The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-13

nature were long active. Amongst
the results, aside from silver, gold,
lead, iron, and coal, are sulphur,
gypsum, red and yellow ocbres, salt,
mineral wax, soluble salts, man.
ganese, anthony, bismuth, copper,
zinc, arsenic, cobalt, cinnebar, mica,
molybdenum, brick and fire clays,
fatty, potter's, and porcelain clays,
and hrestOne. GRANTEES, SandStones,
| and limestones for building, occur
IN prefusion, and marble in great
variety, some kinds taking a high
polish. Antelope Island affords
fine beds Of green and royal purple
slate of good quality. Volcanic pro-
ducts, and fossils of all the fOrma-
lions abound.
MANUFACTURES.
%. PT0dtLct.-The manufactures
of Utah have grown from 100000
in value in 1850, to $5,0O0,O0O,OOO in
1880. The chief items are flour,
rough and finished lumber, leather,
boots and shoes, harness and sad
dlery, wooden fabrics, yarn and
hosiery, charcoal, brick, lime, beer.
There are a hundred. -four mills,
more zsaw mills, twenty tan
nerieS, twenty boot and shoe
factories, wooden mills with
five thousand Spindles, ten furniture
factories, two foundries. The manu-
facture of bullion from ores, en-
ploying one hundred and fifty
stamps and a score of smelling
stacks, doubles above value, making
1t ten millions easy.
%. Opportunities, IrOn.-It is
believed that Utah affords un-
equaled facilities for the manufac-
ture of iron. The materials abound,
labor and supplies are cheap, there
is an ample market-the entire Pa
citic Coast-and it is far enough
from iron-making Europe and
America to preclude their moving
their product here and selling it
cheaper than it can be produced
here. The works should be calcu-
lated to reduce the ores and to
manufacture all kinds of iron and
steel.
"a. MetallUrgicaz WorkS.-Prob-
ably four-fifthS Of the ores in the
Rocky Mountains are neglected for
want Of proper metallurgical works
in this valley, equal in capacity and
appliances to treating them. With an
establishment possessing the means
and skill to separate all the metals
from their gangues, however COM
bined Herewith, an incalculable
stimulus would be given to mining,
which in turn would deluge the re-
ducing works with various and rich
ores. The manufacture Of drugs
and chemicals, of oils, paints, pig
and sheet lead, shot and lead pipe,
would naturally grow out Of such
works.
%. Other Manufactures Three
fourths of our wool clip goes East to
be manufactured and then returned
to US, while the mills work On half
time, because the business lacks
capital, classifying or specializing.
The best woods for furniture,
wagons, and agricultural imple-
mentS are not native. Nor are the
tan barks, bat we shall soon tan
leather without barks. With cost
Of moving raw material East and
product back as protection, lead
and its products, and all wooden and
leathern fabrics needed by Utah,
might be pr0ftably made here. The
products of our fine clays. marble
and slate beds, have the cost Of one
carriage across the continent as pro-
tective tariff. There is one paper
mill in operation, there should be
ten. Silk raising and silk spinning
machinery are being introduced. |
Mulberry trees and silkwormS dol
well in Utah. These and other
branches Of manufacture offer lib !
eral inducements to the enterpriS- |
ing investor.
RAILROADS AND TRANSPORTATION. !
20. Ratzrocd SyStem.-Utah has
seven hundred and fifty miles OF |
railroad in operation, four hundrei |
and fifty in process Of construction,
and as much more projected, duph-
eating the excellent system Of terri
tOrial and county roads, three thou
sand miles in length. Generally
speaking, the railroad system con-
sists of q north and south trunk
line, three main transverse lines, j
and branches into the mining can
yons and coal fields. The Union
and Central Pacific roads. meeting
at Ogden. giving Utah important
advantages from the competition
between East and West, stretch
across the northern part Of the Ter
-itOry. The Utah s. Northern. be-
longing TO the Union Pacific, runs
lorthWard from Ogden through |
ache Valley, eighty miles in Utah,
md into the heart of Montana, in
the Northern Pacific en- {
cute The UtahCentral, controlled ]
~ the Union Pacific, runs south {
rom Ogden through salt Lake City s
o Milford, TWO hundred and sixty I
i've miles, with connecting roads to t
Alta, Pleasant Valley, {
md a branch to Frisco. The road t
o Pleasant Valley belongs to the Z
Rio Grande. The Utah 81 Nevada
.uns from Salt Lake City westward I
ia the Lake shore to Stockton, and S
belongs to the Union Pacific. a q
,ranch from the Union Pacific at S