The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-26
IN SOUTHERN UTAH.
The Rich Resources Awaiting to
be Developed.
SPLENDID SUMMER RANGES.
Iron Beds, Silver Mines, Sulphur Bodies
Coal Fields, POtter's Clay, and Numer-
GUS Other Resources.

Gus Other resources.
Mr.. Thomas Taylor, of Cedar city, who
is probably one of the best informed men
in Utah, concerning the resources Of south
ern Utah, has written the following letter
to the Los Angeles chamber of commerce;
Seeing the interest you take in seeking
to connect your section Of California with
Utah and the east permit me to show you
a much more profitable and shorter route
to section of Utah and southwestern
Colorado, where the trade of California and
the Orient could be distributed without go
ing hundreds of miles around to Salt Lake
city, thus paying tribute to Nevada and
that part of Utah for nothing in return.
While on the point, will suggest you can
obtain everything that Utah can produce
at from one-half to two-thirds of the dis
lance in your favor, and quite as cheap.
I would say, build railroad from Los
Angeles to Phoebe, Nevada, thence to
Hebron, Utah, within ten miles of which
place there has been a discovery made
lately over a district twenty miles in
length of gold, silver and copper, assaying
an average paying ore and some very high.
which silver is found, not worked for want
of railroads The same may be said Of
iron. where there have been made hundreds
of tons of
THE BEST PIG-IRON AND CASTINGS,
used at Phoebe and other places in Nevada
and Salt Lake city Here are the largest
deposits of iron ore in the United States.
Hundreds of millions of tons in sight
which would need no mining, and the most
of it is of the finest quality. Experts say
that it would make wrought iron and steel
from the pudding furnace to the rolling
mill without passing through the blast fur
mace. Within a radius Of a few miles
there is every prerequisite for the manu-
facture of iron and steel; magnetic, specu-
lar and hematite ores and red hematite
that would make mineral paint.
The latter is about 32 per cent. iron, and
possesses so much limestone that it is an
excellent fluX for the other ores, which
assay from 60 to 30 per cent. metallic iron
We have shipped hundreds Of tons Of
hematite to BulliOuville, Nevada for fiuX-
ing silver ore. at a cost to the purchaser of
Sl4 per ton: also to Frisco, Utah. What
could be cone if we had a railroad!
When irOnwOrks are established in Iron
county, there is bound to be one or more
large cities here. where stores would be
opened for the sale Of California mer-
chandise, fruits, wines, etc This would
control the trade of Nevada on the Muddy,
Iron, Kane Washington, San Juan, Gar
field, Emery, Beaver, Sewer, and part Of
Willard and Saupete counties. Your rail
road should continue on to Cedar city,
where are owned large herds Of horned
stock and horses, also sheep.
The Escalante valley, making a winter
range, and the plateau on the mountains
southeast of Cedar, making
4 SPLENDID SUMNER RANGE,
where diaries are kept, making large guam
tites of butter and cheese. There is body
of fine timber on this plateau, suitable for
local use, railroad ties, etc. This plateau
extends twenty to twenty-five miles north
and south and sixty miles or more to the
east, and contains several veins of bitumin-
Gus coal, from three to sixteen feet thick,
easy of access from Cove Greek canon.
This field Of coal lies in its original for
nation. dipping about one and one half feet
to the hundred feet. It can be mined from
the lower side Of the dip. A railroad can
be built to within a short distance, so that
the coal can be dumped out OF the miners
car on to the railroad car and thousand
tons per day shipped. The Iron company
has its gold. silver. copper and lead mines
also salt, gypsum, lake OF sal-s0da, hire
rock. fire clay. limestone sandstone and
cement rock.
The railroad should run next to Beaver
with its mining camps languishing for want
of railroad facilities. 1t supports large
herds Of stocks, raises very little fruit has
4 wooden mill in successful operation
manufacturing the best of cloths, WOolseys
linseys. Jeans, fiannels. blankets, shawl:
and warns, and could cut large quantities
Of hay for exports.
The railroad to Cove creek. where there
are works already established for
THE MANUFACTURE OF SULPHUR
from vast bodies where it is found almost
pure: some has been exported to different
parts, but is too far from a railroad.
There are minerals within a short dis
lance of Cove. The railroads should now
run down to Marysvale, on the Sewer,
where there are large mineral deposits,
practically UndevelOped for the want OF
railroad transportation. On the Sewer,
there is gold, silver, lead, anthony and
clay. pOtters clay, pronounced the best in
the world for queensware, samples having
been sent to England for analysis. A rail
road in passing down the Sewer would pass
into or near the thrifty towns of Joseph
city, Monroe, ElsinOre, GlenwoOd, Rich
field, Burrville, Prattville and Salina,
where there is large deposit of rock salt,
nearly pure.
There is very little fruit raised, but veg
etables and wheat in abundance, which is
hauled with teams to point on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad and shipped to
Colorado. The railroad should then run on
through Sanpete, by Gunnison or Mayfield,
Fayette, Manti-where there is beautiful
Mormon temple; thence to Ephraim,
Chester and Moroni, connected by railroad
TO the Utah Central at Nephi; but would
say go on to SpringtOwn, Mount Pleasant
and Fairview, then about twenty five
miles until you strike the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, where large quantities OF
grain and potatoes are shipped into Color
ado and the east. At this point, railroad
is over one hundred miles east and south OF
Salt Lake city,
IN ANOTHER VAST CoALFIELD.
Besides these towns and settlements that
! have named, there are numbers Of others
which would be tributary to this railroad
route.
Should a company determine to. build
through this section, some of the towns
have offered to donate railroad depot
grounds, and am confident that all other:
would do the same. believe by some one
properly canvassing the country through
that half of the grading would be done, i
not by donation. by paying half money anC