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Show 1 THE SUNDAY HERALD. JANUARY 21, 1923. 1 - TM StoryWUtah ISteel years bko a young man MoT-tUtah with tbe purpoKe to arve himself, 'a fortune In this land of lofty mountains, painted deserts, "mllliur valleys, box canyons, salt rivers and mirrored ai rushing ' mountain lakes. He came to the land of naradox. anomly and contradic-' lion. He came from Chicago and bad been reared In the coal Industry. He .plunged Immedaltely into the coal in duntrv In Utah. Today,he is the president of one of the largest coa) companies in tbe state ana director in other companies, out he will always he known as the one man chiefly responsible tor the real v birth of the iron and steel industry of western America. Twelve - . - - - ! - - . Superior Motor Co. Co. ProvoTailoring , of trtcal energy. . ed 'to take care of the figures are juouuuch buuvj the coke ovens, including gas, am- ohTnese unit. the tint' of basis the monia liquor, benzol, tuolol, naptha-line- , but according to Mr. Rains, within flotation oils and tar. The last five years they will have three addi- o - - furnace,, necessitating named is probably the most important tional 600-to-n 4,000 tons of ore per of the shipment of basis it is the since in its value, and production to 2,000 bringing day coal-tar proover 10,000 commercial tons of iron per day By that pig chemiof ducts in tbe makltg dyes, be mult multiplied by all time figures cokcals and medicines. Prom the four. ". ing operations alone, the company will will Make Steel Here. recover over 6,000,000 feet of (as per Right here It is well to pause for a day that may be used for domestic moment to take notice oi we scouers purposes throughout the Utah lake and the Great Sail 'Lake valleys. A re who have In the first instance scorn of ed the idea that Iron would be smelted covery of 10 gallonruf coal will be made, or approximately In Utah at all, and who have triumphantly declared that even If pig Iron is 10,000 gallons of tar per day. from the,, gpke made here, it could mean nine w me That man Is Leon P. Rains, vice The employ may president and director of tbe Colum ovens wHi t first be shipped- - else state as It would not that- the iron bia steel corporation. where, bufplans are betag formulated men. They have said L. F. Rains kaew coal when he saw whereby they will probably, all be would be made Into steel in the mills ro-- of the coast where the greatest num It and he had some knowledge of iron 1 treated ngnt wneyo tne; and steel. He Teamed of the-- gf eatfduced. Tb in produce ber or skilled laDorers are requires:, deposits of TJtannoTilloWrOTttf a great quantity of gas. whic wUl be andUtalrwould simply be shipping began at once tbe baffling quest that used in the blast operation and in the away her resources to enrich so many had followed before him, production of 1,600 horsepower la elec- Page Three.X "Why were these vast riches unde, veloped?" Quietly be took up the Intensire ' study of the economic conditions surrounding the development of the as a whole, the cost of getting west, " ,virgln riches out of the ground, of manufacturing them and getting them Munarket-Heoo- k up every intricate phase of the proposition and for three yeartwaa1ost In a mate of detalls Wants the SteehPlant to wme to and aattlsUcs. When he did come up k Wants the Steel Plant to come to Wants the Steel Plant to come to 600-to- n . UTAH COUNTY UTAH COUNTY .. :v C. S. Pierpont Alfred MaiisenMgr. the $150,000 to We have subscribedhour quota to We have subscribed our quota to the $150,000 to bring it here. tar-pert- bring it here. S .: , 1 Come to Come the MASS MEETING in the Tabernacle Monday evening, January 22, at 7 ;30 J o'clock. - to the MASS MEETING1 b the Tabernacle 20clbclfc Monday evening, January n Schawb Clothing " detinitr Mformaaon and definite pur-po-se Machine Go. Wante the Sted Phnt to come to UTAHX50UNTY UTAH COUNTY based upon complete mastery of the situation. He had outlined a com-pleplan of procedure, each, step certain and sure and the subsequent progress f hi ideaonly - proves bow' carefully he had bullded. "I found myself embarked upon one of the most fascinating quest I : had MtrucDed'J!' be Mid. ."end I pre"SraedttaT5ojjnIyTrtne hutwest should ordained for great things, nave been started on her way many years ato." Proyo Foundry & Star Garage COUNTRY UTAH te Edgar Mc Arthur, Manager - We have subscribed our quota to tbe $150,000 to bring it here. against which the west has struggled for half a century. He found that only because our acres, would produce twice as much as eastern acres could we grow food for easterners and still prosper in spite of the heavy transpor tation ton. tie suuuea mat apparent farce of Utah raw materials being shipped east for manufacture and shipped back again for consumption. He wondered bow long we could stand that extraordinary drain. With all our raw materials right at band and every natural facility for producing the greatest output from willing workers In a land of good food, good health, good climate, good wages, he wonder jjjT why ITtah could not Jbecome, a manufacturing as well as a mining and ncuRuraljtat&.inm8SingJrjianil ""popnlation to mata-n-r market for hert own products. In short, he concluded that there is no reason under the sun why Utah cannot make her own Iron and steel. He tok his Ideas to California, realizing first that the east would prob- - J ' Hi -- 'it i - i' , ,'. i .j t A We have subscribed our quota to the $150,000 Sv i the Tabernacle at 7:30 o'clock. Monday evening, January 22, Come to the MASS MEETING In Monday evening, January 22, s tewartJ Stewart the Tabernacle at' 7 :30 o'clock. Meredith Cycle Civil Engineers Monday eveningjaouary 22, at 7 :30 o'clock. Hatch Undertaking Co, Wants the Steel Plant to come to Wants the Steel Plant to come to fonts the Steel Plant to come to UTAH COUNTY UTAH COUNTY UTAH COUNTY ,.. We have subscribed our quota to' the $150,000 to have subscribed our quota to the $150,000 to ,We Anion O. W. Carlson, Manager Scott P. Stewart, Manager our quota to the $150,000 to We have subscribed bring It here. Come to the MASS MEETING In Monday evening, January 22, bring it here. the Tabernacle Come to the MAS MEETING in fonday evening, January 22, at 7:30 o'clock. the Tabernacle at 7:30 o'clock. to the MASS MEETING In the Tabernacle Come " at 7:30 Monday evening, January 22, o'clock .juiijiatr coutf-- L it ,., ; Wants the : X- j We have subscribed our quota to road rates. secured a has- - site midway bv- SprlngvUle; i thebase of the Wasatch mountains "aiidtui 4wea d We have subscribed our quota to the bring it here. bring it here. 1000-acr- Prove--an- the $150,000 to , j Come to tHr MASSiEETING In Iheaberaacle- - Monday evening, January 22, at4:3ff o'clock. Come .; . - v- -l ' V . t'- - to $150,000 We have subscribed bring it here. to the MASS MEETING in the Tabernacle Monday evening, : - "Come to the MASS MEETING January 22, at 7:30 o'clockT . ar m - V mThe-Taoexiia- - li " ' Jionaayevening, January 22, V .v T our quota to the $150,000 to . - at 7:30 cle; - TV .. ... v o'clock. n , cm : 7 Provo Auto Provp Reservoir Go. Paint Co. engl-"nee- 1 e Wants the Steel Plant to come to . This" will be Is plant of the company where-wo- rk now progressing in the testing for foundations, the laying out of water supply and drainage systems and original housing plaes. ' ... The oompany will first install a 500- ton blast .furnace, which means a that will produce 500 tons of iron per day. To produce this pig ' amoun of metal it will be necessary to ' smelt 1000 tons of Iron ore with 250 of lime rock and 500 tons ot "tons ' oke per day. . Coke ovens sufficient "to produce 700 tons ofTsoke per day t trill be. installed with the blast fur; nace. i . subsidiary company js being tonn. "UTAH COUNTY A. B. Worsley, Mgr. -- .Jt. Auto Wheel & Body : Repair Co. . - . e r.r Wants the Steel Plant to come to " UTAn COUNTY the main manufacturing Roy Murdock, Sect, and Treas. Wants' the Steel Plant to come to 4 ITT A IT J XVU t Come to the MASS MEETING in Come to the MASS MEETING in the Tabernacle the Tabernacle -- Monday evening, January22, at 7:30oVlock- (- - January. 22, at .7:30.o'cloclr 'jl. , rATTVTV Jl , WUil . We have subscribed our .quota to urmjf it nere. , a!!?da.y eYcnin r John OrBeeiley9 MsT. - Hie shores bfCtairiake.'" itirectly be- nmu it is a great .niouiuain of lime stone, assuring an inexhauslable supply oniniestone flux; there Is an- amplfiBup!ljiot pure spring water for "factory and jlomestic ues, level constriicfton ef blast gruondir.the lurnaces ano coKe ovens and more than ample tailings room. Here it Is that the Denve & Rio Grande Western and the Salt .Lake Route come practically together, one - bringing the coal from Carbon county, tbe other bringing; the iron ore from Iron county. By happy circumstances it is also located at the point where "tbeTfutureUIhta Basin or the Salt Lake eV Denver railroad will debouch into Utah Lake valley." Steel who have Inspected the site that no more ideal location for an iron end steel plant could be con- - . UTAH COUNTY Juilus Andersen, Manager Harry Heal, Manager .s v - TAH COUNTY UTAH COUNTY What Is happening. Today the wheels are in motion and the great undertaking under wai; backed by an adequate supply of coast capital, n,ew railroad and new rail- i... Wants the Steel Plant to come to Wants, the Steel Plant to come to teel Plant to come to t Company 1 Nifi Columbia Steel corporation tf - RedlTZstate Co. ' poratlon. oai cz Liimoar mutual UtakGounty-bstra-ct Provo Consolidated j McGonnellsvllle coal of Pennsylvania, By actual and elaborate testsL Rains proved that his coal hot only equalled .the Pennsylvania product for the smelting of ore but that It is much richer in the by products that are an Important result "o fthe okmK procwBT-ltTtt- ns and liisl associates also secured options oq a large acreage of some ef the baitt holdings in the Iron county iron fields, t and these twr jrrrt holdings are a part of the assets of the new steel cor-- if n bring it here. such as the famous -- to ..r $150,Ci 3 the MASS MEETING In the Tabernacle Come to has lone 6een contended by taose who claimed to know, that Utah 7 vat quoU to the We have snbscrlbed lished. Through his coal companies, Rains had secured control of vast deposits of y. ! i Thos. F. Pietpont ' bring it here. Come to the MASS MEETING In and mowing runner tnat tne Pacific coast states are now rich enough to finance their own enterprises. He met with Instant and ready re sponse and uie .net result of his years of work is the Columbia Steel cor poration, a $20,000,000 concern, that has already set In motion the prelim inary operations that will result in The making in Utaf of pfgon rirohom the raw Utah Iron ore in a little over a year from the time this Is pub suj;irenjBikffiK-irjnOSr2dJi- ! lr 'Mill m' bring it here. of , ftaBBporttUOBr pT6blem beft SteinerrM. . " - the $i5O,006 to Come (o'the "MASS MEETING la the Tabernacle Monday evening, January22, at 7:30 o'clock? 0 " ' |