Henry J. Kaiser's chief worries as a steelmaker have been over iron ore for his plant at Fontana, Calif. This week Kaiser felt that these worries were ended. After more than two years of haggling he had acquired mining rights to famed Eagle Mountain, best source of ore in the West.
Kaiser has been hauling most of his ore 185 miles from low-grade diggings at Kelso, Calif., the rest 500 miles from Cedar City, Utah. Eagle Mountain, rising naked on the edge of the Mojave Desert, is only 153 miles from Fontana, is...
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