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Show Friday, July 26, 1957 Legals , THE WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY ... Zinc Production Shows Decrease (Continued from page 2) IN AND FOR SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH Domestic mine production of zinc decreased to 48,100 tons in IN THE MATTER OF THE VOL. May, a drop from the four-yea-r UNTARY DISSOLUTION monthly peak of 50,800 of tons in April, according to the ELATERITE BASIN URANIUM Bureau of Mines, United States COMPANY, A Corporation of Department of the Interior. Utah. NOTICE OF APPLICATION About two4hirds of the deTO DISINCORPORATE crease resulted from foe cutback No. 113053 in mine production by foe Eagle-Piche- r Co. through shutdown of its mines and mills ef; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that ELATERITE BASIN URANI- fective April 29. Total production UM COMPANY, a corporation or during the first 5 months of the ganlzed and existing under and year was 242,300 tons compared by .virtue of the laws of the State1 with 223,800 tons in foe like peof Utah, with Its principal office 1958. and place of business Situated at riod of Salt Lake City and County, State The price of zinc, Prime Westof Utah, has filed with the Clerk ern grade, East St. Louis, which of the above entitled Court its for 16 months had held at 13.50 verified application for a decree cents a pound, fell to 12 cents on dissolving said corporation; and May 6 and to 1.30 cents on May 13. that Monday, the 9th day of SepAmong foe factors contributing tember, 1957, at the hour of Two to foe sharp drop were reduced as o'clock, P.M. has been fixed of zinc against inconsumption courtroom of the time, and the creasing production, the Honorable Merrill C. Faux, at foe curtailment with coupled Judge in the above entitled Court of foe of foe end of scope April in the City and County Building, barUnited States Governments Salt Lake City, Utah, as the place ter prostockpile supplemental at which said application will be mid-195- 6 has since which gram heard; and that any time before to zinc world helped support said hearing any person may file herein his objection to such ap- prices. Monthly Government purdomestic producers plication or the granting thereof chases from long-range foe under stockpile at said Court herein. 1954 since in effect June program IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I were in May. stepped up have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 17th day of July, 1957. trator of foe Estate of A. J. (SEAL) White and M. R. White, both ALVIN KEDDINGTON, VERA GORDON, deceased, Clerk of the Third Judicial N. O. NELSON MANUFAC-- . District Court, in and for TURING also '" Salt Lake State'iS of known as COMPANY, County, O. NELSON N. CO., ' ? Tri-Stat- e world ": .. By JACOB WEILER, Deputy Clerk; H. G. METOS . Attorney for Petitioner Suite 404 Boston Building Salt Lake City, Utah Date of first publication July 19, 1957, (3-16-5-7) . . cor-poratio- will be held at the n, of- fices of the company, 50 Richards Street; Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday, the 19th day of August, - 1957, at 2:00 oclock pm. for the following purposes: 1. To consider and act upon the advisability of amending foe Articles of Incorporation of foe company as follows: : (a) To change foe name of the company from Pineco Uranium Corporation to Pineco Oil & Mining Company. (b) To declare the stock of this -- . corporation shall not have preemptive rights. (c) In any other respect which may be to the best interest and advantage to the company. 2. .To transact any other business which may properly come before foe meeting. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. ' President.' Date of first publication July 28, 1957. . (8-18-5-7) SURVEY (Reprinted from Salt Lake Tribune) By Robert V..Bemick . 421 Tribune Business Editor Nothing looks and sounds more like "progress to an innocent onlooker than a tremendous hydro-electrdam. ic KKWB CIRCULATION; Church Street 1402 There may be some Utahns, farmers, businessmen and working people, who are in love with the idea of huge federal power projects on western rivers and streams for the benefit of the people. We must admit our own emotional yearings in this direction. Phone XU Curtla St., Denver ADVERTISING Box 2608 XU Belt Leke City, Uteh ' 2402 Curtle St., Denver ALplne entered ea aeeond eleea metter at 8a!t Lake City, Utah, under Act of March 3, 49 1079. Subecrlptlon ratee: $9.00 for two for one year. 13.00 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH BETTE ESCH, - v. Plaintiff, WILMA OKANDER, as Admlnis- - yean; Fleaae mention Weetem Mineral Surrey ehen writing to advertiser. Advertising ratee on application. , r - publisher. I , y Question Over Alleged But there are some things we just dont understand about the public power question which seems to be animating all the Lead-Zin- c politicians and growing into some kind of a major question over . alleged give away." The first one is benefits to the people whoever they are. '' Give-Awa- Hearings On Termed Criticle . The next few weeks will be In the case of the depression-da- y construction of the huge dams on the Columbia River system, we in foe copper and zinc crucial ones in the halls of Conproducing states have seen the emergence of a huge aluminum gress for the domestic lead-zind industry. empire based almost solely on the cheap electrical power in the Northwest. They will include hearings before foe important House Ways We do not deny that aluminum is an essential metal and Means Committee and a Senate committee on measures to esWe do emphatically deny that it is the only" essential metal. tablish an excise duty or tax on imports of the metals into Aluminum is cutting seriously in to foe world market for foreign the United States. copper and is making great inroads in the use of zinc in the The sessions will be conducted automobile industry. against a background of mine This is not just one of those accidents of a better metal, closures in West and Middlewest and apparent refusal of moist big etc. foreign producers to reduce shipOne of the factors is price as related to quality. This is of ments into this country. The Eisenhower Administration in the" use of aluminum as Interior Secretary Fred a corporation, PHILLIP F. partidilar 'importance," forexample, through POPOLLA and JANE DOE a metal for transmitting electrical energy in high voltage lines. A. Seaton has approved an excise tax measure. POPOLLA, whose true name is Copper is a better conductor. This you cant derate. But lets look at the record. However, several amendments unknown, his wife, also foe un- , will be necessary before the proknown heirs, executors, administrators and assigns of the posal could be termed workable Paying Less Than Cost of Production above named persons who have insofar as reducing the flood of or claim to have any right, title, Aluminum companies of the Northwest and elsewhere in imports is concerned. estate, lien or interest in foe the West where they are buying power from publicly-finance- d Not only are the various said property which is a cloud of tax considered too amount less cases than in are paying many projects on foe title thereto adverse to methods of application but low, for this energy. the plaintiff, (when the sliding scale goes inDefendants. Electrical energy is foe absolute key to successful aluminum to effect) are regarded as worse SUMMONS than operation of the minor imNo. 111796 production and is foe only reason industry is grouped around foe port duties now in effect on the Columbia Basin system of power production. metals. In a recent speech in Salt Lake City, U. S. Sen. Arthur V. C. Jay Parkinson, a former THE STATE OF UTAH TO THE Watkins, said that power from the Hungry Horse proj- Salt Laker who is chairman of ABOVE NAMED DEFEND. ect on a Columbia River committee of the tributary in Montana costs 3.76 mills foe executiveLead ANTS: and Zinc ComEmergency You are hereby summoned and to generate and transmit the counsel and mittee, Yet it is sold to Anaconda Aluminum Co. for 1.72 mills a for Anaconda Co.,general believes that required to serve upon Backman, Backman and Clark, plaintiffs at- kilowatt-hou- r, or less than half foe cost. Another million dollars industry and mine labor have a torneys, whose address is 1111 worth of power is sold Montana Power Co. at 2.49 mills, or d fighting chance to get a satisDeseret Building, Salt Lake City, factory bill passed. less than cost. Utah, an answer to foe complaint Others are not so optimistic, at Hells Canyon in Idaho, particularly It is his belief that a high-dawithin 20 days after service of eastern metal magathis summons upon you. If you if built by foe government, would have its electrical load merged zines and newspapers. fail so to do, judgment by de- into the Bonneville System on a wholesale rate established at Failure of Congress to act now fault will be taken against you or near two mills, and that on situation will tend to energy here also would be sold for forcethis for foe relief demanded in said mine closures in foe other less than foe actual cost of production. nation in the months ahead, of complaint which has been filed A public utility district in the Northwest recently completed course. with foe clerk of said court, and a copy of which is hereto annexed a contract with an aluminum company which will help build, in As a consequence, foe import and herewith served upon you. tax situation on lead and zinc return for cheap power, a hydroelectric facility. This action is brought for the in Theres a tax angle involved, of course, which will make the of aspecific and the development purpose of quieting title in plainminerals program tiff to properties situated in Salt power cheap. in general, is more and more beLake County, Utah, described as coming a first-rat- e political issue. Sell Energy to Georgia Concern follows: Lots 6 to 14 both inclusive, In Indiana, the Hoosier Energy representing a Panorama Subdivision. Lots loan in order to number of REAs, is seeking a big government 12, 13 and 14, Block 12, Prossteam-electrof dollars worth pect Park Addition. Lot 8, million build 42 generating staBlock 1, Muscatine Place. tions so it can sell its energy to a Georgia concern which would Lots 12 and i3, Block 1, High- of America, which Paradox Production Corp. has land Subdivision of Magna. .. complete (this time) with Aluminum Company sources. from recovered 140 feet of heavily oil Dated this 18th: day of July, buys its power private in its operations and would, cut drilling mud in foe test of its 1957. The REA would be Sands Mesa, Wayne County, wildof course, wholesale its power cheap. M. V. BACKMAN, cat on rim of the Whatever foe original purpose of federal power, cheap or Paradox Basin, President O, L. of Backman, Backman & Clark otherwise, yardstick for private utility operation or not, its per- Carson reported Friday. Mr. Carson said that pressures version of business economics is growing more and more serious. Attorneys for Plaintiff recovered federal during the drill stem foe one for to set 1111 Deseret Building We have felt it wrong government test were low (40 pounds per Salt Lake City, Utah of corporate income tax rates for American firms doing business inch) although cores were square Canada and another (higher) corporate Date of first publication July in South America and bleeding oil of 44 degree (API) the United in States. domestic for their rate competitors purely gravity. 8, 1957. c pro-due- cost-of-producti- on al (R-Uta- h), one-thir- m long-rang- e Co-operativ- e, ic Paradox Reports Drilling Activity , tax-exem- pt the-northwe- st SUMMONS IOM We firmly agree that where big projects are required for the k M. HILL Editor development of reclamation, foe true needs of navigation and foe practical functions of power generation at costs which someSurvey la obtained from eoureea bo reliable but no reiponalbllltv day can be repaid the taxpayer, then they ought to be. under- Relieved to aeaumed for accuracy of etatemonta. taken by i the government if private industry cannot-owont la.?fpp9?uctl0,, J material from thle publication most have written permission build. I':from tht . ADRAIN GERRITSEN, JR. S WESTERN MINERAL Whats Your Opinion? hydro-electric- NOTICE NOTICE OF A SPECIAL MEET-ING.O- F THE STOCKHOLDERS OF PINECO URANIUM .CORPORATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting of the stockholders of PINECO URANIUM CORPORATION, a Utah Paie (8-18-5- 7) , |