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Show WATER FOR UTAH and potentially a by- product of electric furnace phosphorus; tungsten from Idaho and in potentially minor quantities from central Utah. Chromite, for ferrochrome, is not considered as available in commercial quantities in the Western States except at some isolated deposits, and its use would depend on imports. The production of ferroalloys consumes tremendous quantities of electric power. Individual requirements range from 2,000 to as high as 14,000 kilowatt- hours per ton. For this consumption, representing an important portion of the cost of manufacture, extremely low costs of power are essential. In this respect, ferroalloy production - heretofore concentrated in the East - is now well established in the Pacific Northwest. A most candid appraisal of potential West Coast steel alloy industries sustains the belief that Utah's potential requirements might be met most economically from its neighboring Pacific Northwest States. At the same time, national security and industry dispersal factors - together with stockpiling of ferroalloys and their mineral constituents - might emphasize the desirability of earmarking some power capacity for ferroalloy production in Utah's proposed multiple- purpose hydroelectric developments. One or two ferroalloy plants, of two furnaces each, would require between 16,000 to 32,000 kilowatts, representing between 125,000,000 and 250,000,000 kilowatt- hours per year. Incidentally some of this capacity would be utilized for calcium carbide production. The outlook for iron and steel production is excellent. Not only will increasing western population create growing and favorable market conditions, but the fabulous expansion which is taking place in the West's capital structure - in the construction of large multiple- purpose river improvements, enormous irrigation developments, new industrial and commercial buildings, roads and bridges and other structural projects - will create demands for iron and steel far beyond those normally brought about by population growth. In addition, given stable conditions in Pacific Basin countries, there are legitimate reasons to believe that the West will provide a large measure of their demands for iron and steel products. These states - like the West - are seeking to establish new production units for the full utilization of their own resources; they will thus require iron and steel in large tonnages which the West should supply. Utah's iron and steel industry cannot fail to be favorably influenced by the growth of these western markets. This should provide ample opportunity for major expansion in Utah not only of capacity but particularly in diversity of end- products. This will mean many hundreds of new jobs - new in the sense that they do not exist in Utah today. [ 56] |