Show PARTY DAY MINING IN UTAH by lynn benson when the pioneers first settled utah they saw the great need for coal and iron as it cost too much to haul it acres the plains ana through mountains to salt lake city in 1861 brigham young offered prizes tor for the discovery of those minerals coal was soon disco discovered verea in the nearby mountains and it was used in salt lake city that year but up to that time no coal had been discovered there was such a great demand for or iron that several people gathered all the scrap iron available and built foundry to make utensils horse shoes etc in 1850 to the joy of 0 the people iron was found in southern utah ufah in iron county where the first iron factory was built in 1861 1851 brigham young issued a call to utah men abroad to send in all experienced iron miners blowers etc to make the iron into useful things erastus snow who was in sweden at that t time went to england where he studied about the torn lorn factories while there he sold enough shares to net he then got men and come to utah where he bought the mine in southern utah one day a man by the name of orvlle orvile found a piece of ore rich in gold and silver before long there was a mining boom and the people flocked to utah from the east in 1864 the jordon mining co was organized in time this company b became bame ame the wealthiest in the state general patrick connel discovered ore in the wasatch mountains and with the aid of the walker r brothers rothera It and ad others other the F amma nima mine was developed arid and by the mining enter enterprise PrIze in utah had fully begun abraham lincoln once said that utah would some day become the treasure house of the union this Is an interesting tact fact as utah now ranks among the first in fit the production of gold silver copper and many other minerals today there are two hundred and ten known minerals in utah which 1 li I more inore than in any knoop like area in tho the world today utah leads all of the states except montana and colorado in fit tile ilia product production lou of 0 minerals PT v |