The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-01

has beea made to work it ior::its.iron B.,
and 90. vast quantities OF excellent
ore remain untitled. In the south
western part OF the Territory, in Iron
county, is q range OF mountains con-
tanning inerhaustibLe quantities OF q
fine MON oxide, and within twenty-five
miles there are large beds of coal.
Tneir present remoteness from rail.
roads renders them Of but compare.
lively little value, but at the North
where good iron, containing several
per cent. OF manganese is found; IN
view OF the high freight rates from
the East ard the consequent high
price of iron, ito manufacture might
at once be undertaken with profit.
In Tintic, Beaver county and other
places excellent iron ore is found.
The finding of such iron ore, as
well as that OF other metals unutil-
lied, has often been through chance
discoveries or through q search to
supply email local demand, but let
there be oEce demand and chance
for their future value at no distant
day, and plenty more will be discov-
cred throughout the Territory. Peo-
pie, especially those of limited exper-
fence ard information. are slow to
enter industries with which they are
not familiar, and thus too many are
content to wait for others to prove
the value of great beds Of copper, sui
phur, iron, coal, salt. gypsum, veins
of graphite, etc., before they under.
take to avail themselves OF them.
An animus, such as ia displayed in
the search fox the precious metals,
would reveal such amounts OF these
as would sstonish mary at the re-
sources OF the Territory. All OF these
represent latent wealth, but awaiting
the proner energy and DEVELOPMENT to
become of real value. In the Salt Lake
Museum there are samples of iron,
chrome pigments, venetian red,
chrome yellow, hre-proof paints. in
fact. it is store house of samples of
Utah's productions.
SILVER, LEAD. BULLION.
Utah's great product is silver, lead,
bullion, made from low grade ores ct
close margin. The market lies st
the East, where she has to compete
with other ores and bullion. And
when consideration is made that she
has to ship her products over a
thousand additional miles, paying a
freight tariff therefor from four to
six times that on the eartern roads,
and then when we see her COMPETE
ton successfulsthe conclusion as to
her importance and value is at
once drawn.
A high and exorbitsn. freight on
the Pacific roads has acted 10 the
past seriously against the interests Of
the country. especially at occasional
temporary depressi0ns OF business,
and the lead market in particular.
Reduction Of freight is what her citi.
zens have right to demand and ex-
poet.
Utah, comprising an area OF 81, 476
square miles, about equal to the New
England States, contains popula-
ton of little over 40, 900 Mormons,
and about 10000 Gentiles. The for.
mer are generally an industrious and
simple people. engaged in agricul-
ture, grazing and 40 forth. The bulk
OF them are foreigners, unacquainted
with our institutions and easily con-
troled by their leaders. Their set.
Elements lie scattered throughout the |
Territory, at the mouths OF the can
yons and On the borders of streams |
and springs, where, by irrigation,
over $50, 900 acres OF land have been
redeemed. From this class must |
come much of the labor for the future
development of the RESOURCES OF the |
Territory.
From tee character of the ores,
smelling has been the usual method
of treatment, and great is the in
provement made OF late years in that
line OF metallurgy. In tbs fine fur.
naces OF the present day, furnished |
with the best machinery, supplied |
with the best talent, and turning out
tons of fine bullion made from low
graie ores, one would scarcely recog-
nize tins outgrowth OF but lew years |
back, of the inferior little stacks re-
ducing at enormous loss and great |
cost few tons OF rich ore.
The present furnaces are the finest |
in the country, using all the modern |
improvements, water jackets, excel. |
lent blowing machinery. and reduce |
from twenty to 160 tons each OF ore |
day. As only the hest and most |
effective can live now, the old and |
small stacks are being replaced by |
new and larger ones, using all the |
modern improvements for economy.
At present thers are dozen establish |
ments using twenty-five stacks. in the |
operation of which turn out over
l. 500 tons of bullion per month.
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