Show t an ah urgent message e 9 e from the united states bureau of mines important metals quantity and quality the country should be able not only to manufacture the ultimate success of our country in the munitions of war in great quantities present worldwide world wide catastrophe depends very but also munitions of the highest highe st quality greatly upon the intelligent prospector and it is not sufficient that we have armored the metal mining industry whole upon as a vessels their armor m must u st equal or be superior to the armor of the vesse vessels ls of for our own use in this war we need manganese chromium pyrite sulphur the enemy and the other miscellaneous metals it is not sufficient that we have guns equal in size and range to those of the manganese and ferromanganese ferro manganese are enemy they must also be equal or in the of the material superior quality essential for all steel production fro from m which they are made in order that no without chromium and nickel it is impossible they may not fail when most needed to make the highest quality of T it is have an amount linings for our cannon of ammunition equal to or greater than that of the enemy clemy it must also equal sulphur and pyrite are the basic supply or surpass I 1 the enemy ammunition in of sulphuric acid required to make all effective explosive power explosives back of the number of men we put into the field must be material of the highest quality yi in every respect their shortage the united states has enormous deposits deposit of at the present time this country is sadly deficient iron ore and of coal with which to smelt it so far as the supply of iron is concerned our in these materials by far the larger government need not look outside its boundaries portion of them is imported yet all of them but sight should not be lost 0 of f the all occur within our borders and investigation important fact that we do not now produce and experimental work would doubtless render nearly enough nickel manganese niang anese or chron chromium num them available and make this country independent of all outside source W ac so long as any of these essentials must be obtained from foreign sources the united director U S bureau of mines states will be to that extent dependent the hercules powder company gives publicity made by the company play a very large part this important sta statement by mr in in producing I 1 the ores and metals upon which to in th the war but the country depends for victory manning not only as a patriotic duty of explosives depends in turn our production also because of its intimate ie connection with as mr ma manning i nning points out u upon the matters which he mentions the supply of sulphur and pyrite which cli is not this connection is twofold two fold explosives at present as great as it should b be HERCULES POWDER CO hazleton pa memphis pittsburg Pitts bure kan salt lake city st louis louii denver joplin new york pitt ourel pa san sail francisco del t |