Show r Spotlighting Utah Ti Utah Leads Lends Western States In Li Coke Output t The United States production of or coke for the year 1947 was tons worth This production was a 26 per cent Increase over the previous year Utah leads the western states with a production of tons Colorado produced produced produced pro pro- tons California tons tons according to figures just released b by the tho U. U S. S Bureau Dureau o of Mines lInes Assessed Valuation of or Property In Utah Increases Tho The State Tax Commission has just released preliminary figures which show that the tho assessed valuation o of property in the of Utah will reach for 1948 This figure Is 1295 per cent higher than the samo same figure for the tho year 1947 Utah Iron Oro Goes to Japan The following Associated Press dispatch from Los Angeles Is of particular Interest to The Tho first shipload of the tho largest largest largest larg larg- est Iron ore shipment in history will start from hero here to Japan Wednesday Port Manager E E. E J J. J Amar announced toda today The entire shipment which will take several se months will be far in excess of tons Amar said The Tho ore is coming by rail from mines near Lund Utah and Is being sent to Japan as part of tho the MacArthur recovery program which calls for Cor supplyIng supplying supplying supply- supply ing the Japanese with raw materIals materials materials mater mater- to rebuild their economy This ma may be bo the largest shipment shipment shipment ship ship- ment to leave lea San Pedro California Call Call- fornia but It Is a mere drop inthe In tho the bucket when compared with tho tons which left the tho Lake Superior region In 1946 for Cor Pittsburgh and other steel ce centers or when compared with the tho tons produced from the tho southeastern section of tho the United States the tho tons from tho the northeastern United States or even tho the 1786 tons produced here In tho the West during that year Furthermore in case the foregoing foregoing foregoing fore fore- going might create anxiety among the tho people of Utah for Cor Sear fear that this title ore to Japan might shorten the tho life UCe of or our steel industry in Utah we wo hast hasten on onto to add that the oro ore being shipped Is somewhat higher In phosphorus phosphorus than that being used by byan an any of our local smelters at tho the present time Presumably It will willbe willbe be processed in Japan so so as to recover tho the phosphorus In a n basic slag This method of oC smelting Is used where high phosphorus ores and a high demand demand demand de de- mand for phosphate for ers combine to make special methods o of treatment economical cal Tho The United States Army in Its efforts to aid tho recovery of Japan to a point it can bo be sustaining self at least so far as its food rood supply is concerned concerned con con- has been endeavoring to facilitate the tho shipment of oC Utah and other western phosphate fertilizers to Japan Presumably this willingness to accept high high- phosphate iron oro ore from Utah is an attempt to kill two birds with one ono stone and to produce slag from the Iron smelters having havIng having hav hav- ing high soil Boll conditioner prop prop- erUes J j |