Show predicts utah will become great steel works center in an address before the utah society of engineers at the salt lake commercial club on the morris general manager of the utah steel corporations plant at midvale predicted that utah would ultimately become a steel manufacturing center equal in importance to some of the largest in the country he said that geologists and metallurgists were conducting investigations of iron ore deposits in southern utah under the direction of the corporation and that initial reports were of a nature to lend the greatest encouragement to further exploitation should the iron deposits of iron and carbon counties prove to be of sufficient extent and of required quality mr intimated that the business of his company would be very greatly expanded owing to the peculiar advantages which it enjoyed in contrast to the steel r rills mills ills of colorado and other states which were compelled to obtain their materials from distant regions short hauls and lower freight costs he said were among the important favorable factors which would redound to the benefit of steel manufacture in this section mr said that the utah steel corporation is now producing tons a day of finished product and that it is making preparations for an immediately larger production which will include steel rails of the lighter weights until the present time the corporation has been engaged in the manufacture of standard steel bars and rods for the disposal of these products the company has an extensive field which includes not only western states but japan china and other foreign countries which since the company began operations have been constant patrons initial steel production of the company began in 1917 though prior to that time much wrought iron had been produced in the year mentioned an open hearth steel furnace was placed in operation and since that time has continued steadily scrap material collected throughout the intermountain intel mountain region being utilized crude oil as a fuel has been introduced ot oi late instead of coal the speaker said and the results are so eminently satisfactory that the corporation is fervently wishing for the success of utah oil prospectors as a native oil source another difficulty which for ir a time anted that conar confronted the company was of obtaining des desirable arable coke this has been overcome by mixing the highly volatile coal ol of utah with a coal of low volatile proper tie es the result resul t of which has been a metal coke of the required require deual quality I 1 ty the fhe corporation mr said at present employs from to men in 1920 the payroll amounted to 7 5 and in the same year the company produced steel to the value of it is anticipated that the output this year will be more valuable because of the plans to manufacture steel rails pig iron steel pipes and sheet iron in addition to steel bars and rods in conjunction with the address of mr three reels of moving pictures showing details of the iron industry were exhibited A large number of members of the society from many parts of the state were in attendance and before the meeting closed tentative arrangements were made for the membership and other engineers of the state to visit the midvale steel plant within the next few weeks where they will study the process of steel making |