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Show OP SiVriHjfviile Library APPROVE FLAN FOR PIPEL1E Building Contracts Are to Be Let Within the Next Ten Days. Plans for the construction of the pipe line to the phmt of the Repub-lie Repub-lie Creosoting company from the coke oven and by-product plant of the Columbia Steel corporation were approved Tuesday afternoon, by A. S. Kennedy, representative of the president of the steel corporation corpora-tion ; W. II. Philibs, superintendent of the plant, and Sir. Larkin, representing repre-senting the creosoting company. The pipe line will be 2000 feet long. On the property of the Steel corporation the line will be overhead, over-head, while from the first railroad track to the creosote plant the line will be underground. All of the building plans for the creosoting refinery have been completed. com-pleted. A spur has been constructed from the railroad to the site of the new plant and building material Is being shipped in daily. The contract for the construction of the refinery will be let in a few days so that building activities may commence not later than within another an-other week or two. It is the intention of the company to have the refinery ready about April 15 when actual operations of the Columbia Steel Corporation plants will begin. The Republic Creosoting company has contracted with the Columbia Steel Corporation for the entire output out-put of coal tar from the corporation's corpora-tion's by-product plant during the next ten years. The new plant will be erected immediately west of the coke ovens across the tracks of the Salt Lake and Utah, the Union Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande railroads, near the packing plant of the Utah County Meat and Packing company. |