Show THE MINERALS commercial west says that in the west lie the greatest available supplies of potash the manganese that our many steel plants needed prior to the war came from russia and elsewhere now montana promises to supply the whole world if necessary with manganese it is now conceded that wyoming needs only development to make it as great an oil producing state as pennsylvania it is estimated the amount of oil in shale rock is vastly greater than all the oil that has come from wells or is likely to he be produced from wells in the established oil fields of the united states during the past year mineralogists discovered cinnabar in vast quantities in idaho and california texas and idaho are supplying quicksilver fully up to all our requirements at present twenty years ago a dirty yellowish ore was passed up by the miners in colorado and other western states today this common looking ore is supplying tungsten that is used in three fourths of the world the west and the northwest have been bountifully supplied with all the useful minerals gold silver copper zinc lead these have been what miners of the past have been looking after in the rocky mountains and the dozens of other things in the mineral line the asbestos mica asphaltum phosphate lithographic stone onyx and dozens of varieties of marble have all been overlooked they exist in vast quantities |