Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01
MINING, BUSINESS AND STOCKS.
MILLIONS IN TIMBER
WITHIN THIS STATE ATE:
Vast Fields of Lumber and Iron IN
Southern Utah Means Great Up
building of That Section.

Is Inc EreaI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES iNt1st.
Iron county have long been considered
the chief resource Of this district, q
recent report of the United States geo.
logical survey puts the ore now III
sight at 10000, GEO tons, NO extensive
development or exploratory Work nts
been done, only such shallow pits aud
open cuts as would show the character
of the ore and the areal extent OF the
deposits.
Aattention has been called before BY
the Washington county News to the
seini-anthfacits. coal beds Mt Harmony
and the mammoth camel coal leads on
the north fork of the Virgin river IN
this county The exploitation of inc
Harmony anthracite coal veins has 5eest
by Los Angeles captain
and the camel coal fields Will be en-
plotted as soon as the interior depart
.ment reopcns the land to entry.
CONSTRUCTION work is about to COM
nence on the proiected railroad
through the iron fields OF Iron county
and the anthracite coal fields at Har-
1nony, In the northern part of tnis
county This road viii be begun "
Lund, on the salt Lake Route, anu
after trayersing the iron and coal Helus
OF Iron and Washington counties VII!
be continued on to the Grand canyon OF
the COLORADO .IlNeI III al lHoiiti', {
VAST TIMBER AREA.
Ii is not generally known that the
t.Buckskin'' or Kiabab plateau, through
which the Colorado river has cut the
Grand canyon, Is q vast heavily TIM
bered area. The proposed railroad Will
reach the forest and make this timber
available.
A letter addressed to the forest sup
4. nv. t,X. \ 1pl Inn
e. Humtaicker brought forth the FOL
lowing reply:
.tThe estimated amount of merchant
able timoer on the Kiabab national for
est, including all species, is $500, 00oa 900
feet board measure, immediately avail
able for use. Only trees with II dame
ter or Is inches and over. breast high,
areaestimated. The yellow pine makes
up the major amount Of this quantity.
The quality ranges from the best finish
ing material to stuff valuable for min
ing timbers and railroad ties only The
spruce type makes up about 20 per cent
OF the total stand. This timber Is all
within n compact and easily logged
area, estimated to contain about $4,000
acres. qs
EASILY LOGGED.
We learn that this timber tract oc-S
cupies part of a plateau or vast table
land of about 1900 square miles, and
presents an easy logging proposition.
This feature is in strong contrast 10
the mountainous areas and steep hill
sides of the Oregon and Washington
timber lands.
Believing this to be, one Of the very
few big timber propositions remaining
open In America, some inquiries on the
market side OF the proposition, particu-
ilarly the Utah market we're started.
Letters were addressed to the principal
lumber merchants OF Salt Lake City,
asking them for an estimate of the
lumber, including mining timbers and
railroad ties, imported annually into
the state of Utah
The Utah Lumber company replied in
part, eve would say approximately
125, 900 0C0 feet annually" The Taylor
Armstrong Lumber company replied as
follows: Have no definite statistics,
but would judge from 160,0OG000 to 700,
900, 900 feet under normal conditions
years of excessive railroad building or
track repairing might increase this
amount by several million feet. !
SOME NEW FACTS.
There is ar unusually large consump
ton OF the common grades, such as
mine tlnbers, railroad ties and dimea-
sion lumber generally, IL market fea-
ture which is most attractive to lun1-s
Der manufacturer.
The Investigation Of the News In to
this timber proposition has brought
forth many surprises; the quantity of
available timber, 100000, 900 feet; the
importation annually into the state Of
from 125, 100000 to 2O0,1 900 feet Of
lumber; the ease and economy with
which it can be handled, and the mar
kets ready to Absorb, it. Surely this is
without doubt Utah's biggest and best
proposition
It is matter for congratulation that
the present anomalous conditions are
about to be changed, and that In tho
near future utah's industries shall draw
their supplies of lumber not. from far
away Oregon, but from the Arizona
Strip which is naturally and COM
mercially a part of Utah.