Show IRON BELL nELI MADE IN 1855 SHOWN IN PROVO a Provo Herald The first iron manufactured in the state of Utah in April 1855 now is on exhibition in the window of the Provo Commercial Savings Bank Dank This Initial iron effort in Utah took the shape of a bell cast at the suggestion and with the help of Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young and for 25 years the old bell was in use at Cedar City in its earlier years to call the public for pro protection protection protection against the waring Indians and at other for social pur pur- poses In 1855 Young called together together together to to- to- to gether men who understood the manufacture manufacture manufacture man man- of iron principally Scotch and Welch These with machinery he sent across the plains by ox While today the Columbia Steel corporation turns out tons of iron every 2 24 hours the old iron works of Cedar City in 1855 turned out 17 pounds every four hours the hours the difference difference difference differ differ- ence between 1855 and 1924 But in 1855 it was considered quite a remarkable achievement to manu manu- 7 pounds of iron in four hours so remarkable that the Salt Lake Deseret News published a report of the work done and stamped it a pronounced success success In 1860 the Deseret News predicted Iron county county county coun coun- ty would be the center of a great iron industry Several weeks ago when Preston G. G Peterson and Henry Blood both members of the state road commission commission commission commis commis- sion were ip k Cedar City they heard lof of the old iron bell nad nod asked that it itI be loaned for exhibition purposes in inI I Provo on Steel day The bell arrived I at the bank Thursday n 1 |