Show steel plant duz everything grand junction steel fabricating ing companas Comp anys main claim to fame in the steel teel line of course Is that I 1 resembles that fagout kitch chen product it duz almost everything seriously the firm boasts of with complete justification som some of the largest steel fabricating jobs done on the colorado plateau while at the same time officials official ot of the firm will tako on a machine ery try repair job for a farmer that may cost no more than 5 ma many 0 of t their recent projects have antee been n along the lines of a ton 20 foot diameter 47 foot high ore bin rece recently nale com completed plated hauled to and ansta installed d for the mill expansion program currently being carried on by climax uranium co at grand junction other monstrous jobs in the recent past include the buildings building of four ton capacity ore bins for or th he e buying station at moab utah fabricated out of half inch plate the bins were too big to be erected inside the shop so all work was done outside the plant so huge evere ere the bins that it was necessary for the to truck them to moab while the tanks were lying on their sides three years ag ago the firm completed several coal bins for the public company all of them of ton capacity As it if to prove they deal in big things office manager B E buds bud bronson also a junior partner in n the firm stands 6 feet 4 inches one of the biggest men behind a desk ln in grand junction grand junction steels plant covers a full two city blocks at the east end of the community giving them in the words of president and general manager at A al cornelison ne lison plenty of room to expand and just what we are doing along with grand junction we are very interested in the future of the community as our firm is tied closely to the development of grand junction we are planning in 1955 to enlarge our shops and our engineering department the latter in order to provide full engineering consultant service now we provide a certain amount of that service but we want to build it up cornelison traced the growth of the firm since its inception in with two men he and his brother C R to its present stature as a quarter million dollar corporation hiring 38 33 people among area and projects 0 acts in which the firm had a hand are the new dining hall at the state home club caravan mark s Maco ngan the new safeway and north avenue city markets schools in meeker glenwood springs fruitvale Fruit vale carbondale and aspen keate keating hall and the qs dorm dorin at gunnison collece and the warehouse in addition to fabricating work the company furnishes mine head frames water hauling and storage tanks buildings conveyors ore bins and structural steel for buildings to the mining industry to ali all other comers grand junction steel offers its complete services on a no job too small basis two million men and women are engaged in the oil business |