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Show w Slocl riant Commences ' Turninjr Out Of Plate Steel For Ship Buihlinj- i less than two years after ground was broken on HUH) acres of farmland, the plate mill of the government's new $ Kill ,000,-00 ,000,-00 ft lieneva Steel plant at Geneva went into operation when the first trial rolling of plates was made. Geneva works, largest integrated steel plant west, of the Mississippi river, is being operated op-erated by Geneva Steel company, V. S. Steel corporation subsidiary, under contract with the Defense riant corporation for the war period. First rolling of plates for the Pacific coast shipbuilding industry indus-try culminates a series of operating operat-ing steps over the past few months which began with the charging of the first battery of coke ovens on December 13, 1943. Two of four batteries of by-products coke ovens, two of three blast furnaces, three of nine open hearth furnaces, the slabbing mill and auxiliary, facilities are now in regular production. In ApriCl942, U. S. Steel's west coast subsidiary, Columbia Steel company, began clearing the plant site of small farmsteads which dotted the area. Today an entirely new and complete source of steel production, with an annual ingot capacity of 1,-2S0.000 1,-2S0.000 tons, has been created in the broad valley flanked by towering mountain ranges and mirrored in Utah lake. In August, 1943, a newly organized or-ganized U. S. Steel subsidiary, Geneva Steel company, contracted contract-ed to operate the plant for Defense De-fense Plant corporation, an RFC subsidiary. No operating fee or other compensation is paid to Geneva Steel company or U. S. Steel for their services in directing di-recting the war-time operation of this large plant. Thousands of men and women from all sections of the country contributed their efforts to moving mov-ing 3.000.000 cubic yards of dirt, pouring 550.000 cubic yards of concrete, erecting 85,000 tons of structural steel, laying 70 miles of railroad track, and 15 miles of roadway to build western America's largest integrated steel mill. To supply coal for the new mill, the new- Geneva mine was developed in historic Horse Canyon, Can-yon, 130 miles southeast of the plant. In full operation, it will produce 8,500 tons daily. Iron ore is furnished from the open pit mine of Columbia Iron Mining Company, a subsidiary of Columbia Steel company, located lo-cated in southwestern Utah, ap-proximatedy ap-proximatedy 250 miles from the Geneva Steel plant. The iron mining operation has been greatly great-ly expanded to take care of Geneva's needs. Twenty-five miles from the plant near Pay-son, Pay-son, Utah, limestone and dolomite dolo-mite are secured from the newly developed Keigley quarry. |