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Show JL Vc yv-- i v - SALT LAKE IILUI TALLR HULVEB men (pm M M IM .. OOFttB QOLD (w m) ZIMO (pw iHl LEAD, .m, jcjlej ohef am bImII HHi ,.. tMA a AKSAa .SLBIBS lAiAA Features Mining, Oil, Financial One Year $2.50 Salt Lake City, Utah, November 1, 1947 VOL 18; NO. 42, Higher Silver Price Asked at Mining Meet Cardiff EL PASO, Texas Increased prospecting and exploration of the nations mineral areas and. development of additional reserves of lead, zinc and copper would be the result of an addition to the present price of silver, Tom Lyon, assistant to the manager of International Smelting & Refining Company, Salt Lake City, stated here in an address before the Metal Mining Convention of the American Mining Congress. Contending that the price of silver should be raised to $1.29 per ounce, Mr. Lyon told delegates to the 1947 convention that Mine The first carload of ore has been shipped from the once famous Cardiff Mine located in the Alta Mining. District, Utah since inauguration of the new rehabilitation program, according to word received in Salt Lake today. A second car is now being prepared for shipment, according to the report. : . Mines Bureau Reports on OpHir Mine such action would stimulate search for new metal sources and also make available reserves of ore in older mines that never could be mined otherwise. Productive Area Mr. Lyon pointed out that this the from mined was ore The price of silver would offer inEditors Mote:' The following informs-tlo- n was area which centive for risk capital and do stope Wobbly mi the Ophir Hill Consolidated Lead. lessee to operain activities Zinc Mine, . Tooele County, Utah was more to stimulate made available from Bureau ' of Mines Report of month the development of new mines taken tions as a result of a four under4072. addition to the Investigations -' rehabilitation program and new reserves than any other following data, the Inreport contained directed to several the could company one thing that taken by figures, showing location of the happen timberre property, physical characteristics and a toward cleaning and the Industry. complete log of the 165 core drill holes haulage tunnel on ing the mainlevel projected by the Bureau. This InformaProtection Need mine. of the tion Is presented not only for the pubthe 600 foot Interest displayed In this particular The Wobbly stope or raise, Otto Herres, vice president of lic project, but also as an example of the scene of major activity at the Combined Metals Reduction Co., comprehensive and outstanding work undertaken by the U. 8. Department of Inproperty, is being operated as Salt Lake City, declared that terior. the Carlson Lease. It is reported tore requires MODERNIZATION has hit mining just as it has other major other: leasers that Carlson and current BT FRANK L. WIDEMAN protection of our productive remetal industries .and In sodoing, has improved working conditions ( Continued) have stated that at to are the weather we if sources event of continuously of its workers. However, even with the The Ophir formation is comprices, continuous ore shipments economic -. and reorganpolitical , of several thin beds of can be maintained from the Wobimproved mechanisation, operating companies face a difficult ization of the world as a new prised caused by various Increased costs, a at section. task in limestone profit. from one separated bly conflict with era charged begins. and lower grade ores are given as the reasons. factors, Herres observed that President i 0cu;ilaUvely toin beds Winter Program oveflain and Truman and his advisers wish to While value of the ore shipped shale, exhaustion the avoid premature rom the l?n?roLp succession in the first car was not transore of discovered reserves, newly ' mitted in todays announcement, stabut added Vit may be pertinent ago weeks several a report to observe that if the govern- samr ted that lessees had taken ment continues its - have-n- ot same this time from r ve18 ples at thatshowed its tariff reducbedding. James propaganda, 29 per cent area that to tion policies with respect to im- lfSumi?r,the Bhieand . lead and 10 ounces of silver ' KSS refuses to provider iiicezi Green" the cpM," u he Middle, and the changed. There tive for exploration and develop- - YellowH and just as timeshave changed, mines havewas Orange as the as a I regarded was a time when work in the underground BI ? or veins The beddings. .Sons throughout the winter drudgery and the ranks consisted of men with strong backs who fort and private capital for ex- - I individual limestones are 5 to 90 ifiwiduaf risk ranitii feet thick, and the entire forma-min- es months, a company spokesman could best wield a pick and shovel. by 250 to 300 feet thick. The 8t their bite machines Today, continues the interminable de- - I tjon mining Wrilknown In Utah within the productive beddings the underground its way through the Cardiff has had N. 60 degrees W. to block strike who history men formations and the - hey-de- y N 75 degrees W. and dip 15 periods that have of skill and ft men are them man I production substantial 20 .northM.t menS, of miSl degrec achievement. Work of the miner v.Ud dividend days. It w where except warped by the more specialized, become has substantial doon eral the that discovery public Cliff fault ly conceded interesting and education- main beyond practical accomof commercial ore still more exist in the property that can be al- plishment, and continues to sup- - Production iMrkettag. for port partisan labor policies, they Machine Mucking made available need have no further concern for . For this reason the present oper wide The uncanny - mucking ma- there win be very few new ore meVtodikT"paes' through" "the ation is being watched with Court The Utah of Supreme chine, which does about everytirpublic interest Disnow does ft,tbe5pre?ia" Ophir district West of the Ophir last week reversed a Utah thing except talk, men. tin?e Htil mine. The dike is uninter-801Xseveral of work trict Court decision involving ing shovel n6W The operator is a man who has rupted by faulting in Ophir rights to some 480 yon and has been traced from either learned his trade in the operating a distance acres short located the a point south of Ophir Canyon in schooled or mines been, Safety Program before machine northward to Dry Canyon, where now of the southeast of Vernal, Utah, commit- operation in The programs work. it may join other igneous masses, A Senate public lands training Adequate entering mining of Utah one of the hot-spo- ts ac- - The reduce will mines tee will endeavor to get tne mechanical mucker is powered oil metal the only other igneous bodies developments. Proximity of cidents and compensation costs, observed the answer to President at in the vicinity of the and air facompressed to new area world this the bet. valve veto of legislation providing sub- by Hill or mine are two dikes lever provide a conserve manpower, certain of Ophir touch mous Rangely Field has added labor and reduce sidies . for copper, lead, zinc, of kersantite. .down reaches relations, ter -, job interest in the acreage under hearings ne- literally' and manganese at 19th ore or waste and controversy. Most of the ore produced from turnover, promote better efficiin Reno, scoops up the November and .permit a more rapid the Ophir Hill property has been ginning throws it over its shoulder ency, was suit The brought original er to '.other methods mined from a triangular block into the waiting mine car. N. J. Margher of Vernal change-ovby who Senator Malone of Nevada, man would otherthe is Then there that Oil Com- and equipment thanL. F. Bishop, of ground approximately 2500 Ashely Valley against tram chairman, has announced the be underground wise feet in lad-inpossible, g operates length and 1400 feet in to the committee will invite is usually a pany Joe T.toJulian and others of of the Ana- maximum width. The block is This railroad. foreman or production operating rights representatives of to mining battery locomotive that pulls a quiet title Butte, bounded by the Canyon fault on is understood that conda Copper Mining toCo., the as It the to acreage. testify shaft Conto the cars the industry of told the south, the Cliff fault on the delegates string Mont., Mr. Margher owned surface in the cost of producing long the whichever the out or tunnel, gress. and U.S. of the to a large portion ; specific minerals in the be (Continued On Page 2) case may be. At the top of the rights Pointing out that it seems todisinvolved. property that hoist foreign countries. drum a the is that view shaft huge an accepted also The subcommittee will Originally heard in the Fourth coveries of new ore deposits of is operated by a miner skilled in current practhe into District Court at Ver- substantial extent in the conJudicial machine inquire the function of this court held in favor of that tices and regulations of the SEt, mine nal, the lowers and which lifts retinental United States are liketitle suit Mr. to determine whether theyvenquiet Marghers made only in areas to the Supreme Court ly to be tard the investment of new in- cages. Appealed are concealed by veins where Automatic Drills ture capital in the mining by the defendants, the District reversed dustry. Another skilled job is that of Courts decision was are (Continued On Page 4) now and automatrights operating Several hundred employes were operating the powerful the holes held by Mr. Julian and others an aircraft ic machines that drill being released from of preparatory to blasting out ancancellation Ashley Valley Oil Company to the plant due this does Not holds round. Two royalty interests in the a government contract discus- -: other know the : only a of title to which was clearman operation acreage, overheard negroes were acbecomes he ed 'by the court action. machine, but sing the situation. the with underground was . quainted Equity Oil Company of Sait Says one: I thought I is he and always formations T.nic? Is understood to hold the froze to this job what is just interest in the operatThe other replied, . Brother, anxious to know principle Officers of New Park Mining the drill. on the Ashley Valley lease ing have recently declared you were froze, but now you is beyond Last but not least are the men property 'and in addition holds Company defrosted. of five cents pei T-2-S.. dividend a the charge of dyna- leases on considerable adjacent who field prepare oil new a 13 to of December Discovery share payable another out that blocks at toert M property. It is indicated that the stock of record November 22. near Sherman, Texas, was an- - mite tadtow: or the shaft, drift in the round courts decision paves the way one of Utahs newnounced the past week by the New Park, or breaks down another days for a test of the acreage cleared est has developed Standard Oil Company of Texas, larger mines,most Cali-fomof supply of ore to be shipped to by the suit Standard of the of one a subsidiary important into the smelter. These men become the state. The in metal producers the and expert in formations Did anyone ever tell company controls extensive minShe: Polaris Mining Company for handling of dynamite. They eral ground in the Park City how wonderful you are? the second quarter, of this year, learn, how. many sticks aof pow- you ever District Utah, in addition to He: Dont believe they certain grossed $315,295 .as compared der to use in moving substantial oil interests. Mr. W. Metal Mining Industry With $257,559 for the first quar- amount of rock and they must did. H. Cranmer is president of H. She: Then where did you get oi Utah ter and $239,878 for the same know all of the safety the company. the idea? of 1946. . , self-perservat- ion -- Mechanization Changes Status of Mine Workers . I ,,1 Mines Have Changed! -- Utah Supreme Court Reverses ln-clu- ded d!SniS I Oil Decision r I Senate Committee Slates Hearings . STpSS? 16 Can-wasmngt- on. I 1 I . dif-feren- ce . MNMimZ . . 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