Show t DEPOSITS NEAR SOLDIER SUMMIT Mines Reopened During War Var New Plants Installed and Production Started on Large Scale The largest domestic deposits of or J are In Utah near Colton Utah c county and Soldier Summit r f r tt Wasatch county along the Denver 8 Rio Grande railroad about bout 7 75 5 miles from My Myton ton During DarIng the war war warthe war warthe the Soldier Summit deposits were reopened reopened a new plant Installed tt a jand d 1 i r production started on an imports Important li V scale r The occurs as as as a a a f 1 filling Slung of zone in J fissure ue f l. l veins In sandstones and The I veins vary in width up to five or or six sir T f feet feet i and the in the veins reins J from mere films to two twenty twos twenty inches The ore are from the mine Is I sorted crus crushed ed and subjected to refining re refining refining re- re fining process Several methods have been used risen varying principally In mechanical details but the underlying underlyIng underlying under under- lying principles ples are similar Theore The Theore Theore ore Is placed In steam-heated steam vats wIth with water and raised to a temperature temperature tempera tempera- ture of 54 degrees decrees d rees to 70 degrees Cen Cen- The wax melts and floats oft off as a a. liquid into cooling vats while the 1 rock ock is removed either continuously l or intermittently from the tho bottom The impure wax Is purified pu pu- rifled by a 4 second boiling bolling and the tailing tailing fro i t the first tanks is retreated re retreated rt re- re t tre treated ted producing an impure wax Continued C on Page Seven DEPOSITS FrO From Page One which 1 Is 13 later purified a n middling middling- product which Is returned to the first tanks and clean tailing which is wasted The purified wax Is heated heated heated heat heat- ed in an open tank to remove trapped moisture and then cast or molded into blocks for tor market may be used either as the tho purified wax or as which Is made by further refining The wax may be purified by mixing i I with alkali and filtering through fullers fuller's earth animal charcoal or magnesium silicate vaseline is made by fil- fil fil filtering filtering through animal charcoal twelve to thirty times and distillation with superheated steam at degree Centigrade for three or four hours Is used for forthe forthe forthe the manufacture of or wax figures dolls and candles as ns a substitute or adulterant for tor beeswax as a covering covering covering cov cov- ering to protect metals from moisture moisture mois mois- ture acids and for tor making waxed paper for lining barrels kegs and acid tanks as a n foundation foundation tion for tor waxes polishes liniments salves and plasters for imitation alabaster statuettes and decorations for confections for artificial honey honeycombs honeycombs combs for tor making and polish varnish shoemakers shoemakers' wax wax and floor wax as a base for a variety of lubricants from axle atle grease to gun oil In the the manufacture manufacture manufacture ture of leather polish sealing wax and pomades and as electrical In In- In A very large and Important Import import- ant use which took most of ot the domestic domestic domestic do do- output in 1918 was as ns an coating for plates |