Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-18
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1890.

Office of Publication, 129-125 West Second
street los Angeles. Telephone No. 156
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY IS, 1890.
where the Union Pacific Extension
Runs.
A recent issue of the Salt Lake Tribune
contains letter from Beaver City, Utah,
which contains description of the terri
tory through which the Union Pacific
Railroad Company is now extending its
line from Milford to Phoebe on its way,
to Los Angeles. By the outside world
the region is generally regarded as little
better than desert, but this letter
written on the spot proves that it is
territory of abundant natural resources
of several kinds. The climate of
Southern Utah and Nevada is quite good,
figs and cotton doing we'll in many
places. The average rainfall around
Beaver City and Phoebe is from an inch
to an inch and half per month during
the summer, with greater precipitation
in the mountains which abound in this
territory, the snow from which
sends abundant streams on to the
plains below all the year round.
These streams are used for irrigation pur-
poses in the valleys below. Some of
these mountain peaks rise to height of
over 1000 feet, and the area now under
irrigation bitches in the territory here ad
verted to amounts to soc, 900 acres, which
Governor Thomas thinks might easily be
doubled. To do this would require the
construction of reservoirs and the devel-
oping of all the water there is in the
streams. The country is very beautiful
in the mountains, with many small lake.
let's, abundant timber, plenty of game,
including deer and bear, and good fish
ing in the streams, which are well
stocked with trout.
There is good start made to put the
country under some sort CT productive
usefulness. In the counties of Beaver,
Garfield, Millard, Piute and Washington,
Utah, there are 1900 horses, 40 900
cattle and 0,00O sheep. Dairying has
been begun at several points and there
are three small wooden mills, one at
Washington City, Washington county
one at Kingston. Piute county, and the
third at Beaver City, Beaver county.
They all employ 125 hands.
But it is as mineral region that the
section is most important. Southern
Utah and Nevada are perhaps the rich
est districts in mineral wealth in the
Union, now awaiting development. The
precious metals have been taken from
the veins there for long time past, but
no really thorough work has ever been
attempted because of the distance to the
railroad station. Lead and copper ores
sre abundant, but these still lie almost
untouched. Nearly all the minerals useful
IN modern civilization are found there.
Platinum, zinc, antimony. plumbago,
arsenic, manganese, nickel, cobalt and
are found. There are large de-
posits OF the valuable clays used in pot
tories, and there are large deposits of
rock salt. Sulphur is 80 abundant that
works have been established to SUBJ
iron and coal this letter says:
Iron ore is pretty generally diffused
throughout the country, but one of the
largest deposits in the world perhaps is
in Iron county. In this locality there
are ten separate deposits or mountains
OF hematite and magnetic ore, estim ated
to contain 130, 900 .0OO tons of this char
acter of ore, averaging from 65 to 20 per
cent. of the pure metal, which is said to
be the highest grade iron ore ever dis
covered any place. As yet no use has
ever been made of these vast deposits of
iron, although nature seems to have par.
ticularly adapted this region for extern
Hive iron works; for, besides other ma
tural facilities, there are running along
almost side by side with the iron deposits
beds of coal that extend the whole length
OF the county, north and south. Most
OF this coal is of the bituminous variety,
but recently there has been found at the
south end of this coal region an excellent
quality of anthracite.
There is good deal going on there
now in the way of gold and silver min
ing. OF the former metal, $40, 900 900 to
$14 ,0O0, 900 year have been taken out for
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and now an aqueduct twenty miles in
length is being constructed at q cost Of
soc, 900, to develop these mines to bet.
ter advantage. A silver mine at the base
OF the Champion mountain in Beaver
county, Utah, yielded in four years,
$l3.000,0 of which $4,O00,00O were
paid out in dividends to the stockholders.
But most of the mining in this Sec
ton is being done by men of small
means, who are merely holding on to
their property in the hope of the railroad
reaching there, when they will be
able to sell out to people with
means to develop the deposits. In
Ely district in Nevada, between 1864 and
1880, the output of the mines is esti
mated at $26, 900, 900, but in the latter
year quarrels between the owners of
the mines led to the foreclosure of some
OF the best properties, and since then lit
tie has been done.
All the way from Salt Lake to the
southern boundary of Inyo county, Cali