The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-01-06
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salt LAKE Man Conclude Neeot atoms
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Organ ation- Unite in
Huge Project

San Franc. SEQ, Cal-Utah, the l'itts-
burg OF the west
The gateway of the west opened to
Il new era Of development and indus
trail activity.
All this, and more looms today as
reality through the announcement
in San Francisc of the con
Summation of plans for a $25,000,OOO
merger to develop the rich iron de-
posits of Utah and launch gigantic
program of iron aud 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
u Steel company, with plants at Pitts
Durg, 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 5OO-ton blast furn-
ace.
Construction of a large by-products
coke plant.
Development of the Utah Coke &
Coal companys properties.
Building of a railroad from the Den
yer 4 Rio Grande Western Sunnyside
branch to the properties, a distance Of
four and six-tenths miles.
Development Of the rich iron de-
pOsits in Iron county, Utah.
Construction of twenty-flv miles Of
the Los Angeles aud 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 large steel plant
at or near Salt Lake.
The blast furnace and steel plant
will be located probably on Utah lake.
Behind this announced program. of
construction and development Hes a
plan calculated to open the west, from
Salt Lake to the Pacific, TO an era of
unprecedented business and industrial
prosperity.
In word, in the rich and undevel-
oped iron deposits Of Utah there are
calculated to be 3OO,OOOOcO tons Of iron
ore in the Iron Springs district alone
which are to be transformed into iron
and steal and manufactured into pro-
ducts of every description for sale and
use on the Pacific 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
iron and steel produce manufactured
for the first time from pig iron produc-
ed in the west.
| AlVW great Will 10 tlS TSSuItdul COIii-
mercial development, growth of trade,
expansion Of industries, employment:
Of skilled labor and increased popula-
ton is more than the men of big bus
ness behind this latest project cal
presage.
The father of the project is Salt
Lake man, L. F. Rains, president OF
the Carbon Fuel company and Other
corporations of Salt Lake.
Several years ago Mr.. Rains con
ceived the idea of merger that would
make possible laying open the rici
iron deposits of Utah and the develop
mont Of iron and steel product manu-
featuring in the west. He set to work
alone first. Two years ago his worl
became intensive. He consulted Others
and laid out his plans. Little by littl
he saw the idea grow and develop.
week or so ago he came to Sal
Francisco to conclude the deal witt
his associates. There we're confe;
cnces each day at which the myriad o
details incident to the plan were con
sidered and discussed by experts
Sunday all obstacles were swept asid
and Mr. Rains, his dream fulfilled, sa
mOdestly in the lobby of the Bellows
hotel telling his friends what he wa
going to do for Utah.