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Snapshot: Life at the Columbia Steel Company, Utah, Nov 1942

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Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps in the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps in the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer operator who helps in the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Setting a pipe with a derrick during the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a new steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Tapping a heat of iron in the cast house of the blast furnace

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Pouring a heat of iron

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Pouring a heat of iron

Loveland Pass, Colorado. The road leading to the pass

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. An electric arc welder helping in the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Bulldozer used in grading during the construction of a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Two workmen at the new steel mill which is under construction

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Excavating and constructing open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Draglines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Excavating and constructing open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Drag lines are working day and night excavating for the building of open hearth furnaces for a new steel mill which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Tapping a heat of iron in the cast house of the blast furnace

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Tapping a heat of iron in the cast house of the blast furnace

Columbia Steel Company at Ironton, Utah. Tapping a blast furnace for an iron cast

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Constructing a water intake tunnel for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company for Geneva, Utah. Steel and concrete go into place rapidly as a new steel mill takes form. The new plant will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort

Columbia Steel Company at Geneva, Utah. Partly finished open hearth furnaces and stacks for a steel mill under construction which will soon be producing vitally needed steel