The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-30

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cause of the scant supply of water in
the vicinity of the mines. Over 100
miles of railroad win be built to con-
meet the main line of the new Salt
L4ake-LOs Angeles road with the iron
mines and with the new city, while
more miles of railroad viii be neees-
saTy to bring in the coal supply. At
the Virgin river, however, is a pIenti-
fun supply of water for all purposes,
while, if necessary. the supply could
be- increased by artesianA wells.
AT Virgin Fails there is an ideal site
for the manufacturing plants. a splen-
did water power, which eSn be trans
mitted electrically, and an excellent 10
cation for city. The place is easily
accessible to railroads, and the loca-
ton is in every respect the best to be
found in southwestern Utah for the
purpose.
Immense Water Power.
The river here makes a great horse
shoe curve around a bluff and drops
some 200 feet. The site for the city is
at the lower end of the curve A tunnel
can be run through the bluff, drawing
away large proportion of the water
in the river. and this can be made to
ran through system of turbines,
which would give an enormous water
power and furnish through dynamoS
all the manufacturing power needed.
This, Of course, does not apply to the
blast furnaces and other portions of
the iron works where coal and coke
are needed in the process.
The iron works will probably be built
against bluff on one side of the river
Gentle slopes make it easy for a rail-
road to run over the mesa above the
bluff or to ascend the valley. The
city will probably be in the valley and
on the mesa.
There viii be towns at the mines, as
soon as operations are begun, and at
other places. st. George and all the
farming country will profit, as ii will
be necessary to furnish supplies to the
manufacturing population.
Benefit Entire State.
In fact, the entire state and the inter-
mountain region will benefit, for the
plans of development are on a gigantic
scale. When J. T. Jones, the celebrated
iron expert, came out several months
ago to pass upon the iron deposits be-
! fore the purchase, he declared that ''in
ten years Utah will be producing more
iron than the entire Mesaba range
The iron from that section of Michigan
and Minnesota is manufactured in
| Pfttsburg, Cleveland, Chicago, Joliet,
Milwaukee and scores of other cities
IN Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Wis
eonsin, and has made them populous
and wealthy
Pittsburg, in fact, is. becoming known
as the richest city in proportion to its
size in the United States With a
greater production of iron than the
Mesaba, and with the manufacturing
concentrated in this state, a faint idea
or the prospective development may be
gained.
The city of Virgin Falls, or whatever
It may be named, will be the iron man
ufacturing center nearest to the Pacific
coast The nearest competing point will
| be Pueblo, with 1000 miles of railroad
| maui over mountain ranges as a bar
rier- This will give the Utah iron
works such an immense advantage
that it will practically control the
! trade OF the rapidly growing inter
! mountain region, the Pacific coast of
| North and South America, including
Alaska, the newly acquired Philippines,
awakening China. enterprising Japan.
ana, IN fact, the entire Orient
Manufacture of steel.
Here win be made iron and steel
billets, rails. wire, structural steel, pos
sibly armor plate and other material
| for steel commercial and war vessels.
and, IN fact, everything ins the way of
heaVy iron and steel. 1t is understood
/ that the Kimberly Bull Syndicate will
remain entirely independent of the
United states Steel corporation and
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company.
1t viii control an adequate supply of
every material entering into the manu-
facture, and viii ask odds of no per-
| son or CORPORATION ~
| The iron VIII come from the 100
claims in Iron county sold by the Mil
/ ner combination. through Wtcher
Jones, to this syndicate. The coal will
come principally from Carbon and EN-
cry counties, it is expected, while the
nux and other materials needed lie not
lar from the iron mines.
project of this magnitude naturally
takes time to work out in all it's de-
tails, but the men behind it are known
| as among the shrewdest and most en-
terprlslng operators in the country. and
they are pushing matters as fast as il
/ is possible. Within a few months. It
| IS expected that the people of Utah
Will see the iron mines and new coal
( nelds being opened up, branch rail-
/ roads being built and manufacturing
plants, stores, banks and dwellings be-
ing erected where now there is little
more than barren waste.