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Show Kaiser Plant Contracts For Million Tons Local Iron Ore Further development of the Iron mines west of Cedar City will be started immediately as the resu.t of contracts signed recently by the Kaiser Steel Plant with piopmy owners. Shipments of large qim-i-t.tles of high grade iron ore from the excelsior deposits In the Iron Springs district, will begin soon to the Kaiser plant at Fontana, California, Cali-fornia, it was announced Monday by Senter F. Walker of Salt Lake City, who controls the ore properties pro-perties in that particular area. Contracts, drawn to provide more than 1. 000,000 tons of high grade ore from the local property for the west coast's largest producer of steel, have been signed by Kaiser officials and Mr. Walker. Ore from the Iron Springs pro-eprty pro-eprty will be used at the Fontana plant as feed and charge ore for the open hearth and blast fur-nances fur-nances with ore from the Kaiser company's ore deposits In other parts of the country. Mr. Walker stated. The Kaiser mill at present is producing pro-ducing steel plate for . ships of the maritime commission fleet, the U. 8. Navy, and Is furnishing steel for 155 mm. an delght-inch high explosive shells. . According to Mr. Wtlker's an-nouncement an-nouncement the Utah Construction Construc-tion Co. has teen engaged to in-stall in-stall and operate mining, crushing conveying and loading facilities which will cost upwards of $300,-000. $300,-000. Surveys of the properties are now being made, and it is under-stood under-stood that construction is already under we y on the main processing pJant, and that the shipment of ore will be started in the very near future. A 2500 foot spur railroad rail-road will be built to connect the operations with the Union Pacific branch line from Cedar City to Uind. The plant la designed to provide a minimum of 1500 tons of ore per day. The Utah Construction Company has been mining ore for some time at the iron Mountain properties, for shipment to the Colorado plant of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. |