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Show " Tiif. laH issue pf the Nephi iiccord H contlnns a lctgihy write-up of the San I'cdro; Los Angeles & Salt Lako rail- H road, and what Its completion will fc mean for tho state. Under a sub-hcntl- M lng of "Iron and Coal," It has, the H, following to say of tile resources of Iron L' "Iron (s pretty generally dtilusd H throughout the country but onp of the H largest deposits ih the world perhaps Is Hf , in Iron county.. In thlb iacallty there H aro ten sepcrato deposits or mountains Mlj' " ' of magnetite' ftnd Jieraatltb ore averag-. Hr. (n'g from 30. to, 70 per Cent,, of pure, met Bf ' Mi said to be the highest grade- iron ore, B I tailing it dll in ail, that han brer been V discovered lit place. , V v As ye'i hci use Has been made of these B vast deposits ,of Iron, although H T nature eecms to have particular . hdapt- H ed this fcglon for extentlvo iron Hft vorhsj for, besides other natural fa- B1 cillties, there are running along almost H eido by sldo with the iron deposits, beds 1 of coal that extend (or miles ami miles f Jn lougtli. . Most of this coal js of bltu- H Jnlnous Variety but recently there has R-t .been fotlnd at the west end of. this cdal H region, an cscellecl quality of sl'tiil H jiuthracltc. It ti in theso depoMts of H coal andjron ttiht Utah. will derIyo .its B greatest- bch,c&t from the San PcdVo; H , ( for Irott and coal mines cannot bo H . worked without railroad ;tacjlUes; but v with the advent of tho San l'cdfo, theso Bkfb, mines, if they shall' be wrirked comracn- H I , sttrnte with their magnitude, should in J 1 .the course of a fewjeom, it leasi, add H JJ . one third to tile population of this f Sta(t," |
