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Show STEEL PLANTS PLANNED , FOR SOUTHERN UTAH Capitalists Decide for Washington and Iron Counties as Against Location Lo-cation on the Pacific Coast. Salt Lake City. It is now believed that Washington county, Utah, is to become the center of the steel industry indus-try of the west. With the starting of construction work this fall on the Southwestern Pacific railroad from Grand Junction, Colo., to the Pacific coast, the Southwestern South-western Holding company will incorporate incor-porate an iron and steel company to develop the iron ore deposits of Washington Wash-ington and Iron counties, says the Salt Lake Herajd-Republican. It was at first proposed to build these steel mills on the Pacific coast, but at a meeting of the directors of the Southwestern Holding company held at Chicago, it was decided to build the mills in Utah, where they would be close to the raw material. In preparation for the launching of the industry in Utah, water rights, it is said, have been filed upon. The company, it is understood, has also filed upon sites for two large reservoirs reser-voirs to supply water to the proposed mills: The mills to be erected will cost ?30,000,000. They are estimated to have an annual capacity of 2,886,000 tons of pig iron. To make this amount of raw pig iron engineers say it will take 4,839,6S9 tons -of iron ore running 61 per cent hematite and 5,218.934 tons of coal to make sufficient suf-ficient coke to smelt me iron ore. It is estimate that wlien present plans are carried out, there will be 2,190 men employed in the steel mills and 2,000 additional njen in the structural struc-tural steel department. In the mining of the iron ore by steam shovels there will be 2,210 men employed, and in the mining of the coal and the making of the coke, 2,036 men will be employed, according to these estimates. esti-mates. About 1,000 men will be employed em-ployed in the limestone quarries. More than 10,000 men will thus be given employment in the mines and mills, according to the estimates which' were approved by the directors. |