Show TURNING OUT REFINED WAX the summit placer company which owns a large tract of hydrocarbon hydro carbon lands near soldier summit has an extractor and refinery in operation and is turning out the refined wax at the rate of about a ton a day the undertaking has proven to be so successful that the work of installing another extractor together with the doubling ot of the capacity of the refinery is already in progress the company recently made a shipment of its product to germany which country has some large mineral wax deposits and consumes much of it in the manufactures another shipment is now being prepared and will be forwarded to new york within the next few days it may be interesting to know that this refined wax is used in the manufacture of all classes of hard rubber goods such as telephone receivers or other articles requiring the same substances in their composition another use has been found more recently for it and that is in the manufacture of a paint which applied to the hulls of ships absolutely prevents the gathering of bar hables the summit company is prosecuting development work with vigor and has a shaft sunk upon its property to a depth of teet feet other ground is being prospected and opened up and it is very likely that another 80 horse power boiler will be added to the mine equipment very shortly the property is owned by a crowd of eastern capitalists price advocate |