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Show Coke Ovens Will Be ; Built at Once, Says Rains In Interview Early Completion of Building Operations Hoped For; Contracts With Smelting Companies Cause Enlargement; Contracts to Be Let. , The immediate construction of an additional battery of coke ovens at the Ironton plant of the Columbia Steel corporation corpor-ation was admitted today by L. F. Rains, vice president of the corporation and general manager of the Ironton plant. In conversation with a Herald reporter over long distance telephone at Columbia, the mining property of the corporation, corpora-tion, Mr. "Rains acknowledged that building activities at the plant would commence within the next week and that the construction work' would be rushed for the earliest possible completion. Representatives from several large eastern contractors are expected at Ironton within the next few days. After consulting with the officials at the Ironton plant relative rela-tive to the new construction work, those representatives will make their bids for the building of (he new ovens. According to Mr. lin in-? ihe corporation is pushing the construction work anrl, in fact, has already made extensive preparations so that die actual work may commence as soon as the con-i-ets hiive been let. This, according to Mr. Rains, should be within the next few days. The necessity for the construction of a new battery of coke ovens became necessary with the contract entered into wit'i the International Smelting and Refining company and the United States Mining, Smelting and Refining company com-pany for the Columbia Steel corporation to furnish the smel-'): smel-'): -if th.'-.p two org-zntions at Tooele and Murray with approximately ap-proximately 400 tons of coke a day for a period of five years. "More than a week ago I signed these contracts with -nvesentatives of the two smelting companies," said Mr. Rains over the telephone from Columbia Wednesday after noon. "For certain reasons I did not desire anyone to know anything about the deal at this time as certain other details had to be completed. The announcement coming from San Francisco, relative to the deal, is correct only in the fact that the paoers were signed by me more than a week ago." The announcement of the construction of a new "-it of the enke plant, did not come wholly as a surprise to the people here. It has been known here for many montns that negotiations have been under way with three 'arge smelting companies in the west for the furnishing of several hundred tons of coke daily. It has been stated previously pre-viously in the Herald that when these negotiations were completed com-pleted it would become necessary to construct additional :oke ovens as the present output of coke at the Ironton plant is insufficient to fill the new contract. More than a million dollars will be required in the new construction work at Ironton plant, according to Mr. Rains. Enlargement of the mines of the corporation at Columbia will require an additional half a million dollars it is estimated. Fran forty to fifty cars of coal will be needed to fill the arde'-s for the two smelters. The building of the new coke ovens will also mean an additional production of three million cubic feet of gas daily, ' 'ii amount equM tn that consumed daily at present by the large flame. It is believed by those closely in touch wnn inclusrial conditions that special effort will be made to induce various industrial plants to become established in close proximity to the Ironton plant so that at least a part of the 1 .,ix million cubic feet of gas which will otherwise go to waste will be utilized. Wigginton E. Creed, president of the Columbia Steel corporation and aiso head of the Pacific Gas and Electric .-ompany of San Francisco, will visit the local plant on May 5, iccording to Mr. Rains. The Provo Chamber of Commerce may arrange to entertain Mr. Creed at that time at a membership member-ship luncheon, according to E. S. Hinckley, secretary of the -tirMir( |