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Show City Must Plan For Increase In Population Advice By Federal Engineer To City And C. of C. Officials States Application For Aid Must Be Made Soon While definite word on the exact location of the approved steel development in this vicinity was not available Wednesday, indications are that it will be in this vicinity, which gives rise to many problems fbeing taken up by the city and the Chamber of Commerce, Secretary A. R. Peterson announced today. Leland M. Perry of Provo, federal fed-eral construction engineer, contacted con-tacted Chamber of Commerce officials offi-cials here this week and explained to them the necessity of making application early for federal aid to take care of the great influx in population expected in this area. He advised them to determine if possible an estimate of the increase, in-crease, and then employ engineers to make an estimate of the cost of projects which will become necessary neces-sary with the anticipated population popula-tion increase. The Chamber of Commerce has already appointed a committee to meet with the school board to see what can be done to increase educational edu-cational facilities. There will also have to be adjustments made to increase the culinary water, electric elec-tric power, housing, sewage, and many other projects to care for the population increase. A discussion of problems and methods by which they may be solved was conducted by the Chamber of Commerce and city officials of-ficials in a meeting with Mr. Perry Wednesday evening. It has been announced also that Springville has been declared in the defense area and will therefore be eligible to receive first hand federal fed-eral aid for defense projects. The steel program in this vicinity vicin-ity will bring the total government govern-ment investment in the iron and steel industry to $126,000,000. The program approved by the R. F. C. on recommendation of the O. P. M. is the final proposal submitted by the Columbia Steel company. It not only doubles production of pig iron in this vicinity but transfers to this area two steel plants which originally were intended to be erected near San Francisco. The proposed annual output of 1,450,000 tons of pig iron represents repre-sents the aggregate of four blast furnaces, the two authorized the latter part of October and the two additional authorized last week. It has been estimated that the combined pig iron and steel mills will give steady employment to upwards of 3,000 men but that a vastly larger number will be employed em-ployed in erecting the plants and installing the machinery. Plans for most of the development are far advanced. The first contracts will be awarded for furnaces, rolling roll-ing mills, and other equipment, it was stated. While the steel program will employ em-ploy in the neighborhood of 3,000 men, this means three or four times the number will come into the area, including families of employees em-ployees and other workmen employed em-ployed in business and developments develop-ments incidental to the steel building build-ing program, Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and other officials point out. |