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Show hers saw 21-ton ingots of steel relied through giant rolls at one end of the mill and come out of the other end, two-thirds of a mile awav, as wide bands yf thin .steel. Tuesday the group motored to Brighton where the viewed the wonderful Wasatch mountains whciv they rode the Ml. Milli-cent Milli-cent ski lift to get an eagle's eye view of ihe inspiring surroundings. surround-ings. 'I hero were many other events that are tjo numerous to mention men-tion and following Tuesday's closing banquet, many of the publishers kit on a special train to visit the southern Utah parks. of white-hot sleel flash and pour from the tap hole. The next stop by the group was made in Geneva's rolling mills where finished steel plate?, hot rolled coils and structural shapes are produced. Here N.E.A. mem- FETES IS 1JSHERS u visitors at the Na-I-jUuiial Association con-I con-I Salt Lake City includ-ip includ-ip Sunday to the great, : cr.ppcr mine at Bingham .lili.-hirs watched the f: of the world's leading pri.duei'1', which provides per cent of Amer-!';'5' Amer-!';'5' mined copper in nor-Under nor-Under ordinary con--0 men are employed the work required to '"W tens of ore and i-au-rial daily. 'etching the operations "'f. hie publishers mo-w mo-w Magna and Arthui 'f1' thL' ( is reduced to uncentrate. These two ; 'ch cover 7500 acres on J:.l0Hnils south of Great m, , lave the largest com-MllnK com-MllnK capacity in the !l,'!S the visit to the milk 'lion delegates were fc feted at a gala beach party at Saltair, where they visited the largest body of salt water in the United States. Sunday morning, before their trip to the mines and mills, Geo-rbe Geo-rbe Albert Smith, president of the Church of Jesu sChrist ol Latter-Day Saints, gave a welcoming wel-coming speech in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City, following which they listened to the remarkable re-markable organ and choir. Highlights of Monday's events was the trip to the Geneva Steel Company's plant at Provo. where they were guests of Dr. Wane" Mathesius, president, for a firsthand first-hand look at operations m tae West's, largest steel plant. A wonderful sight was the 252 j by-product coke ovens w hich j convert Utah's coal into coke, gas, i tar, ammonium sulphate and manv other coal by-products. , Across from the coke ovens the j group viewed operations of the giant blast furnaces which smelt Utah's iron ore into iron. After a brief interlude, the group traveled trav-eled some two miles to the open hearth furnaces to watch them turn the iron into steel. At this point, R. G. Glass, vice president and manager of operations, asked ask-ed the group to go around m back of the furnaces to watch 230-tons |