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Show NEW FREIGHT OFFICE MAY BE ESTABLISHED U. P. System Giving Consideration Consider-ation to Opening Freight Office at Steel Plant. ZZI THE DAILY MENU. The first unit of the blast furnace fur-nace of the Columbia Steel Corporation Cor-poration midway between Provo and Springville will devour several sev-eral carloads of materials daily. The menu as outlined by one of the officials of the company looks something like this: Ten cars of iron ore from Iron Springs, Iron county. Twenty-five cars of coal from Columbia, Carbon county. Five cars of lime rock from Topliff, Utah county. A special train carrying several Union Pacific railroad officials headed by F. W. Robinson of Omaha, freight traffic manager, arrived in Provo Saturday morning and went directly to the industrial yard of the Columbia Steel Corporation Corpora-tion where the officials looked over the progress of the work. The inspection trip was mainly for the purpose of making plans for the expeditious handling of the large amount-of freight traffic that will be handled by the Union Pacific Pa-cific system at the plant of the steel corporation. According to the visiting officials a freight office may be established at the plant yards with an agent in charge whose duty it would be to handle all freight bound for the steel plant. This office would relieve re-lieve the Provo freight office of considerable con-siderable work, it is said, the Provo office giving its attention to the other increased business coming to this section with the new industrial era. For some time the question of establishing a joint freight office at the steel plant of the Union Pacific system and the Salt Lake & Utah railroad, the two roads which will handle the greater percentage of the business at the plant, has been under consideration by the officials of the two companies. Although no decision has been reached at present it is believed that the Union Pacific officials favor the establishing of separate offices rather than the joint office. With the beginning of actual operations at the steel plant sometime some-time about March lo, the Union Pacific Pa-cific will be handling more than 35 cars of different materials daily. The company has already ordered special ore cars which will be used in the hauling of iron ore from Iron Springs ill Iron county to the blast furnace. It is estimated that not less than ten carloads of ore will be shipped in each day. Besides that the company com-pany will also handle the 20 or 23 cars of coal which will come daily .'from the coal mines of the steel corporation at Columbia, Carbon county. It is also understood, according to the railroad officials, that the engineers of the steel corporation have reported favorably on the lime rock quarried at Topliff, west of Lehi, and that this lime will be used by the steel company. Five cars of lime rock will lie shipped each day from the quarries to the plant. The quarry is located on the Union Pacific Pa-cific branch line into Cedar Valley. Iu the inspection party with Mr. Robinson were Marius de Brabant, Los Angeles, assistant traffic manager; man-ager; A. V. Kipp, Salt Lake City, assistant general freight agent; E. J. Hanson, general agent, Salt Lake City ; B. M. Prescott, Los Angeles, traveling service agent; Frank Strong, Los Angeles, terminal engineer. engi-neer. With the Union Pacific officials at the plant site were L. F. Rains, vice president of the Columbia Steel Corporation ; S. A. Kennedy, per sonal representative of President Wigginton E. Creed of the corporation corpora-tion ; T. E. Banning, Salt Lake City, traffic manager of the steel corpora tion ; T. F. Pierpont, manager of the Provo Foundry & Machine company, and E. S. Hinckley, secretary of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. COLLEGIATE STANDING. Games. Won. Lost. Pet. B. Y. U 8 7 1 .875 Aggies 6 2 4 .333 U. of U 6 1 5 .167 This Week's (Final) Games. Utah Aggies versus University of Utah la Salt Lake, Friday and Sat-, urday With a per centage of almost nine hundred, resulting from winning seven out of eight basketball games in the Utah State Collegiate league this year, the Cougars of the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university won tho undisputed un-disputed state championship pennant pen-nant this year. The hoopsters of the Provo university started the season sea-son by winning two deeisive victories vic-tories over the University of Utah five in Salt Lake and finished with even more convincing victories over the Logan Farmers in their own j gym. |