The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-18

the compliment the latter declined,
but said: We will furnish you our
iron, our rails laid down at any point
on our road, but We will not haul
the rails of others.
The ques ton then is; Is there q
home market sufficient to justify
the expenditure of the money nee
essary 20 est blish iron works that
will be creditable aud sufficient? If
so, 60 ahead, and get the market
outside as fast as possible; il not, it
would be best to wait. for every
failure discourages and only success
begets success. The fact that the
| people of Iron County need the
money, the fact that iron can be
made and that cheaply is not snf-
fcient; there must be a market for
1t when it is made, or the money
would be wasted and the expendi-
ture of $3.50, 600 or 100000 prove q
disaster rather ethan blessing to
Iron County, as it would bring in
more men, more families, and give
8 temporary market, create a
temporary impetus that would
work hardship when taken
aRay; On the same principle
that an appetite for smoking and
drinking, once created, la hard to
overcome, when person arrives at
that period Of life when he has
sense enough TO want to quit. Bet
ter never taste than be forced to give
up when you feel to need it most
AS neer as l can learn, the people
Of Iron county are too poor to do
much towards the enterprise them
selves, but are anxious that others
should. Where there are so many
young men who lack employment, a
labor donation of considerable ex.
tent could and ought to be given, if
they have the confidence in the I'M
dertaking they claim to possess.
The best way to inspire the conf
dence Of others in an enterprise is
to show your own faith in the out.
come. 1t would be perhaps a labor
to give 100000 for labor donation,
but it woult be a good one. Iron
county could afford to give it. She
could afford to donate $4,000 in
cool cash, and would then made out
of it more than any other county.
But to terminate such discuss
sion-if a monolOgue expression
such as this can be called a discus
sion-I need only state that, trust
ing in the wisdom and superior
| judgment of the committee ap-
pointed by the Board OF Trade
lately, as we'll as In their integrity
and great desire for the welfare OF
Utah's people, am satisfied that
| such report as they may make will
settle all questions and set at rest,
for the time being at least, all doubts
as to what had better be done. They
are men of unquestioned judgment
and will make no report that they
are not fully and firmly convinced
will, If carried out, be calculated to
promote the best and most perman-
ent interests of the whole people of
Utah.
The people OF Cedar and Parowan
and ParagoOnah seem firmly OF the
opinion that instead OF locating the
works at Iron City they should be
located at Iron Springs. Ihese
springs are between the iron mines
and coal mines, and I believe the
opinion Of Judge Dalton in the
| matter Is the EXPRESSION also of
others who have considered the
subject. They claim the water sup.
ply at Iron City is insufficient,
while at the springs there is an
abundance. That at Iron City
they will always be ramped,
and as 8 city is certain
to grow in the immediate
| vicinity of the work for which Iron
City affords insufficient room while
the Springs give ample. Again from
Iron Springs there is an up grade to
the coal and to the iron mines, and
loaded trains would run both ways
without power, all that would be
necessary being the opening of the
breaks and guiding the train while
to locate it at Iron Springs would
necessitate a heavy pull OF loaded
cars always to Iron City; and last,
that Iron Springs has every advsnt-
age that can be claimed for Iron
City, and many others. So far as
Iron County Is concerned, however,
1t matters not where the works are
located, she will reap the benefit.
The report of the committee sp>
pointed by the baerd of trade dur
ing the last conference, is awaited
with coed deal or anxiety, for
upon it depends their hope for that
wealth of which they seem go
greatly in need.
will say this in conclusion that
the people have reason to be thank
ful for one thing they seem to for
get, and that is their homes are not
mortgaged; while the psople of the
north, whom they seem so much to
envy, are in debt and consequently
in trouble. WALLACE.