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Show Western Steel Plants s Urged In Defense Plan i ui ? WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 U'.IS The Cureau of Mines announced today that it recorded heavy proven de-osits of iron ore in lar western states. That announcement followed President Roosevelt's statement last week that he was interested in establishing steel plants on the Pacific coast as a national defense measure. The bureau said California, Nevada and Arizona had large deposits de-posits of ore and that "one of the largest in the country is in Madera county, Calif." Development of the iron and steel industry in the far west, bureau officials said, always has depended on devising a com-commercially com-commercially feasible fuel process. The president hinted that cheap power from such projects as Bonneville Bon-neville might solve the western fuel problem as it related to the steel situation and alloy production for the west coast airplane industry. indus-try. He said that his hope was for a new West Coast Steel industry using western ore, western power and western labor to supply western west-ern metals markets as eastern plans approach capacity production produc-tion with lengthening backlogs of orders. Informed sources said his wish was motivated by defense pur- el( poses and the thought that diver- jl" I sification of essential industries jr: was essential. |