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Show J I to serve the needs of the country j Western chemical companies 'for j hampered our 'coal output a west of tjbe Rocky Mountains. A mining and construction work; (shortage of railroad cars and lack modern cold reduction mill, which and toluol and xylol, which are of sufficient houses for miners. will use an estimated 388,000 tons important solvents used in the Some relief from the housing annually of these coils, is nearing manufacture of paint and lacquer problem will be effected when the 120 additional houses, which are completion by Columbia Steel Co., on the West Coast. U. S. Steel subsidiary, at Pittsburg, Obviously, the list of potential now under construction at Drag-erto- n, are completed and ready California, ami another cold re- users for Genevas products will duction sheet mill of 300,000 tons be Increased substantially when for occupancy. Dragerton is, as annual capacity is about to be sheet and tin plate production be- most of you know, the new comerected by Columbia Steel Co., gins at the new cold reduction munity near Price, Utah, which near Los Angeles. It is not possible mills of Columbia Steel Company was built for the Government spefor me to estimate at this time near San Francisco pnd Los An- cifically to house Geneva Steel when the Geneva portion of this geles,- California.' i Companys coal miners. This comoverall program will be comAs previously' mentioned, the munity was purchased from the pleted. Naturally, the time re- operation of the Geneva steel Government by Geneva Steel quired to manufacture and deliv plant has in itself provided em- Company to assure that houses er the needed equipment is one ployment for a considerable num- would continue to be available. of the determining factors in this ber of people, and it is of inter- However, 121 of the 725 houses respect; and another factor, per est to note, that three-fourtof originally provided were sold by haps, will be the continued heavy these employees had no previous the Government and moved from! trade demand for the commodi- experience in steel plant opera- Dragerton between the end of ties, such as plates and structu- tion, having been reared on the war-tioperations and April 1, ral shapes, which Geneva is now farms and in the small communi1947, when Geneva Steel Comequipped to produce. pany acquired the Dragerton projties of Utah, ect The installation by U. S. Steel Based on the third quarter of of these various peacetime facili- 1947, the annual The other factor affecting the payroll of the ties. which will cost in excess of Geneva Steel of our coal mines has operation Company will ap$7,000,000, is of considerable im- proximate $18,000,000. This fig- been the shortage of railroad cars. portance in the-- industrial devel- ure comprises employment at the Some time ago, arrangements were opment of the West. Manufactur- Geneva plant, the Keigley stone made by the Carbon County Railers who use iron and steel in one and the Geneva Coal road company, which serves Geform or another want to be sure quarries, well as at the Ironton neva Steel Companys coal mines, as of a reliable source of supply be- Mine, coke and blast furnace plant near to lease from the Bessemer & fore making the large capital in the Columbia Coal Mine Lake Brie Railroad some 300 cars, vestments required for the con- Provo, and the Columbia Iron Mining and it is only because of the availstruction of new plants In which ore mines near Cedar ability of these cars that we have to fabricate their products. The Companysof all which operations have been able to maintain coal pro City, operation of the Geneva Steel been included in Geneva Steel duction at the present rate. We Plant and of the other facilities responsibility since expect that this arrangement will collateral thereto is expected to Companys October 1, 1948. Beyond all this, have to be continued for some be most helpful in assuring such there are, of course, many other time to come ana that it will be a supply. thousands of employees in 'the (Here Dr. Matheslus listed soma plants of Genevas customers, enof the companies which already gaged in fabricating and processhave or are in process of con- ing Geneva-mad- e steel and other factoTHE NEW G. E. structing products, with total payrolls no ries in the West) doubt far exceeding that of GeOf course, the existence and neva itself. continued operation of the Geneva (At this point. Dr. Mathesius steel plant is not alone responsi- discussed prices of steel for Westble for the large number of new ern customers, which he declared, enterprises in the have been reduced by over $5.00 Uniform warmth all night. West which are now under con- a ton lor structural shapes, and by Equal warmth at all points of struction or in the stage of active an average of $3.00 a ton for the blanket engineering design. But it is an plates.) Warmth without weight. important factor, which when The primary handicap, in the Induces Relaxed and Restful considered in conjunction with the way of maintaining presently a Sleep. continuing and relatively more rate of production at Geneva high rapid population growth in 'the! is an Pre-HeCan coal The Bed Before Reinadequate supply. Western states, gives impetus in Geneva Coal Mine is currently tiring. numerous and varied situations at the jrate of approxitoward a decision to build a new producing Eliminates Those Heavy Blan4,500 tons of coal per day. mately plant somewhere in the West This is about 25 ket Wash Days. cent less per which will need steel for its opthan we the like to should output erations. Zn brief, there has been attain. The Columbia Coal Mine and undoubtedly will continue to is at the rate of 1,400 be a diversified and widespread tonsproducing and steps are under day, per expansion in the West which will to increase the production of way expansion in the West of indus- both mines. tries which consume steel. We are Two major hindrances have confident that the operation of the Geneva plant under the management of U. S. Steel will contribute to a sound and continuing (pace of this expansion, which Proprietor means so much to the future of t the people in these Western states. Phone 14 R II W 77 1vVV (At this point, Dr. Mathesiusi JV broke down the total steel pro- -' duction of 905,064 tons of pig iron and 988,515 tons of steel ingots, requiring a crew of about 5,600 people.) Considering the general shortage of many kindi of steel products In the face of the presently abnormal demands therefor, these shipments of approximately 903,- - , 000 net tons of steel and pig iron during a period of about sixteen months mean a great deal to the expand the Geneva plate mill to permit the production of steel in the form (Continued from Page One) of hot rolled coils. These coila, in installed as part of the first ma- turn, will be further converted injor conversion step, which will to cold rolled sheets and tin plate, Mathesius Speech light-gau- flat-roll- ed nnoiATons REPAIRED, CLEANED RE-CORE- and D RE-BUIL- T stiiiield nnDinrasno? 57 West, 1 St Tuesday, November 18, 1947 THE DltAGEETON TRIBUNE. DRAGEETON. UTAH PAGS FOUR North Phone 621-- PRICE, UTAH J on te Gr.2HD0 URDU H94C Watch this paper for our . Announcement Date KRAYNC MOTOR COMPANY Wee - Utah Your Nash Dealers ge hs 4his equipment succeeded ultimately by a comple- order-fiThe permanent solution for our ment of new cars to be owned by the Carbon County Railroad com- No. 1 production bottle neck will (ConlSed on Page Five) pany, which has placed its initial r arroy; auto lire i;:c. bus schedule DAILY SCHEDULE Leave Price for Dragerton, Sunny dale, Sunnyslde, Columbia - 5:3 PAL 10:00 2:15 P.M. A.M. LEAVE FOR PRICE 10:50 PAL 7:00 PAL 5:15 PAL Dragerton . 11:00 AM. PJVL 10:45 PJML 6:50 P.M. 5:05 M. ..10:50 A Snnnydale 10:45 PAL 6:40 PAL 5:00 PAL Sunnyslde -- 10:45 AM. 6:05 PJML 4:15 PAL 10:00 AM. Columbia 9:0 , Special Saturday Shopping Bus9:15 AM. Leave Sunnydale for Price Leave Dragerton for Price Leave Price for Sunnydale and Dragerton ...2:15 PAL From Price Return CHARTER TRIP SERVICE Buses chartered to any point in the State of Utah and return, nice, Phone Wednesday, Wednesday, Nov 18, 19 Double Feature , ! !' t ' REVENG- E- I Killer stalk Innocent pal danlod police protection! rf'I ROY ROGERS AUTOMATIC BLANKET ? j 94 DRflGERTOfl TIIEflTEB Come In and See steel-fabricati- ng 9:30 AAL . J 1 i and TRIGGER are back in ng t BELLS OF SAN ANGELO with at 7-U- BOTTLING CO. - PRICE P DALE EVANS lo CARBO. GROCERY ALWAYS WELCOME STORE DAVID MENOTTI 'f for a cold bottle of Beer and a ' Hamburger : P approximately 1500 primary ir ?, Friday, Saturday, November 21. 22 woo! wcmnetmomiwuus! I pur- chasers of these products scattered all over the West We believe it is accurate to say that most of these customers would be classified as small business by any proper standard. (Here followed a list of fabrication plants using Geneva steel ) r Geneva also turns out large quantities of coal chemicals, such, as ammonium sulphate, which is used as a fertilizer by the citrus fruit and farm produce growers in the West; benzol, which is manufactured into high explosives by KAI3ER-FRAZE- RS IN I - A JAM!St'on "BRUCH PAIGEBEIi!IEIT ALAN 'HURKENNEDY Itrooo Now Available in Price ax I WarncrsT t j lV'K Wilttewo d Tbo Rlay by Aten loMey Story by PovJ l RiUmo Mvolc by Mot SMooo (v lj Directed hf RAOUL WALSH i Sunday, Monday, November 23, 2L MinS MURDER IN THE A K"t MYSTERIOUS ORIENT! r LAUIS JIIJOUWIIU. He's matching fists with murderous stranglers... matching wits with two gorgeous (V 4 torompunt pr ALAN LADD CAIl RUSSELL-BENDI- AJNI r v DeLuxe Motor Company 37 South First West Price, Utah WIlllAM X, OUmZ-taM- i Directed by JOHN FARROW Eva Fisher will be given two free tickets to the box office at the theatre. if she presents this ad b |