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Show UTAH SIEEL PLANT ADDS MORE MEN STEEL PLANT PREPARES TO RESUME RE-SUME OPERATIONS ON INCREASING INCREAS-ING BASIS AT MIDVALE Plans Are Announced to Put Seventy-five Seventy-five More Workmen on Jobs February 10 and Gradually Build Up Force Midvale. One hundred men were put to work at the Midvale, Utah plant of the Ptah Steel corporation Wednesday, according to Morris Rosenblatt, Ro-senblatt, general manager of that company. com-pany. Another seventy-five men will be added to the ftorce on February 10, and from then on additions to the working orgaization will be made from time to time, as conditions improve and a market for steel products develops, de-velops, until the plant has reached a capacity basis. The ' present resumption re-sumption is about one-half capacity. The mills of the Utah Steel corporation corpor-ation will, however, reach capacity within tha next thirty days, while the open hearth department will continue con-tinue on the 50 per cent basis for some time. Mr. Rosenblatt estimates. Other industries also are making preparation pre-paration for a break in the industrial depression of the past several months. Marked improvement in conditions and indications that this improvement will continue are given by Mr. Rosenblatt Rosen-blatt as the reasons for resuming steel production at thsi time. "There can be no question as to the general improvement of conditions during the past few weeks," he said. ''We have orders for steel on hand and prospects pros-pects for future orders that warrant an immediate resumption of operations. opera-tions. Our plant will Increase its production as the demands for steel increases, and personally I Ibelieve the return to capacity will be rapid. W,e are pleased with the propects, not only because it means we are back in the market, but because it seems to herald an immediate relief from the acute sufferings of the unemployed." un-employed." In addition to the reopening of the Utah Steel corporation's plant, it was learned Friday that during the past few weeks the Garfield smelter has had a repair force grooming that mill to readiness in anticipation of a resumption re-sumption of ore shipments by the Utah Copper company. Officials of the latter company said that there has been no change from the situation as reported a few weeks ago and that no definite plans for resuming operations have been made. f Condition of the copper market does not at this time warrant a resumption resump-tion of production. |