of the railroad will be the double tracking of the road to Los Angeles I as there is one fo th outlets outlets outlets out out- lets for our products and on to the I Orient For when Japan and those countries begin to rebuild th they y will want untold thousands of tons of the things we have to send them In talking with the big men of Los Angeles they call this the back country country country coun coun- try of oaf that city Well they have a ari aright aright ri right ht to and well they might for we generally go out into the back l lot t for tor the things thing we we raise to eat such l huh Jo g a en ib P. P iy y yard the orchard and it is up to us to see that we do our share to provide provide pro pro- vide a lot of this trade for them as we can do it and hand it to them in twenty-four twenty hours from frona the time it is harvested They demand GOOD GOODS and they are willing willingto to pay for it You can sell any kind of produce in the great city of If the greater southwest if it is in good shape such as livestock in prime condition and all alt other products product sent in equally good sh shape pe Here Heres Is s hoping that everyone will use a lever propelled by the power and spirit of progress and if he must use se a hammer to knock let it H be to just drive the nails that will hold together more firmly this great little lit tle tie section that no segregation will enter to in any manner thwart our |