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Show Magnesium Gives Advice Falls Below Dos And Donts Listed For Employes '41 Mark Nine Idaho. WALLACE, Coeur d'Alene mining companies have declared dividends for 1842 Records Entering a year scheduled to ice the greatest expansion in the capacity ever attempted, steel industry la act toacoomp-lia- h goals that seemed fantastic a year ago. says Steel. The program for 1843 includes an increase of 6,833,000 tons of steel ingots over the capacity In December. 1842, to a total of 97,-115.000 tons. This is a growth of 10.280.000 tons over January, 1842. Blast furnace capacity is planned to rise to 70,830,000 tons by the end of August, 1843, against 64,440,000 tons at the end of December. 1842, an increase of 6.410.000 tons. To accomplish this immense production necessitates a correspondingly larger supply of raw materials and plana are being laid to provide these. Ore, coke and limestone tonnage is being lncressed in step with capacity. To match heavy war demand to this enlarged output, Wsr Production Board is putting into effect its new Controlled Materials Plan, which is expected to achieve a better balance than has been possible under other plans. At the turn of the year buying is relatively light because of shifts in character of war demand and Imminence of the new plan of distribution. Pressure for many forms of steel continues heavy but for those under restrictions volume is light. Indications are that an intensified production to support the war will call for greatly enlarged output of many steel products while further curtailing soma of those now being held near a minimum. Shipbuilding promises to hold its place as a leading consumer and output of plates for ships and fittings is expected to be larger than it has been in the past year. Airplane and other war equipment programs are to be greatly Increased and the steel Industry will feel the Impact of demand to feed the enlarged manufacturing capacity. Current demand is well sustained, with Improvement expected In January. Some accumulation of inquiry has begn made and with PRB quotas coming out more freely, heavier releases may be expected. Small carbon bars with high ratings may be booked under promises of delivery in six to eight weeks but large rounds are quoted at sec- ond quarter delivery. 35 to 40 weeks. Sheet producers d with ratings offer down to AA-- 3 and AA-- within can eight weeks, though some apply this only to AA-- and others can deliver no sooner than sheets are available in some cases by the middle of February and in others not until second quarter. Steel production In the final week continued steady at 88 per cent of capacity, no pause being made for New Years Dsy. Pitts-burg-h advanced 14 point to 88 per cent and New England 4 points to 100 per cent Chicago to 102 per cent dropped Cincinnati 1 point to 8A Cleveland 2 points to 8214 and Wheeling 3 points to 8214. In the re- -' malnlng six districts rates were from the previous unchanged week. Youngstown, 87; Buffalo, 8014; St Louis. 83; eastern PennCold-finls- hot-rolle- 4 2 mid-Marc- d -- sylvania, 85; Birmingham, 85; De- 88. While scrap supply is not too plentiful in face of winter weather and shortage of labor some in soft spots have developed grades not in demand at points be shipof origin, which must per some distance to consumers in need. In such instances shading has been done to move the material. This is not widespread and does not betoken a weak market In general, supply is sufficient for current needs and many consumers have several weeks supply in reserve, though not sufficient in most cases to tide over until cold weather is past and collections are enlarged. Meanwhile, government salvage agencies continue campaigns to obtain dormant scrap from sources requiring special treatment to make it available. Tonnages resulting from the autumn collection are being household worked over and much of this to melters la being supplied along with Industrial scrap resulting from manufacturing operations. Restrictions on building are reflected increasingly in statistics the fabricating Industry. American Institute of Steel Construction reports November bookings were 45,872 tons, compared with 184,043 tons in November. 1841. Shipments In November were 127,052 tons, compared with 182.593 tons the preceding year. 1 However, fabricators, have Urns available for future fabrication. Prices start the new veer with composites at the same level as a year ago, frosen by the Office of Price Administration. Finished steel composite Is $56.73, semifinished steel $36, steelmaking pig iron $23.03 and steelmaking scrap $19.17. A resident of Wilmington, DelH has invented a device that projects on a screen visible to an audience anything written by a lecturer or teacher on a desk. 566,-38- In $5,147,48128. totaling 1941 seven companies paid dividends amounting to $6,085,129.12. The two companies which paid dlvidenda this year that did not disburse profits last year were the Dayrock Mining Co, which will pay $35,116 on Dec. 28, and the Polaris, which distributed 60,000 to shareholders on June 26. Two companies will pay dividends of a million dollars or more thla year. Last year three paid that much, but Sunshine dropped out of that class this year. The Big Creek property Stacks Up At Geneva Nine open hearth furnaces with .towering smokestacks- are under construction' at the $150,000,000 Genera Steel Works, being built; by Colombia Steel; Company; wear Provo and this recent photo shows two of the linge stacks nearing completion, with a third to be seen at the right, well under way. The Geneva plant will be a substantial factor in meeting the wartime demand for increased steel production. . ; steel-makin- g of Basic Figure For 42 Still Planned Increase To Dwarf Earlier troit Ngjpi Coeur DAlene Mines Pay Big Dividends Steel Output In 43 Seen As Fantastic ' JANUARY 8, 1943 THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 2 Nugget In Every. Pan Slogan Is Modified By Circumstance ? Modifications of his plan for a third political party in 1844, rallying behind, the prospectors1 slogan A Nugget In Every Pan" are seen by C. R-- Terrell, noted Nevada mining writer, whose article introducing the Nugget" slogan appeared in the last issue of the Mineral Survey. Mr. Terrell's sequel to last weeks article follows: Since publication of my article declaring that disgruntled miners and prospectors are organising a new and third political party to compete with our two regulars in the 1844 election and have adopted the war cry of a nugget in every pan, it apthat it is likely thla slopearsgan will be changed. Over in California a mountain $10 for some rancher paid was a Jap 18 hens the seller who was forced to go to a concentration camp and in the craw of one of the chickens the found a $5 gold purchaser nugget So it is apparent now the new battle cry is to be, "A nugget in every chicken." At least our eastern friends can catch the gist of this one, ,and down , in the deep south the !bi whelming j Negro vote. U HYW For many, many years, poultry keepers of the mother lode counties have of California found gold nuggets in the of slaughtered chickens, crops turkeys, ducks, etc. In fact it is a common occurence. Recently a friend of mine, forced to close his gold .nine by reason of a WPB ruling, decided to go Into a new form of gold mining. He proto buy some ten to posed e thousand twenty-fivchickens and turn them loose on a certain Coungravel range in Placer ty where he knew there was gold. But when he sat down to figure out details he found he could not go through with the proposition his chickens would be limited to consumption of one hundred tons of gravel each month, and it was hanamount lesser not likely a dled would prove profitable. SILVER ISSUE Nevada silver producers are breathing easy once more the over government-hel- d controversy silver, and opposition to its disposal by western silver senators, have been quietly submerged and the dsy. of 'reckoning when Congress will surely attempt to throw out the whole silver subsidy is possibly post, poned. For years esstem and certain have big banking Interests fought the silver subeidv issue, end it is almost certain that had the fight to prevent release of quantities of government silver been carried too far, an early effort to end thla subsidy would have been made in Congress. For some years before his death, the late Senator Key Pittman openly advocated the accumulation of a government-owne- d stockpile of certain met-a 1 s i n c 1 udlng quicksilver, chrome, tungsten, antimony, manganese and others and even Included rubber. We'll admit some that there was possibly selfish interest back of this exhortation. but not altogether. Pittman at one time visited China and Japan in connection with an investigation of the silver situation In China and other sections of the Orient, as chairman, we believe, of the foreign relations committee. When Pittman got back from that expedition, he was frank in 'admitting that Japan was out to make trouble for the United States some day. An acute observer, Pittman believed that "some dav" would come quicker than most people figured on. In his plea to Congress that stockpiles be made of strategic metala Pittman was seconded by Congressman Scrugham and Senator McCarran, but the three Staunch Nevadans were laughed at and scoffed st for their efforts. They were openly ao--- cused of attempting to haul a lot of their own chestnuts out of their own fire at public expense. Looking back on the efforts made by these three men at that time, causes us to wonder where the smug and indifferent eastern congressman gets the idea he has brains enough to represent his constituents in Washington. Every dollar spent on a national metals stockpile of formation of oxide. The section immediately adjacent to the deposit is an Isolated one, and there is little or no water within a distance of 25 miles. In fact the Thirsty Canyon, Forty-Mil- e Canyon County, is one of the roughest and most inaccessible in the entire United States. This area how, likely, Is included in the Tonopah and gunnery range. Publication of discovery of this Neour time and rubber at the apparent immense iron deposit attracted the attention of James vada representatives were urging Congress to act on the matter, , G. Scrubhsm then congressman would have saved one hundred from Nevada. Scrugham chartered a plane and' flew over the area or more now. And, possibly a time or two, and later wrote thousands of precious American me that it was easy to locate the lives. iron mass from the air. I beKYE COUNTY IRON lieve he attempted to induce the Some years ago I ran across an United States Geological Shrvey Immense deposit of iron in southto make a preliminary examinaern Nye County, some miles west snd south of Black Mountain in tion of this iron deposit, but so the Thirsty Canyon Country. fsr ss I know nothing esme of it. Now that a hard war is on, Only a cursory examination was and iron is more or less scarce, made of the deposit at the time, but it was apparent it was an it might pay to investigate the extensive one. Ribs of almost potentialities of this Thirsty Cansolid iron cut through a massive yon iron. al Leadfields Boom Turned Oiit ToBeMagmfiSmt Tntci (Story of an early day boom town of the desert appeared recently in the Inyo Register, telling the brief day of fame of Leadfield, Nev, and of a promoters vain effort to make something of nothing. Following is the Registers story, carried under the caption Leadfield, a Dud.") Leadfield a dud. or a washout, a flop, or any other term that fits a mining camp which proves to be a complete failure; that was the record left by the place which more than any other that ever arose in Inyo was a promotion without the foundation of merit The site is ih a large cup near Funeral the summit of the range, on the eastern . side of Death Valley. That cup empties into Titus Canyon, which for eight crooked miles descends steeply to the valley. The canyon is me of the most striking features of a region of striking scenery. More than any other of which e know it appears to have been a crack in the earth when that region was being formed, the walls remaining upright. in places hardly mere than twenty feet apart, and towering on either side to a height which has been stated at 600 feet As if this were not enough for novelty, they are colored in broad bands of pastel stadea of green, cinnamon, pink and other colors. The floor is sandy, suitable for descent only; a oneway road. Mud left high on the sides gives ample information that it is no place to be caught in a cloudburst from which the luckless victim could have no escape. A road was possible made through the canycn, and Improved by the G G G comthat have been stapanies tioned in Death Valley. Mineral discoveries were made in the Leadfield cup by Jack who Balsberry, a prospector probably made more locations through the desert than any other Individual. ' In one area he stuck more than 90 notices. Such wholesale locating, depending for profit on selling when some more energetic developer might make a strike, was not conducive to making good mining camps. A purchaser for the Leadfield prospect appeared in the person of G G Juuan, who had a not too savory reputation ss an oil promoter in California. Julian lost no time in launching pro motion ballyhoo. The forbidding Titua Canyon road offered no desirable way of getting to the camp, and one of the first steps was construction of a road from Beatty on the east side of the range. Some road it was quite an engineering feat, with its twists and turns up the steep slopes and succession of canyons, and a long descent from the summit down to the camp. Organisation of the Western Lead Company was followed by the beginning of a tunnel to tap the masses hoped-fo- r of underground wealth. A special train, twelve Pullmans, two diners and a baggage .car, pulled into Beatty from Los Angeles one day in March, 1828. It carried 340 passengers of the 1,500 who had been invited. From Tonopah and Goldfield more than 800 Joined the throng that traveled over the road that had been engineered by E. S. Giles, of Goldfield. The Invading host Inspected the vicinity, cheered for Julian to their hearts' content, and gave attention to a dinner prepared by the host of Olsen's Inn in Leadfield. Turkey, pork, salad; beer, and trimmings of various this year will distribute 8818,851 as compared with $1,935,466 in 1841. The Bunker Hill A Sullivan this year will pay the same dividend as last year, $1,306,000, while the Heels will pay an even million dollars this year, 250,000 under last year's distribution. The Sunshine last year was the biggest dividend payer but this year dropped to .fourth place, below the Bunker Hill, Heels and Federal, and its smaller dividend payments this year accounts for almost all the district's decrease. The Sunshine's dividends will be $1,116,615 below last years while for all the mines In the district the total 3 dividend payments will be $937,-647-8- under last years. are the dividend Following payers and the comparison with 1941 1942 Sl.MS.0NSe lt.MS.0N.IS Busker Hurls MOO, MO SO Faderel Suiwkliw Tsnersck C. d'A X Mwrmen .... .... 1.MO.SN.OO MilNM StaiUJS SM.MS.M 1.SM.4NSS 1IS.MS.M SM.M0S UMON 4N.SNN M0.O0O.M 111, 01.11 HSNSt Polaris Dojrock 3S.1U.N tS.I4T.UlJS TsUl IS.SU.US.lt Old Desert Area Gold Property Forced To Close MOJAVE, Calif- - Last week saw the closing of one of the oldest gold mines In the desert area, when a WPB order halted operations on Burtons Tropico mine, Rosamond. Operated by Cedi and Clifford Burton since 1910, the Tropico mine has never ceased since its discovery eeoLJXhrqugh hard depressions the mjne has never closed. ; A skeleton maintenance And crew men of about ten pumping will be kept on until after the war when it is expected operations will be resumed. Etions - . Prospector Files On Bauxite Claims DILLON. Mont E. H, Williams of Dillon, prospector, recently announced the location of several claims in Frying Pan Basin which contain bauxite. Samples if the ora have been sent to the U. S. Bureau of Mine in Washington, D. G The claims were filed b - Williams. W. E. Stinson snd Harry Brown. kinds were served to more than 1,100 persons, while an orchestra brought from Los Angries Julian furnished music. by Speeches were made by notables of present, laudatory promoter Julian, and the occasion wound up with dancing on n big open-ai- r platform, . Leadfield had a shortlived boom. We saw frameworks of building! on which work was beginning; the start of a hotel which wound up with four rooms, end other activity. A gasoline engine was coughing away at the entrance to tunnel. About the only discovery which to was have been made appear a cavern in the course of that work, but no ora to Justify the extravagant claims that had been made. It might be that the salvage campaign could gather up m Felt Building, Salt Laka City 4 On The Home Botllefront While the fighting Is being carried on in every part of the world by the men of the army, the navy and the marines, a ao less Important battle la being cap ried on at home, where the nation must produce adequate qnantltlee of war materials to properly supply the men on the firing line. One glance at the picture above shows how this "home battlefront" la being manned. At Utah Copper Mine near Bingham the crews are pouring out copper faster than this or any other mine has ever before done In history. An idea of the tempo of war production may be gleaned e record from the fact that, before the war, the for production at Bingham was about 75JMO tonai currently, the average daily production la 87.000 tons. With this must be handled some 11&000 tons of waste, a total of approximately 200,000 tons of taken from the huge pit every day. all-tim- 24-ho- pa-teria- le New Wyo. Tungsten Area Rick In Ore nJnow $ead t FILL OUT AND MAIL THIS COUPON TODAY WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY 22Vfc East First South St.( Salt Laka City, Utah Gantlaman: Enclosed find' scription to tha ;..in WESTERN ...years sub payment for MINERAL SURVEY. 41.00. One Year $2.00; Foreign, $2.50. Two CITY Med Olden CjueAA Labor STATE PssNpt Maritas fflve o&on t Methods of Modern Mining Tariff Problems Production Statistics S. E. C. Comments NAME In I Stories of Early Day Camps Metal Markets Taxes STREET (pads eugi- - 3 The- - ftidustry-ta- -i the Western Mineral Survey for authentic reports on Mining and Oil developments in the West. SALT LAKE STAMP COMPANY BRASS uninterruptedly until the present date, resulting in several cars of ore being ready for shipment upon completion of the access -- future after the war seems bright, ghat means lasting employment after the war is over. , 4 The chances for promotion are excellent The plant is just bring finished and is moving into production. As new units start operations, those who have learned their work and, have done it well will be given chances for better jobs at higher pay. Promotions will be on merit end merit alone. Regular passenger motertmi service is maintained from 8an Antonio, Argentina,, to Puente Arenas, the world's southern-mos- t city, on the Strait of . L. Special - s STOCK CERTIFICATES MUeC 2 The air force needs magne sium, for incendiary bomba, tracer bullets, flares, plane parts. Magnesium is the No. 1 strategic metal of World War II. Tha person who wears a BMX badge is aa Important to the war effort aa the man who wears tbs uniform. becoming Interested the district and its possibilities. moved In a crew of men and equipment to commence development work on claims which ho acquired. His work has gone on mining See TUNGSTEN On Page i eat In Gunnell, d -- of Buffalo, Frank operat- BAD POINTS 1 House for families are at most Impossible to get. They will not be available for several months. After that, a large number of privately built dwelling will be available at $50 a month rent with option to buy under FHA terms. These will be in Lea Vegas, 12 miles from the plant. A fewer number of houses will be available at the plant-rit- e in a few months at lower rental. Meanwhile, quarters for men in dormitories and in tents are now available. Dormitory facilities are rather crowded now, and you may have to take a tent until mine of the conatrutcion v workers finish up. 2 Laa Vegas la in the desert. The climate is temperate in winter, but in summer its aa hot aa it is in North Africa. And the wind blows up dust storms, 3 There arent any soft snaps j at Basic. Most of it is tough.J hard work. Some of it la ur pleasant because of heat, dli and exposure to chemical fuipesJ But it ip dangerous only workmen Are careless. It is he- -' men. war work. It isnt for pan-t- y waists. Dont coma if you cant take it GOOD POINTS 1 Rates for mens quarters in , the dormitories and tents are low. Dormitories, $3.15 a week; tents, $1.75 a week. Meala are 50 cents each for all you can a assistant geologist, representative of the state War Production Board visited the property and reported favorably on It. A few weeks later. John M. Keahey, well known and successful retired road contractor e e Five Months CORPORATION SEALS ..In August. Dr-- Arthur Hagner state and road. Inc, v.. SURVEY Stall con-teh- good vein of scheelite is discow red it lights up like Rockefeller Center, Upon discovery of the main tungsten lead early in May, tha U. 8. Geological Survey was immediately notified of this new deposit of strategic ore so up TEL 3065 EAST 1ST SOUTH Lowisd os ssaoad else natter at Sail S. Lake Citr- - Utah ua4n AM of Man Stamps it ar 22-2- 4 Spado , in the early 1900's, are ringing with activity as a result of the discovery by two Worland geologists of the first tungsten deposit of economic Importance in the state. Just one year ago, John and Betty Roberson began Copper investigating the old Mountain mining district as a possible source of tungsten ore. Fanning creek gravels revealed few scheelite, and within a weeks a minor scheelita vein was located. This was the culmination of a search for tungsten throughout central Wyoming which began when a bit of scheelite was picked up in the Big Horn Mountains. On April 1, 1842, the Robersons left Worland for Tuff Creek on Copper Mountain 'which they made their headquarters for tha next several' months while systhat tematically prospecting area and analysing the various ores found. After the presence of scheelite was ascertained in an area, the chief method of locating tha scheelite lead was through the use of a special ultha traviolet lamp during night. This la ao exciting meth-o- r of prospecting, for when a WESTERN MINERAL a year la IMwd SubaerMto RaMs-- Sl Matm KUO tenia m 81JW far sto month. Plaasa aantteawsatara Mineral Survey arhm writing to advsrtsufc AdvariMB ran ea apnlioottou. JOHN ft. TALMADGE, Managing Editor t the news t the Oeveleeneni fee ttiteneeubtoto Saotleu, pubUshad by Waetom Minaral the AU neon aepearna to the Warns Mb seal Survey toaMabied rout seurara believed to be reliable bul ee rerponelMUty It aseuwed in gently needed in the war effort for such things as hardening steel used in rifle barrel, high speed tool steel and numerous other uses. Before the end of June. snd Geologists S. W. Hobbs Ed Calbeugh of the USGS were sent in to examine the property thoroughly, map it and report on The main scheelite sone extends for nearly 2 miles and has a width of over 1,000 feet. The chief veins are from 1 to 18 feet wide, averaging about four t, feet. The tungstic .oxide on which its value is based runs from 1 to 5 per cent. Most of the producing tungsten mines average less than 1 per cent WOa. The discovery of scheelite In the mctamorphic rocks of precombrian age caused considerable surprise among the geological fraternity. WORLAND, Wyo. The jar ged peaks of Copper Mountain, of which echoed the blasting prospectors for copper and gold enough old material on that now deserted site to justify a trip to see. W. F. SNYDER & SONS Mines Basic Magnesium. ing the big plant near Boulder City, has issued the following emannouncement regarding ployment prospects at tha institution: Before you sign up with Basle Magnesium, Incorporated, we Want you to get the whole picture straight. Then after you come to work, there will be no chance for misunderstanding. A job with Baric, Ilka jobs everywhere, has good prints and bad points. Her they any without frills: Year-$3- .00 . . J |