Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-28
That Section Alive TO Possibilities
that Have Slept for Ages.
INQUlRERS ARE NUMEROUS,
Reports OF Big Purchases that are I'm
Contemplation Immense Depos-
Its OF Iron I'm sight.

Reports come from the south that the
country about Cedar city, Is being over
run by prospectors, and representatives
OF large manufacturing institutions
who are making things lively down
there, The whole country IS in an ex-
cited condition II seems that old resi-
dents were blind TO the wealth that Is
lying around them, until their property
Is now being bid for at high figures By
syndIcates and other large concerns,
until the scene is becoming interesting
IN the extreme down there. The Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron company OF Pueblo,
has two wide awake representatives. in
the field In the persons OF Messrs. Ladd
aud Hills, who left salt Lake last week.
There are people from Denver, and a
party Of energetic men from Cripple
Creek, who are eagerly searching the
country for ground that may have been
overlooked and the county recorders
office has been full Of those desiring 10
file their claims. There Is a representa-
tive on the ground Of the Woods In
vestment company, a big concern from
Cripple Creek, and there Is also a mum
Der II agents Of a big English syndi-
cate, who have already secured what
is claimed to be the richest property
In the country.
Cedar city Is thrilled, II Is experience
Ing more life than at any time In It's
previous history, and the impression is
prevalent there that the Thomas Taylor
group OF six claims is as good as sold
al N,OOO.000. However that may be. the
fact Is that the syndicate which is pur-
chasing II, is paying the owner a given
amount each day that negotiations
continue. In this group alone, 1t Is es-
tlmated that there is as much as i5,-
OOO00J tons Of ore that will average no
less than sixty per cent. and samples
have been brought showing as much as
seventy per cent. II Is said that Wal
ker Brothers Of this city, have put their
property In on the British purchase at
100000. which consists OF 100 acres near
Iron Springs, a patent for which was
secured number OF years ago
Mat Cullen and Allen c. Campbell
hold some property that Is not 20 be
winked at. This property consists Of
five locations which contain nearly as
many tons az the Taylor group
Colonel Miner and his associates
have holdings consisting Of twenty-one
claims. These claims embrace a world
Of ore. one would think that this was
the site OF a great city In the Iron age.
The iron lodges In this district rise up
In places hundreds OF feet high and APP
pear on the surface for 500 and 1000
feet In width.
The extent Of the vast deposits Is
almost beyond calculation. on the
claims owned by Miner and his assoc
ciates it is estimated that there Is
enough iron ore in sight TO cover one
fun claim 10 depth Of 200 feet with
solid ore. which on a rough estimate
would represent 22.O00O0O tons.
This enormous amount would repre-
sent tonnage Of pure iron OF q least
one-half that after being smelted. II
is said, the ore will run about 50 per
cent Figuring on the scale many iron
companies in the East have adopted,
that Of paying a royalty % a certain
amount per ton, customarilly from 20
10 % cents a ton on ore as pure as the
Iron county product appears to be. the
ore I'm sight would represent a value Of
at least S5.00000O
10 Is thought by the prominent men
who have come from that section that
Iron county Is destined 10 become one
OF the most important centers IN all the
West il is predicted that great smelt-
ers and rolling mills viii be built, and
that Cedar City WIN become a leading
manufacturing center An outlet Will
be made as the Utah & Pacific Will 90
to the coast. and the Rio Grande West
ern VIII project its extension into Ce-
Oar CllY