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Show HAS LEHI ANY CHANCE 1 OF SECURING STEEL PLANT! CAPITALISTS FROM CALIFORNIA AND UTAH COMPANY REPRE-8ENTATIVE8 REPRE-8ENTATIVE8 DISCUSSING INTERESTS INTER-ESTS AND POS9IBLITIES. Tho fact that tho men at tho hoad ot tho proposed steel Industry In Utah aro out Investigating tho iron deposits, de-posits, coal fields and posslblo altos for the plant would indlcato that tho matter has not been settled as definitely definite-ly as wns announced to tho Lohl delegation dele-gation somo months ago. It Is Just posslblo that a delogalon from Lohl could do somo good by waiting upon tho loadors and mako an offer to got thorn to locato horo. Tho Salt Lake Trlbuno yesterday morning carried tho following story ot tho visit: Wlggington E. Creed, prostdent of tho Pacific Gas & Llcctrlc company and of tho Columbia Steel company ot California, together r indus trial and financial lea' , tho coast, arrived In Salt Lake yesterday for conferences with L. P, Rains, W, W. Armstrong and tholr Salt Lako associates associ-ates regarding their proposals for tho establishment of a steel industry In Utah. Tho Utah visit ot theso men, who nre oxpocted to put many millions of dollars Into tho upbuilding of art iron and steel Industry, will Include visits to Iron deposits In Iron county, to Utah county, whero consideration will be glvon to a possible site for the enterprise on tho shores ot Utah lako, and to Carbon couaty, where coal fields will be Inspected. Will Study Conditions. , Mr. Creed, who is head of the largest larg-est industrial enterprise in the west, the Pacific Gas & Electric company, as head of the syndicate which has already al-ready made extensive researches Into the possibilities of the Iron and steel industry, said last night that the pur-poso pur-poso of tho expedition is to acquaint the men interested personally with what Utah has to offer for such an undertaking as is projoctod. "It Is too onrly," ho said, "for me jH mako any positive declaration as jB what wo will do in Utah. Wo mH simply making a tour ot lnveetjH gatlon. When our Investigations w Completed and plans mado definite will bo at' liberty to talk moro ahoiB this Utah undertaking." lHI Tho geenral plan of tho ontorprlB Is understood to contemplate tho cojB structlon ot at lcnBt one 500-ton blaiH furnace for tho production ot pig iroiJHj tho construction ot n by-product comjH plant, tho development of coal an Iron oro properties, tho oroctlon ot ' stool plant nnd such othor dovelojH monts as will forward tho progress B tho plan as a whole. il |