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Show I'lOIOfJllTnH PIG IRON PLANT ;f.;OVESRAPIDLY Columbia Steel Mj ; Reach Production Poinl by Feb. 1 Inatead , oi . ;March 15, Rains Declare! --fjtah'a carsar as a producar of pT Iron and tha sou res of supply a graat Wsstsm Industry may rw-lnsuvuratsd Ptbruary 1, Instaad cX.aU arch II, aa origin ally planned Cordlnt to an announcamant to-5t to-5t by l. T. Batns, Tics presldsnt ct tha Columbia 8tal corporation, : frho haa just rsturnad from an ln-- ctlon tour of tha corporation's ; r-psrtlsa. Construction of tha blast furnacs ,and byproduct eoks oven units at Jrnnton, asar Provo, is throa wacks ahead of schedule and It la sstt- ( mated that anther threa week will fca amlnM In eoaspleUn; tha plant. parelopmetit ef eoal and Iron da ' THe owned by tha corpora t Ion In ' C arbon and Iron counties baa also t tteea speeded to a point wbara tha irif material for fabrication of plf i-'-m will be ready to hand several ( snonthfl before tha plant la ready J to emlt. i OTHER OFFICIALS HERE. On the insptln tour Mr. Rains , iroom ranlxl W. B. Creed and D. H. Jntf hford, president and first Ttre . r r-fident, respectively, of Columbia ' h(U and other officials- and tech-T tech-T 'M experts of tha organlsatlpn-A organlsatlpn-A tilts were paid U the plant at Imnion. the ooej mines at Columbia -i the Iron properties at Iron t rtnes. On the return Mr. Creed afci-1 Mr. Botchford took tha Los p-1s lei'ixJi4 at I-und en routs t . Torrance. Cal., where they will Inspect the rmodllna of the steel r is purchased there aome months i V til net furnace construction at l-wnton Is nearly completed, three rf the four furnaces being fulty erv-rd with only the cap Iron to b placed on the fourth. Tha coke fivini are belns; rushed and should .m finished within a few weeka In-i''ritirn In-i''ritirn of trsrluire and minor e .ipmcrtt, which will coordinate t major operation of tha plant, wil require stversi week a C AL AVAILABLE SOON. The coking coal deposits at Cw-rtntnia Cw-rtntnia have bm developed to a r "tnt whera shipments of coai s ild be made by the end of an C'iier week, accordtng to Mr. Rains, Jv the niiddle of fisptember devel-c devel-c -nnt of the Iron mines will hava r- -hd a point whart shipments t- i n feaaibla. Mining will be c r!td on proareealvely with tha .acted ore shtppad for storsgs tn hui-d up s surplus stork prior to ttrtual manufacture of pig Iron. f modMlnj of tho Stee4 milts fwM by tha Columbia people at Hniind, Ora, and Pittsburg and .Torrance, Cal., to handle tha eOO-t eOO-t n rtaily output of the Utah county I nt, la nsarly completed, Mr. .rs exprasd htmaeif as wall p -Bi with ths prospects of early I '"l otion and asserted his belief t t Utah pif Iron would be a i r- ''v bv r--bruary X. - I 1,1 |