Iron City, Mormon Mining Town BY KERRY WILLIAM BATE
in the nineteenth century, but Mormon-sponsored mining towns were exceptional. One exception, Iron City, was built around the iron industry, an acceptable form of mining to Brigham Young and perfectly in keeping with his admonition to stay away from mining precious metals. Like so many other mining towns, Iron City is now a ghost town. It has left a broken legacy: ruins of old buildings, foundation stones scattered across the Iron County desert, a well-preserved coke oven,
M I N I N G TOWNS DOTTED THE W E S T , INCLUDING U T A H ,
Mr. Bate is the author of a forthcoming biography of Ebenezer Hanks.
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Iron City ruins. by Brad Wolverton.
