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Show New Pig Iron Plant Kcadv For Operation SiUt L-ike City. May 11 E. N. B:rber, vice president of the Columbia Steel company. Defense De-fense Plant Division, today Issued Is-sued the following statement: "Early In 1942. in anticipation of a shortage of scrap and pig iron in the Pacific Coast area, the government requested Columbia Co-lumbia Steel company to dismantle dis-mantle an idle blast furnace at Joliet. Illinois, reerect the unit at Ironton, Utah, and build a Bee Hive Coke Oven plant at Columbia, Colum-bia, Utah, for the necessary coke supply. The required construction construc-tion work has been completed by Columbia and the plant is being held in readiness for operation pending advice from the government govern-ment that the requirements of pig iron for the war emergency in the Pacific Coast area necessitates necessi-tates operation of the facilities." RUMORS FALSE WASHINGTON. D. C, May 12 Representative J. W. Robinson Wednesday reported that W P. B officials have labeled as ''false" rumors that new pig iron furnaces furn-aces in the nation will not be put into production. Representative Robinson conferred con-ferred with W P B officials after learning that a newly-completed blast furnace at Ironton, is being be-ing held in readiness pending authority from the government to begin operations. Rumors that pig iron furnaces will not be put into operation, Mr. Robinson said, were pronounced pro-nounced as having no foundation. founda-tion. There is dire need at Pacific Pa-cific 'joasu mills ixav for all the pis iron Utah can produce, he said. Main accumulation of pig iron on the west coast, he explained, was at the Kaiser furnaces. These furnaces were completed and operating before Kaiser's steel mill was ready to handle their output. The Kaiser pig iron, however, is being stored exclusively ex-clusively for use in Kaiser mills and has no effect upon the general gen-eral picture in the Pacific coast steel industry. |