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Show More Ore Wanted One of Utah's Smelters Prealde'nt Roosevelt In a talk to the American people shortly after the declaration of War against Japan on December 8, 1941, declared de-clared that an increased supply of metals would be needed to meet the war effort of the United States and that their use In private industry in-dustry would be sharply curtailed. The non-ferrous metal resources of the United States, particularly the western portion, are vast and unexceeded In any like area In the world. But, generally speaking the ores are low grade, as there are few If any of the high grade producers pro-ducers left. The President Is right more metals will be needed to supply America's great mechanized forces and the west will produce these metals. In Utah there exists smelting capacity to treat four or five times the present production of ores from Utah and surrounding states. The smelters are in excel lent shape and stand ready to meet any demand placed upon them by the needs of this nation at war. The basic need is more low grade ores to feed to these smelters. There are hundreds of low grade or so-called marginal ore deposits throughout Utah and western United Unit-ed States that should be adding their output to the total metal production. pro-duction. They must be brought into production and their contribution contri-bution will soon alleviate any shortage that might exist In non-ferrous non-ferrous metals. Ore reserves are measured by that which can be mined. As prices rise, the mineable ore reserves increase in-crease rapidly and vast new areas are brought into production. No one wants exorbitant profits out of the condition that exists today, but a few cents added to the price of certain metals would double the ore reserves from which the nation might draw In this time of crisis. |