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Show September 4, 1953 Lead, Zinc Tariff Deal Offers Few Mine Benefits United States Steel Sets New Production Record the mark in 1953, tons in the first quarter of this half-wa- y United States Steel has produced year. thus far this year more steel ingots and castings and shipped more steel products than in any comparable first six monts since the start of its corporate career in 1901. In the first half of 1953, United Production of steel ingots and castings in the first half of 1953 averaged 100.1 per cent of United States Steels rated annual ingot capacity of 36,399,000 net tons at the beginning of this year. This record-breakin- g volume, amounting to 18,074,325 net tons, eclipsed by 1,060,096 net tons the previous comparable peak output attained in the first six months of 1951, when steelmaking operations averaged 101.2 per cent of the rated capacity for that year. During the second quarter of 1953, production averaged 98.1 per cent of rated capacity, as compared with an average of 02.11 per cent in the States Steel shipped 12,946,203 net tons of steel products 474,658 net tons, or nearly 4 per cent morfe than during the highest previous comparable period, and 2,641,515 net tons,, or about 25 per cent strike-ridde- n higher than during the first half of last year. This new high for a first six months ' period includes 6,337,604 net tons of steel products shipped in the second quarter and 6,608,599 net first quarter. New Furnace Tungsten In Operation Shipped From At Henderson Gabbs Region Pioche HENDERSON, Nevi electric Manganese Companys in now is Henderson at furnace taken two years operation after up in its construction. Recently the first ferromanganese to be produced in the Henderson area elecwas tapped from a tric furnace at the plant and production of this strategic metal was 7500-KV- A started. LAKE CITY Lead-zin- c tariff concessions, if granted following the forthcoming hearings of the U. S. Tariff Commission, can offer only limited relief to western metal mining, but the industry is making serious preparations for presenting its case at the Washington,VD. C., sessions opening Nov. 3, according to Ray McGuire, business writer for the DesSALT eret News-Telegra- Otto Herres of Sale Lake City, one of the countrys authorities on mining, is preparbest-inform- ed inconclusive tariff straw? The industry, it seems, is in a position to welcome any relief at this point. Furthermore, benefits beyond a tariff increase are a posible outgrowth of the hearings. For one thing, the Tariff Commission was directed by the Senate Finance Committee and House and Means Committee, Ways which ordered the hearing, to report to them its recommendations on needed legislation. The industry representatives still believe that they can make a good case in the hearing for a flexible import will duty, which they contend also aid the consumer by providing for a disappearing tariff which will be imposed only in face of foreign metal dumping such as has occurred in 1953. If such a duty is passed by the next session of Congress, it will industry needed give the lead-zin- c for present assurance and stability e development and and conexpansion, mining spokesmen tend. The Tariff Commission also has powers to impose import quotas. If such action is deemed advisable following the hearing, it may go a dolong way toward salvaging the crisis the from mestic industry v created when foreign coutnries started unloading on American markets metal stockpiles accumulated at the outbreak of the Korean war. Meanwhile, residents of Park lead-zin-c City, Eureka, and other 'towns are mining and smelter ' and hoping crossing their fingers for the best ing testimony for the National Committee, a producers group of which he is chairman. He considers this assignment so vital that it was one of the reasons why he recently declined an interim appointment as head of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. Mr. Herres is vice president of Combined Metals Reduction Co. The Utah Mining Assn, also has notified the Tariff Commission that it desires to participate in the mining hearings. Area lead-zin- c companies also are expected to send representation. On the face of it, this interest seems surprising in view of the fact that the maximum increases duties under possible for lead-zin- c laws tariff existing range between 1 and 1V4 cents a pound. Such an increase, if reflected completely in domestic metal prices, would not boost zinc up to the 15V4-celevel the industry contends is necessary for survival. Present prices are 11 cents for zinc and 14 cents for lead, which could, theoretically, achieve only the survival level. OPS ceiling prices two years ago WESTERN MINERAL were 19V& cents for zinc and 19 SURVEY cents for lead. d The effect of 4 East 1st South materialif they prices increases, or Telephone: ize; is unknown at this point. It apEntered as second class matter at 8alt City, Utah, under Act of March 3, pears for example, that such a Lake 1879. inwould be slight improvement Subscription Rates: 84.00 for taro years. sufficient to permit reopening of 82.50 for one year and 81.50 for six months. the Park Utah and Silver King Please mention Western Mineral Surwhen writing to advertisers. Advermines of the newly formed United vey tising rates on application. Park City Mines Co. And ores L. M. HILL Business Manager from these mines are considered essential to help keep at least one smelter in operaarea lead-zin- c tion. Why, then, does the mining industry clutch at this apparently Lead-Zin- c long-rang- Nev. The Big Top tungsten mine, eight airiine miles southeast of Gabbs, has shipped 3,000 tons of ore during less than seven months of open pit mining. This is the discovery made late last fall by Thomas Hancock and J. H. Baxter of Gafibs when they stopped to rest They were prospecting at an altitude of nearly 8,000 feet near the top of Paradise peak in the northwestern corner of Nye Coun-jtThey had been following schee-ilit- e float and sat down on a ledge comprising one of the two out- crops which later proved to be an lorebody 70 feet across. FALLON, nt second furnace, now in process of completion, is expected to be added to the operation before the summer is over. Pioche Manganese Company is an associate company of Combined Metals Reduction Corporation with much'of the furnace feed being produced at a kiln located j The two men, brothers-in-lain Caselton, Lincoln County, from had two partners their wives. ores mined in that vicinity by the The two couples spent eight days 'digging out 80 tons of ore. They to carry their The furnace feed, designated used wheelbarrows j loads to an ore chute which they .is automatically com- built in nodules, In eight more eight days. bined with flux and reducing days it was loaded and shipped. agents to make proper charge for the production of the metal. Four That n shipment by trucks them $30,000 net. Assays brought .large proportioning bins are filled as had been as 15 per cent. high om a track hopper and convey- to the Sodaville mill, to bins located over the furnace Shipments most of it to the U. S. Vanadium through manually controlled swiv-.-ti Corp. plant north of Bishop, ran a spouts. little over 8 per cent. A deal was i The tapped metal is cooled in made with Bill Bennett of Fallon t 'ays and later broken to lump to do the trucking, then to use his size for shipment Plant manager bulldogging outfit for stripping, at the Henderson smelter is Rich- open-p- it mining work and hauling. ard W. Lottridge; F. B. Peter-man- n Baxter said that from late Novis assistant plant manager; ember until the middle of June Frank P. Soulers is plant superin- 3,000 tons have been shipped by A new, faster, and more effitendent and R. E. Kirk is master Bennett with average returns of mechanic. cient way to obtain pure radium 3 per cent. Since then Bennett has a mixture of the elements from President of the Pioche Mangan- been working down the mountainand barium has been deradium ese Company is E. H. Snyder and side from the surface on a level vised by scientists at Mound Labenral manager is M. J. Ken-nar- 35 feet lower than the first Then Both these men maintain came the labor strike which tem- oratory. their offices in Salt Lake City. Barium and radium occur toporarily closed the U. S. VanadiWhen both furnaces are in fun um mill. gether in nature, and are very difto separate because of their ficult a crew of about 60 men operation, Plans now' are to sink a 100-fowUl be employed at the smelter. chemical similarity. The separashaft near the orebody, then tion method used commercially cross-cu- t to determine the extent today was first used by Marie and of the scheelite deposite. It is be- Pierre Curie in 1898. lieved that open pit mining will j The Curies employed a laboricontinue after the present stage ous method of Continued from Page 1 separatinjg these 'or ten years took out copper ore, has been shipped out, or, at depth, elements called fractional crystalthe ore can be taken through a lization. They dissolved a mixture shipping to a Salt Lake City smelt- tunnel farther down the hillside. of the chlorides (or bromides) of er. Baxter and R. R. Reed, also of radium and barium in hot water. n Whitney, a geologist Gabbs, have formed the Toiyabe As the water cooled, a solid was believes there is more copper ore & Milling Co., for con- formed which contained more o! 'n that country, particularly out Mining radium than the solution. n the a rom the 200 level of the old shaft. struction and operation of this solid was redissolved in When mill at Gabbs on which work The original mine went down to hot water, purer 'radium was deImost 2,000 feet before the bot- is already under way. It will be posited in the solid. Repetition of tom wras scraped and he company flotation process. this procedure 23 times during the "losed down its plant. It is expected to be finished by course of a month gave the Curies Rich copper sulphide ore was the first of Nevember. The haul nearly pure radium. will be 28 miles, 23 of it down hill 'bund in the Rio Tinto property Scientists at Mount developed 1937 and 1948 when the to the highway between Gabbs and a method using a solid which nine closed. Some of the ore ran Luning thence five miles on to would carry more of the Vadium Gabbs. az high as 60 per cent copper; from solution in a shorter time. A Ail tha nevi of the development of the Intermountain Section, published by The Western Mineral All news appearing in the Western Mineral Survey U, Atalned from sources y. , w, 80-to- r tariff-inspire- New Method Developed For Radium 22-2- Legal Notices The Western Mineral Survey is qualified as a newspaper to publish Legal Notices, having been approved in the Third District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah. Probate & Guardianship Notices For Further Information Consult the Clerk of the District Court or Respective Signers. NOTICE TO CREDITORS H. DEMING, deceased. 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