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Show IS THE CITIZEN i Provo Hailed as Steel Center of West States TWO GREAT It I i At noon, on any day, in passing through the busy city of Provo, you are startled by the sirens and steam whistles of the various industries, signaling the men it is time to eat. The loudest of these whistles is at the plant of the Columbia Steel Corporation, where pig iron, coke, gas, tar, ammonium sulphate and benzol are produced. Across the main line tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad from the plant, is its subsidiary, the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Company, where cast iron pipe is made, both pressure and soil. Provo, as The Iron Center of the West,11 is due to the vision and general ability of L. F. Rains and his associates, W. W. Armstrong, Duncan MacVichie, A. C. Ellis, and others. The consulting engineers, S. A. Kennedy of Chicago, and W. J. Rynders of New York, realized at a glance the success and economic value of a blast furnace at Provo. Rains' untiring efforts in getting the industry financed, while unsuccessful in the east, were, on the contrary, highly successful in the west. A group of successful and outstanding bankers and business men on the Pacific coast, such as the late W. E. Creed, president of the Pacific Gas and Electric; John S. Drum, president American Trust anu Savings Bank; Joseph D. Grant, Herbert president National Batik; Joseph Sloss, R. W. Kinney, W. W. Crocker, president Crocker First National Bank; Reese Llewellyn, W. P. Hammon, and others, immediately saw the possibilities. Ideal Conditions. The ideal conditions: iron ore at Cedar City, averaging fifty-tw- o per cent iron or better; good coking coal at Columbia, Carbon county, Utah, averaging fifty percent fixed carbon or better, and a very intelligent class of workmen to draw on, made success a Flei-shhack- Anglo-London-Pa- er, ris A PANORAMA OF THE UTAH OIL REFlJ W Utah Oil Refining Company Daily crude capacity of 5,000 barrels. Total plant investment is approximately $5,000,-000- . Total number of employees averages 650. The Utah Oil Refining Company pays and distributes locally approximately $2,000,000 annually. Manufactures and sells 71 per cent of all the gasoline and petroleum products consumed in Utah and about 50 per cent of that consumed in Idaho. certainty. The plant was situated at Ironton, just outside of Provo, for various reasons, the main one being that the Denver & Rio Grande, bringing the coal, and the Union Pacific, bringing the iron ore, would come together at that point. Each day there is mined . at Columbia fifteen hundred tons of coal, and at Cedar City twelve hundred tons of iron ore. From these amounts there is a daily production at the plant of one thousand tons of coke, sixteen million cubic feet of gas, for-- , eighteen thousand gallons of tar, thousand pounds of ammonhundred galium sulphate, forty-fiv- e lons of benzol, and five hundred and tons of high grade pig twenty-fiv- e iron. The tar is pumped to the Rerepublic Creosoting company, whose finery joins the Columbia Steel plant (Continued on Page 26) - ty-fi- ve v |