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Show Progress Made at Geneva Plant Construction of the S150.000,-000 S150.000,-000 Geneva Steel works near Provo, Pro-vo, Utah, is progressing as well as can be expected in the face of a diflicult priority situation, according ac-cording to officials of Columbia Steel company. It is estimated that the Geneva plant will not be in operation much before the end of 1943, despite de-spite previous mid-summer estimates. esti-mates. Now that parts of the huge steel plant are well into the steel erection stage and other parts are fast approaching that stage, the stringent steel priorities are operating to slow up construction. construc-tion. This largest integrated steel mill west of the Mississippi is being built by Columbia Steel 1 company, U. S. Steel subsidiary, for the U. S. government. It is designed to help supply the war snipuuilding needs of the pacific coast. When completed, the Geneva plant will supply more than 750,-000 750,-000 tons of steel yearly for war purposes. The raw materials coal, iron ore, limestone, etc. to feed 252 coking ovens, three pig iron furnaces, fur-naces, and nine steel furnaces will be obtained in Utah. Steel plates and structural steel will oe the end-products of the operation. opera-tion. In addition to steel, four batteries bat-teries of cokin ovens will supply considerable quantities of tar, gas, ammonium sulphate, motor fuel, etc. as by-products of the coke conversion process. To assure a constant supply of coking coal, the new Geneva coal mine has been developed and is in production in southeastern south-eastern Utah with a possible daily capacity of 8500 tons. The iron ore will come from Columbia Steel company's open pit mines in southern Utah, which are being greatly expanded. ex-panded. Limestone will be secured se-cured from large deposits near the steel plant. For many years, Columbia Steel company has been operating operat-ing a blast furnace at its Ironton plant near Provo, Utah. The national na-tional government, through the defense plant corporation, is adding ad-ding another larger blast furnace, fur-nace, which is scheduled to go into production of pig iron a-round a-round the first of March. It will produce about 950 tons of iron daily destined Tor the pacific coast war effort. |