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Show js if- THE CITIZEN 8 HENRY FORD, MIRACLE WORKER. Building Greatest Steel Plant in the World Near Detroit, Where He Makes Steel by Process Which Ev-er- y Other Steel Manufacturer Says is Impossible But Henry is Making It . steel plant in the world will soon be in full blast at Detroit, where Henry Ford is erect ing on the Rouge river a mammoth blas furnace, surpassing all other constructions of the kind in the world. Ford has conceived a way of maksteel into ing steel by a process hitherto believed to be impossible. Fords idea will be quite as revolutionary in steel manufacture as was the idea of Henry Bessemer, in that it eliminates the wrote series of costly steps heretofore believed necessary between the first melting of the metal, as ore, in the blast furnaces, to the pouring of the refined steel into cast parts. The process in general practice today is to melt the ore to release the iron and pour off the molten iron into small blocks which, when they cool, are called pigs, then take these them pigs to another furnace, mix in some desired alloy to make the product soft, or hard, or of great tensile strength, or any other quality and then cast the metal into molds. At the Ford plant they melt the metal but once. While it is molten, they purify it, mix in the desired alloys and then cast it, for the first and last time, into the part. Steel men have tried to do this for fifty years. Every experiment has reaffirmed the opinion among the trade that it could not be done. So far as the rest of the world knows today, it cant be done but, out at the River Rouge plant theyre doing it! In some particulars the Ford plant on the Rouge river eclipses that of the Krupps at Essen. The latter is in the highest sense destructive. The Krupp plant, built up through 115 years into the greatest ordnance plant in the world, the very heart of Germanys military and naval power, has specialized in huge castings chiefly big field and naval guns. The Ford plant will specialize in smaller castings but millions of them. In area occupied the River Rouge plant overshadows Krupps. The latter, even under the expanded operations of war time, utilized only 798 acres. In normal times, scarcely half of this, or 402 acres, is used. The River Rouge plant has already spread over 356 acres and it isnt half done; eventually, within the next three years, it will expand until it covers possibly 1,000 acres. It will have plenty of room for expansion, however, for between the Detroit river and the village of Dear-bothe Ford interests own 7,300 acres. In number of men employed the River Rouge plant alone will dwarf Krupps. In normal times Krupps employed 43,000 men; under the stress of war production, it employed 70,000. When the River Rouge plant is com The low-grad- i i to I 4 greatest e high-grad- e re-he- at I ' t ' " I. , I I II I -- n, pleted it, in normal times, will employ about 60,000 men. And then, when, to this figure, the 55,000 men normally employed at the Highland Park plant are added, one gets a mental glimpse of the enormity of the project and their future automobile and tractor production. When the Rouge plant is completed. It and the Highland Park plant, together, will turn out more than 1,500,000 cars and tractors a year; better than 5,000 a day, writes James Sweinhart in the Detroit News. Then aagin, tne River Rouge plant will mark the first time in the history of metal working that furnaces, foundry and steel mills, the three great divisions of the work, have been brought together into one complete, consolidated working organization. Neither at Essen, the home of Krupps; nor at Sheffield, where Englands steel ldustry is massed; nor at Pittsburgh, where Americas iron and steel industry centers, is there one concern which has concentrated into one organization every branch of steel manufacture and its allied industries. The practice has always been for one concern to smelt the ore, pour off the iron into pigs and sell it to another company which would melt the pigs, work the molten iron into various kinds of steel and sell this steel, cast into ingots, to various companies, which would remelt it and manufacture it into rails, sheet metal, structural pieces, and a hundred other forms. At the River Rouge, all these varied forms of manufacture are concentrated into one organization. When the plant is done, the Ford interests will be independent of every other interest. When the myriad towering stacks have risen to their highest elevation, when the last bolt has been driven and the debris of construction is cleared away, there will be set in motion a productive mechanism such as men, before, possibly, have dreamed of, but which, the world never has before seen. To get the true significance of what this means, imagine yourself in some skyey realm looking down on this planet from afar. Up in the north country of Michigan Ford mines yield up their ore and Ford forest lands their lumber to Ford ships, which bring them down the lakes to the River Rouge plant. There the ore is turned into the furnaces and comes out in millions and millions of steel automobile and tractor parts. The lumber goes into .the body factory to be made into door and window sashes and other wooden parts. Down in Kentucky, Ford mines give up coal, and hillsides give up sand which is loaded on Ford trains and pulled over Ford trucks all leading to the River Rouge. The coal goes into hundreds of coke ovens to be roasted until it gives up coke to be used in the blast furnaces and a score of different oils and chemicals to be used as fuel or in the treatment of steel. The sand goes into a glass factory at Flat Rock to make windows and wind shields. Presently, from the steel mills come miles of railroad rails and acres of sheet-steeand locomotives. From factory and foundry move thousands of automobiles and tractors thousands, daily. They are loaded on ships lying in the slip, that presently start east, through the lakes and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. More are loaded on waiting trains that start south to the The public hears with the Federation of Labor haTJ a boycott on all American coi of whatever sort or discripu, are not made by unionists. l, Ohio river, where they are transferred to other waiting ships that move down the Ohio to the Mississippi, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, down the gulf and through the Panama canal to the Pacific, presently to be lost as they dip beyond the horizon, bound for every part of the world where civilization touches. PRESS COMMENT. There is an old story of a very good man who took a bath at least once a year whether he needed it or not. Some people wash their feet once a month regardless of consequences. There are people who think that if they clean up the back yard and let some one haul away the garbage once a year a blue ribbon should be awarded them for cleanliness and civic pride. Carson City (Nev.) News. - 'vi pilllUIII11111 C puiiiiiiiiiii patches that carry this imp of news say that the members of the Federation clu ed by their representatives J chase only goods .which bear bels. This effort of the to impose on the country the policy of the closed shop by to purchase goods made under shop conditions will hardly cessful. The four million uaj havent any patent on the game cott, nor do they hold any on its rules. It can be pi cheerily and efficiently by the 000,000 Americans who are not ists as by the 4,000,000 who tab orders from federation gates. Portland (Ore.) walking Spectatmj The intermountain west has the right to feel well with the result of the deliberatkj' the park to park highway conYtip" held in Salt Lake City last weekj Salt Lake as the hub and witbr tically all roads and highways necting national parks centering f, this section is Well satisfied ti Ford is going to manufacture his own parts, but, unfortunately, he seems to have no intention to provide separate roads for the Fords. New York American. The traveling clinic of the Utah Public Health Association, scheduled to visit in every county in the state and hold free medical examinations, demonstrations and lectures, will leave Salt Lake early in July for a six months tour. Final plans have been definitely arranged and two eminent medical men, both members of the U. S. Public Health Service have been secured through the office of Hugh S. surgeon-generaThe Cummings, health car has been unavoidably delayed in commencing its state-widtour through. repeated efforts to secure the best men the medical profession has to offer. However the clinic committee feels that this has at last been accomplished and the state is to be congratulated on securing Surgeon Carlisle Patterson Knight and Dr. John Roy Williams. Mt. Pleasant (Utah) Pyramid. l. one of the well defined spoks1 wheel, the spoke being the Utah Yellowstone Highway. Twin is I (Idaho) Times-Register. i DISCIPLINE IN CACTUS quire common stock. This company has recently taken over management and operation of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles line, an outlet to southwest Pacific ports. This stock is sold to employes at open market price on a partial pay- ment plan, and if payment is not completed money is refunded. Elko (Nev.) 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