The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

While Utah has been active in the
Development of her deposits of the pre-
cious metals, she has failed TO utilize
one of her greatest sources of wealth,
and this is the development and use
Of the great iron deposits Of the state.
In Utah there are ineXhaustiblla fields
of coal and mountains of from The
former have been drawn upon and
Utah coal is rapidly driving the for
eign product out of the Salt Lake
market, but the former has been al
lowed 10 lie dormant with the excep-
ton of the iron mined and sold to the
smelters for fuxing purposes.
Pennsylvania owes its greatness and
wealth to the iron industry; not in the
sale of crude metal alone, but because
manufactures and blast furnaces have
been erected throughout the state for
the manufacture of the crude ore into
pig iron and then into steel rails, ma
chinery, fencing and numerous other
articles. from which manufacture a
great industry is maintained and enor-
nlour profits derived.
Utah is peculiarly favored respect
thcf is needed to make this state
rival to Pennsylvania in the produc-
tipn of pig iron ana articles manufac-
tured from iron is the quickening touch
Of capital and enterprise. Especially is
this the case now that large sums Of
money have been invested in Salt Lake
and in Ogden in the building of NAM
moth works for the generation Of cleo
trical force and power, as it has been
practically demonstrated that iron ores
can now be successfully reduced and
run into pig iron by the use of cleo
tricity.
There are no large deposits of iron
ore in the Immediate vicinity of Salt
Lake City; but mot many miles dis
tant, in Morgan county, there exists
one of the finest deposits Of iron to be
found in the northern portion of the
state.
For a number of years the Norway
Iron company of this city has done a
1 large amount Of development ON its
iron mines in Mill Greek Mining dis
tIict Morgan county, and as a re-
suit OF its labors has uncovered thou
sands upon thousands of tons of ore
that assays so per cent pyroxite of iron
or Sc per cent metallic iron.
Several years ago the company sup
piled iron flUX for the treatment of
Park City ores, and a limited amount
was used by a small blast furnace at
Ogden; but as the company was dis
eliminated against by the railroads and
the Ogden plant soon closed down, the
mime has remained idle ever since, as
far aS production is concerned al
though the company has continued de-
VelDpments every year since
The pig iron produced from ore from
the Norway mines is exceedingly NAL
leaiOie, and its texture lis so soft that It
could almost be hammered into horse
shoe nails. BY experts in the iron bus-
mess III is pronounced as an exceed
ingly desirable quality of iron ore, and
there is no doubt but that lit could be
utilized in the manufacture of every
grade of iron and sreel works
/ B. A. NJ. Froiseth, the secretary and
manager OF the Norway Iron COM
pany. is in possession OF several large
photographs showing the mines, work
1nss and surroundings Of the proper
ties owned by the company, and. ac-
cording to his statement, the supply Of
high grade ore now uncovered and
blocked out is inexslaustible.
At the mines there is an abundance
OF water for the generation of cleo
tTicity for the reduction of the ore on
the ground; or. in Mr.. FroiseGl1's opin-
ion. works could be established at Salt
Lake or Ogden for treatment Of iron
ore by the electrical process.
The establishment of such works in
Utah. together with iron foundries,
would place the state on an equal foot
ing with other manufacturing states
iu the Union.