| Show MST iff HIT OF 61 BIG STEEL TO alje BE SOON construction of the first unit of the columbia steel corporation plant to be built between provo and spring villa will start march 1 the holding company which is securing the site ite having turned over to the company acres of the property that Is be ing acquired for the teel steel plant ette site L F rains vice president of the columbia corporation states that the first unit of the blast furnaces and byproduct by product coke ovens will be built on this site and a big celebration will be held when work start starts at which officials of pf the company and the state will be present the provo spring ville villa holding company is pushing to completion the raising of funds re quiren to purchase the remainder of the plant site which includes about boo acres additional acreage is be ing donated to the company by the town of Spring springville ville it is estimated that the company will expend a month while construction is in progress the first unit which is 13 but a fractional part of the completed plant will on its completion employ men it will consume 1000 tons of coal 1000 tons of iron ore and tons of limestone daily the iron is to be shipped shipp d from iron springs cear inear cedar city in iron co county tinty I 1 ahe he lime is to be extracted from th the a mountains southeast 0 01 arm provo 0 and will be conveyed to the steel plant by means of a gravity tram a distance of a quarter of a mile the coal is to be obtained at ae the mines at columbia Columb carbon county the production of pig iron the projectors say will be under way in a little over a ear from the ho beginning of construction work cost of the site being chained for the cst company by the provo springville boding company is ol 01 this it amount mount provo has ha undertaken to raise and ha has obtained of that figure it is hoped boob to tain in salt lake and in ot ogdan den N D hershey a former service man was an arrival last week from san francisco calif and is spend ing some time at the john W sullivan an ranch on wilson mesa mr het ifer shey b 1 is s looking over the country with I 1 a view of locating here he ile recently completed ten years of service in the tho army amy and navy nam and arid several weeks ago was discharged froni from a government hospital where he be had been under medical attention mr hershey if be he is favorably impressed impre im sied with this region will grobly probably be joined coined by several other former service I 1 men me n who are looking for farms |
