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Show March 19, 1943 The Western Mineral Survey, Salt Lake City Utah Markets New Mexico Mining Man Lauds Silver Continued From Page 1 entering into the production of 11 purposes listed in the regulations, Deliveries of 25 pounds of contained, cobalt to any one person in any one month, or deliveries to subsidiaries of RFC, may be.' made without specific authorization. - . Rep. Cellers Talk In Washington Is Assailed Jeff S. Moore, SILVER Senator McCarran (Ney.) said on March 4 that an appropriahad : voted tions unanimously to strike from, the d Treasury-Postoffie- e bill a amendment which ' would withhold funds from the. Treasury, for the future purchase and transportation of silver under the Silver; Purchase Act.' He predicted that the Senate also would vote to kill the House amendment, should- the matter come up for. consideration.' structlve . step towards reducing it was taken with passage' of-- a bill by Senator Murray of Montana, under which such forms must be cleared by the Bureau of of. the Budget; a committee the mining industry, representative of both large and small mines, is being set up to advise the bureau concerning our problems, Scrap salvage and conservation within the mining industry have called for cooperative efforts all along the line, with notable results in some ' districts but much .work remaining to be j done. ..Interpretations to the industry of pending legislation- and . sub-committ- ty . - . .back.' IGNORANCE IS CRIMINAL In this case the old adage, "When Ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise," is entirely out . place in our war effort. The net result of such a demonstration of colossal ignorance is the equivalent to murdering many of our boys with too little and too late." According to this Celler, the American price for silver only : benefits a few thousand miners mine owners in and six or seven western states. This :is not merely a false 'representation, but an unqualified malicious, unfitful lie on the face of it. It is probable that there are as .many as six or seven states that do not produce silver, but even the lead miners in the state of New York depend on the price .of silver to enable them to produce the lead so badly needed for the batteries in our submarines. PROFIT FOR UNITED STATES The three billion ounces of silver purchased by the treasury department at 71.11c an ounce, or $2,133,300,000, represent a profit to the government of more .than $1,700,000,000. I am sure, 'Mr. Celler, that even that gang of international pawnbrokers, called bankers, would consider 80 per cent a fair re- (Of pot-bellie- d . Assoyers and Chemist, Bax 1528 Vt Npnanl ihlppm a! SoMlti Established 1887 . . - Lots Of Storage Room Here iron ore will be consumed rS. I daily by the great furnaces at the Geneva quired. assiduous attentionBuch and Huge quantities of ln Steel Works near Provo and to meet these daily needs, gigantic ore storage bins, such, as JPttiossemination I Most of you come to Washing-nea- r those seen ahove, are being constructed.- Ore will he brought in from Columbia Steel's mines ion frequently. You know the Cedar City. - high calibre of the men, many of them from mining's own or other turn on the investment. Every regulations .is ranks, who are giving their time time that the. treasury departpending in Congress, and will energies to our prob-5u- r ' , I - - ' ment pays $71.11 for 100 ounces of silver, our old Uncle Sam is then able to advance $129 toward the expense, account of the honorable congressman. No, Mr. Celler, that huge pile of darkened material you saw in your dream was not tarnished sil- ver. It was that enormous stockEile of blackened and weather old tires the publicity hounds have collected on your corner lot Hundreds of thousands of tons of rubber that is rotting and becoming useless while the intelligent representatives of the people are being amused by that childrens game of "Button, but ton, whos got the button" being played by the countless overlapping bureaus in the City of Washington State of Dire Confusion. These huge piles of old tries are here to make the peo-l- e . war conscious and realize we need rubber, iow badly when strategic metals cannot be mined or necessary foods produced because of a shortage of rub-be- n WAR USE OF SILVER Mr. Congressman Celler, the metal you called slacker silver Is not tarnishing- from disuse, - it is bright and shiny. It is flying the airplanes. It is firing the big guns that make the Nazis run. .It. is 'exploding the bombs that scatter the Japs. It provides the bullets that save the lives of our boys. I procures food and clothing for our allies. The extra dimes for an ounce of silver enable the copper miners to. produce the copper to build the life lines of light for your office and power for our factories. The few ounces of silver permit, the mining of manganese so vitally necessary for the making of the steel for our ships and tanks. RUBBER COLLECTION FIASCO If the Honorable Congressman and they are all Honorable Genh tlemen actually felt as patriotic as he exclaimed, he would be the first to move to leconsider the amendment to the one-tent- treasury-pos- office t appropria- tion, bill and offer a substitute that would require the thousands of tons of rubber to be utilized now instead of rotting in piles all over the country in the numerous monuments to senseless bureaucracy that are desecrating the rights of our citizens. Such a step would go a long way toward relieving th? shortage of rubber. He would also learn that the miners are somewhat streamlined and hardened by the steely sinews of the metals they produce, and that the pot bellied assemblage he saw in his vision was composed, largely, of highly inflated gas bags that if punctured over Europe would annihilate the Nazis. Then upon recovering from the effects of his dream, he would realize that ln all of the occupaand professions tions, trades known, there are only three producers the farmer, the miner, and the oil man; almost all of . UNION ASSAY OFFICE, INC. . - . . - - . - . House-approve- well-know- n southern New Mexico miner from the Beaverhead country, submits. the following remarks challeng-Jng statements made on the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C.t on Feb. 5, last, according to the Congressional Record, official. House and Senate house organ. The statements were made by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York aud the language that so incensed Mr. Moore follows: "Silver can be used only for bus bars and after the war must be returned to the treasury, it cannot be used ' in airplanes, it cannot be used in tanks or guns, it cannot be used in searchlights; it must be used only for what is called consumptive uses. I want no strings attached to the silver that may be used in the war effort. I want to .use It so that the boys on the front can have use of the silver. As I said, I want to put' it in uniform, and make it do war work. Today it Is doing work for. Only some 60,000 people of the silver states and the only ones benefited by these acts are the 60,000 miners and the potbelty owners Of the mines of six or seven western silver states, who have by a tremendous bluff forced these statutes on the nation,- and now it is time to puncture those potbellies and destroy this monument of silver, erected to and selfishness." Mr. Moores letter in .reply follows: "To the Editor: "Under normal conditions the flagrant display of as si nine stupidity and acute dumbness of some of the members ' of our national' Congress may be tolerat- ed by the masses of the. American .people, but when our boys are (dying on a score of distant battle fronts and the treasury, department is searching every nook .and corner of our national being for funds with which to supply food and munitions to our gallant Allies as well as the immortals. of our own flesh and blood, it is high time that the citizenry of this nation exercise their right Of free speech in calling to task some of our employes in Washington. especially when such statements as were made by one Emanuel Celler of New York on the floor of the House of Representatives on Feb. 5, 194 not only indicate the depth of gross Ignorance, but betray our Allies and stab our own soldiers in the . . . tRepor-From . and-thei- Page 3) (Continued portance of. mining machinery came last spring when the War Production Board requested cancellation of the usual exposition and of coal mining machinery Within at Cincinnati. equipment our knowledge this is the ' only case in which .& specific request of this nature has been, made by WPB, and it is striking proof of the emphasis placed by high ficials upon - all-o- ' production from the mines. Action by the Manufacturers Division towards meeting . the shortage in revenue thus created, and in making the division more broadly representative, will be discussed by the finance commitDitee and by Manufacturers HadW. vision Chairman John ut - dock. MINES The gold mines' difficulties have constituted a special probGOLD . lem. The arbitrary order of. March denying priorities mines producing over 30 cent dollar value in gold silver if carried out literally, would have closed down hundreds of our western mines. We took an active part in western order hearings protesting the and in further hearings ln Washington before the Senate silver committee. Serial numbers were restored to many mines producing essential metals of fluxing ores, and in May the 30 per cent clause was rescinded. Straight gold and silver mines, however, were given relief only through general assurance that materials as would be supplied insofar from other could be spared they use; and the mining branch cooperated in the effort to carry this out during the next few months. On October 8 was issued the peremptory order closing down the gold mines. Prior to this, meetings of producers were held in our office and data submitted to WPB and WMC, showing the small number of. .experienced made miners that could be ' amounts available, the small of materials required for continuance of operation, and the harm that would be done to substantial communities by the proposed order;, but all protests were and the order was summarily issued. Although a number of appeals from the order have been granted, resumption of regular gold mine operations appears to be out" for the duration. Legisfrom lation to provide relief which contractual obligations cannot be met because of this . . . over-ridde- n I war-tim- e . , suPPr' assurance has r These men are working recOTt iong'.hours, under Written trying i condi-l- y been received tiiat the SOldltions, to do a job that must be and silver content of an . ore done. We will not prejudice, its application cooperation. WehSe worktS for a 6 serial number. The I closely with them and essential consideration, accord- - ready- to assist at all times. stand We ing to the Mining. Equipment American Mining Congress vision is the "war value" of are proud that our pnStident has the minerals produced 'against been selected to head up the min-th- e "war value? of the critical work of the War Production I Board and to coordinate the min- ,relJrePending in Congress are cer-- 1 ing activities of the several war tain proposals to make treasury agencies We know that the mixv silver available for use in war tag industry will back him to the industry. It. should be made I limit in seeing that our country plain that the position of the so--1 jg supplied with' the raw mate-calle- d "Silver Bloc" has been rials which will enable us to subjected to much misrepresenta- - I bring unconditional surrender of tion, and that these senators fa the Axis at the earliest possible vor- and support the use of what- - aate. ever amounts of silver may be required for war purposes, either synopsis or the annual orlems. I P-5- Dl-of,t- he ig . . . - I or state-consumpti- eent e. Northwest Gasimltv It may also be stated that these men are keenly aware of the role played by the preclou, metal. both in the original development! Secretary, x d. Brin. conditiona on Of, and in making possible com Unued production from so many lmn mTrt & to law: of our major mining districts. ASSETS AID TO SMALL OPERATORS ve - fn December Slat,' K. The rules for RFC mine loans I ;$3iim.74:51 . . '43o.'5i3.63 have been liberalized twice in the Cash in 'Office and Bank is,23.7a past year. Interest rates have other Ledr Awetl been reduced to 4 per cent. Pre- - Total Ledr Aweu t3.S3o.K0A6 20.114 js development loans, for unwater-- 1 Non Ledrer Assets ing, retimbering, sampling and CroM . making ore accessible have been Less Amts not Admitted:; authorized. The procedure for , Total Admitted . 3.793.951.02 development loans and loans on I proven properties has been slm- - Unesrned Premium Reserve 1.335.966.04 plified. Smaller loans may be Bet Amt. Unpaid Losses snd I applicable to strategic and critical . Total minerals, do not require proof that the enterprise will show a profit, surplus and do not. require that the ap- - m the mining operation. 2,935.249.25 $iS'SS?'SS sito.witay-hoide- ii -6 State of Utah, County ., 656.70i.77 Salt Lake: Of Government aid to small op-- 1 This certifies that ' the shove named erators has been made available pha" the fore coin y is s synopsis snd in various . forms Including has complied with the laws ef this State Cal buying depots for Strategic I relatinr to 'insurance and therefore is - SSSSJl a.CnnSninrtd8 "i VhTsUtef CUh of field until the last day of February, 1944. representatives in the mining ib witness whereof, i hereunto serial areas; assignment of t? w. numbers to small mines- on a I (seal)oscar carlson I Commissioner of Insurance, group basis, thereby helping to reduce paper work, and in other! Probate Aiid Guardian- s,VmmarizIn! the various regulations means of assistance by 'federal sllipXT Notices agencies was completed for dis-tribution at our War Metals For Further Information Consult the Clerk of the District Court Conference In Salt Lake City in or Respective Signers, November. The special prob-- 1 lems T smaller mines are to reNOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Isaac Daniel Stew 1inixlg subcommittee P-5- I ttistdv 6 - - . , . - I fv,a ?,TaiLb'iS.!nS8 5mmTitte oto be- I art. Deceased. claims Creditors will J. G. Scrug- With. vouchers to present by the undersignot Nevada. ed at 627 . Continental Bank Time does not permit reference Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, to many of the industry problems on or before the 27th day of that have required attention dur- - juiy a. D.f 1943. ing the year. Restrictions upon ORABELLE l. STEWART, Administratrix of the Es-suthe others are parasites feeding truck operations, as originally Is- off the producers. tate of Isaac Daniel Stew-a- n by ODT, would have created art. Deceased, impossible situation had not JEFF S. MOORE, Date of first publication, Sierra President, County Chap- exemptions for'' mining been se-ter, New Mexico Miners & Pros- cured. The burden of question- March 19. A. D. 1943. pectors Association. Hot Springs, naires and reports has become J. Grant Iverson, N. M. almost intolerable, but a con - J Attorney for Administratrix. - - . ed . |