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Show J 3 Ur'' m!(AUhud0F Mite niUsi- V. - ft . OF U. CITY WESTERN MINERAL SURVEX BALT LAKE VALLEI SMELTER nuw LEAD, rarrn GOLD pme fMDl ... .... MNt b ImM to the Mining mmi pH ledeetrlre ef Utah the WmL A mem ef the iiMmilif to TfUpmcati le mmtM each wrrk. ....n.77s ...... S5.M ............. .... IDl TC.Me ZINC SILVER (frr SILVEB (per , new mtoH) m. spot) nl S7.S5 Features Mining, Oil, Financial $2.00 Year, $1.00, 6 Mos. Salt Lake City, Utah, April 30, 1943 VOL. 14, NO. 18 Park Utah Profits Up Since Jan. VwXiv--- . ' . Sulfate Sales Up Last Year v 1 Value of pegging metal prices sufficiently high to .stimulate production in meeting the wartime need for strategic metals is clearly shown in a comparison of the reports, of Park Utah Consolidated Mines for 1942 and for the first three months of 1943. Net income of the company for the first quarter of this year, when the new premium prices have been in effect, was in excess of that for the entire year of 1942, the reports show. The companys net income (before making depletion deductions) for of January; February and March this year was $103,776.75, as compared with a net for the full year (Prepared by Charles L. Harness under the supervision of Oliver Bowles, Chief, Nonmetal Economics Division, Economics and Statistical Service.) Sales of natural sodium sulfates and carbonates increased 11.1 and 2.G per cent in quantity respectively in 1942 as compared with 1941 output, according to the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior.' Eight producers reported sales of natural sodium sulfate in 1942; there were 7 In 1941. Natural sodium sulfate production rivals the output of salt cake and chemical sodium sulfates in the United lit States. Production of natural soof 1942 of $95,631.37. dium carbonates, however, is who are size producers Utahs North Lily mine is typical of the small and average In the official statement of 0. small compared to the quantity N. Friendly, vice president and active in the production of needed metals throughout the West. manufactured by the Solvay procgeneral manager, in the annual ess, which yielded 3.944,000 short report, it is pointed out that: tons in 1942, according to Chem. The production of the comand Met. Engr., vol. 50, No. 2, Feb. 1943, p. 105. As in past jrears, pany for the year was GO, 971.82 tons which gave a net smelter re-- . nearly all natural sodium carturn of $1,051,192.30 including bonate was produced by four 500 that showed V. nearly E. reports Wrenn, (Prepared by premium payments on metals. A new sound film presenting firms from Searles and Owens of W. W. Adams, million pounds of explosives were The metal content of this produc- der supervisionStatistics Lakes In California. In addition, a use in quarfor mining, produced Section, information in small basic first-ai- d tion was as follows: Gold, 3,846 Employment other and for quantity of trona was rerying, construction re- covered from well brines in the ounces; Silver 371,122- - ounces; Mineral Production and Economform been has graphic just The Staindustrial reports purposes. ics Division, Economics and Lead 11,091,618 poundg; Zinc received by the bureau covered eased by the Bureau of Mines. vicinity of Green River, Wyo., pounds; Copper 351,425 tistics Service.)of industrial which area is underlaid with exexplo- three classes of solid explosives, Department of the Interior, Dr. tensive .Production pounds; the average grade of ore sives strata of trona. (See H, nahiely, black blasting powder, in the United States R. Sayers, director of the bu- I. Smith, Trona in being:. Gold .00 ounces; Silver and Wyoming: explosives, ' permissible" G.08 ounces; Lead 9.10 per cent; creased 3.5 per cent in 1942 over reau, announced today. I Min. & Met. Amer. Inst than Engrs. other from high explosives Zinc 9.36 per cent; Copper .29 per 1941, according to reports Produced in cooperation with Tech. Pub. 1489, July 1942, 3 pp.) The survey did ' not cent. This production was mater- manufacturing companies to the nclude explosives used in the a large industrial firm, the film it has been proposed for several ially lower than the previous Bureau of Mines, United States manufacture years to recover potassium carof ammunition, fire- entitled Help Wanted" is in year, due primarily to the short- Department of the Interior. The bonate by reacting Green River 31 minruns and sound works or sporting powder. age of efficient labor and the potassium-bearintrona with now are utes. available Copies Jay the metals set of. low price 3GQ. --and QL,AhetQtaUptc$qctipiV; found - near also." wyomipgite, or industrial exhibition by'Gdvernmeflt for the 'first eight were million exploGreen 1942 the Buhigh in and pounds months of the year. An average training classes, reau ofRiver, 84 civil defense sives than other Mines erected a pilot peimissibles, or courses conducted by., of 33G men were employed to study the reaction. (See million pounds were permissible training plant on of and the behalf the army, navy year. throughout O. O. Ralston and A. explosives, and 55 million pounds Stern, by schools, R. I. 3675. Report ofGeorge The uncertainty of costs of Nonmetwere black blasting powder. The maritime service, and the busiand operation while labor demands for coal mining industry used 99 per churches, colleges; civic als Div., Fiscal Year 1942. Nov. sim-la- r and other ness increases in pay were under govorganizations, cent of the' permissible explo 1942, p. 11.) Potassium carbonate ernmental consideration, and the groups. sives and more than 91 per cent is used in the glass, ceramics, for realize that every and chemical industries. inability to get a higher price Few black of people the powder. blasting metals while labor costs were un 33 per cent of the year one person out of 14 is The operating data determined, served to make prop other than per seriously injured and that one relate tofollowing xigh explosives of natural soproducers ' er development of your mineral metal was in consumed dies of 1,000 erson missibles out every sodium dium natural sulphate, ground beyond attainment. Some mining, 24 per cent in quarrying is the result of an accident." carbonate, or both: relief was obtained in September, and nonmetallic-minera- l mining, Jr. Sayers said recently in anAmerican Potash & Chemical 1942 when an adjustment in the other nouncing the release of another Corporation (plant at Trona, and 29 cent for railway per was for made allowance premium construction work, 12 per cent first-ai- d film. Accidents can hap-)e- Calif., on Searles Lake) rushed lead and zinc. Immediately this ;or coal- mining, and 2 per cent anywhere, and no one knows the exoanson of its Soda Prodwas granted operations were for all other purposes. two-shiwhen he will be called upon to ucts Plant during 1942: the new from a five-dachanged two-shisix-dain saving a life. . . ." and y assist units were cxnected to be in opbasis to a Coal mines used approximately was increasindustrial 176 of million pounds In Help Wanted, unusually eration early In 1943.' As a raw development footage ed. The property responded favan increase of 14 mil' effective use is made of animated material for some of its soda ash explosives, camlion pounds over the am ount diagrams superimposed over ac- and salt cake the expanded plant orably to this development startwere use hurkeite. a sodium carbopaign and negotiations consumed in 1941. Of the amount tual photographs, to show blood will nate-sulfate hitherto sold to ed to obtain further premiums cent 47 used in coal mines, per circulation, pressure points, for which would permit unwatering was permissible explosives, 29 staunching the flow of blood from the kraft paper industry as a the lower levels of the Ontario for salt cake. per cent was black blasting pow a wound, and the effect of proper substitute Sulfate Co., American and Utah Units and to further inThe 24 was cent dcr, and high treatment of bleeding. per j Mecca. Cal'f.. a new producer, crease the rate of development permissi-blethan other explosives levin horizons above Help Wanted" portrays typi- extracted sodium sulfate from Metal mines consumed 3 cal el so that the company could salts' mined mishaps causing bleeding- magnesium-sodiumillion more, pounds of explo. give the maximum production of shock, burns, near asphyxiawounds, Bertram, Imperial County, sives in. 1942 'than in 1941; this lead and zinc to the war effort. Dr. Walter Savage Landis, increase was chiefly in states proSec SULFATE on Page 2 See FIRST AID on Page 2 This report to the Stockhold- wins honors in field of cliem ducing war metals. The states ers has been delayed pending the which showed the greatest in conclusion of these negotiations istry. crease in consumption of explO' accomwhich have now been sives for metal mining were Ari plished. . Revised premium payzona, Minnesota, Michigan and ments, starting January 1st, 1943. Missouri. Consumption of explohave been established for the and other consives for railway metals. These will justify the in 1942 decreased work struction company in going ahead with in decreases of marked because night to fill wartime orders. Is Completion and the program of unwatering the Alaska and the states; lion of Columbia Steel Companys continuous from the time the cold lower levels. Preparatory work Dr. Walter Savage Landis, vice several and Texas of states Tennessee, new continuous rod mill at the billet enters the furnace to the is already in progress.' president of the American Cyana-mi- d California were the only states Pittsburg, Calif., works, marks placing of the finished bundle of If a shortage of manpower does Company, has been awarded showed a decided increase another finished step in the Unit- rods on the shipping platform at not delay progress, it is expected the Gold Medal of the American that use. The quarrying and ed States Steel Corporations the end of the mill. this for that sufficient ore will be un- Institute of Chemists, which will nonmetallic-mineral mining in- $700,000,000 war expansion proStandard length billets of 30 covered to increase the present be presented at the annual meet- dustries used more ex- gram, Columbia Steel Company feet cent 7 per are fed one by one into the rate of production and at the ing of the institute to be held in today. Oper- upper end of the 33 by 50 foot plosives in 1942 than in 1941 officials announced same time enable the property May. the increase being general ation of the mill substantially furnace, pushing the entire row to be operated on a sound busiawarded Is which This adds to U. S. Steel's increasing of billets down the inclined furmedal, throughout the states. ness basis." finished steel facilities in the Pa- nace bed. The furnace, has an annually for outstanding services area. to the science of chemistry, is heating capacity of 50 tons Difficulties cificTheCoast not new rod mill, the most hourly of billets, Insuring a steady flow. being presented to Dr. Landis modern continuous type built for All steel beating operations are only in recognition of his contriBrass and copper fabricators three-stranrolling in the United automatically controlled from butions to chemical engineering are in the experience gaining .bein are cancellations Contract produces rods at a great and development work, largely mixture ratios to the temperof aluminum and mag- States, Rods handling from red-ho- t fuel an produced speed. derivatives, of the heated billet. increasing field ature the of nitrogen ing reported by the which may supply feet long, billets, number of companies, largely in but also for his services to the nesium, thirty threat to answer the postwar Billets are heated slowly and COO pass pounds, the ordnance, tank, truck and sim- professional side of chemistry. metals. At best, weighing the from lighter until reaching the stand uniformly last the fields. It is becoming apparilar finishing Among Dr. Landis accomplish-a post-wa- r adjustment will present through 48 temperature. Bilmiles of rolling rate a proper at ent that production of a number ments reels to the the end o' is the development of By knotty problems. out, one by then lets No. are size well run Athas. pushed items this of military speed, of"tmos-pheri- c the first of 1943r brass per hour. fixation the for method quarter lower end of the from the ahead of immediate needs. There am- sheet mill capacity was 30 per 5 rod nearly a mile long is deliv- one, of the producing bite by nitrogen the mininto furnace of a in a be about to the reels readjustment, may period and oxidiz- cent higher than at the end o ered of nine roughfirst of the rolls leaves billet scattered unemployment, and con- monia from cyanamidand the time the from ute he was 1942, with mill capacity at 110,000 tract uncertainty in the months ing it to nitric acid; furnace. ing stands. In all. the mill has 21 tons the suspended arch-typ- e the with into nine roughengineering tons a month, against 50,000 this of immediately ahead. Builders of concerned high quality stands, divided six of wire Operation three Capacity ago. years for American intermediate first best the are of in plant the aircraft and ships and cable manufacturers has also production mill, which furnishes ing stands, position to increase operations using this process, erected during been stepped up,' though to a less- rods to the adjacent Columbia - See COLUMBIA ou rage 1 further. (Standard & Toors Wire mill, now; humming day and or extent. See LANDIS on Page 4 . Works Hard War Effort First Aid Film Ready To Show Explosives Production Up - 19 per-missibl- . . g . - ly n - . ft y ft " s the-wate- r Gets Award . Columbia Steel Begins Rod Mill Operation Landis Gets Gold Medal War Contract Cancellations Postwar d - 1; - . Corp.) m |