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Show SOLUTION FOR WESTIN UTAH Iron Ore ond Coking Coal of This State Mean Great Steel Industry. I'tah iron ore and coking coal form one of the solutions to the steel industry in the west, according accord-ing to Ellisworth Y. Dougherty, superintendent of the Noble Electric Elec-tric Steel company of Heroult, Cal., whose article, "Pacific Coast Steel and Its Siguifance for Western Iron Making." appeared in a recent issue of the Engineering and Mining Journal-Press. A dependable supply sup-ply of cheaper pig iron is the only salvation for the steel industry on the Pacific coast, where the supply of scrap metal is low, according to the writer. 'The stumbling block to pig iron production in California and contiguous contig-uous states has been the lack of coking cok-ing coal," the article continues. "To supply California steel plants with pig iron there are three alternatives; alterna-tives; if produced in California, substitutes for coke must be used, or coke must be brought in from considerable distance ; if the pig iron is manufactured elsewhere it must be shipped to California. "The newly formed Columbia Steel corporation proposes to show the way to adopting the last alternative. alter-native. Iron ore mined in the Iron Springs district of southern Utah is to be shipped to a blast furnace near Provo, Ltah. Coking coal, mined near Sunnyside, is to be shipped ship-ped to a by-product coking plant also near Provo. "The Columbia Steel corporation is to be congratulated on breaking the ground and showing the way for a new era for the western United States. The spokesman of the corporation cor-poration states that pig iron will be manufactured at Provo as cheaply as at Chicago or Pittsburg, Pa., This illustrates the tremendous importance impor-tance to the west coast of expansion in steel manufacturing by such enterprises en-terprises as the Columbia Steel corporation. cor-poration. "The Columbia project has all the essentials for success in the control con-trol of raw material and manufacturing manufac-turing from the fundamental mining operations to the finished product. There is a wide and expanding market mar-ket for steel products in the western west-ern United States and a fertile field 1 is developing export trade from Pa-i Pa-i cific coast ports. There is also a large market for pig iron above the needs for steel manufacturing. With this great expanding market ahead, it will be strange, indeed, if western west-ern competition does not spring up and in this competition lies additional addi-tional assurance of the continued advance of the west coast iron and and steel industry. One or more competitive enterprises, proceeding along similar lines of a Utah blast furnace plant or upon the alternative alterna-tive line of Pacific coast pig iron manufacture, can confidently be expected." |