The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

tenslve coal fields, it is a lamentable fact
that nothing has been done to utilize this
most useful OF the metals. Near Iron
| Springs is a deposit of millions OF tons of
iron, 60 per cent. in metallic purity, and,
according to the high authority of Prof.
Newberry of Columbia college, the best
in this country.
1t would be useless to disguise the fact
that one of the obstacles to the establish
ment of iron mills has been the want of
domestic coke, but this difficulty has,
! happily, been overcome, as the success
full production OF high grade coke from
our own Castle Gate coal proves. 1t is
the acknowledged destiny OF Utah to be-
come the great iron producing state OF the
west.
The commercial Importance OF Great
Salt Lake has never been fully sensed by
our people; for many years the principal
utility of this tideiess sea has been con-
fined almost exclusively to bathing and
pleasure; year by year as the lfeless
waves beat idly upon the sullen shores,
nobody thought of the vast fortunes held
IN solution by those briny waters.
Every year nearly hall million tons Of
salt are taken from the lake, until we
have grown to be q dangerous rival of
Syracuse. Within the past few wears the
salt industry has increased in q phenone-
nal RATIOS the future viii, perhaps, wit
ness the same proportion of increase as
the past, and here is another object-Ies-
son for investors. There is one CONNER
cial feature of the lake, however. which
gives evidence OF assuming pre- minence
in the years to come. This is the manu-
focture of carbonate of soda and the we'll
known sal-sCda used so extensively in the
industrial art. The vastness of this fu-
ture industry merits more than d passing
notice.
1t is well known that during the winter
season, when q certain temperature pre-
walls, unlimited quantities OF sulphate of
soda (Glauber's salts are washed by
wind and wave upon the shores OF the
lake. From this sulphate there is but
one chemical change necessary to produce
sal-soda, and this chemical operation, ac-
cording to the opinions of ex-
pert authority, is neither difficult nor
expensive. In England, where soda man
ufacture IS so extensive, the production
is, OF necessity, more elaborate and costly
than 1t would be here; there the sulphate
itself must first be manufactured, while
here 1t IS given to US spontaneously on tine
shores of the lake.
The Importance OF q sal-sOda and soda
ash industry cannot be over estimated.
The demand for soda in the United States
is far in excess Of the supply and requires
the yearly Importation of thousands
OF tons from Europe, upon which some
S6, 100000 are annually paid in duties
alone.
AS yet nobody has attempted the manu-
facture of soda in Utah; with a field at
present free from competition, a ready
sale positively assured, the simplicity and
cheapness of the manufacture, are suffi-
Gent to demonstrate the golden opportun-
ity there is for the profitable investment
of money in the production of soda,
upon the shores Of our Finland sea. -
Another important avenue ofinvestment
is real estate; in the growing towns OF
Provo, Nephi, Ogden. Logan, and es-
pecially Salt Lake City, the value of realty
IS advancing by strides. In this CITY il
has advanced about 800 per cent. within
the past five years. The increase in pop
ulation is making a most fatteriug
growth. The directory for7the years 1890
and 1891 by Polk & Co. contained Il. sol
names, with an estimated population OF
90, 015. The directory published one year
later showed q, 30S names, or a pOpuIa-
ton OF 81, 761-this extraordinary growth
Of Il, 746 in a year of general business de
preston is most wonderful. Should tie
same percentage Of increase continue
% per cent. each year-the population OF
the city will be over 200, 600 within the
next eight years. The investor can not
fail to be attracted by the opportunities
not only by this city but by the
other growing towns of the territory. 10
sity be reaped from iudicious investment
in realty.
The limited space of this article REQUIRES
the unintentional omission of much that
is important and interesting. Many
of our natural products have been
mentioned, let alone examined
with that degree of care to which their
commercial worth would entitle them.
The Utah asphalt, SO iRexhaustible in
quantity, is now, by the incorporation
OF powerful company, in a position
to compete IN the open markets OF the
country with the inferior products Of
Trinidad and Switzerland; and there is
no reason known to commerce or trade
why cur native paraffine and mineral
Wax should not wholly supplant the more
than go, 0C0 tons that are annually i'm
ported. The native products possess 50
many points of superiority over the for
eign articles that their supremacy in the
future is beyond dispute.
Proud of the achievements of the past.
secure IN the greatness of the present,
t IS with the most hopeful authorizations
hat we look to the future. We see Utah
among the states of the republic,
iotted with cities, the hives of industry
md thrift; its valleys filled with the
peaceful banners of the harvest, pro-
claiming victories to the sheaf and
sickle; the mountains flooding the hills
md the hills carrying to the Wales the
music of tlnkling bells from countless
nerds and focks; her people generous,
rec and virtuous, living in joyous homes
With hearthstones ever bright; on all
sides towering chimneys filled with eager
lanes; gold and silver in abundance
.escued from the misery clutches of the
'ocks; and above all, bending over this
work of hope and aspiration like bene-
fiction the tenderest, clearest skies that
,ver stretched in loving arms of blue and
gold above the heads of men
INVESTOR.
Within easy distance of Salt Lake is the
Great Salt Lake and the bathing resorts.