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satisfactonly. Brother Richard Hanison of this place was present, aman of long expenence in molding iron i England, and he pronounced the iron No. 1. Their n blast is blown by a small steam engine imported from the east at considerable cost. The members of the company, few in number, labored hard and long to bring about the present result. There are some dozen or fifteen hands at work mnning night and day, and when the material on the ground is used up, they will be compeued to stop and blow out the furnace, not haWig hands or capital enough to keep it mnning and supply it at the sarne time. The company is making arrangements to cast the iron into useful articles such as hand irons, sad irons, hollow ware and stoves, and show the people in Utah and the world that the manufacture of iron in Utah is a fact. As 1 said, the few that stuck to the enterprise have labored hard and have become somewhat reduced in circumstances, but as success has attended their efforts, they are quite elated in their feelings at the prospects of the future. The company is organized in the cooperative pnnciple with Brother Ebenezer Hanks as President, who is quite a business man Brother Homer Duncan is Vice President, with good men for directors. Brother Seth M. Blair is Secretary. The Iron Company had the hope that there would be a new market for iron in building railroads. The Transcontinental Railroad had been completed with the uniting at Promontory near Ogden, Utah, on May 10,1869. This meant there would be future expansion of the rail system. However, the 300 miles to market fiom Iron City to Salt Lake City became the major deterrent. One of the meetings of the Cedar City Relief Society took place on July 27, 1871. They met in the afternoon in the Social Hall. President Annabella Haight cded the meeting to order and Counselor Rachel Whittaker conducted the business. She requested that all the
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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