Show trade and construction notes it is announced that the royal crystal salt company will rebuild its plant between salt lake city and saltair at a cost of more than the chief building of the works it is said will be a five story structure that will be located three miles east of the old works it is announced that the ingersoll rand drill company with offices at north broadway st louis missouri was succeeded by ingersoll rand inc on may 1 also a new branch operating under tinder the st louis office has just been opened at west A st picher oklahoma D A whittaker agent for the national smelter corporation po ration announced in recently that the company had in banks for construction of a lead smelter somewhere near that city governor fred balzar former president of the company resigned several months ago nevada mining press chicago bridge iron works of chicago has been awarded the contract for the erection of one bbl abbl and one bbl abbl storage tank at opal wyo opal is the railhead terminus of the midwest Refi Ref ining fining companas Comp anys pipe line from the labarge oil field material and men were expected to arrive in opal and be ready to start work on the tanks may 1 the annual report of the chief inspector of the bureau for the safe transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles for the year 1927 recently published shows that transportation was furnished for all explosives moved in in the united states and canada including a total of about million pounds of dangerous explosives without any loss of life or injury to life and with a total money loss of only 45 caused by fireworks a fine record the sullivan machinery company displayed two new items of coal mining equipment at the american M mining ining congress exhibit i in cincinnati last week these were the sullivan CLU combined mining and shearing track cutting machine and the new sullivan coal loading machine in addition a new lingwall Long wall machine only 12 inches in he height ight was shown intended for thin seams in addition a sullivan double drum electric 25 HP hoist was demonstrated for use in scraper loading service contract for supplying the steel and other materials as well as erecting the building 6 and furnishing and installing all equipment except flotation machines at the 1000 ton flotation plant of the grandview Grand view mines company of metaline falls washington has been awarded to the eastern iron and metal company of salt lake according to manager M S the grandview Grand view company has opened up tons of ore averaging 8 per cent zinc 2 per cent lead and 4 ounces of silver to the ton it is claimed |