Show the federal government has commandeered the entire platinum supply of the country according to word from washington the war industries board stated that the available supply would be taken over immediately at the direction of the war department part ment the amount available was not divulged on the ground that this information would immediately reveal to germans a phase of war activity which the government is guarding closely 0 smelting smelling Sm elting companies in the salt lake valley and mining interests of the park city utah district have been notified that hereafter ore shipments from that big silver camp as well as ingoing in going freight must be routed by way of the denver rio grande railroad this is in line with the governments desire to use the short haul as the distance over the D R G is about thirty miles and over the U P miles |