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Show nim OF U LIBRAB CITY 1 I1WEY Features Mining, Oil, Financial VoL 24, No. 23 Salt lake City, Utah, Hay jG , J 29, 1953 Otne Tear t&SO Mine Meeting Scheduled At Seattle Helium Washington, D. C. The American Mining Congress will hold its 1953 Metal and Nonmetallic Mineral Mining Convention in Seattle, Washington, September Howard I. Young, president of the organization has announced. Some two thousand mining men from all parts of the United States and Canada are expected to be on hand for this annual gathering of the Nation's producers of" metals minerals. and The meeting is sponsored by the Western Division of the American Mining Cogress which is headed by R. M. Hardy, president of the Sunshine Mining Co., Yakima, Washington. A national program committee is currently being named to develop plans for the gathering and to draft a program covering national mineral policies, tariffs, taxation, labor relations, public land laws and other matters of goyemment policy as well as improvements in mine and mill operating practices and equipment. Chairman of this national program committee is P. R. Bradley, Jr., president of the Pacific Mining Company, San Francisco, California. The Navajo Helium plant near Shiprock, N. M., has been restored to production to meet unprecedented demands for its product the second lightest gas known, the U. S. Bureau of Mines announced 21-2- Produced At Shiprock 4, today. Helium is about the nearest thing to nothing that can fill space and exert pressure. But, for an element that you cant see, taste, feel or smell, it has come a long way in its rise from a scientific curiosity just before the first World War to an important and vital tool in todays industrial expansion. Work of reactivating the war- non-metall- ic time plant started Inst Reduced ore production at mining properties of Tintic Standard Mining Company in the Tin-ti-c District, Utah, resulted in a net loss of $8371 for the year 1952. Output was limited to 551 tons of ore and 6572 tons of tailings, all shipped by leases. Mine Workers To Seek Wage Boost Representatives William A. Dawson and Douglas R. String-- 1 Tto'Sow theartime fellow of Utah appeared before the House Ways and Means Com- present upwartj trend mittee this week to testify in favor of a flexible duty on the im-- pak demand began in 198 when the The International Union of Mine, portation of lead and zinc. Bureau of Mines, the worlds sole Also appearing and giving testi-- 1 producer of helium in commercial Mill and Smelter Workers has votI equipment ed to seek a .wage increase of 15 mony in favor of a flexible duty on quantities, perfected vir- for and producing Processes of H. the import duty provisions cents an hour for its 100,000 mem-ber- s essential in helium R. 4294 were Otto Herres, vice tually pure when bargaining starts this new uses, ,1x1 especially summer with the major mining president of Combined Metals and shielded arc welding. Tungsten Work To Be Resumed At Blue Ridge Reno, Nev. Gerald B. Hartley, president of Blue Ridge Gold Mining Co., reports that the company is ready to resume mining tungsten ore after forced shutdown owing to snow conditions. During the shutdown all mining equipment was overhauled and is now ready to be trucked back up the mountain to be The tungsten mines are situated at an altitude of 10,000 and 10,500 feet resepctively. Although getting a late start last year owing to a .very severe winter, the company produced pounds of crude tungsten ore, gross value after miling chara ges $32,466.64. A much better showing is expected this season owing to being able to get an earlier start. The company also owns the' Sugar Hill Gold mine and Big Blue Copper near Callahan, Sisksyou county, and Pilot mine near Downville, Sierra county California. The tungsten leases are located near Bishop, Calif. ed. Drillers In Basin Area Push Work companies. tt The unions contracts with Copper Corporation, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, and American Smelting and Refining Company will be open June 30 for bargaining on economic issues. Its contract with Phelps Dodge Corporation will be open Ken-neco- July Following is a summary of oil welling drilling for the week as released by the Scouting Division of Carter Oil Co.: Whitlock-Taylo- r 31. Under the current contract the basic wage rate for miners is $15.14 a day and for surface laborers $13.25. In addition, the contracts provide for fringe benefits which cost the employer about $700 per employe annually. The total involved in these fringe benefits is approximately 16 pet cent of the payroll. yer-financed ur 30-ho- ur today. The new budget now being considered by Senator McCarran's Senate Appropriations subcommittee shows that Interior Secretary McKay has recommended $476,850 for ferrenous metal and alloy work at the Boulder City Speaker Resigns Federal Agency L s. lW-T-otal depth 10,060 ft., produced 148 barrels of oil, 224 hours; produced 41 barrels oil, 6 hours; 107 barrels, 16V4 hours. Grindout, 1.1 per cent water, .1 per cent basic seidment and water; produced 111 barrels oil, 23 hours, grindout .2 per cent water, .2 per cent basic sediment and water; produced 179 barerls oil, 3 barrels water, 23 hours, grindout 2.8 per cent water, .4 per cent basic sediment and water; produced 110 barrels oil, 1 barrel water, 24 hours, grindout 1.4 per cent water, .4 per cent basic sediment and water; produced 104 barrels oil, 1 barrel water, 23 hours, grindout 1.4 per cent water, .4 per cent basic sediment and water; produced 73 barrels oil, 1 barrel water, 16 hours, grindout 2.3 per cent water. Pumping. Duchesne County Well No. (Located SE NW, Sec. 25,;3S, 5W Total depth 5257 feet Seven inch casing at 5123 feet. MORT. Well shut-in- . Taking down derrick and connecting treater. Loaded hole with 217 barrels Ashley Valley crude. Opened well, flowed load oQ'back at rate of 63 barrels an hour. Next 4 hours flowed 154- barrels load oil and 84 barrels of new oil through 1 inch Francis B. Speaker has resigned as director of the Mining Require-ments Division of the Defense Materials Procurement Agency in choke. Washington ad has returned to Hewitt-Robin- No. 1 (Located NW SW, Sec. 24, IS, The union also will seek an emplonational occupational disease fund to be created by contributions of 1 cent an hour per worker; sickness and accident benefits of $50 weekly; premium pay for Saturday and Sunday work; increased shift differentials; an increase in pension beneManganese Plant fits' to a minimum of $125 monthsix-howork day and a WASHINGTON The major ly; a work week. of U. work the share planned by S. Bureau of Mines for Nevada next year will be carried on at the Boulder City manganese pilot plant, Senator Pat McCarran said - Lead Output plant. Loaned to the Government at Domestic mine production of re A research program for titanium at the Boulder City plant calls the outbreak of the Korean war, coyerable lead in March increased he handled requirements for ma- 4 percent over the February outfor a $323,500 expenditure. be used terials and supplies to keep mines, put, according to the Bureau of , A sum of $43,550 wil Mines, United States Department for research on borides and car- quarries, mills and smelters . . bides in Nevada. summer when estimated demands for helium indicated that more production was needed than could be provided by the Bureaus other three plants. Intermittent production at Navajo started in February, and today the plant is in continuous operation. After World War n, helium production was reduced because mil-- . of the Interior. I -- chairman of the National Lead Assured of an adequate supply and Zinc Committee, Cedi Fitch, I high-purit- y Govern- helium, I and vice general president ment agencies and private indus- Jr., Consolidated Chief of manager try began putting to use some of Mining Co., speaking for the Utah the knowledge gained during the Mining Assoriation; and George I war. Hie Korean war and the ex- of the Haycock, representative panson of the nation's defense a CIO Sted - program pushed demand to its district, workers. Rep. Dawson tdd the present unparallded level. committee: The installation at Shiprock was Hie protection thin lew provides for the zinc and lead miner Production plants built during is needed immediately to relieve World War II. in northwest New economic misery in thousands ofl Shiprock is not far from the only homes in hundreds of mining Mexico, a communities. Still more import- - pace were our.state common ,cor?er' avaJ ant, this protection is needed to maintain the productive capacity i of this nation. Rep. Stringfel-lonot in accord I am stated, with any policy or view which . would allow some of our vital ShlDmeilTS and critical industries to fold up and collapse while we sit idly Week ending May 22, 1953 by on our legislative hands, waitBINGHAM DISTRICT, UTAII ing for the year evaluation period Combined Metals Reduction savto elapse. The time to start 385 tons, Co. ing a drowning man is when he U. S. Mines 6785 tons. gets into water over his head, and Utah Copper (Kennecott) 973 not wait until he. had gone down n cars, daily average. for the ttprd time. PARK CITY DISTRICT, UTAII 1614 New Park Mining Co. Douglas McKay, Secretary of the Interior; Ezra Taft Benson, tons. EUREKA DISTRICT, UTAH Secretary of Agriculture; Treasand ury Secretary Humphrey Dragon Conssolidated clay 25 folWeeks Commerce Secretary cars. lowed Secretary of State Dulles Chief Consolidated 43 cars. in giving testimony against the Mountain View 1 car. import restriction provisions of Empire Mines 1 car. the Reciprocal Hade Agreements PIOCHE DISTRICT, NEVADA Extension Act, H. R. 4294, introCombined Metals lead cone. duced by Rep. Simpson. They 2 cars. Zinc cone. 2 cars. Peradvocated extension of the Act. lite 5 cars. Manganese 5 cars. ore without amendment, in keeping Bristol Silver Lead-silvwith President Eisenhowers atti- 1 car. tude. Several of the AdministraCourtesy J. A. Hogle & Co. tion witnesses seemed to feel that the present law contains ence of a crisis in the domestic that provisions that should take care df industry and some implied a separate extreme cases like that of the they would not oppose lead-zin- c the measure lead-zin- c incorporating Most mining industry. provisions. of them acknowledged the exist- 1 Utah-Nevad- l1 w Ore ', 5 85-to- 1 er |