Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-19
THE CHAMBER.
WHERE COAL AND IRON MAY BE
FOUND.
Walter 3. Maxwell Makes a Report to
the Chamber On the
Subject.
Los ANGELES, Nov. 5, 1890.

Los ANGELES, Nov. 5, 1890.
To the Chamber of Commerce, city.
GENTLEMEN: At request of your
honorable body for the information and
data regarding the iron and coal deposits
OF southwestern Utah, would herewith
submit my report, having made thor
ougb and exhaustive investigation of the
same during the present summer, and
made two trips over that country for
that purpose.
The iron and coal is all located in Iron
county, adjacent to and easy OF access to
the Union Pacific railroad now being
built south from their present terminus
at Milford, Utah territory, to Pioche,
Nevada, and thence, as per survey, to
Los Angeles, or connection with At
Gibson, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad,
somewhere between the Needles and
Barstow. The deposits of iron are sim
ply inexhaustible, and of all known
kinds and quality, susceptible OF manu-
featuring any grade or quality of iron or
steel needed.
The distance from these deposits to
this city is about 525 miles, as per sur
veyed lines of railroad and those already
in operation. l had measured one i'm
mense deposit OF this iron ore, and there
was over nine million cubic feet in
sight that would average from Is per
cent to within 2 per cent of chemically
pure merchantable iron, according to
the analysis made by Thomas Price &
Son, of San Francisco, copy of which l
herewith enclose.
This iron is so pure that it could be
shipped in it's present crude state from
Utah to this city, and put into furnaces
and smelted into castings, thus saving
large expense in fuel and labor.
Allowing the railroads one cent per
ton mile to haul this ore from Utah to
Los Angeles, which is liberal freight, as
coal is now being hauled longer dis
tance Tor about three-quarters OF cent
per ton per mile, this iron ore that bv
selecting at the mines averages within
3 per cent chemically pure merchanta-
BILE iron, should be laid down in Los An
geles for about seven dollars per ton
and at this figure on account of it's pur-
lty, do not think can be equalled any
where upon the Pacific coast.
The coal beds seem also as inexhaus-
tible as the iron, but l do not Law as
much stress upon the fuel question in
this respect as | do the iron, for tests
made by large fuel consumers in this
city shows that our crude oil at two dol
lars per barrel is equal to coal at $50 per
ton; and besides charcoal, if there was
a market for it, can be laid down here
from points adjacent to the city at fig
ures to equal the above both for coal
and crude petroleum, and charcoal
smelted iron is considered more valu-
able than iron smelted in other ways.
The samples of iron ore which l here
with send you are the different grades
that had the assays made from.
Any further data upon this subject
which you should desire 1 will cheer
fully furnish, as l look forward to these
deposits of iron to materially increase
the wealth of this city and vicinity.
Respectfully yours,
w. S. MAXWELL.
SAN Francisco, CAL, May 29, 1890.
Walter S. Maxwell, Los Angeles, Cal.
DEAR SIR: We have made careful
analysis of three samples of iron ore sent
to this office by you, with the following
result:
No. 1, 62.4O per cent. iron, (hoat, sa-
tanic lode.)
No. 2, 69.1O per cent. iron, average
Satanic lode.)
No. 8, 67.2O per cent. iron, (metallic.)
This ore is the very best quality and
is that which commands the highest
prices. 1t is of the same character as
the ore used for the production of the
well-known brand of iron called "Nor-
way iron." The very highest percent
age that chemically pure iron of this
class could produce would be 72.45 per
cent.
The percentage of silica in all OF your
samples is very low. Sample No. pos
sesses no enhanced value on account of
its magnetic properties. All of your
samples are magnetic oxides OF iron, and
will produce the same quality of me-
tallic iron. Yours truly,
THOMAS PRICE & Son.
Notes.
Vernon district sends the chamber a
very creditable display of her products
from the following: Mrs. S. E. Kellar,
roses, calla lilies and apples; E. H.
Heuck, Nonsuch and ~mith cider apples
Mrs. Fullerton, apples and flowers; T.
E. Spotswood, apples; j. T. Brown,
pumpkin and walnuts; G. A. Getchell,
peanuts ". l.. 1Oukam, oranges, one
year old; H. Reifsnider, Fruitland, to-
matoes, flowers and grapes; Mrs. Hol-
lenbeck, shaddocks. Long Beach dona-
tions consist OF sweet potatoes, L.
Sanders; apples and dried fruit from j.
R. Cook; apples, J. B. Culver; lemons,
J. Il. Nevin; Dent corn and apples, f. &.
Butler.
The usual number of visitors in the
hall yesterday.
Adjourned meeting of the chamber at
3 p. m.
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