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Show Geneva Slag Goes into Interstate Road Mountain movers are at work in North Utah County. Construction Construc-tion crews are busy moving the mountain of slag at Geneva Works and converting the waste material into ballast for the new Interstate Freeway road system. There is plenty of slag there. Two million tons of it have been building up since the big plant began operations during World War II. This is , the only use found for the slag in the 16 years since then. - The first of an estimated 50,000 truck loads of the hard, gritty material has already began be-gan to roll on to the American Fork-Orem stretch of the new highway now under construction. The slag will form a solid roadbed road-bed for the section being built by Morrison-Knudsen Company. The slag is being dug from Geneva's huge pile, just west of the plant. Nearly a third of the heap will disappear during the five months required to complete com-plete this phase of ithe projeot. This is enough material to make a pile 10 stories high, two city blocks long and a half-block wide. "Slag" is the waste from the blast furnaces. It consists of the impurities in the iron ore from Cedar City, combined with the limestone "flux" from Payson, plus the ash from the coal that comes from Carbon County. Columbia-Geneva Steel officials offi-cials are happy that a use has been found for the waste slag that . is piling up and spreading out year by year. |