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Show JANUARY 15, 1943 THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Denver Meet Trading Remains Slow On S.L. Stock Exchange For Week Awaited By Trading was tilightly more active last week on the Salt Wests Miners Lake Stock Exchange, hut volume was still small and price Recent Stock Quotations Spokane Stock Exchange changes, for the most part, slight Verbal fireworks are expected Tintic Lead, which a few when leaders of the nation'! vital Quote Ilona furniahed mouths ago was selling at four Co. of Spokane. war metal mining industry and A Neyutered Slocka cents and lias since had a rapid Clarion high ranking government officlimb, was selling at a peak of Nayroi-ten cents on Saturday, but fell cial! gather heer on Jan. to Gladstone Golcenda back to 9U on Thursday. convenattend the annual ,46th Grandview Among the unlisted stocks, HnHn tion of Asthe Colorado Mining Utah Power and Light 71 climb. Independence sociation and a western war coun- Jack Waite d to $48 last Friday and held Xew Perk. 100 at 41; MO it 41 Mints cil which la to be held In conjuncfirm through the week. Z. C. M. at 41: 1M nt 41; 1M at 44. Net. M. A L. North Lily, SO at U; 1M at 40: SOS at tion with the convention. I., selling for 50 on Friday was Metropolitan 40. down a dollar the following day Metropolitan Welker. 101 at SS. Objectives of the meeting have Polarla and inactive for the rest of the Sherman been To fourfold: announced as to down 948. Sil Summit week, with bidding JAS. SATURDAY, consider the welfare of the na- Standard THURSDAY, JAN. 14 tion at war, the welfare of the in- Sunahine Sun Can dustry that must sustain the na- Timinuk Alla. Tub tion at war, to expose the influ- United La Am. Mel. 11. Co. ences that are daily working un- IKI.MTKD STOCKS Big Hiil Melik Birrtuun der cover to impair or destroy Bunker Hill Block Hotel. the American mining Industry, Callahan Boiuuiu Mininr .. Bullion, 1AM at li. MrGillirrar and to disclose the agencies and New Broiol tilrer . .., Ltsiton. 1,000 at li: LIN nt li. World Bullion Nt. View, l.SM et 3. Influences, foreign and domestic, Mo trie Five Cardiff 301 100 Kew Perk. at 40; n 40; 3M nt that are Intent upon Oreille Pend Cedar Tain impairing Premier . Ceulral Standard Tlntie Std. 1M at M0: 3M at l.M; the American monetary system duel ConMirer Mary MS at MS . of silver value the by W. W. Fewer destroying Clayton Tiutir Lead. Ml el 10: 000 et U. and gold in our monetary setup Whitewater Colorado Con ... (M.UTEIt Calk Bexall ... with the Idea eventually of Im- SALKS C. M, L, I nt 40.00. Com blued Melile 1L 1043, Men. F. Comet Cool 'I . . pairing in a postwar period the Jan. A. M. Salea Commonwealth I commercial activities of our BOARD SALES .. Sr Edwerd Lnvisne IKTESSNSSIOM Refialend Hecla, country, Two special events will highlight the conference the sowbelly dinner on the closing night, and a raw materials banquet on the previous evening. ' Cardiff. 1.000 it US. Those invited to address the Eu. Bull. MS at 13. Kew Perk. 3M el 40 100 U 40, 300 it meeting include J. H. Marsman 40. of San Francisco; Geo. B. ThatchTlntie Lrer, 1.IM at IK: 1.001 nt U: er of Reno, Nev.; Guy N. BJorge 1.0M at M: IN at U; 3M et 10. of Lead, 8. D.; Errol MacBoyle LM.INTEII of Grass Valley, Cal.; Dr. R R. Uk Pr. A Lk 01. I at 4I.M; I nt MAS S. C. M. I. 0 at MAO. Bayers, director of the U. 8. Bureau of Mines; Maj. Gen. Levin H. Campbell, chief of ordnance of the war department. Others invited to speak are Colonel Lewis Sanders of the selective service system. Senator B. Henderson. Mortem Charles MacCartney of the Reconstruction Finance Corp, and Senators ANGELS CAMP, Calif. RePat McCarran, Ed. C. Johnson opened by Mountain Copper Co. and Eugene D. Milllkln. the Napoleon copper property in the Copperopolia field is said o be responding favorably to opening of new ground with early production planned. J. M. Basham, former manager of the nig Canyon gold mine, la In charge of activities at the Napoleon. Testing of the West Belt Copper group near Copperopolia is R. C. Wright, better known scheduled to start immediately locally as "Death Valley Curley, under supervision of the U. S. and Frank Llvesley, both GoldBureau of Mines. Holes will be field residents, claim to have drilled to a maximum depth of made a strike of valuable steat1.000 feet. by Sullivan Machinery soft talc, in the ite, known Co., at a cost below 93 a foot The Burro mining district of Invo area Is largely virgin, adjacent COunty, California, Just over the to several formerly noted red Nevada California line. . metal producers. The drills are It is claimed that this find expected to locate deep seated deconstitutes the fourth deposit posits. In the United States. The mete-ria- l la in demand by shipbuid-er- a and steel plants operating on the Pacific Coast, and arrangements are being made to ship the material from Goldfield to the coast users. Last weeks electricity output the The discoverers assert of the Commonwealth Edison much desired talc fin has been group of companies, excluding istlnctly outlined in a body eight ales to other electric utilities, to fifteen feet in width and more showed a 5.7 per cent increase than 600 feet In length. ( over the corresponding period erf Pending conclusion of shipping year ago. Following are the la ore the kilowatt-hou- r being output totals of arrangements taken out, something like 100 the past four weeks and percenalmaterial the of tons having tage comparisons with last yean KILOWATT-HOUOUTPUT ready been stored. In bins. Union E. Crown Feint . East Standard ... E. Tin. Coal Eaot Utah AIK Empin Mince Eureka Bullion . Eureka Lily Con Eureka Minee ... Eureka Standard California Aline Reopened By Mountain Copper May Macnolie land .... Mammotk Miller Hill Minen Geld Miaaouri Monarch Meeeow ML City Cepper .. Mountain View .. KaUdrlrer Kaw Park Kew Fremler .... Xew Quincy .... North Lily No. Standard .... Ohio Copper ... Bo. Iron Bloeiom .... ... Electric Output Shows Increase. Walker .Soloi.j..uia,l Weal Toledo Wilbert Yankee Con. Oea Ut. Id. Sue. Com Ut. Ld. Buy. Fid UNLISTED STOCKS Ffd Anul. Buy. Mch Con. Way. 4 Ut. Fin Clay Ut. P. A L. M Pfd. Ut. F. A la IT PM. C. M. L MIES 41 - at It. Eureka Lilly Con. Week Ended Thle Yr. Lut Tr. Bcw Park. 1M at 44: MS at 44: US at 44: 1M at 44. 3. 143 111.S03.SM 1S3.014.0M Jin. Park Premier. 1.004 at L Pen SOL IMS .110.404.000 1M.43I.OOO Tlntie Lead. LOOS at tli: LIOS at IK: Dm II. IMS. 100. 131.000 1M.S1O.0M 1.S04 at IK: 1.100 at SK: 1.000 at 0. Dec. IS, IMS .103. 111.000 1 10.110. SM Walker, 304 at SO. UL Id. Com. U at 3.33. SOO WEDNESDAY, JAN. IS STOCKS Amaly. Buy Fid Cou. Way A Mach. Ut. Firo Clay Li P A L 00 Fid Ut F A L 01 PM E C. MLKS Ml. ON Briatot Comet Cm. 7.71 4 00 OSAO 4S.OO 44.04 40.00 MAO Ill 4TJ0 a M. L T.M MAO 40A0 at 4tt. Ill at M. Coaln. 300 at I. Ed. Oil. Eureka Standard, 100 at 0; MS at O' at 0. Xew Park, ISO at 4S: 400 at 44: 100 at 1000 44. Ohio Cooper lot at tli. Pllver Kiny Coaln. 100 at 1A0; US at MS Untie Lead. M0 at Walker. MS UXLISTED-Ko- at 10. . 3k. ne. the surface and by underground rrosscuttlng has been finished. The reconditioning of another haft and additional drifting and g TUESDAY, JAN. II Jan. 4.00 MAS 44.00 40.30 3.H MAS 41.00 41 A0 40.00 MAO Tucedey. 13, 1343. SALKS Btny. Met. 1000 Clarion ML, is planned. 8. Abbott is general at Mi. IN at 30. UNLISTED I. Comb. Mot. 1000 Ed. Lilly Con. ISOS at 11. KaUdrlrer, 1M at 11. Xew Park. 300 at 41; M at 41: it 00 at UWt Ary.tOO at 41: Ml at M. Tinlle Sid. 1M at 1.3SK.. 1M at MS. US at MS: MO ut MS. in. Pr. A Lk $7. I at MAS: B at man-age-r. Oregon Discovery Contains Vanadium SALEM, Ore. The discovery in Oregon of a mineral deposit metal containing vanadium, vital to the war production, is announced by Earl K. Nixon, director of the state department of geology and mineral Indus- tries. OFFICE, INC. Near the center of Curry County In the coast range of southwestern Oregan, the mineral was previously reported as an iron ore deposit. The presence of vanadium was detected by use of the spectroscope In the new spectographlc laboratory of the department. Auayeri end Chemists Another U. S. Mine Loan ASSAY UNION Box 1528 PEARCE. Ariz. Walter N. Sim Pearce has been granted a Class C 95000 RFC preliminary development loan for the Tout mine locate'" in the Dos Cabes-adistrict of Cochise County. Wn erf Established 1887 H. E. s HAVENOR & CO. Salt Laka City, Utah 500 Newhousa Building MENSES SALT LAZE STOCK EXCHANGE tXFOBMATIOH FURNISHED ON UTAH COMPANDS OIDUS EXECUTED ON AU EX CHAN CBS Talaphena UTAH ORE 57 SAMPLING COMPANY ACCURATE RESULTS MODERN MILLS OFFICE AND MILLS Ore Milled At Golconda Plant WALLACE, Idaho The Golconda plant is milling about tons of ore for the Lucky Friday Mining Co. The ore is the same character of mill feed that produced a $16,000 shipment last month and has been produced while the company Is getting ready to continue the shaft on down to the 700 level. Arizona Mine Gets Development Loan Sun The AH PHOENIX, Dance mine In the Hassayampa district will be developed by means of an RFC preliminary development loan recently granted to Edwin F. Rlppey of Phoenix, the leasee. The property worked for 25 has not been years and It is understood that new equipment will be needed and unwatering to and Including the 300 foot level will be necessary. Tungsten Mine Makes Shipments ft BISHOP, Calif. Harmon Kempe of Ojal. who an operat- ing the Western tungsten mine under lease from Western Tungsten Corp., are producing 000 tons of ore monthly. The ore la treated In the 150 ton milling J. B. Forrester, Bishop, superintendent at the. mine 10 miles which la located northwest of here. The property i Mackay Operator Obtains Loan Idaho. MACKAY. R A. Strunk of Mackay has received mining approval of a preliminaryunwaterloan for development ing. numbering and other development work on the Horseshoe mine near White Knob. Strunk applied for this loan about six weeks ago and It has the been approved through the Helena .Mont, office of mining division of the RFC Commonwealth Edison Declares Dividend ' INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SAMPLING I Gra-vll- le T.ll 1.30 Eaehenyo 1J GILT EDGE, Mont. Shipments of copper, lead and zinc ores to the smelter are expected to tart in the near future from the Black Bull mine in the Warm Springs dlatrlcL Mine roads are a now 80 per cent completed, haft has Just been reconditioned, on some work and development cross-cuttin- UNLISTED STOCKS Antely. Buy. Pfd Con. Way. A Mch. Uk Tire Clay Uk F A L M Pfd. Uk F A L II. Fid. X. C. M. 1 Balt Lake Stock In. PH. 0.1 0A ISA Montana Aline To Start Shipments Non UNLISTED at PROMPT SERVICE MURRAY, UTAH At a meeUng held Jan. 5, Commonwealth Edison Company declared a dividend of 35 cents a hare on Its stock. payable February 1. 1943, to stockholders of record at the close of buelness on January 15. 1943, Chairman Charles Y. Freeman announced. the This is at the same rate quarterly dividends paid since August 1, 194 (Continued From Page One) lal thereto; or any other matters In connection with the above specifications deemed appropriate or pertinent In the Interest of national defense, proper prosecution of the war, or the promotion and protection of the national interest . . . and this subcommittee consisted of the Honorable Frank W. Boykin, of Alabama, as chair-maand in addition, the following members: Him.. Henry M. . COUNT XK QUOTATIONS counter Them euotaUons on thn evar-t- h alack moult from bide and often hr tha members el thn Standard Kwtunie. n, Hon. Jackson, of .Washington; John A. Meyer, of Maryland; Virof Hon. Winder R Harris, ginia Hon. Richard J. Welch, of California; Hon. Francis D. of New York; Hon. Gordon Canfield, of New Jersey. Your committee submits herewith its report, stressing the important of the Investigation, the results obtained to date, and the necessity for the continuance of the work to Its completion in the Interest of national defense. Your committee entered upon this investigation fully mindful of the Importance of steel in the war program; for without an adequately abundant flow of this basic metal we cannot have the munition ships and tanks necessary to win the war. Your committee has found that the supply of steel is woefully short of the Requirement as set forth each month by the service agencies (Le., the Maritime Shipbuilding, the Navy and the Cul-kl- n, M. 0: it tli: LON Va. furniahed hr J, A. TTieee quotations Horle Company, 133 South Main Street, Salt Lake City. Utah: H4 AU Anaconda Conner JW U4 AH American S. R. Co. HK Hnmmlaks Minna IN International Hiekel KN Kennerolt Copper UVV, U. S. SmeH. Kef, . VSS Ut. Metale and Tunnel NTM National Tunnel LT National Lead JO SL Joseph Lead .......'.'"tli 34D3S 14 Unlisted Mining Stocks furnished hy Rich-ei- d Kip Van Winkle quotation! cT1 Badeev, 131 South Mela Street. Sunshine Cone A Silver Dollar Salt Like City.. d Aaked Silver Dollar B Storks Mercur Dome Binrham Deretopmeni .... Park City Utah Equity OilOil Kew Binibem Mary Diamond ... Wsr Departments). Notwithstanding the many drastic Wsr Production Board limitation or- ders Issued since Pearl Harbor-ea- ch of which prohibits the use of steel in the manufacture of hundreds of items the shortage till persist The magnitude flf this shortage Is so serious that any public statement of the actual figures la impassible at this time, for such information would Asked be of real aid to the enemy. During the 8 months of your 9 3.10 never 7.55 Inquiry the supply has 400 come even close to meeting tie 25A0 demand for steel, as Indicated by Bid Amalgamated Sugar Common. Amalgamated Sugar Preferred Consolidated Wagon ft Machine First Security Corp. Class A. 7.85 Utah Oil Refining .i'li 49.00 47.00 Utah Power ft Light 97 Preferred 50.00 Z. Cn Me I Furnished bv Ed word L. Burton and Company, Jan. 14, 1943, 160 South Main Street, Salt Lake City. Utah. .- -- Tintic Standafd .. Union Chlel Utah Coo. UL Wyo. Coo. Oil Uollated 100 IKTEKSESSIOX Eastern Stocks . New Discovery Flulua Prince Con Bieo Anentine . . Boynton Coalition Silver Kina Cool Sllrer King Weal Swanea Con. Tar Baby Tuttle Central Ttnttc lead at Sponge Iron Process Urged To Supplement Blast Furnaces - at 4044. Burro Mining District Yields Park Bincham .. Park City Coo. .. Park Xonold .... Park Behan .... Park Premier .... Park Utah .. Brlatol So. Standard Independence, 1,000 l.M Sefiaiercd Sunshine, 3M at 4A . Gold Chain Great Weetern . Horn Bilrar Howell Indian Queen ... Kennebec Kentucky Utah . Keyetono Little Xrriatrrrri at 413. Bunker Hill, M nt IMS. F. M. Salea 20-3- Creeueat' Safin Crofl Crown Feint .... 31 Tamarack, Unlisted Gold Properties Seen On Market Bargain Counter following discussion to biy stocks is when every(The want to sell, and the time one leacF slocks si was) printed gold recent edition of. to sell stocks Is when everyone, editorial In The Mining Record of Denver,. wants to buy. The public usually buys stocks when they are at Colorado). that Is the top. The average trader lacks A wise suggestion to buy when everyprevalent among dealers in the courage off unstocks listed on the New York , one is blue, so he holds Stock Exchange Is that the time ' til there is optimism sweeping the land and his courage Is back to normal and stocks are high Production-- Copper Mines To Operate On Cost Plus Basis B. C. Alabama Congressman Discusses Means Of Meeting Steel Shortage gain. the requirements which the service agencies set forth as necessary for their monthly producInstead, all three tion need service agencies are regularly compelled to curtail their schedules and war production and to pare down their requirements figures to the total amount of steel which the steel mills are producing. ShipbuUdlni .been canceled, contracts fcave munitions and (other1 war production has been retarded and military programs have been altered downward for , want of ateel. The extent to which the steel industry and Government agencies can further contribute toward Increasing the total Iron and steel output through a complete utilization of existing faculties and established technology likewise calls for further lit qulry and examination. Your committee reports that of the Iron and Steel Branch the War Production Board had, on formally disapAug. 20, 194 proved a June 27, 1942. application of the Republic Steel for a plant to produce 35,000 annual iron. In the tons of sponge course of several days deliberation and before examination of witnesses and related Information was completed, the War Production Board on Oct 20, 1842, communicated to the committee, that It (War Production Board) had reconsidered and rescinded its former action and thereupon approved the project and recommended the granting of the necessary loans by the Defense Plant Corporation to effect Its Immediate construction. Needless delays and red tape procedure have occupied moat of the two intervening month and The ceaslesa bickering the intolerable attitude shown all proposals which would dem- What Is true of listed stocks. Is also true of gold properties. ( Continued From Page One) Superficial thinkers and publictries will be confronted with ity seeking political ineconomists preaching take great delight three major problems manpowthe opinion that gold is now er, material! and machine tools. and "The machine tool industry and forever In the discard that when a new world evolves which has been establishing remarkable production records for after the war. neither gold or high the put several years still has silver Trill hold their formerworld. a huge backlog; estimated . at nonitions in the money measabout eight months. Most of the Gold has always been the tools on order are critical, and ure of values and will continue they are delivered demand, to be the most sought-afte- r treasure now and hereafter. for other critical tools is certain to arise, due to change In the The exigency of the present type of munition needed. time that has caused the govin"Another difficulty of the ernment to postpone activities are In the gold mining industry so dustry is that the backlogs Pro-1 that metal miners employed In unevenly distributed. War ductlon Board now Is acting to gold mines would seek employment in strategic metal mines level out these backlogs to expehas cast doubt on the future of dite deliveries. and materials gold mining among those who "Manpower know their history. Gold shortages are obvious. Institu-- . dod not tion of the Controlled Materials. will sell higher before It sells lower and gold mining and silPlan should send the critical maver mining will stage boom conterials to the end uses most needditions after the war. Now is the onstrate the merit erf the sponge-iroed, while the drastic controls es-- , tablished over labor under the' ' time to purchase gold mines and processes and the delay in War Manpower Commission and gold prospect getting the benefits of this procattess under way la largely the use of manning tables is exWhen stocks are in the buydoes not ributed to the state of mind prepected to result In a more order-- : ing sone the public want them. So it Is with gold valent In War Production Board ly distribution of the available Iron and Steel Branch. mining propertle Gold shares supply. Training programs still It re In the buying zone, but At the present rate erf mining In progress for women, handiand e of lron orei at the capped workers, and others not takes courage to recognise Is there our act. In opinion vast Mesabl Range open pit exnormally included In the labor exsuch an that haustion is expected at about force should add many new skillappears nothing cellent investment or speculation 1945. The extent to which this ed and semiskilled laborers. time than the gold at YEAR SOME FACE LEAN present significant threat to the whole to able proproperty Industries war economy la understood, and "While many njllf miningat a duce profit or prospect has been provided for by acbe working far beyond what once property that has the earmarks tion of file agencies responsible, was Considered their capacities, lean year. of a producer. calls for further Inquiry and others are in for examination. The construction Industry, for The committee, however, la alexample will be hard hit Most Mine of the wartime construction has ready fully satisfied that there is in the United States Iron ores been completed or will be early Installs Machinery in amounts which are adequate. this year, and steel will not be If small business Is permitted available for civilian projects. InstalNIGHTHAWK, Wash. to participate in the efficient Some of the war projects project- -' and lation of the machinery ed or started are being canceled manner ' known for the milling plant to the Axis and to this country to divert materials Into direct equipment of the Kaaba-Texa- s Mining Co. in previous war there will be materiel. la scheduled for completion this Iron and steel produced in an "Railroads, carrying a record abundance that Is capable of burden of traffic, have been ham-- ! month. Production will be startAll ed Immediately. machinery supplying the full war requirepered In new equipment building Western the from ments of both the Allies and purchased and replacements by limitations Machinery Co. is on the ground this nation and with plenty more on steel and other metals supIs the Installation under and howfor the thousands of items now ply. Many railroad shops, direction of Lee B. Carroll, secretdenied civilian ever, are building tanks, guns, ary-treasurer and general bombs Such production management and gun carriages, shells; manager. calls for broader perspective and similar items and undoubtedly Mine development has been a genuine urge for victory. Progwill have all the work of this continued with the third and ressive ore mining and g type they can handle. fourth levels prepared for pro"The agricultural Implement Inhave yet to make their duction. Taro new power , submaximum contribution, and dustrys problem Is akin to that stations have been installed. Dowthere la room for practical Iron with the deof the railroad er being furnished by the Washand steel producers who dare mand for farm produce fir exto pioneer. ceeding supply, the amount of ington Water Power Co. Were the hundreds erf small steel allowed Implement makers local enterprises the mining and has been progressively reduced. little-blafurnaces that were CRISM0N fr NICHOLS Coupled with this has been an out of business In recent increasing manpower shortage as Sut farm youths were drawn Into the permitted to stage a come-bac- k armed force with federal relief favors of new equipment, the Many of the implement manns SOUTH WEST TXMHJ basic economy of almost every ufacturer however, have been K & 9m 1711 state In the union would in a position to sasums luge be R taka Cltr war contracts. materially Improved, the total . u - - . n . high-grad- Washington d TORONTO, Ontario An official of the dominion metal controllers office said, here that production of two British Cdkmx bit copper mine had been taken over by the controller the result of an agreement regarding operation of marginal hue metal mines with the Metals Reserve Co, a U. S. Government owned company. The mine Involved are those of the Britannia Mining ft Smelting Co. on Howe Sound, ' and the Granby Con Mining, Smelting ft Power Co. at Copper Mountain near Princeton. "The mines are not being taken over," the official said. "The government, through the metals u contribution to the war effort would be enhanced; for It would tap sources of manpower of a quality that cannot be shifted economically to the already congested steel center In our judgment, this procedure is necessary and should be adopted aa a measure essential to win the war and to our own and the Allies an adequate supply of steel. The controller, wiU buy the output present situation is a continuing of these mines on costplus mence to our success in the wsr basis to Insure which production and to the maintenance of ramight not otherwise be possible. tional economy. The step Is Just another move to continued production (From an article by Waldemar of insure base metals for- the war efNew In York the Kaempffert fort will and assure continued Time Sunday, Dec. 20, 1041) hullabaloo has been raised production for the mine". about sponge Iron, as if it were something new and as if we had they are converted Into approxidone nothing about It to aid tha mately pure Iron. On the production of steel. Sponge Iron hearth the is as old as iron Itself. It has mineral Is reducing blown to the dischalways been a problem In the arge-opening the hot reby foundry, a problem, moreover, ducing gS which consists main, which ha engaged the attention ly of hydrogen. The ora beof metallurgists for generations comes almost liquid, so that It solved has and which at last been flows in a stream six to ten Inches deep. Heavy particles adby Herman A. Brassert, an exwho vance haa designslowly, light ones rapidly, pert metallurgist ed and managed blast furnaces so that the rate of travel more all over the world. The War nearly coincide with the rata of Production Board thinks so well reduction than wu possible before. The rotating rakes or rabof his process that it has approbles constantly stir the hot repriated 9450,000 which the Regase keep the stream of public Steel Company is to spend ducing ore particles fluid and break up in building at Youngstown, Ohio, a As a result ths plant designed by pockets of ga ore particles are not only rehim. tarded as they move but are Iron as a metal la rare in naturned over and over. When ture. It occurs chiefly In meteorite The ore that we call they are thus converted into Iron they drop down Iron is really a combination of new-bor- n iron and oxygen-r- ust to most a chute to a briquetting machine. Here at u The oxygen must be burnthey are compressed into ed out to obtain- metallic Iron.' briquettes in a reducing atmosAt first charcoal was used phere of 500 pounds pressure and a fuel. The Iron thus produced more. was always spongy because it For the moment the object of was mixed with slag. This spongy the Brassert process Is to enable iron was covered with a gmngue foundrymen to produce a metal of constant quality and to do (something like ash in coal and therefore an impurity.) It did away with the highgrade scrap not run freely out of the furn- so essential when electric furnace because the temperatures ace are used. The superintendh ent of an were too low. In Queen Eliza-betqr an electric furnace can mix his Bras-setime foundrymen worked the epongy Iron in various ways melting stock with other to fores out the slag but, since metals and minerals in any way much still remained, the metal that he please to obtain steel. He can specify was not pure enough for many the character of the melting technical purposes. : to be produced and rely stock USE OF COKE AS FUEL on a steady supply of constant By the early eeventeenth cencomposition. Foreign substances tury wood waa eo scarce In Engre no longer his bane when he furnland that the charcoal-fire- d steel ace ires no longer able to meet must make from scrap of unknown origin. the demand for iron, especially Iron for cannon. The blast furnNot all orgs yield pure hidq ace waa therefore introduced, uette When the- ores are imwith coke as the fuel. At once pure the briquettes are fed into it became . possible to erect a cupola where the molten slag Is separated In the., usual way furnaces near coal mine with the result that England was able from the metal. to meet the continental demand LENGTH OF PROCESS for cannon. ' But the coal containThe temperature of the hot re- -' ed such impurities aa carbon, sulduring gases In the Brassert and these and phosphoru phur process Is about 1,100 degrees-P.-- : had to be removed in supplewhen the ore is eastern magnetmentary process ite. In a blast furnace the temTo burn out the Impurities of operation may reach Iron la nowadays passed Into a perature 3,200 degrees F. Lower tempersecond furnace. Steel makers ature clearly means less fuel. have always wanted a process One becomes Iron when its oxwhich would make steel directly ygen Is removed. The Brassert from ore. Score of patents have been Issued for solution! of the process accomplishes this removUntil Brassert came al in 8.5 hours with eastern magproblem. netite, and the ore obtained u waa no economical there along 90 per cent pure. A higher deway of making good steel In a gree of purity can be achieved single stage from the ore. Diif the process is prolonged, but the rectly produced sponge Iron, this is unnecessary when only product of the first furnace, never melting stock for electric or could compete with Indirectly furnaces is wanted. produced Iron and steel either A l.OOtKton-a-daBrassert plant quantitatively or qualitatively. could be built in lees than six Like all extraordinary Innovaat cost a montha of about 92 tion the Brassert process could 500,000. It would take a year not be developed until a techand more to build a blastfurnace nical heritage had accumulated. of equal capacity, and the cost One new fact had to be dovewould be about 910,000,000. Only tailed with another. Relationabout 1,250 tons of structural ship had to be perceived to steel and (including which most engineers were blind. reduction equipment) is needWe find, then, that Brassert has ed. compared with 6JS00 tons for combined the mos modern dea blast furnace of equal capacity, and velopments in Supervision is largely a matter in powder metallurgy to obtain of watching the indicators ina pure; dense "melting stock strument Repairs are infreout of which steel can be made. quent because the operating temORE FIRST CRUSHED peratures are so low. First of all Brassert crashes More' than the sponge iron the ore to Next he powder. g comproblem Is solved. A Brassert separates the is so light that It can be transponent from Its Impurities by gravity, flotation, magnetic or ported easily, and the fuel reother approved and inexpensive quirements are so low that they re easily met almost anywhere; mean This powdered ore Is It follows that it Is now possible fed not to the usual blast furnore ace but to Herreshoff furnace to develop small huge vertical cylinder with deposits all over the world in accessible region about eleven floors or hearth In the furnace are rotating rake called rabble These slowly push the ore over the hearth to the dlschargfropenlng on each floor. On the upper hearth the ore particles are merely dried. Assayers and Chemists As they slowly journey downward from floor they re preheated, routed, calcined, 165 Son W. Temple partly smelted. Finally they on lowest hottest the and drop loil Late car floor the reducing hearth. Hera as-cu- - . hi open-heart- rt high-quali- ty high-qualit- y - - . open-- hearth . g metal-bearin- ' - high-grad- e Black & Deason r bene-fidatln- M Schraga Electric Co. NEW AND USED MOTORS AND TRANSFORMERS FOR MINES, MILLS, FACTORIES DIAL 274 SOUTH FIRST WEST . . Fereertr Ml Fleer ent Are. 17 |