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article, but cheap and speedy transportation to the points of demand. Also, Utah is bound at some time to be a great iron-producing and iron-consuming country." The abundance of human resources for this undertakmg was stressed because a large share of the Mormon emigrants were eom the factory towns of England. The article pointed out that the Utah settlers were basically a manufacturing people rather than agncultural. Many came from the manufactunng and mining districts of England, Scotland, and Wales. Thousands of them were workers in the old wuntry and scarcely any had been engaged in their native industnes. The conference held in Salt Lake City lasted two days, and the decision of the delegates was to take the necessary steps to organize a company for the manufacture of iron and coke. They planned to se11 stock to raise capital to the extent of a million dollars. An iron committee was appointed by President Taylor with the approval of the delegates." Henry Lunt was a member of the delegation and was appointed to be on the committee. If Henry was to secure and take patents on the coal and iron land, he needed to help materialize the land survey. He was listed on the General Land Office map as the "Chainman," working with James Hemy Martineau who was given the contract to survey the township east of Cedar City. Several claims on iron and coal on properties around Cedar City were sent to Parowan to be recorded by William H. Dame, the Iron County Recorder. Many of the claims were signed by Henry Lunt. The iron Claims situated near the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon were intended to wver the "bog" ore along the base of the "Red Hill." Some of this ore, which was very low in iron, was n used i the 1850 Iron W o r k ~ . ' ~ Some noteworthy features on the G.L.O. Map were that the road (U-14) up Cedar Canyon ended about two miles east of the Right Hand Creek, listed on the map as "South Creek"; and the access bypassed the impassible "gorge" with a wagon road,that turned south about one mile east of the Right Hand Fork. Some of the claims were named Pittsburg Iron Mine, Lunt's Iron Mine, and Mountain Queen Iron Mine, the latter being signed by Lehi Willard Jones. The high rnountain east of Cedar City next to "Square Mountain" was shown
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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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