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Show Columbia Steel COMPLETES MACHINE SHOP The maintenance shop at the Geneva Steel plant near Provo, Utah, is finished and ready for use in connection with the west's largest steel mill, the buiding of which is steadiy progressing under un-der the guidance of Columbia Steel Company, a U. S. Steel subsidiary. sub-sidiary. The building marks another complete unite in this vast government gov-ernment war plant. It is some 600, feet long and is unusual with its absence of windows in solid, red brick walls. Artificial lighting is employed for the workmen who will operate seven over-head cranes and two long lanes of sturdy stur-dy "fixit" machinery on either side of a spacious concrete aisle. As an aid to efficiency, a combination combin-ation air-cooled and heating plant has been installed The yearly output of the Geneva Gen-eva plant, of which the maintenance mainten-ance shop is but a small unit, will be 700,000 tons of ship plates and 200,000 ton of structural steel to swell the flow of critical materials mater-ials to the west coast shipbuilding shipbuild-ing industr.y The maintenance shop is unique un-ique in that all repairs and maintenance main-tenance will be centered in it, the necessity of smaller shops around the plant yards. It is probable prob-able the largest building of its kind in western America, which was purposely constructed to serve one industrial plant. T |