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Show plant will bo a 41,000 kilowatt unit and will be located in Orem. The Western Rock Bit Manufacturing Manu-facturing Company has just gone into full production in it new $150,000 plant in Salt Luke City. Largely locally owned, this company, com-pany, housed in a 5,000 squar-' foot building, will produce 3,:j00.-000 3,:j00.-000 bits annually. The bits an; used in the mining and construction construc-tion industry. The United Concrete Pipe Co. of Pleasant Grove and Los Angeles, An-geles, Calif., have just spent more than $100,000 remodeling their Pleasant Grove production plant. The plant can now produce the huge pipe with the use of all modern conveniences. They have the contract for furnishing pipe for a 7 1 2 mile section of the Salt Lake uqueduct. Spotlighting I UTA HJ Melal Mine Produce 158 Million Dollars in Utah An all time record was made in Utah's production of the five principal metals during 1947, according ac-cording to figures just released by the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The value of gold, lead, copper, silver and zinc amounted to $158,100,773 a new high record. Utah's mines during 1947 produced pro-duced more gold than was produced pro-duced in any other state. The yield was the highest in the state's history, 421,662 ounces and its value was calculated at $14,758,170. Copper production during 1947 amounted to 553,066,000 pounds which was a gain of 133 per cent over the previous year. The value of the yield was placed at $111,-943,860. $111,-943,860. Silver also had a good year with a production of 7,780,032, a gain of 89 per cent over the previous pre-vious year. Our silver production , was valued at 7,040,939. Lead showed a 62 per cent increase in-crease in production amounting to 99,396,000 pounds valued at , $14,313,024. Zinc likewise showed an increase in-crease in production volume with a 36 per cent increase which a-mounted a-mounted to 87,346,000 pounds, worth $10,044,790. Over a period of years Utah has been near the top among the leading states in the production of these five important metals. Uranium Test in Grand County At the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department Depart-ment of Interior has withdrawn from entry and reserved for the exclusive use of the government, 115 square miles of public land in southeastern Utah and southwestern south-western Colorado. The' commission commis-sion in cooperation with the Geological Geo-logical survey will make comprehensive com-prehensive studies and tests looking look-ing for uranium bearing ores. Lands found to contain uranium will become available for developing de-veloping and mining by private interests upon arrangements made with the government. Expansion and Rebuilding Equipment and parts for the Orem Steam Plant, one of the first units of the sixty million dollar expansion plan of the Utah Power & Light company, have been ordered and some of them have been delivered. The new |