The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-04
BIC IRON AND
STEEL CENTER
Great Things Predicted for Utah b,
Expert Before House
Committee.

united States Steel corporation, de-
clared that the day is coming when
Salt Lake will be an important cen
ter for the manufacture of iron and
steel.
The ores in Utah are merchandise
and accessible" aid Mr. cole. "ano
the time is coming when these oreI |
will be marketed through Salt Lake. !
1t also is certain that the ores can
be shipped from the Utah mines to
Salt Lake and meet there coking coal
from Wyoming and other mines IN
Utah itself.
And the day will come when Salt
Lake will be an important center ior
the manufacture of iron and steel, just
as Duluth, which has been distributing
ore for years, is now coming into its
own as a steel manufacturing center.
Mr.. Cole is one of the officers in
the company which built and operates
the Intermountain smelter at Tooele
and has made many trips to ~,..,
He is recognized as one of the lead
ing ore experts in the country and Is
heavily interested in mining proper.
ties throughout the United States.
A prophecy that the ores held by
the United States Steel corporation
vuld be exhausted within rs or 20
years and that the natural resources
OF the far west would be utilized was
made recently before the house steel
trust committee by Joseph Sellwood,
an ore expert, who says he has scour-
ed the North American continent IN
search OF merchantable ore.
Mr.. Sellwood said that in Utah
there were known to be a billion tons
Of merchantable ore. This ore can be
used to make steel just as well as any
other ore, but il is not near coke or
| coal or fluxing material, he said.
But" continued Mr.. Sellwood,
there is a great market in the west
for steel and growing market in the
| central west, and the time will come
when il will be practical to ship that
western ore east or to ship from the
east the coke and coal"
Several years ago, Mr.. Sellwood ex.
plored the Utah ores for James j.
HILL the late John w. Gates and the
late f. H. Hartman. They considered
those ores a reserve.
How long do you think the Utah
ores will be considered merely re.
serve?" asked Representative Gard.
ner.
Probably % years"
would come when it would be practi.
cal tC build steel plants on the Pacific
coast and told of when Gates ard
others had considered erecting steel
mill at Los Angeles. With the com.
pietion of the Panama canal the avail
ability OF the western ore, I Is sail
would increase.
W. j, Dooley, who has been inter.
osteh IN Iron county properties for a
number OF years, takes exceptions to
some statements made by Joseph
Sellwood before the house steel trust
committee in Washington. Mr.. Dool
ey says that there are some OF the
largest coal deposits within a few
miles OF the iron fields, and that they
are the only extensive coal fields 10
be found between that section OF the
country and the western coast. II
has been demonstrated that this Is
an IDEAL coking fuel and there Is to
day an old furnace at Iron City where
the coke conversion was made ant
some kettles and a bell which was
made by the pioneers fifty years ago
Mr. Dooley says that just why Sell
wood estimates there is ouw
tons OF iron ore in the fields OF south
ern Utah is beyond comprehension, as
IL would be impossible 10 measure al
the iron ore deposits in that field
One thing is sure, that they are prac
tically inexhaustible, and the create 81
drawback to the field has been DE-
to the fact that several concern. 'aNg
gone into that section and patenred
thousands of acres, which they are
holding TO the exclusion OF all Other
interests.
The field will necessarily have tc
be provided with a railroad. II a
spur is built into the st. Georgt
country by the Salt Lake Route, the
transportation problem will be solved
The coal and iron deposits OF Iron
county will in time be one OF the