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Show : STEEL PLANT TO OPERATE ! ; ; Efforts Kelng .Made to Pn ! duce Coke About .Middle : ' of April. i j 1 j Work on the completion of t'l 'various plants and buildings of tl. Columbia Steel corporation in h-ins h-ins pushed rapidly. The blast fin nace will be ready wiihin nnoth.j two weeks when the boilermaUeij will have put in the last rivet ij Utah's first blast furnace. j The work on the cokeovens nn by-products plant which was dela cd earlier inthe construction wori is now being speeded up so that th; plant will be in readiness sometimj during the middle of April. Due l-i-several weeks delay in the arriva here of the machinery for the cok ovens when construction work fh began, work on this part of thi. plant has been somc-wnat behind 1 1 1 , rest of the construction work. A small woodt'ire was placed in the ovens Tuesday night to proven ; frost from doing any damage. Th-regular Th-regular heating up of the ovens wi3 not begin uuiil the latter part u February. ; "We are trying hard to get Mr plant into operation by April l.,j. said S. A. Kennedy, personal repiv sentative for President Wiggintoj E. Creed of the Columbia Steel coi-poration, coi-poration, to the Herald Tuosda' "Of course we don't know right nov if that will be possible or not bu we are doing our best to make cok: here on April 15. Had it not bee: for several delays in shipments o machinery in the early stage of con; struction work we would have beet ready long before that time. U "In fact for a time it looked a j though we would be delayed Severn ij months but we have speeded Up eoii'3 struction work so that much of 'Ih-'i delay has been overcome. If notb: ing unforeseen happens the plan : should be ready to start operation on April 15." i When asked regarding the bos time to hold a celebration for thl beginning of the new industrial el'; of Utah county and the state o : IJUih. several of the officers of th corporation suggested HiiifSucn . celebration should uot be held unti ; a month after the opening, of activ i operation of the plant. f "There should be no colebratioijr here before May 15 or June V'-sai one of the officials. "When we begiij operations there will be so man ) things to look after and check ui that it will bo impossible to shovl any one around the plant. A bh crowd here during the first nioutli of operations would hinder the worlj a great, deal and the visit would noii be as satisfactory as if made late" ou. "Most of the people of Vtih hav never seen a blast furnace in oprra tion. If a celebration is staged, take it, the people would nalnrall.'' desire to see the plant in operation to get an idea just how it is opera! ed. After we have had a month'.' successful run ami have had an op. port unity to check up that every! thing is running right, we will (be,1 lie itt a posit ion to show t he U'n people through I lie plant and giv them an idea how pigiron is ui.-;do. "A celebration here on M.-irHi 1 or even April 15 would mean notb ing to (lie people. There would v, very little more to so.' here the; I than can he seen riultt now. Th. I proper time for a celebration woul j be not earlier than May 15." |