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Show STEEL INDUSTRY IS ASSURED UTAR PLANT EMPLOYING TWO THOUSAND THOU-SAND TO BE LOCATED AT SPRINGVILLE IB REPORT Entire West Will Benefit From In. vestment of Millions to Develop Coal and Iron Deposits of Western States San Francisco. Utah's Immonse coal and iron deposits aro to bo exploited ex-ploited In tho building of a steel Industry In-dustry for the West, according to a formal announcement made here recently re-cently by Wlgglngton E. Creed, prc. dent of the Pacific Gas and Electric company and of the Columbus Steel company, and prime mover In the organization or-ganization of a 115,000,000 Western steel corporation. From Information KTviTouttiy Mr. Creed, Indications are that Utah, California and Oregon will share In the Industrial development planned. Conjecture on the Intentions of the group of fionders who for nearly one year have been aaklng an Intensive study of steel fabrication possibilities on a largo scale had It that tho entire system, mines, coke ovens, blast furnaces and rolling mills would bo located In Utah. But tho formation of tho corporation, to bo known ns tho Columbia Stool corporation, corpora-tion, incorporated n merger of coal and iron proportics In Carbon and Iron cbuntlos, Utah, and tho Port-land, Port-land, Ore., and Pittsburg, Cal., steel foundrlos of tho Columbia-Steel com-pany. com-pany. This is taken as nn intimation that tho mines, coko ovens and pig Iron blast furacos will bo In Utah, whllo the refining processes will bo carried out nt tho Pacific coast plants. Tho coko ovens nnd blast furnaces will very llkoly occupy n site offered by the city of Sprlngvllle on Hie enst shore of Utah lako. This point Is Ideally situated in rcspoct to th0 coal and Iron sources of Utah. Largo llmostono deposits .ndoquato roll facilities facil-ities and nmplo fresh water aupply aro other considerations. Estlmntos nro that at loast 2000 mon will be glvon employment In Uio Initial mlnos and plants to be operated oper-ated In Utah. As tho Industry de- velops, additional population will be required In tho mill centers. Local! flnnnclors ronsldor tho move ono of the most significant In the dovolop-mont dovolop-mont of the West nnd ono thnt will go far to establishing the economic Independence of this soctlon. |