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Show Local Concerns Offer Plants to Government Galigher Machinery Company and Salt Lake Iron & Steel Corporation Come Patriotically to the Front. THE Galigher Machinery company and the Salt Lake Iron & Steel company, two big industrial corporations cor-porations of Salt Lake, have offered of-fered their plants to the United States government for war uses, according to information secured from officials of these companies yesterday. The war deparynent and the navy department de-partment of the government have already al-ready been in communication with the Salt Lake Iron & Steel company, asking' ask-ing' information as to the plant's preparedness pre-paredness to turn out various metallic fittings for guns, ships and the like, and white no orders for any such supplies have been received by the plant, it was stated yesterday by" the officers that they stand in readiness to fill any orders or-ders which they are equipped to handle and that in case of necessity they would install machinery necessary to equip them to turn out munitions and other supplies that the government might need. ''We have offered our plant to the government for any use lor which it might need it," said J. E. Galigher, manager of the Galigher Machinery company, 'and while we are not prepared pre-pared or equipped to handle munitions, we would equip ourselves to do so should j the government need us for that work." Call Is Unlikely. The officials of both concerns stated, ! however, that they did not think the! government would find it desirable to ' call these plants into the government i service for munitions, as the big eastern ; plants which have been handling munitions muni-tions for the E-uropean countries are equipped to turn out guns, shells and the like, and the government could get quicker action bv calling upon them. They declared also that, these plants were prepared to handle all government orders for the present, at least, and unless un-less there should be a long-continued conflict, with increasing demands for munitions, it would not be likely that the government would call upon any western plants for munitions services. . It was stated that the government might, however, call upon the local plants for fittings for vessels, gun carriages car-riages and such machinery and metallic necessities as the plants were equipped already to turn out and could supply for needs of the navv or armv. Officials of the Salt Lake Iron & Steel company said their plant was not equipped to haocHe munitions, but it could turn out fittings, eapstands, winches, gun carriages and such like, and it would fill any orders in this line that the navy or the war department might place here. The government, however, how-ever, has not indicated as yet that it intended placing such orders here, but has made inquiry as to the ability of the plant to turn out such materials should it be necessary to call upon it for that service. 'While we are all ready and willing to turn over our plants to the service of the government," said Mr. Galigher of the Galipher Machinery company, 'J do not anticipate that in the present conflict Utah will be called upon to furnish much more than men tor the army and such foodstuffs as she lias available to feed these men. ''The eastern steel mills and machinery machin-ery plants are so much better equipped to" turn out such munitions and metallic necessities for the government than are the western plants that wo would be called upon only in case of necessity, because we would have to equip our plants to furnish the government required re-quired materials before we could go into the government service to any extent. Then, too, materials can be gotten by the government from the eastern pi a tits at a price cheaper than could be made ! here, and so long as those plants are able to supply the government needs there will not be any call upon western plants. ' J A. W. Stibich, assistant manager of the Hercules Powder company 's powder plant at Bacchus, stated yesterday that that plant would not be affected in any way by the war situation, because it does not manufacture and is not equipped to manufacture the high explosives explo-sives such as are required in the government gov-ernment uses. He explained that this plant is purely an industrial powder plant and could not supply the government govern-ment such powder as it would need. Ready to Respond. In relation to the nitrates, sulphur and other ingredients of explosives that are found in large quantities in Utah, he ' declared that there would be no call upon this state by the government for such materials because there "is such a small percentage per volume of the nitrates ni-trates and sulphur -that the extraction of the necessary elements would be prohibitive in cost when unlimited quantities of these materials are to be had from other sources in this country. "There might be a call upon this state for iron or steel, for blankets from the Knight Woolen mills, saddles and harness from the Salt Lake Hardware company, tents from the Spiro Tent company, com-pany, and of course there would be a call for foodstuffs that are available, but outside of these there would be little call upon the resources of Utah, I believe," be-lieve," continued Mr. Stibich. It was learned that the hardware company, com-pany, the tent company and the woolen mills would be reaov and willing to fill government orders for their products to the limit of their capacity tor turning out the goods, but as yet there has been no call upon them for such materials. They are ready to respond to the government gov-ernment call for their materials, however, how-ever, it is announced. |