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Show 9 Utah Has World Ranking As Mining, Smelling Center had no process of Continued from Page 1 discovered ore outcrops in every major mining district that ex ists in the state today. Silver was the only metal worth anything because it was the only one they could market. Other metals, such as lead, copper and zinc, were waste even a nuisance, because they were tied in with the silver and hindered mining of that metal With the coming of the railroad in 1870 there were great changes. What had been waste materials became real assets, and by 1874 Utah was producing 45 per cent of all the lead mined in the U.S.A. Zinc, Mr. Romney said, was a waste material in Utah until Injury Data separatthey ing the lead from the zinc. In 1925 a new formula was developed which resulted in the proFatality experience in coal duction of 50,000 tons a year. mining during 1951 receded apThis technological improvement preciably from that in 1950 and later brought many hundreds of the rate of occurrence of fatal thousands of dollars of income injuries was worse than in any to Utah. year since 1948, according to the about fabulous the Bureau of Mines, United States Telling copper development in Utah, Department of the Interior. The Mr. Romney said that in 1899 recession in the fatality' record a man named D. C. Jackling resulted entirely from the large came to Utah and examined the number of men killed in mine ore at explosions during 1951. Howmountain of Released low-grad- e Bingham. He believed he could develop a method of mining this ore at a profit when nearly every mining man in the United States thought he was crazy. Mr. Jackling did develop a process of mining the 1924. rior to that they either ore which has resulted in milthrew it on the dump or left it lions of dollars of revenue to in the mine, for the reason that this state. Finn Slates Shipments of Tungsten Ore Prospects that of crude shipments tungsten ore from the Linka property will be started early this sum- -, mer are excellent, says Jay A. Carpenter, head of the company that has taken over the propRENO, Nev. erty. Carpenter returned to Reno from attendance at the meeting of tungsten mining men in Ely, where the group was addressed by George' F. Holderer, Chief of the ferroalloys division of the Defense Materials Procurement Agency. In commenting on the meeting, and the-- position expressed by Mr. Holderer, Mr. Carpenter stated that the opinion held by the mining men was in exact reverse to that expressed by the government representaaive. Mr. Carpenter, who was for many years head of the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Neyada, said that many operators present hoped that Mr. Holderer would give some assurance of a crude ore purchase depot at Ely, but learned he is apparently opposed to crude ore purchase. The main purpose of his trip to this part of the country was to meet with low-gra- de officials of the Vitro Manufacturing Company, a chemical corporation, to arrange, if possible for a tungsten concentrate treatment plant at Salt Lake City which would give tungsten mills a favorable sale of their concentrates. At present the closest custom mill is at Bishop, California, 250 miles from the shipping property being operated by Gale Peer, with hauling costs excessive. The plant is nearly 350 miles from the property operating beyond Eureka. Mr. w April 25, The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah ever, nonfatal-injur- y experience continued to improve and the rate of occurrence of ' nonfatal injuries in 1951 was lower than' in any year since these data became available. An estimated total of 785 men were killed in coal mining during 1951 at a frequency rate of 1.06 per million This rate of occurence was 18 perman-hour- s. cent higher than the record low rate of 0.09 in 1950. Similarly, he fatality rate per million tons advanced to 1.36 in 1951 which was appreciably above that of 1.15 per million tons mined in 1950. It is point ed out that 162 of the total fatalities in 1951 occurred in major and local explosions of gas or dus. Failure to control the explosion hazard through safe ventilation prac- Uranium Drive The cooperation of all cities and towns throughout the Colorado river uranium plateau will be solicited by the Uranium Ore Producers Association in waging a battle to see that the small independent miner receives a square deal in the sampling and sale of his ore. R. V. Turner, secretary of the association, stated that the association now has 187 active members and will seek associate members and other financial aid from the business interests of the area. He stated that $1,250,000 is now being spent in mining operations over the uranium belt and the industry is of vital economic importance to the region. MOAB, Utah Zinc Institute Elects Directors At the annual meeting of the American Zinc Institute, the folpwing directors were elected for the term ending 1955: W. C. Bennett, Phelps Dodge Refining Corp., New York City O. W. Bilharz, Bilharz Mining Co., Inc., Baxter Springs, Kansas; H. D. Cams, Matthies-se- n & Hegler Zinc Co., La Salle, 111.; C. M. Chapin, Jr., St Joseph Lead Company, New York City; M. L. Havey, New Jersey Zinc Co., New Yoarjk City; R. G. Kenly, The New Jersey Zinc Sales Co., Inc., New York City; S. H. Levi-soAmerican Smelting & Refining Co., New York City; George Mixter, U. S. Smelting Refining & Mining Co., Boston, Mass.; R. F. Orr, Athletic Mining & Smelting 'Co., Fort Smith, Ark.; nd W. B. Porter, Hageler Zinc Co., Danville, 111. ST. LOUIS n, the new tunnel at a depth of feet in the Eagle Rock. 170 In 1951, 290,660 pedestrians were injured in U. S. traffic accidents. Twenty-fiv- e per cent of all drivers involved in fatal automobile accidents in the U. S. last year were under 25 years old. I all-tim- 12,-715,6- 33 6. 1 of films, technical service civic and dubs, and scientific sodeties, patriotic, religious and workers organiza- tions, industrial training classes , and defense plant forces saw the pictures in 1951. Any organized groups are eligible to borrow Bureau films by paying only the transportation charges. At the dose of last year, the Bureau of Mines had 6,298 prints of 88 subjects' in its free loan library, with five new films in preparation. All of the films are width, and all in are in color. ones new of the of the 88 subjects are Sixty-tw- o in sound, and the 26 remaining are silent ones which are to ' be withdrawn from circulation at the dose of the current fiscal year. Bureau of Mines films are sponsored by industrial concerns which defray all costs incidental to production and the Bureau with prints. are Films produced under contract by commercial motion picture companies. The Bureau, itself, maintains no camera crews, studios or laboratories. pro-vid-n- g companys annual report. Expenditures for capital pur- poses last year totaled $990,623, Day Mines, Inc., continued its aggressive program of exploration and expansion during 1951 at an increased rate, according to the arations for substantial mercury production from the Dewey property about a mile northwest of the geysers have been completed by Buckman, Inc. Important cinnabar deposits were developed last year in the Big Red workings of the mine. Exploration of the Eagle Rock area waar vigorously pressed, and the rotary furnace formerly operated at the Contact property was bought and moved to the Dewey. The Contact furnace is capable of treating 50 tons of ore daily and the smelter Dewey unit has a daily capacity of 20 tons. Cinnabar is mined in an open pit eight feet wide and 700 feet long at the site of former operations at the Big Red claims and exploration continues from UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. Showings of Bureau of Mines educational motion pictures have increased 110 per cent and the recorded attendance has climbed 82 per cent in the past five years, Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman ane recnounced today. An ord of showings and numbers of viewers for the Bureaus free loan films was established in 1951, he pointed out These Bureau of Mines films dealing with minerals, fuels, natural resources of States, and other related subjects were shown last year on 197,888 occasions to audiences totaling persons. An additional 43,000,000 persons are estimated to have seen the films on television. In 1946 five years earlier showings totaled 94,443 and the 6,987,-89reported attendance was 1946-51 During the period the Bureaus free loan library was expanded to include many new subjects and thousands of adidtional reels of film. Schools and colleges, it was stated, continued to be the principal borrowers of the Bureaus rela- Project Mercury SANTA ROSA, Calif. Prep- In peace or war it lias never been too little, too late." Bureau Of Mines Film Circulatioh Shows Big Gain but many members Day Mines tices, effective dust controls and Pushes Huge adequate rock dusting ruined what could have bene a tively favorable fatality record Development in WALLALCE, Idaho 1951.. 1952 Profit Gains more than $400,000 greater than the $580,631 outlay for 1950. Purchase of all the outstanding stock of Gold Hunter Mines, Inc., and inauguration of rehabilitation work at the property, together with increased or new expenditures on the Galena, Hercules, National, Silver Buckle and West Independence projects accounted for the increase, the report says. At the end of 1951 the com- panys net investment in miing operations, including plants, equipment, development, exploration, mining claims, investments and workin gcapital, total- At Silver Dollar Mine ed nearly $7,000,000, Henry L. Day, president and manager, Silver Dollar Mining Company his letter to stockholdin says experienced a good year In ers. 1951 despite unsettled labor conWith ,432 employees at the ditions and increasing costs, this is about $16,000 President Elmer E. Johnston year-end, told tsockholders at their an- per employee, he points out, and nual meeting here this week, represents the amount of monaccording to the Wallace Miner. ey furnished by the company to man at work. Operations last- year showed keep each, a net profit of $115,759 after Mining operations by the comall deductions, he stated. Op- pany were at about the same erating profit, before deduc- rate in 1951 as 'in 1950, the re- tions, totaled $548,728. Income taxes amounted to $173,828. In 1950, net earnings were slightly lower, totaling $95,725, while income taxes of $69,687 were more than $100,000 less. During the year, Sunshine Mining Company, operating the Rotbart area- which it shares with Polaris and Silver Dollar companies, mined $24,682 ,tons of ore for Silver Dollar, Mine Manager R. R. Weideman re3 ported. This compares with tons in 1950. The 1951 output yielded ounces of silver, 1,573,-37- 5 pounds' of lead and 274,847 pounds of copper. Gross revenues from ore sales totaled $165,986 was paid in royalties to Lincoln Mining Company from which Silver Dollar holds its claim under a long-terlease. The companys financial position is strong, he stated. Current assets at) the year end totaled $373,319 and investments amounted to $405,941, including $186,057 in government bonds. Total current liabilities were - 25,-58- $1,-291,02- 6; port reveals. Tonnage milled last year to7 taled 229,207 tons, including tons of mined ore and 31,640 tons of old stope-fillin- g from the Interstate mine: in 1950 mine ore output was 205,485 tons and the stope-fil- l yield was 12,205 197,-56- tons. Gross metallic content of ore last year, with 1950 figures in parenthesis, was as follows: Mine ore 452,934 ounces of leadRt-eaSHSHR SHR SH miled. R of silver (769,317); 16,876,422 pounds of lead (25,075,864); 14,-176,- 994 pounds of zinc Stqpe-filin- g (10,894,-608- ). 17,301 ounces of silver (6,815); 795,820 pounds of lead (304,008); 1,895,668 pounds of zinc (768,552). The substantial decline in lead and silver output was due to the decreasing yield from the Sherman mine, the report states. d The increase in zinc is yield attributed to steady mining of the Amazon vein and continued drawing of Interstate gob in the Monitor area. Lead continued to be the commost important product, panys $212,938, of which $188,070 was of accounting for 49 per cent accrued and assessed taxes. ' 1951 the income. Zinc gross A total of $163,128 in dividends was paid in 1951, the bal- brought in 44 per cent and silver 7 per cent. ance sheet shows. The companys operating , inStockholders reelected all directors for another year. They come last year was $3,425,975, areJohnston, W. T. Anderson, slightly above the $3,388,883 in C. C. Anderson, Laurence Howe 1950. Operating profit was $992,-11- 6 as compared with $883,060 in and Louis Payne, all of the previous year. m one-thir- |