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Show 30 MILE RAILWAY LUND TO CEDAR According to reports this week Secretary William G. McAdoo of the treasury department has in hand full plans for the proposed development ot iron and steel resources of Utah, and is ready to put the projec squarely up to the war finance board with the recommendation that Uih board advance $10,000,000 for the enterprise, to which will be added $10,000,000 to he advanced by western west-ern capitalists Among other things, the project will call for the building ot a thirty mile railroad from Lund to Cedar City. The government is interested In getting out the iron and coal in the vicinity of Cedar City for use. It is intended to have a steel plant at Salt Lake which will use much of the iron ore. The iron bed is fully ten miles square, and the coal field is un-1 un-1 limited. It is expected that with the j government behind the development ; things will soon be moving in j Iron county. |