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Show Of Mining in Utah f iVl j r t ,1 - 14 lm lrrfijl :,,:,v.:. .3 " .fftZff- yk ttn li.WJJIIIIIWWW'"'"" '5 f s ' - TtTnrwtureau of Ml"n.. l.bortory which strengthened state'." position ln metallurgical field. The position that Salt Lake attained as the leading non-ilrro-mining and smelting center In the world can be attributed to a large extent by the research carried on by the smelting companies and to the mineral producing companies in this area. PThe position of Salt Lake City as a center of metallurgical reserch strengthened with the estab-lishment was of the metallurgical di-vision of the United States Bureau of Mines with the completion in 1940 of a new building adjacent to the University of Utah campus. This building is one of the most complete metallurgical laboratories in the world. It was built at a cost of $350,000 and houses $250,000 worth of scientific engineering equipment. The continued growth of the min-ing industry of Utah depends on continually finding new ore and im-proved methods of treating it. This applies not only to the ores of metals which now constitute our greatest source of production but to deposits of metals not now worked. The researchers at the bureau are continually working toward not only improved methods of produc-tion of lead, zinc, copper, steel, silver and molybdenum how pro-duced, but toward production of manganese, aluminum and magnes-ium and other metals in the Salt Lake area. Since the war the bureau has actually entered into development of strategic minerals in this region. A number of pro-spects throughout Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming have been tested and several projects are now producing much needed strategio metals. Also on the alert continuously are the research staffs are the American Smelting & Refining com-pany, International Smelting & Re fining company, United Statea Smelting Refining and Mining com-- , pany, Utah Copper company and Combined Metals Reduction com-pany. These companies during past years have made contributions to the mining Industry, which, il not in practice now, the mining in-dustry of the state would undoubt-edly be comparatively smaller. 1943 Utah Metal Output Governed by Manpower Available ' H i I : - ! ! I I ' I j ! . ; if i . j A ' i A f " - 1 r - j 1 i - f j i v Typical of Utah's mine workers for which industry was hard pressed during past year. Production of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in Utah during 1943 was governed to a large extent by manpower availa' le. Every pound Df ore that could be mined for the war effort was produced by the limited number o workers availa ble to the industry. Without referring to statistics, 1944 made a favorable showing pompared with former years, with a silght reduction is in most metals Kith the exception of copper. Production of copper was well maintained throughout the year due to the highly mechanized character of Utah's principal red metal pro-- ducer, Utah Copper company. The Bingham producer, which rose to new production heights when the war started, has maintained a high rate of production during the past two years. Besides being the na-tion's largest copper miue, Utah Copper is also an important produ-cer of other metals. While the manpower shortage did affect Utah Copper somewhat, it was not so noticeable as in the un-derground mines where a man normally produces a ton of ore per shift. The underground mines are principally lead, zinc producers with the ores carrying some gold and silver. Production at Silver King Coali-tion, located in the Park City min-ing region, was handicapped by manpower 'to maintain a balanced operation. However, this producer contributed mightily to the lead-zin- c needed for the war program. Park Utah Consolidated, located in the same district, was handicapped by the same problem, but was able to produce a fairly Steady flow of lead-zin- c ores. Park Utah also effected the reopening of Its Utah unit, which had been closed down for a number of years, This required unwatering and re-- pairing workings below the Ontario drainage tunnel. In the Bingham district, the year saw the National Tunnel & Mines company join the ranks of the larger producers. While the com-pany was unable to reach full scale production because of dearth of workers, the company nevertheless reached a production level in ex-cess of 600 tons per day. United States Smelting Refining and Min-ing company and Combined Metals Reduction company produced up to the limit of their manpower. Chief Consolidated in the Tintic district was added to the list of larger producers with the reopen-ing and unwatering of the old No. 1 mine below the 1900-fo- level. Chief reached a production rate of 5000 tons of ore per month. Tintic Standard in the same district con-tinued steady production. Other Tintic producers included North Lily, Eureka Lilly and Eureka Bul-lion. Mammoth, a gold producer, was inactive. Many of the small prospects which are intermittent shippers of ore from various parts of the state were inactive because of the man-power situation and the desire of federal agencies to place all availa-ble workers on production. During the year a plant for the treatment of 150 tons of tungsten ores and concentrates per day was completed and placed in operation by the United States Vanadium corporation. The plant was built by the Defense Plant corporation in the southeastern part of Salt Lake City. At Alta the U. S. Bureau of Mines launched a development program to sound out the bismuth producing possibilities at the Alta United property. A summary of mining operations for the year 1943 leads to the con-clusion that development work was necessarily placed secondary to production and that there must be a restoration of exploration soon in order to insure ores for future production. Noah's Ark Continued announced that Plane No. 7 had its new supercharger instal-led and was ready for high altitude tests and ordered my buddy and me to make the test. At last we could escape the heat. "Needless to say, we wasted no time in getting on our and doing all tne parachutes, strapping on our oxygen cans half dozen other things that have to be done before going up. "Then a climb into the cockpit, safety belts fastened, a mechanic gives the prop a flip and yells, 'Contact and in less time than it takes to tell it, we were in the air. JNo use wasting time warming up the engine when the sun had it nearly red hot. "We circled the field several times until we hit the 14 thousand foot mark and then stopped climbing for a tew minutes to get used to the altitude. I looked over the right at the beautiful snow capped peak now just a little above us and for some reason I can't explain turned and headed the plane straight toward it. "My buddy turned around and looking at me with ques-tion marks in his eyes found there was too much noise for him to ask questions. After all, twenty-fiv- e miles doesn t seem much at a hundred miles per. "As I looked down at the great battlements surrounding the lower part of this mountain I remembered having heard that it had never been climbed since the year 700 B. C, when j some pilgrims were supposed to have gone up there to scrape some tar off an old shipwreck to make good luck emblems to wear around their necks to prevent their crops from being destroyed by excessive rainfall. The legend said they left in haste after a bolt of lightning struck near them and they never went back. "A couple of circles around the snowcapped dome and then a long swift glide down the south side and then we sud-denly came upon a perfect little gem of a lake and returned for another look at it. Suddenly my companion whirled around and yelled something and excitedly pointed down at the overflow end of the lake. I looked and nearly fainted. "A submarine! No, it wasn't, for it had a stubby mast, nit the top was rounded over with only a flat catwalk about ;ve feet across, down the length of it. What a strange craft, milt as though the designer had expected the waves to roll iver the top most of the time and had engineered it to wallow n the sea like a log, with those stubby masts carrying enough :ail to keep it facing the waves. (Years later on the Great jakes I saw the famous whaleback ore carrier with this same :ind of rounded deck.) ' "We flew down as close as safety permitted and took several circles around it. We were surprised when we got lose to it at the immense size of the thing, for it was as long s a city block and would compare favorably in size to the lodern battleships of today. It was grounded on the shore of he lake with about one-four- th under water. It had been artly dismantled on one side near the front, and on the other de there was a great door nearly twenty feet square but tth the door gone. This seemed quite out of proportion, as en today ships seldom have doors even half that large. "After seeing all we could from the air we broke all eed records back to the airport. "When we related our find the laughter was loud and ng. Some accused us of getting drunk on too much oxygen, id there were many other remarks too numerous to relate. "The captain, however, was serious. He asked several lestions and ended by saying, "Take me up there. I want look at it." "We made the trip without incident and returned to the airport. "What do you make of it?" I asked as we climbed out of the plane. "Astounding," he replied. "Do you know what ship that is?" "Of course not, sir.". "Ever hear of Noah's Ark?" ' "Yes, sir. But I don't understand what a legend of Noah's Ark has to do with our finding this strange thing 14 thousand feet up on a mountain top." "This strange craft," explained the captain, "is Noah's Ark. It has been sitting un there for nearlv 5.000 vears Reiner frozen up for nine or ten months of the year, it couldn't rot and has been on cold storage, as it were, all this time. You have made the most amazing discovery o'f the age." "Two weeks of hard work were required to chop a trail along the cliffs of the lower part of the mountain and it was nearly a month before the Arkwas reached. "Complete measurements were taken and plans drawn of it, as well as many photographs taken of it, all of which were sent to the Czar of Russia. "The Ark was found to contain hundreds of small rooms and some rooms with very high ceilings. The unusually large rooms had a fence of great timbers across them, some of which were two feet thick, as if designed to hold beasts ten times as large as elephants. Other rooms also were lined with tiers of cages somewhat like one sees today at a poultry show only instead of chicken wire they had rows of iron bars along the front. "Everything was heavily painted with a warlike paint resembling shellac and the workmanship of the craft showed all the signs of a high type of civilization. "The wood used throughout was oleander, which belongs to the Cyprus family and never rots, which of course coupled with the fact of it being painted and being frozen most of the time, accounted for its perfect preservation. "The expedition found on the peak of the mountain above the ship the burned remains of the timbers which were missing out of the one side of the ship. It seems that these timbers had been hauled up to the top of the peak and used to build a tiny one-room- shrine inside of which was a rough stone hearth like the altars the Hebrews used for sacrifices. It had either caught fire from the altar or been struck by lightning, as the timbers were considerably burned and charred over and the roof was completely burned off "A few days after this expedition sent its report to the Czar, the government was overthrown and Bolshevism took over, so the records were never made public and probablv were destroyed in the zeal of the Bolshevism to discredit all religions and belief in the truth of the Bible. "We White Russians of the air fleet escaped throueh Armenia where we could be free to live according to the "Good Old Book" which we had seen for ourselves to be absolutely true even to the fantastic sounding a thing as world flood " I AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF Hanging in mid-ai- r from a flak hit bomber in Italy, Lt. Joseph R. Cook, Erlton, New York, struggled to kick the nose wheel loose after its mechanism had jammed.. Unable to beat the wind pressure on the wheel, he was drawn back into the plane to help the wounded pilot make a desperate belly landing safely. Don't turn your back on the Front Buy More War Bonds. .U. S Treasury Department MM " 1 i And more of them are in a hurry than ever before. So when the lights thick get on Long Distance switcliboartls the operator will say-Pl- ease limit your call to 5 minutes." That's to help S" more people dSmfr,M "SU on the wir&es f during rush VP0 v1 periods. fa t Iff Grow more in Wh I Your ' I ' - Victory Garden S wUl help bring V.O Victory!. "fe '.t,,,,hn,SIt!(lri(ltiV,?; M J Ufe-- Aii I ATTENTION . . . FARM WORKERS Yearly, with completion of the fall harvest, many farm workers turn to the mining industry for seasonal employment. Mines, mills and smelters offer many good jobs at good wages to such employees. Acceptance of this seasonal employment will in no way change your present draft classification, and releases will be granted for return to farm work at the beginning of the next farming season. Apply to any company mentioned below or to the United States Employment Service THE METAL MINING INDUSTRY OF UTAH United States Smelting Refining and Mining Co. Silver King Coalition Mines Co. Utah Copper Co. American Smelting Refining Co. Combined Metals Reduction Co. Chief Mining Co. Ohio Copper Company of Utah I& Smelting & Refining Co. Tintic Standard Mining Co. Tark Utah Consolidated Mines Co. I Pin-u- p for Those Not Buying Bonds Pi t i A w ' f ' j ," ' A I- - 'xf, z--- ' j " 1 ti , - v J r Army Signal Corps Photo This American soldier took refuge under a truck during a Jap bombing raid of our positions on Rendova. A Nipponese bomb, however, had his number 'on it. Here you see his comrades gently removing his body from under the engine. 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