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Show SALT LAKE VALI.EY SMELTER TRICKS SAM LEAD, par pauad WESTERN MINERAL SDRVEY ImM te iadaeliira af A reeamc af vdapmeate U I II.1M COTPKK !. CrOLU ZINC SILVER (par m. new mind) SILVER (per m. epat) VOL. 14, NO. IStt SAM . 1I.Mt SIASc Features Mining, Oil, Financial 26 Salt Lake City, Utah, June 25, 1943 (lie mining and nil Dtab and (be Went. the autetanding 4a carried aarb week. $2.00 Year, $1.00, 6 Mos. a Nonferrous Scrap Stock Down Coal Miners Go Fishing Then Back To Work coal strike in The three-daUtah was ending Thursday with most of the miners hack to work. The strike, which Sunday night became inevitable, has been a fairly peaceable one. .Coal' miners in Carbon and Emery Counties did not report for work. Monday morning at Utah coal mines but went fishing instead because a new contract had not been negotiated by the Sunday midnight deadline. Graveyard shift men did not report; everything was reported y eaceful. William-McPhlof Price, vice president of district No. 22, United Mine Workers of America, at this time stated, that he had received no word from the union International Policy, Committee which would point to a quick soof the problem. lution ' We are not on strike we simply will not go back to work, said the miners, most of whom back John L. Lewis, U. M.. W. A. president strongly. Reason for their belligerent attitude .was not money-founde- d apparently because miners, many of them witli sons in said that they would work for $50 per month if arrangements were, made that mine- operators . get no share in profits accrued through coal sales. Miners still remained way from work Tuesday awaiting ment of, the dispute between the ooerators and 'the or government Intervention. The situation was still peaceable . . . picketing and violence were conspicuously absent .and miners continued to enjoy themselves fishing, loafing and relaxing. Since this was the second time the mines had been closed during the current disputes, miners were experienced strikers. Most of them at this time expressed hope . for early settlement and were disgruntled at delayed negotiations. Less than normal stocks ' of coal were reported on hand from all over the state.' Usage, season-a- l demands and substitutes would determine how long this would last. Transportation appeared as the most serious' problem resulting from cessation of production for railroads reported only the norami summer stockpiles on hand for use in engines and other burners. Utah Power and Light and Utah Copper Company reported normal supplies. All coal held in railroad cars was frozen subject to government orders. Wednesday night some coal miners returned to work in response instruction from John L. Lewis and the International Policy Committee but more remained away until' Thursday pending direct instructions. . the-army- , mine"-Worker- s' . . Although the volume of scrap receipts at dealers yards was reduced by cold weather, shipments to consumers showed an upward trend during the first quarter of 1943, causing a 12 per cent drop in dealers stocks from 108.1UG short tons, (revised) on hand January to 94,989 tons reported March 31, according to the Bureau of Mines, United States Department of- - Interior. Comparing total dealers transactions in non ferrous scrap during the first quarter of 1943 with those of the first three months of 1942, shipments from dealers to consumers were up 19 per cent, receipts by dealers from all sources of supply were 17 per cent higher, and stocks of scrap dealers yards averaged 19 per cent higher during the first quarter of 1943. Even considering the seasonal' drop during the cold months, the total business transacted was far above that of the period a year ago. COLUMBIA STEELS HUGE NEW. PLANT at Geneva, Utah, is expected to be in operation comparable Dealers shipments of nonfer-rou-s 1 by Nov. this year, according to announcement by E. M. Barber, vice president of Columbia scrap to consumers during imGeneva at is division. to a Steel defense January, February and March, expected Steels, play plant produced vitally 1943, totaled 250,994 short tons, war western in portant role production. of which more than half was copper-base scrap. Nonferrous scrap received by dealers from farms, households, factories, utilities, v and other sources of supply totaled- 237,817- - short-dlte first' quarter. Data are tabulated each month from 2 reports submitted by an scribed the Monsons curriculum for in new for The necessary training college year at Identical group of more than tana School of Mines will begin occupation or for other reasons, first college year of two metal terms. This curriculum 1,100 nonferrous scrap on or abbut July 6 with probably must also enroll, on. July 6 since dealers whose combine! transac90 percent.' of the facilities of it will be impossible with our will include, for the first us to for staff the collimited resent Buttes famous technological following subjects: tions cover more than three-fourth-s E of the total for the trade Phylege devoted to the new Navy egin one program in July and Engineering Mathematics, and the Dessimilar the another figures for each type of sics, Engineering Drawing, program College Training Program known ' in are then expanded to cover the Freshman scrap third week as to Geometry, President September, criptive according all dealers in the United our of Historical the virtually Francis A. Thomson. who is just usual date for English, Background opening of the War, Physical Training, States, exclusive of peddlers and back from conferences in the first semester.Sub- auto wreckers. It is estimated East with officials of the TrainHigh school graduates who and Naval Organization. are more there that than 4,500 necin successful those the with have of Division Bureau of the sequently, complied ing for the this program will proceed with nonferrous scrap metal dealers Naval Personnel of the United essary requirements active in the United States. 2 States Navy, Program will be enlisted in the 2 Naval Engineering Cur. Copper and Brass Scrap High school graduates plan- the Navy prior to July 1 as appr- riculum. on active duty The college faculty has under ning to enroll in Montana School entice-seamen Receipts of copper-bras- s scrap of Mines and .present students with pay, subsistence, and uni- consideration at the present time were unusually low. In January, who have been deferred as per form, and will, follow the pre- - the , enrollment of all civilian 1943, with 37,489 tons taken in freshman students in the same compared with 48,674 tons gathcurriculum with the exception of ered in December, 1942, but shipthe course in Naval Organization. ments to consumers were mainSophomore, Junior, and senior tained almost at the December both level, causing a decrease of 4,584 classes will also include naval trainees and civilian stu- tons In dealers stocks during dents. January.' The decline in receipts Since many of the mining of copper-bas-e scrap was only The satisfaction that is natural- of steel production and manpow- schools and other colleges of the temporary, for there was a mark- -' be believed is to er. The country at ed increase increase felt continued include which the mining ly during February and .its maximum capaci- countryhave been designat- March. The gross weight of in war. production is tempered approaching departments ty for steel production, and the training, it is the the copper and brass scrap to some extent by the fact that allocation system has reduced ed for army to transfer to entering the scrap metal dealer intention Navys the output of some military es- the amount; of. steel going into the small number - of mining trade increased 19 per cent from sentials is not fully measuring civilian uses close to the min- schools which are Navy Schools, the low level of January to imum. March. Net retons the V-- l and V-- 7 naval reserve up to the objectives and by the To overcome shortages of. man- mining students now enrolled in ceipts for during the three months first serious threats implied by the power, particularly . of highly n y These ad- of 1943 (122,684 tons) were 25 Colleges. even vanced standing naval students, prolonged crisis in the coal indus- trained key persbnnel, per cent more than receipts' durhave will Montana School of Mines ing the same period of 1942 Imagination greater 2 of from current issue states the try, to be used than in the past, ac- as well as from other mining tons.) The. Guaranty Survey, published cording to officials, in adapting schools who may be transferred shipments to consumby the Guaranty Trust Company machines to replace hands. are to complete ersDealers here in of copper-bas-e scrap during inof New York. Further opportunities for . engineering their specialized and showed January February are seen minin creased production for their degrees in training mainlittle from level the. Although the output of muni- closer coordination change of effort. ing, metallurgy, and geology. tions has reached new high levDetained and November during are said Certain naval els, the Survey continues, aggre- Scheduling techniques a but. engineering rise cember, brought sharp be showing, development, but courses will be added to these March gate production for the first quar- to shipments to 46,056 short can be done in fitting op- curricula. Naval students with a ter of the year lagged behind more tons, figure exceeded only durover-all pattern advanced standing will, however, ing August schedule. The three months total erations into an' and October of last larger output, pursue their professional studies year. . amounted to only 18 per cent of that, will permit the first quarter Druing dislocathe least possible in an accelerated course of the years objective, according to with exceeded deal1943, of shipments one from tion in type terms and will, therefore, ers shifting e the War Production Board, indi- of of copper-basreceipts scrap, Need production to another. have to cover the work of the whereas the opposite condition cating that the average output is seen for also weeks. 32 usual college year in for each succeeding existed in the closing months of quarter in the systems ofimprovements distributing must be brought up to 27 per materials Again, as indicated with regard 1942. The gross weight of coppeControlled the under cent of the projected figure for Materials Plan for further limi- to civilian freshmen, it will be r-base scrap spuplied to conthe year. To achieve this aim, out- tations on inventories and for necessary because of our heavy sumers by dealers during Januput must increase at the average, continuing reductions in the load fop civilian sophomores, ary. February and March of 1943 rate of approximately 22 per cent juniors, and seniors to follow the amounted to 129,555 tons, a 26 length ot periods of fabrication same accelerated schedule. Thus per cent improvement over dealin each remaining quarterly and processing. should complete work for er shipments for the same period seniors Along with the rise in pro- the in 32 weeks, juniors of 1912 which amounted to only Slower Rise in Prospect degree a duction has naturally gone 64 in about weeks, and sopho- 103,080 tons. It has been estiWhile indications are seen that continued increase in the war mated that a much larger tonsubstantial gains will occur dur- expenditures of the government mores in about 98 weeks. will Work immediately nage of copper-baswas next several scrap went the it begin $7,290 total for months, The ing April is recognized that the very rap- million, representing an annual on alterations to the1 Residence directly from fabricators to brass id expansion registered in the rate of $87.5 billion and exceed- Hall on the School of Mines cam- mills and smelters without going in order to increase greatly through the dealer cycle. past year cannot continue much ing the March figure by .3 per6 pus of the . Hall, which the was 'A of are number factors Dealers stocks declined from capacity The cent longer. daily average devoted will be exclusively to 54.815 tons (revised) on January expected to produce a gradual per cent higher than in the pren civilian 1, 1943, to 47.945 tons on March slowing down of the rate of in- ceding month. War expenditures Navy use.. have to find privwill crease, the most important of from July, 1940, through April students, See NONFERROUS mm Page S ate lodgings in Butte. .which are the approaching limits 1913, touted $944) billion. non-erro- 1- Navy Aviation Cadets T o Train us -, tons--durin- - V-1- 18-we- 32-wee- V-1- 2, . - V-1- V-1- , . Production Falls Behind Schedule In 43 U. S. - . 44,-7- on-Nav- Governor Vivian (98,-63- Appoints Member Governor Vivian has. reappointed two- members of the board of directors of the state metal mining fund and named one new member for terms expiring March 31; 1 949. Those reappointed were.-HarrA. Brown of Aspen and Alex McLellan of Boulder. John Harvey of Leadville was named to succeed Lawrence A. Brown of y . . 1 18-wee- k . . . . Mountain City Makes Ore Strike v RENO, Nev.-t-La- te reports that a new ore body of importance has been, opened In part of the Rip Tinto mine of the the-wester- Mountain City Copper 'Co. were said to have been verified at the northern Elko county camp. It was said the ore had been opened above the 700 foot level while raising to the surface for air connections . near biunclaries of the Mountain City Cons. Copper Co. and the Rio Grande. Copper . be-rio- d. e Out-of-tow- 12 |