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Show i Long Period Of Federal Mining Controls Forecast Continued from Page 1 vinced that such a policy could not be established merely to the abolition of tariffs. We cannot have free trade so long as countries resort to monopolistic state trading in metals and minerals; so long as managed currencies and multiple exchange rates are used, or so long as export and import quotas are established," he stated. These practices are common in present-da- y international trade. At the Tuesday morning session of the convention Ernest V. Gent, New York, executive vice presi- dent of American Zinc institute, presented a rather dismal picture of the current zinc situation, but said these were some bright spots in file outlook, particularly hi consumption of the metal. He blamed the recent recurrent government efforts to maintain a perfect balance between supply and requirements for the zinc industry's present dire plight of world-wid- e and He suggested underconsumption. that a solution to the predicament be sought in our own rich markets, by finding new uses for the over-producti-on metal. i LOOKING AHEAD By GEORGE S. BENSON President Harding College Searcy, Arkansas THE NEW MR. HOUSING" - July 24, 1953 The Western Mineral Surrey, Salt Lake City, Utah 2 " Robert L. Ziegfeld, also of New York, secretary of Lead Industries Association, told delegates that the lead industry is now basically sound, with recent maladjustments largely corrected and consumer demand continuing at a good level The present price level, however, is unprofitable for many operators and not very profitable for most others. Highlights of other addresses included: A prediction by Dr. J. Bion Phillipson, assistant manager for operations of the atomic energy commissions Idaho installation, that development of atomic energy for peacetime use will be perfected in a few years and will mean even greater development of new metals and metallurgy. A report by W. T. Simons and Malcolm C. Brown, president and manager, repspectivdy, of Sidney Mining Company, that fringe benefits, in the form of social security, unemployment and workmen's compensation payments, hospital coverage, pensions, holiday pay, transportation and similar, items, add $1.89 a day to wages of each miner in the Coeur dAlene district to an average of $17.83 per day. which will give more people better housing than if we limit it to a few privileged people who gain access through political consideration or the like. All of us engaged in this study are tremendously interested in establishing a progressive housing policy which will promote decent housing without restricting fiie personal liberties of our citizens. WASHINGTON If you live in NO BUREAUCRAT" America and want to own your Mr. Cole is from Kansas. He own home or improve the one a background . of legislative has youve got, the federal govern- and Congressional experience, ment is developing a plan to proterms in several served vide more help toward making having He of House the Representatives. your dream come true. If you are thus has a for respect healthy a tenant and your yearning is of Congress as the prerogatives for better housing, plans merely the rightful power of are afoot in Washington that will representing nAAnlo itiA help you too, through the promo- Ourbasic job, he said, is to tion of more and better rental out such housing policies as housing throughout the nation. carry housing Hut the Big Idea of the federal Congress decrees." Top will be of authorities Congress Landgovernment becoming Mr. now lord for a substantial portion of participating in Coles study clear the population is withering on the under way, and he makes it if apthat any forthcoming plan, vine. President Eisenhower, by proved These facts were gathered in will be in the form of a recomtalks Ive just had with officials in mendation for the consideration of charge of federal housing activ- Congress. Meantime, Coles agenities for the Eisenhower admin- cy is being set up to carry out istration. The key interview was Congressional approval for the Albert M. Cole, administrator of building of 35,000 federal housing the Housing and Home Finance units where most needed during These Agency, in which the principal the coming fiscal year. housing aid programs are cen-- will be needed largely in areas of tered. He is the new Mr. Hous- new military installations. ing" in Washington. He seems to GOOD GOAL be a man with vision but with his feet on the ground. The interview with Cole was one of the series Ive been doing to A NEW CONCEPT acquaint readers of the column The biggest news Mr. Cole gave with the personalities and. plans me concerns a thorough-goin- g of the new Eisenhower governmakis his which Government-buil- t agency study ment team. President 'of the at control request have been rent ing housing and Eisenhower. The study is for the most tempting bait in the Socialpurpose of developing a plan ist countries. Ive visited such which the government through countries and know how miserably can promote the building of more the n public housing homes and better rental housing scheme has failed in its objective without upsetting basic govern- scheme has failed in its objective. mental and economic principles The idea has been pushed intenthat have made our people free sively by some of our homegrown and our nation the most prosper- socialists, spurred on by the Left-win- g ous in the world. The plan will be conspirators who want to submitted to Mr. Eisenhower wreck our economy and governwithin a few months and likely ment. But now it's losing out. will become his administrations Albert Coles philosophy is atconception of the governments tuned to true 'liberalism. He beproper role in the field of hous- lieves profoundly in the principle i of private property, in private ening. to be There is a great job terprise in individual freedom and Yet he enthuindividual responsibility. done," said Mr. Cole with a great siasm. I believe that not enough believes government has obcitizens to in the assisted been have help responsibility people housing activities of the past. I tain for themselves the material think we can develop a compre- blessings of life, including good hensive program, through this housing. In the interview he would intensive study were making, not venture to predict the nature full-blow- Purchase Plan Tiny Quebec Fishing Port For Tungsten Feels Surge Of Mining Boom is in in Ore Extended are attracting where areas earlier as, ore deposits Canthousands in an ada day, gold attracted settlers to California. Seven Islands a tiny Quebec fishing port which once slumbered peacefully jumped suddenly from But what 1800 people to 6000. took the real jump were the property values which have soared from $20 to $30,000 dollars per New, Tungsten purchase program of the U. S. 'government would be extended two years beyond its present July 1, 1956, expiration date under terms of a House resolution approved this week by the Senate subcommittee on minerals, materials and fuels. The subcommittee chairman is Sen. George W. Malone .) The governments buying program was established March 30, It cals 1951, Malone explained. for the purchase of three million units of domestic tungsten at the rate of $63 a unit. A unit is roughly 20 pounds. A limit of five years was set in the original bill but under the terms of the House resolution and a similar bill introduced by Senator Malone, S 1610, the buying deadline would be extended to July 1, 1958. Nevada is among the leading tungsten producers, topped only by North Carolina and California, Malone explained, saying that the subcommittee action will be well received by the tungsten industry. The buying program calls for the general services administration to purchase tungsten concentrates of domsetic origin that have a quality of. 65 per cent The five year limit originally set does not allow ample time for the government to fulfill its purchase program, Malone said. Two years have already gone by since the plan was launched and during that time mines have been developed and are just coming into production. (R.-Nev- As of June 19 this year only 250,-46- 0 units of tungsten have been purchased under the program. Extension of the buying deadline now gives the government added time to buy and miners will have added time and incentive to produce tungsten concentrates. "These bills mean good news for big and little tungsten producers those operators in particularly Utah, Nevada, California and No. Carolina where sizeable operations now are in progress," Malone said. Hawthorne Area Mine In Production The Leonard Mine and Mill in the Regent district, northeast of Hawthorne, in Mineral County, Nevada, operated by the Nevada Scheelite Division of the Kenna-meta- l, Inc., are using 96 men to 90 tons of ore and five out bring tons of waste per day in their plan to develop and produce tungsten from the properties, Mine Inspector Gallagher was informed upon a recent inspection trip to the site. In the mine, two shifts daily are called for, while three shifts make up the schedule at the mill,- where 90 tons of ore are processed daily. The mill has a capacity, of 150 tons, and the company can handle any expansion plan which is now in contemplation. At the present time, square sets are being placed in the mine, and general development work is being carried on. Processing methods consist of the ball mill method and table flotation, to recover the tungsten from the ores. . - of the new federal housing con- cept and plan now in process of development; but one goal, as I understand it, is to make in home owning and housing easier to achieve among all levels of our citizenry. Its a good goal, a progressive objective of good government. self-relian- ce high-grad- e acre. mine facilities. Since much of the activity electric power back Kohler electric is not available, found valuable in plants have ben the for operation supplying power of floodlights on power shovels and cranes and for portable elec-triheaters and lighting at isolated camp sites. In all over 120 Kohler electric plants are in operation on the Seven Islands projects providing electricity for the dozens of spots where temporary power or light is required. Seven Islands has all the aspects of a boom town that should stay booming for some time to come. Vast forests law untapped A tremenby the lumberjacks. dous water power potential is assured in the area and work will soon begin on a hydro-electr- ic plant. What was once a fisherct With the discovery of new high-grad- e ore deposits, Seven Islands became a major port for the boats which carry ore to the smelters in Cleveland. Because of its northern location, Seven Islands is only a warm weather port. Violent snow storms and the temperatures close it in winter. Consequently work goes on at a feverish pace while the port is mans paradise now increases open and it is possible to improve Canadas industrial potential. Progress Made Solon Assails At Sunshines Plan To Dump Mohawk Mine British Metal Dworshak (R. daho) this week assailed a; reported British plan to dispose of 75,000 tons of copper in the United States ' this month, declaring that it would further depress the American mining industry already sufforeign fering from cheap-labo- r competition. He expressed his view at a hearing on the Mutual Security Administration appropriation bill. MSA chief Harold Stassen promised to confer with British authorities immediately. Dworshak sitting as a member of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on MSA, called attention to a Wall Street Journal report that the British Ministry of Materials planned to dispose of During recent weeks several the 75,000 tons of copper in the major items of equipment have United States as soon as curbs on been brought in, including a 75 the metal are lifted this month. horsepower diesel electric hoist to He then out that simireplace the old unit, a 500 cubic lar British .pointed dumping of lead and foot Ingersol Rand conpressor and on the American market a zinc an Eimco air trammer, according to the general manager of the Sun- year ago drove prices to such a shine firm, who has been placed low level that U. S. lead and zinc mines, especially those in North in charge of the operation. Idaho, were forced to curtail opIn addition pre-chousing for erations or shutdown and throw five separate buildings has been men out of jobs. received. These will be used to I have a real fear that the construct a hoist house, a change dumping by the British in this room and three housing units for country will cause distress in our the crew and supervisory staff, copper mining industry and therehe said. by add even more woes to the nations mining industry as a whole, The mess hall is being enlarged which has suffered most seriously to accommodate a larger crew, he from imports of foreign cheap-labo- r stated. Plans are to expand the mine production," Dworshak crew to about 25 men within the said. next few weeks. Stassen assured Dworshak that I Underground operations have he would check immediately with necessarily been delayed by the British authorities in an effort to preliminary work, but this condi- forestall any move which might tion will be corrected as soon as seriously injure the domestic minadequate housing and other facil- ing industry. ities are available, he pointed out. Dworshak raised the mining after Stassen told the Plans call for construction of a question subcommittee that the MSA was large processing plant if results of building up economic stability the exploration program warrant abroad. This led the Idaho, senait. Exposures in present under- tor to observe that attention ground openings are said to be should be paid to the stability of very encouraging and mining men our own economy, including minin file area regard it as one of the because a strong economy in ing, greatest potential sources of sil- this country is more vital to the ver in the state. free world than foreign aid proRecently ore of milling grade grams." was opened in a 100 foot tunnel on the property of Argentite Devel- COLOR There is no blue pigment in the opment company which adjoins the Mohawk. The vein is believed peacocks tail or in the beautiful to be an extension of the Mohawk wing of the porpho butterfly.' Hie vein. This property is being de- color comes from the structure?1 of the material whidi produces an veloped under contract by Bru-H- i in which Avery interference of light of the same Enterprises, Brundage, from whom Sunshine type which gives the colors in an and mothacquired the Mohawk option, is a oil film, a of er .pearl. partner. Sunshine Mining Companys new operation near Silver Peak, Nev. the Mohawk silver mine taken over recently under a purchase option is making rapid progress and will soon be equipped and manned for a thorough program of underground exploration and development, a cording to reports from nearby Tonopah. Since taking over the operation last May, efforts have been concentrated largely on the vast amount of preparatory work essential to such an undertaking-equipp- ing the mine and providing adequate camp facilities for a large enough crew to carry out the plans. Sen. Henry -I- . ut soap-bubbl- e, |