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Show PROGRESSIVE OPINION Chicago Zoo Sets Mark in Acquiring of Animals IRON PAYS UTAH BILLS I tfcl:--- . : Open Pit' Workings In in 1 Fey , ' : f . '4 WORLD WAITS FOR MARYSVALES ALUMINUM Chicago. The Chicago Zoological a new pace park at Brookfield set in acquiring animals during the period beginning June 1, according to Robert Bean, assistant director and curator of animals at the soo. Figures compiled tor tho board of directors by Mr. Bean showed that mammals, 103 reptiles, and 97 birds were received at the soo in that period. 243 Electric Chair Devised for Fowl San Francisco. An electric for chickens, turkeys, geese and squabs has been invented by two San Francisco technicians and la being subjected to testa here. The Inventors are confident that it will revolutionize the preparation of birds tor market With the new machines, which have a voltage of from 1,000 to 1,500 volts, according to the size of the chicken or turkey, the legs of each bird are clamped on a belt Then a clamp moving reaches out seizes the fowls head and presses it against an electrode with a minimum of 1,000 volts. A more humane and sanitary system of preparing poultry tor the market is the goal of the chair" progress for some time. On August 1, 1935, the building of the plant one metal whose mining la was actually begun and the followwas not only tolerated' ing April it waa completed. heartily encouraged by the Adjacent to the plant site are authorities of the Mormon church several ore bodies. One of these, in the early days was iron. The the Black Hawk, was selected for alternative was a long and costly the first development An open wagon haul from the east Wel- pit was started 700 feet from the was the discovery therefore, come, hopper of the primary that iron ore existed In abundance receiving The ore is broken by crusher. Iron in Cedar of the near colony churn drilling ond blasting county. drill holes. The open pit face is In 1851 half the men at Cedar 80 feet high by 160 feet long. The were set apart to develop an iron ora is loaded by a electric industry. During 1853 a blast fur- shovel into two trucks, each with a nace was erected, coal was coked capacity of 28 long tons, and hauled and, on September SO, a stream of to the hopper. A pan feeder conliquid iron was drawn from the veys the ore from the receiving furnace. In November a company hopper to a 60 x jaw crushthe Deseret Iron Company, took er. A belt conveyor carries it to tbe from colony. a scalping screen which over the plant Money was raised in Europe and, tha finished product The oversize for seven years, the company con- goes through either a reduction or tinued to operate. Upon the build- a cone crusher. The product of ing of a railroad to Utah in the this operation, which is all of '60s the cost of iron products was size or less, is conveyed by a cut and tbe home Industry became belt to a double-dec- k finishing inactive. An effort to revive it on screen which produces three sizes a cooperative basis was made by as follows: First grade, under Ebenezer Hanks and the Great Inch; second grade, to 1 inch; Western Iron Co. in 1868 at Old third grade, 1 inch to 3 Inches. The Iron Town. The company was ab- ora is loaded into railroad cars and sorbed in 1883 by the Iron Manu- shipped 239 miles to the blast furA local nace at Provo. facturing Co. of Utah. market for iron castings Is said to Since the Columbia Steel Corhave been developed, but the promines at Iron jected railroad on which the com- poration opened the Springs in 1923, operations in the pany relied did not materialize. have been continuous. The The appropriation of iron land district development of the iron Industry a of 1877 with in the survey began Utah waa the greatest incentive Blowout. in lode claim called the to the building of the Cedar City outstandwas claims the Locating branch of the Union Pacific railing feature of the iron buslnesa for road. The iron mines have been acmost Those decades. several the largest source of revenue for tive in acquiring claims were Mat the road and also the largest conthe thew Cullen, 8. B. Milner and sumers of power in the southern Colorado Fuel ft Iron Co. The part of the state. Their payrolls ground once patented, a search for hare been substantial. From capital to develop and exploit It them always have been derived most of was in order. The clock of time the $90,000 of taxes paid annually pointed to 1923 before a auccessor the railroad to Iron county. to the Old Iron Town enterprise by Payments by the railway, mines appeared. In that year the Colum- and power company to the county bia Steel Corporation went actively well over $100,000. to work at Iron Springs, using a are tunnel and glory hole system. The Although it has not been feasible following year shipments of ore to to smelt the ore in Iron county, it a blast furnace at Iron ton were is done within the state, so that the coal mines, atone quarries and commenced. contriNineteen-thirtwas an eventful transportation companies bute to the employment of labor period for the Utah iron industry. The United States Steel Corpora- and the tax revenue of the state, tion came west and purchased all the counties and the municipalthe properties of the Columbia ities. Farmers and local merchants SteeL There was no lack of capital ara secondary beneficiaries of the wealth produced by the iron indusnow. Operations were shifted to Iron Mountain, 13 mllea aouthwest try. of Desert Mound, and a railroad to It la a highly competitive industhat point was planned. Surveying try. The Utah field must compete for a standard gauge line was not only with domestic producers, started in the fall of 1934. Con- but also with foreign interests forstruction began May 1, 1935, and tified by cheap labor. To do so It was completed on August 25th. needs the aame support throughPreliminary work on a mining out the state that it receives from and crushing plant had been in the people of Iron county. By E. 8. OCONNOR Borne 200 prospectors flocked In. $286 per ton In gold. Tompkinson Good croppings were found, but no and his partners formed a commilL Surone could afford the wagon haul to pany and built a 100-to-n DOZEN Utah counties point Salt Lake City. rounding claims struck ore. Peter of Chicago, and assowith pride to minea of gold, Joseph 8mlth, from Silver Reef, Kinberly, ciates acquired the Annie Laurie a liver and lead. But ms only Marya-valof south ranch a at waa can boast, in addition to these, a stopping went deer hunting me day. and other groups. The camp Kimberly". At the mineral in univ.rsal demand, and In a path worn deep by migrating christened that in unlimited quantity. The herds he saw the gleam of metal. Annie Laurie Kimberly erected a mill and employed 300 men. area around Marysvale, Piute boun- Testa showed high values in silver, 300-to-n 200 more men were pur to monoAbout a as far known, bo has, In ty, lead and gold. Digging began. and By THE MARYSVALE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A poly of alunlte, the rock from which aluminum is extracted. Adventure and romance attended the discovery and development of the silver, lead and gold deposits which lint lured prospectors to Marysvale and the adjacent territory. Originally "Marysvale" was not Marysvale" at all, nor waa it a mining settlement. Beautiful trees and sparkling waters made it a summer camping spot so ideal that Mormon church leaders, on an exploring expedition in 1856, called it Merryvllle. Its present name was adopted later. Frank E. King started a ranch there. While he raised calves, an old California miner named Hewitt panned for gold. The miner found "colors along Pine creek. Jacob Hess and Ebenezer Hanks, In 1869, tried sluicing. This failed, but, crossing tha creek, they discovered a lode and filed on the Webster, tho first mineral location in Piute county. The ore was rich, but transportation cost was prohibitive smelter did not and a home-mad- e THE 48-in- 5-- Streets Paved With Tin Cans Found to Be Success West Palm Beach, Fla. Tin Can alley is a reality, not a name, in West Palm Beach. For nearly ten years Superintendent D. D. Howard of the department of streets and public improvements has been utilizing discarded tin cans for street building purposes, collecting the cans from the city incinerator. The cans take the place of about half the amount of crushed rock that would otherwise be used in the street base, saving half the cost of the e, work. and 1874 about 400 tons of ore waa hauled 125 miles to the nearest railroad point and shipped. The ore body proving large, attempts were made to mill it. Not, however, until the Salisbury brothers of 8alt Lake City blocked out a great tonnage and erected a modern mill did the Deer Trial become a bonanza. At me time this mine had a monthly payroll of more than $25,000, employed 175 men and paid taxes of about $12,000 a year. It is worked now by some 50 lessees. After the completion of a railroad to Marysvale the Webster mine was enabled to send ore out to the smeitera. The Wedge, on a peak south of the Webster, startled the public by the extreme richness of lta gold seams, some of which are said to have averaged $9,000 to the ton. These high values encouraged proepecting for gold in the mountains northwest Ore was first disof Marysvale. covered there In 1888 by Douglass Tompkinson, of Fillmore. In one claim a shaft struck rock worth 1873 $85 work by other mines prospects. By 1900 the little camp had become a prosperous town. During eight years of operation by the Annie Laurie, Piute county, ordinarily poor, collected more money In taxes than it needed. Flush days ended. The Annie Laurie was "sold east by the Kimberly interests and, In 1916, was taken over by B. F. Bauer, of Salt Lake. The price of gold was advanced. Bauer Improved the camp, remodeled the mill and, in 1936, disposed of the property to a New York syndicate. Near Marysvale masses of a "pink spar had long piqued the curiosity of Tom Gillen. Samples sent to Washington by A. E. Custer, a Salt Lake City assayer, resulvealed 38 aluminum, 37 phur and 11 potash. Glllan and J. U. Sargent had already located some claims the first locations of alunlte on record. The potash content was hailed as a means of breaking the German monopoly of that product. After the World war started it became indispensable. A process for its recovery vised by Howard Chapril 1910, the Gll'tn and Sargent bought by the Mineral f ducta Corporation. 8pum-- by war demand, the corporatku tahlished a plant for the prodir of sulphate of potash, ihiv October, 1915, and December, more than 250,000 tons nf't grade alunlte waa mined and i, ed at a cost of $40,000 a ninut' The aluminum, constiimini third of the alunlte, has since t lnated the picture. Tlu Aourtt supply Is practically lnexhaw.: Millions of tons remain li ground of the Mineral Profc Florence and Brad burn coma; and there are vast depoalu lower grade ore around them. ' supply is assured; only redtc facilities ara Inching. Eing research by the governmeiti private capital alms at the den ment of low-comethods a trading aluminum oxide t alunlte in a form suitable (or; ductlon of metallic aluminum' perlence In foreign countries ui generation of cheap electric of Boulder dam point to the demand, aluminum in airplanes, itreu trains, ships, wire, furniture, g and industries atiU in the an grows day by day and a t market for this unique prods Marysvalea hills will be n when technical improvement! move present obstacles. u st road-be- According to Superintendent Howard they make excellent streets, and thoroughfares with a foot thick layer of tin cans rolled down to half that thickness are holding up as well as those surfaced entirely with Now! n mncniFicEm rock. Six months after the cans are over the roadbed and oxidation and the cans are transformed into a firm, hard mass. The plan originally was used in California. spread This Store is Very COMPETITIVE I1EUJ SERIAL rolled, the tin undergoes BY Saturday you may buy HQTHLEEfl Beautiful Lady Is Given Russian Title by Duke HEINZ SOUP, 3 small, or Amsterdam. Beautiful Lady (Lydia) Deterding, former wife of the Dutch oil magnate, Sir Henri Deterding, has been granted the title of Princess of the Dm the highest title that can be conferred on Rusaians not directly of royal Don't mils a single installment of "Beauty's Daughter" as it unfolds aerially in this paper I Here's a powerful story nds with universal blood. The new title was conferred on ber by the Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of the late czar of Russia will read itl y It was learned that the honor had Column An-- Call Was. 4864 MEETINGS Public Forum meets every Bldg. Sunday evening ;City-CTechnocrats meet every Mon day night at Room 2 36 City and County Bldg. and place your order o. i 8 Townsend Club No. 1 meets every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m. at 255 East Broadway. Dance same place every Friday night. s The Workers Alliance meets every Tuesday niht at 323 2 South State street 1-- K'ATiHUEEN GW o (k&S) (&&& fliSSfliliiSnV O SHOE REPAIRING Right Thinking Brings Good Results When yon think of having your Shoes Repaired THINK 0. K. SHOE SHOP Jobs at Moderate Prices 414 So. State Street 3 1 SALT LAKE LIBERAL appeal-thousa- and regarded by Russian legitimists as the rightful czar of all the Rub-sia-s. been conferred on Lady Deterding in recognition of her generous work tor Russian' emigres. The speaker said: "The title of Princess of the Dm is tha highest rank that can be conferred by the Russian imperial family on persons who are not directly descended from the Imperial family. It ia a hereditary title." Lady Deterding ia a Russian by birth. 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