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Show teilly Tar & Chemical Corp. notes anniversary; makes $100,000 improvement item of interest, several people, peo-ple, who were here at the start of operations, are still active ac-tive in the affairs of this plant. Six of these men have a total of 243 years of service with the company. "As you are long . time friends and a loyal customer of ours, we take this means to inform you of a significant event connected with our industrial in-dustrial life in the West." R. N. Nelson, Plant Manager pride that we announce the 40th anniversary of the Iron-ton, Iron-ton, Utah Plant. A little later in the summer we will observe a date that will complete 40 years of continuous, uninterrupted uninter-rupted operation of our coal tar refinery, here in Utah. "We owe our success to our friends and loyal customers in the Wetsern and Pacific Coast States. Our genuine- thanks go out to you at this time and we know you will repoice with us in reaching a milestone in our history. "In mentioning history, this plant was located near the new coke ovens of Columbia Steel Company, " when their Iron works was completed late in 1923 or early 1924. The Ironton Works of the Steel Company discontinued operations oper-ations several years ago and is now completely idle, so the Reilly Tar refinery has outlasted out-lasted the "Mother lode" so to speak. Fortunately, coke oven tar is available at the nearby Geneva Works of the United States Steel Corporation, and Reilly continues to produce and make coal tar products in larger volumes than before from a source of supply that far exceeds quantities formerly supplied from the Columbia Ironton with adequate supplies of raw material readily available avail-able in large quanities. "In reminiscing, and as an ne Reilly Tar and Chem-' Chem-' 1 CorP-, at Ironton, recently , dieted the installation of, new type stills at a cost ver $100,000 which will Je for increased production the plant, according to Su-wtendent Su-wtendent Bert Groesbeck. e plant is now beginning lst year of operation and the new improvements y.. renewed vigor, and op-Ist'c op-Ist'c plans for the future, superintendent noted. Commerating the 40th anniversary, an-niversary, a letter signeel by the plant manager R. K. Nelson, Nel-son, has gone out to the many friends and customers of the Corporation which started actual ac-tual operations the last of July 1924, about two months after Columbia Steel Co. made its first cast of iron. The letter follows: "To our friends and customers custom-ers throughout the West "It is with, considerable |