The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-30
ON MANUFACTURES.
Salt Lake to Supply the Pacific
Slope with Steel Rails.
THE RIO GRANDE BROAD GAUGE
Means the Solid Trains of Four Trunk Lines
Win Run Into this City-other
Matters.


Coal and Iron company, the great monopoly
of Colorado, which is associated with the
Denver & Rio Grande Railway company,
has been in this city for several weeks care
fully studying its advantages in relation to
the mineral resources and natural advant-
ages. So positive is he that this city will
become great manufacturing centre that
he has invested considerable money in real
estate
When asked Dy The HERALD reporter for
the conditions which led him to arrive at
these conclusions, he said: "There are
mountains of iron in the southern part of the
territory that have heretofore been outside
of the railroads, and hence are undevel-
oped. In talking with Judge Royle, who
had litigations lasting several years over
some of the most valuable Of these iron
lands, he said, 1T will supply the
world and he is man with the
knowledge and experience to know what
he was talking about.
Il am also informed on the authority OF
Prof. Gardner who was at the head of the
Daring surveys that the coke of
the Wasatch range is equal to any in
this country.
THAT being so you are in position to
cific slope, as you have all the necessary
tiuxes and coke near by, and you have the
long haul in your favor. There is no
suitable iron or coke west of this range of
mountains"
To show what the manufacture of iron
will do for this city, Mr.. Rockwell re-
ferred to what the Bessemer steel works of
the Colorado Coal and Iron company are DO
ing for Pueblo
The new blast furnace at the steel
works is one of the largest furnaces in the
United States. The cost of it is $4,000
and the capacity is 100 tons of bessemer
every twenty-four hours. This great
furnace will consume daily $50 tons of
coke, $50 tons OF coal, lao tons of lime rock
and about three hundred tons of iron ore,
The latter being governed by the per cent of
Iron in the ore. The old furnace has a
capacity of eighty tons every twenty four
hours. so that when both furnaces are run
ming 30 tons will be the capacity and the
company then will employ about one
thousand and three hundred men in the
works and at the mines.
The company are now supplying daily
$500 tons of coal, 600 tons of coke and 80
tons of manufactured iron.
These works are now rolling the rails to
broad gauge the Denver & Rio Grande.
The Illinois steel companies works are
the largest in the world, the Carnegie plant
DelnE only one tnlrd as large.
1t is not stretching the point to say that
there are more steel rails made in the city
of Chicago than in any other city on the
face of the globe. The four mills of that
rity have capacity of / 900 tons per week,
Or 100000 tons year, average running
time. This requires the consumption of
100000 tons of ore, or one
third the entire output of the Lake Super
Tor region. This reduced to pig iron makes
Of rat itxr 0r. rlxr
ne-sixth of the entire output of the coun-
try for 1857. II requires $50, 900 tons of
Coke to do the smelling of this material.
Eight thousand men are employed directly
10 these mills, who represent and support
30 900 people The number of men en-
ployed in the production of these steel rails,
Including ore and coal miners, railway and
vessel employees, etc, directly connected
with and dependent upon this industry in
Chicago alone will aggregate G0,000 men,
who represent and support fully 0,000
people. The cash value of the finished pro
duct of these mills, based upon the prices
received in 1887, will aggregate $50, Coz, 00C
In a year. The amount paid out in wages
to the men directly employed in the mills,
amounts to s., G00,0 600 in year.
''All this is possible for this city. The
Eastern states are already supplied with
railroads, and the large percentage of
mileage to be constructed in the next few
years will be in the northwest states ano
territories, and Salt Lake is geographically
situated to supply this vast demand if she
grasps the situation. The Northern Pa.
cific, Atchison, Topeka x Santa Fe, mol
the Missouri Pacific roads cannot bring
The product of the Chicago mills across the
country and lay il down here to compete il
Iron could be rolled in this city. The
freights are against them and in you
favor After looking over this field. anC
had n
large number Of miners ] am acquainted
with | am convinced that there are vas
mineral resources which were worked il
the '70's, but these failed for wan
of transportation. That on the dumps
there is a great quantity of gold and silver
lssaying from $50 to $50 per ton, which il
capable of being treated as soon as rail
roads afford transportation. Vast quaint
ties OF this means vast mines to be surthe
developed as soon as transportation is af-
iorded. and mining stimulated means a re
rival of all other branches of business AM
Industries.
''As soon as the railroad is completed be
tween Rife Greek and Grand Junction
which viii be by the middle of July, anc
The Denver & Rio Grande broad guaged
peveral trunk lines will be running thei
,olid trains Into Salt Lake. Thes
will be the Missouri Pacific, tn
Atchison, Topeka 81 Santa Fe
Rock Island and the Denver g. Rio Grande
and within two years the Chicago, Bur
hngton x Quincy and the Chicago & North
western. ! know the c., b. & Q. to o
buying coal lands on Grand river, nea
1lenwood Springs, on the strength of thi
contemplated extension. A portion o
their line was graded two years ago
have been buying coke and coal lands wit
she express view of supplying these road
with fuel and tonnage. When this con
section shall be made these roads will wan
freight, and no power on earth can DOC
hem and make them harmonious. TIL
most profitable tonnage for railroad
ore, and can be hauled the creates
distance at he least expense, an
shese several roads viii be maxim
favorable rates for this ore to supply tn
melters of Grand River valley, Leadville
Denver, Pueblo, Kansas City and othe
EASTERN cities with ore As soon as thes
ates are made, which is the inevitable n
mlt of these roads reaching Salt Lake
mining will be revived, and the result wi
,e the consumption OF all your farm proc
icts and manufactured articles, and tn
q miners, in turn, will put into circulatio
he money taken out of the mines / loo
O your revival in mining industry, throug
be advent Of these several raj
Dad lines, as the mainsprin
or your continued prosperity The az
fent of these very roads into Denver stin
lated the mining and created Denver
ropderful real estate boom, and will d
he same for Salt Lake. ] think that til
continuation of the boom is inevitable Sa
AXE is the best advertised city in th
rorld. Thoughtful men who have visite
land seen its possibilities, all predict for
great future. The only danger see
be continuing of the boom during TIL
ummer is the evident scarcity of bricl