The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1911-04-28
UTAH'S ADVANTAGES
RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
WHICH AWAIT COMING OF CAP.
IrALisT AND HOME BUILDER
A state Rich In Possibilities, Win
Products That Go 10 satisfy Every
Human Need, Which Has Room
and Lands for Thousands.
NY JACOB COLEMAN.

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Ing address was delivered by Jacol
Coleman. editor OF the Juab COUNTY
Times.
Mr. President, members and friend.
OF the Utah Press Association:
am asked TO tell In ~ minutes
the resources Uf the state Of Utah
Why, Mr. President. II would take
moro than ten minutes to onumcrat,
Tho different products that can b.
raised on one OF our city lots whore
live at Ncphi And as for The
states resources. II would require a
book as large a. an unabridged die
tlonary to iIst the thousands of utahH
products that go TO satisfy almost
every human need
ours ~ magnificent state II IL
an Inland empire within whose bound.
aries of nearly $4,000 square miles.
or two OhloB and one Delaware could
be- moro Than comfortably n,ted In,
aud would not cover Us vast area. BE.
hold lts majestic mountains. whose
snowoappod crowns rival In grandeur
| Pixies Peak Of colorado or tho Alps
OF Switzerland
Nowhere In the world. except tho
| lnncrmost rcccsscs OF Russia, can
such beautiful coloring OF mountain
foliage be found as during the autumn
days In our canyons and dollB Where
on the globe. except In Utah. can a
{ IuN H..
droamlly nOat on such buoyant Wa.
tors? While attending school We
studied OF the wonderful natural bridge
IN historic Virginia, but our state can
show the Nirglnlan four such bridges.
with which his would appear as Il
medium sized culyort In comparison.
And the metals and minerals OF
Utah-what an endless VARIETY |
have II on good authority that. "Of
all the metals and minerals In human
use. tin Is perhaps the only one not
found In workable quantities within
the borders OF Utah" Let us briefly
run over part OF the endless list
Alum IL found In Utah and Salt
Lake counties: aluminium In Davis and
Morgan counties; anthony In Box
Elder. Pluto. and Garfield counties;
agates In large quantities and great
beauty In Emery county: arsenic In
Washington and Iron counties; bis.
muth IN Juab. Sanpete and Morgan
counties. copper In Juab. Willard and
Salt Lake counties Bingham as
the greatest copper producing camp
In the world. utah's great quantities
OF coal and iron. while now conserved
In out OF the way places removed
from railroad. could supply America
for 500 years TO come OH IL found
In San Juan. Uintah. and other coun.
ties. Mr. Charles u. Dickcnsheets. a
recognized oil expert Of Los Angeles.
who has Just completed thorough
investigation of the Utah fields. stated
the other day. Utah will. In my judg.
mcnt. approach II II does not excel.
Pennsylvania as an oil producing
state as we'll as In the development
OF iron and steel manufacture.
There arc almost inexhaustiblc de.
poslts Of iron aud coal In Utah We
Will soon bo calling Pennsylvania
Tho Utah OF the East"
In Iron county there Is an Ideal com.
blnatlon for the manufacture of steel.
one OF the most remarkable deposits
OF iron ore In the world Ia stored here.
Experts declare that the.o are 500 600.
600 tons In sight And TO smclt the
iron and manufacture the steel. there
are In this same county. veins OF coal
100 feet In thickness. A railroad Is
now being constructed. branching of
the salt Lake Route at Lund, and 10.
llg through Iron county 10 utah's
Dixie We, therefore, expect 20 wit.
ness a great Influx Of capital and pop.
ulation to this. region Of mineral mir.
aclcs.
Hut this IL not all-carbonato OF
soda by thousands OF tons h found In
Salt Lake county; quicksilver In
Sanpcte county; garnets In Tooele
county. gold In Salt Lake Juab.
Tooele and other counties; granite
In Salt Lake, Juab, Sanpete and every
other county In the state; gypsum
In Juab, Sanpetc, SEWER and Wa III.
ington | will say that at Ncphi. In
Julb county. We have solid noun.
tain OF gypsum; one mill is grinding
cut 200 tons per day; another mill
is being planned the coming summer
and We have mountains enough OF IL
To keep i've or six mills going In.
definitely.
In InrUniI mud gap, rnupfI,g thor,