Iron City Hon Wilford Woodruff President of the Deserett Agricultural and Manufacturing Society Salt Lake Utah Mr President It is with mingled pleasure of gratitude and pride for which we are greatful to an over ruling p^P^rovidence for his blessings in crowning our labours with success ^in the iron business^. p^P^roud that Utah can bo[a]st of the only furnace producing a no one article of gray pig iron between Omahaw and China! And greatful that we have the satisfaction to report through you to the honora- ble b^B^oard over whom you preside that the Utah Iron Mining Company incorporated Augt 17th 1870 in Iron County have Erected furnaces imported machinery and are successfully smelting the iron oars ^ores^ of this vicinity producing, a quality of gray cast iron Equal to the best. The President and directors of the presant Company Ebenezer Hanks President