Show NEW ERA FOR UTAH according to announcement made a few days ago ground will be broken tomorrow for the first unit of the columbia steel corporations iron and steel works at the selected site between provo and springville Spring ville a litte more than fifty miles south of sat lake city the fabricating material for this unit it is stated has already been purchased and the expectation is to have everything in readiness ne 1 ss for its utilization upon arrival about thirty days hence this is mighty good news not only for the people of utah but for the entire western half of the united states it means that utah if it takes advantage of the opportunity will become a great manufacturing state within a few short years with four lines of railroad one terminating at portland and seattle in the northwest two at san francisco and one at los angeles and the san pedro harbor giving an ocean outlet to the orient and cheaper transportation rates via panama canal to the eastern coast of the united states and to europe there is every reason to expect and believe that middle and middle western states manufacturers in large number and variety would accept invitations to move to utah with the building of blast furnaces bi product coke ovens and other plants for the outputting of pig iron coke and numerous semi materials with smelters shelters sm elters that turn out many grades of lead zinc and copper coupled with every probability that the great utah copper company will one of these days begin the manufacture of copper wire sheets etc it would seem that no other state in the union has as much to offer in the way of manufacturing facilities as we have right here our climatic conditions are unexcelled anywhere we have the land the water the coal the iron electric power in unlimited quantity while natural gas is promised from the practically inexhaustible gas fields of western wyoming during the present year the only question now is will the people of utah see the opportunities they have to build up the state stafe and do it |