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Show Site Chosen for Utah Steel Plant Provo and Springville Benefited . Columbia Works to Use 600 Acres jVAP showing 600-acre trai-t betweon Provo and Springville ' 1V1 acquired last week by fli Columbia Steel corporation as the kite for blast furnace, coke oven and byproduct mills; major portion of the $15,000,000 which is expected to center the j Western ateel industry in Utah. , i PROVO . , ' . ' ' ; A -, V V Va Vstate mental osp'TAl" " ' UTAH ) - 8 ' LAKE - ? ' , '' ' . t SPRINGVILLE, New Industry Will Have Access to Four Railway Lines Which Cross Site of Reduction Reduc-tion Furnaces Provo and Springville will divide honors as the center of a Western steel Industry, according to 1 F. Rains, originator of the p'an which hss resulted In formation of the Columbia Co-lumbia fcteel corporation, who Saturday Satur-day night officially announced the location of the plant site where blast furnaces, coke ovens and byproduct mill of the corporation are to be located. The site selected comprises , 00 acres lying along and west of the state highway between the two Utah county cities. Its northern extremity is about three miles aouth of Provo and It reaches tn within nearly a mile of Bprlngvllle. Roughly. It 1s two miles in length by one-half mile in width and Is practically rectangular. Four railroads cross the western portion of the site. .These, from east to west, are the Salt Lake aV Utah Orem) Klertrlc. the Denver A Rio Orande, the lth railway lUtah Coal Route) 0v. the Io Angelea A Sslt Leake. Title to the entire strip, excepting ex-cepting railroad rights of way, and permission to utilise these latter up to the (H'tunl trackage have been secured. se-cured. Construction of the first unit with a rapacity of 600 tone of nla iron dally Is to he started Immediately, Imme-diately, according to air. Rains, and runhed to completion for operation not later than April. 1924. BIG OUTPUT PLANNED. This first unit win be built slightly south of the center of the plant site-Eventually site-Eventually the entire alt, will be covered cov-ered with buildlnga as three additional addi-tional units are added, giving the completed plant a 2000-ton dally capacity. ca-pacity. Several years will be required to develop the plant to Us full caper ca-per it y. Engineers have been on the ground sinking test boles and surveying for the past ten days. The last parcels of land to be Included In the plant site were acquired late Saturday. Plans for a complete water and sewsge system for ths plant have been designed and will be the first work undertaken. It ts contemplated to have the water etipply and drainage drain-age systems completed before the construction work is commenced. REAL ESTATE ADVANCES. Reports front Provo and Springville are that real estate In both cities has advanced more than SO per cent (Continued on page 12 ) i CITE CHOSEN i - ' " - tromTTYTTM rrnm pnrrT. ia ralua durtng the past few days atnra th romina; of attvl to that i iflatrlrt ha a h?eri an anatired fir.. Troprty ltWMn tha two cltle. nlonK lit frtothllla and the laka ah?r. a t faar weka ago rtnaiderpl almost wtirthlsiaa. haa suddenVy takfn on an enhanced valuation Imvuuh of the ! iHM.rrwaa to the flR.OOO.OOO Induatrv. j ' " With the completion of the fimt ' onlt. Iron mlnea in Iron county and coaL depoalta In Carbon county wttl ba drawn upon for thoae eaaentlala tt at eel. The entire Inveat merit will , maan the employment of thouannda of men at the plant ita?lf and In tha mlnea and on tha railroads feeding t ka. acrordlnir to Mr. Kalna. |