Show SUNDAY MORNING STANDARD-EXAMINE- R THE OGDEN Utah Becomes Vital Steel ' 1943 : Water Tunnel Supplies Geneva Plant Ironton Plant Rebuilds Blast Furnace " inroyrr-r- "I" - N? V C f The correct assumption that the war will not last forever and that the problems of the state of Utah in more critical period will probably become any post-wa- r in direct proportion to the length of the war is leading serious-minde- d men throughout the state to careful consideration of ways to meet such problems 4' X V ' y aSV V J “ As a result of the extensive expansion due to defense proj- 7 nicer Burins Past Year “ Industrial Development Group Undertakes Broad Studies of Future Need FEBRUARY the citizens not only of Utah ects and the war effort Utah five one of the but other states will desire recdeclared been has United reation and travel there must be the critical sections of considan adequate system of for planned special States calling roads and parks as recreational eration by the government In centers not only for our own post-wplanning V population but for tourists To meet this situation Ora dewhich will mean much to the of the Bundy commissioner indusstabilized economy of the state and of publicity partment assource of revenue and trial development has been enters into this a of also "There director as task signed of rehabilitamatter for the picture post-wprogram planning have been who those tion for a comprehenUtah to develop disassociated from their normal sive plan of procedure occupations and those who beIn Group Experts cause of the strain during the Associated with Mr Bundy In war effort either in active or duty will be this work are representatives of - various state4 commissions as physically disabled to the extent and that they will require rest norwell as the“" following experts: rehabilitation to retain their Baldwin M Woods regional dimal functions as citizens of the rector of the national resources dean former and state” Mr Bundy continued board planning of engineering at the University Seek Preparedness of Berkeley V B Stanbery re"These and many other regional NRPB counselor Berkelated 'subjects must be treated ley John Hyde senior planning carefully to the end that the technician Baltimore Md' John will be prepared when the state Miller chief of the field service Is over to absorb the emergency section NRPB Washington D of civilians who number large C Walter Huber water conwill be released from defense sultant NRPB San Francisco projects as well as the even T H Humpherys former Utah greater number of returned solstate engineer S R DeBoer diers and only by a comprehenspecial planning consultant sive and practical system of feasNRPB Denver Colin A Taylor ible projects already prepared on special water consultantwater with estimates of costs designs and domestic culinary and man hours involved can NRPB Berkeley Dr Heber T immediate employment be prothe Harper regional directorandof welvided office of defense health "Of more lasting and permanfare services Denver Dr J R value of course are the ent Mahoney University of Utah toindustrial plants which members of potential will remain as a result of this gether with various Dr Thomas the university staff wartime expansion For instance Utah State Agricultural college every effort must be made to Logan and other members of the develop a' market for steel and college staff representatives of iron products for the large inthe U S bureau of reclamation dustry at Provo which will opthe U S grazing service forest erating at full capacity employ service and park service the 4800 and 5000 people between U S public roads administraif favorable freight rates and and tion and the engineering departmarkets can be provided west ment of the state of Utah of the Rockies as far as the coast if existing fabri'pacific Book Publish To can be enlarged or plants cating - These Individuals and groups additional ones desirable where are preparing studies and reports installed to fabricate the mill which it is hoped will be cominteof this thus products plant pleted in time to compile and buildand fabrication the grating print in book form about May ing industry with the manufac1 of this year and which comturing at Provo this should depilation should give a complete into a lasting worthwhile velop picture and unfold to the citizens for the state particuIndustry of Utah not only the past and view In of the fact that larly present but also the possible ore coal and we iron have the future economy of its people' and limestone for flux all within a the what we may expect in way reasonable distance of the plant of agriculture stock raising and sufficient' to operate at full industrial development as well capacity for many many years” emas permanent and part-tim- e Eastern Ores Depleting ployment for a much increased While it is generally undersure result td population which is stood that the higher grade of from the present expansion” “ the Mesaba range in Michigan v New Permanent Citizens and other eastern deposits are being rapidly depleted it should Many people who have been In Itself make for a continuation attracted to the state will desire of the operation of the Provo to become permanent citizens Many who have left their farms plant to supply much of the needs of the western part of and homes in rural districts outthe United States and perhaps side the "Wasatch Front” which comprises the dedevelop a foreign trade for reconstruction after the war fense area from Brigham City on the north to Spanish Fork "Our vast stores of mineral on the south will not return to and chemical deposits ' offer potential reasons for development their homes and In many cases of such industries as the much-talke- d their unproductive farms Thereof metallic magnesium fore provisions must be made and potash resources near for gainful employment in the industrial centers Thompson Utah of the phos"There has been a definite disphates of northeastern Utah the location of the economic conditungsten vanadium and other tions within the state and a strategic minerals throughout definite transition from an agrithe state” said Mr Bundy "In cultural horticultural and stock-raisithis connection we are geologizarea to one of industry” ing as fast as personnel will permit so that at an early date says Commissioner Bundy most df the larger deposits will ' Study Water have been charted” "The complete conservation Employment in Construction and maximum utilization of the One of the most valuable waters of streams and1 artesian basins must be studied with a sources of employment and one in which much labor can be view of developing culinary water absorbed in the construction line for the populated districts and is that of road building and water for the complete rights considerable emphasis is being rural farming districts in order a upon placed possible network that agriculture and horticulture of roads to be constructed over may be expanded to meet the main thoroughfares as well as requirements of an increased side roads into desirable scenic also for industrial population areas both for the benefit of and power purposes to invite tourists whose trade will endiversified industry Studies will the coffers of the state he made of yarious defense proj- - hance ' bets now being constructed by as has been done in California and other localities where the the federal government on which tourist trade has been encoura is of abandonthere possibility ment immediately succeeding the aged war with the idea of utilizing Access Roads Planned such projects partly if not Along with this will be access roads development wholly for industrial purposes to be built emcontinuous into that will furnish other of scenic areas types ’ where the moving picture inployment and utilize our to the end that Utah dustry will find desirable locations for filming Incidentally will cease to be a raw products state and embark in the busithis is developing into an ness of manufacturing and fabri- - industry in which Utahquite should play an outstanding role in fueating our raw products rather ' than ture years because of the many shipping them out of 'the state to be refined as has been attractive locations which can be offered our past custom” While this In a general way Visualizing the fact that sucwar strenuous effort the endeavor in which this presents ceeding I s ar ar non-combat- ant 1 so-call- ed ‘ ng - t Columbia Steel Stoves and part of foundation for the new blast furnace at and is being Joliet HI- - piece-me- al company’s Ironton plant This furnace is one that was moved from j rebunt to produce an additional Bool tons of pig Iron dally for Pacific coast war Industries TRANSPLANTED A section of the water tunnel connecting the large reservoir and the power bouse at HUGE PIPE are stoves for the No 1 blast the 150 million dollar Geneva works near Provo In the background to make coke used bln be coal which will concrete for storage furnace and — f Beehive Coke Ovens in Beehive State 8150000000 Plant Puts £v v a y va Utah in Foreground as a Steel Production State Utah is assuming a vital place in the U S government’s steel expansion program designed to supply the urgent demands of the Pacific— coast war industries the largest single iron and steel for appropriation development in the country was made for the Geneva works on the shore of Utah lake Here is being built a complete steelmaking unit which will be capable of supplying hundreds of thousands of tons of steel Ingots to the nation’s mounting steel output Construction was started on $150000000 : : this tremendous project April 1 1941 by the Columbia Steel company U S Steel subsidiary acting for the defense plant corporation an emergency government war agency After many weeks of excavating driving piles Into the underlying gravel bed and pouring tens of thousands of cubic yards of concrete foundations the steel plant is rapidly taking shape above the ground level the post-wplanning group ls now engaged yet each of thd’ Coke Is Made larger cities and localities will Coke is a most essential heatbe called upon to present and4 im-ing Ingredient of the iron and offer desirable projects and g process It is deprovements having particularly the from rived burning of coal to do with the establishment air-tigchambers in (ovens) at corn of Industries within their temperatures ranging around fines- - and comprehensive city 2000 degrees F planning looking far Into th To make the coke for the welfare! health the for future steel plant four batteries Geneva and happiness of their citizenryf of coking ovens are being conIt is believed that with such structed Because of the intense wilt Utah efforts cooperative heat that the ovens must be able lead the way in future planning to withstand special silica bricks and In Setting up a worthwhile mortar are used Some 740 and -era program- for the post-wwhich Is sure to be difficult knot different kinds and shapes of bricks go Into each battery of confusing ovens requiring the services of "AH in all we are not unmindf ful of the fact” Mr Bundy con highly skilled masons tinued "that no concrete plan New Mine Developed ning done today wiU serve as $ The coal Which will be conpanacea to overcome or correct verted Into coke at Geneva will all difficulties with which we come from the new Geneva mine will ultimately be faced to avoid which has been developed and all the pitfalls that lie ahead is now in production near Price of us As the war lengthens at Itiis expected that the mine will economic conditions of today reach a capacity of 8500 tons of home and abroad undergo radio ' coal daily changes such events will co The blast furnace is the fundaceivably call for further an mental part of steel-makimore comprehensive planning t Into the blast furnace goes the be extended well into the futur of iron ore coke limebut in order to lock the door charge stone dolomite and other fluxbefore the horse is stolen we After being ing Ingredients will plan now with as much to extremely high tem heated intelligent forestlght and vision peratures and boiled for several as we possess and be prepared hours the molten pig iron is to absorb the shock that will from the blast furnace tapped come sooner or later until such is the It pig iron which passes time as other and better mean's to on the open hearth furnaces of stabilizing our economy ca$ -- either in molten form or in bars be devised converted into to be "pigs” "The endeavor seems worthy steel while all participating agencies Three Blast Furnaces are agreed upon its necessity and if through £hese efforts it At the Geneva works there least part of our ills may be will be three blast furnaces each corrected and depression averted with a capacity of 1200 tons of the reward for such efforts will pig iron daily The first blast be well repaid” furnace wiU probably be blown v‘ steel-makin- X in around the first of June The other two wiU start at approxiintervals The iron mately ore for the blafct furnaces will wiU be shipped from Columbia mine at Iron Steel company’ mountain near Cedar City This mine is being greatly expanded to meet the needs of the new steel plant Limestone and dolomite which are so essential In the smelting of Iron will come from the corn- pany’s quarries near Payson Resemble Bake Ovens Steel is made In open hearth furnaces which! resemble baking ovens The molten pig iron or the hardened pigs are charged into the open hearth furnace with special quantities of scrap steel burned lime and other selected Ingredients After being subjectedi to boiling tem3000 peratures of approximately 10 hours 7 to from degrees F for the molten steel is drained off and poured into ingot steel molds and left to harden Nine Open Hearths There will be nine open hearth furnaces at the Geneva works The hardened steel ingots wiU be forced into ihape In the huge slabbing or rolling mills which will have a yearly capacity of 700000 tons From the rolling 80-d- ay old-fashion- ng ed A Load of Mine Timbers F rom Utah F orests X y v v ‘v y ‘v v i y' pAV v s - V " j X'V-v- : has thousands newcomers to er v A‘ S v Av Xi X reclaim the gasses from the coking ovens to produce coal tar ammonia benzol etc a power 50- plant capable of developing 000 kilowatts of energy a large reservoir to assure and preserve a constant supply of water1 a mess haU which will feed approximately 1500 a hospital administration buildings and reand testing laboratories search t To Employ 4500 Workmen j Approximately 4500 workmen WiU be employed when the new 8teel plant is in full production Now there are about 10000 construction workers The allied mining operations will give emLocal ployment to another 1000 wherWorkmen will be employed “ ever possible At Ironton Utah another blast furnace is being added by the Columbia Steel company for the U S government which wiU have 1 daily output of pig iron of 950 tons This blast furnace was moved from Joliet 111 whejyL it was formerly owned by Carnegle-Illino- is Steel company It was brought to Ironton piece-me- al and is being reassembled there Coke for the Ironton blast will be made In 500 beehive are being poking ovens which Utah Columbia built near mills will come the steel plates for the shipyards on the Pacific coast Structural Mill Built After the construction of the Geneva works was begun the national government added a structural mill to manufacture angles channels and beams for war purposes This mill will have a capacity of 200000 tons annually g In addition to the there parts of the Geneva plant which will be a plant steel-makin- by-produ- - fur-pac- es I THIS THAU'S WH AKi TUPNIN© Less than c year ago the wheels of yhe new Industrialized Utah were turning in the form of charts and blueprintscalculatjons by Today busy engineers and economists calculations and those charts blueprints have taken physical form and are turning the riches of Utah's good earth into mighty tools of warj — and solid pillars of a lasting peacetime economy Mills producing vanadium are In ul! production Tungsten manganese and alumina plants are near completion Utah's great iron and steel industry—the mightiest in all the west — is rising to full stature New manufacturing plants are producing—at top probcapacity Other wheels are turningincaiculing deep info the earth for Utah's in magnesium and potash Utah resources in whicp we all but take such pride are not wholly war-bor- n are based on sound economyT--a fortunate combination of rich raw materials geographical location transportation superior labor and intelligent management The Utah Department of Publicity and In dustrial Development will continu to ex- x- - T ? s Va X X 4T W Jj ar 12-ye- old school girls Catherine Sulvia and Shirley Anne Cramer have given up play after school to help the nation’s war effort own war by setting up their street a on booth busy stamp corner here and soliciting passerAll bookkeeping purchass-by and selling is handled by ing the young patriots and sales have been increasing daily resource in plore and develop every possible our state Our many faceted resources will toward go first toward winning the war thep which building a permanent prosperity ii every Utahn may participate to Opportunity Highroad ' that of greeted Ogden during these past two bustling years as they approached a vast frame of mountains sheltering a rich western the city where are building 'for themselves an inland empire people valley This photograph was taken by L V McNeely 2664 Adams and annual progress edition for was chosen for The Standard-Examin1943 because in it the photographer has captured something beyond the mere reproduction of a scene He has transferred to paper a symbol of the future ot Ogden Pioneers in the founding days of Ogden might have climbed this same hill of promise might Jiave seen this same overwhelming panorama of grandeur There would have been a covered wagon a dusty road The would have the been same promise perhaps ‘v"? Utah to FUEL SOURCE! r A portion of the Beehive coke ovens being constructed at sColumbia Ironton plant supply coke to the new blast furnace being added to Columbia tSteel company ar ' NY— Two I ht V'v ROCHESTER ? ar - Operate Stamp Booth1 wJU re-sour- ces This is th© scene T — —— N v V v V ' A X A ' ' A IMPORTANT PRODUCT f The Utah forest and mining Industries supplement each other perfectly In the above photo for instance is shown a truck load of mine timbers from the Wasatch national forest on their way to useful 'sendee In holding up the weight of the mountains while Utah miners burrow Into their depths to recover precious minerals laid there by nature aeons ago (U S forest service photo) UTAH DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Dooly Building Salt Lake City |