The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
IN UTAH'S DIXIE.
Ore Shipped One Hundred and
Thirty Miles by Wagon.
Southern Utah Offers the Best Opportunity for
Railroad Investment and the People
There are Ready to Assist.

! of Friday caused considerable delay, but
Sunday forenoon the furnace was started
! up again and is at present in full blast.
Charles Worthen, the employee injured by
the explosion, is getting around again, and
while he will carry the scars on his arms
for years and probably for life, feels nearly
as well as before. The largest bar thus far
! weighed goes 491 pounds and assays 80 2-l0
copper. The Stag is comparatively free
considering the fact that the ore Is self
nuXlng, and thus far there has been but
little waste. 1t is probable that when the
ore now on the dump is used up the smelter
Will be shut down for short time on &C
count OF the firms inability TO get enough
Teams on the road. At present the mill can
! keep ABOUT nifty outfits going, and until the
/ people get their crops in and winter haul
Ing done, they will have some little trouble
/ TO keep the smelter going The seventh
car OF high grade ore, which is now at Mil
/ lord, has been sold 10 Denver parties Tor
Sl.O per unit, good price considering the
present condition of the copper market
Thus lar the owners of the Dixie group
nave had nc trouble in disposiDg of all their
/ shipping ore al top notch prices. Tue reG-
SOC Tor this is the good grade of copper 1t
makes, being next i'll value to the Lake cop
per, and even ranked as high by some min
ING and mill men. Now that the slnelter is
an assured success the owners intend 10
/ put On tull force of men at the a peX and
take out ore from all five Slopes. The nine
LOOKS better each day, and eyecy DRIFT that
/ is made dlsc!oses big bodies of high grade
rock. There seems to be no end to tue BEST
class or ore and shipments will be made all
winter and as fast as practicable. One
hundred and thirty miles is long haul by
wagon. and only few mines could stand
II, but tue Apex, while laboring under all
these disadvantages, is paying well.
IL ssto be hoped that the rumor concern
ing the change in the plans of the Rio
| Grande Western in its movements IN the
south are all unfounded and ike the house
OF the foolish man built upon the sand, or
rather exist only in the nina of the Tribune
scribe. The story he tells is that the line
Is being surveyed south from Salina,
| through Richteld and the small settlements
| Whereabouts, thence west to Cove Creek to
take In the extensive sulphur beds, then
continuing across the mountains until the
vicinity o. Milford is reached, and follow
lug the route of the Union Pacific, run
down the desert into Nevada and then
directly across country to Southern Cali
fornla II this statement is true the West
ern Will make the same mistake as did the
! Union Pacific, or the Utah Central, as it
was formerly called. The policy of the
latter road seems to have been to build to
certain point and miss all settlements not
exactly i'll the surveyed route In other
words, to make the people come 10 it instead
OF 1t going to the people. This policy is eX
emplhed by the present state OF affairs at
| Springville, Payson, Nephi and nearly all
the thriving cities south of Provo In al
most every instance the road is a consider
able distance from the town and some are
several miles away. The reason for this
was that the line was building south to
Milford and Frisco and to have run through
the settlements might have made several
miles, and consequently several thousand
dollars difference 1t can easily be seen
that the Union Pacific did not expect a
rival in the south so early in the day, and
the fact that the Rio Grande Western has
made so much advancement taking in the
growing country of Sanpete and the rich
mineral lands of Beaver county as it went
gave the people of the south renewed hopes
that the Union Pacific would also push its
proposed extension through to the coast
Instead OF doing this, however, the COM
pany seems to have taken back seat and
has now pulled up and hauled away the
| twelve miles Of road already laid south
from Milford. The 40 miles of grading
done two years ago still stands idle, and the
fierce desert winds have in places, entirely
obliterated it, filling up the cuts with sand
and leveling the grade TO the old plane.
IT. as the scribe states, the Western has
changed its plans and intends to leave all
the country south of Richtield tout in the
cold, u it will make one of the grandest mis-
takes on record. Southern Utah to -dav
presents one of the best fields for railroad
building in the world. The people are pre-
| pared to receive the advent of the iron
horse with rejoicing and all help in their
power will be given. The country only
needs road to become the richest and
most populous in the west. Already two
surveys have been made from Provo to the
coast, and the best of routes were found.
From the present terminus of the Rio
Grande Western south through Beaver,
Red Creek, Parowan, Cedar, Kanarah,
Bellevue, Toquerville, st. George, ST.
Ihomas' Bunkeryille and so on to Los
Angeles, the grade, with the exception of
a few places, is almost self-established, the
country Is rich in minerals, the best of
agricultural lands only await settlement.
stock raising can be carried on here to bet
ter advantage than anywhere in tee west:
the climate is equal, and in some parts
superior the that of California; mineral
springs of higher medicinal qualities than
the famous ones of Arkansas abound in
untold numbers. Semi tropical fruits
flourish and attain as high state of per-
lection as in California; vegetables of all
kinds could be placed on the northern mar
kets as early as from the west, cotton grows
IN the southern counties with very little
attention, vast beds Of coal only await de-
o..
iron, sulphur, jet and other mineral depos-
its underlie the entire country. The first
road to tap these vast resources will rean
its own reward.
In order to comprehend the worth of the
southern tier of Counties q person must
cover them himself. New projects meet
the eye at almost every turn and their ulti
mate elimination depends almost entirely
upon the early advent of railroad. The
mining industry has been but started, and
near ST. George alone there are several
large mines which could almost furnish
enough freight to pay one road. The own
ers of the Apex intimate that they could
now ship over one hundred tons of ore Der
day and with an increased force the OUTPUT
could be made to more than double that
amount. Besides this mine there are hun
dreds Of others which could be worked to
an advantage. Among the many and varied
industries of the south is stock raising.
During the last year it is estimated that
$4,000 head Of cattle were shipped north
and east. This immense output will all be
handled by the first railroad to build south
The sheep and wool Industry can not be
overlooked and plays an important part in
the building up of the country. Sheen
men state that just as soon as railroad
strikes the country they will ship instead
of drive their tocks to the winter feeding
grounds, which lie below the dip of the
Ireat basIn anu are pronounced the best
IN the west. Add to all the mentioned re-
ssurces from which road would derive an
enormous revenue, the great amount of
freight used and heavy passenger traffic.
and it will readily be seen that for the Rio
Grande Western to build across the desert
and entirely ignore the long line of settle
ments directly on the route, will be 10
make mistake Tor which the road will at
no very distant future suffer greatly.
E. G., JR.
PROTECTION.