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Show Blast Furnace Plans to Begin Salt Luke. Detailed investigation fcearing directly on the erection of the Mast furnaces of the Columbia Steel corporation in Utah will be started this week P. H. Botehford. general manager of the Columbia Steel corporation corpor-ation accompanied by H. A. Erassert of the engineering firm of Freyn & Brasert of Chicago, and S. A. Kennedy another Chicago engineer, arrived in Salt Lake recently to undertake the investigation. Both Mr. Brassert and Mr. Kennedy are blast furnace experts. The last of the big contracts in connection con-nection with the opening of tire coal property of the Columbia in Carbon county was let a few ago. It covered the erection of the camp buildings and the installation of the town water wa-ter system. The camp is to be known us Columbia. Two contracts previously previous-ly awarded provided for 1he grading of the line for the Carbon County railroad, a subsidiary of the Columbia, the tipple yards and surface tramway, and for the necessary underground work to open the coal deposits. The three contracts represent a totel expenditure ex-penditure of Rbout $750,000. |