Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-26 | Page 2 | Utah Coal Will Go to U. S. Steel Plant on Coast

UJ A Al Will i iGO L GO TO m U. U S S. S STEEL ON COAST Construction at at Long LongBeach Beach neach Harbor Expected to Start S Soon on OBSTACLES LIFTED Agreement With Union Pacific Is Rumored LOS ANGELES March 26 CAP APi Tire TiTe Times said t today day it had learned that the United States Steel corporation had con completed ll lla a deal to takE over the site or of orthe the Pacific Coast Steel corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion for fOI a a plant on the inne channel channel at Long Beach harbor and will start construction soon The iron ore and the lime for forthe or orthe the plant vili come from the mount mountains of southern California and Arizona and the coal it I is reported from Utah where a good coking grade is avaIlable Formal announcement is expected ex- ex within the next few da days s 's that the steel corporation has made arrangements with the Union P Pacific Pa- Pa to provide the coal More than three years ears ago a contract was si signed ned In which the city of Long Beach agreed to dredge certain channels of the harbor to a depth of two thirty feet and tire the company promised to build a steel plant to cost not less than Failure of the steel corporation and nd the Santa SantaFe Fe railway to real an agreement agreement agree agree- ment for a branch line from Gallup N. N M. M to the San Juan coal field was said to have ha been the chief obstacle in carr carrying In out the con con- tract This is is' is sad to ha have ve been overcome now by turning to Utah for coal The harbor construction work which the city of Long agreed to do has been complete Utah coal were highly inter interested sted in the announcement or of orthe the move by the United States Steel Steel corporation a plan that is said to have been pending for tor four years ears or mOre None o ot the companies corn com panics however had received first hend Information regarding the plans Officials of the Union Pa- Pa chic declared that they knew of no contract whIch was pending with the steel corporation for transporting coal from Utah to the proposed site 0 of the plant