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PSGE NINE ;STORE HOURS SATURDAY 8 A. M. TO 8:30 P. M.; E pas OTHiti:'. Ku.3 MEDJGRtf' rSIL TRIBT7NE. SfEPgOTtt), oKEOONT. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30. HUG ( l in jn f mi i i mwpi nil iiE'wii STEEL ILL FOR SOVIET Russian 'Gary' Rising Near Mountain of Iron As American Engineers Prod 20,0000 Workers in Three Shifts Daily. By Victor Kubank. MAKIN-HTOCKMIBK, V. S. S. K. UP) Hare, a thousand miles from any cily of importance, the soviet union is building one of the biggest Kteel mills In the world. Americans who have seen it de scribe the place as "the Gary of Kusaia." It is rising from barven steppes in much the same manner an the steel town at the, southern end of Lake Michigan mushroom ed amid sand dunes of northern .Indiana. A city is springing up here, too, but thUH far the town consists prin cipally of shacks and tents. , And os In World war days, when military minds of the United Stales looked to Clary as a life-saver in case of disaster overseas, so the soviet authorities are appealing to the patriotic sen of It ussian workers to hasten the Magneto Korsk project to completion. Par from Moscow, From the standpoint of invasion by a foreign army, the project would be classed as "impossible." U J.fl more than l.oon miles almost due east of Moscow near where .Siberia and Kuropean llus.il a merge. The MagnetoKorsk works alone would constitute an important mil itary vertebrae for soviet defence, both from the east and west. liut it is only one link in a chain of such enterprises which the com- munist regime has planned in the I'nl region. Other plants are being built or are planned at Nljl-Tagil. Bakal sky. inarsky and Kuznetsk. Like most o the big projects now under way in the union, Mag netogorsk is being bossed by American engineers, the Arthur O. MeKee company of Cleveland hav ing the contract. Twenty MrKoe specialists are on the Job, although the winter wea ther here runs the North Pole tem perature a close second. Uut with SO, 000 men working in three shifts if eight hours each, the Americans nust Ignore the climate. Finished ill The huge metal plant is to ho completed, according to' the' "five year plan," .by 1933, but if work continues at the present pace en Kineers believe it will he in full operation before that time. Two of the big blast furnaces may be ready for work by the end of 1031.1 While the Soviets may envisage! the , uninterrupted production of war materials here In the future. 1 the first orders to bo filled will ho1 Tor the transport service of the' union. I dly the end of 1!31 It is desired that Magnetogorsk furnish 3r.0.000 tons of rails, 450,000 ions of beams. I 230,01)0 tons of assorted iron and, steel and 100,000 tons of roller inm for the immediate use of the rail- ways, which even the most opti-1 mlstlc communist will admit are in; a bad way now. i Need More Metal. . "More metal!" is the cry of the i soviet planners In their five-year! scheme to build "the world's great est Industrial nation." So the Mag-I netogorsk steel mills will he sur- vnnnded hv factories Which will haeten the conversion of its prod-j UCtS. ' Nearby a number or machine ' building plants, including those ror Industrial and agricultural ma chinery, are to he erected.' Foun dation work Is already under way for chemical plants and some smaller factories of the light in dustry class. The steel plant is nt the foot of "magnet mountain." which is al mont solid iron. No watcli can be guaranteed to keep the right time in Its vicinity and compasses arc worthless. Preliminary estimates place the mountain's content at a billion tons of ore. firowlnx lNipulation. A little more than a year ogo Magnetogorsk was a small village railed Magnetnaya. lly the time the various factories ore complet ed It Is expected to have n popu lation of more than SO.000. State and collective farms aro being or ganized to furnish food for the coming city. Magnetogorsk Is to get Its fuel frmn the rich Kuznesk basin, which j Is some hundred miles farther east i In Siberia, nnd which has n deposit; nt coke coal estlmnted at 400 bll-j lion tons. Double railway tracks. ore being laid between the steel works and the coal mines. Trains Are slow. Tho railway situation, a in other parts of the union, Is one of the present handicaps of the projects. A single track line now connects tho works with Tro tsk on the ' Trans-Siberian railway. There Is another single track line to Kartali. but this Is of the military field type and trains run over it at only five miles an hour. 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