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Show TO REDUCE LEAD i AND ZINC TARIFF I Underwood Bill Demands th6 Instant Attention of the Utah Producers. INDUSTRY IN DANGER ! , :Loss Assured to Producers Should Present Programme Be Carried Out. .John Pern, forme;- president of the American Mining congress and at present pres-ent one of the directors, on Saturday , received a message from J, P Call breath, who la BOW in Washington, ihat (the Underwood bill has been approved h the waj-M and means committee, and Is , to be at. (he third reading at any lime. This bill, the meeaage continue', provides I that zinc ores shall enler the United ; States free of duty, while the schedule on pig lead and lead In ores Is to be reduced tO 2G per cent ad valorem. I Mr, Callbnaath urge:? Immediate action ac-tion by the lead producers of the state of i iah, who compose the nine producers as well, to prepare st.itlsllcs In a scientific scien-tific manner for Immediate presentation I at Washington. Ihe time and place for i the struggle to retain the present tariff being when the Underwood bill galna I the sens t a. According lo the provision S of ihe 'Palie t;niff lav, the sine schedule Is as j follows: ; Present Zinc Duty. 1 "Zinc-bearing ores of ail kinds. Including Includ-ing calamine, containing 1;-:- than 10 per 1 cent zinc, shall be admitted free of dutj . , containing I" Pf,r cent or more of zinc, nnd less than 30 per cent; one-quarter oi one cent per pound on the zinc contained Ihi-retn; ionl;iining "' ncr ecnt r m.O) e ' of zinc, and less than '.' per cent, one-half one-half of one cenl per pound uu the sine 1 contained therein; containing per cent Of v:inc or more, one enl per lit-iund on die sim contained therein." it is proposed, therefore, to remove ail duly upon aim-. This metal occupies a. very peculiar position .tt present, with consumption eatlnc bp the surplus stocks faster than production in fin the gaps This has given rise to greatly Increased prices which have benefited 1 hr producer but aroused the consumer. The zinc pro-I pro-I ducers, therefore, have : mighty stiff light n their hand! to retain the pros-enl pros-enl tariff or anything hie it. The pres- iit i:riff on lead-bearing orea t of ;iii kinds la 1 cents per bound on the I lead contained therein, while lead dross. I lead bullion or base bullion, lead In ius and bara, lead in any form iv! specially provided for In the act, have a present tariff of cents a pound. ; Will Spoil Home Market 1'iguruig lead at $5 per 10O pounds for convenience, and an ore containing i"0 : pounds of the metal, the present tariff demands a duty of $1.50, while under the proposed law 'he same tire would I ome jut,, the United States for $) "n. I One hundred pounds of pig lead coming irilu the country under the present law demands a tariff payment of $2.12), while under the proposed law, should lead be valued at G per ini) pounds, the duty twill lie only '-'"i per cenl of the value, or I1.3B, j The interest had ill thla matter by Ihe Ctah metal producers Immediately can h,e appreciated by the fact that In irn ilhr I'tah lead mines produced 1 1 T.nO.I.S.S.", pounds, alued at $0,197,648 while ihe Sine Production lasl vear h; 10,641,198 pounds, valued at $601,902. The reduction reduc-tion of the tariff on these metals means a reduction In tha market price thereof and the necessity of the mine owners oi the United stales competing with rpe i 'lienp labor and other equally unfavorable unfavora-ble phases of the Mexican lead Industry, Is Call to Aims, Secretary Callbreaih's rali to anus will come as a great surprise to the Utah producers, pro-ducers, for they had no Idea, as a rule, that the matter had reached such an advanced ad-vanced stage, hut If ever the producers had reason to unlie and get buSv for their self-protection that time certainly Is here. Onn of the most hopeless tasks ever undertaken in I'tah hn-s been the effort to gel the mineral producers of the state to unite to protect their interests, inter-ests, and auch -i movement now must be undertaken from ihe vary bottom, a there Is no organization' sufficiently equipped lo provide Washington with the essential data regarding the Industry ! The producers In times of peace hava failed to prepare for war, but now that war Is declared there ,nn be no excuse j for further delay in saving their inter- |