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Show THE CITIZEN i Mines, Oil, Industries and Trades In Arizona and Nevada, 300 miles of Colorado river will be mapped. In Washington, investigations of the Columbia basin irrigation project are now being made. Public lands reserved for use in . connection with power sites and shown by these surveys to be without power value will be recommended for restoration to entry. Lands that may be used in connection with power sites but that are well adapted to other uses will be recommended for restoration to entry with a reservation of the right of the United States or its permittees to use them at power sites. Public lands that are found to be valuable as power sites and that are not already reserved will be classified as powersite lands and withdrawn from entry. EXTENSIVE RIVER SURVEYS IS MADE BY GOVERNMENT. - 11 Utah is Included in List of Proposed Improvements; Will Determine Power on Streams. - . . During the field season of 1923 ex Tensive river surveys will be made by ' engineers of the Department of the In- terior, Geological Survey, to determine the possibility of developing power on streams in practically, all the public-lanstates. These surveys will be made by plane table methods and will include a plan and profile of the river and contours to a height of 200 feet or more above the water surface. Where the conditions are favorable to ;the construction of dams or reservoirs, special surveys will be made for mapping on a relatively large scale. Hydraulic engineers will select the dam 'sites and geologists will examine and report upon the geologic features of those that appear to be the most fa- d SALT PRODUCTION. . According to a statement issued by the Department of the Interior, compiled from statistics collected by the Geological Survey, the quantity of salt produced and marketed 'in the United States, in 1922 (classed by varieties) was as follows: Evaporated,. 2,276,- 683 short tons; in brine, 2,569,042 vorable. These surveys and the records of stream flow collected by the Geological Survey form the basis for the classification of public lands with reference to their value as power sites. Most of the maps made will be published and will be available for purchase at moderate prices. Many or the reports prepared as a result of such surveys are published as papers or are kept open for public inspection at the district offices of the Geological Survey as well as at Washington, D. C. A complete r reinventory of the sources of the public land states is thus being prepared. The program for 1923 includes the following work: In Utah, surveys covering 100 miles will be made on East or Yellowstone Fork of Lake creek, West Fork of Lake creek, Rock creek, Duchesne river, and Uinta river. short tons; and short tons. The These crease of 36 per of only 12 per those for 1921. rock salt, 1,947,124 total value was figures show an incent in quantity but cent ni value over The principal states ranked as follows: Michigan, 2,005,088 pounds; New York 1,960,867; Ohio, 1,105,757; Kansas, water-suppl- y water-powe- In Oregon 300 miles of Rogue river and tributaries will be mapped and surveys of dam sites will be made. In northern California and Oregon, the survey of Klamath river from Keno, Oregon, to its mouth will be This work will involve completed. QlOO miles of additional surveys. In Idaho, surveys of a dam and reservoir site will be made on Salmon $27,-464,83- 9. salt-produci- short tons, valued at $571,326, and bromide and bromides equivalent in the aggregate to 1,005,-17- 4 pounds of bromide, valued at 33,067 $150,668. . Utah is not listed in the report sent out by the Department of the Interior, notwithstanding the fact that here is enough salt in this state to supply the 1,-0- PRICE CUTTING. Manufacturers in the east have started a price cutting war. Just how far the tire firms are willing to go is to be seen, however, the automobile owners will derive the benefits of the tire reductions. There appears to be and it is now up an to the firms to get rid of their stock, which is perishable more or less and can be held for only a limited time. . over-producti- on 58 CANADIAN MINES. Miners returning from Canada say that there is a big mining boom on at present in that country. Property owners expect to see big mines developed within the next two or three years, especially in the Rocky mountain range in the western part of the country. There are some very big producers at the present time and the country has every appearance of unlimited quantities of all minerals including gold, silver, etc., and coal for fuel. Clothes dont make the man, but sometimes his wifes clothes him. A Profitable Investment for Your Home An ELECTRIC LOW PRIC-E- RANGE We have a size and price to suit every family no one need be without an electric range. EFFICIENT A turn of the switch and cooking begins no delay, no work, no guessing, about heat. RAILROAD FACILITIES. CLEAN In Montana, a dam site on the South fork of Flathead river will be surveyed and a reconnaissance will be made to determine the possibility of using Missouri river and its tributaries above Great Falls, Montana, for power purposes. In Colorado, surveys will be made on South Boulder river, Clear creek, Chicago creek, St. Vrain creek, Left O Hand creek, Big Thompson river, North St. Vrain creek, South St. Vrain creek and Middle Boulder river, all tributaries of South Platt river. In Wyoming, surveys will be made on Sweetwater, North Platte, and En- Shipping facilities are to be greatly improved on the east side of the Park City mining district. The Union Pacific will spend in the neighborhood of $400,000 on about six miles of new road to be laid around to the portal of Ontario drainage tunand nel. As a result the Park-Utaother producing mines on that side of the hill will be able to ship their ores direct from the mine instead of by team as has been the custom. the three-mil- e No soot, no ashes, no smoke, no fumes, no kindling. Cooking electrically means better cooked foods with less trouble and expense. Come in and see our stock of won- derful electric ranges. h The grain market is near the est point of the season and the past week has brought little relief for 'he market. low- break laaflaaaaBaaaaBaaaaaBaMiiBaaaaaaBBMaaiiaBBaaaaiasaBaiaBaaaiaaaaaaaaaBBaBaaaaBBaaaBaaBaaaBMaaaBBaaiBaiaiBaBaaBaaaaaaaaaaaBBaaaiaBBitiaBaaaaaBBBaaaassatf, world. river. campment rivers. Reports of placer miners made to the Department of the Interior through James M. Hill, of the Geological Survey, show that in 1922 there was produced in the United States 968 ounces of crude platinum, which Of this quantity sold for $105,000. Alaska produced 39 ounces, California 876 ounces, and Oregon 53 ounces. Refiners reported purchases of crude platinum as follows: Alaska, 34 ounces; California, 918 ounces; Oregon, 95 ounces; Idaho, 7 ounces; Washington, 4 ounces; a total of ounces. Purchases of foreign crude platinum in the following amounts were reported by refiners: Canada, 12 ounces; Colombia, 53,385 ounces; Russia, 10,085 ounces; a total of 63,482 ounces. The total purchases of crude platinum reported by refiners, including domestic and foreign, amounted to 64,540 ounces. Reports from refiners indicate that in 1922 the quantity of new platinum metals recovered was 1 per cent greater than in 1921. There was a small increase in the quantity of platinum and osmiridium recovered, but a decrease in the quantity of palladium, iridium, and the less used platinum metals. Of the new metals recovered in 1922 about 3,373 ounces, or 6 per obtain-- . ng 759,459; Louisiana, 336,852; California, 257,790. The producers of common salt, reported also the recovery and sale of calcium magnesium chloride amount- ing to cent, is believed to have been ed from domestic material. PLATINUM METALS. Utah Power & Light Co. 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