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Show I! Contract let Plant to be razed Contract for dismantling the Ironton Steel Plant, p owned by Brigham Young University, has been award- ed to the Learner Company of Oakland, California, it I was announced today by I BYU President Ernest L. I Wilkinson. The Learner Company, of I which Paul W. Learner is 9 president, is a large salvage and demolition firm which ihas its own ocean-going vessels. The firm informed Sam Brewster, director of BYU Physical Plant Department, that work will get underway the first ten days of August. Completion date is set for May 1, 1971. I The contract calls for structures on the site to be removed down to the foundation foun-dation level. The contractor "ill furnish all equipment Wn for the demolition of the Jt P'ant and may salavge any n materials. Ironton plant was donated to BYU by U.S. Steel Corp. in September 1969 and at that time BYU officials stated sta-ted the best potential use of the land could be as a large industrial park complex. The gift to BYU included 386 acres cf land and all of the industrial buildings. The plant was constructed in 1923-24 and the furnaces were finally shut down in 1962. Generally, the Ironton Plant facilities consist of two blast furnaces, a sintering sinter-ing plant, a pig machine, two batteries of coke ovens with by-product plant and gas holder, power station with bciler house and steam lines, railroad tracks, garage, ga-rage, locomotive repair shop, car loading tower, cooling tcwer, compressor building, hammer mill, storage tank, in addition to a considerable volume of scrap and machinery. |