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Show UTAH'S IRON INDUSTRY BEGINS WITH THE ROWING CF PIG IRON !: AT 1ONI0N PLANT WSDriSSDAY !'. The fh'st iron ore in Utah county fused with lime and '' coke was ready to be formed into pig iron early Wednesday '' afternoon at the Columbia Steel corporation plant at Ironton. , The flowing of the iron from the blast furnace marks ; the real beginning of the iron and steel industry in the state ,' of Utah. Officials of the steel corporation together with Provt 1 citizens invited especially for the occasion were at the stee 'J plant Wednesday afternoon to watch the first operations o: ' the blast furnace. D. H. Botchford of San Francisco anc !. L. F. Rains of Salt Lake City, vice presidents of the corpora- l ' tion, were among the officials at the plant. i 1 The charging of the blast furnace with strata of iron 1 ore, lime and coke was begun Tuesday, and continued Wed- ; nesday morning. j From now on the operations of the steel corporation J will be in full swing and the making of pig iron to be sent ! from Utsh county to the steel mills of the Columbia Steel cor- i' poration at Pittsburg or Torrence, California, will be shipped ! before the end of this week. :' "The plant is now going," said W. R. Phibbs, superin- '; tendent of the plant, this morning. "Thirty or forty hours 1 will be necessary to turn out the first castings, but thereafter ; castings will be made every six hours. Everything is pro- ' gressing nicely." ( |