Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-15 | Page 2 | Site is Chosen for Big Ordnance Plant

announced today by the war departmen as the site of the ordnance plant to b erected by the United States Steel cor poration, is a stretch of land in the river just bes'ond the city limits, son seven miles long and not more than mile wide. At one end is located tl Neville furnace of the Carnegie Ste company, a subsidiary of the corporatio and which, it was stated here totli would likely be used as the nucleiVt the blast furnace plant which will part of the new enterprise. Other unit to be erected will be open-hearth fur naces and forging and machine mill! while there Willi be ample space for (u and ore storage. Railroads occupy each bank of tli river, parallelling the island, the Nei York Central on one side and the Penn .sylvania on the other. SITE 15 CHOSEN FOR BIG OUNCE PUT War Department Selects Neville Island, in the Ohio River, Near Pittsburg. WASHINGTON, May 14. Neville island, in the Ohio river, near Pitttsburg, was selected today by the war department as the site for the great government ordnance ord-nance plant to be built and operated in the interior. Work will be pushed as rapidly rap-idly as possible. The Neville island plant will be the largest in the world, surpassing even that of the Krupps in Germany. It will be built and operated by the United States Steel corporation at the solicitation of the governmeht. Heavy artillery and projectiles projec-tiles in great quantities will be made under un-der the supervision of the steel corporation, corpora-tion, which will detail experts from Us organization to build the plant. A committee of ten experts of the steel corporatiton will have immediate charge of the work. The cost of building the plant will be in the neighborhood of $50,000,000, or possibly more. Officers of the steel corporation will work in conjunction con-junction with the war department and will receive no compensation for their services. Construction is expected to begin almost al-most Immediately. The steel corporation will be given a free hand in the construction construc-tion and operation of the plant. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the steel corporation, recently announced that his company, in consequence of the magnitude magni-tude of its business, most of which, directly di-rectly or indirectly, (s in aid of the mill- j tary necessities of the government and the allies, had hoped to avoid the netes-sity netes-sity of engaging in work of the kind, but had been persuaded by the war department depart-ment that it was imperatively required under existing conditions. PITTSBURG, May 14. Neville island, '