The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-11-18
TO DEVELOP UTAH
STEEL RESOURCES
$25,ooo,o 600 CONCERN PLANS TO
BUILD MODERN PLANTS AND TO
OPEN STATES IRON DEPOSITS
salt Lake Man concIudes Negotiations
In which Substantial Industrial
Organizations Unite in
Huge Project


San Francisco, Cal. Utah, the Pitts.
burg Of tAe west.
The gateway OF the west opened to
a new era of Development and indus.
trail activity.
All this, and more looms today as
reality through the announcement
in San Francisco of the CON
Summation of plans for S25,Oo0,o09
merger to develop the rich iron de.
posts of Utah and launch gigantic
program of iron and steel production
in Utah, California and Oregon.
INTO this mammoth financial and
business amalgamation have been
drawn the Utah Coal & Coke company
of Sunnyside, Utah; the Columbia Iron
& Steel company, with plants at Pitts
burg, Cal, and Portland, Ore. the
Southern California Steel company Of
Los Angles and several rich iron prop
critics in the Iron Springs mining dis
trict in Iron county, Utah.
Included in The plans formulated by
those affecting the merger are these
enormous projects:
Construction of a 500-ton blast furn-
ace.
Construction of a large by-products
coke plant.
Development of the Utah Coke &
Coal company's properties.
Building of railroad from the Den
yer & Rio Grande Western Sunnyside
branch to the properties, distance of
four and six-tenths miles.
Development of the rich iron de-
pOsits In Iron county, Utah.
Construction of twenty-five miles of
railroad from the station of Lund on
the Los Angeles and Salt Lake route
to connect the iron deposits with the
main line of the railroad.
Taking over of several large lime
stone deposits near Salt Lake.
Further development of the three
plants of the Columbia Steel company
and the Southern California Steel COM
pany.
Development of a large steel plant
1t or near Salt Lake.
The blast furnace and steel plant
sill be located probably on Utah lake.
Behind this announced program of
construction and development lies a
plan calculated to open the west, from
/ 81 ~ Lake to the Pacfic, to an era of
unprecedented business ard industrial
prosperity.
In word, in the rich and undevel-
ped iron deposits of Utah there are
calculated to be 3O0,000,000 tons of iron
ire in the Iron Springs district alone
shsch are TO be transformed into iron
md steel and manufactured into pro-
lucts of every description for sale and
use on the Pacfie slope and adjacent
states of the west.
And from this will follow, in the
opinion of those behind the gigantic
project, and era of new industries In
the west; new manufactures using the
ron and steel produce manufactured
for the first time from pig iron produc-
ed in the west.
How great will be the resultant COM
nercial development, growth of trade,
expansion of industries. employment
Of skilled labor and increased popula-
lion is more than the men of big bust
ness behind this latest project can
presage.
The father of the project is a Salt
Lake man, L. F. Rains, president of
the Carbon Fuel company and other
corporations of Salt Lake.
Several years ago MIR. Rains con-
cetyed the idea of merger that would
make possible laying open the rich
iron deposits of Utah and the develop.
nent of iron and steel product manu-.
featuring In the west. He set to work
alone first. Two years ago his work
became intensive. He consulted others
and laid out his plans. Little by little
he saw the idea grow and develop.
A week or so ago he came to San
Francisco to conclude the deal Will
his associates, There were confer
ences each day at which the myriad OF
details incident TO the plan were con
sidered and discussed by experts
Sunday all obstacles were swept aside
and Mr.. Rains. his dream fulfilled. sal
nsodestly in the lobby of the Bellows
hotel telling his friends what he wa.
geing 20 do for Utah.
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