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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

to see that the market viii be widely
extended.
San Francisco and adjacent terri
tory now consume over 1000, 900 tons Of
coal annually from Pugee-Sound, Coos
Bay, England, Wales and Australia.
The Western Pacific road now being
built from Salt Lake to San Francisco,
is controlled by the same interests
which own coal mines at Winter Quar-
tiers, Clear Creek, Castle Gate. and
Sunnyside, in Utah. These mines. to-
gether with the Rio Grande and West
ern Pacific railroads, are owned by the
Gould Rockefeller interests, who nat
urally will seek. when their road is
completed, to extend their coal market
10 the coast.
The question of coal supply is as
serious on the Pacific coast that
steamships are accustomed to bring
coal III ballast from Australia, Eng
land and Wales in order to be assured
ola supply on the return trip. That
this difficulty will be Obxiated when
the Utah coal fields are developed goes
without saying.
The Salt Lake road-from Salt Lake
to Los Angeles and San Pedro harbor
is naturally interested in the build
ing up of the Utah coal industry, and
the completion of that road meant
cheap freight rates for Utah coal to
tidewater whenever the industry
should be developed.
Market in South. America.
1t is fact known to men familiar
with the coal situation that the coal
mines of the Pacific slope now furnish
practically all the coal that is con-
sumed on the coast-saVe what comes
from abrOad-from Sitka, Alaska, to
Chile That these mines are made
quate for such supply is we'll known,
and they cannot continue to enjoy this
monopoly now that Salt Lake is to be
connected with San Francisco and
with Los Angeles by two new rail-
roads, one of which is already built
and the other of which is being built
as fast as possible.
But Utah alone will be able to con-
sumo in a few years an enormous
quantity of coal in the development OF
its iron industry elsewhere described.
One steel plant with a capacity of 1000
tons a day win use 100000 tons of
coal in a year, and the building OF
steel plants in Utah is mere matter
of time, considering it's vast iron re-
sources. ..- ~ ~ .--.ls-4 zfrr.-.
The development of the coal ana
iron industries are bound to go ahead
in hand, and their development means
that Utah will become one of the
greatest, if not in time the greatest,
Industrial states Of the union.
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the most casual inquiry, that the Utah
product can be sold much cheaper in
the Orient than the product Of TIE east
ern states.
1t is a fact that steel rails and other
Utah iron products, if manufactured
in sufficiently large quantities, can be
laid down on the Pacific coast at a
cheaper figure than the first cost of
such products in Pittsburg and other
eastern iron centers, and, when the
cost of transportation from these east
ern centers across the continent to the
Pacific coast is taken into considera-
ton, the advantage which will be en-
JOyed by Utah iron operators is ap-
parent to everyone.
Market on Pacific Coast.
But it is not alone in the Orient that
the product of the Utah iron mines will
find a market. This is an era of rail-
road building on the Pacific coast.
Roads and branch roads are being con-
structed by the great railway systems
into the uttermost parts of the Amer
loan west. Communities hitherto iso-
lated are being brought into touch with
the world through the genius of the
captains of industry who are building
up the west. Prophetic vision itself
could not foretell the railroad extern
sions of the next fifty years in this
western country.
This era of railroad building means
an enormous market for steel rails and
other iron products. 1t has been point
ed out how western manufactured iron
products can outsell the eastern prod
uc| in the Orient, and by the same
token the west can oGtsel and under
bid the east in the markets of the
western states.
The iron industry is stable one
The demand for iron products follows
the advance of civilization and of de-
velopment. Those who have witnessed
the development of the Pacific coast
country in the past quarter century
dare not predict what the development
OF the future will be. 1t defies the i'm
agination of man, but with every day
of development will come an increased
demand for the products which Utah
has liz such abundance, the market for
which cannot be captured by the
states of the far east.
The former part of this article dealt
entirely with the iron resources of the
Iron Mountain region in Iron county;
but that is not all of the Utah iron
fields. In Washington oounty-in what
is known as the Bull Valley" region
are other vast deposits Of iron ore yet
untouched.
The iron fields of Utah are virgin
fields. The vast fortunes which iron
men of Pennsylvania and other states
have built up are what the future holds
Ia store for those who uncover to the
world the iron resources of Utah. Nor
Will the prosperity come alone to the
operators; it will come to untold thou
sands Of workingmen whose services
will be necessary to the development
Of the industry; it means that here in
Utah will be built up a state of wage
workers like unto the great states of
the east which were pioneers in the in
dustry.
Cost of Iron Plant.
A noted eastern iron expert who Wis
tied Utah and examined into her re-
sources of iron ore. estimated that an
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Two counties of Utah contain greater
deposits Of iron ore than Pennsylvania,
famed the world over for its produc-
ton of such ore. and when the iron in
oustry of Utah is developed it will
produce iron and its products in great
er quantities than Pennsylvania ever
produced or ever will produce.
This is not mere idle assertion. 1t
is the deliberate judgment of iron ex-
perts from Pennsylvania and other
eastern iron regions who have visited
the localities where Utah's iron ore
deposits are located, and who have
made detailed examination of those
deposits.
The two counties which contain
these deposits are Iron and Washing
ton counties, in the southwestern cor
ner of, Utah. Plans for developing
these immense deposits are maturing
rapidly, and the time is not far distant
when Utah will rank first among the
states of the Union in its production
OF iron ore.
To Develop the Industry.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron company,
a corporation controlled by the Rookie
Teller interests has acquired immense
holdings Of iron ore bodies in Iron
county. The ore here is found on the
surface in conical peaks or ridges-lit-
orally mountains of iron ore This
ore runs from 45 to so per cent Of iron,
and about 100000 tons of the ore are
III sight.
These same interests control the Rio
Grande Western railway system.
Transportation, of course, is the first
faI -, -F~.r,,
the iron industry, as it is indeed in the
development of every other large in
dustry. And the Gould Rockefeller in
terests, to supply this element, are
planning an extension of their railway
system into the field where are To-
Gated their tremendous iron interests.
VIII Extend Rio Grande.
Their plan, as generally understood,
Is to build a branch line starting at
E'arnham on the main line Of the Rio
Grande Western road, thence through
Castle valley, touching at Castledale,
FerrOn and other points; thence
through the Salina canyon to the
southern terminus of the Sanpete
branch of the Rio Grande. From this
point. Marysvale, several SURVEYS have
been made for the extension of the
road, all Of them having for the ulti-
mate objective the section where the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company has its
iron holdings
The plan of the company is to es-
tablish blast furnace at some point
on the Rio Grande road. probably at
Green River. Utah, where it will make
pig iron and possibly steel binets, and
then carry this product to its main
iron and steel works at Pueblo, Colo,
where it will be manufactured into
steel rails, structural steel and other
finished iron products.
Product Is Needed Badly.
To show the necessity for the devel-
opment of the Utah iron fields il need
only be cited that for two or three
years past the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company has been buying iron ore
from the Mesaba range in Minnesota
and transporting the crude ore TO it's
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works at Pueblo at a heavy cost in
transportation charges, to be treated
there.
With the development of its Utah
properties the company will be able
to transport its own ore a compare
lively short distance over a railway
line controlled by itself-or rather by
the same men who control the fhel and
iron company-then reduce it to pig
iron. and, when that is done, carry ii
over the same railroad to its main
works at Pueblo. where it can be man.
ufactured into the finished product
Men in a position TO state facts &C
curately say that the extension of the
Rio Grande Western railroad into the
Iron Mountain district is a matter of
only short time comparatively speak
ing.
Another Road Into District.
But this is not the only railroad
which will build into the Iron Noun
tain district. The San Pedro, Los An
geles & Salt Lake road, which was
completed early last year, will even
tually build a branch into the district
from its main line. This road will
probably have its beginning at Lund.
one of the stations on the main line,
and will be much shorter, and will in
volve much less railroad construction
than the promised extension of the Rio
Grande Western system by the Could
Rockefeller interests.
The construction of this branch has
been promised by President w. A.
Clark, to be carried out when the time
is ripe.
Market in the Orient.
One of the chief if not the greatest
market for Utah iron and its finished
products, will be in the rOient. IN this
connection the building of the San Pc
dro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake road has
been an untold blessing to the vet un-
born iron industry of Utah. That road
extends from Salt Lake 10 San Pedro
harbor on the Pacific caoast. 1t was
built through what is now a desert
One Of the chief objects which Sena-
tor Clark and his associates had in
mind in building it was the fact that
along its route and tributary thereto
We're untold deposits of the richest
minerals known to the mining and in
dustrial world. The prosperity of the
road depends in large measure upon the
development of those industries. one Of
the chief Of which is the now unde-
veloped iron industry of southern
Utah.
The western terminus of the san
Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake road
or, as 1T is known, the Salt Lake
ROute'-is San Pedro harbor, one of
the best harbors on the Pacific coast.
The daring minds who conceived the
idea of building the Salt Lake road
through the desert are also project
ing line Of steamships between San
Pedro harbOF and the Orient and n IL
on that line of steamships that the
Utah iron product will be conveyed to
the land OF the setting sun.
This is not a. dream. There were
those who predicted that the railroad
through the Desert from Salt Lake to
San Pedro harbor would never be built.
But it has been built; and the interests
of the men who built 1t are indissolu-
bly, bound up in developing the re-
sources Of the country which it ira
verses, and in finding a market for
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the product of those resources. That
market is the Orient
Japanese Natural Ironmongers.
The Japanese are the natural iron
mongerS of the Orient. At present they
depend for their supply of iron ore
upon the mines of Korea and of por-
tons of China. 1t is a fact known to
iron experts the world over, however
that the ore Of Korea and China is OF
an inferior quality; and. with the tre-
mendous strides which the japanese
are making in every industry and art
known to civilization. it follows as a
matter OF course that they must find
product of superior quality
All this has been figured out by the
captains of industry VINO are interest
ed in the development of the Utah iron
industry. They see that eventually
the Japanese must exercise their skill
as ironmongers upon an American iron
product, and the Utah product is near
er by thousands Of miles than any
other considerable body of iron ore in
the United States, and transportation
charges are less IN proportion to the
distance to be traversed.
Will Buy American Pig Iron.
Reduced to its last analysis this
means that when the Utah iron fields
are developed, the japanese will buy
Utah pig iron and steel billets: that it
will be transported to Japan in Amer
lean vessels from San Pedro harbor,
and that the little brown men, to
whose greatness the world is just
awakening, will utilize this crude prod
in fa orr Of hnS
steel rails, their own structural steel
and their own iron and steel products
of every kind and character. There is
no doubt that immense works to turn
out finished steel products will be
erected in Utah also.
In this article space cannot be de-
voted TO panegyric upon the future
of the Orient, but the student OF world
affairs realized long ago that what was
once the old world is now the new;
that where civilization started ages
ago, civilization is today making it's
greatest strides; that one of the chief
fields for industrial development of the
new century upon which mankind has
barely entered is to be found in the
lands which were the original habitat
Of the human race
And so Utah crude iron products will
find market not alone in Japan. but
the finished products of these same
Utah iron mines will find markets in
other portions OF the Orient Human
experience has shown that human
power to develop countries that, to the
eye Of inexperience seem barren and
sterile, is practically unlimited, and,
with the establishment of steamship
lines from San Pedro to the Orient,
Will come an era when the products of
Utah's iron fields will penetrate to the
uttermost corners of the far east.
Have Field to Itself.
No man familiar with the iron IN
dustry in America needs to be told
that, with the Utah iron products de-
veloped Utah will enjoy practically a
monopoly of the Oriental iron trade. 1t
is fact which any person sufficiently
interested can demonstrate by even
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

coal beds in multitudes of places, so
that to take out coal it is necessary
only TO run a tunnel in on the bed and
cart out the fuel This does away
with all the costly hosting machinery
so common elsewhere.
This coal belt enters Utah near
Evanston, Wyo., forms a large basin
near CoalVille, then runs east along the
north side of the Uintahs to and
around the eastern end of the noun
tains; thence west back along the
south side TO the head of Spanish
Fork canyon. where it forms the coal
range, the watershed between the
Colorado and the great basin. whence
it runs in a southerly direction for
many miles, and then bends westward
past Cedar City (near which, are the
iron deposits) and Kanarra, thence
west until it passes out of the state
part of the state the deposits are
small, while between Iron City and the
Uintahs they are very heavy. $1,000,
Supply for Centuries.
'This coal field, 600 to 1000 miles
long, is ten miles wide in the narrowest
place, while in others 1t may run up TO
twenty-five miles. 1t is estimated that
we have 20, 600 square miles of coal
lands in Utah. but this is an exagger-
alton; still we have immense bodies
of thousands of square miles, and of
such thickness as to supply the United
States for centuries. There is no coal
to the west of Utah except some poor
lignites, scarcely used, m southern
California; so we shall always supply
the great basin, and at least part of
California, with coal. At Coalville the
workable vein is ten to thirteen feet
thick; at Pleasant Valley there are two
veins, one thirteen and the other
tWenty-eight feet thick; at Castle Gate
the largest vein is fourteen feet"
1t is a fact we'll known TO coal ex-
perts that the Utah coal is splendid
coking coal, and this fact is of the
highest Importance when considered in
relation to the tremendous prospective
iron industry of the state. Not only
is it good coking coal, but it lies in
close proximity to the iron fields, and
thus the question of Transporting the
coal to the iron works which will be
built in the future is not a serious one.
Has Big Outside Supply.
But Utah, large as her coal possibiI-
ties are. does not have to depend upon
them alone for It's fuel supply. The
Oregon Short Line, through its cOnnec-
ton with the Union Pacific. brings coal
to Salt Lake from Rock Springs, WyO.,
and on the Short Line proper are the
big coal mines at KemmeTer, Cumber-
land and Red Canyon. all in Wyoming.
The assurance that the Burlington
road viii be built into Salt Lake from
Guernsey, Wyo., means that new coal
mines in Carbon and Uinta counties in
Wyoming will be opened to the Salt
Lake coal market, and the Denver &
Northwestern road now being built by
David H. Moffat from Denver to Salt
Lake. will furnish an additional supply
from Routt county in western Colo
RADIO.
Big Market for Product.
The development of the Utah coal
mines thus far has been extensive
enough only to supply the Utah mar
ket, and to compete with the Wyoming
mines in the adjacent inter-mountain
country; but as it increases it is easy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
PROPER ECONOMY.
DenYer Posth.

p The man in aldown-town cheap restau-
rant had eaten but half of his piece Of
minoe pie He didn't care for the rest
and pushed the plate aside. The waitress
came along at that point and began 10 re-
move the dishes from the table. The man
felt like taking !''ht ~ = Ut. '-
'It looks like a waste to throw all that
pie away he said. end -i..
"Oh, it won't be wasted" said the girl
What will they do with it?"
It'll go into the hash along with most
everything else was the matter-of-fact
reply.
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Has 1000 Square Miles.

Professor Marcus Jones says that
Utah has 1000 square miles of coal
land. He says:
''Geologically, our Goals belong to the
cretaceous age. After the basin was
upheaved in which the coal was formed
a large lake was left in the center.
the waves of which gradually wore
away the shores until the coal deposits
cropped out in precipices 1900 feet
yons at right angles to the shore line,
thereby exposing the nearly horizontal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31

The cost per ton Of making Bessemer
pig iron in Utah, based on making coke
at works with by-product ovens, is $2.47.
Making Rails in Utah.
Cost of rails, based on Bessemer pig
at Sc and 81 for conversion into rails Sl3.
Selling price at works, SIS.
Profit per ton, So.
About 600, 900 tons of rails at this figure
would yield a profit of 100000.
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investment of SIS, 900, 900 in the industry
here would net an annual profit of 20
per cent, with a probable profit of so
per cent on steel rails. A synopsis of
his figures on the establishment of an
iron plant follows:
425 Otto Hoffman by-product
coke ovens, at 5000 each ....,.S 2,125, 90
-Four cotton blast furnaces,
100000 each ..................... 100000
Rail MILL comprising Bessemer
works, blooming mill and rail
mill, capacity 1900 tons daily. 100000
Electric railroad for assembling
materials ............ ............ SIS 900
Opening ore properties ........... $4,000
Cost of townsite and water
power ..........-. ...........-..... l2OOVV
Offices, laboratory, machine
shops, houses for men, etc.,. 10000
Cost of ore property .............. $500 600
Cost OF coal property ............ 335, 600
Working capital ...... ............ 100000
Total ............... .........,... SIS, 100 600
If beehive ovens were built at coal
mines the investment would be 81, 600,0 600
Lass
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
Bio Market for Product.

The development of the Utah coal
mines thus far has been extensive
enough only to supply the Utah mar
ket, and to compete with the Wyoming
mines in the adjacent inter-mountain
country; but as it increases it is easy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-31
COAL MINES YIELD ENORMOUS OUTPUT

Utah contains probably more I'M
mined coal than any other state in the
Union. The Importance of this re-
source of the state is emphasized when
considered in connection with the iron
resources described elsewhere in this
issue; for it guarantees an unlimited
fuel supply necessary to developing the
immense iron resources.
The coal production of Utah for 1905,
according to figures furnished by the
state coal inspector, was ], 1892 ,943 tons,
divided as follows among the various
coal mining camps:
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A noted eastern iron expert who Wis
tied Utah and examined into her re-
sources of iron ore. estimated that an
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-02

Nothing SO thoroughly removes dis.
ease germs from the system as PRICK
LY ASH BITTERS. 1t gives life and
action to the torpid liver. strengthens
and assists the kidneys to properly
clense the blood, gives tone to the
stomach, purifes the bowels, and pro.
notes good appetite, vigor and cheer
fulness. A. G. Thornton Special
Agent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-03-02

W. M. Harris, of Fannin, was in
town Tuesday and reported the death
of Marian Davis, which occurred on
the 10th, in the 10Th year of her age
She was of Indian descent, and
by her kind and gentle nature had
won the love and esteem of all who
knew her. She was generous to q
fault and embraced the christian re.
ligion at an early age and had ever
lived q devout and consi stent life, ant
died in full triumph Of her faith. He
remains were laid to rest in Trueligh
cemetery, the funeral being conduct et
by Rev. Mr.. Lewis, 81 Fannin.
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GOOD NEWS,

Runge Bros. & Go have met the
fall IN cotton with greater fall in
prices. For ten days they will sell
pants at half price. You can get q
pair Of So trousers for only 80 by pay
ing them call. A special run is
being made on working pants. They
60 at 30 cents regardless Of factory
price. Sale on shoes still continues
Come before the stock is picked over
and take your choice.