The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-19

Gus experts have made estimates rang
ing from 100 600 600 TO 00.000 600 short
tons. They also stated that the pos
sibilities of the deposit were from 500.
900 900 10 ], 600, 600. 900 short tons. About
% per cent OF this ore is Bessemer. bal
ance being basic. By mixing the two
ores. the percentage Of Bessemer would
be much increased.
'The ore runs an average Of about 81
per cent metallic iron. The average in
silica IS about per cent. The lime
stone adjacent 10 the iron Jas all
proper huXing qualifications necessary
In furnace work.
Coal Measures Convenient.
"The coal measures in Carbon coun-
ty produce a coke which is equal 10 the
COnnellsville article, both as regards
analysis and strength necessary to
carry furnace burden This coal is
about 225 miles from the iron, on the
Rio Grande Western railroad.
The iron fields are 273 miles from
Salt Lake City and AS miles by Clark
read survey from San Pedro harborr
which Is the Pacific coast terminus of
the Clark road.
Experts figure that pig iron can be
manufactured in Utah for Sc a ton and
that steel rails can be made for $13 a
ton. The Colorado Fuel & Iron COM
pany, at Pueblo, Colo, is the only pig
iron and steel manufacturer west OF
the Mississippi river and its cost per
ton Is high, as all the raw materials
are hauled from considerable distances
Arizona New Mexico. Wyoming. etc.
to point Of manufacture. which is
400 miles from the Pacific coast and
500 miles farther from the coast than
the Utah iron. This company could
not compete with an iron and steel
plant In Utah for the Pacific coast and
Oriental iron and steel business.
pig iron sells I'm Salt Lake CITY at
$3S 20 S42 ton, and In San Francisco
40 S3f 10 S38 Steel rails in Salt Lake
are S46 and in san Francisco $4S. The
annual consumption OF rails on the
Pacific coast is about 100000 tons. and
of pig iron g0.O00 tons. The cOnsump-
ton would be much increased If iron
products could be obtained from Utah
cheaper. This iron field. developed, will
eventually control the Pacific coast and
Oriental iron business if properly ma
nipulated. The Orient is the future
great market for many Of our manu-
featured commodities, among which
iron and steel are the PRINCIPAL. There
are no other known iron deposits Ia
the west that are of sufficient extent to
be considered as the basis for develop
ing an iron and steel enterprise.
Controlled by Western Men.
The principal holdings of iron ore
are controlled by the Miner syndicate,
which takes IN the claims Of the Walk
er brothers. Matthew Cullen. the ALI
len O.. Campbell estate and James Nc
Garry. The Colorado Fuel < Iron com
pany has a strong fOOthOld also. hav-
ing bought the claims Of the Thomas
Taylor estate and others. The main
deposits are about twelve miles west
Of Cedar City. There. rising out Of the
level desert plain. tower three Isolated
mountains. The highest is Iron noun
tain, rising 1900 feet above the plain
and 400 feet above the level of the
sea. Seven miles away is Iron Springs
mountain. and between the two is Des-
ert Mound, a solid mass Of iron a mile
square. Experts believe there Is likely
TO be iron under the level plain, al
though this has never been prOsDected,
For eight miles around Iron mountain,
IN a semi-clrcle. runs an enormous
ledge Of iron. 400 TO LOO feet across,
averaging 60 per cent Of the best grade
0f metallic iron. The deposits Of iron
on Iron Springs mountain are three
and half miles long and 400 10 zoo feet
across.
Near kanarra. a few miles away, are
other deposits OF iron, but they are less
extensive and not so good IN quality.
For several decades the existence or