Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-20

makes annual sales to the amount OF
$4 4,0O0,000. This is the Zion's Cooper
alive Mercantile institute, generally
known over the territory as the q. 9. NJ.
1. This is managed entirely by Nor
mons. Several large concerns do very
large business.
A visitor going from Los Angeles to
Salt Lake must wish that his own city
could boast of such hotel as the former
has got in the Knutsford hotel. Lead
ing citizens saw the need for such
house and invested the capital to build
it. The building is six stories high,
covers nearly half block and is one of
the notable features of the city. A
large court, surrounded by verandas
and ROOTED with glass, occupies the
center OF the building. Flowers and Or
namental plants are placed about the
court. OF evenings an excellent or
chestra, on the first veranda, provides
music for the entertainment of the
guests. The dining room, and in fact
everything else in the house, is fur
nished and provided equal to the best
hotels anywhere. This proves an at
traction for wealthy people, and the
hotel is always filled with guests.
The need for such hotel in Los An
geles is much greater than at Salt Lake,
and it is not creditable to this city that
the subject should be so much talked
about but nothing done.
The prime cause for the prosperity OF
Salt Lake is found in the fact that the
moneyed men of the place invested
their capital in developing mines. Be-
ing over 900 miles by rail from the sea
at Fan Francisco; the country between
nearly all desert and high mountains
separated by still greater distance and
equally high mountains from the popu-
lous east, Utah must have remained
sparsely settled, poor and Jagged behind
in the march OF improvement. But the
opening of mines furnishes employment
for thousands of men, makes a market
for farm products that would not have
existed, and pours a stream OF wealth
into the city and scatters it over the
whole country. Most of the leading men
of Salt Lake are directly interested in
mines. Great smelling works extend
dozen miles or more along the railroad
south of the city, and many trains are
constantly hauling ores to the works.
Thousands of tons of ore are smelted
that are taken from mines as near to
Los Angeles as to Salt Lake. Had men
with money invested their capital in
real-est speculations instead of de-
veloping these great sources of wealth,
Salt Lake would today be but little, if
at all, greater in population and wealth
than it was twenty years ago. Isolated
and difficult of access as the country
was, intelligent enterprise overcame
great natural disadvantages and has put
it on top Of the tide that leads to for
tune. Los Angeles. with incomparably
greater natural advantages than Salt
Lake, would profit immensely by fol-
lowing the example offered there in
reaching out and securing the great
resources that nature has put within
her grasp.
Only few days ago Andrew Carnegie
said in San Francisco that great iron
industry will be built up at some point
on the Pacific coast. 1t will be the fault
of the people of Los Angeles if that vast
industry is not secured for their own
city. No intelligent person needs to be
told that coal and iron far exceed in
value any other manufacturing interest.
Coal and iron are the foundation of the
greatness of the manufacturing and COM
mercial interests of England. Without
coal and iron Pennsylvania would be an
insignificant state, instead of being what
che is, the second state in the union in
population and in wealth. Los Angeles
has it in her power to become one of the
great centers for the iron industry of the
world.
About midway between Los Angeles
and Salt Lake is the greatest deposit of
iron ore known to exist anywhere.
Enormous masses of ore rising up two
hundred feet or more, and containing
millions of tons, are in sight. Whole
trains OF cars could be run alongside of
these vast masses and loaded simply
by rolling the ore down into them. But
quantity alone does not determine the
value of iron ore; quality is of not less
Importance. These ores have been
analyzed by the best authori-
ties in Pennsylvania and declared
to be OF the finest quality. A leading
authority OF Pittsburg said that much
of the ore he examined would yield 20
per cent of metallic iron, and this is as
high as ore can 90 in the natural state.
This ore possesses the further quality
that it is admirably suited to the man
ufacture of Bessemer stee |. Ore that
will do this is not at all common. With
all the great ore deposits of Pennsylva-
MIA, Bessemer steel cannot be made
there without importing other ore to
mix with the native article, and much
ore is shipped from Cuba for this pur-
pose. Any and every variety of iron
and steel can be made from the Utah
ores.
But quantity asd quality of ores are
not yet enough toNnsure the successful
manufacture of iron. No matter how
extensive or rich the deposits of ore may
be, an abundance Of coal must be found
within easy reach, or iron cannot be
proftably manufactured.
Here again the conditions in Utah are
all that need be desired.
Within few miles of the ore deposits
is supply of coal that may fairly be
called inexhaustible. Careful examina
tion establishes the fact that at least
200 square miles in one solid, unbroken
body is underlaid by two veins of coal,
one six feet thick, the other nine feet.
There is good reason to believe that
other veins exist in the same ground;
but without searching for any more,
these two veins are enough. The coal
ie OF good quality, suited to all purposes
for making iron and steel.
But though not a pound of iron
should ever be manufactured here, if
Los Angeles should ever get rail connec.
tion with that coal supply it would do
more than all else that has yet been ac-
complished to make her great city.