The land company has erected a modern concrete hotel for the comfort 

 of those who come to inspect the land. Beryl, the shipping point for New- 

 castle, is 1 5 miles distant, on the Salt Lake Route ; the railroad company has 

 established low fares for homeseekers to that station. The location of these 

 lands on a transcontinental railway system will prove an important factor in 

 their development. State experiment stations are situated at Cedar City and 

 Enterprise. Newcastle farm lands, with perpetual water right, are selling for 

 an average price of $60.00 per acre. Lands irrigable by pumping, and dry- 

 farm lands, are much cheaper. 



Turning from specific locality to the county as a whole, the possibilities 

 broaden. Iron County had in 1912 1,192,288 acres of unappropriated 

 public lands, of which 347. 1 07 were surveyed. The Sevier National Forest, 

 partly within the county, contains about 755,000 M board feet of saw timber. 



In the number of sheep supported the county under observation ranks 

 second in the State ; as a summer range it remains unsurpassed. The pasturage 

 area is enormous, although steadily dcreasing as the farm acreage grows. 

 The proximity of the Dixie National Forest, 700 square miles in extent, with 

 a grazing fee for cattle of 25 cents per head, makes the raising of beef an 

 attractive undertaking. There are about 10,000 cattle and 3,000 horses in 

 Iron County. The importance of dairying and hog raising on every farm is 

 occupying more and more attention; the expanding markets, both north and 

 south, are increasing their demand for meat. 



As the name indicates, there are vast deposits of iron ; it is stated that the 

 county contains enough iron to relay every mile of railway and to rebuild every 

 steel structure in the United States. The ores belong to the hematite and 

 magnetite classes; some of the iron-ore exposures stand out 200 feet above the 

 surrounding country. 



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