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Show FIGHT ON METAL 1 TilFFJT ENDED mm Western Producer Should Be HH Alert and Prepare for the MM IS UP- TO THE SENATE HH . Lead and Zinc Will Be Rally- Dfi$l . mg Points During the HH Those who have been watching the HHH proceedings In Washington, where tho HjjH metal tariff schedules, among- other HKH Items, have been under discussion, believe jjKjH that the western producer of lead and Hull zinc should not rest too sanguine- in thi3 Kmz Important matter. Many believe that tho real fight is yet to come on the lead and 9H8I zinc tariff question when the question w reaches the senate, and it is urged upon jHBR the western lead and zinc producers to Hj keep busy. They are going- to be called H9D upon by the senate for statistics, and HB it will he too late to prepare these when MflH notice Is served some of these early days SilX that a hearing will be granted lead and WH zinc producers on a date that will come ffK And go before tho western representative KB of the metal producers can reach Wash- Hfl Lead to Be Reduced. HK It seems to be generally felt that the HI tariff on lead will bo reduced slightly, j which Is tantamount to admitting that it BBDy uhould be, but the principal difficulty to Bn lvc overcome Is that matter of ad valorem 8H duty. Western producers of ore, who HB throughout past years have had many ln- KflB teresting experiences In reaching a tie- Mj termination with smelting- companies in MH regard to tho real value of ores, see no K end of difficulty and useless uncertainty HB In this little term ad valorem and they Insist that a specific duty must bo pre- HH scribed instead. HB It also appears that zinc occupies a BBS much moro vulnerable position tarlCCwisc BHI than lead, and the 1012 Underwood bill HV put zinc on the free list. There aro no DHB stocks of zinc, and consumption has ln- HHB creased so much faster Uian production HB that imports of tho motal have been BK made from Germany, despite the Payne- ZHn Aldrlch tariff. The consumer therefore, H points to this as one reason why zinc JBI should come in duty free. If wo cannot ftpfl secure enough of the motal from our own J mines, they assert, the result belnz the H highest sustained ' market prices in hls- BHK torj. let down the bars and take all the aMEr zinc the world can offer. Wk Important to Utah. Mm Utah is vitally concerned with the zinc ftm iariff as well as lead. During tho past HHj few months there liavo been a score or He more properties within the state lifted Ht from the assessment list Into a self-sus- HH! talnlng position, und In two Instances Hf into the dividend column, by virtue of the BH high market price of spelter. Large ton- EH nages of zinc ores long a drug upon the HH market have become available, putting M ready cash Into treasuries long empty. It IHBB Is a question whether the removal of the zinc tariff will encourage such an importation im-portation of the metal as to break tho market price, thereby giving foreign producers pro-ducers the profits thai now are coming into thp treasuries of American mine owners. The metal tariff question Is of such far-reaching far-reaching Importance that iJL is up to the western ore producer to be prepared for the congressional campaign of 1913. |