The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
IRON ORE DEPOSITS.
The Iron County, Juab County and Box
Elder County Lodges.
They Crop Out in Places Hundreds OF
Feet High and Appear on the
Surface for a Thousand
Feet.

The iron deposits OF Utah, like those OF
her coal are simply inexhaust1ble.
The main deposits are in Iron county,
Box Elder county, and Juab county.
Mr. Thomas Taylor, who is thoroughly
acquainted with the subject, writes of
Iron county:
There is no iron or steel being made
from ore in the territory, and that which
has been the foundation of the real pros
perity OF the richest nations, including
our own, has not yet been developed. II
the opinion of the Baldwin exploring ex-
petition is correct, which l quote,
''Utah's great wealth lies not in it's humid
reds of valuable gold and silver lodges,
The seeming fabulous stories of
the immense iron deposits in Southern
Utah, but told part OF the truth. On
reaching the iron fields, we found them
covered with thousands of acres of the
finest pine and cedar timber Suitable for
making charcoaD sufficient for the re-
quirements OF the country for years to
come. Pinto iron mining district, in
which are the famous Iron and Blow out
magnetic. specular and hematite ores.
The lodges crop out of the earth in places
hundreds of feet high, and appear on the
surface for eight hundred and thousand
feet, inviting capitalists to double and
treble their fortunes with scarcely pos
sible risk of losing q cent. But few
miles distant are immense beds of coal
with which to melt out this huge body of
mineral wealth. -
hoe Nv ,o
most eminent professors of mineralogy-
Newberry Hewitt, and others, of New
York; e. D. Wasseil, of Pittsburg, Pa;
Blake, of New Haven, Conn.,; l.. Il. Hol-
den, of Cleveland, o., and others, who
have written and spoken in the highest
terms of the richness and immensely of
the iron and coal of Iron county. Iron
ore of general good quality is found all
over the territory.
| very elaborate blast furnace was built
at Ogden some years ago. A Mr.. Jones,
OF Pittsburg, started it up, and made
! few tons OF the best quality of pig iron,
but he told the writer that Iron county
was the place to make the pig iron. A
rolling mill might be built at Ogden, but
it was too lar away from the coal, for coal
| is the principal factor in the manufacture
of iron and steel. 1t requires for all pur-
poses connected with the manufacture of
one ton of iron OR steel an average OF five
| tons of coal, and all iron companies erect
their works as near the fuel as possible.
A semi-anthracite coal has been found
in Iron county, and there is no doubt but
pure anthracite exists there, and Will be
! found as the coal fields are DEVELOPED.
There are a number of first-class found
cries in Salt Lake city, where they turn
out the best of workmanship. There are
also boundaries in Provo, Ogden, Logan,
and other places, and there is no question
but what their business would be much
increased il they could obtain pig iron at
the price that ii can be made for in
cur own territory, and surely it could
be made as cheap here as in any
rart of the United States. The
coal of Utah would, any of it.
make coke If 1T were put through a practi-
cal process of crushing and washing, sucn
as is adopted in England and other coun-
| tries The crushing and washing are done
there at q cost of about 4 pence per ton.
1t is believed that some CT the coal of Iron
county would do for the blast furnace
without coking, as pieces have been
picked and analysed giving less than per
| cent. sulphur. Then, with iron ore of the
purest kind in inexhaustible quantities
already mined, lead ore and limestone for
fiuxing equally accessible; with charcoal,
fire rock, fire clay, and every other ingre-
dent within few miles of the plant, why
not be able to make pig iron cheap in
Utah?
From inquiry made, it was found that
Utah was importing yearly over s., coo, GOO
worth of iron and steel, and manufactured
articles whose principal material was iron
and steel
| From statistical reports we find that in
the wear 1888, there was made and manu-
! featured at the several iron works in the
| United States over twelve million tons Of
iron and steel, being something like four
hundred pounds for every man, woman
and child in the country, for we use more
of these materials than any other nation
of the earth. Utah's proportion would
be about forty thousand tons per year.
Look at the vast amount of money that
would be kept in our territory, and the
amount of skilled labor that would