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Show EXPANDS OPERATION ! i j . . ' ' " - ;" 1 ; 1 - a ( - - I - is I - ' ' ' - r '-' J -" .. . i "".:,,.." . - - - ,.v ' ." i " ' . ' T ' 1 : ! ' ' V- - "KW5. . - a. . . . Starting with a small unit in 1926, the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company has gradually increased its operations into a million-dollar-a-year industry. The accompanying air view shows the company's plant at Ironton, adjoining the plant of the Columbia Steel Corporation, from which it draws the pig iron :"or manufacture of its products. Capacity of the plant has been :ncreased 100 per cent since 1926 and since 1931 a complete new manufacturing man-ufacturing unit has been installed, lie company's payroll amounts to a half million dollars a year and normally nor-mally approximately 400 men are employed. Products of the company, which include pressure water pipe, plumbing plumb-ing fixtures, gate valves, fire hydrants hy-drants and circulating heaters are sold in all parts of the west. While Utah is one of the nation's leading producers of raw materials, few of its metals are fabricated within the state. The state needs and should have more refineries and fabricating plants such as The Pacific States company at Ironton. |