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Officers Elected Bv Utah Dealers

H. B. Richards, Sugar House Lumber & Hardware Co., Salt Lake City, was elected president of the Utah Lumber Dealers Association at the annual convention, which was held jointly with the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, last month in Salt Lake City.

J. W. Randall, Pioneer Coal & Lumber Co., Ogden, was elected first vice-president; Byron J. Whipple, R' J. Whipple Lumber Co., Lehi, second vice-president, and C. N. Sargent, Morrison-Merrill & Co., Salt Lake City, treasurer.

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U. S. Steel Products To Dealer Trade

Since its founding in 1910, Columbia Steel Company, now a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, has considered itself a purely western enterprise.

In its early days, the facilities of the company consisted of one small open-hearth furnace and an iron foundry at Pittsburg, California, where steel castings were turned out for the expanding lumber, shipping and gold dredging industries. From this small beginning, Columbia Steel Company has expanded rapidly throughout the years until it is now the largest steel producer west of the Rocky Mountains.

In 1916, an additional open-hearth furnace rvas added to the Pittsburg Plant and from time to time others were built until today a total of six furnaces are in operation. By 1919, rolling n-rills were installed. While in 1923, a rod mill was placed in operation for the purpose of supplying rods for a new wire and nail mill.

This same year, Columbia Steel Company announced incorporation for the purpose of entering into the production of pig iron. The Utah Coal and Coke Company was included in the incorporation and coal and iron properties in eastern and southwestern Utah were added for a modern 500-ton blast furnace and coke-byproducts plant' In 1924, the first Utah iron was tapped from the furnace and made ready for shipment to California.

In the meantime, Columbia Steel Company had purchased the Torrance Plant of the Llewellyn Iron Works, thus expanding its operations into Southern California. In 1929, the addition of a tin mill was made to the Pittsburg Plant, making Columbia the only producer of tin plate west of the Mississippi River.

The same year, Columbia annouuced another forward step. An option on the company was purchased by the United States Steel Corporation and in 1930, the acquisition lvas completed. This brought the tremendous reserves of the Steel Corporation to Columbia, and the West Coast.

Immediate surveys were undertaken to determine methods rvhereby the variety and quality of Columbia's products could be improved. One of the first moves was to recondition the Torrance Plant. Modern machinery was installed and the plant is now rated as the most modern on the Pacific Coast. Four open-hearth and one electric furnaces provide steel for a variety of products manufactured at this plant.

At the present tirne, Columbia Steel Company employs some 5,000 persons and contributes materially to the industrial welfare of the entire Pacific Coast. A wide variety of products are manufactured in the company's mills and include nails, tacks and staples; 'ivire rope; woven wire fence and nettings; rolled steel products; castings; tin plate; and steel sheets for every purpose including corrugated roofing and sidings and the new Storm-Seal roofing.

The Geo. E. Ream Company, as wholesalers and jobbers of Columbia Steel products in Southern California, carry large stocks of nails, corrugated roofings, Storm-Seal, and nettings, to serve the dealer trade for use in the construction and building industry.