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Show s. 1 operation for many the Allen and Garcia Company in corned 1942. to years The community has been greatThe Geneva Mine is located construction since ten miles south east of about ly improved first started. Lawns, trees, and its townsite. In fact, part of the flowers have been planted. With mine itself is in Emery County. the residents of Columbia talking The Geneva Mine is the largest pride in their homes, it's easy for producing coal mines west of the the town to look prosperous aand Mississippi, and its coal is producclean. ed mostly to make coke for steel The town of Dragerton was production at the Genevans teel The best and safest methstarted in the fall of 1942 when Plant. ods are employed at this ultrathe W. E. Ryberg-Stron- g and modern mine. All safety regulaGrant Company received a contract from the Defense Plant Cor- tions and suggestions are followed carefully, anti inspections are poration to construct it. The pur- made regularly. pose for this new town was to house the coal miners employed Dragerton got its name from a at the new Geneva Mine that was man named Drager, who was one to furnish coal for the Geneva of the principal engineers of the Steel plant located at Provo, Utah. project concerning the construcThe Geneva Mine was started by tion of Dragerton, continued Patricia Abeyfa (Continued From Page Seven) called upon to help'' because he was known to be one of the countrys most progressive industrial- ists.' Iron deposits were known to be in southern California near Fontana, but California has no coking coal so the coal which is essential for making pig iron and steel mustJcome from Utah. The Sunnyside No. 2 mine was worked by the Utah Fuel Company until 1921, when a disaster-ou-s fire occurred. After the fire was extinguished the mine . was closed because of market conditions changed. Mr. Kaiser, after securing a lease on No. 2 mine, proceeded to put the mine in con dition to produce coal, and in this connection a pig iron and steel plant was constructed at Fontana, California. ovens Five hundred bee-hithe in at were built this time vicinity of Columbia by the War Department for more coke and pig iron capacity. A blast furnace for making pig iron was moved from Illinois to Ironton, but the war 'was almost over before the blast furnace was ready for use. ovent Because of this, the bee-hiwere and the blast furnace only operated for a short" time The War Assets Administration- - of fer-e- d the coke ovens and blast furnace for sale to the highest bidder. They were purchased by the Kaiser interest. The building of and the bringthe 500 coke-oveblast furnace from ing of the Illinois to Utah would have never been undertaken had it not been for the war. The townsite of Columbia is also a caol mining community and is also a coal mining community and Is one of the three communities which make up East Car- H ' ' , - 'x v outperforms other tnolow-prico- vs HI(WWWtWgW)UiW8We9it.89D.99 ' V' iy . ? v. ...v; v 7 v . - so : ' A - V nr S f i'b . ? x - - .vixviv!vxvxyxv'e''''v-v- t ,f X W I X t , r i 's ? . d trucks are lined They're off! All three test a grade equal to the up at the bottom of steepest hill in San Francisco. The flag drops, and this grueling test of climbing power is officially underway.. Dodge takes an early lead. low-price- ' ' i - , - V- - H y s , ns J i i ji V ' J ' - , X' . V' f I: s 7 XT - v'Vr - ' - "Ww. I:- -- ' f . W' mm Mines. The Columbia .Mine was opened for the purpose, of supplying coking coal to the company's coking plant and blast furnace located at Ironton near Provo, Utah. Construction of the camp. was started in 1922. A year later Thomas C. Harvey took charge as superintendent of operations. Some of the who were men to the first work at the Columbia Mine are still there. The Columbia Mine continued to operate under the Columbia Steel Company untiH948; tfien it went under the Geneva Steel Company. The reason for this was to consolidate the Utah resources. Mr. F. V. Hicks was appointed superintendent of Coal Mines of the Geneva Steel Company. For the last thirty years the management has dreamed of driving a tunnel from the tipple of the mine through the mountain to the coal seam. The dream will be realized this year. The Columbia Mine has great resources which should insure its by-prod- old-time- rs t - '' 1923 ' ' PROGRESS REPORT. You are sitting in on a meeting of an American familys Board of Directors, convened to consider how its Project Home Ownership is advancing. The progress report, written on the pages of that bankbook, is evidently satisfactory! At other such meetings across the land) other families are evaluating their progress toward new cars, vacations, college for the children, retirement ... the goals vary widely. But the prog- - ' .A ' I' ' rm i the Columbia Steel started the Columbia Company Tj - A y? r - 't ,A , - A A '"'I '4 - A s WXJIMW.UiMtl Halfway up. The extra V-- 8 power under the hood of the Dodge sends it quickly ahead. It's already two lengths out front. And theres a 1000-ltest load on each one of these comparably equipped trucks. What's more. Dodge is still gaining! b. in homes ress reports are generally satisfactory where its the habit to bank something regularly. V START MOVING AHEAD TOWARD YOUR GOAL BY SAVING SYSTEMATICALLY CARBON AT OUR BANK! ' EMERY BANlt mm. mh -- NEW SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT For Your Convenience Drive-I- n Teller Window iff- -. Utah Price Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Member Federal Reserve System 3 Dodge flashes past the finish five ahead lengths of competition. Truck C and truck F just Power Giant. And cpuldnt match that 204-hp. this is just one of a rugged series of tests that prove Dodge is best of the three. low-pric- ed O League Bowling is Over for the Summer Your Dodge truck dealer has proof that Dodge leads in many ways. Como in . see other certified test-pho. to ALLEYS ARE TV' .Z!.. 4 '' v trucks! d X i A proof! road-tes-t irwiim.ni inns ih iJiuyjjppiP 3 ve bon. See actual -- ve In Tuesday, June 25, 1857 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE Pare Ten NOW AVAILABLE ANY NITE OF THE WEEK r Plan a Party Nov sequences and take a demonstration ride! ... Church . . . Club . . . Birthday . . . Any Occasion SUNNY BOWL SUNNYSIDE MOST POWER OF THE LOW-PRICE- D 3 r r'l , i-- |