Iron County news. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1890-189?, 1890-12-06
WRONG IMPRESSIONS
IDIToR IRON County, News:

read that gentleman from Salt
Lake City was taken oct to Iron
town by Mr. Andrew Cory, and
that capital, plenty Of it is awaiting
bis report on the condition of things
in and around Iron City,
Are you not mistaken; Andrew
Cory does not own Iron City nor
anything in it, nor any Of the mines
thereabouts.
And yet there is not a mine that
is worth having but what is owned
by some one, and has cost the own.
ers at least $25 an acre.
Then Mr.. Cory has not obtained
the right from me to report the sale
of Iron City, nor anything in it,and
| am the owner of Iron City Iron
Co. Utah, and of everything in il
and own the only mines that are
worth working in that neighbors
hood both for quantity and quality
of ore.
l There is much Of the iron of Iron
HOunty that has SO much copper,
itanium, apo title, PHOSPHORUS and
sulphur in that it will neither make
good iron nor steel.
Now hundreds Of thousands of
dollars have been expended to get
INV property in the shape that it is
M, and to obtain title thereto; in
order that | could get Capitalists to
come bere and develope these great
resources have travelled thousands
Of miles and spent thousands of
dollars. to set forth our advantages
for the investment of Capital; have
written articles and they have been
published in Eastern papers as
well as California, also in the Utah
papers. / have succeeded in getting
persons to come here with view to
invest. Persons who do own an
iron mine aud who ne, er spent a
dollar in getting them here, have
sought them aid said, oh, there il
such an abundance of iron and
coal here that you need not pur.
chase, hire me to take YOU around
! will show you claims that you can
jump. Thus men have been turned
from their purpose of buying, and
caused to spend thousands in fruit.
less labor and litigation, indeed
they spend more than would have
perchased tbs claupes they desired
aud then they did not get them but
lett Iron County in disgust
This last summer parties whom
the writer induced to como to this
country, on arrival, were met by
this class of men, taken around,
shown the btstiron claims in the
county, ASSURED 10y these fellows
that they could locate them, did
so,placing locs ton Notices on them
paying for recording them, but
when they CT to The Land Office
found thai they had been held by
United States l'atents for the last
seven wears, they did not stop TO
Oulld iron works butleft in disgust.
What would these parties say of
me II were TO engage for the sake
NJ making few dollars TO take
SPECTATORS arou I'd and show them
bands of horses, herds of stock,
flocks Of sheep, ranches or farms,
and tell said strangers how
thought they could get possession
without purchase as contrary
to the wishes of the owners;
/ have bought ard paid for all I
claim in Iron o. and / am not de-
DESTROYS of any ones aid in dis
posing of it.
What you have said in your
paper hbou, holding our resources
before the eye Of the capitalist, is
all right NJ far as it goes, but there
is danger Of saying too much; what
we might all join in, that would
most assuredly benefit us all,
would be the building of railroads
through the county, and connecting
us with the outside world, a COM
niittee might be appointed a. else.
where to see what could be done.
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