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Show The Iron Deposits of Iron County. Columns have been written respecting the iron deposits of this county and hundreds of persons per-sons both in and out of the state have for years expected that the day would not long be delayed when the treatment of the ore on a gigantic scale would be commenced, but so far only the pleasure of anticipation of what might be has rewarded the hopeful. The amount of the iron ores in this county has been given scores of times in about as many different figures, but the latest statement respecting the extent of the deposits comes from the Beaver County Press, at Milford, in a discussion discus-sion of an article recently appearing in the Salt Lake Herald-Republican, from which'we quote: "The Salt Lake Herald-Republican of recent date waxes eloquent over the great iron deposits of Southern Utah and tells of the 600,000,000 tons of iron ore in sight. That statement was well intended, in-tended, but it does not tell half the story. When the great combination was arranged fourteen years ago between E. H. Harriman, J. J. Hill, Edwin Hawley and John W. Gates for the development de-velopment of these great iron properties, the most famcus iron expert of the world, John T., Jones, was sent to make the most rigid examination. After his return from the properties and while still engaged on his final report he told the writer that 4,000,000,000 tons of the richest iron ore of the world were already mined in Iron county. This did not include the great Bull Valley, Washington Wash-ington county, deposits of possibly one to two billion tons more. Think of it, right here in Southern South-ern Utah of iron ore alone, at a depjth of not to exceed 20.0 ,feet. more than five-tnpe'f greater than the combined estimated tonnage off the United States Steel Corporation, and a muctvhigher grade average of ore, too. Hardly any of.it shows less than 52 per cent, while much of it is up close to the maximum limit of 70. Only the unfortunate ambition and bitter competition of the two great railroad magnates prevented at that time the development de-velopment of these properties into probably the greatest iron and steel making industries.of the world here in Southern Utah. Right up to the days of their death we personally 'know it was the great ambition and desire of both Mr. Harriman and Mr. Hawley to secure control of these great iron properties and develop them on such a gigantic gigan-tic scale as the world has never before witnessed in the manufacture of iron and steel products. But it is a matter now of only a few years when other Harrimans or Hawleys will appear and the iron possibilities of Southern Utah will be realized. re-alized. It may be that the great future iron city of the world will be here at Milford or some location loca-tion close by for here seems to be the greatest and best water supply for a big city. In the making of iron and steel plenty of good water is a prime essential next to good ore and an abundance abund-ance of coal of the right coaking quality." For the most part -the above comment by the News is most timely, 'and essentially correct. However, the enthusiasm of the editor evidently reached the boiling point when he infers that Milford Mil-ford will most likely be the "future iron city of the world. The iron ores are in Iron county and in this county are located the only extensive coal deposits of the southern part of the state, much of ,which, according to capable geologists, is of a semi-anthracite nature. Regardless of whether this coal would coak, it would afford all the necessary neces-sary fuel for operating the steam pow"er required, for which purpose thousands of tons annually would be necessary. In Cedar and Harmony mountains are abundant scources of water, so that it would be necessary for mills located at or near the iron deposits to secure from the outside only the coke required in the treatment of the ores. In view of these facts it is most nautral and logical to assume that the mills would be located at the poinffnearest the source of production which would provide the minimum of expense. This place would be some point in Iron county, and quite likelv in the midst of the iron fields, which could be reaedd by a line of railroad not to exceed thirty miles in length, over a section of country so free from building obstacles that the cost of construction would be such a trivial item that it would hardly be considered an expense by any man or set of men with sufficient funds to ; launch the project. In view of the facts, we believe the aspirations aspira-tions of the Press to be decidedly vague, indeed, and hardly probable of fruition. '$ ' . , , |