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Show SMS SIT LUKE I WILL TURN IRON I ORE INTO STEEL I This Cily lo Become a Manu- I facturing Center, According H lo T. F. Cole's Testimony I Before Committee. EXPERT. PREDICTS , I A BRIGHT FUTURE I Estimates of Ore in the Hill I Lands Too High and Steel f I Must Be Produced in West ; I at No Distant Date. I WASHINGTON, April 1P. Tho i I United Statos Steol corporr. I tton today has facilities for I turning out 80 per cent mora I liuished steel than when organized in I 1001. according to Thomas F. Cole, for- I merly in chargo of tho corporation's I mining operations, who testified today i I beforo the houso ateol investigating j I committee. rj I "Tho remarkable rise in the produc- ! tion of steel in a period of a littlo ; moro than ten years," said Mr. Cole, "hns been forced on the steol corporation corpora-tion by- the demands of the public. The , public demand has forced tho steol cor- 1 poratiou to spend millions and millions i 1 of dollars in improvements in order to fill the orders for steel." , Eosy Future for Utah. , i ) Mr. Cole predicted a ropy.futuro for the steel business in this country and i prophesied that in the great Tvcstj-in I Utah and in California particularly, j immenso ore beds 60on would -be utilized and steel mills erected to supply tho western demand. He also saw the day ; coming when coke would not bo necessary neces-sary ih the manufacture of steel, electricity elec-tricity to be utilized in its place. "The ores in Utah are merchantable aud accessible," said Mr. Cole, "and tho time is coming when these ores will be markoted through Salt Lako City. : ' It also is certain that the ores can bo shipped from tho Utah mines to Salt ; Lake City and meet their coking coal from Wyoming and other mines in Utah itself. Salt Lake the Center. - , "And tho day will como when Salt Lako Cily will be an important center for the manufacture of iron aud steel, just as Buluth, which has been distributing distrib-uting oro for years, is now coming into its own as a steel manufacturing center." Discussing the Hill oro lease, which j the stool corporations has given notico j of cancellation in 191.5, Mr. Cole dc- clarod no such bodies of oro as wero expected when the lease was made, j wero found. j Estimate Too High, j He estimated that tho ore in the Hill W lands aggregates about 250,000,000 tons. Tho (ITill engiueers before the loase cs- ( timated as high as 700,000,000 tons of j ore. Had any such amount been dis- jj covered as was predicted, Mr. Colo add- jj ed. tho steel corporation never would m have canceled the lease because of the i enormous growth of the steel business i , in this country. At the conclusion of Mr. Cole's testimony testi-mony the committoo adjourned. No j moro witnesses will bo called, in all probability. Chairman Stanley will call 1 the committee together soon to discuss its report which probably will not be ready for at least six weeks. The Re-publican Re-publican members will make a minority J report. 1 |