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Show v. J . SALT LAKE a. V. -- ' ' OF u "F MINES CITY VALLEY SMELTER WESTERN MINERAL rtwni SURVEY ... .... MNt 11.173c LEAD, par cor TEE pmwA ....... GOLD H ul ,.ia..KtH SJtSOc ZINC SILVER (per M. new Mind) SILVER (per ) n. ifrttel te the nlalng and etl iadaelriec tf Utah the Went. A re a me ef the 4 veiapmeata U carried each week. le W.Stc 1JUt Features Mining, Oil, Financial $2.00 Year, $1.00, 6 Mos. , Solt Lake City, Utah, April 16, 1943 VOL. 14, NO. 16 takes Sees Many Uses For U S. Coal NEW , YORK A bright future for the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose livelihood depend on the coal Industry was foreseen today by Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, in an analysis of coals new role as a base for the manufacture of gasoline, synthetic rubber, plastics, drugs and chemicals. A new industry based on the use of coal looms on the horizon, Ickes declared nt n an article which will appear in the April issue of the In its zine, Coal Age. magaestab- lishment I hope soon to lend an official hand. Ickes announced that he was preparing to ask Congress for legislation to authorize him, as secretary of the Interior, to build and operate a demonstration-type- , industrial-scalcoal hydrogenation pilot plant or plants to foster commercial production of gasoline and other petroleum products which can be made from coal by the hydrogenation process. The fact is that discoveries of new oil reserves have been for several years past at a rate scarced of the presly equal to ent rate of consumption, Ickes, who is also petroleum coordinator for war, asserted, pointing out that the time when our petroleum reserves and Imports become inadequate may be far less distant than everr the betternform-- : ed have foreseen. Even' gran that petroleum reserves may. not be exhausted within 13 or 14 years, the secretary declared: It is no part of wisdom for you or me to sit idly by, twidour thumbs, while waiting dling ror accidents or miracles to solve the inevitable problems already so uncomfortably close at hand n supplying the nations liquid uel and oil requirements. Ickes disclaimed ay intention of furthering government competition with private industry in his iroposal for government opera-io- n e Will Soon Here Smelter And inMine Workers live in war need for strategic metals With the tremendous increase production, many special problems have arisen in connection with stepping up activity of the mining industry. The manpower problem is one of the biggest headaches, but even when workers are to be found there is often nowhere for the men and their families to live. To me?t this difficulty, new towns are springing up in Important mining areas and one of the outstanding examples is shown above, where International Smelting and Refining Company and National Tunnel and Mines Company workers will soonTbe living, near Tooele. The model housing rnitrare-nenrlwill bc'avatlableto minond mclteiwoekerat minlniunrTent.-'-t complete-an- rrv d ; Transition To .Be Easy V Work Delayed On Float Mill Labor Draft Seen Certain In 4 Months NEW YORK National serv- have to be taken away from industries and rationed to essential industries and that battalions of city dwellers will have to be mobilized to work on the farms. -"In other words, people will have to be moved from place to place. And officials point out that It is at precisely this juncture that every other belligerent nation in the war has found compulsion necessary. The Austin-Wad- s worth bill, calling for the compulsory mobilization of industrial and farm workers through selective service, is not necessarily the one that will pass, the magazine declared. If sentiment for the bill increases, howtrial employment and the armed ever, an administration substitute services continue to rise will in- might be Introduced and enacttensify the squeeze in the' near ed, it predicted. The h future, the magazine declared, bill, on which hearasking: ings are currently being held by "What then? WMC officials al- the Senate military affairs comready foresee (when speaking off mittee, Is opposed both by the the record) that reserves will CIO and the AFL, but has been have to be rus.ied in from labor See FACTORY on Page 4 surplus areas, that manpower will non-essenti- ice legislation, commonly called Relatively little confusion is a "labor draft law will be enexpected in passing from Produc- acted by Congress within four Factory Mantion Requirements Plan to Co- months, magazine Maintenance has and agement ntrolled Materials Plan, says Steel. predicted. ' Indications are that practically x Warning that a serious manall consumers who had rated or--, power "squeeze is developing in ders definitely promised for sec-- , the 36 communities which the Commission has ord quarter delivery, as of March War Manpower as "labor ' 22, designed shortage will have them certified- under CMP before April 15, when allot- areas, the magazine declared that ment numbers under the latter somebody industry, agriculture , take precedence. Some sellers re--. or the armed services will have to go begging so long as all three port that more than 90 per cent are competing for the local supply of their customers have supplied ' ' allotment numbers and the per- of employables within the existlabor force. centage for June rolling is ex- ingThe rush to get 300,000 temto even be larger. pected . At the moment many large pro- porary farm workers while indus. - -- ducers are making no delivery promises on new business, waiting. until they can appraise the situation, but survey indicates they will have little capacity left, even in plain carbon products. Current new orders for hob rolled carbon steel bars stand little chance of being scheduled for rolling before June and, with average volume of alloca-- . tions. probably little June capacity will be available. In larger rounds and flats second quarter rolling on new business is impossible except on directives. n bars are even tighter and August is about the best that can be offered ort current contracts. Fabricators able to obtain ship subassembly and other government work to replace their norma lnes note considerable reduction in this demand as military bases, cantonments and similar projects are completed. Those situated rear shipyards have plenty of. prefabricating work. Tankmakers find their field yields little business but additional high-tes- t gasoline and synthetic rubber plants may bring additional work of this character. Transition of plates entirely to CMP may be slower than in other products and may not be completed until June rollings or later. Plate distribution by allocations has been efficient and See STEEL on Page 4 . Cold-draw- Austin-Wadswort- - LEADVILLE, Colo. Work on the Ore & Chemical Corporations sink and float mill west of here has not progressed as rapidly as was hoped for. Work was started last November. Winter has had its effect on the work and there have also been delays in receiving material and machinery. There has been sufficient help for the projects but as is the case on most projects at present, more men could have been used. . The crusher building lias been practically completed and the main mill building is about GO per cent finished. With good breaks in the weather and no further delays on vital material and machinery it i3 expected the plant will be ready for operating in about two more months. The mill, which .should prove a boon to local mining hot only how but after the war, is located just south of the boulevard road extending from W. Third St. Western Knapp Engineering Co. are builders of the mill. Mining Men Again Turn Toward Alaska Following many of the trails brazed by the sourdoughs of OS, exploratory crews of the Bureau of Mines are braving Alaskas frigid weather and forbidding terrain in a quest for war minerals to supply metals for the factories thcJf are turning out fighting equipment Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes said today in describing the bureaus accelerated exploratory program for mercury, tungsten, . tin and other strategic materials. With a view to getting minerals for war and to foster a greater development of Alaskas ore reserves, the bureaus crews are moving in by pack train, airplane, river boat, and dog team to areas of the territory and are canying on their work despite handicaps created by subzero weather, severe storms, and limited transportation facilities. Because of the remoteness of the sections being explored, "the , ,i men little-- - build their own Rivers are being sampled for tin . known . must camps, clear their own trails and ore by one group of often establish transportation sys- and geologists, while engineers examinatems. In manv instances the tions nave been made of tin placground must be thawed ly ar- ers in the ore Mountain area, at Cape Mountain, tificial means to obtain samples. Dr. R. R. Sayers, Direc- near Tin City, and in the Lost tor of the Bureau of Mines, has River area, all on the Seward informed Secretary Ickes. Peninsula, near the Arctic Circle. of the Oddly enough, much bureaus search centers in the Near Sleitmut, on the Koshok-wiRiver, another Bureau of discarded material (tailings) left at placer operations and dredges Mines crew is sinking a shaft in of more mercury ore. Here by mining men of former days search who sought' only gold. Many of a considerable quantity of commthese tailings contain some val- ercial-grade mercury ore has uation tin ore, and while the been found, and private interests, United States production of tin is the bureau has been advised, will very small, Alaska today leads begin development of the properthe nation in its output. ty in the near future. At Moose The bureau's exploration of the Lost River tin mine on the Seward Peninsula has indicated a sube stantial tonnage of tin ore. Tailings in the Manley Hot Springs area near the junction of the famed Yukon and Tanana low-grad- . Buck-Creek-Pota- to one-thir- t-- ng of a large-scal- e pilot plant. "Before I can be boiled alive in some of the oil that we still have eft for trying to shove the government into competition with private enterprise on another ie said, let me offer my reasons for believing that this egislation is not only wise but ndispensable to our future security. It already is known to all industrial .chemists that, gasoline and other petroleum products may be obtained from coal and lignite by both direct and indirect hydrogenation. Both processes were invented and first put into commercial-scal- e producton in Germany, "The annual production rate today from German plants of both types is estimated at 5,000,000 metric tons or more. This is bed lieved to be more than of Hitlers war-tim- e requirements . for Luftwaffe, tanks, and all. Im-periol Chemical Industries is operating a direct hydrogenation plant in England with a capacity of 3,540 barrels a day. Other commercial plants of unknown See COAL on Page 4 ' one-thir- Royalty Basis Frozen Royalties paid by domestic mine operators for copper, lead, adn zinc ores mined from leased properties were frozen by OPA on April 1 at the rates in effect on Dec. 31, 1942. This was done to ensure that additional premiums on lead and zinc recently authorized under the premium price plan may be used to meet actual costs of producing these Creek, near Anchorage, several metals. OPA holds that diversion diamond drill holes have been of the added premiums into ins driven to obtain an accurate pic- creased royalties to rean in reserves amount coal to of that unwarranted would ture gion. On Prince of Wales Island expenditure of public funds contributing nothing toward See ALASKA on Page 4 land-owner- |